Archive for August, 2011
Blame my time in Chile and my ChileRican hijas and because my head needs a break from S-Comm posts.
24 year old Chilena, Francisca Valenzuela has just released he album, “Buen Soldado” in the U.S. via iTunes.
I think I have been listening to Francisca for about a year now and really like some of her work and her voice. I often think that Chilean rock/pop music is overlooked. It’s also interesting hearing/reading some the critique of Valenzuela and music in Chile in general for representing only a certain sector of Chilean society.
Here is the video for the 2nd song off the album, Qué sería.
Que creen.
Secure Communities Task Force Met With Protests, Walk Outs. Show Moves to Chicago Next
9:24 am By Maegan La Mala · Immigration|Los Angeles|Secure Communities · 8 Comments
16 Aug 2011The Department of Homeland Security has been taking it’s show of illusions and lies on the road. Last night it held a Advisory Council’s Task Force on Secure Communities meeting at St. Anne’s Residential Facility in Los Angeles. According to DHS the purpose of the Task Force is to…:
…find ways to improve the Secure Communities program, including ideas on how to best focus on individuals who pose a true public safety or national security threat. This panel is composed of chiefs of police, sheriffs, state and local prosecutors, court officials, ICE agents from the field, and community and immigration advocates. The advisory committee is considering proposals on how ICE may adjust the Secure Communities program to mitigate potential impacts on community policing practices, including whether special procedures should be adopted for ICE enforcement actions directed toward individuals charged with, but not convicted of, minor traffic offenses.
Hundreds gathered, including organizational reps, advocates, and activists to listen to and give testimony as to the real impact of the S-Comm deportation program including domestic violence survivors calling 911 only to have themselves arrested and children watching their families torn apart. Certainly these are not unique to S-Comm but they are made worse.
Isaura Garcia fighting back tears, pleaded with the task force to help end the program.
Garcia, 20, said she called police after an episode of domestic violence to seek help finding a shelter for herself and her 1-year-old daughter, but instead wound up detained and was put into deportation proceedings.
“Calling 911 was the worst nightmare I could suffer in my life,” she said in Spanish.
More Actions/Voices Against Secure Communities : Today in Boston, Chicago, Houston, Miami
6:16 am By Maegan La Mala · boston|chicago|houston|Immigration|Miami|Secure Communities · Comments Off
16 Aug 2011As I wrote yesterday, the actions and voices against Secure Communities grow louder. Today there are at least six actions planned targeting President Obama and the Democratic Party as the continue to lie and pass the blame onto the Republicans while pushing over a million deportations. Some organizations are calling today a National Day of Action Against Secure Communities. See if you can find and event near you and stay tuned for reports from the protests as they come in.
• CHICAGO, IL press conference & rally at 11:25 AM: Obama’s national campaign headquarters, One Prudential Plaza 130 E. Randolph St, Chicago, ILL
• HOUSTON, TX at 11:00 AM: Harris County Democratic Party, 1445 North Loop, Ste. 110, Houston, TX
• BOSTON, MS at 1:30 PM: Massachusetts Democratic Party , 77 Summer St. 10th Floor, Boston MA
• MIAMI, FL at 3:00 PM: Miami Dade Democratic Party, 801 Arthur Godfrey Rd., Miami Beach, FL
• ATLANTA at 11:00 AM: Democratic Party Georgia Headquarters, 763 Trabert Ave., Atlanta, GA
• CHARLOTTE, NC at 2:00 PM: Mecklenburg County Democratic Party, 500 E Morehead St # 106, Charlotte, NC
National Week of Action to End Secure Communities
10:53 am By Maegan La Mala · Immigration|Los Angeles|Secure Communities · 4 Comments
15 Aug 2011
Today marks the first day of a week of actions and events across the country in protest of the Secure Communities deportation program/policy.
One of the first events will be taking place in Los Angeles, the site of the only “Community Task Force” meeting on the West Coast.
Immigrants and families impacted and affected by “Secure Communities”, Father Richard Estrada, Rabbi Adam Greenwalkd (IKAR), CHIRLA, NDLON, DREAM Teams, California DREAM Network, ACLU, NILC, Pueblo (Santa Barbara), Center for Community Change, CIPC, CARECEN Los Angeles, will hold a press conference at 11 am (pst), in front of the Virgen of Guadalupe mural on the north side of Our Lady of Angels Church (La Placita), 535 N. Main St., to tell about the actual impact of Secure Communities.
Stay tuned for more updates and announcements.
Image Via / NDLON
Monday Movie : La Cosecha/The Harvest
6:48 am By Maegan La Mala · children|Labor|Movies|youth · Comments Off
15 Aug 2011What did you eat this weekend? Onions, tomatoes, strawberries, watermelons, blueberries, cucumbers, or apples? If you said yes to any of the above it is possible that your food passed through the hands of one of the three teenagers featured in the documentary la Cosecha/The Harvest.
The Harvest/La Cosecha – Theatrical Trailer from Shine Global on Vimeo.
The film follows the lives of Zulema, Victor, y Perla as they follow their families as three of the 400,000 who pick the food that passes over our tables. The teens, are described as American children – as in from the United States, but one shouldn’t gloss over the fact that they are Latin American children as well. The children of immigrants or immigrants themselves. They speak the languages of Latinos – our languages : Spanish, English, and Spanglish.
“My dad no esta” – says 14 year old Zulema.
“Vamos al field,” says 16 year old Victor.
And they In the words of 14 year old Perla:
Because you are brown they think you’re from Mexico. They think your stupid, poor, a migrant. I was born here. Where am I supposed to go?
