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Thu02Oct2008

VL Follow Up : NYPD Officer Involved in Taser Death Commits Suicide

Last week, we wrote about Iman Morales, the man having a mental health crisis and instead of being helped by the New York City Police Department, he was tasered and fell to his death. Yesterday, Morales was buried and early... Read more »

Thursday, October 02 2008 | 10:19 H

Wed01Oct2008

Update : Outcome of Court for Educator Amaris Mesa Arrested at Religious event in the Bronx

Last night, we wrote about how a religious event in the Bronx, NY ended with community members harassed and arrested. This is how the powers that be treat even the most sacred things in our lives : with suspicion and... Read more »

Wednesday, October 01 2008 | 10:03 H

Tue30Sep2008

NYPD Arrest Educators for Photographing Abuse at Religious Drumming Ceremony

Yesterday evening Amaris Mesa & Dennis Flores were arrested for carrying a camera and taking pictures of abusive police conduct at a community drumming celebration for Saint Michael in front of the Botanica San Lazaro on Kingsbridge Road, Bronx, NY.... Read more »

Tuesday, September 30 2008 | 20:06 H

Mon29Sep2008

Follow up on John LaBruzzo's Plans to Sterilize Poor Women

VL reported here last week about Louisiana State Representative John LaBruzzo's efforts to create legislation that would pay poor women $1000 to have their tubes tide. At the time, a commenter noticed that many women of color and poor women... Read more »

Monday, September 29 2008 | 17:07 H

Shameless Self- Promotion : Maegan la Mala Spits Poetry Tonite in Queens, NYC

If my posts have taken on a poetic quality, you will please be excusing la Mala. Here in NYC we are in the middle of the 5to Encuentro de Poesia "Poetas en Nueva York Tonight at the Centro Humanista de... Read more »

Monday, September 29 2008 | 13:42 H

Sat27Sep2008

Poetas en NY bring a Happy Mob to Union Square

Today a mob of poets will descend upon Union Square in NYC, sending their words through the streets of and using verses will bailout the souls of a money driven city. Today begins the Quinto Encuentro “Poetas en Nueva York”... Read more »

Saturday, September 27 2008 | 08:05 H

Fri26Sep2008

Revisiting the Personal and Political of the Democratic National Convention

Ay the Democratic National Convention seems like such a long time ago. Denver, it's thin air, the madness of running from one place to the other as a credentialed bloggers, being misquoted. Pero it was only four weeks and a... Read more »

Friday, September 26 2008 | 06:33 H

Thu25Sep2008

Racism? Que Racism? Anti-Obama Fliers Appear in New Jersey

Some New Jersey residents received more than the usual junk fliers in their driveways this past weekend.Roxbury resident Elizabeth Corsetto says a flier was left in her driveway asking, ``Do You Want A Black President?'' and showing a doctored photo... Read more »

Thursday, September 25 2008 | 14:35 H

Ike Leaves People in Texas Homeless, Shell Shocked and in Need of Help

Nearly 400 people are missing two weeks after Hurricane Ike hit parts of Texas. "There are a lot of elderly folks, just looking at the age column," Many of them are from the hardest hit areas of the county, including... Read more »

Thursday, September 25 2008 | 12:35 H

Wed24Sep2008

Latin American Leaders at UN Summit and Palin Will Only Speak to One

The UN General Assembly is bringing Latin American leaders and has them speaking on a diverse range of topics of interest to their country people and the world at large. Evo Morales of Bolivia criticized the United States and it's... Read more »

Wednesday, September 24 2008 | 13:07 H

NYC Mayor Bloomberg Habla Español (Sort of)

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg is taking Spanish classes, with a Colombian tutor. Does this mean he speaks with a Colombian accent? The men sat at opposite ends of a coffee table speckled with a half-dozen books — on the history... Read more »

Wednesday, September 24 2008 | 11:07 H

Mon22Sep2008

Ecuadorians Number 4 Latino Group in NYC (Especially in Queens)

As a born and bred Queens, NYC Latina, I sure don't need statistics to tell me that the Ecuadorian population is steadily growing. It's the reason there are more Ecuadorian food trucks and carts from Jackson Heights to Flushing. It's... Read more »

Monday, September 22 2008 | 14:24 H

Hugo Chavez to Visit NYC Hall

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is going to be in NYC this week for the UN Summit. While we all wait with to see what metaphor for the U.S. empire Chavez will come up with this time, NYC Councilman Charles Barron... Read more »

Monday, September 22 2008 | 12:24 H

Wed17Sep2008

NYPD Attacked Father Taking His Daughter to School and Now He Faces Charges

Imagine you are walking your daughter to school. It's a common scene. The last thing you expect is to be attacked. The last thing you expect is to be attacked by the New York City Police Department. Yet, that's exactly... Read more »

Wednesday, September 17 2008 | 09:36 H

Mon15Sep2008

9-11 ICE Arrests in San Francisco Highlight Disregard for Nuestros Niños y Familias

On a day when some people were remembering, the exploitation of the ideal of freedom and justice was going down full force in San Francisco. On the night of September 11, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided a San Francisco... Read more »

Monday, September 15 2008 | 14:07 H

Fri12Sep2008

Tomorrow in Washington DC : Protest for the Cuban 5

The Cuban Five are five Cuban men who are in U.S. prisons, serving four life sentences and 75 years collectively, after being arrested in September 1998 and wrongly convicted in U.S. federal court in Miami in 2001. They are... Read more »

Friday, September 12 2008 | 11:00 H

Helping Haiti

The people of Haiti find themselves in critical need right now, dealing with the devastation after a series of hurricanes. They need our support. In the NYC area you can contact Ninaj Raoul at the Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees... Read more »

Friday, September 12 2008 | 07:00 H

Thu11Sep2008

Hurricane Season : Porque no Se Van?

As Hurricanes move from their devastation in the Caribbean and into the United States, images of people boarding up homes, gathering personal belongings and evacuating, but what of those not evacuating, out of fear, out of having to place to... Read more »

Thursday, September 11 2008 | 20:04 H

First Poem Since...

I'm feeling a lot like Mala today, I just don't have any more words to talk about 9-11. That does not mean, however, that there isn't still a storm of unnameable feelings hidden away that I don't want to share.... Read more »

Thursday, September 11 2008 | 18:23 H

9-11 One Date : Multiple Tragedies

I thought of writing something new for this 7 year anniversary of 9-11-01 here in NYC and the 35 year anniversary since the U.S. backed military coup in Chile, but I've said everything before and nothing has really changed. The... Read more »

Thursday, September 11 2008 | 08:06 H

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