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Growing Up Identical Twins - Our Side of Joy
Being two among eight children, Michelle and Marlene experienced a unique life of twinship. Our side of joy offers a portrait of the family dynamics of a Cuban family through the eyes of identical twins, Michelle and Marlene Tamayo. Their story offers an in depth look into the unique bond between sisters, siblings, parents, kids, and significant others. What kind of relationship do these sisters have? Where do they see their relationship in the future? In what ways do the twins touch the lives of their siblings and vice versa? What role did their close relationship to their siblings and parents play in their emotional health?
Using photographs, interviews and family footage, this film will build a cohesive portrait of the familial relationships of Michelle and Marlene Tamayo.
Directed by: Tressa Sanders
For more information, please visit:
www.oursideofjoy.com
www.ijabafilms.com Being two among eight children, Michelle and Marlene experienced a unique life of twinship. Our side of joy offers a portrait of the f... more -
Our Side of Joy - Identical Twins
Our side of joy offers a portrait of the family dynamics of a Cuban family through the eyes of identical twins, Michelle(McCray) and Marlene Tamayo. Their story offers an in depth look into the unique bond between sisters, siblings, parents, kids, and significant others. What kind of relationship do these sisters have? Where do they see their relationship in the future? In what ways do the twins touch the lives of their siblings and vice versa? What role did their close relationship to their siblings and parents play in their emotional health?
Using photographs, interviews and family footage, this film will build a cohesive portrait of the familial relationships of Michelle(McCray) and Marlene Tamayo.
Directed by: Tressa Sanders
For more information, please visit:
www.oursideofjoy.com
www.ijabafilms.com Our side of joy offers a portrait of the family dynamics of a Cuban family through the eyes of identical twins, Michelle(McCray) and M... more -
Obama And Latino Abortions
"Unplanned Motherhood" targets Spanish-Americans and African Americans for Abortion revenues
Eduardo Verastegui who is very famous in the Spanish American Community tells the real story "Unplanned Motherhood" targets Spanish-Americans and African Americans for Abortion revenues ... more -
Latino Film Festival 2008 -San Francisco / Bay Area
From the people that have shown 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' and 'Amores Perros' in previous years - in the San Francisco / Bay Area starting on November 7th through the 23rd.
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Our mission is simple: We aim to educate and promote Latino talent, while combating stereotypes that harm our communities. The programs presented by the Society encompass a broad range of Latino cultural expression and give a rich and varied view of the social, political and economic perspectives of Latinos both here in the United States and across the continents. Our LGBT, Jewish, Afro-Latino, Women’s and Emerging Filmmaker’s programs are essential to our work. We actively seek out and showcase these voices, going beyond national borders and focusing on our humanity and universality. From the people that have shown 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' and 'Amores Perros' in previous years - in the San Francisco /... more -
News in latino
Nel caso vogliate ripassare e/o vogliate approfondire la vostra conoscenza del latino, sappiate che è nato un sito ad-hoc. Buona lettura ;) Nel caso vogliate ripassare e/o vogliate approfondire la vostra conoscenza del latino, sappiate che è nato un sito ad-hoc. Buona lettu... more
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Latino International Film Institute
Latino Film Festival in L.A.
[For those of you who are NOT in SoCal, you can reserve a lot of these films on NetFlix!]
The Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival runs from Sept. 12 to 19 and features outstanding films and documentaries from the U.S. and Latin America. UCLA professors are available to discuss the festival and Latino films.
Jose Luis Valenzuela, UCLA drama professor and artistic director of the New Los Angeles Theater Center, is a longtime theater director in Los Angeles who also directed the feature film "Luminarias," based on one of his plays. [Full bio]
Media contact: Letisia Marquez | 310-206-3986 | lmarquez@support.ucla.edu
Chon Noriega, professor of film, television and digital media and director of UCLA's Chicano Studies Research Center, has written a book on the history of Chicano films and has also researched Latino media and performance and visual arts. [Full bio]
Media contact: Letisia Marquez | 310-206-3986 | lmarquez@support.ucla.edu
Some of the films (from all over Latin America!):
LOS ANDES NO CREEN EN DIOS
OS DESAFINADOS
MARE, NOSSA HISTORIA DE AMOR (Another Love Story)
TROPA DE ELITE
THE CHILDREN’S ORCHESTRA
EL CAMINO
DESIERTO SUR
LOKAS
LA VIDA ME MATA,
PARAISO TRAVEL
EL ANGEL DEL ACORDEON
TE AMO ANA ELISA
PERRO COME PERRO
LA MILAGROSA Latino Film Festival in L.A. [For those of you who are NOT in SoCal, you can reserve a lot of these films on NetFlix!] ... more -
DNC: I'm a Delegate
Bryan Gonzales describes himself as a 'threefer' delegate for the Hillary campaign. He's gay, Latino, and a man.
