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Miercoles Morning Movie : Los Invisibles Part II
7:37 am By Maegan La Mala · Immigration|Media|Videos|Women · 1 Comment
17 Nov 2010Today we take a look at Part Ii of the Amnesty International and Gael Garcia Bernal short film series on Central American migrants traveling through Mexico towards the U.S.
This part is called 6 out 10 , because that is the estimate of the number of women who are sexually assaulted as they travel to the United States through Mexico. Most of the women featured in this part of the film are mothers. According to the film, many women who make the trip to the U.S through Mexico expect to get raped, and take precautions to prevent pregnancy.
Imagine having to plan for that possibility.
Martes Morning Movie : Los Invisibles, Part I
10:02 am By Maegan La Mala · Immigration|Media|mexico|Videos · 1 Comment
16 Nov 2010Yesterday, I wrote to you all about a four part film released by Amnesty International and Gael Garcia Bernal, los Invisibles. The film focuses on Central American immigrants traveling through Mexico into the United States. Today, as promised, here is part one of the film, titled Seaworld. Why Seaworld ? Because that is how one little girl in the film envisions the United States to be like.
Monday Morning Movie : Preview of Los Invisibles
7:06 am By Maegan La Mala · Immigration|Media|mexico · 1 Comment
15 Nov 2010Last week Amnesty International, in conjunction with Mexican actor/director/producer Gael Garcia Bernal released Los Invisibles, The Invisible Ones, a series of four short documentaries about the trip thousands of Central Americans make traveling across Mexico in an attempt to reach the U.S.
I really wanted to highlight this series because of how accessible it is to many. I can imagine people in my neighborhood accessing the four films via their cell phones. In light of the anti-immigrant rhetoric in the U.S. combined with the revealed horrors Latinos from Central and South America face when traveling through Mexico al rumbo a los E.U., this film coming in part from a Mexican seems really important. There seems to be a new market for reality tv focusing on the border. Using buzzwords like “war”, outlets like National Geographic Channel and Current TV each have their own series about those who cross the frontera for a better life. But those series feel like exploitation films to me, with an U.S. gaze framing the crisis not so much in terms of the inherent human rights of the migrants, but rather the fear of invasion.
Tomorrow we will feature part I of the film.
NYC Event Tonight : Lolita, A Tribute in Photos
10:53 am By Maegan La Mala · Events|Media|New York City|Puerto Rico|Women · Comments Off
12 Nov 2010
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He’s Back : Lou Dobbs Headed to Fox Business
9:37 am By Maegan La Mala · Immigration|Media|TV · 1 Comment
12 Nov 2010The saying in Spanish is “Mala yerba nunca muere” and case in point, Lou Dobbs.
After grassroots campaigns helped to get former CNN host Lou Dobbs off the air because of his hateful anti-immigrant rhetoric, Dobbs is back. Not surprisingly with the Fox network, specifically it’s business television channel.
From L.A. Times Blog :
Fox Business Network is expected to announce that it has signed Dobbs as early as Wednesday afternoon. It’s the latest high-profile hire for the cable network, which launched a little over three years ago and is in 57 million homes. Although that is far fewer homes than its chief rival, CNBC, Fox Business last week managed to beat CNBC on election night, both in viewers and the key adults 25-54 demographic.
When Dobbs left CNN last November after clashing with management there, he said some leaders had been urging him to “go beyond the role at CNN and to engage in constructive problem-solving as well as to contribute positively to the great understanding of the issues of our day.”
How long do you all give him before that “great understanding” includes immigrant bashing? I wonder if Dobbs tried to get work at any other networks and a Fox outlet was the only one that would have him?
Another reason to be grateful that I don’t have cable.
Just A(n English Only) Sports Joke
8:19 am By Maegan La Mala · Immigration|Media|radio|Sports · Comments Off
10 Nov 2010This past weekend I came across an article on AlterNet about how immigrants in sports are turned into national heroes in the United States, while public policy and public practice immigrants, especially Latino immigrants are vilified.
The article places the dichotomy in the context of the last World Series.
The symbolism of delivering a crushing defeat to the Rangers, with Bush Jr. slumped in the front row with his chin in his fist, inspired legions of San Franciscans. At the ceremony awarding the Giants the key to the city, Republican Governor Schwarzenegger spoke over hundreds of thousands of people booing for the duration of his remarks. When the moderate mayor spoke, the crowd cheered initially, but the booing far outlasted the cheers.
In the midst of all the vocal opposition to the right, there was one thing that almost no one was talking about: how much people categorized as immigrants had contributed to the unprecedented success. The players and coaches we showered with cheers and ticker tape hail from Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Curaçao, France, Panama. Their families came from the Philippines, Mexico and Japan.
