a new Loop
so this a bit interesting to me..
The Latino Loop - an online, email-zine (did I just make that word up, I do that so much jaja) which usually sends out music & entertainement news for the Latin Alternative / Sanish rock (et al) community - had this massive amount of political news today.. miren abajo.
Seems like someone on the other side of the keyboard & screen had a heavy dose of political education.. ? Readers (me) are not complaining.
Maybe is because the office that puts it together is now sponsoring the Latin American tour of radical artist Manu Chao, and is being influenced by his politics & ideas..?
Well - that would be..erhm.. pretty cool.
From the loop:
In a landmark case for women’s rights in Mexico, a judge will award a rape victim a settlement for not being allowed an abortion. The law allows an abortion only in the case of rape or women whose lives are at risk, but various obstacles and red-tape usually prevent the abortion. The rape took place six years ago when the victim was just 13 years old. She will be awarded $40,000 and will receive a government stipend for her child’s education.
Manu Chao performed last week in Havana as part of his first Latin American tour in six years. He played to a crowd of tens of thousands of Cuban fans at the Jose Marti Anti-Imperialist Tribune and in response to Chao’s openly anti-Bush, anti-imperialist perspective, the U.S. American Interests building flashed messages on an electronic billboard. One message played off of the lyrics to his song “Mentira” flashing the message, “Welcome to Cuba Manu Chao! Everything in this world is a lie and for that reason many Cubans are waiting for the last wave.”
Leonida Zurita Vargas, a Bolivian coca farm organizer who was scheduled as the keynote speaker for the “Winds of Change Conference” last Sunday in Vermont, found out that her visa was revoked due to alleged terrorist ties as she prepared to board a plane for the U.S. Back in 2003, Zurita was accused of being a terrorist by then president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada and spent some time in a Cochabamba jail before she was eventually released for lack of evidence. Conference organizers were working to get her visa renewed, but if that failed Zurita was prepared to participate via telephone.
The National Council of La Raza reported last week that the federal government and the American Red Cross are unprepared to serve the needs of Latinos in the event of a disaster. Of the 230,000 Latinos affected by Hurricane Katrina, many were unable to get to shelters, including U.S. residents who were mistaken for undocumented immigrants and therefore denied FEMA assistance. Some undocumented immigrants were slated for deportation when they sought aid.
The U.S. Military has focused its recruiting efforts heavily on Latino youth with Hispanic enlistments on the rise, while enlistment among other ethnicities has dropped in recent years. Bilingual recruiters have a strong presence in high schools and counter-recruitment movements like the Aztec Warrior Project for Peace have begun popping up to educate Hispanic youth on the risks of military service.
The Latino Loop - an online, email-zine (did I just make that word up, I do that so much jaja) which usually sends out music & entertainement news for the Latin Alternative / Sanish rock (et al) community - had this massive amount of political news today.. miren abajo.
Seems like someone on the other side of the keyboard & screen had a heavy dose of political education.. ? Readers (me) are not complaining.
Maybe is because the office that puts it together is now sponsoring the Latin American tour of radical artist Manu Chao, and is being influenced by his politics & ideas..?
Well - that would be..erhm.. pretty cool.
From the loop:
In a landmark case for women’s rights in Mexico, a judge will award a rape victim a settlement for not being allowed an abortion. The law allows an abortion only in the case of rape or women whose lives are at risk, but various obstacles and red-tape usually prevent the abortion. The rape took place six years ago when the victim was just 13 years old. She will be awarded $40,000 and will receive a government stipend for her child’s education.
Manu Chao performed last week in Havana as part of his first Latin American tour in six years. He played to a crowd of tens of thousands of Cuban fans at the Jose Marti Anti-Imperialist Tribune and in response to Chao’s openly anti-Bush, anti-imperialist perspective, the U.S. American Interests building flashed messages on an electronic billboard. One message played off of the lyrics to his song “Mentira” flashing the message, “Welcome to Cuba Manu Chao! Everything in this world is a lie and for that reason many Cubans are waiting for the last wave.”
Leonida Zurita Vargas, a Bolivian coca farm organizer who was scheduled as the keynote speaker for the “Winds of Change Conference” last Sunday in Vermont, found out that her visa was revoked due to alleged terrorist ties as she prepared to board a plane for the U.S. Back in 2003, Zurita was accused of being a terrorist by then president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada and spent some time in a Cochabamba jail before she was eventually released for lack of evidence. Conference organizers were working to get her visa renewed, but if that failed Zurita was prepared to participate via telephone.
The National Council of La Raza reported last week that the federal government and the American Red Cross are unprepared to serve the needs of Latinos in the event of a disaster. Of the 230,000 Latinos affected by Hurricane Katrina, many were unable to get to shelters, including U.S. residents who were mistaken for undocumented immigrants and therefore denied FEMA assistance. Some undocumented immigrants were slated for deportation when they sought aid.
The U.S. Military has focused its recruiting efforts heavily on Latino youth with Hispanic enlistments on the rise, while enlistment among other ethnicities has dropped in recent years. Bilingual recruiters have a strong presence in high schools and counter-recruitment movements like the Aztec Warrior Project for Peace have begun popping up to educate Hispanic youth on the risks of military service.
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