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Born in America, Heart in Mexico
American musician Shawn Kiehne, aka El Gringo, whose passion for Mexican culture is found not only in his love for norteño music, but also in his song lyrics in Spanish that champion the struggles of rural working class labor and immigrants, and against the Bush administration's plans to fortify the U.S.-Mexico border with a wall. Keihne -- who grew up in Los Lunas, New Mexico, in a German-American family -- is distinctive in that not only is he an emerging singer writing and performing music in a Latino genre, but genuinely embraces and identifies with Mexican culture.
ABQJournal.com's Bruce Daniels writes about Shawn Kiehne as profiled in Josh Kun's article in a New York Times article, "Born in America, Heart in Mexico" (20 July 2008); the NYT's article also offers sample audio. The NYT article is currently available online here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/arts/music/20kun.html.
Photo: Shawn Kiehne, aka "El Gringo". John Burcham for The New York Times. Source info courtesy of ABQJournal.com, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the New York Times. American musician Shawn Kiehne, aka El Gringo, whose passion for Mexican culture is found not only in his love for norteño music, but ... more -
The main reasons why the Mexican cross the U.S border illegaly.
Unfortunately the economic situacion what the illegal immigrants have from their home countries takes them to cross the U.S. border illegaly,thinking for their "American Dream" and to improve their families situation regardles how are they going to be treat by reaching their goal.
The reasons why the Mexican people cross the border are as the following:
1.- This situation is due to the Mexican government and the police enforcement corruption and the way they handle and steal their taxes, they just care about their personal interests.
2.- Lack of information about the U.S country and their politic with the immigrant people specially for Mexicans.
3.- The EDUCATION from their home countries, Almost all illegal immigrants could not reach the grade 12 of Highschool.
4.- The DISCRIMINATION to get a job in Mexico based on age, sexual orientation, ethnicy and sometimes religion but the main reasons are the age and ethnicy.
Examples: If someone look for an Office Position and he/she belongs from an indigenist group the employer won't hire him/her and they do not even look at him/her face so that's why they ask for his/her picture by filling out the job application.
And if someone is a woman, married and over 30 yrs old the employer won't hire her and if someone is a man the age limit to get a job is 35.
For those 4 main reasons the illegal immigrant think that they do not have any choise to cross the U.S border because they need to survive.
The International Amnesty MUST pay attention and must put pressure on the Mexican government to improve the situation and set up laws to avoid the discrimination mentioned above to avoid the illegal immigration in the U.S.
There is not excuse for the Mexican government, Mexico shouldn't ever live a poor economic situation because that country has everything such as Petroleum, natural resources, nice weather, archeology, beaches etc . . . On the other hand the illegal immigrant should open their eyes and help to put pressure on the Mexican government to stop stealing the taxes (15%) and start improving their life styles.
How many Mexican has been killed in the U.S because of Racism? How many Mexican died by crossing the border? Unfortunately the economic situacion what the illegal immigrants have from their home countries takes them to cross the U.S. border il... more -
Immigration debate turns Hispanics away from McCain
GOP strategist Bill McInturff has long emphasized that earning 40 percent of the Hispanic vote is critical for Republicans to win. Today, McInturff is John McCain’s pollster, and by his metric McCain has a serious Latino problem.
While he earned the support of about seven in ten Hispanics in his last Arizona Senate race, a Pew Hispanic Center poll released Thursday shows that just 23 percent of Latinos intend to vote for McCain in the presidential contest, barely half of the four in ten Latino voters who exit polls showed voted for President Bush in 2004.
McCain’s problem looks to be most pronounced among Protestant Latinos, who had seemed to be the GOP’s doorway into the Hispanic population. From 2000 to 2004, Protestant Latinos increased their share of the total Hispanic electorate from 25 percent to 32 percent, in large part because of Bush’s evangelical outreach and strategic microtargeting of the community. Even as turnout increased, support for Bush among the group rose from 44 percent in 2000 to 56 percent in 2004.
