Archive for August, 2009
Fidel Lives (And Changes His Clothes)
6:27 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Cuba|Ecuador · Comments Off
24 Aug 2009
Apparently Fidel Castro met with the President of Ecuador, Rafeal Correa last Friday and if I may say, he looks pretty good.
Via / Inca Kola News
NYC: Can You Support a Mother and Her Child Tomorrow? Will You Witness Justice for Aniysah?
3:27 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · children|Family|Justice|New York City|Women · Comments Off
23 Aug 2009
Packing the court room and the streets outside the court house shows that their is an entire community behind Angeline and her child.
Are you going to be in the NY city area Monday, August 24th? Come to Aniysah’s court date and show the judge and the law guardian you care! Even if you can’t make it, invite your friends who can! there’s an attachment below that you can copy and send to your folks!
The next court date is August 24th, 2009 at 11AM and the address is :
IDV Part
Courtroom E-123, Annex Building
Justice Fernando M. Camacho
Queens County IDV Court,
Queens County Supreme Court
Criminal Term 125-01 Queens Blvd
Kew Gardens, New York 1141
If using public transportation such as the train or bus:
Subway: E, F to Kew Gardens
Bus: Q60
If they are driving or carpooling:The courthouse is located at the intersection on 82nd Ave. and Queens Blvd. which is one block south of Union Turnpike. They can mapquest the directions. www.mapquest.com.
There is also parking: A municipal parking lot is located behind the building at the intersection of 126th St. and 82nd Ave. Which is directly situated behind the courthouse.
Netroots Nation : Invisibility and Identity in Progressive Spaces Part 2 (Immigration)
10:28 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration|Media|media justice|Netroots Nation|Pittsburgh|Politics · 5 Comments
23 Aug 2009
It’s been a week since I left Pittsburgh, pero drama from NN09, a mounting stack of bills, and la vida have prevented me from writing out this second part in a more timely manner.
The Movement is in the Messenging?
As I mentioned before, I was able to attend Netroots Nation gracias to a scholarship from America’s Voice because of my history of writing on immigration. Understandably, this was a decision that wasn’t popular with everyone since I am constantly pushing back on the beltway and their “progressive” supporters. Pero that is what I consider my job to be. I am not beholden to anyone except myself and my community which is why I think it’s really important to look at how the issue of immigration and the parties that claim to represent the issue in the real world and blogosphere are represented, specifically in the Netroots Nation ’09 context.
Vigil for Maximo in NYC This Evening : Justicia in the Face of Police Violence
9:15 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Activism|Justice|New York City · Comments Off
23 Aug 2009
Was Yesterday’s White House Immigration Summit a Positive Move?
12:28 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration|Obama|Politics · 1 Comment
21 Aug 2009
Yesterday’s White House summit on Comprehensive Immigration Reform, hosted by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, was well received by many D.C. based advocates. The Center for American Progress, United Farm Workers, and America’s Voice all released statements praising the meeting as a step in the right direction and as a sign that the Obama administration was serious about getting a bill out this year that could be passed next year.
But was the meeting more show than actual movement?
Read more…
Napolitano Plays Hostess at White House Immigration Meeting Mañana: Is She Gonna Serve More of the Same?
7:56 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration|Obama|Politics · 4 Comments
19 Aug 2009
In an effort to make it look like it’s doing something on the immigration reform front, tomorrow, at around noon, the White House is hosting a meeting on immigration. The last meeting the White House held on immigration pushed NY’s Senator Schumer as the legislative champion of Comprehensive Immigration Reform, with his talk of illegals and biometric ids. The choice of host for tomorrow’s meeting is no less disturbing, Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
President Obama has made it clear that Comprehensive Immigration Reform is not a priority, for now. However, the Department of Homeland Security under Napolitano has been laying the groundwork, or doing the dirty work if you will. Dirty work including expanding Bush era enforcement measures like Secure Communities & 287(g) programs. Add to this the horrendous record of human rights abuses inside immigrant detention centers , including deaths that the public learns about in pieces and I.C.E’s inability to follow the Constitution, and it makes perfect sense that Secretary Napolitano be the ambassador for CIR, no?
Read more…
Sustainable farming in Bolivia
10:15 am By la Macha · Bolivia|Environment · 4 Comments
19 Aug 2009This article from the BBC about farmers in Bolivia who are using farming methods of their ancestors to create sustainable farming techniques was very interesting. It made me think about how people in the U.S. have absolutely no similar history to draw on for our own farming methods–mostly because we’ve never done anything sustainable or environmentally friendly–ever. And we’ve done all that we can to destroy sustainable methods of surviving in indigenous communities in the U.S. for centuries.
The system is based on building “camellones” – raised earth platforms of anything up to 2m high, surrounded by canals.
Constructed above the height of flood waters, the camellones can protect seeds and crops from being washed away.
The water in the canals provide irrigation and nutrients during the dry season.
Pre-Columbian cultures in Beni from about 1000BC to AD1400 used a similar system.
So while other countries are talking about canals and irrigation and camellones–the U.S. is talking about militarization and destruction. When the hell are we in the U.S. ever going to wake up?
When comparisons to Nazis don’t work so well
19 Aug 2009I wonder if this woman understands…um, YOU’RE TALKING TO A JEWISH MAN!!!! Somebody who either has survivors of *real* Nazi policies in his family and/or KNOWS survivors.
I swear. Sometimes…the stupid. It kills.
New York’s Family Court System fails brown women and children
6:55 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · children|Family|New York City|Women · 1 Comment
19 Aug 2009PLEASE FOREWARD WIDELY.
On March 3rd, 2009, Aniysah was taken from her mother’s arms by New York’s Family Court System and placed in the care of Aniysah’s father who has a history of domestic violence offenses. Furthermore, there were no records verifying that she would be taken to a safe living environment or that she was enrolled in school. Questions about her health and well-being went unanswered. That was over 150 days ago. To date, Aniysah remains lost in the family court system. A system where black and brown children go missing every day. A system where black mothers like Aniysah’s are often left to fend for themselves in a brutal, dogged battle just to make sure their children are safe. On the surface, this case appears to be a simple custody dispute, however, if one digs deeper it is a story about the injustices of New York’s Family Court System and how it fails brown women and children daily and how it can be used to further terrorize and re-victimize survivors of domestic violence.
I’d never heard of Rev. Samuel Rodriguez until I read about him over at Latino Politics Blog. Now that I know him, I wish that I could scrub my ears or drink alcohol or make out with Oprah or something.
The question posed at Latino Politics is: Do we [Hispanics/Latinos interested in organizing for change] need this man?
My answer: This is the kind of Latino Logic that I grew up around. A lot of Latinos who grew up in more progressive or activist communities like in L.A. or in San Antonio are often shocked when I start disparaging old school “Mexican Americans” because to them, old school folks are who got the movement started and who fought fights I could only dream of being brave enough to engage in. But to me, this is what old school Mexican Americans really are. Macho men interested in controlling the evil womenz and the lezbians and the non-godly among us.
I say let this man go. There are truly progressive and radical churches and people of god/spirituality that are about liberation and change rather than dominance and control through a false sense of “community.”
Let him find his own community. Stay out of mine.
Hola!
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