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NJ 2010 Hispanic Heritage Celebration: LatinaVoices and Visions Latinas Out Loud: Epistles
9:46 am By Maegan La Mala · Arts|Culture|Events|Linking Latinos|Lo Que Hay|New Jersey · 1 Comment
9 Oct 2010
While we here at VivirLatino and in our respective communities and circles may debate the merits of Hispanic/Latino Heritage Month, we must support our artists and cultural activists who represent and reflect our realities through words, theater, performance and art.
I wanted to draw your attention to an event happening next weekend at the Newark Public Library in New Jersey. Check it out and if you are in the area support if you can. Note that it features friend to VivirLatino, Adele Nieves.
2010 Hispanic Heritage Celebration: LatinaVoices and Visions
Latinas Out Loud: Epistles
Saturday, October 16, 2010, 2:00 pm
Main Library, Centennial Hall, Second Floor
SPECIAL FEATURED GUEST: Sandra Maria EstevezTHIS IS A KID FRIENDLY EVENT!
Latino Flavored Productions brings to New Jersey a dynamic and compelling new show that features Latina performers—as well as regular, everyday, non-performers—exploring personal, social, or political issues through the art of letter writing. This ensemble production presents twenty Latinas reading their own short, funny, dramatic, evocative, and/or often poetic letters to their addressee of choice.
Directions and more info after the jump
NJ Senator Menendez Making Pro-Migrant Moves Outside of CIR Framework
8:27 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration|Labor|New Jersey|Politics · Comments Off
19 Apr 2010
In the absence of any Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill, seems that some Senators are making moves which take piecemeal approaches to protecting immigrant workers. Last week, New Jersey Democrat Senator Robert Menendez introduced the Protect Our Workers from Exploitation and Retailation (POWER) Act which seeks to protect immigrant whistleblowers who report workplace violations and abuses of being threatened with deportation.
Sen. Menendez said that the bill is likely to get the 60 votes in November 2010 which is better than the expectations for CIR.
“It may very well be in November the lame duck session, when members, who have retired or not going to run again, whose heart and mind says this is the right thing but maybe whose politics says to them no, would be willing to vote,”
New Jersey Legislature Rejects Marriage Equality
7:19 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · GLBT|New Jersey · 5 Comments
8 Jan 2010If it didn’t happen in NY, I didn’t expect it to happen in New Jersey. Yesterday, the New Jersey state Senate on Thursday voted down a bill to legalize gay marriage.
Minutes after the bill was defeated 20-14, gay rights advocates announced they would file a lawsuit seeking to get the state’s top court to order New Jersey to recognize same-sex matrimony.
The state Supreme Court ruled in 2006 that the state must provide all the benefits of marriage to committed gay couples. In response, the Legislature legalized civil unions for gay couples.
So not all is lost in the Garden State.
Via / The San Francisco Gate
New Jersey Governor Corzine Supports DREAMs and Other Pro-Immigrant Measures
8:58 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration|New Jersey · 4 Comments
1 Apr 2009
On Monday, New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine’s state panel on immigrant policy revealed a decidedly progressive set of recommendations.
For example, Corzine supports undocumented students being able to pay in-state tuition at the state’s public colleges much like the DREAM Act.
Corzine said most of New Jersey’s immigrants are in the state legally, and that the children of the state’s estimated 400,000 illegal immigrants; “are not here because they chose to be, but because of their families, and they should not be discriminated against.”
Corzine wants to reexamine the immigration directive from the New Jersey’s Attorney General ordering police to notify immigration authorities when they arrest someone suspected of being an illegal immigrant and backs a moratorium on federal immigration raids in the state.
Howevere, Corzine is against is undocumented immigrants having driver’s licenses, which the Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel on Immigrant Policy came out in support of.
More than 20 percent of the Garden State’s population is made up of immigrants, the fifth highest immigrant population in the nation.
Via / Newsday
Unemployed Immigrants Living in Caves
12:23 pm By Maegan La Mala · housing|Immigration|Labor|New Jersey · Comments Off
12 Jan 2009
As I rode the subway home last night, the cold had brought many homeless underground and around them were perimeters of empty seats because no one wanted to sit near them. As unemployment numbers get higher, as does the number of people requiring assistance to buy food, I was thinking how many would rather have those who struggle to survive and don’t fit into the norms because if their class, race, gender identity, immigration status, disappear. A group of unemployed day laborers have had no choice.
For the last few months, a group of immigrants who lost their jobs and have been unable to find work due to the economic crisis, live on the margins, in improvised caves in Plainfield and North Plainfield. My translation.
