Manuelcha Prado
18/06/2007
Estos son los Lamentos Del Viejo Guitarrero de Manuelcha Prado, ayacuchano. Axé, Manuelcha, y que vivan los pueblos de Ayacucho. Axé.
Patriarchal Women IV: A Manifesto
17/06/2007
Patriarchy is of course held together by a number of ideological state apparatuses. Churches and schools are obvious examples. My observations suggest to me that the following, “softer” instututions, even though apparently “feminist” or modifiable to feminist ends, often function as running dogs of patriarchy: 1. Academic departments of Women’s Studies: they are called this, … More Patriarchal Women IV: A Manifesto
Patriarchal Women III
16/06/2007
The woman in PW II would like me to be more “emotional.” This means, I have learned, that I am not feeling the same set of emotions my interlocutor would like me to feel. I am against the current emphasis on emotion in our culture because it is not about emotion, but about politics. After … More Patriarchal Women III
Per Petterson
16/06/2007
En el blog de Lisa, supe del escritor noruego Per Petterson, quien dice: “If you consider it, what you say has less importance in your life compared to what you think. The words you say are also outnumbered by your thoughts.” Per Petterson “I wanted to do what the good writers did, and I knew … More Per Petterson
Things I Would Like to Say…
15/06/2007
…in the book review I am currently writing [details have, of course, been duly and heavily disguised]: These are the overheated scribblings of a professor desirous of promotion, who has been up too late at too many Cultural Studies reading groups composed of scholars slightly more intelligent than he, and whose prose has been infected … More Things I Would Like to Say…
Bandera Tricolor E
15/06/2007
FOR EXPLANATION AND SOURCE SEE BANDERA TRICOLOR “The Department of Labor does basically nothing,” says Jeff West of LLS. “It’s up to us,” he says, to insure workers are not mistreated. The effectiveness of this voluntary system depends on the whims of contractors. LLS managers–who charge workers a relatively low $165 fee–know many recruits by … More Bandera Tricolor E
Bandera Tricolor D
15/06/2007
FOR EXPLANATION AND SOURCE SEE BANDERA TRICOLOR With thousands of new guest workers pouring into the Gulf Coast in the wake of Rita and Katrina, such conflicts have multiplied as the region has become a test case for the use of foreign temporary labor. If Congress passes an expanded guest-worker program, some labor experts believe, … More Bandera Tricolor D
Bandera Tricolor C
15/06/2007
FOR EXPLANATION AND SOURCE SEE BANDERA TRICOLOR “Where we are there’s very little work,” Ana Maria Méndez, 25, tells me. She and a cousin made the eighteen-hour car trip from their small town in Veracruz, where most people subsist on homegrown corn and beans. Now Méndez fidgets nervously on a chair in the LLS waiting … More Bandera Tricolor C
Bandera Tricolor B
15/06/2007
FOR EXPLANATION AND SOURCE SEE BANDERA TRICOLOR While unfamiliar to most Americans, the program has become the template for an expanded guest-worker program now being hotly debated in Congress. Proponents of the plan argue that temporary labor visas give immigrants greater rights and protections while providing employers with a reliable labor force. Yet workers, labor … More Bandera Tricolor B
Bandera Tricolor A
15/06/2007
FOR EXPLANATION AND SOURCE SEE BANDERA TRICOLOR It’s late afternoon at the Latin Labor Solutions recruitment office in Monterrey, Mexico, and hundreds of prospective workers are crammed into the narrow alleyway between the office and the building next door, waiting restlessly in the 90-degree heat. They perch on duffel bags or lean against the stucco … More Bandera Tricolor A
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