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Lo Que Hay This Weekend Boston & NYC: Danza Mexicana y Mas

8:13 am By Maegan La Mala · Arts|boston|dance|Events|mexico · Comments Off

25 Nov 2011

Boston

Friday, November 18th

Paredes en Fuego: The 2011 Cacique Youth Art Show Opening Reception
Villa Victoria Center for the Arts
85 W. NEWTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02118

Ongoing

Calpulli Danza Mexicana in Queens Theater in the Park
Saturday, November 26 – 8 pm
Sunday, November 27 3 pm
Queens Theater in the Park, Flushing Meadow Park
Tickets available via the Box Office or by calling 718-760-0064

Tickets can also be purchased at event sponsor Compliments U Boutique in Jackson Heights, Queens (80-14 37th Ave.) and at Calpulli Youth Dance locations in Queens and Staten Island

Lo Que Hay This Weekend Boston, NYC: Musica, Hip Hop Theater Festival, Cemetery Tours y Mas

7:25 am By Maegan La Mala · boston|Lo Que Hay|Music|New York City · Comments Off

28 Oct 2011

Friday, October 28th, 2011

Boston

Considerado como uno de los mejores bajistas de Jazz del mundo, el puertorriqueño Eddie Gómez nos brinda una noche con lo mejor de su repertorio. Gracias a una colaboración entre Villa Victoria Center for the Arts y Berklee College of Music, esta especial presentación en Boston nos brinda la oportunidad de presenciar el talento de este gigante del Jazz.

Regarded as one of the best Jazz bass players in the world, Eddie Gómez will offer us an evening with the very best of his repertoire. Thanks to a collaboration between Villa Victoria Center for the Arts and Berklee College of Music, this one-night-only presentation is a unique opportunity to witness the talent of a true Jazz giant.

8 pm
Villa Victoria Center for the Arts
85 W Newton Street
Boston, Massachusetts
$10 hasta el 24 de octubre / $15 en la puerta

Purchase Tickets Here

New York City

Hip Hop Theater Festival
8pm: Workshop Performance of Re: Definition and Single Reflex
LaMama Experimental Theatre
74 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003
Free to RSVP with $10 suggested donation at the door
Visit HHTF.ORG for more info/tickets

Saturday, October 29th 2011

Hip Hop Theater Festival
4:30pm-6pm: Book Launch for Say Word! and The Prophet Returns
LaMama Experimental Theatre
74 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003
Free to RSVP with $10 suggested donation at the door
Visit HHTF.ORG for more info/tickets

Sunday, October 30

Bronx, NYC

Panel Discusssion: Who is Albizu?
3 – 6 pm
El Maestro, Inc., 1300 Southern Boulevard

Presenter: Camilo Matos

Panelists:
-Ponce Laspina: Partido Nacionalista de Puerto Rico, Junta de Nueva York
-Olga I. Sanabria: Puerto Rico Committee in the U.N.
-Iris Zavala-Martinez: Lecturer, Hunter College
-Carlitos Rovira: Former Young Lord
Music:
DJ Mellow G
Tato Torres
Fernandito Ferrer
Luis Cruz
Angelito Villot
Pichichi

Poets
Mariposa
Prisionera Jamas
Armando Pacheco Matos

Ongoing

Bronx, NYC

After Dark at Woodlawn – Annual Halloween History Tour

OCTOBER 29, 30 and 31, 2011

Creep Through One of the Nation’s Oldest Cemeteries and the Final Resting Place of Notorious New Yorkers

This year, the spookiest annual Halloween event is getting a dramatic makeover. On October 29, 30 and 31, an early evening walk through Woodlawn comes ALIVE with real-life interpretations of NYC legends and lore, surreal tales of unsolved mysteries and murders, and more. Folklorist Elena Martinez leads the tours, accompanied by bagpipers and other mysterious characters. Flashlights required.

