Declaraciones Juventud Afrodescendiente/Declarations of the Afro-descendant youth

(In English below)

Declaración de los y las Jóvenes Afro descendientes de América Latina y el Caribe “Los Derechos Humanos y los Jóvenes Afro descendientes en la Región de las Américas” Estado del Arte y Desafíos

Cali Colombia, 13 al 17 de marzo del 2007

Preámbulo:

Saludamos al Comité Organizador del Encuentro denominado “Los Derechos Humanos y los Jóvenes Afro descendientes en la Región de las Américas” por la construcción y celebración de esta instancia sumamente importante en lo que tiene que ver con el seguimiento y la continuidad del proceso en la articulación de los resultados de la III Conferencia Mundial Contra el Racismo, la Discriminación Racial , la Xenofobia y las formas Conexas de intolerancia.

Saludamos a los organismos internacionales de juventud, a las agencias de cooperación, y a todos aquellos organismos que están comprometidos en la lucha de los pueblos y comunidades afro descendientes contra el racismo, la discriminación racial, la xenofobia y todas las formas conexas de intolerancia. IIICMRD

Resaltamos que los países de América Latina y el Caribe viven realidades distintas y conforman una región con gran diversidad sociocultural y étnica, que comparten grandes dificultades, específicamente la inequidad y la pobreza. La región presenta la peor distribución de ingresos en el mundo, por lo que nuestro principal desafío es superar esta desigualdad, la acumulación de la riqueza, el racismo, la discriminación, la xenofobia, el sexismo, la homofobia y la intolerancia en todas sus formas.

Vemos con absoluta preocupación la no inclusión de los temas específicos de niñez, adolescencia y juventud; grupos étarios que representan en la práctica los sectores más vulnerables, víctimas de racismo y discriminación racial en términos de sus Derechos Humanos, Políticos, Económicos, Sociales , Culturales y ambientales a nivel de toda América Latina y el Caribe.

Subrayamos que la realidad de los y las jóvenes afrodescendientes a nivel de los indicadores de Desarrollo Humano, está íntimamente ligados con la situación anterior y constituyen una grave violación a los Derechos Humanos.

Afirmamos que las comunidades afrodescendientes se encuentran ubicadas en zonas de importancia estratégica para el desarrollo de los países de América Latina, sin embargo vemos como en los últimos años la pobreza, la marginalidad y la exclusión agrava la situación de los afro descendientes; el desplazamiento forzado, el racismo ambiental profundizan las inequedidades de estos pueblos.

Afirmamos la necesidad de que los Estados combatan las manifestaciones de rechazo hacia los migrantes, inmigrantes y refugiados y los actos racistas que generan comportamientos xenofóbicos a estos pueblos y también afirmamos la necesidad de proteger los derechos humanos garantizados por la Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos.

Recordamos que los 191 países miembros de las Naciones Unidas se comprometieron en cumplir los Objetivos de Desarrollo Del Milenio, establecidos por la Cumbre del Milenio (realizada en la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas / 8 de septiembre del 2000). En ese sentido para cumplir con dichos objetivos, consideramos que los estados deben profundizar los esfuerzos para superar las inequidades que tienen en la base el racismo y la discriminación racial.

Enfatizamos que América Latina y el Caribe viven limitadas sus oportunidades de desarrollo por una gran deuda pública y las desfavorables condiciones que se han establecido para garantizar su cumplimiento. Será imposible para nuestros países alcanzar los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio (ODMs), con las condiciones de pago establecidas y se hacen necesario reformular esas condiciones, que permitan a nuestros países invertir los recursos necesarios para un desarrollo equitativo.

Recordando que en el marco de la Conferencia Ciudadana contra el Racismo celebrada en Santiago de Chile (2000), la Conferencia Mundial contra el Racismo, la discriminación racial, la xenofobia y todas las formas conexas de intolerancia realizada en Durban(2001) y la Conferencia Regional de las Américas “AVANCES Y DESAFÍOS EN EL PLAN DE ACCIÓN CONTRA EL RACISMO, DISCRIMINACIÓN RACIAL, XENOFOBIA E INTOLERANCIAS CONEXAS ”, celebrada en Brasilia, los y las jóvenes de América latina y el Caribe, a través de los espacios oficiales de discusión, ejercimos una importante incidencia en lo que respecta a los resultados finales emanados en las declaraciones y planes de acción. En tal sentido resaltamos lo siguiente:

Que los insumos derivados de la Declaración de Santiago de Chile en materia de juventud fueron la base conceptual e ideológica de la Declaración y Plan de Acción de la Cumbre Internacional de la juventud “Unidos para combatir el racismo: una Visión Juvenil” celebrada una semana antes de la III CMCRD.

