Violencia Entries
12 de Mayo, 2008
Earthquake in China
Categorized under Planeta , Violencia | Tags: China, Environment, Mother Nature
IT IS GETTING HARD not to mention dispiriting to keep track of the horrific natural disasters unfolding around the world. Over 900 students buried alive in China, at last estimate. Updates are claiming 9000 dead. 7.8 earthquake.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Shut Softly Your Watery Eyes
Categorized under Chinga la Chota , Violencia | Tags: African Americans, Elle Carmichael, Missing Persons, New York City, Police Racism, Race, Romona Moore, White Supremacy
THIS IS THE STORY of a straight-A student who might still be alive if one of her achievements had not been being dark of hue...or if she lived in world where police didn't find that a trait marking her as worth less love and care.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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9 de Mayo, 2008
Our Death Will Be Inside Our Homes
Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Guerra , Iraq the Casbah , Parenting , Política Estados Unidos , Violencia | Tags: Iraq, The Petroleum Wars, War, War Crimes, war on terror
AND IN THE LAND THAT FLOATS UPON OIL, U.S. Forces and their subordinates are murdering the children of Iraq at the fastest rate possible. Though it's not quite fast or deadly enough to save them from the looming WMDs that endanger them all—the ones that required our military to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Three Gods, An Ocean of Blood, and a Sodden Press
Categorized under Religión , Violencia | Tags: Format, Jeremiah Wright, Jerry Falwell, John Hagee, Race, Race in Media, racism, religion
THERE IS SOMETHING profoundly lacking from the discussion of Hagee the Vitriolic and Falwell the Freakish vs. Wright the Black Pantheresque. I've listened to both of the soundbytes, and even to the full sermons that Wright gave. Te ones that were, of course, chopped down to a sentence or two... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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5 de Mayo, 2008
Cyclone Toll Rising
Categorized under Planeta , Violencia | Tags: Environment, Myanmar/Tibet, Nature
TALK ABOUT people who did not live to see this day. Wow. This is horrible. The death toll from the devastating cyclone in Myanmar over the weekend escalated to nearly 4000 people on Monday, with thousands of others still missing and at least one entire village wiped out, state television... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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28 de Abril, 2008
When Blackness Approaches Power
Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 , Religión , Violencia | Tags: African Americans, Anti-Arab, Blacks, Christianism, Hillary Clinton, hypocrisy, Jeremiah Wright, race, racism, religion
THE CONTINUED hypocritical attacks on Jeremiah Wright and Obama's name are disgustingly racist. Period. And the more I hear of this Pastor vato, the more I like him. Speaking the National Press Club in Washington on Monday, [Pastor Jeremiah] Wright called the recent criticism surrounding his sermons "an attack on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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25 de Abril, 2008
Fick Die Polizei
Categorized under Chinga la Chota , Violencia | Tags: Justicia, Police Brutality, racism, Sean Bell
NOT THAT I'M EXACTLY SURPRISED that la chota got off after emptying clips into unarmed black youth, but I needed to pop in to link to this post today in honor of Sean Bell. Three detectives were acquitted of all charges Friday in the 50-shot killing of an unarmed groom-to-be... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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18 de Abril, 2008
Sueños Rotos [Broken Dreams]
Categorized under Frontera , Música , Raza , Violencia | Tags: borders, migra, misogyny, Que Viva Las Mujeres, YouTube
THE BORDER is a tearstained sieve that traps pain and violence and visits it upon the weakest and poorest in our economy and society. It is a valve that shunts cash one way, and blood the other. Until it is torn down and a more modern, humane, holistic, and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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17 de Abril, 2008
Open Threadito
Categorized under Acción , Derechos Humanos , Latin America , Oaxaca , Violencia | Tags: Burger King, Chevron, Democrats, Ecuador, Farming, Mexico, misogyny, Oaxaca, Power to the People, Radio
O, IF ONLY blogging paid me enough to spend the hours writing here I'd love to. It does not. And yet, there are so many things to talk about between us, and that help inform in such important ways. Burger King, for one thing, who sees "no legal way"... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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15 de Abril, 2008
