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Basta Dobbs!
UPDATE:
Lou Dobbs Let Go by CNN!
WHO WE ARE
BastaDobbs.com is a fast-growing network of organizations and individuals engaged in a campaign to educate the Latino community about the threat posed by CNN’s Lou Dobbs.
Our Mission
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BastaDobbs.com exists to change how the media reports on Latinos and immigrants in the United States, starting with the worst offenders: Lou Dobbs and his network, CNN. We focus on Lou Dobbs because he, more than any other media personality, has obsessed about and given voice to the most extreme views about immigrants and Latinos. And yet, because CNN refuses to translate Dobbs into Spanish, too few Latinos and immigrants are even aware of the role he plays in spreading fear and hatred in our communities.
Our campaign targets the dangerous nexus between anti-immigrant extremism and the media. At the same time that CNN profits from Dobbs’ brand of “news,” the network is courting Latino viewers by adding Latino talent and producing legitimate programming aimed at the Latino audience. BastaDobbs.com was created to shine the spotlight on this hypocrisy, and demand that CNN deal with its Dobbs problem once and for all. We are calling on Latinos and our allies to join us in telling CNN to stop Dobbs. Our dignity, safety, and self respect demand nothing less!
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UPDATE:
Lou Dobbs to Quit CNN
By BRIAN STELTER AND BILL CARTER
New York Times (November 11, 2009)
Lou Dobbs, the longtime CNN anchor whose anti-immigration views made him a TV lightning rod, plans to announce Wednesday that he is leaving the network, two network employees said.
A CNN executive confirmed that Mr. Dobbs will announce his resignation plans on his 7 p.m. program. His resignation is effective immediately; tonight's program will be his last on CNN. His contract was not set to expire until the end of 2011.
Mr. Dobbs informed his staff members of his intentions in a meeting Wednesday afternoon. He did not immediately respond to a telephone call seeking comment.
Well known for his political positions, Mr. Dobbs is an outlier at CNN, which has sought to position itself as a middle ground of sorts in the fractious cable news arena. Perhaps hinting at plans for an exit from CNN, Mr. Dobbs met with Roger Ailes, the chairman of the Fox News Channel, last month. At the time Mr. Dobbs was viewed as a potential hire for the Fox Business Network.
The CNN employees said Wednesday that they did not know if Mr. Dobbs was moving to another network. He has placed new emphasis in recent months on his afternoon radio show, which debuted in March 2008.
Last month the New Jersey State Police were called to Mr. Dobbs home to investigate a report of gunfire. Mr. Dobbs suggested that his family had been singled out because of his views on illegal immigration and border security.
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Films on Migration
Oct 18, 2009
9500 liberty
Beyond Borders
Voces Inocentes--Luis Mandoki, director of "Voces Inocentes", recently came out with a futuristic film titled "Traficante de Suenos" / "Sleep Dealer", which is supposed to be interesting. It features an Orwellian future with a "virtual bracero" program that people plug into...
Crossing Arizona
Romantico--There is an indie film called, "Romantico" which is the story of an immigrant from Michoacan living in San Francisco, California at the Mission district. It is an amazing story.
This story that I'm talking about, is a story of a guy that works at a car wash during the day, and as a troubador at night at the fast food restaurants to support his family in Michoacan. It is a really good movie/documentary to watch.
Bajo la Misma Luna--Another mainstream fictional film with Kate del Castillo.
Funny thing about it is (well, funny in a real depressing sort of way), Kate is one of them main beneficiaries of companies like Televisa, which make conditions so much worse for working people in Mexico, provoking migration. Anyway, the film is sympathetic toward migrants, for whatever that's worth.
Motel Paraiso
Goal
"With love, from Mexico" (which will be at theatres this Friday)
"A Million to Juan"by Paul Rodriguez' film
Sin Nombre-- According to the blurb: "Fleeing retaliation from the violent Central American street gang he has deserted, young hood Casper boards a northbound train, where he takes refuge on top of the moving freight cars and hopes for a fresh start in a new country. Dodging authorities and other dangers, he finds a new friend in Sayra, a Honduran girl. Cary Fukunaga directs."
Sleep Dealer --When Sundance lead programer Geoffrey Gilmore introduced Sleep Dealer, he claimed that it would be hard to describe the film without saying that “it’s unlike anything you’ve seen before.” And while his claim is very true, Sleep Dealer very much reminds me of George Lucus’ THX 1138. I am convinced that if Alex Rivera can do all this on such a low budget with a super 16 camera, that he will someday follow-up with a Star Wars sized epic. Rivera tells a story set in the backdrop of the near future to explore rising issues of today such as governments controlling oil and international border control.
