Archive for May 30th, 2009
Spanish Language Ad Supporting Sonia Sotomayor
30 May 2009I’ll admit that I haven’t been paying close enough attention to how the Spanish language media has been reporting on the Sonia Sotomayor nomination.
Americans United for Change have put out a Spanish language ad urging people to call their senators to support Sotomayor.
Read the script in Spanish and English after the jump.
Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell Asks Attorney General Eric Holder to Pursue Civil Rights Charges Against the Murderers of Luis Ramirez
9:30 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration|Justice|pennsylvania · Comments Off
30 May 2009
Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendel sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder recommending that the Department of Justice pursue civil rights charges against the murderers of Luis Ramirez, Piekarsky and Donchak.
While this is good news, as any movement towards justice is, after reading the letter, I remain concerned with how Ramirez’s death and the actions of those who killed him are framed in isolation. Ramirez’s death is framed as a hate crime, with the governor drawing connections to the Yankel Rosenbaum and Rodney King cases. However where is the mention of the long line of anti-Latino/immigrant hate crimes? Where is the line connecting Ramirez’s death to the anti-immigrant and anti-Latino rhetoric that we are seeing now used even against Supreme Court justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor?
The entire letter is after the jump.
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