King Rat the Corpse Rancher
Categorized under Acción , Closing in on Bush , Política Estados Unidos , Violencia | Tags: bush, putos, Torture, War Crimes
I SAID I'D WRITE ON TORTURE today, as the Gross W. MoronTerror has recently admitted—using his typical "YGAFPWT"* methodology of confronting accusations of his violating the social contract—that he has signed off on the torturing of humans. A brief comment to mark yet one more slimy, sleazy, slipped notch... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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25 de Marzo, 2008
Vigil (to End the War) - [MTV Vid 3-25-08]
Categorized under Arte , Artivism , Guerra , Iraq the Casbah , MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Política Estados Unidos , Protesta , Violencia | Tags: Citizen Journalism, Eugene, Iraq, MoveOn, MTV, Oregon, Protest, War Crimes, war on terror
ON THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY of the Iraq Invasion, MoveOn held vigils all over the country at the same time. This video commemorates and captures the public vigil held in Eugene, Oregon to call for an end to the Iraq Occupation. The latest video for my MTV Citizen Journalist gig.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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19 de Marzo, 2008
Tazing Eugene [MTV vlog 3-19-08]
Categorized under Artivism , Ley , MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Violencia | Tags: Citizen Journalism, Criminal Justice System, Eugene, Iraq, MTV, Oregon, Police Brutality, Police State, Street Team 08, Veterans
MY LATEST vid for MTV Citizen Journalist Land is introduced here, and viewable here.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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10 de Marzo, 2008
Fair N Balanced® Pt. 37
Categorized under Violencia | Tags: Format, Latino, The White Lens
THE MASS MEDIA makes sure we are kept safe and aware of the dangers that threaten. A woman who parked her car at a shopping center in the Egger Highlands neighborhood of San Diego was carjacked about 2:10 p.m. Sunday, police said. The 57-year-old woman had parked her vehicle in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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3 de Marzo, 2008
Dangerous Sexagenerian Shackled
Categorized under Chinga la Chota , Violencia | Tags: Dorothy Tillman, Police Brutality
Tillman, 60, had attended a funeral Saturday morning for civil rights icon Johnnie Carr and took her aunt to the hospital that evening. Security staff were called over the records dispute, and they in turn called police, hospital spokesman Peter Frohmader said Sunday. [...] Tillman said she was arrested... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Three Missiles Interrogate Albert
Categorized under Terrorizing la Gente , Violencia | Tags: Imperialism, Somalia, The Petroleum Wars
TERRORISTS STRIKE SOMALIA. MOGADISHU, Somalia - Pentagon officials said Monday the United States launched an air strike in Somalia to go after a terrorist suspect. In the strike early Monday, Somali police said three missiles hit a Somali town held by Islamic extremists, destroying a home and seriously injuring... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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26 de Febrero, 2008
Angry White Man Voting Bloc Demands Recognition. Finally.
Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Humor , Race for '08 , Sexismo , Violencia | Tags: Blacks, brown pride, China, hypocrisy, India, indigenous, InhuMen Behavior, misogyny, putos, racism, satire, The Violent Majority, White Power, White Supremacy
POR SUPUESTO, we knew it was only a matter of time before the Angry White Man began to feel pouty because he was being forced to watch a political contest between—of all people—a black man and a woman! As if we aren't bombarded with images of black men and women... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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13 de Febrero, 2008
Better Red Than Dead
Categorized under Guerra , Once de Septiembre , Violencia | Tags: propaganda, September 11
On the morning of 9 February 2004, The New York Times carried an exclusive and alarming story. The paper's Baghdad correspondent, Dexter Filkins, reported that US officials had obtained a 17-page letter, believed to have been written by the notorious terrorist Abu Musab al Zarqawi to the "inner circle"... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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11 de Febrero, 2008
Reign of McCain
Categorized under Guerra , Humor , Iran , Iraq the Casbah , Medios , Música , Violencia | Tags: John McCain, putos, war on terror, YouTube
YOU REMEMBER THIS? Here is the McCain version. Funnnny. In a scary kind of way!... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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7 de Febrero, 2008
