Posts Tagged ‘NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’
Adding to the NYC Snowgasm Complaints
11:55 am By Maegan La Mala · New York City|Weather · 3 Comments
29 Dec 2010It’s been 3 days since about two feet of snow fell on VivirLatino headquarters and the rest of my beloved NYC, and three 3 days later, I’m shaking my fist at the city and Mayor Bloomberg too.
I’ve seen my share of snowstorms in the big mango, I have been stranded at the airport because of them but this is by far the worse response I have seen by NYC in my 33 years of vida. I don’t know if this can be blamed on budget cuts, poor management or Bloomie just not giving a flying fuck in his third term.
Yesterday afternoon, I watched my vecinos in Corona carry baby strollers over their heads just to get across unplowed streets and a NYC bus (#23) seemed frozen in the same spot it had been since the storm began over the weekend.
The Billionaires Media Mogul Pro-Migrant Club
6:40 am By Maegan La Mala · business|Immigration|Politics · 22 Comments
25 Jun 2010NYC Mayor Bloomberg, whom I would never call my mayor since I never voted for him and certainly not for this third term, has long been held up as an advocate for immigration reform. He runs a city that runs on immigrants, so this is just smart business for him. The fact that his police department tends to harass immigrants shows that his support only goes far, as in, he supports immigrants so long as they work in NYC his way, struggling through unwieldy and confusing red tape to get proper permits to sell on the streets, for example.
The billionaire mayor is trying to bring his friends along for the pro-migrant ride, which really may be nothing more than performance as there is no viable immigration bill before Congress that is likely to get passed this year. Among the rich old white dudes who now have formed a coalition to push for “immigration reform” include Walt Disney Co. Chairman and CEO Robert Iger and Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO of News Corp., two companies known for their respect for immigrant communities (right?).
In NYC Blacks and Latinos Are All Criminal Suspects Until Further Notice
11:41 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · arizona|Immigration|New York City|race · Comments Off
20 May 2010The unlawful stopping and and frisking of people of color in NYC has been a problem for over a decade now, but technology and the current anti-Latino and anti-immigrant climate raise the stakes for these communities, our communities.
The NY Civil Liberties Union filed a class action lawsuit against the New York City Police Department over the racial profiling during increased stop and frisk operations in NYC (over 80% of those stopped are Black or Latino) and over the fact that regardless if those stopped are found doing something “criminal” or not, their names are entered in an NYPD database to be kept indefinitely creating a class of permanently criminal residents.
NYC Mayor Bloomberg Sends Mixed Messages for Immigrant Heritage Week
8:12 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration|New York City|Politics · 2 Comments
21 Apr 2010I don’t think many immigrants in NYC are celebrating NYC Immigrant Heritage Week, which ends today. At the Opportunity Agenda event on the immigration movement and the arts, Maria Hinojosa asked referred to the three-term Mayor’s pro-immigrant comments but looking at the reality of immigrant life here in NYC, I am reminded of the words of Chung-Wha Hong, Executive Director of the NY Immigration Coalition, who talked about making sure that the rhetoric and the policy intersect.
Bloomberg is a businessman as much as he is a politician, meaning he will talk out of both sides of his mouth so long as it promotes his own power. While Bloomberg plays pro-migrant mayor, he also says that he thinks the Tea Party is a good thing. We all know where the Tea Party movement stands when it comes to immigration. Bloomberg thinks he can get away with saying he supports both immigrants and hate groups by saying one thing to one group and another thing to another.
But who has he not said anything to? What has Bloomberg not spoken about?
An Open Letter to NYC Mayor Bloomberg on Domestic Violence
1:58 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · children|Family|New York City|Women · 4 Comments
4 Dec 2009This summer, I first wrote about Angeline Hassell and her struggle to be reunited with her daughter. Now, with Mayor Bloomberg elected to a controversial third term, a mother struggling within the family court system of NYC asks what he has done not just for her lately, but for the too many women and children caught within a web that promised to help them.
December 3rd, 2009
The Honorable Michael R. Bloomberg
Mayor, The City of New York
Office of the Mayor
New York, NY 10007Dear Mayor Bloomberg,
I remember reading in a newspaper that you stated, “The reason you ran for Mayor is because there’s no other job where you can have such a direct and meaningful impact on the day to day lives of so many people.”
Back in 2005 I had written to your office regarding my situation which involves domestic violence and immediately you had someone from your Domestic Violence Taskforce Unit call me back. I bring this up to say this – you were the ONLY politician that responded at that time when I reached out regarding my case. To this day I still have the original letter that I sent to your office. You were extremely helpful because you wanted to make sure that my daughter and I were safe. Your administration has consistently been in the forefront to bring awareness to domestic violence and you have implemented many resources such as the Mayor’s Office to Combat Domestic Violence and The Family Justice Center just to name a few.