Que los y las jóvenes afrodescendientes desde la realización de las anteriores conferencias, hemos continuado en el trabajo de fortalecimiento, visibilización, aplicación e implementación de las conclusiones y planes allí definidos.

En ese sentido se requieren mayores medidas de los organismos internacionales e instituciones financieras para la cooperación técnica y financiera, que posibilite la consecución y continuidad de nuestros planes y programas de acción.

Recordamos que en estos cinco años un gran numero de decretos, resoluciones y protocolos de cooperación fueron promulgados por los estados y un intenso debate acerca de la oportunidad y la necesidad de políticas publicas para la promoción de la igualdad racial en América Latina y el Caribe, sin embargo la situación de los Derechos económicos, sociales, culturales, territoriales y ambientales de los afro descendientes sigue siendo una preocupación importante, ya que vemos un retroceso en algunos países de la región .

Consideramos que es preciso remarcar que de las 219 medidas del Programa de Acción de Durban, hay medidas importantes que no fueron implementadas, como las que recomiendan fondos preferenciales para las áreas habitadas por las comunidades y pueblos afrodescendientes, así como también reparaciones y compensaciones en aspectos económicos y jurídicos, reconocimiento de los medios de comunicación alternativos y comunitarios como vehículos de expresión, la necesidad de medidas eficaces para combatir los actos criminales motivados por el racismo en especial en las juventudes afrodescendientes y políticas de salud especificas para estas poblaciones.

Reconocemos el importante rol que juegan los y las jóvenes en la efectivizacion de la estrategia regional, de monitoreo, seguimiento para combatir el racismo y promover la equidad racial, de genero, y las alianzas con los diferentes grupos étnicos, diferentes generaciones y diferentes movimientos de diversidad sexual; con la finalidad de crear mecanismos institucionalizados para abordar los temas de discriminación racial, racismo y las formas conexas de intolerancia, a través de la Red de Jóvenes de Alianza Estratégica Afrolatina y caribeña.

En ese sentido los y las jóvenes reunidos proponemos:

1- Evaluar y monitorear las políticas públicas adoptadas por los estados y elaborar informes regionales de estadísticas desagregadas por las diferentes variables e indicadores sobre los pueblos afro descendientes y sobre su situación de vulnerabilidad, puntualizando el tema juvenil.

2- Es importante apuntar a la ley de cuotas para garantizar la igualdad entre los sexos y la autonomía de las mujeres afrodescendientes en todas las dimensiones de la vida, respetando las especificidades de los diferentes grupos étnicos, generaciones y diversas orientaciones sexuales, como forma de asegurar los derechos humanos, entre ellos los derechos sexuales y reproductivos, el derecho a una vida libre de violencia, el derecho a tomar decisiones sobre su cuerpo, el derecho a la equidad salarial y el derecho a participar en la vida económica de sus países.

3- Es necesario generar programas específicos con el fin de establecer la asignación de recursos técnicos y financieros para la sostenibilidad de planes, programas, proyectos y propuestas elaboradas y presentadas por las organizaciones de jóvenes afrodescendientes sin detrimento de su autonomía.

4- Demandamos a los organismos internacionales, agencias de cooperación e instituciones públicas y privadas a que apoyen las agendas de los jóvenes afro descendientes, reafirmando así la autonomía y el ejercicio de sus Derechos.

5- Recomendamos vehementemente a los organismos internacionales y agencias de cooperación a que los programas diseñados para y por los y las jóvenes afro descendientes, sean asumidos y dirigidos por organizaciones juveniles, redes y movimientos reconocidos por estos pueblos.

6- Exigimos a los Estados de América Latina y el Caribe implementar medidas y políticas tendientes a resolver la violencia en todas sus manifestaciones: la violencia de Estado, en especial la violencia policial, militar y jurídica; violencia política, institucional, doméstica, de género, sexual, homofóbica, racial, simbólica, violencias que son resultado de la implementación de las políticas económicas, y otras formas de violencia sufridas por los grupos históricamente marginados; y, por supuesto, violencia a niveles de los conflictos armados que existen en algunos de los países de la región.

7- Demandamos a los gobiernos promover equitativamente, la infraestructura y el acceso a nuevas tecnologías de información y comunicación, incluyendo el internet y los medios de comunicación alternativa y comuntaria para contribuir a la democratización de las informaciones en la lucha contra el racismo, discriminación racial, xenofobia y todas las formas conexas de intolerancia.

8- Exigimos a los estados asignar recursos económicos, de forma resguardada para la implementación de las medidas asumidas en III CMCR, a fin de erradicar la Pobreza , garantizar el cumplimiento de los derechos humanos y en particular las victimas de racismo, xenofobia y otras formas de intolerancia.

