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Latino Commission on AIDS to Release Report Today
9:56 am By Maegan La Mala · Alabama| Georgia| Health| Mississippi| North Carolina| South Carolina · Comments Off
1 Dec 2008
Commemorating the 20th annual World AIDS Day, today at noon EST, the Latino Commission on AIDS will release a new report focusing on the state of HIV/AIDS prevention and care services for Latinos in the Deep South: North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana. The report, Shaping the New Response: HIV/AIDS and Latinos in the Deep South, follows 2 years of fact finding.
Date: Monday, December 1st
National Call-In Press Conference: 12:00 PM EST ( English and Spanish). Dial-in number (888) 387-8686 password 4615450
In-Person Press Conference: 1:00 p.m. EST (English and Spanish) Latino Commission on AIDS at 24 West 25th Street 10th Floor, New York City (Bet 6th Avenue & Broadway)
For more information and to arrange interviews, call
Guillermo Chacón (212) 920-1611 or gchacon@latinoaids.org (Spanish)
Tim Frasca (917) 689-9475 or tfrasca@latinoaids.org (English)
For more information visit The Latino Commission on AIDS.
For Fear of Deportation, More Immigrants Take Taxis
11:39 am By Maegan La Mala · Controversia| Georgia| Immigration| business · Comments Off
3 Jun 2008
Way back in 2005, we told you about a market phenomenon that was occurring as a result of increased Latino immigration: more taxicabs. Back then, it seemed that the reason for the boom in taxis in cities like Houston, Texas, was the fact that many newly arrived immigrants don’t have cars. Now the phenomenon has repeated itself in Georgia, and locals point to a more compelling reason: harsher laws are driving some to avoid driving for fear of being picked up and deported.
In the past month, taxicab companies have seen an increase in business by as much as 30 percent — a direct result, owners say, of a new law enforcement initiative targeting immigration violations.The initiative, a local-federal partnership known as 287(g), was implemented in April by the Hall County Sheriff’s Office. It allows detention officers to begin deportation proceedings for any arrestee who is brought to the county jail and determined to be in the country illegally.
Sheriff Steve Cronic has said that the initiative has already cut down on the number of arrests for common traffic offenses such as driving without a license.
Some cab drivers in Gainesville are saying that the effect of the law has been such that traffic has been notably reduced on freeways, as more immigrants choose to cab it over driving.
Via / Gainesville Times
Obama in ‘08 Tee : Curious or Straight Up Racist?
3:17 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Georgia| Politics| US Presidential Race 2008| race · 4 Comments
15 May 2008
A tavern owner in Georgia has been peddling the shirt with a picture of a happy Curious George eating a banana above the words “Obama in ’08.”
The tavern owner, who some have described as an “ultra-conservative,” has denied to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the T-shirt is racist. But protesters outside his tavern say the comparison of Obama, who is an African- American, to a monkey is an old racist stereotype.
Comparing a black man to a monkey is racist? Who would have thought?
Georgia Police Learning Spanish
9:06 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Bilingualism| Georgia| Justice| language · Comments Off
3 Jan 2007
As the population in the South of the US becomes more and more Latino so do the language needs of the area. For all the talk about the English only movement, the fact remains that basic services such as police and other emergency services need to be provided to all and need to oversome language barriers. Georgia is taking the lead in helping to train its police force and emergency telephone operators in speaking and understanding basic Spanish. According to the Univision article, most of the Spanish learned include basic words for car parts and orders like “drop that weapon”, which make me wonder if the police really want to help Spanish speakers or just pull more people over.
Via / Univision.com
Image Via / GACP
No more Spanish books for a Georgia library system
3:03 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Books| Georgia| language · 4 Comments
21 Jun 2006
Thinking of heading out to the library to pick up a couple of books en español? According to AP, if you live in Gwinnett County, Georgia, think again. The library system in the heavily Latino county has decided it won’t be purchasing any more non-children’s books in the language of Cervantes:
Last week, the library board in this fast-growing county of 700,000 people eliminated the $3,000 that had been set aside to buy Spanish-language fiction in the coming fiscal year. It offered no explanation, but the chairman said such book purchases would lead readers of other foreign languages to demand the same treatment.
I can see it now. All those French residents of this Georgia county taking to the streets to demand original versions of the works of Baudelaire and Victor Hugo.
“We can’t supply pleasure reading material for all language groups, so we’re not going to go down that road,” said Lloyd Breck, chairman of the library board.
On May 1st You Can Dance
12:00 pm By Maegan La Mala · Activism| Georgia| Immigration| Music · Comments Off
26 Apr 2006
The new Latinized version of the U.S. National Anthem may be marketable and timely but can you dance to it? To steal Emma Goldman’s words, if I can’t dance, it’s not my revolution! Well if you’re going to be in Milledgeville, Georgia, you can dance instead of march on May 1st. According to a press release sent out by Chicano artist and chair of the art department of Georgia College & State University, Richard Lou(whom VL featured) there will be an In Solidarity Dance-In. Instead of marching, we will DANCE together
Georgia criminalizes immigrants, Mexico reacts
5:10 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Georgia| Immigration| mexico · 1 Comment
21 Apr 2006
This week Georgia governor Sonny Perdue signed into legislation the strictest immigration laws on the books in the United States. The law will deny some aid and social services to those unable to prove their legal status in the U.S. and will penalize employers who employ undocumented immigrants. Fulfilling a promise from months ago (also proposed in other states), Georgia will also demand that local police report undocumented immigrants to Immigration.
American media certainly doesn’t care about Mexico’s take on the whole matter, so it’s a good thing that foreign media does. The BBC quotes Mexican presidential spokesman Ruben Aguilar:
“The referred legislation incurs discriminatory acts against the Mexican population and those of Mexican origin,” Mr Aguilar said.“It is a partial measure that fails to resolve the complex phenomenon of immigration between Mexico and the United States in an integral manner.”
Mexico’s El Universal goes on:
Aguilar pointed out that as Perdue was signing the bill in Georgia, border state Arizona’s governor, Janet Napolitano, “vetoed [proposed] legislation that would be anti-immigrant”.“This just shows the complexity of a problem that affects both countries, and that can only be resolved by looking at the phenomenon in an integral way.”
More on Atlanta Latino
Related reading: Ga. town at center of immigrant labor case
Via / BBC News and El Universal (Spanish)
Photo via Henry Herald (Jeffrey Leo)
Gang Crackdown = Racial Profiling?
3:30 pm By Maegan La Mala · Georgia| Justice| children · 1 Comment
19 Mar 2006
There has been a nationwide crackdown and round up of alleged gang members in ecent weeks. Specific targets include alleged members of the Salvadorian rooted Mara Salvatrucha. But when does a gang crackdown become discrimination? That is what community members of Cobb County of Metro Atlanta are asking. Latino parents feel that their children are being unfairly targeted because of where they come from. Since the 2000-2001 school year the number of Latino students in the Cobb County school system has just about doubled.
Full House
12:01 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Family| Georgia| Immigration| society · Comments Off
18 Jan 2006
It seems that officials in the cradle of the “New Latino South”, Georgia, are looking to make sure too many people don’t occupy a single dwelling. Too many immigrants, that is. In reponse to complaints about overcrowded homes in the state, Georgia officials are inspecting dwellings housing numerous Latino immigrants:
In Cobb County, housing code officers say they need more stringent regulations to handle a growing number of complaints about overcrowded homes. Last week, county zoning officials proposed an ordinance to reduce the number of unrelated people who can live together under one roof from six to four.
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