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“Procesos de Integración y Construcción de la Identidad de la Población Dominicana de Ascendencia Haitiana de Segunda y Tercera Generación." Un informe de Tahira Vargas, coordinado por Ana Coronado y Gloria Amézquita.

Televisa S.A. de C.V., the most important media and entertainment enterprise within the Spanish-speaking world, was recently involved in a controversial situation. The Mexican communication company was harshly criticized for its portrayal of African peoples and cultures during the 2010 FIFA World Cup held in South Africa. There were several complaints about the content of Television Shows like “La Jugada” that portrayed folks from South Africa and the African continent as primitive, with no educational background. Characters in the shows did not represent traditional outfits of African cultures. Features of African people were over exaggerated.

Ms. Maria Elisa Velázquez, Vice-President to the UNESCO Route of Slavery Mexico Scientific Committee, Co-Director of the Permanent Seminar on Afro-descendent populations in Mexico and Director of the Ethnology and Social Anthropology Department at the National Institute of History and Anthropology in Mexico, as a prominent scholar on the subject, presented an official complaint on the matter to the National Committee to Prevent Racism and Discrimination, known as CONAPRED in Spanish.

In an interview with NYIHA MEDIA, Ms. Velázquez told us that shows produced by Televisa on the World Cup were full of clear manifestations of racism. The shows presented typical stereotypes of African people as savages, illiterate, even with “the bone on the hair”. After she presented her complaint to the CONAPRED, she sent a letter to the Directors and Legal Representative of Televisa in which she pointed out how discriminatory and racist were the contents of their programs on African culture, adding that the shows misinformed the audience. She points out: “I saw one of their shows about how some populations in Africa practice circumcision on the boys when they reach puberty. Televisa presented those practices as anti-hygienic, due to lack of hospitals in the region.”  Ms. Velazquez added: “I could not believe that an actor like Diego Luna produced a TV Show in which the main character was a Deputy called “Rafita”, an afro descendent who was corrupt ignorant, and a cheater. When he arrives to the hotel to hit Mr. Nelson Mandela, he believed Mandela to be a porter. It is unbelievable that an internationally respected personality such as Mr. Mandela could be denigrated in that way”.

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The film reflects valuable production achievements including Hollywood type action-packed sequences, explosions and special effects. It also reveals religious undercurrents including beautiful scenes of a church replete of butterflies. This is an intense film with characters on the edge, turning to religion as they face life or death situations.

Location: Maysles Cinema is located at 343 Malcolm X Blvd. at West 127th Street in Manhattan, USA. The theater is accessible through 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, A, B, C, and D trains to 125th street.

This week, federal officials charged six current and former New Orleans police officers in connection with the killing of civilians in the days after Hurricane Katrina. The six are not only accused of murder but also of conspiring to hide their crime through secret meetings, planting evidence, inventing witnesses, false arrests, and perjury. Four of the officers may face the death penalty.

While the details of their charges are shocking, much of the media has missed the real story: corruption and violence are endemic to the NOPD, and wider systemic change is needed not just in police personnel, but in the city's overall criminal justice system.

Days of Violence

In the days after the flooding of New Orleans, police officers were told they were defending a city under siege and were given tacit permission to use deadly force at their own discretion. At the time, no one in power seemed to be interested in looking into the details of who was killed and why.

For more than three years, these post-Katrina murders were ignored by the city's District Attorney, the Republican U.S. Attorney, and even the local media. But in late 2008 ProPublica and The Nation published the results of an 18-month investigation by journalist A.C. Thompson. Under new leadership, the Department of Justice began its own inquiries soon after Thompson's report.

FBI agents reconstructed crime scenes, interviewed witnesses and seized officers' computers. Disturbing revelations have continued to unfold since then, as the mounting evidence against them has forced a growing number of cops to confess.

        Thousands of leftwing activists just spent a week at the US Social Forum in Detroit, gathered again under the banner "Another World is Possible!"  Among them hundreds added a new subtext:  "Another Immigration Policy is Possible!"         This theme was especially popular among grassroots organizations in immigrant communities.  Today non-traditional worker centers are spreading across the US, including ones for day laborers, domestic workers, farm workers and other low-wage immigrants.  Most are Spanish-speaking migrants from Mexico and Central America, but many also come from the Philippines, India, Pakistan, China and the Caribbean.

    If anyone should be in favor of immigration reform, these groups should be.  Yet instead of embracing the proposals made in Washington by Representative Luis Gutierrez and Senator Charles Schumer, they reject them.  
        The Social Forum was over by the time President Barack Obama made a speech about immigration policy a week later, but the forum's message could as easily have been given to him as well.  There are no significant differences between Obama's ideas and those of Gutierrez and Schumer.
       These grassroots groups don't like the proposals for new guest worker programs.  They have been fighting raids, firings and increased immigration enforcement for years, and are angry that the Washington proposals all make enforcement heavier.  They want the border demilitarized.  And they believe any rational immigration reform must change US trade policies that displace people in other countries.
        Washington's proposals for immigration reform all have a similar structure.  They assure a managed flow of migrant labor to employers at low wages, through expanded recruitment by contractors in countries like Mexico.   Immigrants must work to stay, and those who aren't working must leave.  To force the flow of undocumented workers into this program, the Washington bills all increase penalties for working or crossing the border without visas.  And as the carrot, they propose limited legalization for undocumented people currently in the US.
       These proposals originally came from large corporations in the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition, and were then supported by some unions and civil rights groups.  These groups argued that corporations would never support legalization if they weren't guaranteed a future flow of displaced people.