Archive for the ‘Women’ Category
Quick Link: The Gender Problem of Deportation
12:26 pm By la Macha · Immigration|Violence|Women · 16 Comments
2 Nov 2010From Cara at the Curvature comes the news of the latest deportation situation:
Last year, a woman named Maria Bolanos called the police during a domestic dispute with her partner, hoping that they would protect her. Now, as a result of that phone call and the subsequent interaction with police, because she is an immigrant who is undocumented, it is probable that she will be deported soon.
Last Christmas Eve, Maria Bolanos made a decision she would later regret: During a fight with her partner, she called the Prince George’s County police and sought their protection.
The call for help had disastrous consequences for Bolanos, a 28-year-old undocumented immigrant from El Salvador. Within months, she found herself ensnared in an increasingly controversial immigration enforcement program designed to deport undocumented criminals.
Bolanos now faces deportation and possible separation from her 21-month-old daughter, who was born here and is a U.S. citizen
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It’s the never ending heartbreaking situation that so many women who are facing deportation are enduring. Arrested for being “illegal” instead of getting the protection they deserve. Deported instead of being helped. Blamed for the violence they neither created nor supported.
When will this ever end?
NYC : Save the Date Lolita Lebrón /A Commemoration of the Life of a Puerto Rican Patriot and International Heroine
7:11 am By Maegan La Mala · Events|New York City|Puerto Rico|Women · Comments Off
26 Oct 2010
Lolita Lebrón
A Commemoration of Her LifeSaturday November 20, 2010 @ 7:00 PM
Hunter College CUNY
68th Street and Lexington Avenue
West Building, 7th Floor/ Lecture Hall
ManhattanGuest Speakers:
María de Lourdes Santiago (Vice President of the Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño (PIP)
Pedro Nuñez Mosquera (Cuban Ambassador to the United Nations)
Carol Delgado (General Consul of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in New York)
Linda Alonso Lebrón (Niece of Lolita Lebrón)
Dylcia Pagán (Former Puerto Rican Political Prisoner & Prisoner of War)Cultural Presentations by:
Delilah
Jani “Bomba” Rose
Veronica Verdad
Sery ColónMC: Nancy Cabrero
Sponsored by:
Casa de las Américas
Department of Romance Languages, Hunter College CUNY
Eugenio María de Hostos Student Club, Hunter College CUNY
Fundación Andrés Figueroa Cordero, Inc.
National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights
Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño
Partido Nacionalista Puertorriqueño
Quick Link: Sterilization in Puerto Rico
7:42 am By la Macha · Puerto Rico|Women · 2 Comments
18 Oct 2010I’ve been seeing this link all over my facebook feed–thought I’d pass it on here. It’s an incredibly important and devastating article about the sterilization program in Puerto Rico that the US funded and the Puerto Rican government supported.
Eugenics is defined as the study of hereditary improvement of the human race by controlled selective breeding. Puerto Rico has the highest rate of female sterilization in the world. By 1965, thirty-five percent of Puerto Rican women ages 20-49 had been coerced into irreversible sterilization as part of a government campaign to control the growing number of the islands poor and working class population. This mass eugenics program was funded by the U.S. and fully supported by the Puerto Rican government from the 1930s through the late 1970s. Government propaganda made the procedure so common place that it became known simply as “la operacion.”
The original link comes with video testimonios of survivors.
NYC : Make/shift recLAmation tour Barnard Tonite
8:12 am By Maegan La Mala · Events|media justice|Movies|New York City|Women · 1 Comment
14 Oct 2010
I am beyond honored and excited to be participating in the NYC leg of the Make/shift recLAmation tour, tonight at Barnard Hall, 6:30 pm, James Room, 4th Floor.
I will be sharing space with Adele Nieves, Hilary Goldberg, Jessica Hoffmann, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, y Mariana Ruiz
And don’t stress if you can’t come tonight…we’re doing it all over again on Saturday at Bluestockings.
Lunes Libro : Last Days of Summer Edition Featuring Bloody Twist
8:43 am By Maegan La Mala · Books|GLBT|Women · 3 Comments
20 Sep 2010
I don’t think I have read a mystery book since my days reading Nancy Drew. So when I was pitched the latest book in a series, Bloody Twist, by longtime author Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, I said why not. The Lupe Solano series features a young, sexy and smart Cubana private investigator in Miami and is written by a Latina. Could be a fun and interesting read. Here’s the official synopsis:
Two years after having been shot in Bitter Sugar, fiery heroine Lupe Solano is back on the job. Tommy MacDonald, Miami’s premiere criminal defense attorney and Lupe Solano’s sometimes lover, needs help with a case involving his new client, the mysterious Madeline Marie Meadows. Twenty-two-year-old Ms. Meadows is Miami’s highest paid call-girl. Although Ms. Meadows has not been charged with any crime, she hires MacDonald as a result of the murders of two men she has relationships with. Although Tommy is drawn to Ms. Meadows, he is skeptical of her story and asks Lupe to begin an investigation.
Sexo and the Sports Reportera, Ines Sainz
6:23 am By Maegan La Mala · Media|sexuality|Women · 2 Comments
15 Sep 2010Ok we get it U.S. media. The only way you would believe that Ines Sainz was subjected to sexual harassment is if she looked like Betty la Fea before her “transformation” of course.
For those that don’t know what I’m referring to, Ines Sainz, a sports reporter for Mexican TV Azteca was at a NY Jets practice, and later in the locker room, specifically to conduct an interview with quarterback Mark Sanchez. It was during that practice that Sainz alleges that footballs were thrown her way to bring players to where she stood and it was in that locker room that she says she was catcalled.
