An old friend in the border city El Paso writes, lamenting that she looked drab at a recent protest against the idea of building a wall to keep out immigrants.
It’s hard to believe she came off as less than fabulous, since she’s a veteran street campaigner, versed in the art of political buttons, placards, [...]
Miss Teen Mexico US Latina’s gown is aqua, shiny, liquid and long. Just like the Rio Grande River, and surely you wouldn’t want it — or her — trussed up and blocked by ugly old concrete or girders. Miss TMUSL (her name is Breeana Shaw) doesn’t like that idea. Lovely Miss Texas Latina, [...]
Read MoreTo make it to the Republican presidential caucuses, former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani has been flip flopping the cosmopolitan stances he used to take on gay, women’s and immigrant rights. Once he supported them; now he’s against. And lately, he’s adopted another opportunistic tad: implying that Staten Island is a center for [...]
Read MoreSeriously, New York City needs to screen Nacho Libre for our cops. That’s the implication of today’s news that an immigrant arrested in May while wearing a mask at a protest march was just vindicated in court. The case has been covered by the Spanish-language paper El Diario, but ignored by the mainstream media. That’s [...]
Read MoreBowing to anti-immigation pressure yesterday, the Bush Admin announced that US employers now have 90 days to clear up worker social security numbers that don’t match with the government’s database. After that, employers who don’t fire out-of-status workers will face criminal sanctions. So will employees.
According a guy I know in the Mexico state San [...]
I’m doing some work in Mexico and just got back from buying a comb at the Wal-Mart in San Luis Potosi. A report in the US press recently noted that Mexico Wal-mart, which I think is that country’s largest employer, uses merchandise baggers who work for no salary, no wages, no benefits: nothing except tips. [...]
Read MoreThe New York Times yesterday finally took hold of the “New Dirt on Eichenwald and Justin Berry” story, after being scooped days ago by Counterpunch. That publication sent me to cover the hearing in Nashville last week, where a judge rejected Kurt Eichenwald’s motion to quash subpoenas. They seek evidence that Eichenwald paid additional [...]
Read MoreKurt Eichenwald is in more trouble today, as new evidence emerged that he secretly paid even more money to teen porn maker Justin Berry, besides the $2,000 check which embarrassed him and the New York Times earlier this year (see my previous post, “Eichenwald Dustup” for background).
For the latest, see my reporting in today’s online [...]
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