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Vigils for Justice y en Memoria de Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado
9:53 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · chicago|Events|GLBT|Justice|Los Angeles|New York City|Philly|Washington DC · 2 Comments
19 Nov 2009
There are a number of vigils that will be happening this coming weekend across the U.S. and in Puerto Rico demanding justice and in memory of Jorge Steven . I will be at the one in NYC this coming Sunday (local VL’ers hit me up if you want to come with or meet up).
As soon as more information comes in I will update this post. If you have information about a vigil in your community please leave a comment or email us at info@vivirlatino.com
Amherst
Monday November 23, 2009
6:30 pm
Food for Thought Books
106 North Pleasant Street
Bay Area
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
3:30 pm
Mac Arthur and Grand Ave. at Lake Merritt
CONTACT: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Liz Latty
PHONE: (510) 282-5223
EMAIL: morethanavigil@gmail.comChicago
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
4-6 pm
Humboldt ParkLos Angeles
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
8pm-9:30 pm
West Hollywood Corner of Santa Monica and San VicenteNew York City
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
7-9 pm
Hudson Pier 45 at Christopher StreetPhiladelphia
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
7 pm
Love Park 15th and ArchWashington D.C.
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
5-6:30pm
Dupont Circle, Washington D.C.
For more information contact Rayyan 410-530-6078.
People are also post vigil information from across the U.S on this facebook page.
Obama’s Health Care Plan Pitch before Congress Last Night (Full Text)
7:02 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Events|Health|Immigration|Obama|Politics|Washington DC · Comments Off
10 Sep 2009I was able to watch most of President Obama’s speech before Congress last night selling his health care reform package. Not surprisingly, I have quite a few thoughts on the speech, it’s contents and reactions to it (those that follow VivirLatino or me on twitter were able to read some of that commentary). Pero before I get into that here is the full text of the President’s speech.
Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, Members of Congress, and the American people:
When I spoke here last winter, this nation was facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. We were losing an average of 700,000 jobs per month. Credit was frozen. And our financial system was on the verge of collapse.
As any American who is still looking for work or a way to pay their bills will tell you, we are by no means out of the woods. A full and vibrant recovery is many months away. And I will not let up until those Americans who seek jobs can find them; until those businesses that seek capital and credit can thrive; until all responsible homeowners can stay in their homes. That is our ultimate goal. But thanks to the bold and decisive action we have taken since January, I can stand here with confidence and say that we have pulled this economy back from the brink.
I want to thank the members of this body for your efforts and your support in these last several months, and especially those who have taken the difficult votes that have put us on a path to recovery. I also want to thank the American people for their patience and resolve during this trying time for our nation.
But we did not come here just to clean up crises. We came to build a future. So tonight, I return to speak to all of you about an issue that is central to that future – and that is the issue of health care.
Immigration Bill Delayed by “Champion” Schumer While Jornaleros Arrive in D.C.
1:14 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration|Labor|Washington DC · 6 Comments
9 Sep 2009
Immigrants You Need to Wait This Much
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., has decided to delay introducing legislation to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws in hopes of bringing more senators on board and crafting a bipartisan bill, his spokesman said Tuesday…”We are pleased with the framework we have put together so far and the broad-based support it has gotten from a diverse group of those interested in this issue,” [Brian] Fallon said. “The fact that health care is taking longer than expected gives us additional time to now shop our ideas to a number of Republicans to see what they think and what changes they suggest.”
Our Muertos Never Rest In Peace
7:23 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration|Washington DC · 6 Comments
26 Jun 2009
Between last night and now there are cries all over the internet about letting the dead rest in peace. When the reality is that our dead never get to rest in peace.
Take the death of Ana Fernandez, a mujer who lost her life on the DC Metro when it crashed earlier this week. Fernandez, who left behind six children, doesn’t get the benefit of resting in peace. Instead her last name and image has made her suspect in the eyes of many who have begun calling her bereaved family about her immigration status.
Her family gathered outside her Hyattsville apartment Wednesday. A crying woman who identified herself as Ana’s sister said the accusations aren’t true.
“Right now, the whole family is in pain. She was here legally, and all her children are legal. They were born here.”
Now why does a mourning family have to deal with this on top of the pain of loss and helping 6 children who now have no mother? Are the anti-immigrant haters angry that they didn’t get to claim Ana’s life, the way they claimed Brisenia, her father, Marcelo Lucero, Luis Ramirez, José Sucuzhañay?
Image Via / NBC Washington
National DREAM Act Graduation Day – June 23, 2009
7:40 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Activism|Education|Immigration|Politics|Uncategorized|Washington DC|youth · 2 Comments
23 Jun 2009
Today hundreds of young people with promising futures will be in the U.S.’s capital to celebrate their achievements but also to demand that their immigration status not act as a roadblock for them to move forward. It’s the National DREAM Graduation ceremony, hosted by the United We Dream Coalition (UWD).
