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Let’s Get Free!

4:18 pm By la Macha · Word en la calle · Comments Off

22 May 2009

For D.C. peeps!

The Visions to Peace Project Presents “Let’s Get Free!”

Youths’ Performance to Address the Pain of Violence and the Hope of Healing

(Washington, D.C. – May 20, 2009) On Saturday, June 13, the Visions to Peace Project will present a free performance that explores violence against youth and celebrates the power of healing. The Visions to Peace Project is an Anacostia-based organization that supports youth-led action for safety and peace, rather than dependence on policing, prisons, and punitive policies. This spring, the organization offered a series of workshops in which youth meet weekly to discuss violence in their lives and use the arts as a tool for healing. Next month, participants will share their work in a production organized for the community at large. A brief discussion and open cast party featuring free food and door prizes will be held directly after the show to support continued dialog and community-building. The entire event will be held at CentroNía, an educational and family support center located in Columbia Heights, NW.

WHAT: Let’s Get Free!

WHO: Visions to Peace Project
Various Volunteers, Collaborators and Supporters

WHEN: Saturday, June 13, 2009. Doors open at 6 pm. Show begins at 6:30 p.m.

WHERE: CentroNía, 1420 Columbia Rd. NW, Washington, D.C. 20009

WHY: Youth, families and communities are harmed by multiple forms of violence – from the loss of friends to the loss of neighborhoods, from abuse by dating partners to abuse by police officers. This performance will highlight the insights of local youth and their calls for healing and justice.

For more information on the Visions to Peace Project, visit www.visionispower.org

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13-year-old wrongly convicted, imprisoned for 16 years

7 May 2009

VL has talked before about the injustices of prison in the U.S., including young teens being locked up for crimes for life with no chance of parole–a heinous and (in my opinion) illegal practice that should have died with Inquisition. Why, you ask? Take a look at the following video (here’s a printed version for those who don’t have video):

How much horrific could this man’s life possibly get? Imprisoned for 50 years at 13-years-old–except, wait a minute, you aren’t guilty?

What does a kid that is raised in a prison do once he’s released? When he’s been taught sexuality, relationships, reasoning skills, etc in a place that has been proven to encourage violence rather than end it?

Has he been raped in prison? Has he been beaten? Has he been taught that hitting women is a good way to prove he’s a man?

And outside of the supposition of violence, what does a person do when that person “graduated” from prison instead of high school? Or the university? What life will Thaddeus Jimenez be able to build for himself when sixteen years of his life has been stolen–because it seems so much easier to lock of up Latino kids and throw away the keys rather than find some alternative? Any alternative?

Like the immigrant community doesn’t have enough to worry about

12:26 pm By la Macha · Immigration · Comments Off

26 Mar 2009

From CNN comes the news that artsuspectbaynews9 U.S. citizens are stealing the babies of undocumented immigrants

According to police, a woman claiming to be an immigration official spoke to migrant worker Rosa Sirilo-Francisco at the Hillsborough County Health Department and told her she had to turn over her 2-month-old daughter Sandra Cruz-Francisco or face deportation. The baby’s parents are from Mexico and had taken the child to the clinic for a routine check-up, according to Wilson.

After giving up the child, the mother was told by a relative in Georgia that federal immigration officials would not follow such a procedure, so the parents reported their daughter missing.

Ten hours later, Pereira surrendered the child to Manatee County sheriff’s deputies, according to authorities.

There are so many sad things going on here–I betcha million dollars that the woman specifically went after an immigrant child because she was going to try to pass it off as her own. Which makes me sad because I wonder what has this woman gone through mentally in her attempts to have a child? But even more than my sympathy for her, I feel for the family and for an entire community that knows it’s a legitimate practice of the U.S. government to take their children away for no damn reason (please see ICE raids). They have no recourse when somebody says “give me your child.” Even rapists have to be proven to be rapists in a court of law where they have the right to defend themselves before they lose their children.

Is citizenship really the only protection parents have when it comes to keeping their children safe?

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Posts Tagged ‘youths’

Let’s Get Free!

13-year-old wrongly convicted, imprisoned for 16 years

Like the immigrant community doesn’t have enough to worry about

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