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Chris Brown Gets Dissed in New Song

6 Apr 2009

Chris Brown may be getting support from some camps, but from others he’s getting dissed for being a domestic abuser. A hip-hop group called Jump Smokers is serving up some musical justice on Brown in the form of a song called “My Flow So Tight Anti-Breezy (Chris Brown should get his ass kicked)”. The lyrics are scarce, but have a distinct message:

“Boy hits girl/Boy should be taken down/No matter who’s around…All the money in the world but that’s no excuse/Career suicide, yo, here’s the noose.”

EOnline reports that Jump Smokers has vowed that “a portion of the proceeds from the single will go to various organizations for battered women.”

Check out the song above and let us know what you think. Is this just a way to capitalize on a tragic incident or an important message for listeners?

Via / Yahoo Entertainment

ICE Beats Detainees? I Don’t Believe it!

2:20 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration · Comments Off

10 Dec 2008

The New York Times is reporting that various pro-immigrant groups are gearing up for a legal battle against ICE. Apparently (shock of all shocks!) ICE is abusing it’s power while arresting and detaining undocumented immigrants:

At a news conference, Mr. Rodriguez and others said agents had relied on vaguely worded warrants to invade people’s homes and arrest nearly anyone who looked Hispanic. In all, according to the federal agency, 77 illegal immigrants were detained in the operation, and only a handful appear to have been charged with a crime.

In the case involving the accusations of beatings, none of the men have been charged with sex trafficking. Lawyers working with the men said the agents used excessive force: bursting into their home in Homestead about 8:30 p.m., pulling their guns in front of a 4-year-old girl, then forcing all 10 or 11 men inside onto the floor in handcuffs.

No guns or drugs were found. All the men were Guatemalan immigrants, and the advocates said at least six of them arrived at a nearby detention center with bruises and cuts.

The wife of one detainee, the mother of the 4-year-old girl, said she saw agents kick her husband and others while they were on the floor. She declined to give her name because she feared retribution.

The interesting thing to me will be to see how all the anti-immigrant-they-shouldn’t-break-the-law-if-they-don’t-want-to-be-arrested folks will be out in arms to defend these tactics. I guess the government is not required to follow its own rules?

ICE Raids Must be Stopped

5:29 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration · 1 Comment

12 Sep 2008

I really liked this piece about why ICE raids must be stopped because it rewrites the traditional pro-immigration rhetoric based in “we’re such good people, thus we deserve to immigrate!” As Mala pointed out a while ago, that rhetoric has all sorts of problems with it.

The authors of this article talk about ‘family’ within the context of pro-immigration, but they move away from the we’re-good-people narrative to center ‘family’ within the discussion of international human rights:

Family and community rights are enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Article 16 mentions the right to found a family, and posits that the family is “the natural and fundamental group unit of society.”

Immigrants mistreated at detention centers

7:50 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Immigration · 2 Comments

18 Jan 2007

Ah, detention centers. Many will have you believe that immigrants who are caught coming into the country without papers are housed, fed, clothed, given great medical attention and sent safely back to their homelands. In fact, that does happen in some countries, or, better still, they are invited to stay. Here, however, we do things a little differently:

Migrants confined to detention centers run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are subject to abuses that range from denying speedy medical attention to being served raw meat as a meal.

Spanish city opens shelter for abused men

4:25 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Family|society|Spain · Comments Off

20 Oct 2006

The Spanish city of León is opening up Spain’s first shelter for male victims of domestic violence, and “positive discrimination” (affirmative action), according to 20 Minutos. The center will also house men who are separated or divorced and having a hard time making it:

The first center will open in León, and the project has a budget of 1.5 million euros.

There are also plans to open other similar centers in Barcelona, Valencia, Alicante, Madrid, Murcia, Cádiz and Sevilla, depending on projects supported by various support groups for separated fathers throughout Spain.

According to the Centristas group, the organization in charge of the shelter, the centers will provide housing, legal help, professional development programs and a business center for residents.

Earlier this month, Spain’s constitutional tribunal admitted debate on whether or not domestic violence laws in the country discriminate against men.

A few Spanish sites are popping up on the internet which claim to support abused men and denounce feminism.

Meanwhile, to date, 59 women have died in Spain at the hands of their partner or ex partner this year.

Via / 20 Minutos and Instituto de la Mujer

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