9- Afirmamos la necesidad de consolidar los instrumentos y mecanismos legales de protección de los derechos humanos de los y las jóvenes afro descendientes, garantizando el acceso y la pertinencia por parte de los Estados.

Reafirmamos la validez de las Conferencias regionales y los productos resultantes de estas, organizadas en Estrasburgo, Santiago de Chile, Dakar, Teherán , Sudáfrica, Taller Regional para la Adopción e Implementación de Acciones Afirmativas para LAC, Declaración y Plan de Acción de la Cumbre Internacional de la Juventud “Unidos para combatir el racismo: una visión juvenil” y la Conferencia de Regional de las Américas Avances y Desafíos en la lucha contra el racismo, la discriminación racial, la xenofobia y todas las formas de intolerancia.

Articulaciones Regionales:

Alianza estratégica Afrolatina y caribeña.

Red de Jóvenes Afrodescendientes de América Latina y el Caribe

Centros Regionales de Análisis y Políticas de Promoción de Equidad Racial

Países:

Brasil:

Centro Regional de Análisis y Promoción de Políticas por la Equidad Racial CRAPPER – Brasil.

Centro de Estudios de las Relaciones Raciales Desigualdades - CEERT

Organización de Mujeres Jóvenes - Negras Activas.

Colectivo Hip hop Chama.

Chile:

Organización de Afrodescendientes - Lumbanga

Colombia:

Proceso de Comunidades Negras en Colombia – PCN.

Corporación Ancestros

Palenque Regional el Congal

Palenque Regional del Alto Cauca

Palenque Regional Currulao.

Palenque Regional Benkos Kusuto.

Cooperativa de Profesionales Afrodescendientes y beneficiarios del fondo de créditos para las comunidades Afrocolombianas.

Asociación de Jóvenes Afrodescendientes charqueños. AJAC

Instituto de Estudios para el Desarrollo y la Paz - INDEPAZ

Ecuador:

Fundación de Desarrollo Social y Cultural Afroecuatoriana “Azúcar”

Centro de Investigación de Familias Negras CIFANE

Centro Regional de Análisis y Promoción de Políticas por la Equidad Racial CRAPPER – Ecuador.

Perú:

Centro Regional de Análisis y Promoción de Políticas por la Equidad Racial CRAPPER – Perú.

Centro de Desarrollo Étnico - CEDET

Uruguay:

Organizaciones Mundo Afro/ Centro Regional de Análisis y Promoción de Políticas por la Equidad Racial CRAPPER

Red Nacional de Mujeres Jóvenes Afro

Costa Rica:

Dialectos - Centro de Formación, Estudio e investigación Interdisciplinaria en pro de la ciudadanía, la juventud actual y los Derechos Humanos.

Guatemala:

Comisión Presidencial para los Pueblos Garifunas o Afrodescendientes.

Declaration of those and the Youths African-American descendants from Latin America and the Caribbean "The Human rights and the descending African-American Youths in the Region of the America " State of the Art and Challenges

Cali Colombia , 13 at March 17 the 2007

Preamble:

We greet to the Organizing Committee of the denominated Encounter "The Human rights and the descending African-American Youths in the Region of the America" for the construction and celebration of this extremely important instance in what has to do with the pursuit and the continuity of the process in the articulation of the results of the III World Conference Against the Racism, the Racial Discrimination, the Xenophobia and the Related forms of intolerance.

We greet to youth's international organisms, to the cooperation agencies, and to all those organisms that are committed in the fight of the towns and descending African-American communities against the racism, the racial discrimination, the xenophobia and all the related forms of intolerance. IIICMRD

We stand out that the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean live different realities and they conform a region specifically with great sociocultural and ethnic diversity that you/they share big difficulties, the inequity and the poverty. The region presents the worst distribution of revenues in the world, for what our main challenge is to overcome this inequality, the accumulation of the wealth, the racism, the discrimination, the xenophobia, the sexism, the homofobia and the intolerance in all its forms.

We do with absolute concern the non inclusion of the specific topics of childhood, adolescence and youth; groups étarios that represent in the practice the most vulnerable sectors, victims of racism and racial discrimination in terms of their Human rights, Political, Economic, Social, Cultural and environmental to level of all Latin America and the Caribbean.

We underline that the reality of those and the young afrodescendientes at level of the indicators of Human Development, it is intimately bound with the previous situation and they constitute a serious violation to the Human rights.

We affirm that the communities afrodescendientes are located in areas of strategic importance for the development of the countries of Latin America, however we see like in the last years the poverty, the marginalidad and the exclusion increases the descending situation of the African-American one; the forced displacement, the environmental racism deepens the inequedidades of these towns.

We affirm the necessity that the States combats the manifestations of rejection toward the migrants, immigrants and refugees and the racist acts that generate xenophobic behaviors to these towns and we also affirm the necessity to protect the human rights guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of the Human rights.

