Posts Tagged ‘Dominican Republic’
Martes Morning Movie : Change Up
10:21 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Dominican Republic|Dominicans|Movies · Comments Off
23 Feb 2010Today’s film clip comes to us via our friends at The Latin Americanist. It’s a trailer from a documentary called The Change Up about U.S. baseball dreams in the Dominican Republic.
The 2nd Happiest Place on Earth : The Dominican Republic
8:23 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Dominican Republic · 1 Comment
9 Jul 2009
Jennifer already told us that Costa Rica was the happiest place on earth. The second happiest? The Dominican Republic and that is making many Dominicans crack the hell up.
Via Monaco:
Como bien dice El Nacional en su editorial de hoy, la noticia de que República Dominicana es el segundo país más feliz del mundo ha causado hilaridad y hasta escepticismo, pues nadie se explica cómo se puede estar feliz en medio de apagones, basura, y el caos que predomina a nivel general.
My translation: just like it’s written in today’s El Nacional, the news that the Dominican Republic is the second happiest country in the world has caused hilarity and even skepticism, because no one can explain how you can be happy in the middle of blackouts, garbage, and the chaos that dominates at a general level.
What Mala is Reading on Saturday Morning
10:44 am By Maegan La Mala · Blogs|Dominican Republic|Education|Internet|Linking Latinos|race · Comments Off
13 Dec 2008When do kids realize the difference between weekdays and weekends? Not soon enough if you ask me, which is why I’ve been up since early, reading the internets.
Some things that caught my ojo:
President-elect Obama named his choice for secretary of HUD and it’s a Ny’er, pero not Carrion
University students in the Dominican Republic are on a hunger strike over problems registering.
Did you know you could salsa for freedom tonite?
Happy Saturday!
Man Bathes in Blood to Protest Violence Against Women in the Dominican Republic
7:09 am By Maegan La Mala · Bizarro|Dominican Republic|Women · Comments Off
20 Nov 2008Last week we wrote about the large number of women being killed in domestic violence situations in the Dominican Republic. One man is making a statement with his body and cow’s blood to denounce the femicide.
This Year In the Dominican Republic, At Least 102 Mujeres Have been Killed by Partners
12:22 pm By Maegan La Mala · Dominican Republic|Dominicans|Women · Comments Off
13 Nov 2008The year is not quite over yet statistics coming out of the Dominican Republic show that so far this year (through to September), 102 women have been killed by their partners. 154 women in all have been recorded as being murdered in the Caribbean nation. The sad thing that is never recorded in statistics is the number of incidents of violence against mujeres that are never recorded, that are covered up yet reverberate through communities in silence.
In response, the state has set up 14 centers throughout the country to deal with familial violence. Yet the state also is taking an almost threatening approach to community movements inside DR who have taken their struggle to the streets in search of justice and a fundamental change in how women’s lives are valued.
R
adamés Jiménez, Procurador General…advirtió que todo aquel que altere el orden público será sometido a la justicia.
In other words, we’ll take care of the problem just don’t disturb public order, as if violence against women and the threat that hangs too often over the lives of women isn’t a disturbance enough.
Via / Panorama Diario, Remolacha
Ike’s Unwated Visit to Caribbean
10:01 am By Maegan La Mala · Cuba|Dominican Republic|Haiti|Weather · 1 Comment
8 Sep 2008
Hurricane Ike plows it’s way through the Caribbean today, with Havana, the capital of Cuba in it’s path.
Ike already went through Haiti and the Dominican Republic as a category 3 hurricane, killing at least 58 people in Haiti alone and one reported death in the Dominican Republic. Ike has since been downgraded to a category 2 storm, with 105 mile-per-hour winds.
Haiti has been hit particularly hard, with a death toll of at least 319 people from an unrelenting four storms in a row.
”With the others we lost houses, we lost animals and we lost plantations. Never bodies,” said Lisemene Ferry Raphael, 46, standing across from her dead 12-year-old god daughter.