The Pew poll, however, shows that only a third of Protestant or Evangelical Hispanics intend to vote for McCain, while 59 percent support Obama — who also enjoys a 50-percentage-point lead among Catholic Latinos, long a solid bloc of the Democratic coalition.
While McCain and Bush have similar views on most social issues, including abortion, McCain's candidacy may mark a return to an era of blue-blooded Republicans less vocal about their religious beliefs. Barack Obama, by contrast, speaks comfortably and frequently about his faith.
The biggest reason for the shift, though, has been the heated debate over immigration reform that has alienated many Hispanic voters previously receptive to the GOP — and that nearly cost McCain, a co-sponsor of the bipartisan 2006 immigration reform bill that inflamed conservatives, his party’s nomination. GOP strategist Bill McInturff has long emphasized that earning 40 percent of the Hispanic vote is critical for Republicans to win. Tod... more -
Whites May Exaggerate Black-Latino Tensions
The issue has obvious importance this election year, with Barack Obama soon to become the nation's first black on the ballot as a major-party candidate for president. Obama had difficulty carrying the Hispanic vote in the Democratic primaries earlier this year -- something that led to considerable media speculation about black-Hispanic animosity as the cause -- but Gallup polling has shown him solidly beating Republican John McCain among Hispanics throughout the campaign.
While black-Hispanic animosity may exist and could even have been a factor in some state caucuses or primaries, the Gallup data indicates it is not overwhelmingly obvious to members of either group. Whites are much more likely to believe the two are in conflict.
Hispanics preferred Clinton over Obama for the Democratic nomination, but they were not so opposed to Obama (or the idea of electing a black president) that they were willing to vote for McCain in the general election. The issue has obvious importance this election year, with Barack Obama soon to become the nation's first black on the ballot as a... more -
Il latino in età moderna
Il latino, ancora nel ‘600, era una lingua “franca” e “universale”, di cui si servivano i viaggiatori nei loro spostamenti lungo le terre d’Europa, insieme al francese o allo spagnolo. Si trattava in gran parte di persone appartenenti alla classi più agiate o al ceto degli eruditi, che sfoggiavano conoscenze linguistiche sofisticate. Poteva peraltro accadere, come è testimoniato nell’esauriente libro di Antoni Maczak “Viaggi e viaggiatori nell’Europa moderna”, che un erudito inglese in viaggio per l’Europa avesse problemi di comunicazione con il latino, ovvero non riuscisse a farsi comprendere dagli altri. Ma questo è un rischio che corriamo anche noi Italiani, poco avvezzi alla lingua inglese, quando tentiamo di esprimerci in quell’idioma e ci sentiamo rispondere da un cittadino di Albione: “I don’t understand”, “Sorry”, “Pardon ?”. Insomma, la nostra pronuncia latina impedisce all’interlocutore inglese la completa comprensione.
Il latino era così una lingua parlata da una nicchia di persone, anche se non mancavano eccezioni a tale regola. In Polonia, per esempio, si riteneva che ogni abitante fosse in grado di comprendere e addirittura parlare la lingua di Virgilio. Leggende metropolitane o meno, non ci si deve troppo stupire, visto che anche molti contadini toscani sono capaci di declamare a memoria i versi della Divina Commedia di Dante.
Si è posto come termine ultimo di penetrazione culturale della lingua latina, la metà del XVII secolo. L’umanesimo crolla di fronte all’imperversare dello schiavismo e della nascita del razzismo. Il trionfo del commercio triangolare decreta la vittoria “linguistica” di un idioma come l’inglese, in grado di tradurre velocemente i cambiamenti che sono avvenuti nella società. Il processo diviene irreversibile e questa volta il latino si avvia a divenire una “lingua morta”, soppiantato anche dal francese nel linguaggio diplomatico internazionale. Del resto quando il commercio prende il sopravvento sul mondo agricolo e la scienza prevale sulla cultura umanistica, la lingua parlata dai romani entra fatalmente in crisi. Era già accaduto con l’età comunale, quando il “volgare” l’aveva soppiantato, capita ancora nel 1600 con l’esplosione dei commerci su scala internazionale. Eppure Cartesio, Spinoza, Keplero, Bacone, come precedentemente Erasmo da Rotterdam, e negli anni seguenti, il filosofo Leibniz, il naturalista Linneo, dimostrano e continuano ad avere una profonda familiarità con quella lingua. Nel XIX sec. la gran parte degli studi e delle dissertazioni su temi letterari e scientifici è svolta in latino. Ciò è per certi versi paradossale, dal momento che le indagini scientifiche , compilate in latino, erano una delle cause del declino del latino stesso.