And then the firestorm began. And no the firestorm wasn’t about the harassment. Save that for a sports reporter who doesn’t have a Latino surname. The firestorm was about what Sainz was wearing and how her “booty” and how her daring to work with that body was to blame. It especially helps that Sainz has that accent because women with accents and certain body types and Spanish surnames especially have it coming.
Here are just a few headlines I saw found while Googling :
Did Ines Sainz’s Tight Pants Invite Harassment From the Jets Players?
Andrea Peyser: It’s Ines Sainz’s Fault She Was ‘Sexually Harassed’ by Jets Players
The Jets, Ines Sainz and sharing blame
Education for everyone involved could be the best way to address this controversy
And then there are the tv interviews…
Read more…
U.S. Dept. of Justice Files Lawsuit Against Sheriff Joe Arpaio
1:00 pm By Maegan La Mala · arizona|Immigration|Women · Comments Off
3 Sep 2010Yesterday morning, the United States Department of Justice announced the filing of a lawsuit against Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio over his refusal to cooperate with a federal civil rights investigation by refusing to turn over requested documents for a year and a half.
America’s Voice has done a great job of researching and compiling his numerous civil rights violations and how ineffective they are in the context of “serve and protect”.
INEFFECTIVE TACTICS
* Violent Crime Rates Rise Under Arpaio, Fall in Rest of Arizona
* Under Arpaio, 911 Response Time Increased, Arrest Rates Decreased
* Arpaio Admits He Arrests ”Very Few” Non-Hispanics
* Over 40,000 Un-served Felony Warrants
* Conservative Think Tank Report: Arpaio’s Policies are Ineffective, Harmful, and a Waste of Millions of Taxpayer Dollars
* Mesa Police Chief: Arpaio’s Approach Hurts Community SafetyOPERATING ABOVE THE LAW
* Arpaio Under Investigation by the U.S. Justice Department for Civil Rights Abuses
* Arpaio Under FBI Investigation for Using his Power to Intimidate Political Opponents
* Judge Says Conditions in Arpaio’s Jails “Violate the Constitution”
* 2,700 Lawsuits Filed Against Arpaio
* Federal Officials Take Away Arpaio’s Deputies’ Authority to Make Immigration Arrests, Arpaio Vows to Defy the Restriction
* Arpaio Threatens Attorneys with Criminal Charges for Criticizing Him
* Department of Labor Investigates Arpaio, Finds He Owes Employees $2M in Unpaid Overtime
* Arpaio Suspected of Misspending $50M in Taxpayer Funds, Refuses to Turn Over Records
* Advocates Awarded $475,000 for Civil Rights Violations by Arpaio Deputies
* Arpaio Stages Phony Murder Plot Against Himself, Accused Released for Wrongful Imprisnment, County Pays Over $1 Million to SettleINSPIRING TERROR IN LATINO COMMUNITIES
* Arpaio Marches Immigrants in Shackles to Tent City Surrounded by Electric Fence
* Arpaio Separates Mother from Kids for Unpaid Traffic Ticket
* Arpaio Conducts “Crime Suppression” Sweeps in Latino Communities
* Arpaio Forces Mother to Give Birth while Handcuffed to Bed
* Arpaio’s Deputies Deploy Heavy Duty Machine Guns
Isabel Allende Receives Chilean Literature Award with Some Controversy
7:17 am By Maegan La Mala · Chile|literature|Women · 2 Comments
3 Sep 2010
Earlier today I received a text message letting me know that author Isabel Allende had been given this year’s National Chilean Literature Prize. She is only the fourth woman to be given the award since its creation in 1942.
And yet her recognition isn’t without controversy. Some critics have labeled her writing, ranging from memoirs to short stories to novels and even a cookbook, as being too commercial and not “literary” enough.
Martes Morning Musica : India “Estupida”
24 Aug 2010I’ve always liked la India, from her duets with Marc Anthony to her cantos a las Orishas, I think that she has suffered under the curse that so many Latina/Latin American mujer artistas have: living in the place where art meets real life, love.
After disappearing from the Latin musical scene in the U.S., India comes back with a song that only she can belt out about unrequited love and yes, the stupidity that mujeres can fall into in the name of amor.
First we have the salsa version of the song. Make sure to click after the jump to see/listen to the ballad version of the song.
A Year After Closing, Hutto Immigrant Detention Center Still Revealing Horrors
2:02 pm By Maegan La Mala · Immigration|Texas|Women · Comments Off
22 Aug 2010
Readers please note that the post contains references to sexual assault. Take care of yourselves and each other for possible triggers.
It was almost exactly a year ago that the T. Don Hutto detention center in Texas stopped incarcerating immigrant families, and there are still horror stories being revealed. Most recently, the ACLU reported that last week a Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) employee at the T. Don Hutto immigration detention facility in Taylor, TX charged with sexually abusing numerous female immigration detainees.
Donald Charles Dunn, a resident supervisor at the Hutto facility, is accused of abusing the detainees as he was transporting them to the airport after they had been released on bond and has allegedly admitted to telling the women that he was going to “frisk” them before touching their breasts and genital areas for his gratification, according to Sheriff’s officials in Williamson County, TX. Dunn is charged with official oppression and unlawful restraint.
I have never heard of “official oppression” as a criminal charge and was struck by it’s use and the absence of the use of any criminal charges for “sexual assault”. So I did a little search. Apparently “Official Oppression” is a Texas only law and it involves a law enforcement officer using their powers inappropriately, including sexually.
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