NYC : Lo Que Hay This Weekend – Poetry
3:53 pm By Maegan La Mala · Culture|Events|New York City · Comments Off
12 Aug 2011
There a few interesting events this weekend in NYC that are worthy of checking out, especially as summer days are drawing to a close.
I have done stuff with CityLore before and this event caught my eye because it is in Queens and at one of my favorite spots in Queens :
¡Voices in Flight!: Poetry from the Mexican-American Community
An Evening of Poetry and Music
Hosted by Raúl Hurtado, we will present poetry readings as part of the project, A White Wing Brushing the Building: Poetry in NYC Communities, presented by City Lore and Bowery Arts & Sciences. This event’s poets are Gabriel Rvera, Galix, Chepo, and Abelardo Duran. As part of the reading, poems will be projected onto the facade of the Terraza Café right off Roosevelt Blvd, which is the heart of the Latino community in Jackson Heights and Elmhurst.
There will also be music and dance by Ballet Folklorico Mexicano de New York and Zompantli who will perform the danzón, a national dance of Cuba, though beloved in Mexico.
When: Saturday, August 13th, 8:00 pm
Where: Terraza Café, 40-19 Gleane St., Elmhurst, NY 11373. Take the #7 train to 82nd St./Jackson Hieghts.
Admission: Free
For more information: City Lore 212-529-1955 , x 306Follow us on Twitter @POEMobile.
More Responses to Secure Communities Officially Becoming a Mandatory Deportation Program
12:08 pm By Maegan La Mala · Immigration|Politics|Secure Communities · 1 Comment
12 Aug 2011It’s been exactly a week since the Department of Homeland Security asserted the mandatory nature of the Secure Communities deportation program and voided it’s agreements with states across the country. Since then there have been numerous responses from politicians and organizations alike.
There have been “community” task force meetings in some parts of the country. There is now a push by some sectors asking for members of the task force to resign, given how DHS’s announcement shows that there is no interest on the part of the government in hearing from members of any community regarding the impact of S-Comm. For example, this afternoon in Tuscon, there will be a rally demanding that Tucson Police Chief, Roberto Villaseñor, who has been named as a member of this Taskforce, resign and not legitimize a program that will result in the most massive deportation process we have ever seen.
Closed – TICKET GIVEAWAY : Rodrigo y Gabriela at the Hollywood Bowl
2:15 pm By Maegan La Mala · Los Angeles|Music · 12 Comments
10 Aug 2011
Filter Magazine and LATV reached out to us here at VivirLatino to offer some of our Los Angeles area based readers a chance to win tickets to see Mexican musical duo Rodrigo y Gabriela, this Friday, at the Hollywood Bowl.
Rodrigo y Gabriela (whom I have seen/heard live and they are incredible), continue their 15 years of playing together with two shows at the Hollywood Bowl, Friday, August 12, 2011, at 8:30PM and Saturday, August 13th at 8:30 pm, along with the LA Philharmonic and Los Amigos Invisibles.
If you are the first VivirLatino reader to comment below with a valid email address and are available to pick up the tickets in Hollywood on Friday afternoon, you can win a pair of tickets for the Friday show.
And if you don’t win but still want to get in on some fun, Before the Saturday, August 13 show, the Hollywood Bowl Museum along with KPFK 90.7 FM will be hosting a free, all ages dance party in celebration of the museum’s Música y Sabor – Latino Artists at the Hollywood Bowl exhibit. There will be food and drink for purchase and free Latin dance lessons beginning at 5:30pm. For information, call the Hollywood Bowl Museum at 323-850-2058, or Audience Services at 323.850.2000.
Good Luck!
Hearing Tonight in Dallas on Secure Communities
10:17 am By Maegan La Mala · Immigration|Politics|Secure Communities|Texas · 2 Comments
9 Aug 2011Tonight Dallas County Sheriff Valdez will hold a public hearing on the “Secure Communities” program as part of her role on a controversial national taskforce critics claim was convened by the administration to dampen recent opposition to the deportation program.
The hearing, scheduled from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm, and to be held at Dallas County Community College is happening in a county where 30% of those deported under the program are people with no criminal conviction while 63% either have not been convicted of any crime or have committed only a minor offense. This pattern, which flies in the face of Obama administration claims of targeted deportations of “dangerous” immigrants, is one that is repeated across the country as the deportation expands.
The hearing also comes almost immediately following last Friday’s announcement by the Department of Homeland Security, nullifying the 40 contracts it had negotiated with states and affirming the questioned mandatory status of the program.
New York International Latino Film Festival : The Difference Between Movies & Films
9:45 am By Maegan La Mala · Movies|New York City · 1 Comment
8 Aug 2011
Film festivals usually tend to present cutting edge films that go against the standard multiplex offerings. The New York International Film Festival, for 12 years has been pushing short and long form films featuring Latino directors, producers, scripts, actors and issues that push up against the often stereotypical presentation of our communities. This year promises to be no different.
The NYILFF is capitalizing on their reputation as cutting edge while simultaneously taking a critical look at Hollywood’s blockbuster mentality and clichés and contrasting it against the “film” mentality – in particular, the Latino film mentality, which focuses on real, complex issues rather than simple entertainment. Take for example their ad campaign that focuses on the roles that Latinos traditionally play in mainstream Hollywood films.
We will be reviewing and featuring some of the films from the New York Latino Film Festival so stay tuned for that. In the meantime if you want to check out some of the festival for yourself. You can check out the schedule and plan your festival experience here.
You can purchase tickets here.
Ticket & badge info can be found here.
If you want to keep it old school and prefer to buy your tickets in person, box office info is here.
Hola!
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