Documentaries by Juan Carlos Frey. His website is www.gatekeeperfilm.com.
De Nadie. covers the train ride from Mexico's southern border north but from a documentary point of view, unlike Sin Nombre which is great drama. De Nadie (English title: No One) is a documentary by Mexican filmmaker Tin Dirdamal on the impoverished Central Americans who leave their countries in hope of a better life in the United States. It premiered in 2005 and was shown at different international film festivals, winning the Sundance Film Festival audience award for World Documentary in 2006. The film follows a number of refugees who have to cross Mexico, about 4,000 kilometers, before reaching the US border. On their way through Mexico they put their remaining money, dignity, health and life on the line. You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sLD9b5B4_c&feature=related
The Right to Stay Home
Monday 14 July 2008
by David Bacon
Truthout | Perspective
The FIOB is a political organization of indigenous communities and migrants, with chapters in Mexico and the U.S. It advocates for the rights of migrants, and for the right not to migrate -- for economic development which would enable people to stay home. Indigenous Triqui women prepare meat and their traditional large tortillas.
Juxtlahuaca, Oaxaca, Mexico - For almost half a century, migration has been the main fact of social life in hundreds of indigenous towns spread through the hills of Oaxaca, one of Mexico's poorest states. That's made the conditions and rights of migrants central concerns for communities like Santiago de Juxtlahuaca.
Today, the right to travel to seek work is a matter of survival. But this June, in Juxtlahuaca, in the heart of Oaxaca's Mixteca region, dozens of farmers left their fields, and women weavers their looms, to talk about another right: the right to stay home.
In the town's community center, two hundred Mixtec, Zapotec and Triqui farmers, and a handful of their relatives working in the US, made impassioned speeches asserting this right at the triannual assembly of the Indigenous Front of Binational Organizations (FIOB). Hot debates ended in numerous votes. The voices of mothers and fathers arguing over the future of their children echoed from the cinder block walls of the cavernous hall.
In Spanish, Mixteco and Triqui, people repeated one phrase over and over: the derecho de no migrar - the right to not migrate. Asserting this right challenges not just inequality and exploitation facing migrants, but the very reasons people have to migrate to begin with. Indigenous communities are pointing to the need for social change.
About 500,000 indigenous people from Oaxaca live in the US, 300,000 in California alone, according to Rufino Dominguez, one of FIOB's founders. These men and women come from communities whose economies are totally dependent on migration. The ability to send a son or daughter across the border to the north, to work and send back money, makes the difference between eating chicken or eating salt and tortillas. Migration means not having to manhandle a wooden plow behind an ox, cutting furrows in dry soil for a corn crop that can't be sold for what it cost to plant it. It means dollars arrive in the mail when kids need shoes to go to school or when a grandparent needs a doctor.
History of the Southern Border
December 9, 2007
By Bill Ong Hing
Professor of Law
University of California, Davis
bhing@ucdavis.edu
I was asked to give an historical presentation in El Paso on November 29, 2007 at the conference: “Building a New Vision of the Border: a Conference on Border Policy." Here are my remarks:
History of the Border and Immigration Policy
[Note: These comments were adapted from the book, Defining America Through Immigration Policy (Temple Univ. Press 2004).]
On a different September 11—the one in 1998—the body of a man was found floating in the All-American Canal in the Imperial Valley of southern California. The next day, Saturday, September 12, another man, who had been in a coma since August, when he was found in the valley’s desert with a core body temperature of 108 degrees, died. On Sunday, the Border Patrol discovered the body of Asuncion Hernandez Uriel in the same desert. Some of her group stayed with her, but she died of heat stress. The same day, the decomposed body of Oscar Cardoso Varon was pulled out of the canal. In all, the bodies of four migrants attempting to cross to the United States from Mexico were found that weekend.
Unlike the reaction of the American public to the horrors of September 11, 2001, no outrage or sympathy was expressed after the weekend border deaths beginning September 11, 1998. One could point to a difference in scale—some 3,000 on September 11, 2001—but try more than 3,000 in the border situation; 3,000 deaths at the border that were avoidable. When deaths resulting from these strategies—with names like Operation Gatekeeper, Operation Safeguard, Operation Blockade—started being reported, the Border Patrol was not surprised. Its 1994 strategic plan recognized that pushing migrants to cross through remove, uninhabited expanses would place them in “mortal danger.” When the strategy to move the undocumented foot traffic to the east of San Diego as part of Operation got underway, a Border Patrol supervisor said, “Eventually we’d like to see them all out in the desert.”