The omission was perhaps most stark when a bouncy television reporter from ABC picked out a fan in the barricaded crowd for a sound bite. The first person she spoke with didn’t want to reply — he said he didn’t speak English. She quickly moved on to another fan, evading the obvious: that San Francisco is immigrants and families of immigrants, just like the rest of the state and much of the nation.
Newsweek, a corporate media giant, decides in it’s latest issue to go the route of the expected and link money with media power with it’s The Power 50 list, a listing of the most influential, meaning wealthy, players in the mainstream media today.
As if having Rush Limbaugh as number one and on the cover weren’t scary and problematic enough, the lack of people of color overall, and women of color specifically points to how little value “the news” places on our realities and our ability to relate them. If we don’t have the cash, in the eyes of the power that be, we don’t have a voice. I was especially thinking about this in terms of so-called independent media, organizations with non-profit status, and how many of them do (or don’t) prominently feature the work and words of women of color.
The Latinos that were mentioned on the Power 50 list were both males. From Hispanically Speaking News :
With a whooping $4 million of approximate earnings last year, leading newsman at Univision Jorge Ramos, who reaches more than 45 million Hispanic Americans daily, tied at position nineteen with talk show host Bill Maher, and—wait for it—The president of the nation, Barack Obama! Ramos, likely earns six figures for his syndicated weekly column (published by more than 30 newspapers), has published 10 books in 10 years, and officially, has become the most influential Latino.
The other Latino on the list, is rumored to have made one million dollars last year. He hosts the most listened to radio show in the United States “Piolín por la Mañana,” and it’s quite likely that if Eduardo Sotelo doesn’t ring a bell, it’s because he does all his influencing through his pseudonym, “Piolín.” A Univision representative suggested Eduardo Sotelo “uses this platform to ensure Hispanics are well informed and empowered to have their voices heard through their civic participation.”
I.C.E. Secret Detention Centers and Courts One of the Top Censored Stories of the Last Year
1:36 pm By Maegan La Mala · Immigration|Media · 2 Comments
25 Oct 2010
The Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009-2010 was recently released by Project Censored and the #4 most under-reported and ignored story by the mainstream media involves Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (I.C.E) secret detentions an courts.
Agents of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are holding thousands of US residents in unlisted and unmarked subfield offices and deporting tens of thousands in secret court hearings.
“If you don’t have enough evidence to charge someone criminally but you think he’s illegal, we can make him disappear.” Those chilling words were spoken by James Pendergraph, then executive director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Office of State and Local Coordination, at a conference of police and sheriffs in August 2008.
People are held in a vast network of more than three hundred detention facilities, located in nearly every state in the country. Only a few of these facilities are under the full operational control of ICE—the majority are jails under the control of state and local governments that subcontract with ICE to provide detention bed space. However, ICE has created a network of secret jails designed for confining individuals in transit. These 186 unlisted and unmarked subfield offices are not subject to ICE detention standards, lacking showers, beds, drinking water, soap, toothbrushes, sanitary napkins, mail, attorneys, or legal information. Many of these subfield offices are in suburban office parks or commercial spaces revealing no information about their ICE tenants—nary a sign, a marked car, or even a US flag.
Miners, Media, and the Privilege of Voyeurism
2:50 pm By Maegan La Mala · Chile|Labor|Media|Politics · 4 Comments
18 Oct 2010
It’s been almost a week since the 33 miners trapped for 70 days in the San Jose mine in Copiapo, Northern Chile, were rescued. While the whole world watched the miraculous rescue, choreographed and controlled by the Chilean government, led by right-wing billionaire President Sebastián Piñera, now the world outside Chile continues their gaze on the miners, with an emphasis on their personal lives, poking for information on what films will be made, what books will be written, are they having nightmares, where did they use the bathroom, if they wanted to eat each other and which miner’s infidelities were exposed.
Also we see the miner’s experience, the result of weak government enforcement of safety standards and the failure of the company that owned the San Jose mine, San Esteban, to invest in worker safety, being commodified. The Phoenix 2, the capsule that brought rescue workers down and the trapped miners up, has already been slapped with a value, just in case it’s sold and every rescued miner has been given an iPod.
What isn’t be respected is the space needed to the miners to heal from this trauma. Their families also need to heal. And all this focus on the personal also lets the company that ran the San Jose Mine off the hook, the Chilean government off the hook, and fails to look critically at the dangers facing all laborers in Chile, Latin America, and globally.
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.
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