We remember that the 191 countries members of the United Nations committed in completing the Objectives of Development Of the Millennium, settled down by the Summit of the Millennium (carried out in the General Assembly of the United Nations / September 8 the 2000). In that sense to fulfill this objectives, we consider that the states should deepen the efforts to overcome the inequities that have in the base the racism and the racial discrimination.

We emphasize that Latin America and the Caribbean live limited their development opportunities for a great public debt and the unfavorable conditions that they have settled down to guarantee their execution. It will be impossible for our countries to reach the Objectives of Development of the Millennium (ODMs), with the established payment conditions and they become necessary reformular those conditions that allow to our countries to invest the necessary resources for an equal development.

Remembering that in the mark of the Civic Conference against the Racism taken place in Santiago from Chile (2000), the World Conference against the Racism, the racial discrimination, the xenophobia and all the related forms of intolerance carried out in Durban(2001) and the Regional Conference of the America "you ADVANCE AND CHALLENGES IN THE PLAN OF ACTION AGAINST THE RACISM, RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, XENOPHOBIA AND RELATED INTOLERANCES ", taken place in Brasilia, those and the youths from Latin America and the Caribbean, through the official spaces of discussion, we exercised an important incidence in what concerns to the final results emanated in the declarations and action plans. In such a sense we stand out the following thing:

That the derived inputs of the Declaration of Santiago from Chile as regards youth were the conceptual and ideological base of the Declaration and Plan of Action of the youth's International Summit "United to combat the racism: a Juvenile Vision" celebrated one week before the III CMCRD.

That those and the young afrodescendientes from the realization of the previous conferences, we have continued in the invigoration work, visibilización, application and implementation of the conclusions and plans there defined.

In that sense bigger measures of the international organisms and financial institutions are required for the technical and financial cooperation that facilitates the attainment and continuity of our plans and action programs.

We remember that in these five years a great one numbers of ordinances, resolutions and cooperation protocols were promulgated by the states and an intense debate about the opportunity and the necessity of politicians you publish for the promotion of the racial equality in Latin America and the Caribbean, however the situation of the economic, social, cultural, territorial and environmental Rights of the African-American descendants continues being an important concern, since we see a setback in some countries of the region.

We consider that it is necessary to stress that of the 219 measures of the Program of Action of Durban, there are important measures that were not implemented, as those that recommend preferential funds for the areas inhabited by the communities and towns afrodescendientes, as well as repairs and compensations in economic and juridical aspects, recognition of the alternative and community media as expression vehicles, the necessity of effective measures the criminal acts motivated especially by the racism in the youths afrodescendientes to combat and political of health you specify for these populations.

We recognize the important list that those and the youths play in the efectivizacion of the regional strategy, of monitoreo, pursuit to combat the racism and to promote the racial justness, of I generate, and the alliances with the different groups ethnic, different generations and different movements of sexual diversity; with the purpose of creating mechanisms institutionalized to approach the topics of racial discrimination, racism and the related forms of intolerance, through the Net of Young of Strategic Alliance Afrolatina and Caribbean.

In that sense those and the gathered youths propose:

1 - to evaluate and monitorear the public politicians adopted by the states and to elaborate regional reports of statistical desagregadas for the different variables and indicators on the descending African-American towns and on their vulnerability situation, remarking the juvenile topic.

2 - it is important to point to the law of quotas to guarantee the equality between the sexes and the autonomy of the women afrodescendientes in all the dimensions of the life, respecting the specificities of the different ethnic groups, generations and diverse sexual orientations, like form of assuring the human rights, among them the sexual and reproductive rights, the right to a life free of violence, the right to make decisions on their body, the right to the salary justness and the right to participate in the economic life of their countries.

3 - it is necessary to generate specific programs with the purpose of establishing the assignment of technical resources and financiers for the sostenibilidad of plans, programs, projects and elaborated proposals and presented by the organizations of young afrodescendientes without detriment of their autonomy.

4 - we demand to the international organisms, cooperation agencies and public and private institutions to that support the calendars of the descending African-American youths, reaffirming this way the autonomy and the exercise of their Rights.

5 - we recommend vehemently to the international organisms and cooperation agencies to that the programs designed for and for those and the descending African-American youths, be assumed and directed by juvenile organizations, nets and movements recognized by these towns.

6 - we demand the States of Latin America and the Caribbean to implement measures and political tendientes to solve the violence in all their manifestations: the violence of State, especially the police, military and artificial violence; political, institutional violence, maidservant, of gender, sexual, homofóbica, racial, symbolic, violence that you/they are been in the implementation of the economic politicians, and other suffering ways of violence by the historically excluded groups; and, of course, violence at levels of the armed conflicts that exist in some of the countries of the region.

