http://lacccenter.org/blog Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:49:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tune in this Saturday July 26th as Radio Diaspora examines the Global Food Crisis, its impact on women in the region and how it relates to human rights and sovereignty. Invited guests include Eric Holt Gimenez, Executive Director of Food First and Father Jean-Juste from Haiti.  Tune in on Saturday ... http://lacccenter.org/blog/2008/07/23/radio-diaspora-global-food-crisis/ Mexico's National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) July 11 issued eight recommendations to the Secretary of National Defense (SEDENA) concerning grave violations of basic guarantees—including homicide and torture—in anti-crime operations in the states of Sinaloa, Sonora, Michoacán and Tamaulipas. The first case concerned José Fausto Munguía, who was threatened at ... http://lacccenter.org/blog/2008/07/23/national-human-rights-commission-blasts-mexican-army/ Many argue that El Salvador has come a long way towards trying to repair its disabled past by declaring itself mine-free in 1994, implementing the 2001 National Disability Rights law and ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2007. The Permanent Table of the ... http://lacccenter.org/blog/2008/07/23/a-recent-history-of-the-disability-rights-movement-in-el-salvador-written-by-larissa-hotra/ The Venezuelan-owned Oil Company Citgo, together with the organization Citizen’s Energy, will provide about 460,000 energy efficient light bulbs to low-income households throughout the U.S., according to Citgo’s CEO Alejandro Granado. The announcement was made in Washington D.C. yesterday in the home of one of the beneficiaries of the program, together ... http://lacccenter.org/blog/2008/07/23/venezuela-to-give-energy-saving-light-bulbs-to-low-income-us-communities/ Since 1994, Casa has been "Building A Movement of Alternatives" for womyn of color in the South Bronx. Casa has a unique approach in supporting collective transformation and social change by providing holistic and alternative healing techniques for the self-empowerment of womyn of color worldwide to reclaim the power of ... http://lacccenter.org/blog/2008/07/19/casa-atebex-ache/ English hour: Fly me to the moon - Willie Garcia (Chicago) Bombeando - Papo Lucca (Puerto Rico) The Falling Leaves - Willie Garcia (Chicago) Manteca - Dizzy Gilespie (USA Jazz legend) Danilo en la flauta - Various Artists (USA) Other Links: Peliculas de Tony Romero Mas informacion de la musica Afro-Cubana Hora en espanol: Night in Tunisia - Mario ... http://lacccenter.org/blog/2008/07/19/radio-diaspora-arte-y-cultura-latin-jazz-7192008/ A few months before Myrian Cossio’s 20th birthday, in San José del Guaviare, a bustling frontier town deep in Colombia’s eastern tropical lowlands, armed men forced her into a car. She immediately knew they were from one of the three armed groups fighting in Colombia’s decades-long civil war—army, paramilitary, and ... http://lacccenter.org/blog/2008/07/18/colombia-aids-in-the-time-of-war-by-javier-leonardo-varon/ Plans for new coal mining in the Sierra de Perijá, the northwestern region of the state of Zulia, Venezuela, were suspended by President Hugo Chávez last year following anti-coal declarations by Chávez and several ministers. The Wayúu, Yukpa, and Barí indigenous communities who would have been displaced by the projects ... http://lacccenter.org/blog/2008/07/18/will-bolivarian-revolution-end-coal-mining-in-venezuela-by-james-suggett-venezuelanalysis/ This week Radio Diaspora examines the impact of race on the electoral process both in United States and on the impact that it has on the Region. http://lacccenter.org/blog/2008/07/18/race-and-the-electoral-process/ In the US criminal justice system, the politics of the police, the politics of the courts, the politics of the prison system and the politics of the death penalty are a manifestation of the racism and classism which governs the lives of all of us. Every part of the ... http://lacccenter.org/blog/2008/07/10/radio-diaspora-prison-and-oppression/