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Isabel Garcia awarded $150,000 Grant
3:36 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration · Comments Off
18 Dec 2008
Remember Isabel Garcia? The woman who was sexually mocked and ridiculed in effigy by a racist shock jock? Well, I just received the following news through email about her!
A Tucson human-rights activist received a $150,000 prize from a cultural foundation for her community work.
Pima County’s legal defender, Isabel Garcia, was among five people awarded the Lannan Foundation’s Prize for Cultural Freedom for 2008.Garcia is a co-founder of Derechos Humanos, a local organization that defends immigrant rights and works to publ icize conditions on the U.S-Mexico border.
“I’m very happy the foundation would be willing to recognize somebody like me, who is considered controversial with the mainstream media,” Garcia said.
But her greatest reward, she said, comes from people on the street thanking her for her work with the community.
“This prize will allow me to continue the fight for the most basic human rights for migrants,” Garcia said.
A large portion of the prize will go to Derechos Humanos, she said.The foundation gave ou t $750,000 to the five winners for their work in the U.S., Mexico and the United Kingdom, according to the foundation’s Web site.
Other winners this year were rewarded for their work on environmental justice, American Indian cultural preservation, prisoner’s rights and stopping violence against women.
The Lannan organization is a 40-year-old family foundation dedicated to “cultural freedom and diversity” based in Santa Fe, N.M., that recognizes artists, writers and activists. The Cultural Freedom Award was created in 2003 “to honor individuals working on behalf of communities struggling to uphold and defend their right to cultural freedom and diversity.”
Copyright © 2008 TucsonCitizen.com.
This Year In the Dominican Republic, At Least 102 Mujeres Have been Killed by Partners
12:22 pm By Maegan La Mala · Dominican Republic| Dominicans| Women · Comments Off
13 Nov 2008The year is not quite over yet statistics coming out of the Dominican Republic show that so far this year (through to September), 102 women have been killed by their partners. 154 women in all have been recorded as being murdered in the Caribbean nation. The sad thing that is never recorded in statistics is the number of incidents of violence against mujeres that are never recorded, that are covered up yet reverberate through communities in silence.
In response, the state has set up 14 centers throughout the country to deal with familial violence. Yet the state also is taking an almost threatening approach to community movements inside DR who have taken their struggle to the streets in search of justice and a fundamental change in how women’s lives are valued.
R
adamés Jiménez, Procurador General…advirtió que todo aquel que altere el orden público será sometido a la justicia.
In other words, we’ll take care of the problem just don’t disturb public order, as if violence against women and the threat that hangs too often over the lives of women isn’t a disturbance enough.
Via / Panorama Diario, Remolacha
Out of the Silence, We Come: A Litany
30 Oct 2008
Individuals, organizations, and communities that are committed to acknowledging and resisting the violence visited on women of color every day are encouraged to read this statement at 8:00 p.m./Central time. Across the nation, women of color and allies will be reciting the litany at the same time creating one loud voice breaking the silence.
Out of the Silence, We Come: A Litany
Out of the silence, we come
In the name of nuestras abuelas,
In honor of our mamas
In the spirit of our petit fils,
In tribute to ourselves
We come crying out
Documenting the torture
We come wailing
Reporting the rape
We come singing
Testifying to the abuse
We come knowing
Knowing that the silence has not protected us from
the racism
the sexism
the homophobia
the physical pain
the emotional shame
the auction block
Once immobilized by silence
We come now, mobilized by collective voice
Dancing in harmonious move-ment to the thick drumbeat of la lucha, the struggle
We come indicting those who claim to love us, but violate us
We come prosecuting those who are paid to protect us, but harass us
We come sentencing those who say they represent us, but render
us invisible
Out of the Silence, we come
Naming ourselves
Telling our stories
Fighting for our lives
Refusing to accept that we were never meant to survive
Via / Document the Silence
Be Bold, Be Red : How Do You Keep a Social Movement Alive : Why We Can’t Wait
10:36 am By Maegan La Mala · Activism| Blogs| Internet| Justice| Women| media justice · Comments Off
30 Oct 2008Be Bold, Be Red : For Women of Color Dealing With and Fighting Against Violence
8:17 am By Maegan La Mala · Activism| Blogs| Events| Internet| Justice| Women| media justice · 1 Comment
30 Oct 2008
It is more than a fashion statement. The decision to wear red today is to yes, to bring attention to the self, specifically to the struggles of women of color against violence.
