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I just found a cool travel forum about [Mexico]

The end of innocence in our Latino culture , after reading about sex in the city or should i say whores in the city  and how some women feel empowered by the show and know [Movie]  i found myself thinking if this whole [sex in the city] trash empowers women or men? id say it empowers men more then anything else becouse at the end of the day men will never pass-up a piece of ass. and if women feels empowered because they are being used for that moment , then feel proud of your stanky self. Continue reading »

Microsoft Inspires U.S. Hispanics to Live the Vida Digital Latina

At 44 million (1), Hispanics in the United States are now America’s largest minority (2). Comprising more than 14 percent (3) of the entire population, recent growth has seen their numbers grow by 25 percent between 2000 and 2006 (4) alone (accounting for more than half the nation’s overall population growth during this time (5)). By 2050, Latinos are expected to make up 29 percent of the US populace (6). Continue reading »

 Idaho student says teacher tossed his Mexican flag in trash

A high school student says he may file a lawsuit against a physical education teacher who took a Mexican flag he had brought for Cinco de Mayo and put it in the garbage.

Clint Straatman denies Froylan Camelo’s version of events but said he took the flag Monday because “white kids” might have hurt the 16-year-old. He said he put it in a garbage can because he had no place else to keep it.

Camelo said he was changing into gym clothes at Minico High School in Rupert when Straatman told him, “Give me the flag.”

“I said, ‘What’s the problem?’” Camelo, speaking in Spanish, told The Times-News of Twin Falls. “He said, ‘The problem is that we are in the United States and not in Mexico.’ He grabbed it from me. He threw the flag in the garbage can.”

At the end of May 1971, more than 600 Chicanas met in Houston, Texas, to hold the first national conference of Raza women. For those of us who were there it was clear that this conference was not just another national gathering of the Chicano movement.

Chicanas came from all parts of the country inspired by the prospect of discussing issues that have long been on their minds and which they now see not as individual problems but as an important and integral part of a movement for liberation.

The resolutions coming out of the two largest workshops, “Sex and the Chicana” and “Marriage - Chicana Style,” called for “free, legal abortions and birth control for the Chicano community, controlled by Chicanas.” As Chicanas, the resolution stated, “we have a right to control our own bodies.” The resolutions also called for “24-hour child-care centers in Chicano communities” and explained that there is a critical need for these since “Chicana motherhood should not preclude educational, political, social and economic advancement.”

While these resolutions articulated the most pressing needs of Chicanas today, the conference as a whole reflected a rising consciousness of the Chicana about her special oppression in this society.

With their growing involvement in the struggle for Chicano liberation and the emergence of the feminist movement, Chicanas are beginning to challenge every social institution which contributes to and is responsible for their oppression, from inequality on the job to their role in the home. They are questioning “machismo,” discrimination in education, the double standard, the role of the Catholic Church, and all the backward ideology designed to keep women subjugated.

This growing awareness was illustrated by a survey taken at the Houston conference. Reporting on this survey, an article in the Los Angeles magazine Regeneracion stated: “84% felt that they were not encouraged to seek professional careers and that higher education is not considered important for Mexican women . . . 84% agreed that women do not receive equal pay for equal work.” The article continued: “On one question they were unanimous. When asked: Are married women and mothers who attend school expected to also do the housework, be responsible for child-care, cook and do the laundry while going to school, 100% said yes. 88% agreed that a social double standard exists.”1 The women were also asked if they felt that there was discrimination toward them within La Raza: 72% said yes, none said no and 28% voiced no opinion.

Get Ready for the Official Launch of MySpace Latino April 11th Miami, FL With Tego Calderon+ Circo+ Locos Por Juana and a Specail Guest Doors Open at 8:30 and the show begins at 9:00PM Sharp.

This is a FREE event. find out what you have to do to get it!!

Emilio Navaira’s Car Crash

Emilio Navaira’s doctor Alex Valadkain announced yesterday that Navaira is doing about as well as can be expected after undergoing two surgeries for a massive head injury since his bus accident Sunday morning.Tejano star Navaira’s survival chances improving ,Tejano Singer Navaira Hurt in Bus Crash.

 (Here’s coverage from the gay angle at Sergay.com, in Spanish.)

In Queretaro on March 15, a week after the first anti-emo incident nationally, emos and others staged a silent march for peace and tolerance

“Vamos a encontrarnos en las calles para que aprendan a no estar donde no merecen”. [laopinion.com]

Violencia Contra emos En Mexico - [mexico/violencia-contra-emos-en-mexico/14]

and the idiots at MTV asks Are They Trying to Kill Emo Kids in Mexico?

They Dont Like “EMOS” IN Mexico - [EMOS]

A Mexican immigrant, of 62 years, Suing the company International House of Pancakes (IHOP) and one of his tax exemptions, against which she accused it to have discriminated by his age when she was dismissed to October. Ricardo Hernandez, original of Tonaya, Jalisco,Mexico said that it worked like cook by 35 years for a restaurant IHOP in the city of Orange.

Nevertheless, it asserted that, to complain that the extra hours did not pay to him appropriately that worked, was harassed by the proprietor of the restaurant that said to him that already he was very old to work. Continue reading »

“Probably in October, September/October…I want my babies to be proud of me,” Lopez told People magazine.

The new mom said she already lost much of the weight that she gained during her pregnancy, but insists she is in no hurry to loose it all. Lopez said she is enjoying her babies right now.
Celebrities are loco.