7 - we demand the governments to promote equally, the infrastructure and the access to new technologies of information and communication, including the internet and the alternative media and comuntaria to contribute to the democratization of the informations in the fight against the racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and all the related forms of intolerance.

8 - we demand to the states to assign economic resources, in way preserved for the implementation of the measures assumed in III CMCR, in order to eradicate the Poverty, to guarantee the execution of the human rights and in particular you kill them in racism, xenophobia and other ways of intolerance.

9 - we affirm the necessity to consolidate the instruments and legal mechanisms of protection of the human rights of those and the descending African-American youths, guaranteeing the access and the relevancy on the part of the States.

We reaffirm the validity of the regional Conferences and the resulting products of these, organized in Strasbourg, Santiago from Chile, Dakar, Teheran, Sudáfrica, Regional Shop for the Adoption and Implementation of Affirmative Actions for LAC, Declaration and Plan of Action of the Youth's International Summit "United to combat the racism: a juvenile vision" and the Conference of Regional of the America Advances and Challenges in the fight against the racism, the racial discrimination, the xenophobia and all the forms of intolerance.

Regional articulations:

Strategic alliance Afrolatina and Caribbean .

Net of Young Afrodescendientes of Latin America and the Caribbean

Regional centers of Analysis and Political of Promotion of Racial Justness

Countries:

Brazil:

I center Regional of Analysis and Promotion of Political for the Racial Justness CRAPPER - Brazil .

Center of Studies of the Relationships Racial Inequalities - CEERT

Organization of Young Women - Active Quarter notes.

Collective Hip hop Chama.

Chile:

Organization of Afrodescendientes - Lumbanga

Colombia:

Process of Black Communities in Colombia - PCN.

Corporation Ancestros

Regional fence the Congal

Regional fence of the High Cauca

Regional fence Currulao.

Regional fence Benkos Kusuto.

Cooperative of Professional Afrodescendientes and beneficiaries of the bottom of credits for the communities Afrocolombianas.

Association of Young Afrodescendientes charqueños. AJAC

Institute of Studies for the Development and the Peace - INDEPAZ

Ecuador:

Foundation of Social and Cultural Development Afroecuatoriana "Sugar"

Center of Investigation of Black Families CIFANE

I center Regional of Analysis and Promotion of Political for the Racial Justness CRAPPER - Ecuador .

Peru:

I center Regional of Analysis and Promotion of Political for the Racial Justness CRAPPER - Peru .

I center of Ethnic Development - CEDET

Uruguay:

Organizations African-American World / I Center Regional of Analysis and Promotion of Political for the Racial Justness CRAPPER

African-American National net of Young Women

Costa Rica:

Dialects - Center of Formation, Study and Interdisciplinary investigation in pro of the citizenship, the current youth and the Human rights.

Guatemala:

Presidential commission for the Towns Garifunas or Afrodescendientes.

Ethnomusicologist talk on Morocco/Charla etnomusicológica sobre Marruecos

Deborah Kapchan
Department of Performance Studies
NYU

"Moroccan Trance Music in Transit: Gender and the Spirits of
Capitalism"

Thursday, March 29th
4:55-6:10 pm

Silver Center 207
100 Washington Square East

petardo puerto
http://www.elpais.com.co/paisonline/notas/Marzo172007/atentado.html

"Sound in the Era of Mechanical Reproduction"

"Sound in the Era of Mechanical Reproduction"

November 2-3, 2007

Hagley Library, Wilmington, Delaware

For the conference, "Sound in the Era of Mechanical Reproduction,"
the Center for the History of Business, Technology and Society
invites proposals for empirically based historical papers that
analyze sound in commercial, technological, and legal environments
since the late 19th century. The conference will take place November
2-3, 2007 at the Hagley Library in Wilmington, Delaware. Our
principal interest is in papers that explore the integration of sound
with the commercial practices of music, radio, film, and television,
and the commercial engineering of sound in social environments such
as shopping and the workplace. Proposals can consider the legal and
cultural implications of innovations in technology and business
practices, such as the impact on the political economy of sound and
notions of sound and sound-based products as property. We also
encourage papers that explore sources of innovation in sound and
music (especially from communities and/or business enterprises
defined by ethnicity, race, or region), as well as those focusing on
the transnational circulation of sound-related technologies and
business practices.

Proposals should be no more than 500 words and accompanied by a short
cv. Deadline for submissions is March 31, 2007. The program committee
includes David Suisman, Susan Strasser, Philip Scranton and Roger
Horowitz. Travel support is available for those presenting papers at
the conference. To submit a proposal or to obtain more information,
contact Carol Lockman, Hagley Museum and Library, PO Box 3630,
Wilmington DE 19807, 302-658-2400, ext. 243; 302-655-3188 (fax);
clockman@Hagley.org.

