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San Francisco Bay Area demonstration info

12:45 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism|California|Immigration|San Francisco · Comments Off

1 May 2006

If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area and looking for information on the events taking place here, look no further. The San Francisco Chronicle has published a comprehensive list of Bay Area events in their morning edition:

Oakland: 9 a.m., marchers to meet at International Boulevard and 98th Avenue and walk 7 miles to the federal buildings downtown at 1301 Clay St., where they will hold a rally at 1:30 p.m. At 6 p.m., a rally and interfaith prayer service are planned at San Antonio Park, Foothill Boulevard at 15th Avenue.

Richmond and San Pablo: 9 a.m., marchers to gather at three churches: St. Paul’s, 1845 Church Lane in San Pablo; St. Mark’s, 159 Harbour Way in Richmond; and St. Cornelius, 225 28th St. in Richmond. The three groups will meet at old City Hall, 325 Civic Center Plaza in Richmond at 10 a.m. for a rally. They will then march to the El Cerrito del Norte BART Station to board trains to join the San Francisco protest.

San Francisco: 11 a.m. protesters to gather at Justin Herman Plaza on the Embarcadero. They’ll march up Market Street at 1 p.m. and rally at City Hall at 3 p.m. There will be another rally at 5 p.m. at the Federal Building, 450 Golden Gate Ave.

San Rafael: 10 a.m. Canal Alliance members will gather at St. Raphael’s Church, 1104 Fifth Ave., and march to Marin Civic Center, where a rally is planned for 1 p.m.

Santa Rosa: 10 a.m., protesters gather at 665 Sebastopol Road (former Albertsons) and march to Juilliard Park, 227 Santa Rosa Ave.

Berkeley: Noon, UC Berkeley students plan a walkout.

San Jose: 3 p.m. marchers plan to gather at King and Story roads. At 4 p.m., they will march to Arena Green Park at Santa Clara and Autumn streets, and at 6 p.m. they will rally in the park.

Via / San Francisco Chronicle

VL Special Coast to Coast Coverage of Dia de Huelga

7:29 am By Maegan La Mala · Activism|Immigration|New York City|San Francisco|VivirLatino · Comments Off

1 May 2006

Because we are Latinos, VivirLatino is covering today’s immigration protests and la huelga nacional, the national boycott, aka a day without immigrants.

As part of this special coverage, VL has created a Flickr group which will feature photos from today’s activities across the country tagged as 1mayhuelga so that we can share the experience through our eyes, the eyes of children of immigrants, as Latinos. If you are going to be out in the streets today and want to share your photographic point of view, let us know.

Technorati: 1mayhuelga

Images speak louder

11:00 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism|Immigration|San Francisco · 1 Comment

13 Apr 2006

The rhetoric, punditry and backbiting stirred up in the media and swirling around the immigrant rights movement is getting to be a bit much. Sometimes images are more eloquent than words, so I’m posting this one.

My Flickr friend Franciscophile snapped this one at our local SF protest. It gave me a peaceful feeling in the midst of all of this hostility.

Got a picture of the protests that you consider different from what the media is showing us? Send it to us at press@vivirlatino.com

Via / Flickr

Hunger Strike for Immigrant Rights

11:50 am By Maegan La Mala · Activism|Immigration|San Francisco · Comments Off

24 Mar 2006

On Tuesday over 50 hunger strikers and organizations began a 7 day protest in front of the San Francisco Federal Building. This action is being coordinated to protest Senator Arlen Specter’s bill that designates all undocumented immigrants as aggravated felons, allows for the indefinite detention of non-citizens, and criminalizes day-labor centers, churches, health clinics and all others who serve, help or work with undocumented immigrants. Monday, March 27th will be the final day of the hunger strike.

Via / San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center

Mujeres on the Radio

9:20 am By Maegan La Mala · New York City|San Francisco · Comments Off

8 Mar 2006

If you like your mujeres with sound, some Pacifica radio stations are having special programming all day today to celebrate International Working Women’s Day. For those in my hood, New York City, you can tune into WBAI, 99.5 FM. For those in the Bay Area, you can tune to KPFA, 94.1 FM. If you don’t live in either coast, thanks to the wonder of the internet you can also listen online.

Ely Guerra: The Anti-Crossover Latina Rockera

9:28 am By Maegan La Mala · Celebrities|Events|Music|San Francisco · 3 Comments

10 Jan 2006

Proving that mujeres in rock can be strong, sexy and talented while singing in Spanish and not crossing over is 33 year old Mexicana Ely Guerra. At age 15 the Nuevo León native left home to pursue her musical dream in México DF. Since then she has released four full length albums, numerous EP’s and contributed tunes to films such as Amores Perros. Ely can rock out with the best of them, like she does on the track Mas Bonita. She can also sing sing sultry songs like Tu Boca. Both sides of Ely can be heard on her latest release Sweet & Sour, Hot Y Spicy . Ely Guerra isn’t compared to crossover pop Latinas like Shakira but to Alternative vocalists in both English and Spanish like Ani DiFranco and Julieta Venegas.

Lo Que Hay WEEKEND: Events for November 25 – November 27, 2005

5:36 pm By Maegan La Mala · Events|Los Angeles|New York City|San Francisco · Comments Off

25 Nov 2005

A feature of VivirLatino, “Lo Que Hay” will feature events from across the country that we think will interest our VL readers.

To submit an event, please use our contact form.

Los Angeles
Los Amigos Invisibles
When: Friday, November 25, 9 pm
Where: The Conga Room, 5364 Wilshire Blvd
Cost: $20

Costa a Costa: Lotso Latinos on the SF Local Ballot

3:07 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · California|Politics|San Francisco · Comments Off

8 Nov 2005

Looking over my ballot book this morning, I found a lot of Latino names for the various local political seats here in San Francisco:

Gerardo Sandoval (Assessor)

Jose Cisneros (Treasurer)

Manuel Valle (Treasurer)

Dennis Herrera (City Attorney, first Latino to hold office in San Francisco)

I’ve said before (as has my colleague la Mala) that I won’t vote for a Latino just because he’s Latino, or any other “minority” for that matter. I was happy to see, however, that the majority of the people on this list seem to stand for same things that I do, so yeah, in a way, I am voting Latino. But it’s just a fluke.

Are there Latinos running for office where you live? Use our contact form or the comment area to tell us about it.

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