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No more Spanish books for a Georgia library system
3:03 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Books| Georgia| language · 4 Comments
21 Jun 2006
Thinking of heading out to the library to pick up a couple of books en español? According to AP, if you live in Gwinnett County, Georgia, think again. The library system in the heavily Latino county has decided it won’t be purchasing any more non-children’s books in the language of Cervantes:
Last week, the library board in this fast-growing county of 700,000 people eliminated the $3,000 that had been set aside to buy Spanish-language fiction in the coming fiscal year. It offered no explanation, but the chairman said such book purchases would lead readers of other foreign languages to demand the same treatment.
I can see it now. All those French residents of this Georgia county taking to the streets to demand original versions of the works of Baudelaire and Victor Hugo.
“We can’t supply pleasure reading material for all language groups, so we’re not going to go down that road,” said Lloyd Breck, chairman of the library board.
Georgia criminalizes immigrants, Mexico reacts
5:10 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Georgia| Immigration| mexico · 1 Comment
21 Apr 2006
This week Georgia governor Sonny Perdue signed into legislation the strictest immigration laws on the books in the United States. The law will deny some aid and social services to those unable to prove their legal status in the U.S. and will penalize employers who employ undocumented immigrants. Fulfilling a promise from months ago (also proposed in other states), Georgia will also demand that local police report undocumented immigrants to Immigration.
American media certainly doesn’t care about Mexico’s take on the whole matter, so it’s a good thing that foreign media does. The BBC quotes Mexican presidential spokesman Ruben Aguilar:
“The referred legislation incurs discriminatory acts against the Mexican population and those of Mexican origin,” Mr Aguilar said.“It is a partial measure that fails to resolve the complex phenomenon of immigration between Mexico and the United States in an integral manner.”
Mexico’s El Universal goes on:
Aguilar pointed out that as Perdue was signing the bill in Georgia, border state Arizona’s governor, Janet Napolitano, “vetoed [proposed] legislation that would be anti-immigrant”.“This just shows the complexity of a problem that affects both countries, and that can only be resolved by looking at the phenomenon in an integral way.”
More on Atlanta Latino
Related reading: Ga. town at center of immigrant labor case
Via / BBC News and El Universal (Spanish)
Photo via Henry Herald (Jeffrey Leo)
Full House
12:01 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Family| Georgia| Immigration| society · Comments Off
18 Jan 2006
It seems that officials in the cradle of the “New Latino South”, Georgia, are looking to make sure too many people don’t occupy a single dwelling. Too many immigrants, that is. In reponse to complaints about overcrowded homes in the state, Georgia officials are inspecting dwellings housing numerous Latino immigrants:
In Cobb County, housing code officers say they need more stringent regulations to handle a growing number of complaints about overcrowded homes. Last week, county zoning officials proposed an ordinance to reduce the number of unrelated people who can live together under one roof from six to four.
Latinos die in pedestrian accidents
6:45 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Georgia| States| society · Comments Off
2 Dec 2005
This issue is very sad, and really points to how unliveable many American cities are for those without the means to own a car. I know that where I am from is one of these places. Sidewalks are scarce and buses come every 2 hours, if you are lucky.
Since many of the new Hispanic immigrants from Mexico and other Latin American countries have limited access to vehicles or public transportation, they walk where they need to go. At the same time, pedestrian infrastructure in the South is often lacking, officials say.
Bill Fisher and Chicano Richard A. Lou, both artists, collaborated on creating public art that deconstructed the very public tale of Jennifer Wilbanks, the white runaway bride who used the media and wove a story about being kidnapped and sexually assaulted by a Hispanic man instead of telling the truth.
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