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SPEAK! Listening Party in Portland, Oregon This Saturday
3:23 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Allied Media Conference|Events|Media|media justice|Oregon · 1 Comment
9 Apr 2009This Saturday the 11th, there will be a listening party for the release of the SPEAK! Radical Woman of Color Media Collective‘s spoken-word CD.
The It Is Better To SPEAK! listening party will be held Saturday, the 11th, at 7 to 9 pm at In Other Words Women’s Books and Resources, 8 B NE Killingsworth St., Portland, OR, 97211. All are welcome. Bring a friend and spread the word! I’ll see you there.
The CD, a compilation of poetry, prose, story and song, is packed with the work of people you know, including Blackamazon, Brownfemipower, Cripchick, Little Light, Sylvia, and many others including yours truly, la Mala.
As my dear Little Light said:
We made this project with love and held hands and hard work, and we’re proud to present it as a fundraiser to help get some radical mamis of color to the Allied Media Conference and support them in their activism.
At the listening party, you’ll have a chance to come together and hear the album, discuss it, and take it home with you. We’ve put together a whole curriculum, written together, to help facilitate, and both I and Adele Nieves, producer and contributor, will be present to help get things shaking.
Via / Taking Steps
Oregon Bomberos Don’t Work in English Only by Law
9:33 am By Maegan La Mala · Bilingualism|language|Oregon · 1 Comment
27 Jun 2006
Oregon isn’t buying into that English only nonsense, in fact not being bilingual, speaking English and Spanish, can get you fired if you’re a firefighter. Because of the problems of wildfires in Oregon, there is no language requirements for firefighters. According to Jim Walker with the Oregon Department of Forestry:
What we do know is 85 percent of the crew makeup is of Hispanic descent.
Because of this in 2003 a State law was made requiring bosses who manage firefighting crews be bilingual to ensure communication and safety. But not everyone is happy about this requirement. Some people are losing their positions because they cannot speak Spanish.
Via / The Denver Channel
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