Sunday, October 18, 2009
La Lucha Sigue!!!
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ATTENTION LIVINGSTON
RESIDENTS!!!
Let your voices be heard!
Speak out AGAINST the water AND garbage
rates
AT THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING
THIS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2009
07:00PM, 1416 C St.
STOP THE INCREASES NOW!
MEET OUTSIDE THE CITY CHAMBERS!
¡ATENCION RESIDENTES DE
LIVINGSTON!
¡Dejen que se escuchen sus voces!
Estamos CONTRA los aumentos del agua y
drenaje!
EN LA JUNTA DE LA CIUDAD
ESTE MARTES 20 OCTUBRE 2009
06:30PM, 1416 C St.
ALTO A LOS AUMENTOS AHORA!
¡NOS REUNIREMOS AFUERA DE LA CAMARA
DEL CONCILIO!
ATENÇÃO RESIDENTES DE
LIVINGSTON!
Deixe ouvir suas voces!
Fale CONTRA os aumentos de água e
drenagem
NA REUNIÃO DE CIDADE
ESTA TERÇA-FEIRA EL 20 OUTUBRO 2009
06:30PM, 1416 C St.
PARE OS AUMENTOS AGORA!
NÓS REUNIREMOS FORA DAS CÂMARAS
DE CONSELHO!
Monday, October 5, 2009
Water Rally in Livingston
ATTENTION ALL LIVINGSTON RESIDENTS!
RALLY AGAINST THE HIGH WATER AND GARBAGE RATES!!!
STOP THE INCREASES!
THIS TUESDAY 06 OCTOBER 2009
06:00PM
MEET AT VETERAN’S PARK
(CORNER OF MAIN ST & PARK ST)
Friday, October 2, 2009
The saddest day in rock en español llegó
Estamos, sobre todo, agradecidos de todas las personas que nos han ayudado durante estos años: Carlos Barros, Carlos Fonseca, Francisco Anwandter, Leo Marín, nuestros amigos en Triana -Claudius Rieth y Chalo González-, en el Sello Azul y Sello Oveja Negra-Carlos Salazar, ..Marcelo Mardones.., Loreto León, ..Gema Sirandoni..- y, por supuesto, nuestros amigos y familias. Sin ellos no hubiese existido gran parte de lo que hicimos. También los que participaron en Teleradio Donoso desde adentro: Cristóbal Fredes, Marcos Meza, Nacho Aedo (y antes Rafael Casanova, Simón Cox y Francisco Vargas); todos ellos fueron parte esencial a la música del grupo. Y nuestros amigos que trabajaron en la parte audiovisual: Francisco Anwandter, Ignacio Rojas y Christopher Murray, Diego Adrián, Paulina Giustinianovich, Pablo Núñez quienes hicieron los videos y fotos que formaron parte de nuestro trabajo.
Finalmente, lo más importante, queremos agradecer a toda la gente que nos escuchó, nuestros amigos y fans. Ojalá que se queden, como nosotros, no con la falta del grupo sino con la música que hicimos y con el recuerdo de haberlo pasado bien juntos. También nos gustaría hacer una mención especial a nuestro club de fans, que nos acompañó desde el principio, ayudándonos y apoyándonos siempre.
Nos despedimos con un abrazo y esperamos verlos a todos pronto.
Alex, Martín y Juan Pablo.
I love Alex. Teleradio donoso 4 vida.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Friday, January 16, 2009
Música: Empowerment.
I was watching Telehit the other day and I saw this [I hate that this word is overused, but...] eclectic, simple simple music, but it was charming...the band "Hello Seahorse!"...they made me smile without me realizing it until the last chord was strummed...Upon googling 'em [What ever happened to altavista, ask punto com, and all those search engines?], I ran into this amazing blog that weblogs amazing [word count: II] music from "Latin America"....Go out and there check it.
...I already found a band that makes me smile. It's not loud, it's not overtly revolutionary...I enjoy its quiet simplicity. It's very much journal-writing music, hammack laying one...
Viva la música!
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Random thought...
That to call yourself latina/o is to be without a country, to be without a nation, to be without a past, but to live in the present of interchangement."
