I am a women.
I am a Latina.
I am a feminist.
I am working class.
I like Hilliary Clinton.
I am voting for Barack Obama in the primary. Barack Obama is the best candidate for women, latinas, feminists and the working class.
March 2008 Archives
If you rant and rave about you being Latino or the Afro-Latino connection, then you have to accept your WHITE heritage as well.
European coloni(z)ation of Latin America resulted in a dramatic shift from a native American population to a largely mixed one, a genetic study has shown. It suggests male European settlers mated with native and African women, and slaughtered the men.
Cross-posted at Telling Stories
Well, the other shoe has finally dropped for Anibal Acevedo Vilá:
Puerto Rico's governor and four Philadelphians, including prominent fund-raiser Robert M. Feldman, were charged this morning in San Juan with federal campaign-finance related crimes, according to a Justice Department official in Washington.
The investigation of Gov. Anibal Acevedo-Vila, a Democrat who faces re-election this year, was triggered by the FBI's Philadelphia City Hall corruption probe in 2003.
Acevedo-Vila, who has called the investigation politically inspired, was expected to surrender to federal authorities and appear before a federal magistrate in San Juan later today.
This is the same guy who got elected partially on a promise of clean, transparent government.
Riiiiiight . . .
Yes, hate is a strong word. Yes, I am a male myself. But, you hombres need to take care of your own:
"In the past ten years the birth rate among unmarried Latinas has risen from 89 to 100 per 1,000."
I like this post over at SoundTaste entitled "Dominican Women Rock." Take pride in yourself people. Follow the links for a grand finale of photos!
Look at what Wonkette says concerning Argentinian teenagers in their town, who filmed a weird looking figure while sitting around talking.
Argentina is not in Mexico, so they are not Mexican. Illegals? They are illegal in their own country?!? ....Smack!
This sidling wicket goblin, who is terrorizing Argentinian Mexicans, made one teenager "so scared after seeing that thing that we had to take him to the hospital."...Hmm... a hobbit gnome terrorizing illegals? This is no mystery at all.
I smelled a rat after I read too many headlines and refused to support any other book, any news, any interview, any book, any article, any columnist...any'ting.
It was all a dream, I used to read Word Up magazine
Salt'n'Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine
Hanging pictures on my wall
Every Saturday, "Rap Attack," Mr. Magic, Marley Marl
I let my tape rock 'til my tape popped
Smoking weed and bamboo, sipping on private stock
Way back, when I had the red and black lumberjack
with the hat to match
Remember Rappin' Duke? "Duh-ha, duh-ha"
You never thought that hip-hop would take it this far
Now I'm in the limelight 'cause I rhyme tight
Time to get paid, blow up like the ("World Trade")
Born sinner, the opposite of a winner
Remember when I used to eat sardines for dinner
Peace to Ron G, Brucey B, Kid Capri
Funkmaster Flex, Lovebug Starsky
I'm blowing up like you thought I would
Call the crib, same number same hood, it's all good
Uh, and if you don't know, now you know, nigga
- B.I.G.
Los héroes están cansados (the heroes are tired).
Creepy Gnome in South America (link has video footage).
I thought NY was a Democratic State?!? Politicians need to leave the citizens alone. This is censorship! In an email:
On Tuesday, March 11th the New York State Senate Codes Committee approved legislation (S.66) which will force Internet Service Providers like AOL, Google and MSN to block their customers from accessing lawful Internet poker Web sites and other gaming on the Internet. This Bill can be voted on by the full State Senate as early as Monday, March 17th!
This is a direct assault by the New York State Senate to censure your rights to access the Internet to play poker or similar games in the comfort and security of your own home.
Please call Sen. Jeffrey D Klein at
(518) 455-3595
if you haven't already.
Tell them:
- I am voter in your district and a poker player
- I strongly oppose S.66 because it restricts the free flow of information and services over the Internet
- New York should not follow the example of repressive countries that censor the activities of their citizens on the Internet.
- Please vote NO on S.66
With your help we can stop this outrageous bill. Please call your Senator TODAY!
Damn Republicans; this is a Democratic state!
These days are filled with posts that are fewer than plenty. Only a few weeks behind, and I feel that I've missed a world of events. Anyway, I usually title this 'Latino Tidbits,' but these articles are not so Latino. Enjoy.
Majikthise titles her post "Sex and taxes: How Spitzer allegedly got caught." Allegedly. You mean nobody knew about this all this time? Better would be "Who did Spitzer piss-off?"
An immigration lawyer's home was approached by ICE officers who then demanded entry and threatened force.
Tree Jewlery?
Bloglines is the feedreader I use. It's cool because it is web-based and I can check it from any internet access point. One thing that sucks about it is that it maxes out to 200 unread posts.