Two tours—6PM and 7PM nightly

COST: $20 admission fee.

Reservations are required for the Halloween tours.

Call 718-920-1469

Meet at the Jerome Avenue Entrance
The Jerome Avenue Entrance is located near the intersection of Jerome Avenue and Bainbridge Avenue.

#4 train to Woodlawn Station

Protests Against Secure Communities Sham Task Force Continue While ICE Tries to Cover It’s Lies

10:48 am By Maegan La Mala · chicago|Immigration|Secure Communities · 1 Comment

18 Aug 2011

As the Secure Communities task force circus continues it’s national tour, assuring people that they are listening as they deport people, the protests continue and are escalating.

Yesterday in Chicago, following the trend started at the Los Angeles S-Comm task force meeting, there was a massive walk out. Following the walk out, while the “meeting” continued inside with some giving testimony as to the local impact of the deportation policy, 6 undocumented youth were arrested in acts of civil disobedience. All of the undocumented youth who were part of the action have been released, along with 3 supporters who were also detained by police.

Court ordered documents released earlier this week include acknowledgement by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) attorneys that they would have to “rewrite” memos on whether the program is mandatory for states and localities and revealed schisms between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on the right of states and localities to opt out of the program.

Today ICE will be back in court today arguing it should be able to keep secret documents relating to the agency’s purported legal basis to impose S-Comm on unwilling states like Massachusetts, Illinois and New York.

More Actions/Voices Against Secure Communities : Today in Boston, Chicago, Houston, Miami

16 Aug 2011

As 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

Illinois DREAMer Released from ICE Custody but Not Safe From Deportation

12:59 pm By Maegan La Mala · chicago|DREAM Act|Immigration · Comments Off

19 Jul 2011

26 year old Marcelo Castañeda Llamas, an Illinois DREAMer, was scheduled to be deported yesterday. The good news is that he wasn’t. He was instead released yesterday but that is where the good news ends. Marcelo still has a final deportation order which means if he is detained again he could be deported- at any time.

Marcelo has lived in the US since he was 9 years old. He was born in Mexico. On July 12, Marcelo’s family member contacted the police in Illinois to assist her in getting into her locked car. The police opened the car door, but then they also arrested Marcelo and turned him over to ICE without filing any criminal charges or claiming that he had committed any crime. There was a prior order of deportation, not because he had committed any crime but because Marcelo missed an appointment (how many of you have missed an appointment?).

While Marcelo is with his family now, without deferred action and his case being reopened, that unity is at risk. According to the memo released last month by the head of ICE, John Morton, Marcelo should qualify for deferred action. However, to date, requests for a stay and deferred action have been denied.

You can sign a petition in support of Marcelo here.

Today the All-Star Game Plays on in Arizona

6:59 am By Maegan La Mala · Controversia|Immigration|Phoenix|Sports · Comments Off

12 Jul 2011

Despite over a year of organizing efforts aiming to get it moved, today Phoenix, Arizona hosts the 82nd Annual Major League Baseball All-Star Game. The push, which included protests across the country, to get MLB Commissioner Bud Selig to move the game or at the very least say something about Arizona’s immigrant/racial profiling law SB 1070 and how it could impact players and spectators, was largely a failure. Meanwhile SB 1070 copycat laws have spread across the country and like the Arizona Senate Bill that started it all, most find themselves entangled in some sort of lawsuit.

Today, Unite Arizona (AZ), will be giving out white ribbons as a symbol of opposition to this law. Unite AZ will be outside Chase Field asking fans to don white ribbons in protest of SB 1070 and as a reminder to Commissioner Selig that baseball needs to exhibit leadership. Online, National Council of la Raza is running a twibbon campaign and you can edit your Twitter avatar to include the Unite AZ graphic. Additionally NCLR NCLR has changed its facebook profile for today and tomorrow and is asking friends and supporters to do the same.

