9:07 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Justice|Media|media justice|Women · Comments Off
19 Sep 2009Call out for Submissions
Voices Against Violence Zine is accepting submissions for our next issue. Please send in your essays, poetry, letters, personal accounts, artwork & photography to be included.
What is the Voices Against Violence Zine? A small zine-diy style, with work from people of color, indigenous folks, trans people & queer survivors of domestic violence, sexual violence and sexual assault. Included topics can be: healing from trauma, transformative words used as a healing mechanism, enabling healing, life after trauma, self-help guides/resources, self-healing, dancing as means to healing, healing through narration, forgiveness (do we need it?), & collective trauma.
Voices Against Violence zine is to be used as a community teaching tool, as a jump off for discussion and creative outlet and for conversations that need to happen.
Voices Against Violence is part of Café Revolución.
Send submissions in English, Spanish, tex-mex, spanglish or any combination* via email, either in text in the body of the email or attached in .txt format to noemi.mtz (at) gmail dot com.
In the subject enter voices against violence submission. Include a brief bio, your mailing address, website if any. Mention your zine or any upcoming projects you’d like. If you prefer to remain anonymous, let me know or include a pen name. Email any photos, artwork as an attachment.
deadline: Oct. 31st *translations would be cool but not necessary.
forward and repost! thx
Via / Hermana Resist
A great remake, and a necessary song this morning in light of the recent horrible news.
7:52 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · economy · Comments Off
16 Oct 2008
It’s not just home owners that are facing eviction these days. Apparently by some cruel twist of capitalistic fate, people who are renting are facing increased evictions because of the mortgage crisis–landlords are not paying their mortgages on time and rental properties are being foreclosed on as a result.
Tita Mendoza and her husband moved into their Miami Beach condo in June and have been dutifully paying the $1,800 rent on time every month. And yet, they could be evicted any day now.
Last month, the Mendozas were served with court papers notifying them that their landlord was being foreclosed on, meaning the couple could be turned out on the street.
One of the only good things about this mess is that some people with hearts are standing up and doing the ethically correct thing:
Last week, Tom Dart, the sheriff in Chicago’s Cook County, drew the ire of landlords and lenders everywhere when he announced he would no longer send his deputies on court-ordered foreclosure evictions because many of the people being turned out on the street were tenants who had faithfully paid the rent.
On Thursday, Dart announced that his deputies will resume taking part in foreclosure evictions next week, but only with stringent legal safeguards worked out with the courts. Among other things, a bank that is foreclosing on a property must prove it informed all tenants of a state-mandated grace period designed to allow them to look for new housing.
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