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Lou Dobbs Invites BastaDobbs to His Show

9:06 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Controversia| Immigration| Media| TV| media justice · 9 Comments

22 Oct 2009

loudobbs After a successful day of events across the country yesterday that coincided with the airing of Latino in America, seems like CNN’s Lou Dobbs realizes that it’s gonna take more than calling Latinos who call him out “fleas” to get rid of us. The producers of Lou Dobbs’ show emailed Roberto Lovato of BastaDobbs to be on the show. Roberto, never one to shy away from a good opportunity, said claro pero on one condition…

This Latina in the Americas Skipped CNN’s Latino in America. Y Tu?

6:12 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Media| TV · 31 Comments

22 Oct 2009

Last night CNN’s special, Latino in America aired. Not being able to afford cable (the blogger life is so glamorous), is only one reason. CNN refuses to accept any responsibility for who it puts on the air and thinks it can give us tired old stereotypes and tired old white men.

I understand, it’s easy to get excited and caught up in the hype. They are talking about us! Latinos! In America! The same way Dobbs talks about us, Latinos, in America everyday. The same way they attack us, Latinos, in America everyday.

I’m too busy living Latina in the Americas to watch a projection of what I’m supposed to do or be.

Those who did watch it…thoughts?

Latino in America: the Boot Strap story

8:00 pm By la Macha · Media| media justice · 6 Comments

21 Oct 2009

As you watch the Latino in America tonight, I thought you might enjoy this preview/critique of the show from Color Lines.

Take the story of Cindy Garcia. Having once ditched high school classes, Cindy is now trying to avoid becoming one of the 70 percent of students who don’t graduate from her Los Angeles high school. Although the school board president admits that a school meant to handle 1,500 students actually serves 4,800 students, CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien focuses on Cindy’s real challenge: her family responsibilities. She has a mom who needs her to translate and help at the family store and a young niece and baby brother to take care of. When she ends up pregnant, we know now presumably what Cindy’s real hardship will be.

What’s going to help Cindy finish high school?

O’Brien could have suggested an overhaul of the education system. She could have analyzed the impact of the more recent and severe budget cuts for students. She could have examined why Cindy’s stepfather is in jail (prison industrial complex anyone?) or what the state of reproductive health education is at Cindy’s school, where a number of Latina girls are facing unplanned pregnancies.

But O’Brien skipped these questions and the real world solutions.

We’re told instead is that what Cindy needs to make it is grit, focus, and hard work. In short: her own bootstraps.

NYC On the Clock : Lives at Work

7:34 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Labor| Media| New York City · Comments Off

21 Oct 2009

Local NYC PBS station Channel 13 is highlighting how the city that never sleeps does it through videos featuring those that keep it moving.

New York on the Clock: Carlos, Coffee Man from Thirteen.org on Vimeo.

On the clock is a euphemism for on the job, working. Pero isn’t this how so many see Latino faces already in NYC and around the country? Immigrants who work? I guess I’m a little tired of what I see as the work personal divide. I want to know is Carlos making ends meet? Is he sending money back to Mexico? He works in a busy section of NYC catering to business types pero where does he live? Most likely in a community like where I live and that is the side that most people don’t see.

Via / NY On the Clock

NYC, Support Independent Rican Radical Films : Machetero

9:47 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Events| Media| Movies| New York City · Comments Off

20 Oct 2009

Our own Bianca Laureano reviewed the independent film Machetero over on her site a few months ago. I haven’t yet seen the film (single mamis with toddlers and movies rarely mix) pero as Bianca’s latest review on VL demonstrates, popular support of independent films coming out of our communities is important. I got this email from Vagabond, creator of Machetero.

MACHETERO is back in NYC after the Irish premiere and award last month. It will be playing as a part of the New York International Independent Film And Video Festival Thursday, October 29th @ 8PM.

i just received word that if we sell out the MACHETERO screening on Thurs. Oct. 29th @ 8PM we will get a 2nd screening. However we need to sell out the theater by this Fri. Oct. 9th. The theater seats 150 people… Can we do it?

Let’s try! Buy your tickets now to this 1st screening and let’s gets a 2nd screening of MACHETERO scheduled! Let’s show and prove NYC that self-financed, independent, artistic, politically minded films about the de-colonization of a Latin American nation has an audience in NYC…

If 75 people could step up and bring someone else with them to the screening… (who likes going to the movies alone?) we could make this goal of selling out this screening (150 seats) of MACHETERO before Friday the 9th.