Now here it is 2009 and it’s very unfortunate that after all of your taskforces efforts to ensure that my daughter and I
were safe that those efforts may have been in vain. I say this because we have been thrust right back into the very same situation that made me seek your assistance back in 2005 by the Queens Integrated Domestic Violence Court itself. I know neither you nor Chief Administrative Judge Lippman would ever condone what has happened in this case especially given your continued pledge in the fight against domestic violence and especially with Chief Judge Lippman’s wonderful efforts from January 1996 to May 2007 in how he led the implementation of nationally significant reforms and contributed to the creation of the domestic violence courts which were put in place to solve problems. I am positive that what is going on in my case is not what you or Judge Lippman had in mind. As Mayor of New York City you have always said, “That you will hold everyone accountable for their actions and that you will not uphold them when they are doing wrong.” Which is why I felt compelled to write you this open letter.
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New York City Wakes Up to Four More Years of Bloomberg
12:17 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · New York City|Politics · 2 Comments
4 Nov 2009It was a close one, 51% to 46%— a difference of less than 51,000 votes. For a moment I thought that New York City would have a new mayor but instead it looks like NYC’s billionaire mayor has won a historic and controversial third term. Certainly the fact that he reportedly spent $100 million, $15,000 an hour to Thompson’s $7 million over all, had nothing to do with it.
I was thinking about what bothered me so much about Bloomberg’s third term. Wasn’t the issue of third terms at the center of so many problems in Latin America, from Honduras to Venezuela to Colombia? Claro the fact that my politics differ is part of it but reality is a bigger part. In Latin America, at least the leaders in question attempted to have some sort of vote or referendum on the issue of additional terms, something Bloomberg did not do. Instead he went over the heads of the NYC people and went ahead and changed the term limits law. His justification, saying the city needed his help because of the economic crisis, makes no sense looking at how the economic conditions for Latinos in NYC has worsened. And it’s not just the economics that bother me. While Bloomberg doesn’t have the rabid personality of his predecessor, Giuliani, Latinos and other people of color have experienced some of the same “community policing” tactics but with a nicer facade.
Maybe I really do need to move out of NYC.
Via / The Daily Mail
NY’ers and Others : Don’t Forget to Vote Today
12:51 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · New York City|Politics · Comments Off
3 Nov 2009It’s election day in New York City (and in many other places I’m sure). If you can vote, please do with everything I said before last year’s presidential election holding true.
The biggest race here in my hood is for mayor, with wannabe third term Bloomberg and Bill Thompson as the top contenders and making sure they pander, er campaign to the Latino community. I have seen many more Bloomberg operatives in my immigrant ‘hood and much more of his trash lining the streets of my hood but he does have what, a few billion in his wallet? My mom’s phone has been ringing off the hook though with Spanish language robo-calls featuring former Bronx borough pres Fernando Ferrer telling us to support Thompson.
I won’t tell you who to vote for pero if going by any of the Spanish language campaign ads is any indication, I may have to vote for the Rent is Too Damn High Party (ok, ok I do like the Basta Bloomberg ad).
NYC Mayor Bloomberg gets a Latino Endorser for His Third Term Run : P.R.’s Gov. Fortuño
6:35 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · New York City|Politics · 7 Comments
28 Aug 2009
I first noticed the Spanish language door hangers in my Latino NYC hood last week. The door hangers were promoting NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s run for a third term.
Now, I don’t think he should have been allowed to run again. Here in NYC there was this big push for term limits but now because the billionaire mayor wants to keep power, he’s using the poor economy as justification for a third term in office. I think that fear mongering, especially when his model of city as business instead of as communities of people, has hurt more people than it has helped, is a disgusting way to maintain control. Pero people are buying it and supporting him. In NYC the Latino vote is especially important which is why Bloomy is spending alot of time and effort lining up endorsers with Spanish last names.
One of the latest endorsements comes from a non-New Yorker, Puerto Rico’s pro-statehood Governor Luis G. Fortuño. .
In a statement released by the Bloomberg campaign, Fortuño called the mayor an “honest and independent leader who can make the tough, necessary decisions that will create jobs, keep the streets safe and continue the strides in education that have been made over the last few years.”
“New York also needs a leader who understands the diverse nature of the city, appreciates how invaluable it is, and works to ensure this diversity,” Fortuño added.
“When it comes to Latinos, Mayor Bloomberg wants to make sure that all of us are heard.”
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg Favors Guest Worker Program
10:12 am By Maegan La Mala · Immigration|Labor|New York City · Comments Off
5 Jul 2006
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg is no bobo. He knows how vital immigrants are to the success and survival of the five boroughs he watches over. That’s why today Bloomberg is headed to the City of Brotherly love aka Philadelphia to testify in favor of the guest worker program at a Senate Judiciary Committee. The guest worker (please don’t call it amnesty) program allows undocumented workers to stay in the U.S. working and includes a path to citizenship. According to NY1 Bloomberg said:
The truth of the matter is we need lots of immigrants to come into this country every year. Our birth rate is not high enough to sustain the growth in the economy that we need.
This comes as the mass media is reporting that President Bush may be backing down from his immigration reform plan and may be looking at beefing up the enforcement of immigration laws as priority.
Via / NY1
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