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No More Sex Until You Register to Vote : Episode 2 of Voto Latino’s La Pasión de la Decisión
11:00 am By Maegan La Mala · Celebrities|Internet|US Presidential Race 2008 · 1 Comment
23 Oct 2008As promised, here’s the next episode of a Voto Latino‘s novela, La Pasión de la Decisión The theme is: no sex until you are registered to vote. My theme is, no sex until you do something beyond voting (this may explain my lack of sex).
I can’t Marry You because You Didn’t Register to Vote : Voto Latino’s La passion de la Decision Parte 1
2:37 pm By Maegan La Mala · Celebrities|Internet|TV|US Presidential Race 2008 · 2 Comments
22 Oct 2008Our amigos at Voto Latino just released the the final episode of their get out the vote spoof telenovela La Pasión de la Decisión. It features Rosario Dawson, Wilmer Valderrama, Tony Plana, Mayte Garcia y otros acting melodramatically TelemundoUnivision style.
We’ll feature an episode everyday as we get closer to election day. Part one asks the burning question, would you marry/date/sleep with someone who wasn’t registered to vote?
Two Spanish Language Newspapers Endorse Obama
8:27 am By Maegan La Mala · language|Newspapers|US Presidential Race 2008 · 3 Comments
21 Oct 2008With two weeks before elections day, the focus on key voting blocs intensifies, and Latino voters represent part of that. Much of the attention to the Latino vote and Latino issues (because we don’t want the same things that other voters want like a better economy, health care, apparently)is happening in Spanish and through the Spanish language media (because apparently we all speak Spanish).
Los Angeles’ La Opinión and New York’s El Diario/La Prensa, two of the nation’s oldest Spanish-language dailies, made public their endorsements of the Democratic candidate on Friday.
Latinos Say No Gracias McCain
4:05 pm By Maegan La Mala · Immigration|US Presidential Race 2008 · Comments Off
10 Oct 2008
As both presidential candidates take their immigration talk to Spanish only ads, it seems that John McCain’s numbers are taking the biggest hit when it comes to that oh so coveted “Latino vote”.
Polls show Obama winning the broadest support from Latino voters of any Democrat in a decade, while McCain is struggling to reach 30 percent, closer to Senator Bob Dole’s dismal 1996 result than to Bush’s historic 40% four years ago.
Some blame McCain’s lack of ties in the Latino community, others point to his flip-flopping on immigration reform and speaking out of both sides of his mouth depending on the audience.
What neither candidate is talking about is the raids that keep happening behind the spotlight of debates and conventions.
Via / Politico
Obama Ad Attacks McCain for Turning His Back on Immigration Reform
3:06 pm By Maegan La Mala · Colorado|Immigration|language|US Presidential Race 2008 · 3 Comments
8 Oct 2008While in English language debates, Obama will not mention the word immigration, his campaign has no problem dropping the word in Spanish language ads (apparently English speaking Latinos don’t care or aren’t interested in immigration?).
The following Spanish-language ad starts to air today in Colorado.
Via / Hispanic Tips y The Colorado Independent
New Spanish McCain Attack Ad Links Hugo Chavez and Obama
11:23 am By Maegan La Mala · TV|US Presidential Race 2008|Venezuela · Comments Off
23 Sep 2008The above ad, released late last week by the McCain camp, is supposed to appeal to Latinos.
The McCain campaign said Hispanic voters are particularly open to the message because many of them are immigrants who came to the U.S. seeking to escape the sort of political tactics Mr. Chavez employs.“They come to American for freedom, and yet Senator Obama seems overly willing to deal with a tin-pot dictator,” McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said.
Mujeres : Tu Voto, Tu Voz?
12:05 pm By Maegan La Mala · Activism|children|Family|Health|Justice|Politics|US Presidential Race 2008|Women · Comments Off
16 Sep 2008As soon as I could, I voted. As soon as my younger sister and prima could, I dragged their asses to vote. My hijas have been with me inside the voting booth and I explain the process, and no just the mechanics of pulling the lever (we’re still old school here in NYC), and no not just the political game/sideshow.
I don’t lie about my own ambivalence after stolen elections and the fact that my own familia who lives in Puerto Rico can’t vote ambivalent. Pero given the reality of the day, what is happening in our communities, can we afford not to vote, not to engage?
Media, the DNC, and the Latino Vote : The Criminal, Macho Latino Male and the Hot Blooded Latin Sterotype Mujer
11:44 am By Maegan La Mala · denver|DNC|DNC08|Internet|Media|Newspapers|Politics · 1 Comment
28 Aug 2008Everyone wants the Latino vote, even if we are all gang bangers and putas, at least according to the mainstream media. Day after day, out hotness and criminality is highlighted, even in so – called political articles covering endorsements and independent media here at the DNC.
I never thought I’d have anything in common with Daddy Yankee, who recently endorsed Republican presidential candidate John McCain. And no, I’m not talking about being Puerto Rican, I’m talking about being stereotyped.
Hey McCain, Showing up at a Few Latino Events Is Not Enough for Our Vote
2:21 pm By Maegan La Mala · Activism|Immigration|TV|US Presidential Race 2008 · Comments Off
8 Aug 2008Kety Esquivel represented The Sanctuary early this morning on CNN, talking about Republican candidate John McCain’s failure to respond to a comprehensive questionnaire on, among other things, comprehensive immigration reform.
Obama Campaign Responds to Quesionnaire on Immigration. McCain Camp Can’t be Bothered
9:33 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration|US Presidential Race 2008 · Comments Off
5 Aug 2008The deadline has come and gone for the U.S. presidential candidates to respond to a questionnaire put together by The Sanctuary, an online coalition of pro-immigrant bloggers and activists that VivirLatino is a part of.
While both candidates have made alot of noise about the importance of the Latino vote and Latino community, only the Barack Obama campaign actually responded to a lengthy questionnaire that digs deep into the issues behind the comprehensive immigration reform buzzwords.
Check out the press release after the jump.
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