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sancophaleague: This one is for some (not all) of the Puerto...

lahoops — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:34:33 -0400

This one is for some (not all) of the Puerto Rican, Dominican, Mexican, Colombian, Brazilians and others who consistently DENY their African Roots and African Connection. This is also for the people who commonly and wrongly refer to all Latin people as “Spanish”.

SPANISH PEOPLE ARE FROM SPAIN, SPAIN IS IN EUROPE. YOU ARE NOT SPANISH. SPAIN/PORTUGAL COLONIZED THESE COUNTRIES AND IMPOSED THEIR CUSTOMS ON THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AND THE ENSLAVED AFRICANS.

You are closer to the native people of the Americas and The MILLIONS of Stolen Africans transported to the Americas and the Islands during the numerous years of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.

The colonizer/slave master/invader referred to you as “Hispanic” that term is equivalent to the name “Negro or Nigger”. Know your history and know your ancestors…

Take pride in your Afro-Latino(a) roots…The Natives and Africans have a rich history. Stop trying to desperately market yourself as a Spaniard when the chances are that in Spain they will never accept you as such.

It’s even worse with these famous people, seem like the more money they get the more they get comfortable not mentioning their true heritage. Now I’m not saying everyone in this picture does that Idk if they do or don’t but I just wanted to point out that they are Latino/Latina.

If I learn to speak Chinese It don’t make me Chinese, Me speaking English don’t make me English. I’m sorry to break the news.

-There are people in Brazil, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, etc… that are darker than the darkest of Africans.

-Where do you think that Afro or “kinky” hair comes from? You’re African accept it. Embrace it…

Did I keep it too real?
Let me put this drink down before I say something I regret *Martin Voice*

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"Always vigilant": Guatemala deploys new "citizen security" military squadrons

lahoops — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:18:30 -0400

guatepolitics:

In Guatemala, President Pérez Molina stated that the National Civil Police “does not have the necessary agents to provide adequate security to Guatemalans.”

Rather than provide training or funding to the civil police, Pérez Molina has deployed 1,500 permanent soldiers as “citizen security” squadrons, covering Escuintla, Suchitepequez, Santa Rosa, Zacapa, Izabal, Chiquimula, Huehuetenango, Quiché, and Alta Verapaz.

Los efectivos militares fueron juramentados ayer por el Presidente en la Plaza de la Constitución. (Foto Bomniell Bosch/s21)

Ayer fueron inaugurados tres escuadrones de seguridad ciudadana, integrados por 500 efectivos del Ejército cada uno, que brindarán apoyo a la Policía Nacional Civil (PNC), serán distribuidos en Escuintla, Zacapa y Huehuetenango y tienen un costo de Q119 millones.

El presidente Otto Pérez reconoció que “la PNC no tiene los agentes necesarios para brindar seguridad adecuada a los guatemaltecos”. Según el mandatario, se hace el esfuerzo para incrementar las fuerzas encargadas de la seguridad, por medio del Ejército.

Agregó que los tres escuadrones tienen la capacidad de atender a otros departamentos. “Cuentan con cuadros de oficiales que son los responsables de comandar cada una de las unidades”, explicó el mandatario.

Siempre vigilantes

De acuerdo con el gobernante, el escuadrón asignado a Escuintla velará por las necesidades de Suchitepéquez y Santa Rosa; el de Zacapa cubrirá Izabal y Chiquimula, y el de Huehuetenango, Quiché y Alta Verapaz.

Ulises Anzueto, ministro de la Defensa, señaló que el costo de los tres escuadrones asciende a más de Q119 millones, y que a cada uno se le han asignado seis camiones, 14 picops y 10 motocicletas.

bitchouttahell: estoycomiendo: strugglingtobeheard: geekyvamp:...

lahoops — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:41:14 -0400

bitchouttahell:

estoycomiendo:

strugglingtobeheard:

geekyvamp:

thelessdeceived:

students-for-a-anarchist-society:

the-little-pandabear-at-221b:

I was just given information to spread around about a group of guys drugging female cosplayers in order to take advantage of them. They call themselves the GROPECREW. Please warn and spread this around! The user can be found here.

And let me make something clear… even if this IS someone trolling, I would rather make this dick-bag famous for being a twisted piece of shit than chance someone being attacked.

STICK TOGETHER, LADIES!!!

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Found this post on Facebook, and thought it would be best to pass it around here.

Oi, see any fuckers like this guy at a con, fuck his shit up.

Fucking seriously? I’m an enforcer at PAXAus next month, I’ll definitely be finding a way to let the organisers know that this shit is spreading on the internet, if they don’t know already. And I too will be fucking up anyone doing shit like this.

Dickbag alert. pass it along.

uhh…. this isn’t dickbag or groping. that’s assault and rape. call it what it is. that’s disgusting.