Tornados
Categorized under Acción , Planeta , Violencia | Tags: Environment
HUNDREDS INJURED and at this time, 55 dead. Tornados in Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky, and Mississippi have taken the lives and homes of many. ATKINS, Ark. — Residents in five Southern states rose Wednesday to widespread clusters of destruction caused by an unusually ferocious winter tornado system. At least... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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31 de Enero, 2008
Something Stinks in Lima
Categorized under Chinga la Chota , Derechos Humanos , Violencia | Tags: Lima, Ohio, Police Brutality, racism
LIMA, Ohio — The air of Southside is foul-smelling and thick, filled with fumes from an oil refinery and diesel smoke from a train yard, with talk of riot and recrimination, and with angry questions: Why is Tarika Wilson dead? Why did the police shoot her baby? “This thing... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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28 de Enero, 2008
The Funny Thing About Gang-Rape
Categorized under Closing in on Bush , Violencia | Tags: bush, E.L. Doctorow, hypocrisy, Saudi Arabia
IN HONOR OF GEORGE W(ARMONGER) BUSH and his scheduled (and bound to be pathetic) Pseudo-State of the Union, I bring back what seems to have been one of Fugya's sunnier moments: contemplating the gangrape of a Saudi woman who was then sentenced to 200 lashes for being gangraped. You... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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25 de Enero, 2008
More FairNBalanced® News
Categorized under Guerra , Hipnotismo , Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos , Terrorizing la Gente , Violencia | Tags: hype, Mexico, mexico, war on terror
WITH ALL THE CASES of soldiers returning home and acting out on damaged souls and wartorn minds (a crime we must lay at the feet of our government which not only chose this war, but SOLD it, rammmmed it down our throats, and planned for it long ago), why... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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5 de Enero, 2008
The Executioner's Dilemma
Categorized under Drogas , Ley , Violencia | Tags: Criminal Justice System, Torture
SO...is torture okay under certain conditions? Or is torture, by nature, wrong? Because if torture is wrong, then why do we kill death row inmates with drugs that clearly provide torturous endings? And if we don't think torture is right, why is one of the drugs we inject them with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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The Story of Roderick Gamble and Silk Littlejohn
Categorized under Arte , Violencia | Tags: arte, Blacks, fotoshop, Hate Crime, Hope, Power to the People, racism, White Supremacy
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29 de Diciembre, 2007
The New Pretty Bird Woman House
Categorized under Corazón , Derechos Humanos , Violencia | Tags: hope, indigenous, Power to the People, Pretty Bird Woman House, Que Viva Las Mujeres, Souix
GRACIAS MIL, thanks so much to all here who gave something to help Pretty Bird Woman House, for they have reached their goal and can now buy the shelter!!! They got a big donation on Friday that took them over the top, and now the dream is a reality.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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19 de Diciembre, 2007
Fresh Fruit at Affordable Prices!
Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Frontera , Violencia | Tags: borders, Corporations, Farming, Florida, Hidden Costs Visible Savings, Migrant farmers
Three Florida fruit-pickers, held captive and brutalised by their employer for more than a year, finally broke free of their bonds by punching their way through the ventilator hatch of the van in which they were imprisoned. Once outside, they dashed for freedom. When they found sanctuary one recent... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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17 de Diciembre, 2007
La Migra Trying to Start War With México
Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Frontera , Gobierno , Planeta , Política Estados Unidos , Violencia | Tags: borders, migra, Power to the People
SAN DIEGO - The Border Patrol says its agents were attacked nearly 1,000 times during a one-year period along the Mexican border, typically by assailants hurling rocks, bottles and bricks. Now the agency is responding with tear gas and powerful, pepper-spray weapons, including firing into Mexico. The counteroffensive has... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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16 de Diciembre, 2007
KBR/Halliburton Rapeland Fest Interrupted by Scrutiny. Again.
Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Guerra , Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos , Terrorizing la Gente , Violencia | Tags: bush, halliburton, Iraq, KBR, war on terror
Congress is asking questions about another ex-employee of government contracting firm KBR who claims she was raped in Iraq. Letters to the Pentagon and the Justice Department today from Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. underscore congressional concern about a second alleged assault, this time of a woman from Florida who... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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11 de Diciembre, 2007
45 People Killed in Algiers Car Bombing
Categorized under Violencia | Tags: Pinochet, September 11, terrorism
THE ELEVENTH sure seems to be the day for bombing. It was not only the day the Towers were demolished in Manhattan, it was also the day General Pinochet launched his coup against the Chilean government in '73. "Suspicions quickly focused on"...Those darn suspicions! Always focusing themselves. I hope... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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9 de Diciembre, 2007
7 year old takes 6 slugs for mama
Categorized under Violencia | Tags: Alexis Goggins, Digg, Domestic Violence, racism
IT SHOULD NEVER have had to come to this, but a child (Alexis Goggins) has saved her mother's life from a crazy, murderous, ex-boyfriend by shielding her mother from a hail of bullets with her own body: A 7-year-old-girl is being hailed as an “angel from heaven” and a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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8 de Diciembre, 2007
Defending My Right to Blow You Away
Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Ley , Violencia | Tags: ALIENZ
WHEN COPS ARE PRESENT and you shoot a burglar in the back, you can get off saying it was "self defense." One little stipulation: the corpses need to have been those of brownskinned ALIENZ. *Note for the Nuance-Challenged: I hope you don't think I'm advocating burglary. But when the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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The Truth We Don't Seek
Categorized under Guerra , Hipnotismo , Iraq the Casbah , Medios , Violencia | Tags: Abu Ghraib, Iraq, Rumsfeld, Seymour Hersh, Torture
I TEND TO PAY attention to little human details. We communicate on so many levels that I find it very helpful to watch tics, eyeball choreography, the hands, the body, to listen closely to "trail-off" statements, to note associations made in topics, and so on. This doesn't mean you... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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4 de Diciembre, 2007
Who Benefits From a World of Terror?
Categorized under Iraq the Casbah , Violencia | Tags: bush, Hope, Iraq, Sadness, The Petroleum Wars, US Military
1. What has been bothering me this whole deployment is the brevity and formality in which the media handles the death of soldiers. It always goes, “PFC John Smith, Norman, Oklahoma, killed by enemy small arms fire in Baghdad. Assigned to 1/43 Engineers, Third Infantry Division.” What a crock to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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30 de Noviembre, 2007
Over There, Over Here
Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Violencia | Tags: Clinton, terrorism
BOMB-STRAPPED man holds Clinton campaign HQ hostage. Live video.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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26 de Noviembre, 2007
Repeated Tasering Shown to Cause Dementia
Categorized under Humor , Violencia | Tags: Police State, satire, Taser
PARIS (AFP) — Antoine di Zazzo says he has been 'tasered' more than 50 times and never felt the worse for the ordeal. One of the biggest Taser representatives outside the US base, Di Zazzo also gave a surprise blast of the stun gun to French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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18 de Noviembre, 2007
Bangladesh Cyclone Kills Thousands
Categorized under Planeta , Violencia | Tags: Bangladesh, Mother Nature
CYCLONE IN BANGLADESH kills thousands. UPATE Sun 17:24 PST: 2200 confirmed deaths, over 10,000 feared dead. Rescuers struggled to reach hundreds of thousands of survivors trapped in isolated towns along Bangladesh's ravaged coast on Saturday, as the official death toll from Tropical Cyclone Sidr passed 1,700. The Category 4... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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17 de Noviembre, 2007
The Needle or the Cell?
Categorized under Ciencia , Gobierno , Violencia | Tags: Police State, Vaccinations
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) — Hundreds of grumbling parents facing a threat of jail lined up at a courthouse Saturday to either prove that their school-age kids already had their required vaccinations or see that the youngsters submitted to the needle. The get-tough policy in the Washington suburbs of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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16 de Noviembre, 2007
Diabetes: Weapon of Terror?
Categorized under Chinga la Chota , Once de Septiembre , Violencia | Tags: Fear
WHEN YOU ARE this terrified of your own citizenry, guess what? It means "The Terrorists," as it were, are winning. Because the whole fear behind what happened on 9/11 was that "our way of life" would be destroyed. Secret prisons, torture, Gitmo, wiretapping the nation, intrusive and unwarranted police... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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