Carol Ressler Lockman
Hagley Museum & Library
PO Box 3630
Wilmington DE 19807
Email: clockman@hagley.org
Visit the website at http://www.hagley.org

Conference - Ethnic Studies and labor in the Corporate University

An important conference given the state of a university like mine (NYU), which is on a heavy neoliberal kick - combining departments (to fire staff), busting unions (they claim that teaching assistants don't work), etc. Nonetheless, for us academics, this is the nature of the beast we work in.

Humanities or Human Resources? The Future of Ethnic Studies and Labor in the Corporate University

Friday, April 13, 2007
New York University
Department of Social and Cultural Analysis
41 E. 11th Street, 7th Floor
NY, NY 10003


As corporate models of management and decision-making take hold of more and more colleges and universities, a growing number of students, faculty and staff are facing threats to ethnic studies programs, assaults on the integrity of academic decision-making, and the casualization of the university labor force. This conference will engage the debates surrounding what has been termed the corporate university, especially those debates that address questions of race, gender, sexuality, ability, nation, and class.

Speakers and presenters include Professor George Sanchez, Director of the Program in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California; Alexis Shotwell, Graduate Student in the History of Conscious Program, University of California at Santa Cruz; and Professor Randy Martin, Director of the Graduate Program in Arts Politics at New York University.

The conference is free, open to the public and sponsored by New York University's Program in American Studies.

For more information and to register, please visit http://corporateuniversityconference.blogspot.com .

Allan Green v Edison Miranda Video

AI cartoon on demobilization/Caricatura de Amnistía Internacional sobre la desmobilización

I know, I know, first I'm talking trash on Shakira, and now this - I'm probably pushing my luck. But you've gotta check out this little animated cartoon by Amnesty International, making fun of the paramilitary demobilization. Link/Enlace It has apparently ticked off the Colombian government, according to El Tiempo. It's kind of funny, in that ironic-spoof-on-the-1950s-consumerism-and-saccharine-pop-culture genre that liberal white people seem to like, but the more important points are that it links the farce of demobilization to a justification for US aid ("don't worry folks, human rights are under control," we are told, as Colombian congresspeople and even a Cabinet minister are revealed to be in bed with the paramilitaries guilty of massacres, extortion, and drug trafficking for over a decade) and shows the "demobilized" paramilitaries becoming paid government informers. What this informant thing means is that paramilitaries and guerrillas from groups like the FARC turn themselves in to the government and are subsequently paid by the head for people they turn in to the government. They often invent things just to get the money and their victims, guilty or not, end up getting incarcerated if they're lucky, and kidnapped, tortured, disappeared, and killed if they are not. It's also pretty sad for the ex-combatants themselves, many forcibly drafted by these armed groups and then, demobilised, put into this kind of setting. Scary. And funded by the taxes we are about to pay on April 15 here in the US.

Noticias/News

• Colombia abrueba entrada de maíz geneticamente modificada al país, a pesar de temores que contamine los cultivos de máiz natural. Enlace (traducido)
• Colombia approves importation of genetically modified corn, despite fears that it will contaminate natural corn crops. Link
• Cierran colegio en Buenaventura por amenazas. Enlace
• School in Buenaventura closed after teachers receive death threats. Link (translated)
• Plata para (algunos pocos) desplazados en Cali. Enlace
• Money for (a few) displaced people in Cali, many of whom are from the Pacific. Link (translated)
• Porteños protestan recorte de $3.000 millones de pesos del presupuesto del Hospital Departamental de Buenaventura. Enlace
• Protests in Buenaventura over 3 billion peso cut in the budget of the Departmental Hospital of Buenaventura. Link (translated)
• Shakira va a la India. Enlace Ahí, como en todas partes, les gusta "Hips Don't Lie." Personalmente, esa canción me parece una mierda que hicieron en 5 minutos en un estudio con un sample de una salsa y de un clarinete colombiano con ese Wyclef que por vendido no tiene ninguna credibilidad dentro del hip-hop. Pero bueno, perdoname la vida por no cumplir con mi obligación como colombiano de entusiasmarme por cualquier pendejada que muestre una Colombia positiva al mundo aunque sea de la más mediocre.
• Shakira's going to India. Link (translated) Seems like there, like everywhere else in the world, people love "Hips Don't Lie." Personally, I hate that frickin song, which was assembled in 5 minutes in a studio from one sample of a salsa song and one sample of a Colombian clarinet, with Wyclef who's happy to have a camera to cheese-grin into since he has no hip-hop cred whatsoever. But hey, that' s just me, sorry for not keeping my responsibility as a Colombian to love any mediocre piece of crap that shows a positive Colombai to the world.
  