Red is a powerful color in the negative and positive sense of the word. Last year, people all over the world wore the color red in what is now a campaign and a movement against violence against women of color. Red the color of of righteous anger, the color of blood that is spilled and blood that boils at what has become so commonplace for so many women is silenced.
This year, on the first anniversary of the Be Bold Be Red Campaign, we invite you to make your bold stance against the violence enacted on women and girls of color in our society visible. In D.C., Chicago, Durham, Atlanta and Detroit women of color will be gathering to renew our commitment to creating a world free from racialized and gendered violence, and this time, we’ll be using a new technology called CyberQuilting to connect all of these gatherings in real time. To learn more about CyberQuilting, which is a women of color led project to stitch movements together using new web technologies and old traditions of love and nurturing, visit www.cyberquilt.wordpress.com.
For more information visit Document the Silence.
Argentinian Journalists for Non-Sexist Reporting
11:27 am By Maegan La Mala · Argentina| Media| Women · Comments Off
28 Oct 2008
With a mujer president leading the country, an organization of over 100 journalists in Argentina want to change the way crimes against women are covered in the media. They have drawn up 10 “commandments” for news coverage of gender-based crimes, which include avoiding expressions like “crime of passion” and incorporating terms like “femicide.”
The Argentine Network of Journalists for Non-Sexist Communication (PAR) will officially release the guidelines on Nov. 25, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The list is a really good one that all of us should strive to use, not just those who work in media.
For the 10 Commandments of reporting gender-based violence, see after the jump.
California Subject to Statewide ICE Sweep
10:44 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration · 1 Comment
30 Sep 2008
The L.A. Times is reporting that California was just subjected to the largest ICE sweep in Californian history. 1,157 people were arrested with over 400 in L.A. alone.
I found the statement by the ICE official to amusing in a sick sort of way:
“Individuals who defy immigration court orders to leave the country need to understand there are consequences for willfully disregarding the law,” said Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Julie L. Myers, who oversees the federal immigration agency.
My question: why stop at rounding up individuals that defy immigration court orders? Why don’t we fund and create bodily integrity enforcement teams that conduct massive sweeps to round up, say, all those men who have raped women?
Angie Zapata Case to Go to Trial
1:01 pm By Maegan La Mala · Colorado| GLBT| Justice| Women| crime · Comments Off
19 Sep 2008
In July, we wrote about the horrific hate motivated killing of the young mujer Angie Zapata. Seems that the prosecutor in the case is ready to move forward with a trial.
According to Colorado’s KDRO-TV, alleged murderer Allen Ray Andrade was arraigned by Weld District Court Judge Marcelo Kopcow:A Weld County district judge ruled Thursday that there is enough evidence against a man charged with killing a transgender woman to proceed with a trial.
Thirty-one-year-old Allen Ray Andrade is charged with first-degree murder after deliberation, felony motor vehicle theft, felony identity theft and bias-motivated crime in the death of Angie Zapata on July 17.
Violence Against Women in Peru
11:47 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Family| Justice| Peru| Women · Comments Off
26 Jul 2006
According to a post up on Feministing yesterday, violence against women in Peru has reached epidemic proportions. In some parts of the nation well over half the women report being abused physically and/or sexually. Some of the causes are related to poverty and a justice system that does not punish offenders.
Sexual violence against women in Peru is now so bad that Peru’s President-elect Alan Garcia, who takes office Friday, made it one of his central campaign issues and has vowed to tackle the problem and give women a greater say in government.
Too bad it takes so many women being hurt to make a head of state take notice. Let’s see if Alan Garcia will be all talk.
Via / Feministing
Image Via / BBC Mundo
Salma Taking Mexican Presidential Candidates to Task
11:56 am By Maegan La Mala · Celebrities| Justice| Women| mexico · Comments Off
29 Jun 2006
Mexican actriz Salma Hayek has teamed up with Human Rights Watch (HRW) and 65 other organizations in Mexico and the U.S, to make a call via an open letter to the presidential candidates in Mexico to make the commitment to “prevent and punish” crimes against women. Mexico is the home of Ciudad Juarez where over the last 13 years, more than 400 women have been murdered or have “disappeared”. Salma said:
It’s outrageous that Mexican women must live afraid of the killers harassing them on the streets.
Tomorrow, June 30, the names of the candidates who made the commitment to fight violence against women will be released so that those going to the polls on Sunday know where the candidates stand. Props to Salma for using her star power to bring attention to the issue of violence against mujeres and for making this an important issue in the upcoming presidential election in Mexico.
Via / Que Pasa
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