Archive for September 29th, 2010
VL’s Maegan la Mala at Hispanic PANIC! Tonite in NYC
12:12 pm By Maegan La Mala · Events|literature|New York City · 2 Comments
29 Sep 2010
For the third time, yours truly, VL’s own managing editor, Maegan la Mamita Mala Ortiz will be reading at Hispanic PANIC!, a reading series featuring queer Latino writers hand picked by Charlie Vazquez.
That’s happening tonite
8 pm sharp at Nowhere, 322 e. 14th st, NYC.
Featuring: Orlando Ferrand, Alicia Anabel Santos, Aaron Powell, Maegan La Mala Ortiz, Miguel Angeles, and Cristy Road.
This will be my third PANIC! and I am so excited. Charlie, who has been featured here before does a magical job of curating (and sharing his own work). The readers are always amazing and the audience spectacular.
For those who haven’t attended a PANIC! reading before, you can read all about it in this piece that was featured in Viva!, the Latino pullout section of the New York Daily News. The feature article was written by fellow PANIC! writer Erasmo Guerra.
Hope to see some of you there.
Dropping the I Word
10:02 am By Maegan La Mala · Immigration|language · 1 Comment
29 Sep 2010One thing that I often get mad heat for is for my deletion of comments that I deem to be hate speech. More often than not, because of the extensive coverage VivirLatino gives to the issue of immigration, the word “illegal” is the top offender (“go back where you came from” is a close second). I have been called against free speech and have had people attempt to use my personal life against me because of my decisions when it comes to deleting hateful comments. Just like the earlier campaign against racial profiling, yesterday’s launch of the Drop the I Word campaign by Colorlines and the Applied Research Center, aims to connect the dots between hate speech and hate actions.
578 Orgs Call on Obama to End Dangerous Merger of the Federal Immigration System with State Criminal Justice System
9:15 am By Maegan La Mala · Immigration|Justice · 1 Comment
29 Sep 2010Today, President Obama, the Department of Homeland Security’s Secretary Janet Napolitano, Attorney General Eric Holder and members of Congress will receive a letter signed by representatives from 578 civil rights, labor, criminal justice, immigration, and faith organizations from around the country demanding that the Obama administration stop the devolution of federal immigration responsibilities to state and local law enforcement. VivirLatino is one of those.
“The Obama administration’s overreliance on local law enforcement agencies to arrest, detain and deport immigrants legitimizes the racial discrimination that persists in the criminal justice system,” said Marielena Hincapié, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center. “For all our communities, this marriage of convenience between the immigration system and the criminal justice system will only serve to further deter immigrants from cooperating with the police, and sever the already tenuous ties between law enforcement and vulnerable community members.”
Miercoles Movie : Face the Truth, Racial Profiling in the United States
6:36 am By Maegan La Mala · Immigration|Justice|Media|Movies · 1 Comment
29 Sep 2010Here at VivirLatino, We have written about racial profiling, especially the impact it has had on Latino immigrant communities and how racial profiling by both local and federal law enforcement across the United States has helped to foster anti-immigrant violence by civilians.
The Restore Fairness campaign and the Rights Working Group, have just released a documentary short, Face the Truth, showcasing the devastating impact of racial profiling on communities around our country, including the African American, Latino, Arab, Muslim and South Asian communities.
The documentary brings to life a new report by the Rights Working Group released along with 275 local and national partners on the one year anniversary of the Face the Truth campaign to end racial profiling. Both the documentary and the report urge Congress to pass the End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA), highlighted in a Congressional briefing on Thursday, September 30th in Washington D.C.
Face the Truth: Racial Profiling Across America from Breakthrough on Vimeo.
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