Ancora nel 1800 un esperto di calcolo combinatorio come il tedesco Gauss, utilizza nelle sue opere la lingua degli antichi romani. Ma già Goldoni e Casanova, italiani senza Italia, gli preferiscono il francese. Per non parlare di Cavour che antepone la lingua dei galli addirittura all’italiano. Siamo ormai agli albori del XX secolo e non c’è alcun dubbio che la lingua degli antichi romani sia diventata patrimonio di un elite di gente colta. I campi in cui continua a svolgere l’antica funzione di lingua “franca” si sono sostanzialmente ridotti. Uno di questi è la disciplina della Botanica, in cui attraverso il latino si definiscono i nomi delle piante. In Anatomia e in Giurisprudenza espressioni latine hanno sempre una loro diffusione. Sicuramente comico era l’utilizzo di questa lingua per occultare alcuni passaggi scabrosi contenuti in alcuni trattati scientifici in materia di patologie psicosessuali. La tradizione latina si andava spegnendo ma c’era chi non si rassegnava a questo declino inesorabile. Riviste, periodici e giornali in latino videro la luce in quegli anni, con l’obiettivo di rovesciare un trend certamente negativo. La “damnatio memoriae” era dunque soltanto rimandata Il latino, ancora nel ‘600, era una lingua “franca” e “universale”, di cui si servivano i viaggiatori nei loro spostamenti lungo le te... more -
Il latino nel Medioevo
La storia del latino inizia naturalmente con i romani e finisce nel momento in cui diventa fatalmente una “lingua morta”. In assenza di un decreto formale che ne sancisce l’eliminazione, dobbiamo accontentarci di semplici supposizioni. Quand’è allora che il latino cessa di esistere ? Mai, a voler essere pignoli. Molti cardinali parlavano in latino per farsi capire dagli altri. E’ pur vero che un termine oltre il quale il latino ha cessato di esistere come lingua universale, c’è stato. Molti lo individuano in un’epoca: il Medioevo. In quegli anni il latino era parlato soprattutto dai chierici e risaltava in molti documenti scritti principalmente in materie teologiche e giuridiche. Parallelamente si stava sviluppando in tutte le parti d’Europa un processo di progressiva volgarizzazione del latino che aveva appena partorito gli embrioni di idiomi destinati a diventare le lingue nazionali del futuro. La creazione del Sacro Romano Impero con Carlo Magno, non era riuscita a frenare tale frammentazione linguistica, nonostante la lingua latina fosse stata riassorbita nell’alveo del potere imperiale. Di questa sfaldatura prese atto il concilio di Tours nell’ 813, che consigliò ai vescovi europei di tradurre le omelie in latino rustico e in tedesco, affinchè tutti potessero capire ciò che si stava dicendo. Era chiaro che il latino di Virgilio e di Cicerone non era più parlato dalle genti europee. Al suo posto vi era una lingua definita “rustica” perché parlata dalla popolazione che risiedeva nelle campagne, in un periodo in cui le città erano desolatamente vuote. Il latino era già diventato quello che l’arabo è oggi: una lingua storpiata da mille pronunce e da un’infinità di termini poco ortodossi.
In Italia si ebbero le prime tracce di “volgare” in documenti notarili, prima che una vera e propria letteratura si affermasse prepotentemente. In età comunale è la lingua parlata dal “popolino” che scalza nelle preferenze collettive il latino. Non è forse in “volgare” che rimano gli apologeti del “dolce stil novo” e finanche Dante ? Boccaccio e Petrarca sono forse conosciuti al grande pubblico per opere come il “Decamerone” e il “Canzoniere”, che sono scritte in “volgare”, ma mostrarono probabilmente più interesse verso il latino. Del resto, l’epoca che va dal XIV sec. al XV, è contraddistinta da un ritorno di fiamma del latino nelle preferenze della gente italica, in concomitanza con la crisi della civiltà comunale e dalla conseguente instaurazione delle “Signorie”. L’umanesimo, movimento di rinascita culturale, nasce con una connotazione eminentemente latina, per poi aprirsi alla metà del ‘400 al “volgare”. Da questo momento, è vero, il latino perde quota a vantaggio dell’italiano e delle lingue volgari di tutta Europa, ma non cessa di essere una lingua universale. Non è soltanto un’elite culturale o uno stuolo di eruditi a propagarne il ricordo, diversamente da ciò che si pensa.