And Off to the Next Conference : The Allied Media Conference

7:27 am By Maegan La Mala · Allied Media Conference|Detriot|Media|media justice · 2 Comments

22 Jun 2011

Beginning on Thursday through Sunday, both Bianca and I will be at the Allied Media Conference in the lovely city of Detroit.

No offense to any of the other conferences I have been to so far, but the AMC is so special to me. It is truly a conference that inspires me, gives me new skills, and brings together other people who really inspire me and with whom I feel I can build something with. Plus it has childcare – real child centered spaces that attempt to engage the kids the same way the adults are engaged.

On Friday morning, I will be participating in one of the first workshops of the conference, Editing as an Act of Love. Here is the official description:

PRESENTERS:
Jessica Hoffmann, make/shift magazine
Lisa Factora-Borchers, Dear Sister anthology, make/shift magazine
Mariana Ruiz, 3 Sad Rivers Press
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Editor, Broken Beautiful Press

This workshop will insist upon and celebrate the ways editing can, and in liberatory media projects, must be an act of love. While dominant media uses editing to serve conformity, hierarchy, and elitism, radical media makers can engage in different kinds of editing: editing rooted in skill-sharing, relationships, the bringing together of many different voices, collaboration, amplification of often marginalized stories, and more. In this session, we will give examples of multiple projects that engage editing as an act of love in different ways, and share practical tools and tips for editing in line with our love-and-liberation-minded values.

I believe that some of the others participating in this panel include the amazing media makers Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, China Martens, and Vikki Law.

I was very excited when Jess from Make/Shift reached out to me and asked me to be on the panel. I have been blessed enough to have worked with some of the amazing editors at Make/Shift. I have edited here as a blogger/website publisher, I have been edited less than lovingly in the mainstream press, I work on writing and editing with young people and edit myself all the time as a writer/poet/performer. I hope to bring all of those experiences to the mesa.

Allied Media Conference Workshop: Editing as an Act of Love from Lisa Factora-Borchers on Vimeo.

In collaboration with other marvelous editors and writers, this video was made for the 2011 Allied Media Conference. A workshop, “Editing as an Act of Love” will feature creations and insights from different individuals who practice editing as a form of love and activism.

As with Netroots Nation, the best way to keep up with what I’m up to at the AMC is to follow the twitter stream, especially the hashtag #amc11.

INCITE! Needs Your Help Getting to Detroit!

5:53 am By Maegan La Mala · Allied Media Conference|Detriot · 1 Comment

14 Jun 2011

NOTE: I’m a proud member of INCITE! as part of their media working group. Over the past few years they have been supportive of my life/work as a radical media maker/mami of color and the life/work of other women of color, transgender women of color and non-gender conforming activists & media makers. Your support helps me and other amazing people further build their skills and relationships with each other.

Hello INCITE Supporters!

The Allied Media Conference is around the corner, and the INCITE Track is presenting an incredible bunch of workshops this year. Our work grows stronger each year through this time spent in Detroit, sharing skills, deepening relationships, and developing strategy for year-round media-based organizing. But we need your help to get there! Can you donate to help INCITE Track participants get to the conference?

Who are we?

We are women, trans* and genderqueer people of color. We are bloggers, mamas, media makers, teachers, healers, artists, sex workers, organizers, dancers, among many other things. And we need support in order to make it to Detroit for the 4th Annual INCITE! Track at the Allied Media Conference.

What will your donation help us do?

Your donation will help some of our amazing presenters get to the conference to continue building a network of media-makers and organizers through the INCITE Track at the AMC. For the past four years, the INCITE Track has been a crucial space where women and trans* people of color from all over can come together to share skills and experience for participatory media-based organizing strategies.