How did we get to this shameful place in the name of immigration enforcement? The sordid history of the southern border and immigration policies is not something of which Americans can point to with much pride. Consider this chronological scan:
1821. Mexico declares independence from Spain, taking control of what we now regard as the entire southwest: California, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of Colorado, Utah, and Nevada...
Proyectan De nadie, de Tin Dirdamal, en ese punto de Veracruz donde reciben comida y ropa
Mujeres de La Patrona, esperanza de migrantes centroamericanos
La cinta, premiada en festivales como Sundance, retrata la pesadilla que viven en su trayecto hacia Estados Unidos
“El tiempo que yo pueda, voy a ayudar”, dice doña Carmen, de 86 años
Tania molina Ramírez, La Jornada, 15 Agosto, 2007
http://www.jornada.com.mx/2007/08/15/index.php?section=espectaculos&article=a08n1esp
Mujeres de La Patrona, Veracruz, se han convertido en la esperanza de los migrantes centroamericanos que cruzan territorio nacional para llegar a Estados Unidos, pues de ellas reciben comida, ropa y medicinas, cuando pasan trepados en los trenes de carga. Parte de este periplo se refleja en el documental del mexicano Tin Dirdamal, De nadie, el cual ya fue exhibido en esa localidad veracruzana Mujeres de La Patrona, Veracruz, se han convertido en la esperanza de los migrantes centroamericanos que cruzan territorio nacional para llegar a Estados Unidos, pues de ellas reciben comida, ropa y medicinas, cuando pasan trepados en los trenes de carga. Parte de este periplo se refleja en el documental del mexicano Tin Dirdamal, De nadie, el cual ya fue exhibido en esa localidad veracruzana
La cinta, premiada en festivales como Sundance, retrata la pesadilla que viven en su trayecto hacia Estados Unidos
“El tiempo que yo pueda, voy a ayudar”, dice doña Carmen, de 86 años
Tania molina Ramírez, La Jornada, 15 Agosto, 2007
http://www.jornada.com.mx/2007/08/15/index.php?section=espectaculos&article=a08n1esp
Mujeres de La Patrona, Veracruz, se han convertido en la esperanza de los migrantes centroamericanos que cruzan territorio nacional para llegar a Estados Unidos, pues de ellas reciben comida, ropa y medicinas, cuando pasan trepados en los trenes de carga. Parte de este periplo se refleja en el documental del mexicano Tin Dirdamal, De nadie, el cual ya fue exhibido en esa localidad veracruzana Mujeres de La Patrona, Veracruz, se han convertido en la esperanza de los migrantes centroamericanos que cruzan territorio nacional para llegar a Estados Unidos, pues de ellas reciben comida, ropa y medicinas, cuando pasan trepados en los trenes de carga. Parte de este periplo se refleja en el documental del mexicano Tin Dirdamal, De nadie, el cual ya fue exhibido en esa localidad veracruzana
Policías mexicanos, más rateros que los mismos hampones: indocumentados
"Hasta los zapatos nos quitan; los ladrones siquiera nos dejan para el camión"
Aseguran que agentes de EU los tratan mejor; "nos dan comida y no nos golpean", dicen
VICTOR BALLINAS ENVIADO, La Jornada, 18 de Diciembre, 2006
En la ciudad de Tijuana, Baja California, integrantes de organizaciones que apoyan a los migrantes celebraron la "posada sin fronteras", frente a la valla metálica que divide a México y Estados Unidos
Tijuana, BC. Con el miedo dibujado en el rostro, producto de desgarradoras experiencias que padecieron horas o días antes, los indocumentados mexicanos que han sido deportados de Estados Unidos por esta zona fronteriza prefieren permanecer encerrados en el albergue Casa del Migrante que salir a la calle. Son de Puebla, Nayarit, Jalisco, Michoacán y Zacatecas, y trabajaron fuera del país varios años.
Aseguran que agentes de EU los tratan mejor; "nos dan comida y no nos golpean", dicen
VICTOR BALLINAS ENVIADO, La Jornada, 18 de Diciembre, 2006
En la ciudad de Tijuana, Baja California, integrantes de organizaciones que apoyan a los migrantes celebraron la "posada sin fronteras", frente a la valla metálica que divide a México y Estados Unidos
Tijuana, BC. Con el miedo dibujado en el rostro, producto de desgarradoras experiencias que padecieron horas o días antes, los indocumentados mexicanos que han sido deportados de Estados Unidos por esta zona fronteriza prefieren permanecer encerrados en el albergue Casa del Migrante que salir a la calle. Son de Puebla, Nayarit, Jalisco, Michoacán y Zacatecas, y trabajaron fuera del país varios años.
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