Mo' to come.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Música: Now
Elis Paprika [Guada, Jalisco, MX]:
Los Concorde [DF]:
Mothora [Guada, Jalisco, MX]:
Playa Limbo [Guada, Jalisco, MX]:
Pambo [DF]:
Maria Daniela y su sonido lasser [DF]:
Jesse Y Joy [DF]:
& from Chile:
Francisca Valenzuela [Santiago]:
Kudai [Santiago]:
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After writing the "Música: Empowerment"...I felt that I needed to revisit this post...while, I enjoy all the aforementioned artists [& I own/sing out loud to them], they're very much mainstreamed and Myspace-able [I mean, they have actual, physical CDs out, purchaseable]. Check 'em out, but also check out the independents out there...
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Don't blame us. part II.
Anyguey, the folks o'er at San Pancho keep bringing up "El Ocho" [which I am so 8ver, I mean over]. Today, they posted this interesting articulo sobre Blacks, gays, and the "fallout" [gotta love the word usage! & their operationalizing].
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Don't blame us.
In any case, I'm still a lil' bitter...well, it's added bitterness that I have towards that/my community(ies). Irksome, indeed. Damn the rhetoric! I suggest however the read this article about the myths and truths exposed about who voted for/against the aforementioned proposition.
Don't blame us. White people voted for it to pass, tambien. Let's dialogue across/between causes. & work proactively together.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Monday, November 3, 2008
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Sunday, November 2, 2008
1968 v 2008
"A conservative in 1968 was far more liberal than a liberal is in 2008."
It's v true.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
La prop del 8.
No on 8. Where is the progress?
Monday, October 13, 2008
The silent elephant in the debate room
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Fallece lider campesino, Ramiro Guillén Tapia, en Jalapa, VZ
¡Qué viva! En español y en ingles.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
"If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself."
[No mo' Palin-ness...I'm trying, I'm trying].
PD. When is immigration going to come up in the debates?!?! We are ALL aware of the economy, but what about us immigrants?!?!
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Sunday, September 14, 2008
SNL is brillz.
Tina Fey got it down.
And another interesting read from Nueva York Tiempos re: Palin and her (super sketchy) rise to "governor." Such the Paris Hilton of politicians. I wish I had been her high school classmate; then I would have a nicely paid job. & another one from columnist Dowd:
"I’ve been in Alaska only a week, but I’m already feeling ever so much smarter about Russia.
I can’t quite see it from my hotel window, but, hey, I know it’s out there somewhere, beyond all the stuffed bears and cruise ships and glaciers and oil derricks."
I once flew Alaska Airlines, I guess I should be a diplomat for all Russia-Alaska affairs.
& one from SFGate. Willie Brown begins his op-ed with: "For first time in modern history, a presidential race is actually going to be decided by the vice presidential pick." So (unfortunately) true.
FYI, (I think) I will stop posting Palin-related posts. Or, at least, keep it down to a minimum.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Gracias Newsweek!
Here ya go:
Re: Secession of Alaska & the Independent Party, Newsweek says this:
"She was never a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, a group that wants Alaskans to vote on whether they wish to secede from the United States. She's been registered as a Republican since May 1982."
& more:
"Palin was never a member of the Alaskan Independence Party – which calls for a vote on whether Alaska should secede from the union or remain a state – despite mistaken reports to the contrary. But her husband was a member for years, and she attended at least one party convention, as mayor of the town in which it was held.
The party's chair originally told reporters that Palin had been a member, but the official later retracted that statement. Chairwoman Lynette Clark told the New York Times that false information had been given to her by another member of the party after she first told the Times and others that Palin joined the AIP in 1994. Clark issued an apology on the AIP Web site.
The director of Alaska's Division of Elections, Gail Fenumiai, confirms that Palin registered to vote in the state for the first time in May 1982 as a Republican and hasn't changed her party affiliation since. She also told FactCheck.org that Palin's husband, Todd, was registered with AIP from October 1995 to July 2000, and again from September 2000 until July 2002. (He has since been registered as undeclared.) However, the AIP says Todd Palin "never participated in any party activities aside from attending a convention in Wasilla at one time.""
& there you have it...for now.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
"More than a Google Internet search"
A few excerpts I enjoyed de la Sra. Palin:
Title: "Palin: Wrong Woman, Wrong Message" by Steinem [04/09/2008]:
"Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Clinton." [¡Eso mero!]