Purchase tickets here

Monday Movie Clip, Voces : Special Circumstances

19 Oct 2009

While a restless toddler jumped on the bed, I watched pedazos of this documentary last night on Voces on my local PBS station.

Special Circumstances follows Chilean exile Héctor Salgado as he returns to Chile from the USA to seek and confront the men who imprisoned him and tortured and killed his friends after the coup of 1973. Through his journey, audiences will come to understand the legal, political and social obstacles standing in the way of a nation’s attempt, thirty years later, to overcome its brutal history. Throughout five years of determined digging, Héctor finds old friends and family members, victims’ families, survivors and others who express divided and passionate opinions about Chile’s past.The resulting film not only tells a dramatic story of Héctor’s encounters with former military personnel, but also gives audiences a rare look at contemporary Chile and the nation’s efforts to reconcile its troubling history.

Congratulations Are In Order: Alexis Pauline Gumbs: Media Activist , Utne Visionary Changing the World

12:20 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Activism| Media| Women| media justice · 3 Comments

18 Oct 2009

Radical women media activist don’t do what they do for the props, that’s for sure. Pero it’s always nice when they get some and it’s always nice when the peeps getting props are close to my heart. Utne Reader has done it again, releasing their annual 50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World list. I am happy to see the name of Alexis Pauline Gumbs aka just Lex, for her work on the Mobile Homecoming Project and the million and one other projects she always seems to be working on.

Felicidades.

MobileHomeComing: Here We Go! from Alexis Gumbs on Vimeo.

Award Winning Cuban Blogger Banned from Leaving to Recieve Award

11:21 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Blogs| Cuba| Media| media justice · 2 Comments

18 Oct 2009

Cubana blogger Yoani Sánchez was awarded the oldest prize in journalism, the Maria Moors Cabot Prize. Problem is, she wasn’t allowed the leave Cuba to accept the award. The awards were announced in the middle of the summer but according to her, she somehow held out a tiny bit of hope that she would be allowed to leave. She posted a video of her visit to the Cuban immigration office where she was told she couldn’t leave the country but not why. Could it be because she has been an unapologetic critic of the Cuban government whose voice, via the internet, has global reach?

CNN Wants Latino Viewers and $ But Not When They Criticize

12:13 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Media| TV| media justice · 2 Comments

16 Oct 2009

America’s Voice successfully raised enough money to produce and purchase on-air time for their Drop Dobbs television ad.

The plan was to pay the $16,000 it cost to place the ad during CNN’s Latino in America Series next week. Claro the show will be surrounded by Spanglish ads urging you to buy from Walmart with it’s horrible treatment of workers and eat McDonald’s with it’s horrible treatment of animals and your body. But air an ad that has something to say and is trying to sell a message of truth? Not CNN. They rejected America’s Voice money and ad.

I don’t have cable so I don’t watch CNN and I had no intention of watching the series, Latino in America. Given the criticisms I heard and read about the CNN series Black in America, I already had made up my mind that the show likely wouldn’t represent with any accuracy what the Latino experience was for me, my familia, my friends, and vecinos. The hypocrisy of a network that poses itself as a fair and balanced news leader,airing a series on Latinidad while paying the salary of a the hateful Dobbs, whose rhetoric gives both the government and individuals justification for hate crimes against Latinos, especially Latino immigrants, grows. As Nezua wrote, CNN doesn’t really care about what it really means to be Latino in America. Maybe it’s time not just to drop Dobbs but to drop CNN.

Sofrito Pa’ Ti vegan Recipe Zine Seeks Submissions

7:44 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Food| Media · Comments Off

14 Oct 2009

mex-rice-and-beans The old school Rican in me thinks that “real” Rican food has lots of animal in it, especially pork, pero if anyone could make me change my mind it’s amiga Noemi which is why I want peeps to know about her latest zine project!

I’m compiling a vegan recipe zine, “Sofrito Pa’ Ti.” I’m a Puerto Rican/Mexican single mom, alternative media activist & writer living in south texas and I love to bake & cook. It’ll be focused on how to cook when you don’t have a traditional stove (which we don’t)-so we cook w/ electric skillets, microwave, slow cookers, tea pot (boil water for oatmeal or pasta!) and a counter toaster oven. A smaller version of this was available at this year’s Allied Media Conference and now I want to expand it and include more recipes. If you’d like to submit your vegan recipes, send up to 3 to csdistro (at) gmail dot com. Include your name, email, mailing address and a brief bio, include your email or site in your bio if you’d like it to be included in the zine.
Deadline-shall we aim for Dec 15th?

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