Ew dude

WOWWWW SIGNAL BOOST

kkriesel: Huichol Art

lahoops — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:36:32 -0400

kkriesel:

Huichol Art

deafmuslimpunx: Huicholes: The Last Peyote Guardians (in...

lahoops — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 22:48:37 -0400

deafmuslimpunx:

Huicholes: The Last Peyote Guardians (in Spanish with English sutbtitles)

a documentary from Mexico about the Huicholes, an Indigenous nation that still continues its traditions and way of life despite Spanish colonization of Mexico. Located in Wirikuta, central Mexico, the Huichol people are fighting back to save their sacred land from mining companies.

reclaimingthelatinatag: Afro-Colombian women in traditional...

lahoops — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 19:47:27 -0400

reclaimingthelatinatag:

Afro-Colombian women in traditional Colombian wear.

[Images belong (in clock wise order) to flickr users Ernest and Fidel Cafe and Lucre Diaz]

vicless: juliosalgado83: Image inspired by something my...

lahoops — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:51:33 -0400

vicless:

juliosalgado83:

Image inspired by something my comadre Yosimar Reyes said in Chicago about the way our migrant labor is deemed low-skilled. It takes a lot of skills to work in the fields. To serve entitled people their food. To make your clothes. To take yo’ shit. And all the while trying to keep our sanity. That’s some skills.

on point.

bolachascaboverde: Sem titulo / no title - Antonio Firmino

lahoops — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:00:40 -0400

bolachascaboverde:

Sem titulo / no title - Antonio Firmino

katawata: Tonantzin/Mother Nature

lahoops — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 11:26:34 -0400

katawata:

Tonantzin/Mother Nature

alanwhelan: Juana Ikal, 50 and Manuel Lai, 53, outside their...

lahoops — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 11:00:28 -0400

alanwhelan:

Juana Ikal, 50 and Manuel Lai, 53, outside their home in the Rio Frio community, Polochic valley, Guatemala. The family have lived here in emergency housing since early 2012, when they were evicted from their ancestral lands to make way for the planting of sugarcane crops.This family of farmers now have no land and are dependent on day labour to survive, February, 2013. Photo: Alan Whelan/Trocaire.

platanos-fritos: Mixtec women cleaning coyuche, brown...

lahoops — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 19:11:24 -0400

platanos-fritos:

Mixtec women cleaning coyuche, brown cotton. Also, this is the tradtiional (skirt) way of wearing a pozahuanco.

platanos-fritos: Afromexicanas from Oaxaca

lahoops — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 08:11:34 -0400

platanos-fritos:

Afromexicanas from Oaxaca

Photo

lahoops — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 08:05:56 -0400

Encuentran Cadáveres de Tres Activistas

lahoops — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:03:00 -0400

Eran dirigentes del Frente de Unidad Popular. Se trata de Arturo Hernández Cardona, Félix Bandera Román y Ángel Ramírez. Cuatro de los levantados lograron escapar y uno de ellos narró lo vivido durante cuatro días.

El asesinato de tres dirigentes sociales provocó la toma del ayuntamiento de Iguala por parte de activistas del Frente de Unidad Popular (FUP), que responsabilizan al alcalde José Luis Abarca Velázquez del levantón que las víctimas sufrieron la noche del jueves 30 de mayo.

A las 07:30 horas de la mañana, en la colonia Valerio Trujano, de la comunidad de Xalitla, se reportó el hallazgo de tres cuerpos tirados sobre el asfalto con un mensaje rotulado en cartulina.

Personal de la Policía Investigadora Ministerial, de la Preventiva Estatal y de la Federal se trasladaron al sitio ubicado sobre la carretera federal Chilpancingo-Iguala, para acompañar a peritos de la Procuraduría General de Justicia y al agente del Ministerio Público del Fuero Común en el levantamiento.

Al Semefo llegó Sofía Lorena Barrera Mendoza, regidora de Desarrollo Rural en el cabildo de Iguala y pareja sentimental de Arturo Hernández Cardona, el principal dirigente de la UP y fundador de la Unión Campesina Emiliano Zapata (UCEZ).

Aunque el cuerpo del dirigente tenía más de 48 horas sin vida y presentaba huellas de tortura, la mujer lo reconoció inmediatamente. Luego observó a las otras dos víctimas y con seguridad señaló que se trataba de Félix Rafael Bandera Román y Angel Román Ramírez, de la FUP.

Al lugar llegó un grupo de dirigentes del PRD, entre ellos el integrante de la Comisión Política de Izquierda Democrática Nacional (IDN) en Guerrero, David Molina Francisco, quien también confirmó la identidad de los dirigentes sociales.

Los tres cuerpos presentaban huellas de tortura e impactos de bala en diferentes partes, lo que fue informado a los activistas, que desde las 09:00 marcharon sobre avenida Bandera Nacional hasta llegar a la plaza de las Tres Garantías.