Majikthise titles her post "Sex and taxes: How Spitzer allegedly got caught." Allegedly. You mean nobody knew about this all this time? Better would be "Who did Spitzer piss-off?"
An immigration lawyer's home was approached by ICE officers who then demanded entry and threatened force.
Tree Jewlery?
Bloglines is the feedreader I use. It's cool because it is web-based and I can check it from any internet access point. One thing that sucks about it is that it maxes out to 200 unread posts.
Didn't see this one coming:
Oh well, baby steps . . .
Of course, not even the NY Times can get its facts straight about Puerto Rico.SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Seizing on a rare opportunity to influence U.S. politics, Puerto Rico's Democratic Party has chosen to hold a presidential primary instead of a caucus to encourage more islanders to participate in the June 1 contest, an official said Friday.
Roberto Prats, party chairman in the U.S. territory, said the switch approved Thursday by the central committee will put pressure on Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama to campaign in the Caribbean island.
With 55 delegate votes at stake, Puerto Rico will hold one of the last primaries -- followed only by Montana and South Dakota -- and could play an influential role in a tight race.
''If Puerto Rico is going to play such a significant role, we should give the world a showcase of democracy,'' Prats said. ''We know how to vote, we vote in masses and I think it's Puerto Rico's show time.''
The island has seven superdelegates among its 62 convention votes. Three of the superdelegates are committed to Clinton, two to Obama, and two are uncommitted.
Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens, but they cannot vote in the general presidential election and have no voting representation in Congress.Which is inaccurate. An accurate statement would have been "Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens, but while in Puerto Rico they cannot vote in the general presidential election and Puerto Rico has no voting representation in Congress."
Oh well, baby steps . . .
One issue any type of immigration reform must address is the inadequate number of persons responsible for implementing immigration policy and enforcing immigration laws. Fences - real or virtual - won't do. Paths to citizenship won't do. Driver licenses won't do. If you want to encourage legal immigration, you must put forth an immigration system that allows immigrants to enter and stay in the country legally while ensuring that those documented immigrants are not a threat to national security.
This must be done to avoid a mess like this:
This must be done to avoid a mess like this:
Exactly one year after federal agents burst into a New Bedford factory and arrested 361 immigrant workers, about half of those arrested are still here, an outcome that is raising concerns on both sides of the heated immigration divide.
The raid whiplashed the city, drew criticism from state and federal authorities, and captured national attention for separating some parents from their children. Now, the plodding aftermath is prompting new questions about the effectiveness of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's raid.
Emphasis added. How many are still in the U.S.? About 200. Why?
Most of those who remain are fighting deportation, but 10 have been allowed to stay for various reasons.
Sounds reasonable enough.Federal officials said that they had sent 165 people back to their homelands, mainly Guatemala and El Salvador, and that 12 of those went voluntarily.
The nation's top immigration official, Julie Myers, defended the outcome of the raid during a press conference in Boston yesterday, saying it was "perfectly appropriate" for immigrants to fight their cases in court.
"I'm confident that at the end of the day, once the immigration judges make their rulings . . . that those individuals will then be removed," Myers said.
But lawyers for immigrants say they believe dozens of people will qualify for asylum or other relief, some because they fear political violence or gangs in their homeland. Over the past year, lawyers said, they have interviewed the detainees, mostly women, and unearthed chilling stories of assaults, rapes, and killings that occurred during the decades-long conflicts in El Salvador and Guatemala.
Emphasis added. Now, you know there's something wrong with the immigration system when it cannot even adjudicate cases that appear to warrant consideration for asylum.
Because hearings are being scheduled into next year, many former Bianco workers are struggling to scrape by as they wait. Some are living with friends or relatives.
So these people will be in legal limbo for two to three years. I'm not advocating immediate residency for immigrants, documented or otherwise, but the system must move faster than this.
Some of those who were deported have slipped back into the United States illegally to rejoin their families. . . Some immigrants caught at Bianco have simply gone back to work elsewhere.
Hardly a "happily ever after" ending.
We're way past due on having comprehensive immigration reform. Otherwise, we'll keep throwing good money after bad relying on a useless system to enforce our immigration laws.
There are a lot of persistent comments about Clinton and Obama (especially anti-Obama) from people w/ agendas or whatever; at first they were good, but now they are annoying as hell, because they comment about the same thing on different posts that have nothing to do with the topic, or keep posting blocks and blocks of paragraphs, and keep rambling on and on and on and on...hey listen, if you have that much to say and are THAT adamant about getting your message across, stop bombarding this site with your organization's politics (yes, we know about you guys), or your own personal mission, and get your own damn soapboxes.
I never thought I'd take a liking to Geraldo Rivera...
Sorry to have been gone so long, but I have to break this silence for a cool Obama video:
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