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Video Program Helps Immigrants Share their Stories
7:28 pm By Maegan La Mala · Immigration| Media| society · Comments Off
7 Dec 2007
An innovative new media project called “Our City, Our Voices: Immigrant Newscasts in the Digital Age” is giving Latin American immigrants in Philadelphia the media tools to tell their own stories.
Through this project, people from Mexico to Chile, working as carpenters, cooks, laborers and nannies, and ranging in age from 16-60 will begin the process of creating mini-documentaries. The common denominator amongst these new media makers is to illustrate the challenges and hopes of leaving your home and living in a place that does not know your history.
The program trains immigrants to use the web, as well as offering them the tools — internet access and a computer — to get online and tell their stories through new media and video.
Via / MediaShift IdeaLab
¡Feliz Navidad!
2:21 pm By Maegan La Mala · VivirLatino · 2 Comments
25 Dec 2006VivirLatino wishes our readers “Feliz Navidad” and Happy Hanukkah!
Thanks for your support and for making VL a popular site for Latino news and views.
We’ve set high hopes for 2007! See you then!
Magazines say little about Latinos
1:02 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Magazines| Media · Comments Off
14 Jun 2006
Last weekend I noticed that there were no less than 12 Latino-related stories in the New York Times‘ Sunday edition — from the Style section, to the Week in Review to just about every part of the paper. Not so the case with weekly news magazines, according to a study by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists:
A study commissioned by a Hispanic journalists’ association has found that the three main newsweekly magazines ran very few stories about Hispanics last year despite the growing importance of the Latino population.The five-month study, due to be released Wednesday, found that only 18, or 1.2 percent, of the 1,547 stories that appeared last year in Time, Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report were predominantly about Latinos.
Hate crimes against Latinos increase, tied to debate
6:09 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| Media| society · 3 Comments
17 May 2006
Hate crimes against Latinos are on the rise according to two new studies by the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center; it seems that aggressors are using the immigration debate as an excuse to incite violence:
Hate crimes against Latinos are on the rise, according to a two recent reports. The Southern Poverty Law Center reports that the number of hate groups has risen 30 percent since 2000.Mark Potok, editor of the SPLC’s quarterly report on extremist organizations, told USA Today that immigration “has been critical to the growth of the hate movement.”
ADL’s report, released on April 24, states that white supremacists, skinheads, and other extremist groups are using the immigration debate to incite violence against Latinos, regardless of status, around the country.
The most recent and most publicized hate crime incident against a Latino is the case of David Ritcheson, a Houston teenager who was brutally beaten in Houston after some other teens suspected he had attempted to kiss a white girl.
Spring Democrats, a liberal Houston-area blog (yay!), points the figure at the local press, which seems to be shining the light away from the incident. Indeed, the case is getting less attention than one would expect. The Houston Chronicle has no coverage of the incident on its website, even though it happened fairly recently.
Other media seem to have forgotten about it as well; just do a Google News search on “David Ritcheson” and you’ll get basically nothing. Not so the case with Natalee Holloway. That wasn’t a hate crime, but it is a story that still has major legs a whole year later.
Via / CivilRights.org and Spring Democrats
Eva Longoria speaks up for immigrants
3:20 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Celebrities| Immigration · Comments Off
21 Apr 2006
Eva Longoria is winning her stars back in my book. After pissing off a bunch of people when she allegedly made some negative comments about a Latino cop, Eva’s bounced back. First, news that she was producing a documentary about the plight of farmworkers. Now she’s proving us wrong when we said that no celebs were stepping up to talk about the immigration debate; she did just that on today’s edition of the CBS Morning Show:
It’s a shame,” she told Smith, “because we’re the land of immigrants. I think it’s kind of an oxymoron to be fighting this battle about immigrants when everybody is traced back to an immigrant at one time or another. And you (Smith) wouldn’t be here if your ancestors hadn’t had a chance.
“So why not give these people a chance? And you know, I grew up in South Texas (Corpus Christi), where I didn’t cross the border. The border crossed us. So we were Mexicans. And then, one day, we were Americans. And that doesn’t change who you are.
“The border crossed us” — I love it. Reminiscent of the famous “Plymouth Rock landed on us” quote by Malcolm X.
“Build a wall” with “cheap labor”
5:44 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| Media · 2 Comments
18 Apr 2006
Hate has a variety of faces in today’s media; you’ve got your Lou Dobbs, your Michael Savage, and a personal fave, Bill O’Reilly. Bill’s not just about skewering liberals with his double speak and accusatory “interviews” — he also likes to stick his bigoted friends on the show as well. MediaMatters brings us a delightful little transcript of an exchange between O’Reilly and “conservative commentator” Ann Coulter:
O’REILLY: In the “Personal Story” segment tonight, conservative commentator and author Ann Coulter has some strong views on illegal immigration, and here she is. It’s a big mess, that’s for sure. Where do you stand on it as far as what would you like to see done?COULTER: I’d build a wall. In fact, I’d hire illegal immigrants to build the wall. And throw out the illegals who are here.
O’REILLY: You would throw them out.
COULTER: I can’t even –
O’REILLY: You would throw them out.
COULTER: Yeah.
O’REILLY: So –
COULTER: Yes.
