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Alleged Police Brutality Case Rocks San Francisco Bay Area
7:27 am By Maegan La Mala · Controversia|media justice|San Francisco · Comments Off
5 Jan 2009
As New Year’s Eve revellers crammed into the trains of BART — the San Francisco Bay Area’s local rail system — at around 2 a.m. on January 1st, little did they know they would witness one of their fellow passengers be shot down by the gun of a BART police officer and not make it home to his family that morning.
22 year-old Oscar Grant of Oakland was reportedly shot and killed by an unidentified BART officer, after officers broke up a fight on the train platform:
Video footage taken by passengers, first shown by KTVU television, shows officers forcing Grant to the ground and trying to hold him down. The officer who shot Grant appears to try to put cuffs on him before drawing his weapon and firing. In the video, Grant appears to struggle with the officers, though it is unclear exactly what he was doing.Burris said a single bullet went through Grant’s lower back, hit the ground and ricocheted through his upper body. Grant died at Highland Hospital in Oakland several hours later.
Among other things, BART police are looking into the possibility that the officer who shot Grant thought he was pulling the trigger of a Taser stun gun, according to a person familiar with the investigation.
9-11 ICE Arrests in San Francisco Highlight Disregard for Nuestros Niños y Familias
2:07 pm By Maegan La Mala · children|Immigration|Justice|San Francisco · 3 Comments
15 Sep 2008
On a day when some people were remembering, the exploitation of the ideal of freedom and justice was going down full force in San Francisco. On the night of September 11, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided a San Francisco home, arrested four women and two men while agents searched for an individual who did not reside in the home, according to the city’s Immigrant Rights Commission.
Two supervisors spoke out today against the raid in San Francisco, which a sanctuary city. That status has allowed the city to refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities except in felony cases.
“As a government, we are trying to reduce fear and violence,” said Supervisor Sophie Maxwell, in whose district the raid occurred. “My primary concern is about the families and, in this instance, the young girl whose mother was taken into custody.”
Supervisor Tom Ammiano agreed, saying, “This is yet another example of how ICE operates. There is no humanity in harassing children and leaving them behind.”
School District Superintendent Carlos Garcia’s concern was for the students in his district and commented on possible parental concerns.
“A student came to school today and told teachers that immigration had taken all members of her family,” he said. “I want to assure all of our families that our schools are a safe place for a child to turn for support and we do not ask anyone’s legal status.”
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|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.
Why is the Same Job Done In Spanish Worth Less?
11:43 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · language|San Francisco|TV · 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|race|San Francisco · 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
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