new feed for hermana resist blog posts to as to your lj friend thingie:
http://syndicated.livejournal.com/hermanarsst/

have paid accounts round these parts?
I need to add my site's feed to the LJ syndication page thingie here:
http://www.livejournal.com/syn/index.bml
towards the bottom, add this:

http://www.hermanaresist.com/feed/
gracias!
*this is for that friend who asked for it, I had changed my directory to the blog and thats why the old syndication wasn't working.

Indigenous Peoples' Day Is Monday the 8th of October. Please for the love of everything that is holy, don't have a Columbus Day Sale at your Distro/ Store/ Site...

thank you.

I've just completed Hermana, Resist: The Poetry Collection.
It's $5.
Via mail, add $1.
Paypal to csdistro@gmail.com or to
Noemi Martinez
PO box 621
Edinburg, TX  78540

( why should you read it?  )

i was born under the sign of the dragon,
a survivor
not a victim, or a number
to accompany your article.
Not a stat, or a percentage
or data to formulate your scientific opinion.
My definition is not up for debate.

These are the truths-
verbal abuse is Not
freedom of speech.
Sticks and stones
do not apply
in adult conversations
and how simple minded to tell me
it would apply
in such a situation,
that words carry no weight
and words are just empty.
What position have you been in
and what scars do I have to show
to make you go away with
your fucked up ideas
on what is not
abuse
and what is not
abuse by your
definitions
if bruises show up
on skin
to what degree
do you weigh them?
Do you measure width, tone?
Distance from heart?
Sit there and tell me what
abuse is and what
abuse is not
and all I can do
is not leap up
at your words
and strike
with what you believe is
the only form of abuse,
my fists.


Maybe it's a defense
mechanism
because you see
yourself behind
the mask,
flinging words
at your lovers
and it was not abuse,
no it was empty.
It was not meant
to hurt, no
it was empty.
but I am not trying
to get inside your
head, it was
never my intention
to empathize with
abusers.
And another thing,
defender of free speech man,
why must
we chant, like children
"sticks and stones"
why not say mantras
like that
are not needed in
exchanges between
lovers.
See it's clear to me
what the definition of
abuse is,
it's clear to me
when words are meant to hurt
it's clear to me,
what side of the table
you sit.

Words leave scars
that your pri-vile-ged
self can't realize,
or see
or understand.
and words can carve
out niches in hearts
and thighs
and words
are daggers
meant to kill,
caress lightly &
leave imprints
reminders,
repetitious,
don't always form
calluses.
I leave you to
live in your
free speech state
with your rose-colored
glasses,
born under
the perfect son.

This Is The First Concert in Protest of Proposed Border Wall On The Rio Grande

MEDIA ADVISORY: UPDATED PRESS RELEASE

 

Contact: Daniel García, Cine El Rey Media Consultant

(956) 358-7211

 

This Is The First Concert in Protest of Proposed Border Wall On The Rio Grande

 

Cine El Rey presents “No Wall” Concert by BOMBASTA on June 30, 2007

With Special Guest Spoken Word Poets

 

Urban Latino. Grassroots Politicos. Spanglish Mixologists. This is Bombasta!

 

WHO: Bombasta (Band from San Antonio) in Concert

Special Guests: Poets Lina Suárez, Lady Mariposa, La Erika Garza-Johnson, Noemí Martínez

Civil Rights/Pro-Immigration Reform Groups will have informational tables and No Border Wall bumber stickers and other materials to distribute in theater lobby.

 

WHAT: Reggae, Cumbia, Hip Hop and Latino Funk Band Live In Concert

With spoken word performances by Rio Grande Valley poets.

 

WHEN: June 30, 2007. Doors open at 7 p.m.

 

WHERE: Historic Cine El Rey, opened in 1947 (Celebrating its 60th Year!) at 311 S. 17^th St., McAllen

COST: $10 (Mezzanine); $15 (Floor VIP); $25 (VIP)

 

FYI: Box Office: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. 956-971-9829

 

http://www.cineelrey.com.

http://www.bombasta.com

http://www.myspace.com/bombasta

For information on Featured Poets visit www.elzarapepress.com/popa.html

 

They seized the truck, several bags of marijuana and, presumably, a whole lot of ice cream.

http://www.themonitor.com/news/driver_2611___article.html/police_ice.html

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This Easter, the chocolate industry cannot guarantee our chocolate is Traffik Free.

Nearly half the world's chocolate is made from cocoa grown in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa.

The 2000 US State Department Human Rights report said "It is estimated that some 15,000 Malian children work on Ivorian cocoa and coffee plantations. Many are under 12 years-of-age, sold into indentured servitude for $140, and work 12-hour days for $135 to $189 per year."

They are trafficked into forced labour so we can eat chocolate.

"I will tell you how I lost my arm. I tried to escape, but I could not. They caught me and tied me to a papaya tree and they beat me and broke my arm. From here my life was ruined."
Anonymous. Personal Interview, Côte d'Ivoire. Dec. 2005. ILRF (International Labour Rights Fund)

A young boy called Victor trafficked from Mali said:
"Tell your children that they have bought something that I suffered to make. When they are eating chocolate they are eating my flesh."

We have the power to help Victor and the thousands of children like him.

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