Welcome Baby New Year
12:30 pm By Maegan La Mala · New Jersey · Comments Off
1 Jan 2009
We’re not exactly sure who the first baby born in the 2009 in the U.S is. Pero, We’re more than happy to put little Edgar Rafael Moreno as a contender. He was born one second after midnight this morning in Livingston, New Jersey.Racism? Que Racism? Anti-Obama Fliers Appear in New Jersey
2:35 pm By Maegan La Mala · New Jersey|race · 1 Comment
25 Sep 2008
Some New Jersey residents received more than the usual junk fliers in their driveways this past weekend.
Roxbury resident Elizabeth Corsetto says a flier was left in her driveway asking, “Do You Want A Black President?” and showing a doctored photo of Obama with a long beard and turban.
The fliers came from the New Jersey-based League of American Patriots, which notes on its web site that membership is “restricted to adult heterosexual men and women who are entirely of European Christian ancestry.”
The flier claims that “Black Ruled Nations most unstable and violent in the world,” and asks, “Why should we seal our fate by allowing a Black ruler to destroy us?” The one-page flyer, which misspells the Democratic presidential candidate’s first name…
Via / Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo
I Am Latino…Ask Me: Americanos ask about the power of the Chancleta…
11:35 am By Maegan La Mala · Bilingualism|Blogs Media|chicago|Cities|Culture|denver|Detriot|Entrepreneurs|Features|houston|language|Las Vegas|Los Angeles|Miami|New Jersey|New York City|Philly|Puerto Rico|San Francisco|Tampa|VivirLatino|Washington DC · 5 Comments
23 Jul 2008
Dear Urban Jibaro,
I work in the toy department of a major retailer in a pretty diverse part of Pennsylvania. I see a lot of Latino families and I am curious about something. Whenever a kid throw a tantrum in my department, I hear their mothers threaten them with “John Kletter” and they immediately start behaving in most cases.
I have 3 kids myself and I would love to know how John Kletter can help me when they act up.
My question is “Who is John Kletter, and why are Latino children so afraid of him?
“Gracias” (thats all the Spanish I know)
Misty (Lancaster PA)
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Ok…so being that fact that I am completely new at this, I honestly did not know what the hell Misty was talking about. I googled “John Kletter” and did not find much…and was about to move on to our next submission…that is until I mentioned the question to one of my friends (she made me swear not to reveal her name) who has a thick accent and she said “que eso de jon kleta?”and then it hit me me like a ton of bricks…we had a phonetic translation issue here….John Kletter doesn’t exist…at least not in the Latino universe what Misty actually witnessed was the power of the almighty “CHANCLETA”.
This whole ASK A LATINO thing is gonna be fun…
So now that we got that squared away…Click below to read my official response to the first “ASK A LATINO” question.
Toby Love & Fuego Vs. Jowel and Randy & Zion to be Guitar Heros
8:00 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Events|Marketing|Music|New Jersey|Puerto Rico · Comments Off
27 Jun 2008
Tomorrow, 6_28_08, The Battle of the Chosen will star reggaetón artists Toby Love and Fuego facing off against fellow artists Jowel and Randy & Zion on one of Xbox 360’s hottest new games, Guitar Hero™ III: Legends of Rock.
Love and Fuego will be located at the Best Buy store in Secaucus, New Jersey, while Jowel and Randy & Zion will be at the Best Buy location in Puerto Rico, all possible through Xbox 360’s online gaming service, Xbox live®.
Fuego and Love will also be autographing copies of their new compilation cd/dvd, Chosen Few III, for fans and showcasing new ways that Xbox 360 can help families connect and have fun together.
When: Saturday, June 28, 2008
11:00 a.m. — 3:30 p.m. est
where: Best Buy
925 Patterson Plank Rd.
Secaucus, NJ 07094
From the Nightmare Files : Lou Dobbs for Gov of New Jersey?
11:50 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Bizarro|Controversia|Funny|Immigration|New Jersey|Politics|TV · Comments Off
23 Jun 2008Everyone’s favorite anti-immigrant spokesperson, CNN’s Lou Dobbs, has suggested that he may be interested in running for governor of the state of New Jersey. In response to this scary possibility, America’s Voice has created a website for the maybe candidate based on his racist views. From a press release on the launching of the site:
The site features our take on what a Lou Dobbs campaign platform would look like, inspired by the unrealistic and polarizing views of real Congressional candidates. Visitors are invited to submit their ideas (in English Only) for the Dobbs campaign slogan contest. The winner will receive a free t-shirt featuring their slogan, and activists around the country will have the opportunity to purchase the shirt online.Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice had this to say:
“America’s Voice is glad to take this opportunity to reveal the truth about anti-immigrant, mass-deportation candidates who have stood in the way of real immigration solutions for years.
Lou Dobbs is not a real candidate, he’s a caricature of what is wrong with the current immigration debate. He offers no real solutions to our broken immigration system, and simply uses his program to spread proven lies, stir up racial tensions and fear, and provide a platform to known hate groups.
The site is funny as all hell. Check it out.
Lou Dobbs for Governor
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