Each year, 65,000 immigrant students who graduate from U.S. high schools are barred from pursuing their dreams of higher education. Advocates will underscore the importance of advancing the “DREAM Act” and the “American Dream Act” to give these youth a chance to attend college and pursue their goals.
I’ve written about the DREAM Act many times, including some discussion of some of the problems with how the DREAM Act is framed in relation to comprehensive immigration reform.
I personally have dear friends and loved ones who are in the middle of this struggle and I think that moving forward on this is an important front in the wider struggle for human rights for all immigrants and their children.
The National Graduation goes down at noon today in DC but there are actions all over the country that people can plus into.
Attack at the U.S. Holocaust Museum Kills a Security Guard
9:17 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Violence|Washington DC · 2 Comments
11 Jun 2009
Yesterday James W. Von Brunn walked into the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. and opened fire, killing an African-American security guard, Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns.
Von Brunn isn’t just a lone gunman. He seems to have ties to anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi organizations. He even wrote a book titled “Kill the Best Gentiles,” in which he wrote:
We are witnessing today on the world stage a tragedy of enormous proportions: the calculated destruction of the White Race and the incomparable culture it represents.
The line from hating one group of people to another is a short one and not surprisingly, Von Brunn hated immigrants too. From a public email:
Millions of low-IQ non-whites are encouraged to illegally invade the USA. They are provided sanctuary, jobs, health-care schooling, by those intent upon destroying Western Civilization.
Random Images from the Reform Immigration for America Summit
4:47 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Events|Immigration|Washington DC · Comments Off
4 Jun 2009Here are just a few random pics that I’ve snapped while wrangling a toddler at the Reform Immigration for America Summit.
I’m sorry pero the pronunciation guide of the chant on this flyer cracked me the hell up.
Poroto eating inside the Victory Tent.
The Victory Tent, where the lunches and dinners happen.
Read more…
Reform Immigration for America Town Hall : Choreography and Criticisms
3:47 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration|Politics|Washington DC · 2 Comments
4 Jun 2009This morning at the Reform Immigration for America Summit, the attention was focused on Capital Hill and pumping up the activists for legislative visits via a National Town Hall Meeting on Immigrant Reform, held at the Lutheran Church of the Reformation.
The word that popped into my head as the packed church was lead in the “Si Se Puede” multiple language chant practice was “choreography”. While the meeting featured a few grassroots, “real” people, the majority of the speakers were people we all have heard from already, including politicians. People in the audience did not participate, beyond chanting on cue. One of the included chants was “Workable Solutions” and there was something about this chant that didn’t sit well with me. Workable meaning we stop pushing for inclusion of so-called divisive issues like detention reform, inclusion of glbt familias, and the DREAM Act?
I honestly missed alot of the first half of the Town Hall since I was entertaining a toddler. Pero here is what I was able to catch.
Dia Dos of Reform Immigration For America Summit Jumps Off
6:00 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration|Politics|Washington DC · 2 Comments
4 Jun 2009
This is how we roll at the Reform Immigration for America Summit. These Summits are often exhausting, especially when there are so many people to speak to (some that you only see in person once a year) and so much work to be done and stories and angles to cover. Add to the mix that I’m running with a two year old and it makes it even more exhausting. Pero as amigo Kyle said to me yesterday, you run on adrenaline.
Today should be a really interesting day. There is a Town Hall Meeting on Immigration Reform that will feature some of the top legislative supporters of immigration reform. It will be interesting to see what the set up is at the Town Hall as sometimes these events aren’t very “towny” in that participation is limited. And as Kyle pointed out in a post yesterday from the Summit, there remain many questions that need to be asked.
For instance, why is it that traditional notions of comprehensive immigration reform include reuniting heterosexual married couples, while same-sex binational couples are left out in the cold. Another important issue is the way Reform Immigration For America will treat migrant youth. Will migrant youth be treated as leaders in the push for the DREAM Act? Or, will they be coopted or ostracized for pushing the DREAM Act independent of the migration reform?
Live from the Reform Immigration for America Conference
1:42 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Events|Immigration|Los Angeles|Washington DC · 1 Comment
3 Jun 2009I am writing to you from Washington DC and am in the company of about 700 other people with one thing on their mind, Reform Immigration for America. What that means for each individual differs pero the energy is high and all the people here are here to work. So far I have met people from so many different states, from so many different backgrounds. Some are policy makers, some are activists, some are importantly, immigrants themselves.
I need to sit down with my notes from the Welcome Luncheon which included a keynote speech from Representative Luis Gutierrez and breakdown a little, the tone that was set for this summit.
Pero in the meantime, I think it speaks to the some of the strategic organizing when you think how this summit is part of a national effort across the country that includes local actions which jumped off yesterday. Here’s a video from the Los Angeles jump off.
Hola!
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