trafficking film

Here is that movie I mentioned in class, if anyone is interested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al3anBiHwmI

Directed by a woman, too!

Seen Not Heard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91Uqr4Wczck

In this video the cultural differences of women in Iran and America are discussed. The girl also talks about how her mother left Iran at 16 to come to America so that she could teach and have a better life. The video highlights on women in two societies with different cultures,values, and struggles, but both being connected by sexism.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/27/nyregion/motive-for-stabbings-a-mystery-as-a-portrait-of-a-troubled-nanny-emerges.html?pagewanted=all

Thought this was interesting, I would like to know if there was more to the story.

SRod

So yesterday we had a class discussion on English and how it would be easier if it was our National Language. I agree that it would be a lost easier for people to communicate and get closer to achieving the "American Dream" if there was one language that everyone spoke. On the other hand I don't agree with it because America is supposed to be a "melting pot" and well I think that throughout history even though America "welcomes" people from many other places, it's become too "American". Now let me try and explain what I mean. Throughout my classes I've learned that cultures have there similarities and differences and then I seem to see there's this new culture, the American culture. I think that anyone living in the United States whom is a citizen is very privileged, theres laws that protect us, our voices our heard, we are free. The thing is that it seems that people forget where they come from, just because you live in America does not mean that is all you are. I think that people should dig in their roots and realize that there is more to them then USA. Back to the national language thing, I believe that as young kids, we should have the opportunity to learn other languages, since that is when it is easier to learn them. Instead of having one language why not two or three, that way when we are older we can travel to other countries that speak these languages and be able to communicate, not only with pople from our country but other countries too.


-Stephanie Rodriguez

Feminist Slam-Katie Makkai - Pretty

I may be late to the drawl on this one- but in case any of you haven't seen it yet, I thought it was pretty awesome.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6wJl37N9C0

Courage and Hope

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax96cghOnY4&feature=player_embedded

Saying goodbye to MAC makeup...

I attended the Anarchist meeting last week on the quad and learned one of my favorite makeup lines, MAC, had come out with a line for Fall dedicated to Juarez, Mexico.  Instead of calling attention to the horror of living in a Mexican border town it decided to, quoting Jezebel blog on Salon.com, "aestheticize real violence." 

Women are being raped and murdered in these border towns, often in the very maquiladoras they work.  As a rape and domestic violence survivor myself how can I in good conscience wear something that makes me look beautiful knowing the veneer on my face endorses the same suffering of my Latina sisters, and beyond  to encapsulate a horror in Juarez I have no desire to know. 

I'm too scared to run down to Tiajuana, Juarez, Hidalgo, or other border towns.  I don't know the language.  I'm an outsider.  I would get shot in a minute.  But I'm not too scared to return my MAC makeup from whence it came. 

Please, if you have some MAC on your shelves, join me in boycotting further purchases of their makeup.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laplaza/2010/07/juarez-fashion-label-rodarte-women.html