Archive for October, 2010
Luis Ramirez Federal Hate Crime Trial Underway
8:13 am By Maegan La Mala · Immigration|Justice|pennsylvania · 3 Comments
9 Oct 2010The Federal Hate Crime trial against Brandon Piekarsky and Derrick Donchak, accused of beating Luis Ramirez to death because he was Mexican/Latino is underway.
This trial comes after indictments in December of last year that charge the two men and three police officers in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania of violating Luis Ramirez’s civil rights and conspiring to cover up that violation. In the original criminal trial held last summer, Piekarsky was found not guilty of third degree murder, while Donchak was acquitted of aggravated assault.
In other words, they got away with murder and will continue to get away with murder.
DHS’s Napolitano Admits There is No Opt Out for Secure Communities and Shows Off New Deportation Numbers
10:36 am By Maegan La Mala · Immigration|Politics · 6 Comments
7 Oct 2010Yesterday, I wrote about how I understood why some Latinos may sit this election out, especially in the face of increasing immigrant enforcement policies while candidates pay lip service to change and reform on the campaign trail.
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton held a press conference yesterday that revealed more information about the deportation numbers under the Obama administration and the truth about Secure Communities.
During that announcement, which was livestreamed, according to America’s Voice, ICE announced 392,000 deportations last yr. 195k “criminal.” Which would make 197k non-criminal deported. Napolitano, on the record, stated that it is not possible for localities to opt out of “secure communities” program , contradicting earlier statements indicating that localities could opt-out.
Help VivirLatino Get More Reliable Hosting
9:00 am By Maegan La Mala · VivirLatino · 4 Comments
7 Oct 2010
Soon VivirLatino will be out of it’s toddler years and into out pre-school years. Next week we turn 5. If you have been followers of us for any length of time then you know that over the last two years we have had a number of problems with our hosting. From ridiculous overage charges anytime we post about something remotely popular (see Ricky Martin’s coming out posts) to database connectivity issues that have shut our site down at time for hours to days.
We’ve had enough and hopefully you have too.
We want to start out next 5 years running smoothly and without the fear of logging on to get Latino political/cultural news and commentary only to get an error message.
To get more reliable servers we need something we don’t have. Money. The little money we do get from advertising goes to pay the servers we have and overage fees. Our editors are not getting paid at the moment and that includes yours truly. VivirLatino is and in a way always has been a labor of love and commitment to our personal values and beliefs. We are not (contrary to what the haters say) funded by any organization.
We are asking you: our readers, our twitter followers, our facebook fans to consider Chipping In so that we can move our servers. To move and keep us online for the next year we need $500.
Can you help?
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Democratic Promises, Insecure Lies
11:15 am By Maegan La Mala · AgJOBS|DREAM Act|Immigration|Obama|Politics|Secure Communities · 16 Comments
6 Oct 2010Let’s get this out of the way.
Yes, the Republicans as a party have shown nothing but contempt for Latinos, especially immigrant Latinos, LGBT Latinos, poor Latinos and all the intersections and iterations of the aforementioned.
Is that enough for Latinos to run to the polls and vote Democrat in less than a month? All signs point to no. Polls abound pointing that the mythical Latino voter supports the Democratic party in theory but aren’t convinced enough to keep the Dems in office.
And why would that be?
It’s a little too easy to merely point out the fact that the Obama administration has failed to cumplir it’s promesa to the Latino community on comprehensive immigration reform. To rely on that as the reason to not vote/not vote Dem, makes the Latino electorate look irresponsible and passes blame onto the voter. Rather, perhaps the media who is sounding alarm bells about the lack of Latino loyalty and will should look at what the Democrats have done against immigrant communities.
U.S Researchers Experimented on CIA Prisoners, Mental Hospital Patients, Soldiers, Sex Workers and Children in Guatemala in the 1940′s.
8:05 am By Maegan La Mala · Guatemala|Health|history · Comments Off
6 Oct 2010
Latina Americans being used as medical guinea pigs for U.S. medical advancement isn’t the stuff of nightmares or science fiction. Look up for example how the birth control pill that many women claim as part of their liberation came to be.
Last week, the U.S. apologized for knowingly, purposely, and without consent infecting anywhere between 700 to over 1,00 Guatemalan prisoners of the CIA, mental patients, soldiers, sex workers and children in the 1940′s with sexually transmitted illnesses like syphilis and gonorrhea in order to test the effectiveness of antibiotics The experiments came to light five years ago, stumbled upon by a professor researching the Tuskegee syphilis study, where African -Americans were withheld treatment so that scientists could observe the progression of the illness, but were only just made public.
This Friday in the Bronx : Sancocho Soul, a Queer People of Color Performance Cabaret
6:52 am By Maegan La Mala · Arts|GLBT|New York City · Comments Off
5 Oct 2010
Fellow poeta/artista Karen Jaime passed this info onto me and wanted me to share it with the VL comunidad. Anyway BAAD!’s Blaktino series is hot.
Part of the Blaktino Performance Series at the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, curated by ButtersPapi- “Sancocho Soul” is a queer people of color performance cabaret that will include performance art, dance, poetry and even burlesque in order to subvert, enlighten and question notions of gender, sexuality and race.
Performers for this event are:
Onliest (Ganessa and Tiffany James)
Ryan Green
Emanuel Xavier
Karen Jaime
Fulana
La Mondo Divine
and
Lawrence Graham BrownHosted by Olive Demetrius
Doors open at: 7:30 and show starts at 8:00
$12 in advance/$15 at the door.
