2009 August 04 | VivirLatino

Archive for August 4th, 2009

Lou Dobbs Finally Under Scrutiny After Years of Bigotry

4 Aug 2009

Unless you’ve had your head in the sand for the past couple of days, you’ve heard about the controversy that’s been swirling around our good friend Hispanic journalist Lou Dobbs. It seems after all these years of hate and bigotry, and after years of activist groups like Media Matters going after Dobbs for racist rhetoric, it’s only caught on now that Lou appears to be bought into the whole “birther” movement. Media Matters made the following PSA to warn weaker minds of Dobbs’ agenda:

Tons of mail to CNN demanding Dobbs get pulled from the lineup and suddenly they are nervous…amazing! Hadn’t CNN president John Klein said Dobb’s claims were “legitimate”? It appears he’s since taken that back; in fact, he never believed it, as in a private memo, Klein urged Dobbs to drop the whole thing two weeks ago.
Read more…

Violence in Prince William County Continues

10:29 am By la Macha · Controversia|crime|society|Violence · 1 Comment

4 Aug 2009

Prince William County, Virginia has never been in danger of becoming a pro-immigrant sanctuary city. But it never really hits home exactly how violently anti-immigrant a city truly is until you understand that people who “fit” what an “immigrant” should look like (think: latino, speaks with an accent, etc), are often brutally violated in their own fucking homes simply for fitting that profile.

I know a lot of our libertarian friends will scream right now about how this family shouldn’t have been playing their music so loudly and if the woman didn’t want to be deported she shouldn’t have come here illegally and the cops were just doing their jobs and a whole bunch of other justifications.

But I have to ask those libertarians. Does it not terrify them that you can be sitting at a party with your family and have the police show up and tase you? That your pregnant wife could lean over to help you, and she could be tased too? Sure, yeah, it’s great, yay, we caught us a few more illegals, hooray for us. Now, what rights, what protections, did U.S. citizens just give up so that it could be totally legal and justified to tase a grandfather and a pregnant “illegal” in their own home because they played their music too loudly?

I am not thanking my fellow citizens for allowing their hatred to trample on my rights. Just as I am sure people like Henry Louis Gates is also not doing any thanking.

via bfp on twitter and womanist musings

Legislators for sale

9:53 am By la Macha · Celebrities|Controversia · Comments Off

4 Aug 2009

Keith Olberman can often be over the top to me, although he is regularly amusing. For example, his constant airing of the Palin turkey video was really amusing even as I had a hard time considering it news and was, frankly, rather grossed out and horrified by the whole thing.

But having said that, I think he hit one out of the ballpark with last night’s special comment.

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

To see a partial transcript, click here.

Of course, with Olberman comes problems. His use of the innocent white woman to tug at our heart strings and his casual references to the evils of prostitution are par for the course with Olberman. But…his overall point? That corporations run this country? Right on.

Maybe he’ll become a good old flaming red socialist soon, and join la Macha out on the protest line soon.

Immigrant Detainees in Louisiana on Hunger Strike

7:36 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration|Justice · 4 Comments

4 Aug 2009

When your cuerpo is used as fodder to feed the prison industrial complex, how do you transform that body into a weapon of protest? For immigrants caught up in detention, using their bodies to protest the horrible and inhumane conditions inside is nothing new. What is new is the context that the current administration has made it clear that prison “reform” is not a priority, much less if the prisons we are talking about “reforming” are for those labeled alien/foreign/unwanted/brown.

Now, another group of immigrants inside a detention center are on hunger strike, their fifth one, in protest of the deplorable conditions at the South Louisiana Correctional Facility in Basile. This detention center is run by the private contractor LCS Corrections Services Inc. and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

According to the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice, more than 100 detainees acted as human rights monitors inside the jail throughout July. “Over the course of a month, detainee human rights monitors recorded complaints, attempted to lodge hundreds of grievances, and communicated with advocates about jail conditions,” said NOWCRJ, which released a report of their findings and the accounts of the several detainees.

VivirLatino

Archive for August 4th, 2009

Lou Dobbs Finally Under Scrutiny After Years of Bigotry

Violence in Prince William County Continues

Legislators for sale

Immigrant Detainees in Louisiana on Hunger Strike

Hola!

Get our RSS Feed!