Archive for the ‘Puerto Rico’ Category
Fortuño Es Un Hijo de PU
8:17 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Music| Politics| Puerto Rico · No Comments
28 Oct 2009I wasn’t a huge fan of the original song pero with these lyrics…..
…ok I could do without the chipmunk voice too and I feel bad for las putas cuz really even a puta wouldn’t want an hijo como el gov. de Puerto Rico.
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Really Great Report on Latino USA on Puerto Rican Crisis
9:01 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration| Media| Politics| Puerto Rico| economy · No Comments
26 Oct 2009I just finished listening to a really great report on Latino USA featuring two Puerto Rican experts, Juan Manuel García Passalacqua and Angelo Falcon. The two do a really good job, I thought, at explaining how migration from Puerto Rico has always been driven by economic crisis exacerbated by its colonial status. Given how badly things are going in Puerto Rico, Angelo Falcon and Juan Manuel García Passalacqua agree that a new wave of Rican immigration is happening and what exactly does that mean in a United States that has shown it’s anti-immigrant side especially when the haters, in the words of Angelo Falcon, don’t make distinctions among different Latin Americans and they certainly don’t ask to see papers when they unleash violence on our communities.
Already in Crisis, Puerto Rico Explodes
9:01 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Puerto Rico · No Comments
24 Oct 2009On Friday, tanks at the Caribbean Petroleum Corp. facility in Bayamon, Puerto Rico exploded with the force of a small earthquake. As many as 15 tanks were ablaze causing immediate damage like blown out windows and longer term environmental damage like acid raid and ground water contamination. There are concerns about access to fuel and fuel prices as well as Caribbean Petroleum supplies much of the island’s fuel. But the governor said Puerto Rico has enough gas to last 24 days and 20 days’ worth of diesel.
Department of Consumer Affairs Secretary Luis Rivera Marin said 16 million gallons of gasoline were in transit to the island. He also froze prices at the level they were at 8:06 a.m.
This happens just days after massive protests on the island over pro-Statehood Governor Luis Fortuño’s handling of the economic situation including laying off about 25,000 public sector workers since the start of the year. The island nation presently has a 17% rate of unemployment with a substantial sector of the population living in poverty.
The cause of the explosions is being investigated but so far people are pointing to theories ranging from neglect to an accident to sabotage to “terrorism”.
NYC Events in Solidarity With Puerto Rican General Strike
6:50 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Activism| Labor| New York City| Puerto Rico · No Comments
15 Oct 2009NYC LCLAA
JOIN!
UNITY LABOR RALLY!
&
PRESS EVENT!STAND UP IN SOLIDARITY!
TO STOP THE MASSIVE LAYOFFS
OF OUR UNION BROTHERS & SISTERS
IN PUERTO RICO!DEFEND PUERTO RICAN WORKERS RIGHTS!
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2009
12 NOON
CITY HALL STEPSFor more information – NYC LCLAA – 212-701-9400
NCPRR NYC CHAPTER SPONSORED EVENT
Thursday October 15, 2009
TIME
5:00 PM
LOCATION
Puerto Rican Federal Affairs Administration
135 W 50Th St.
New York City
Puerto Rico on General Strike Tomorrow
12:08 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Labor| Puerto Rico| economy · No Comments
14 Oct 2009Puerto Rico has been feeling the effects of the global recession and its impact hits harder thanks to it’s colonial status. Record unemployment has been boosted thanks to pro-statehood governor Luis Fortuño laying off around 17,000 earlier this month, bringing the total number of people fired on the island close to 25,000. This has led to massive popular action in the streets of the isla del encanto and there is a general strike called for tomorrow, October 15th.
There are a number of solidarity events, especially here in NYC so stay tuned for updates.
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Tonite in NYC : Support Political Prisoners and the Cuban 5
7:59 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Activism| Cuba| Events| Justice| Linking Latinos| New York City| Politics| Puerto Rico · Comments Off
12 Sep 2009Happy 65th Birthday Leonard Peltier!
FREE THE CUBAN 5: 11 YEARS OF UNJUST INCARCERATION!
VIVA PUERTO RICO LIBRE: 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RELEASE OF THE PUERTO RICAN PPS/POWS!
Saturday, September 12, 2009 • 7 to 9 p.m.
Judson Memorial Church Assembly Hall
239 Thompson St., NY, NY (Wheelchair Accessible)
$5-10 DONATION (no one will be turned away due to lack of funds)
LIGHT REFRESHMENTS
Program:
Representative from the Cuban Mission to the U.N.
Mahina Movement
GhostHorse
Attorney Mike Kuzma
Dylcia Pagan, former Puerto Rican Political Prisoner
Lynne Stewart
For more information: nyclpsg@gmail.com • nycjericho@gmail.com • 718-853-0893
Co-Sponsored by: NYC Leonard Peltier Support Group, NYC Jericho Movement, Iglesia San Romero de las Américas, The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign, The Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5
Sunday Sexi Musica : Draco Paraiso Prometido
7:00 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Music| Puerto Rico · 1 Comment
30 Aug 2009Something about la musica de Draco (aka Robi Draco Rosa) always gets me in, well, the mood. Check out his latest Paraiso Prometido.
Puerto Rico’s Unemployment Numbers : So How’s that Colony Thing Working Out For Ya?
10:25 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Labor| Money| Puerto Rico| economy · 15 Comments
26 Aug 2009
For as long as I have believed in self-determination for Puerto Rico, I have thought that talk about the island becoming the 51st state was just that, talk. This is partially because of issues of race and identity. Despite the post-racial times the U.S. finds itself in (allegedly), the U.S. will not accept a brown, Spanish speaking nation as a state. I also think though, that annexation isn’t attractive because economically, Puerto Rico isn’t attractive. Claro, the island has been exploited economically, pero statehood would require the U.S. to invest more than it would get back from the island. Just take a look at the unemployment numbers coming out of la isla del encanto:
The unemployment rate in Puerto Rico stands at 16.5 percent, the highest of all U.S. jurisdictions, and the government is announcing even more layoffs of public employees.
Mas on the Young Lords Party
6:28 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · New York City| Puerto Rico| chicago| history · Comments Off
25 Aug 2009I would have liked to see more of the mujeres of the Young Lords Party represented here, pero a good video none the less that I think especially points to the power of grassroots organizing by the people.
40 Years of Path Behind Our Feet, Countless Ahead Gracias a los Young Lords
7:47 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · New York City| Politics| Puerto Rico| history · 3 Comments
24 Aug 2009Yesterday was the 40th Anniversary celebration of the Young Lords Party here in NYC. As amiga Bianca wrote, some peeps, myself included, couldn’t be there. It really bummed me out that I couldn’t be there because if it weren’t for the Young Lords, Mamita Mala wouldn’t exist. And I don’t mean that in some abstract homage to movement forepapis and foremamis kind of way. I mean it in a real physical, tangible way.
I have a worn out black tee shirt from when Iris Morales was still finishing her film, Pa’lante Siempre Pa’lante and the quote on the back says something about each generation moving the struggle forward and I was fortunate enough to see this in action even after there was no more YLP thanks to federally sponsored flame fanning of normal internal organizational conflicts.
I wasn’t even alive when the YLP was formed pero when I was just a teenager myself, their legacy and lesson marked me forever and opened the path on which I walk.
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