BAAD! is located at 841 Barretto St
Bronx, NY 10474-5354
Tickets can be purchased here
Should Rick Sanchez Have Been Fired From CNN?
8:55 am By Maegan La Mala · Media · 26 Comments
4 Oct 2010
I don’t watch cable news. I don’t have cable. All my news comes from good old fashioned sources like print media and of course, the internet. I don’t follow Rick Sanchez on twitter nor have I seen much of his work. What I have seen from him usually irritates me and represents a narrow minded, assimilationist perspective of what Latinidad should look like.
What I do know for sure, is that Rick Sanchez was fired from CNN last Friday, one day after making remarks that have been called everything from controversial to anti-semitic.
According to CNN’s own site, Sanchez “left” the company following a critique on Jon Stewart that ended up being a rant against CNN management and then against Jewish people, whose oppressed status he doubted.
On Thursday, Sanchez appeared on the XM Sirius radio program “Stand-Up with Pete Dominick.” During the interview with Dominick, Sanchez called “The Daily Show’s” Jon Stewart “a bigot” and then said that he was bigoted against “everybody else who’s not like him. Look at his show, I mean, what does he surround himself with?”…I’m telling you that everybody who runs CNN is a lot like Stewart, and a lot of people who run all the other networks are a lot like Stewart, and to imply that somehow they, the people in this country who are Jewish, are an oppressed minority? Yeah,” Sanchez responded.
Monday Musica y Mensaje : Rodrigo y Gabriela for the Sound Strike
8:40 am By Maegan La Mala · arizona|Immigration|Music · 1 Comment
4 Oct 2010
You’re Invited! NUEVA YORK at the Woodlawn Cemetery featuring VL’s Mala
2:54 pm By Maegan La Mala · Arts|Culture|Events|history|New York City|Poetry · 1 Comment
2 Oct 2010
New York City area peeps: yours truly will be participating in this tour giving an extra special performance of an original piece written just for the event gracias to el Museo del Barrio. So if you are interested, RSVP and come through.
Woodlawn Cemetery, 501 East 233rd Street, Bronx, NY
Sunday, October 10, 2010
2:00pm – 4:00pm
FREE ADMISSIONPrepare for the most lively cemetery experience of the year. As part of Nueva York, El Museo is partnering with the Woodlawn Cemetery and City Lore to offer a walking tour of the final resting places of renowned Latinos Celia Cruz, Carmen Miyares de Mantilla, Juan Machado, and others. Learn more about these notables through Calaveras, a form of poetry created during Day of the Dead celebrations to humor celebrities, performed on-site by poets and spoken word artists.
Please note: Participants should meet at the entrance of The Woodlawn Cemetery, located at the Jerome Avenue entrance.
Subway Directions: Take the #4 train (Lexington Avenue express or local) to the end of line – Woodlawn Station. At the base of the station, walk about a half block, and the Jerome Avenue entrance will be on the right.
RSVP required at www.elmuseo.org/en/event/nueva-york-woodlawn-cemetery
NUEVA YORK en el Cementerio Woodlawn en el Bronx
Domingo 10 de octubre del 2010
2:00pm – 4:00pm
Cementerio Woodlawn, 501 Este de la Calle 233, Bronx, NY
Entrada: GratisPrepárate para la visita al cementerio más alegre del año. Como parte de Nueva York, el Museo del Barrio se ha asociado con el cementerio de Woodlawn y City Lore para ofrecer un recorrido a pie de los sitios donde descansan latinos y latinas ilustres que forman parte de la historia de Nueva York, incluyendo Celia Cruz, Carmen Miyares de Mantilla, Juan Machado, entre otros. Aprende más sobre estos notables a través de Calaveras, una forma de poesía recitada durante el Día de los Muertos con la que con humor e ironía se honra a los familares difuntos, y que será presentada por poetas y artistas in situ.
El grupo se reunirá en la entrada del cementerio Woodlawn, ubicada en la Avenida Jerome y la Avenida Bainbridge.
Cómo llegar: Toma el tren # 4 (Avenida Lexington expreso o local) hasta Woodlawn, la última estación. Una vez en la calle, camina media cuadra y verás a tu derecha la entrada al cementerio sobre la Avenida Jerome.
Reserva tu asistencia: www.elmuseo.org/en/event/nueva-york-woodlawn-cemetery
DREAMAct 8 in Court Today
8:51 am By Maegan La Mala · DREAM Act|Immigration|Justice · 1 Comment
1 Oct 2010Eight undocumented youth and students today will be appearing in a Washington D.C. court on charges stemming from sitting in the offices of Senator Reid (D-NV) and Senator McCain (R-AZ) on July 20th of this year. The eight: Reyna Wences from Illinois, Dulce Matuz from Arizona, Myrna Orozco from Missouri, Tania Unzueta from Illinois, Erika Andiola from Arizona, Nicolas Gonzales from Illinois, Laura Lopez from California, and Isabel Castillo from Virginia were charged with “illegal entry” and if found guilty could face up to a year in prision and $1000 fine. Additionally once the criminal trial is over, Department of Homeland Security could get involved and place the students in deportation proceedings.
The eight are expected to present their own defense including presenting testimony, interrogating witnesses, and making closing arguments.
Via / DREAMActivist
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