"To vote in protest for McCain/Palin would be like saying, "Somebody stole my shoes, so I'll amputate my legs." "[" "]
"When asked last month about the vice presidency, [Palin] said, "I still can't answer that question until someone answers for me: What is it exactly that the VP does every day?" When asked about Iraq, she said, "I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq." " [What a great response!]
"[Palin] was elected governor largely because the incumbent was unpopular."
"McCain could have chosen a woman who knows what a vice president does and who has thought about Iraq; someone like Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison or Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine."
"[Palin] opposes just about every issue that women support by a majority or plurality."
Gotta love a smart, well-versed mujer. Steinem for VP [?].
Monday, September 1, 2008
Non-Mexican Chican@
Not a new idea, but it's something that I have been thinking about (otra vez recientemente): the influences/voices non-Mexican/individuals - who are not (self-identifying) Mexicans folks/scholars/academians/other bloggers types- possess are really shaping the direction(s) that Chican@ studies [as a recognized, but lightly weighted "academic discipline"] is going [the exact (e-)location is still up in the air].
True, the idea/label of Chican@s, many argue, is not based on nationality, but rather on a shared group of ideas (i.e. Asian nationals can self-identify as Chican@s).
True, the idea/label of Chican@, many argue, is pan-ethnic/racial for Latin@s (i.e. Cubans can self-identify as Chican@s). (But, be careful to call a Mexican national Chican@...they might not like that word...which is another topic of divide: Mexicans & Chican@s tensions).
But, just leafing through the "new," "in," "buzz-worthy" thoughts of Chican@ Studies, I can't help but notice that they are being spearheaded by non-Mexicans and bi/multiracial self-identifying Chican@s [Duke's Antonio Viego (of Cuban raíces); Berkeley' Juana Maria Rodriguez (of Cuban raíces)], who are younger scholars/academians/profes who are adding to the increasing canon of thought/ideas/etc.
Are they the nueva generación de Chican@s scholars?
True, that adds to the depth and layers of Chican@s on a macro-level, adding more, unique, different, compelling, critical, and important puntos de vistas.
Pero, que pasa con l@s Chican@s quien son mexican@s en el area de Chican@s Studies? Que pasara con sus/nuestra voces?
What would Yoya Anzaldúa say? Her and her border politics? (Do they still resonate in this hyper globalized e-world?)
I argue that we are living, in 2008-& on, in a post-Chican@ society. We need new terms that can help us understand (better) our identities. Chican@ isn't doing it anymore (whatever it is).
To be continued...
Next blogs: light-skinned Chican@s; Chican@s & elitism; Chican@s & exclusivity: Chican@s & Mexicans tensions
Equis with the Tina Fey & Megan Mullaly comparisons...
Thanks to all the news outlet (¡Gracias NYTiempos!)...we get more information about Sarah Palin-Fey/Mullally.
-17-year old hija, Bristol (Muy cute name), is 5-months pregnant with a child (out of wedlock)
-Sra. Palin was a member for two years in the 1990s of the Alaska Independence Party, which has at times wanted Alaska (not the campy chica of the 80s) to secede
-22 years ago, Sra. Palin was arrested for drunk driving (¡Q peda!)
About the choice:
"They [The VP committee] didn’t seriously consider [Sra. Palin] until four or five days from the time she was picked, before she was asked, maybe the Thursday or Friday before,” said a Republican close to the campaign. “This was really kind of rushed at the end, because John didn’t get what he wanted. He wanted to do Joe [Lieberman] or [Tom] Ridge."
¡Y más!
The current mayor of Wasilla, Dianne M. Keller, said she had not heard of any efforts to look into Sra. Palin’s background.
...Interesting choice.
"Don't know how I feel about that."
Update (02/09):
From the LATiempos:
"One Republican strategist with close ties to the campaign described the candidate's closest supporters as "keeping their fingers crossed" in hopes that additional information does not force McCain to revisit the decision. According to this Republican, who would discuss internal campaign strategizing only on condition of anonymity, the McCain team used little more than a Google Internet search as part of a rushed effort to review Palin's potential pitfalls. Just over a week ago, Palin was not on McCain's short list of potential running mates, the Republican said."
Thanks google for helping out McCain!
con paz.