Tra il 1550 e il 1640 si compiono le vicende storiche del cosiddetto “Rinascimento inglese”, età di prosperità culturale che registra l’inattesa fioritura di forme di intrattenimento popolare, come il teatro (Shakespeare, Marlowe). Per una nazione che sta crescendo serve una lingua che sappia tradurre la quotidianità di tutti i giorni in vista di traguardi ben più ambiziosi. Ma l’inglese, per il momento, non è quell’idioma completo che può soddisfare tale esigenza, essendo poco più di un dialetto. Ecco che il latino può supplire a questo deficit culturale, in quanto lingua totale e ben strutturata Si stima che il dieci per cento dei libri pubblicati in questo periodo in Inghilterra, siano stati scritti in latino. La storia del latino inizia naturalmente con i romani e finisce nel momento in cui diventa fatalmente una “lingua morta”. In assenza d... more -
A Gozar (To Enjoy): An Introduction to Salsa Dancing
Venture into the world of SALSA DANCING! Salsa is much more than just a dance... watch and find out why.
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Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead): The Road to Mictlan
A short documentary on the history, practices, and influences of the growing latino tradition of Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) in America. A short documentary on the history, practices, and influences of the growing latino tradition of Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) ... more
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Psycho Realm - In This Life Time ... support your favorite rappers, buy their albu...
This is one of the best Latino hip hop groups to come outta Los Angeles ... Now for those of you who appreciate great hip hop ... Welp check out this hip hop crew from Los Angeles ... Their style's like no other ... their lyrics are sick ... and they are true as real can get ...
But even if hip hop isn't your cup of tea ... if you have a favorite group or band support them instead of taking their songs from file sharing even though we all do it ... Just don't support the asshole music artists who only yap about what they're buying with all your money and how many more females there bangin then you and basically just wasting great sound, no don't you're supporting them with your hard earned cash, because that's not music that's just being inconsiderate ...
Support those who actually give back to their fans and give you every penny's worth, those who are for the fans and the passion of music ... and support the little independent record labels as well ... everyone needs to start somewhere ...
So now if you really like em, go buy their music instead of taking it. Because what if music goes broke, then what? Or let's just put us in their shoes and you're trying to make it big in music ... How are you gonna make music if you don't got the LOOT to fund it ...
Just sayin you know ... support your favorite music artists and buy their albums!
Thank you ... Lata! This is one of the best Latino hip hop groups to come outta Los Angeles ... Now for those of you who appreciate great hip hop ... Welp... more -
Hola Allah!!
France24English reports on Latino Muslims in USA growing with more people embracing Islam since 9/11.
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Already, Obama and McCain Map Fall Strategies
Senators John McCain and Barack Obama are already drawing up strategies for taking each other on in the general election, focusing on the same groups — including independent voters and Latinos — and about a dozen states where they think the contest is likely to be decided this fall, campaign aides said. Senators John McCain and Barack Obama are already drawing up strategies for taking each other on in the general election, focusing on ... more
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Otros Amores / Other Loves
Take to the streets of Oaxaca, Mexico for an earful about other forms of love. VC2 producer, Joe Wilson won the Videomaker Challenge with this pod. The prize: a Sony HDR-FX1. Congrats Joe! Take to the streets of Oaxaca, Mexico for an earful about other forms of love. VC2 producer, Joe Wilson won the Videomaker Challenge w... more
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U.S. Stamp Commemorates Chicano Martyr
"Lost in the controversy over his death and the violent repression of the National Chicano Moratorium rally (attended by 30,000 people) against the Vietnam War – was the historic nature of [Ruben Salazar's] journalism. Clearly, he was a journalist before his time and what he reported in the El Paso Herald Post and the Los Angeles Times, from 1955 through 1970, still seems relevant to this day. He covered an unpopular war; Vietnam. He also covered Cuba, the Dominican Republic and the upheaval in Mexico in the 1960s. He also wrote about the anti-war movement, black-brown relations, police repression, the border, the inhumane treatment of migrants, the trouble in the lettuce fields, and social and educational inequalities...
While not an activist, his journalism brought the emerging Chicano civil rights movement to the nation’s attention. He defined for the nation – in language that mainstream society understood – what it meant to be Chicano." "Lost in the controversy over his death and the violent repression of the National Chicano Moratorium rally (attended by 30,000 p... more
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