Archive for August, 2010
Tweetup in NYC Tomorrow with Vl’s la Mala, @LizzWinstead y @LizaSabater
10:47 am By Maegan La Mala · drink|Events|Food|VivirLatino · 1 Comment
31 Aug 2010
I am pleased to be co-hosting with the publisher of Culture Kitchen y Daily Gotham Liza Sabater and Lizz Winstead, stand-up goddess, pundit slayer & co-creator of The Daily Show a tweetup tomorrow night in NYC.
The dirty deets:
Time – 7 pm to 10 pm
The Place – KUSH Lounge, 191 Chrystie Street New York, NY
(212) 677-7328
Half-priced drinks from 7-10 are on you (feel free to buy la Mala a few). Light munchies are on us
Let us know if you are gonna come through so we can plan properly.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano : “All the Statistics that are Going Up Are Supposed to be Going Up”
8:45 am By Maegan La Mala · Immigration|Labor|mexico|Politics|U.S.-Mexico Border · 2 Comments
31 Aug 2010
If nothing else, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano is a woman of her word. During a telephonic press briefing yesterday, Napolitano proudly crowed the start of unmanned predator drone flights out of Corpus Christi, Texas, beginning on Wednesday, Sept.1.
The rest of the telephonic conference was more of the same with an emphasis on more. I think the Secretary of Homeland Security said the word “more” so many times creating a dramatic crescendo effect that drove home just how militarized the U.S. border with Mexico was becoming and just how far we are from comprehensive immigration reform.
The drones, which beginning tomorrow will be able to monitor the entire U.S. Mexico border, are meant to track the “illegal movement of drugs, money and people”. While I know many will say the “illegal movement” of people refers to the disgusting crime of human trafficking, I picture families and individuals crossing the frontera and wonder how is movement declared illegal and only the movement of certain people.
Read more…
Updated: Puerto Rican Poet Julia de Burgos on a U.S. Postage Stamp
4:45 pm By Maegan La Mala · literature|Puerto Rico · 4 Comments
30 Aug 2010
According to a press release from the U.S. Postal Service dated 12/09 (don’t know if the reason this is coming to my attention now is the fault of Rican time or USPS time), later this month Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos will have a U.S. postage stamp released in her honor.
With this 26th stamp in the Literary Arts series, the U.S Postal Service honors Julia de Burgos, one of Puerto Rico’s most celebrated poets. The stamp goes on sale in September. A revolutionary writer, thinker, and activist, de Burgos wrote more than 200 poems that probe issues of love, feminism, and political and personal freedom. Her groundbreaking works combine the intimate with the universal. They speak powerfully to women, minorities, the poor, and the dispossessed, urging them to defy constricting social conventions and find their own true selves. The stamp features a portrait of de Burgos created by artist Jody Hewgill.
DREAM Now Letters to Barack Obama: Lizbeth Mateo
2:29 pm By Maegan La Mala · arizona|DREAM Act|Immigration · 2 Comments
30 Aug 2010Dear Mr. President,
My name is Lizbeth Mateo and I am undocumented. On May 17th, on the 56th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, I, along with Mohammad Abdollahi, Yahaira Carrillo and two others, became the first undocumented students to risk deportation by staging a sit-in inside Senator McCain’s office in Tucson, Arizona, to demand the immediate passage of the DREAM Act. As a result of that sit-in we were arrested, turned over to ICE, and we now face deportation.
Almodóvar On Broadway
11:16 am By BiancaLaureano · Arts|Movies|Music|New York City · 2 Comments
30 Aug 2010
Pedro Almodóvar’s film Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown has now become a Broadway musical with tickets on sale today at 10am. Beginning October 2, the press release announces the cast and states:
Now, WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN is a new musical based on the film. LCT’s Resident Director, Bartlett Sher, still happily reeling from his achievement on South Pacific, leads the extraordinary collaborators Jeffrey Lane (book) and David Yazbek (music and lyrics). Lane and Yazbek, the team behind Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, have taken Almodóvar’s tale and infused it with their own wry, comic style and an irresistible Spanish beat. Four celebrated designers will join them — Michael Yeargan (sets), Catherine Zuber (costumes), Brian MacDevitt (lighting) and Scott Lehrer (sound).
Both touching and hilarious, it’s a story about women and the men who pursue them… finding them, losing them, needing them, and rejecting them. At the center is Pepa (Sherie Rene Scott) whose friends and lovers are blazing a trail through 1980s Madrid. And why do they all keep showing up at her high-rise apartment? Gazpacho anyone?