Notes on currulao/Notas sobre el currulao

Link English y español.

Academy-Community in Philly/La academia y la comunidad en Filadelfia

Link

Menudo Reality Show (Baudrillard would've appreciated it/A Baudrillard le habría gustado)

Juntate a la nueva generación Menudo! Sé parte de la "mVasión"!
Enlace
Enlace (traducido)

Be part of the new generation of Menudo! Join the "mVasion"!
Link
Link (translated)

RIP Jean Baudrillard QEPD

Baudrillard died yesterday.
Ayer murió Baudrillard.

Wikipedia
El Tiempo
An annotated bibliography


Jean Baudrillard is "a talisman: a symptom, a sign, a charm, and above all, a password into the next universe," (Kroker and Levin, BC 5); if you read too much Baudrillard "you are in danger of turning into a hyper-reader, and transforming the text under the power of your imagination into something of the sort it became in the hands of the Neo Geos and their apologists. At this point you are taking Baudrillard too seriously," (Danto, 48); "Baudrillard has begun to work equally hard at playing the Disappearing Theorist. He has progressively and deliberately abandoned the protocols of systematic research, scrupulous argument, thesis formulation, 'critique' -- in favor of a style of personal jotting (and jaunting) about the world ... this travelling man is no Mad Max. There's no sense in Baudrillard's glass bubble that anything nasty might happen," (Morris, HR, 28-9). "The upshot of Baudrillard's analyses is to license a kind of intellectual dandyism," (Callinicos, 147). And so, "in the end, does Theory ... come to embrace itself as work-of-art, dire object, and absolute commodity," (Morris, 101, 210).

News/Noticias

• Bush in Latin America/Bush en Latinoamérica. Analysis in English/Análisis en español.
  
• Chocó hospital declared unhygienic. Link (translated)
• Supersalud intervino hospital en el Chocó. Enlace
• Otra avalancha en la vía Cali-B/tura mata a 2. (Porqué no arreglan esa vaina ya? Claro que no lo van a hacer para la gente, al gobierno la gente la zona no le importa nada, pero con todo la carreta que echan sobre el trato con la Cuenca Pacífica y el Mar del Siglo XXI y no sé que más, por lo menos que piensen en mter plata a corto plazo para mejorar la economía para el futuro!) Enlace
• Another avalnche on the Cali-Buenaventura highway kills two. (They need to take care of that already. Of course the government doesn't care about the people of the area, but with all of the blah blah blah about trade with the Pacific Rim and the Sea of the 21st Century and all that, you'd think they'd put up the money in the short run to help the economy in the long run, I mean Buenaventura is the largest port in the country and they can't even keep the road out in operation for 2 months without a mudslide?!) Link (translated)
• Mejor película colombiana en Festival en Cartagena - por sorpresa tiene que ver con Medallo en los 80. Mientras algunos están inconforme porque preferirían ver una muestra máws positiva de Colombia, lo que a mi me da vaina es que Medallo en los 80 parece tener un monopolio sobre la violencia. Unos berracos los paisas, que le den chance a Siloco, al Urabá, a San Onofre, a Cúcuta, a Barranca, a Buenaventura... Enlace
• The best colombian film named in the Cartagena Film Festival - surprise, just like Vendedora de Rosas, Rodrigo D, Rosario Tijeras, Sicario and all those gory Colombian classics, it's set in Medellín in the 80s. Now some people might complain because they want Colombian filmmakers to show a more positive side of Colombia, my beef is that Medellín in the 80s has a monopoly on violence. Hey, give somebody else a chance, how about showing violence in Cali, in San Onofre, in Cúcuta, in Barrancabermeja, in Buenaventura... Link (translated)
• Cogen 160 mil discos chiviados en Bogotá. Enlace A ver si aparecen todos para el proceso o si los tombos cogen sus copias de Perro Karateka para vender como la última vez.
• Authorities find 160,000 pirate discs in Bogotá. Link (translated) The only question is, will there still be 160,000 when it comes up for trial or will the cops take a few copies of Dunston Checks In to sell like last time?
  

Revista TRANS quiere tu artículo/CFP from TRANS journal

CONVOCATORIA PARA ARTÍCULOS

Dossier especial sobre Música y estudios sobre Performance

Trans. Revista Transcultural de Música

Editor invitado: Alejandro L. Madrid

Fecha límite para recibir resúmenes: 1 de septiembre de 2007

Fecha límite para recibir artículos definitivos: 1 de septiembre de 2008

Trans. Revista Transcultural de Música hace una invitación a los estudiosos a enviar artículos para el dossier especial interdisciplinario Música y estudios sobre performance que será editado por Alejandro L. Madrid (Universidad de Illinois en Chicago). Los estudios sobre performance constituyen una disciplina emergente que, por medio de la interacción de teorías sociales y estéticas sobre la cultura situada-corporalizada, aportan un rico marco conceptual para comprender una amplia variedad de fenómenos, desde el aspecto performático de actividades que explícitamente involucran performances (música, danza, teatro, ritual) hasta la performatividad discursiva, social y política (la construcción de identidades, el uso enunciativo del lenguaje, activismo político y el uso del cuerpo en la vida cotidiana). Este dossier especial pretende subrayar la comprensión de la cultura, la sociedad y la vida cotidiana, como fenómenos que continuamente se reconstituyen por medio del performance.