There are bodies on almost every other corner inside the town, where two rivers and the torrential rain of Ike swallowed houses and swept children and old women downstream, according to The Miami Herald, which has the only international reporter at the town along Route 1 on the road to the city Gonaives.
Franzt Samedi’s 5-year-old adopted daughter, Tamesha Jean, was among the dead.
”I’m the one who she calls Papa. I’m the one who is responsible for her. If she were with me she would not have died,” Samedi said.
Via / Citizen Orange
I Went to Cornell and All I Got was This Sweatshop Made Cap
3:34 pm By Maegan La Mala · Dominican Republic|Fashion|Labor · 1 Comment
7 Aug 2008
Wanna show off some alumni pride? Or how about that cap of your favorite baseball team? If you look at the label of your cap and see that it was made in the Dominican Republic, chances are it was made in a sweatshop.
Sweatshop workers stitch logos into caps for Major League Baseball, the NHL, the NBA and the NFL.
Many college caps are made there, too. One company, BJ&B, for example, manufactures caps for the Universities of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Missouri, Connecticut, Arizona, Louisiana State, Cornell, Northwestern, Penn State, Tulane and Purdue…Here’s how it works: A university licenses its name and logo to American apparel distributors like Nike, Starter, Champion and Reebok, and earns about $1.50 per cap. BJ&B, for example, then pays the worker 8 cents per cap. At that pay rate, a worker takes home $40 for a typical 56-hour work week, as calculated by UNITE, an anti-sweatshop lobbying group. The total cost of making the cap comes out to about $6.08, but consumers pay about $19.95 for the cap.
The good news is that BJ&B workers, thanks in part to universities’ pressuring, formed a union but they are only one sweatshop in a sea of free-trade areas that allow companies located there to be exempt from import fees and income taxes on the backs of workers.
Via / Republica Update
Juan Luis Guerra and Gilberto Santa Rosa: Advocates Against Gender Violence
3:17 pm By Maegan La Mala · Activism|Celebrities|Dominican Republic|Latin America|society · 1 Comment
19 Dec 2007
According to the head of Women’s Issue of the Dominican Republic, 160 women died of domestic violence related crimes in the Caribbean nation between the months of January and October 2007. In Puerto Rico, the figure is smaller: 18 deaths. In order to call more attention to this epidemic, two of the PR and DR’s most well-knowns are coming out on behalf of victims of domestic violence:
Dominican singer songwriter Juan Luis Guerra and Puerto Rican salsero Gilberto Santa Rosa will be, among other artists, protagonists of the serán, entre otros artistas, los protagonistas de la campaña “Pégale a la pared” campaign, an initiative against violence towards women in their respective countries, which was introduced today in Santo Domingo.The first phase of the campaign will be made of up of two 30 second advertising spots starring Guerra and Santa Rosa, which will be shown on television and broadcast on the radio in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.
While the initiative is to be applauded, they could have come up with a better name (which was inspired by a song by Reyli Barba). “Hit the Wall”…no, don’t hit anything. Get some help with your violent temperament instead.
Other stars will also participate, among them Reyli himself, puertorriqueño Joseph Fonseca and dominicanos Andy Andy, Wason Brazobán and Raymond Pozo.
Via / El Universal (Venezuela)
More Trouble From Storms in Caribbean
10:10 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Dominican Republic|Puerto Rico · Comments Off
14 Dec 2007
Tropical Storm Olga has claimed at least 20 lives in the Caribbean with many people pointing fingers at the government.
As Olga began lashing the Dominican Republic with rain Tuesday, officials slowly released water from the Tavera Dam into the Yaque River, Octavio Rodriguez, a member of the committee that oversees dams during emergencies, told The Associated Press.
But fearing a dam failure that could kill thousands in Santiago, the country’s second-largest city, the panel decided around 11 p.m. Tuesday to open all six floodgates an hour later, gushing 1.6 million gallons of water every second into the river.
Dominican Parade NYC
10:16 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Dominicans|Events|New York City · Comments Off
13 Aug 2007Yesterday 6th Avenue in Manhattan was awash with love for Quisqueya la bella at the Dominican Day Parade here in NYC.
Hola!
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