We’re excited about this year’s AMC! Check out some of the INCITE Track sessions:

Shawty Got Skillz Skillshare
Spread Magazine: Creating a Race Issue
The Black Girl Project: Film & Discussion
Delivering Justice Through Birthing Rights: Mamas of Color Bring it Home
Street Youth Rise Up! Collective Media-Making for Healing and Action
INCITE Media Working Group Convening

Your support will help us with food, transportation, lodging, registration, and childcare costs for presenters and participants.

Donate Now!

Please give what you can to help us get one step closer the AMC! Anything you give will go directly towards childcare, food, housing or registration for a track presenter! Via PayPal, please send to incite.natl@gmail.com and write AMC in the notes. For check donations, mail to INCITE!, 2416 W Victory Blvd #108 , Burbank, CA 91506-1229.

More on the INCITE! Track:

The INCITE! Track at the AMC is a place to build a shared approach to ending violence against women, trans*, and genderqueer people of color through diverse media – from blogging and graphic design to zine-making. We will continue to highlight the transformative media strategies that will help broaden the understanding of racial & gender justice and integrating this politic into our work. We will continue to build solidarity between movements, organizations and individuals that are headed by and supported by women, gender non-conforming, and transpeople of color and will initiate collaborative projects that use different forms of media to help build community and provide tools to build sustainable ways of organizing and healing.

More on the Allied Media Conference:

The Allied Media Conference cultivates strategies for a more just and creative world. We come together to share tools and tactics for transforming our communities through media-based organizing.

Learn more and register for the Allied Media Conference:

Tonight in NYC, Tomorrow in Amherst : The Revolution Starts at Home

14 May 2011

A book that should probably be used as a reference and jump off for critical conversations and growth, The Revolution Starts at Home : Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities, edited by Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is out and on tour.

The anthology took 7 years to pull together and even 7 years ago was long overdue as there are so many struggles within so-called activist spaces about how we treat each other.

“Was/is your abusive partner a high-profile activist? Does your abusive girlfriend’s best friend staff the domestic violence hotline? Have you successfully kicked an abuser out of your group? Did your anti-police brutality group fear retaliation if you went to the cops about another organizer’s assault? Have you found solutions where accountability didn’t mean isolation for either of you? Was the ‘healing circle’ a bunch of bullshit? Is the local trans community so small that you don’t want you or your partner to lose it?

“We wanted to hear about what worked and what didn’t, what survivors and their supporters learned, what they wish folks had done, what they never want to have happen again. We wanted to hear about folks’ experiences confronting abusers, both with cops and courts and with methods outside the criminal justice system.”

— The Revolution Starts at Home collective

Long demanded and urgently needed, The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities finally breaks the dangerous silence surrounding the secret of intimate violence within social justice circles. This watershed collection of stories and strategies tackles the multiple forms of violence encountered right where we live, love, and work for social change — and delves into the nitty-gritty on how we might create safety from abuse without relying on the state. Drawing on over a decade of community accountability work, along with its many hard lessons and unanswered questions, The Revolution Starts at Home offers potentially life-saving alternatives for creating survivor safety while building a movement where no one is left behind.

For more information:
http://southendpress.org/2010/items/87941
http://revolutionathome.tumblr.com/
revathome@gmail.com

For all of you Northeast Coasters, there are opportunities to meet some of the editors, hear from the book, and engage in conversation about why this book and where from here. Mala will be at the NYC release tonight so please stay tuned to our twitter account for live-tweets (as permitted). Read more…

Immigration Enforcement Following Parents Taking Children to School in Detroit

12:38 pm By Maegan La Mala · Detriot|Immigration · 11 Comments

6 Apr 2011

The first time I saw an Immigration & Customs Enforcement van was in Detroit. For some children of immigrants in Detroit, they may say the same thing and add that the last time they saw their parents was in an ICE van.

The Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM) is reporting that in Detroit ICE followed parents taking their children to the Hope of Detroit Academy, detained at least two parents, and essentially forced other parents to remain inside the school, afraid of leaving and afraid of being detained by ICE. Eventually the ICE officers left.
Read more…

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