Along with Pepa, there’s her missing (possibly philandering) lover, Ivan (Brian Stokes Mitchell); his ex-wife of questionable sanity, Lucia (Patti LuPone); Pepa’s friend, Candela (Laura Benanti), and her terrorist boyfriend; a power-suited lawyer (de’Adre Aziza) plus a taxi driver (Danny Burstein) who dispenses tissues, mints and advice in equal proportion. Mayhem and comic madness abound, balanced by the empathy and heart that are trademarks of Almodóvar’s work. And of Bartlett Sher’s too.
Remaining cast to be announced. Read more…
Monday Morning Movie : La Nana
30 Aug 2010This past weekend I finally got to sit down and watch via Netflix, Sebastian Silva’s award winning film, la Nana, about a maid in an upper middle class Chilean household and her relationship with the family she works for, her own family, others and herself. Before I get into the nitty gritty here’s a preview.
DREAM Now Letters to Barack Obama: Myrna Orozco
9:58 am By Maegan La Mala · DREAM Act|Education|Immigration · Comments Off
27 Aug 2010
The “DREAM Now Series: Letters to Barack Obama” is a social media campaign that launched Monday, July 19, to underscore the urgent need to pass the DREAM Act.
Dear Mr. President,
On July 20th, 2010 I was arrested in the office of Senator John McCain fighting for the DREAM Act.
I am one of the thousands of students who would qualify for this legislation. I was brought to the United States at the age of four and have been here ever since. I consider myself to be a good student and I always strive to be a good example for others. I have been waiting for the DREAM Act to pass since it was first introduced in 2001, and this year I decided that I couldn’t stand by and wait another year. I decided to fight for my DREAMs.
I can no longer watch as politicians gamble with my future and the futures of my friends, family, and even strangers who are in the same position as I am. This is why I, along with 20 other DREAMers decided to take action and fight for what we believe is right; thus, we decided to conduct sit-ins at various senators offices and urge them to take action on the DREAM Act. We can not stand by as another class of outstanding students graduate without being able to fulfill their DREAMs.
Viernes Video : Sean Bell’s Parents Speak
6:00 am By Maegan La Mala · Justice|New York City|race|Violence · 2 Comments
27 Aug 2010I cannot even begin to fathom the pain of a parent who loses a child to state sponsored violence and then finding the strength to struggle for justice in the name of that child, day after day. In this video testimony, the parents of Sean Bell, killed by the NYPD in 2006, speak out on what justice looks like to them.
Video gracias a the Justice Committee
DREAM Now Letters : Carlos A. Roa Jr.
8:16 am By Maegan La Mala · DREAM Act|Education|Immigration|military|youth · 7 Comments
25 Aug 2010The “DREAM Now Series: Letters to Barack Obama” is a social media campaign that launched Monday, July 19, to underscore the urgent need to pass the DREAM Act.
Dear Mr. President,
My name is Carlos and I’m a 23 year old undocumented immigrant from Caracas, Venezuela. I want to legalize my immigration status in this country through the passage of DREAM Act this year. For too long have I lived in the U.S. without papers. It has been over 20 years, now. I want to legalize my immigration status in order to fulfill my dreams of becoming a young professional in architecture.
There are obstacles in my daily life that make it extraordinarily difficult to pursue a career in architecture. Fortunately, because of my determination to continue my studies after graduating high school in 2005, I’m currently a student in Miami Dade College. It has not been without great difficulty. For many years it felt as if all the potential I developed in high school was for nothing.
I am the perfect example of other students in similar situations whose voices have been silenced by the fact that we are not truly accounted for. We are afraid of speaking up because doing so might affect our immigration status in this country and possibly even lead to deportation. I myself felt this way for several years, but after dealing with my status for so long, I now consider it a duty to speak up for myself and for other youth in my shoes.
I remember that dark and cold feeling of shame, fear and hopelessness.
Miercoles Morning Musica : Septeto Nacional
25 Aug 2010
Aqui in Nueva York, the cool rainy weather is making fall feel too close for Mala’s comfort. Thankfully there is Septeto Nacional’s ¡Sin Rumba no hay Son!, which you can listen to this week only by clicking on the link. The Cuban son group bring my mind and body to Caribbean playas and my soul thanking Oshun/la Caridad del Cobre (as they do in one of their tracks).
You can buy the album, released on World Village’s label, on September 14th and if you are in the NYC area you can catch the septet later this week, August 28, at NYC’s Hostos Center for the Arts, where they launch their tour. El Septeto has several dates at Yoshi’s San Francisco and the Monterey Jazz Festival before heading north to Canada in October and November. They’re back in the states in a big way in March/April 2011 with a string of dates culminating with a concert at Carnegie Hall on April 16th.
Hola!
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