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San Francisco Residents Defend Defending Immigrants
3:33 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Immigration| San Francisco · Comments Off
30 Jul 2008
This morning I read that there was going to be a protest happening at San Francisco’s City Hall. The issue : the city’s supporting the human rights of immigrants, with or without documents. Not surprisingly, the Minutemen called the event against what they call “sanctuary city status”. Too bad the pro-immigrant crowd came out with more power. Email reports say that there are about 20 Minutemen and about 80-100 pro-immigrant and labor rights people representing.
Mil gracias to Nicole Rivera for giving us the update and permission to use some of her pics!!
I Am Latino…Ask Me: Americanos ask about the power of the Chancleta…
11:35 am By Maegan La Mala · Bilingualism| Blogs Media| Cities| Culture| Detriot| Entrepreneurs| Features| Las Vegas| Los Angeles| Miami| New Jersey| New York City| Philly| Puerto Rico| San Francisco| Tampa| VivirLatino| Washington DC| chicago| denver| houston| language · 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.
Why is the Same Job Done In Spanish Worth Less?
11:43 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · San Francisco| TV| language · Comments Off
17 Jul 2008
Is the same news, reported in a different language, Spanish for example, worth less? According to a report in the San Francisco Chronicle it is.
Reporters at San Francisco’s leading Spanish-language TV news station, KDTV/Univision, make roughly one quarter less in base pay than their English-language counterparts. This despite the fact that the Spanish newscast attract more viewers in the 25-54 demographic than every other newscast in the Bay Area save the top-rated KGO-TV.
How to explain the disparity?
San Francisco Thinks Bush is Full Of…
4:45 pm By Maegan La Mala · California| Politics| San Francisco| society · Comments Off
26 Jun 2008
In my hometown of Houston, George Bush Senior has an international airport named after him (the original name — “Intercontinental” was just fine) but in my adopted hometown of San Francisco, my fellow Friscans have come up with a particular honor for his son, Dubya. What better a place to represent the administration of George W. Bush than a sewage treatment center:
A group called the Presidential Memorial Commission has reportedly picked up more than enough signatures to put the ballot initiative to the San Francisco public in the November election.If the measure passes, it would rename the city’s Oceanside Treatment Plant as the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.
That’s not exactly a presidential library, but sponsors of the ballot measure say it’s a fitting tribute to a president who made a big mess.
It sounds like a joke but don’t mess with San Franciscans. We vote on all kinds of “crazy” measures such as a citywide gun ban and yep, they pass (though thanks to a Supreme Court decision today, that unfortunately might not last…so much for sovereignty!). Personally, I think that sewage plant is way too pretty to bear the Bush name.
Via / Fox News
Disturbing Statistic : San Francsico Has More Blacks in Jail than in the City
7:35 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Justice| San Francisco| race · Comments Off
9 May 2008
The prison industrial complex is alive and well in San Francisco and it’s using blacks as the raw material. In recent years the black population in the city of San Francisco has been decreasing, with one exception, prisons.
More than 60 percent of all prisoners are African American, according
to a survey of the city jail’s population. And of the 282 female
prisoners, 67 percent are black.
About 42 percent of the jail population is in custody for drug
offenses, the study found.
A similar study in 1996 found that half of the jail population was
African American. A 2005 study put the number at 53 percent.
In contrast, 6.7 percent of San Francisco residents are black- a number that has been in steady decline, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
What is the reason for this alarming stat? Racial profiling.
Union Plans to Close Ports To Protest Iraq War
9:59 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Iraq War| Labor| San Francisco · Comments Off
1 May 2008
May Day has it’s roots in the labor movement so it is fitting that labor activists on the West Coast are flexing their muscle today to make a statement about the Iraq War.
On May 1, all 29 ports on the U.S. West Coast are to be shut down by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) in protest against the U.S. war on Afghanistan and Iraq. The Bay Area ILWU local was the first American union to condemn the war. In April 2003, as invading U.S. troops reached Baghdad, six longshoremen were injured and a union official was arrested as police fired on hundreds of antiwar protesters in the port of Oakland.
The Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) notified the union on April 3 that it “doesn’t consent to a stop-work meeting or any other effort to disrupt port operations.” Subsequently the PMA threatened union leaders with court action under Taft-Hartley if they don’t call it all off.
Supporters of the ILWU will meet in San Francisco at Mason and Beach (in Fishersmans’ Wharf) at 10:30 am on May Day. There will then be a march to a 12 noon rally in Justin Herman Plaza.
Via / IMC
Super Tuesday: West Coast Polls Close in 1 Hour
9:43 pm By Maegan La Mala · California| San Francisco| US Presidential Race 2008 · 3 Comments
5 Feb 2008
First of all, if you’re here on the West Coast and haven’t voted yet, you have about an hour to get yourself to your polling place and vote. I just did that myself in San Francisco’s Chinatown, and the view from street here was (at least visually) a high turnout and a pretty seamless experience. Where as I normally arrive at the polls to an empty polling place, for the first time in years I had to wait in line. And luckily my fears about irregularities were assuaged. I got in and out and was able to vote not only for a Democratic candidate, but also for the hippie measures that we always vote on here in our beloved San Francisco. I had to laugh and even feel moved when I read the following municipal proposition: Do you want to make it City policy that San Francisco look in to obtaining Alcatraz Island from the federal government to create a Peace Center? I voted yes, of course.
And then there’s the big one. I didn’t vote in the primaries in 2004, and I must say that when I voted for John Kerry 4 years ago in the elections I did it with vigor. I was confident that our 4 torturous years of the Bush machine were about to come to an end. Sadly, we all know how that one turned out. Kerry just didn’t have the pizazz. He was a weak candidate, and lacked the ability to drum up any excitement.
Super Tuesday: The View from Here
7:52 pm By Maegan La Mala · Politics| San Francisco| US Presidential Race 2008 · Comments Off
5 Feb 2008I’m off to my polling place folks, and I’m hoping I won’t have face any of the irregularities that are being constantly reported both here and in Southern California when I get there. Here in San Francisco (video of our Super Tuesday above) and other parts of the Bay Area, many voters who aren’t registered with any political party (like myself) have been told that they aren’t allowed to vote in the Democratic primary. Not true!
See you guys later as the returns come in!
Via / SF Gate
Super Tuesday: Obama to SF Mayor…Stay Away!
12:20 pm By Maegan La Mala · California| GLBT| Politics| San Francisco| US Presidential Race 2008 · Comments Off
5 Feb 2008
It’s Super Tuesday and here in San Francisco, media is abuzz with the candidate’s recent lightning fast visits to our state, and more locally, our mayor’s hearty endorsement of Hillary Clinton. Early this morning as polls opened, local news showed San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom (seen above with Hill) shrugging off predictions that Barack Obama will “win” California, saying that undecided Californians will ultimately prefer Hillary. Gavin counts himself as a Hillary supporter, and our local newspaper gives some insight into one of the possible reasons why; 2 words: gay marriage:
…just four years ago, current Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is said to have declined to have his picture taken in San Francisco with Newsom, who was then at the center of a national uproar over his decision to allow same-sex marriage in San Francisco.“I gave a fundraiser, at his (Obama’s) request at the Waterfront restaurant,” said former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown. “And he said to me, he would really appreciate it if he didn’t get his photo taken with my mayor. He said he would really not like to have his picture taken with Gavin.”
San Francisco to do What NY Couldn’t: IDs for Undocumented
2:25 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| San Francisco · Comments Off
15 Nov 2007
It’s said that if you can make it in New York, New York you can make it anywhere. Well undocumented residents may want to consider a move to San Francisco, since they approved a law that will allow illegal immigrants who may be unable or unwilling to secure state-issued driver’s licenses to apply for municipal identification cards. This program is modeled after the controversial New Haven, Connecticut program. The program is scheduled to go into effect next August and will charge adults $15 for each card and $5 for children to defray costs, which are expected to run between $423,000 and $1.1 million during the first year.
Via / KSBY
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