Cuatro escaparon

La historia comenzó la noche del jueves 30 de mayo, cuando ocho integrantes de la UP fueron víctimas de un levantón tras realizar un bloqueo en la autopista que va hacia Cuernavaca.

La mañana del viernes Arturo Hernández invitó a varios de sus compañeros a respaldarlo en la ratificación de una denuncia penal contra el presidente municipal, quien lo habría amenazado de muerte, pero no profundizó en los detalles.

Hernández y sus siete acompañantes no llegaron a la cita y por eso desde esa tarde sus compañeros denunciaron la desaparición.

David Molina Francisco, compañero de corriente de Hernández, dijo que cuatro de los levantados el 30 de mayo lograron escapar a sus captores y uno de ellos, Héctor Arrollo Delgado, narró parte de lo que vivieron durante el tiempo en que fueron secuestrados por un grupo de presuntos sicarios.

Héctor Arroyo dijo que Hernández fue asesinado desde el viernes 31, en tanto que los otros dos fueron abatidos en el transcurso del fin de semana.

Todavía queda en calidad de desaparecido un activista de nombre Jaime Castrejón, Delgado no supo establecer si se le recapturo o se mantiene oculto en algún lugar.

El sobreviviente dio a conocer su interés de irse de Guerrero para evitar que sus captores lo maten, ya que logró escapar por un descuido y asume que estarán interesados en silenciarlo.

alien4elsinore: Moses, Frida Kahlo, 1945

lahoops — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 22:42:40 -0400

alien4elsinore:

Moses, Frida Kahlo, 1945

danitelera: Algunos mandamientos

lahoops — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 13:57:29 -0400

danitelera:

Algunos mandamientos

sinidentidades: lastrealindians: Moccasins on the Ground all...

lahoops — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 13:55:21 -0400

sinidentidades:

lastrealindians:

Moccasins on the Ground all over the world; that’s what it will take.

This image was taken in Brazil when several indigenous people clashed with police who were trying to evict them from a building that has long been used as a museum for indigenous history to make space for a parking lot for the upcoming Olympics.

More on that can be found here

thinkmexican: LA Indigenous School May Lose Its Charter Due to...

lahoops — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 20:53:24 -0400

thinkmexican:

LA Indigenous School May Lose Its Charter Due to Arizona-Style Politics

Years ago, an elder told me that the Indigenous cultures of Abya Yala, CemAnahuac or Pachamama – the ancient cultures of this continent – do not need to be revived, because they never died. Instead, the elder said, it is we who have been severed or disconnected from those cultures.

The culture, the languages, the songs and the stories are all there – rather than revive them, we just need to access them. And equally important, we also need to create and contribute to our own cultures.

I think about that now because of two monumental educational struggles taking place in Arizona and California, both of which have been instrumental in reconnecting our communities to ancestral and living Indigenous knowledges. In both cases, the schools and programs in question continue to be under daily siege. In Tucson, the highly successful Raza Studies program has been dismantled whereas in Los Angeles, the charter for Anahuacalmecac is on the verge of being revoked.

Read more at Truthout

For more information on Anahuacalmecac, visit their website: Dignidad.org

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nuestrahermana: Nuestra Hermana WOC Photography Series : ...

lahoops — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:01:24 -0400

nuestrahermana:

Nuestra Hermana WOC Photography Series :

Gracelia Iturbide

Graciela Iturbide is a 69 year old Mexican photographer born in 1942. Around 1970, Iturbide studied photography at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.

The majority of her photography is black & white and uses natural life and whichever environment she is submerged in at the time.

Her first collection released was titled “Mujer Angel” and embodied her feminist views which continued to be weaved through her career. Her best known collection was shot in Juchitan, Oaxaca, a city where women dominated life. It was titled “Señora de Las Iguanas”. Out of this series, came a photograph named “Magnolia”, featuring a physically male person wearing a dress. This photograph challenged and discussed sexuality and gender in Mexico.

She is also the founder of Mexican Council of Photography. Her work can be found in many major museums including but not limited to: Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Peru declares environmental state of emergency in northern part of Amazon rainforest

lahoops — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:05:07 -0400

Peru declares environmental state of emergency in northern part of Amazon rainforest:

climateadaptation:

In declaring the state of emergency, Peru’s environment ministry said tests in February and March found high levels of barium, lead, chrome and petroleum-related compounds at different points in the Pastaza valley.

Pluspetrol, the biggest oil and natural gas producer in Peru, has operated the oil fields since 2001. It took over from Occidental Petroleum, which began drilling in 1971, and, according to the government, had not cleaned up contamination either.

Several multimillion dollar fines have been levied against Pluspetrol in recent years. The company has appealed against all of the fines in the Peruvian courts…

Note, though that “The Peruvian government plans to auction a further 29 new oil and gas concessions this year.”