O’REILLY: The wall, I got — I mean, you’re being sarcastic with the illegal aliens. But the wall is –
COULTER: No. It’s cheap labor.
Can anyone remember a time when there was so much hate in the media? Cable news has done nothing but help feed this sort of thing. It’s pretty sad that when you sit down to watch a “news” channel, all you can get these days is a bunch of lamebrain hate-filled rhetoric and no real dialogue. Disgusting.
Read the whole piece and watch the video on the MediaMatters site.
Ann Coulter’s quotes on Wikiquote
Via / MediaMatters
Latina blogger on mainstream media
12:36 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Blogs| TV · 5 Comments
12 Apr 2006
I was lucky enough to catch blogger Alisa Valdes Rodriguez’s appearance on Anderson Cooper 360 the other night. It’s so great to see bloggers participating in the debate over immigration within the context of mainstream media, which seems to be doing more to divide than unite. Alisa told it like it is with regard to the media’s portrayal of this issue:
…you’ve also got tens of thousands of undocumented Irish in Boston. You’ve got 100,000 Nigerians living in and around Houston. And my point is if this is truly an issue, if immigration is the issue — illegal immigration, you should show a variety of faces. Because the way that the American media are covering the issue right now, it’s becoming an anti-Latino story.I cannot tell you how many times I’ve seen stories that equate Mexican, illegal, Latino, Hispanic, using those words interchangeably and also using them to mean Spanish speaking. Where in my state of New Mexico, which is a majority Hispanic state, only 14 percent of the people speak Spanish at all.
Immigration: More hate from the media
4:54 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| Media| TV| radio · 1 Comment
29 Mar 2006
Mainstream media’s obsession with immigration just seems to grow and grow. It’s not just Lou Dobbs anymore. One can’t watch cable news in primetime without being bombarded with ignorant punditry and hate-filled diatribes. Media Matters has a couple of particularly disturbing examples today, not from cable TV but from the internet and radio:
Michelle Malkin, the Filipino-American right wing pundit says:
Apologists are quick to argue that Latino supremacists are just a small fringe faction of the pro-illegal immigration movement (never mind that their ranks include former and current Hispanic politicians from L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to former California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cruz Bustamante).
Um, what? I’d come up with a stronger response to this statement if I thought it deserved more than just a quick “Are you smoking something?”
An Atlanta-area radio host thinks that all Latino immigrants need to be “stored” somewhere before ultimately deporting them all:
The United Nations and the Euro-weenies, who have their own immigration problem with their own “M” word; It’s Muslims for them. They will start screaming about human rights violations like you’ve never heard them screaming before. They are not going to be shipped back. I mean, Royal, think about — Mexico doesn’t want ‘em back, first of all. Think what happens if we round — first of all, where do we store 11 million Hispanics just waiting to ship ‘em back to Nicaragua, Columbia, Costa Rica, Mexico. Where do we store ‘em?
Media Matters is urging the public to contact both of these commentators to voice their opposition to the views expressed.
Media Matters: Malkin quote
Media Matters: Boortz quote
Via / Media Matters
Limbaugh: Undocumented immigrants “unwilling to work”
1:52 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| Media| radio · 6 Comments
28 Mar 2006
It comes as no surprise to anyone that Rush Limbaugh is anti-immigrant. However, a recent quote has left me in tailspin. Apparently he believes that immigration to the United States is Mexican president Vicente Fox’s way of eliminating a criminal element in Mexico — by exportation. And if that weren’t enough (hold on to your horses) he says that the immigrants that come to the U.S. are “unwilling to work”.
LIMBAUGH: One of the puzzling things about this to me, since President Bush has been in office, is his — you know, he had a very close relationship with [Mexican President] Vicente Fox, and I don’t –
CALLER: Right.
LIMBAUGH: I don’t — I — I think the opposite of what you suggest is actually what’s been happening. But look at it from Vicente Fox’s point of view. I mean if — if you had a — a — a renegade, potential criminal element that was poor and unwilling to work, and you had a chance to get rid of 500,000 every year, would you do it?
I guess that explains the endless lines of workers lined up in Home Depot parking lots in Atlanta or all those guys I see waiting outside of my local hardware store in San Francisco.
Whatever your politics, you have to be an idiot to think that immigrants entering this country illegally are here to do anything other than work. What good are they to their families unless they earn money to send back? Don’t you think the “criminal element” would just as soon stay in Mexico and be lazy than risk their lives crossing the border? Think about it.
Via / Media Matters
“Chocolate City” turning brown
6:05 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Culture| Immigration| Labor| States · Comments Off
8 Mar 2006
Remember “Fear of a Black Planet”? How about “Fear of a Brown New Orleans”? I’m not sure if it’s mainstream media’s antagonistic reporting that’s fueling public paranoia or vice-versa, but how many article like this can we read in a week? ABC News muses:
At a New Orleans construction site, the breakfast of choice is no longer coffee and beignets but coffee and tortillas.
Hurricane Katrina, as devastating as it was, has created great opportunities for many. After all, somebody has to tear down, clean up and rebuild this city. And by and large, the people doing the dirty, dangerous work are not native New Orleanians but Hispanics who have flocked in to fill the void left by hundreds of thousands who fled the storm.
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