Este número pretende reunir escritos críticos relacionados con las prácticas musicales, usos discursivos de la música y el consumo y distribución de la música dentro de circunstancias sociales y culturales específicas, incluyendo música popular urbana, las formas clásicas académicas y escritas, la música electrónica y por ordenador, la instalación sonora y el arte sonoro, la música experimental y otras formas musicales híbridas, entre otras posibilidades.

Se anima a los posibles colaboradores a realizar trabajos sobre las implicaciones performáticas y performativas de la producción, distribución y consumo musical desde una gran variedad de ángulos, incluyendo (aunque no limitado a) aspectos históricos sobre compositores, intérpretes, artistas sonoros, productores musicales, industria musical, escenas musicales, etc., así como ensayos interpretativos, teóricos, e históricos orientados a la estética, imagen y discurso, danza, tecnología, cultura y diáspora, migración, los media, obras particulares, prácticas musicales, repertorios, literaturas, redes sociales, mercados y entornos.

Los interesados deben enviar resúmenes anónimos de no más de 250 palabras antes del 1 de septiembre de 2007 al correo electrónico almadrid@uic.edu con copia a edicion@sibetrans.com. En un adjunto aparte adjunto se debe enviar la siguiente información: nombre, filiación institucional, dirección y correo electrónico. Se notificará de los trabajos seleccionados hacia el 1 de noviembre de 2007. Los artículos definitivos deberán tener entre 6000 y 12000 palabras y serán enviados a las mismas direcciones antes del 1 de septiembre de 2008. Las imágenes pueden incluirse en el texto en formato jpeg. Los autores se hacen responsables de obtener los permisos correspondientes de reproducción. Para mas información sobre las normas editoriales véase: http://www.sibetrans.com/trans/autores.htm

Trans. Revista Transcultural de Música, es la revista electrónica arbitrada de la SIbE-Sociedad de etnomusicología. Para más información véase http://www.sibetrans.com/trans/index.htm

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Special issue on Music and Performance Studies

Trans. Revista Transcultural de Música

Guest Editor: Alejandro L. Madrid

Deadline for receipt of abstracts: September 1, 2007

Deadline for receipt of final manuscripts: September 1, 2008

Trans. Revista Transcultural de Música invites submissions for a special interdisciplinary issue on Music and Performance Studies, to be guest edited by Alejandro L. Madrid (University of Illinois at Chicago). Combining social and aesthetic theory in the study of embodied culture, the emerging discipline of performance studies provides a rich conceptual framework to understand a wide variety of phenomena, from the performatic aspect of activities that explicitly involve performance (eg. music, dance, theater, ritual) to discursive, social, and political performativity (eg. the construction of identities, the enunciative use of language, political activism, and the use of the body in everyday life). This special issue seeks to emphasize the understanding of culture, social and everyday life as phenomena that are continuously re-constituted through performance.

We seek critical writing on these issues in relation to music, musical practices, discursive uses of music, and music consumption and distribution within specific social and cultural circumstances, including popular music, notated classical forms, electronic and computer music, sound installation and sound art, experimental music, and hybrid musical forms—among other possibilities.

Prospective authors are encouraged to approach the performatic and performative implications of music production, distribution, and consumption from a wide variety of angles, including (but not limited to) historical accounts of composers, performers, sound artists, music producers, music markets, music scenes, etc.; as well as interpretive, theoretical, and historical essays centering on aesthetics, discourse and image, dance, technology, diasporic culture, migration, media, particular works, musical practices, repertoires, literatures, social networks, markets, or environments.

Anonymous abstracts no longer than 250 words should be submitted to almadrid@uic.edu by September 1, 2007. A copy should be sent to edicion@sibetrans.com. They should be accompanied by a cover letter including name, institutional affiliation, mailing address, and e-mail address. Selected authors will be notified by November 1, 2007 and final manuscripts, ranging from 6,000 to 12,000 words, should be sent to the same addresses by September 1, 2008. Electronic images may be embedded in the Word document in jpeg format. Contributors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce any material for which they do not hold copyright. For more information about style guidelines see http://www.sibetrans.com/trans/contributors.htm

The cyberjournal Trans. Revista Transcultural de Música, is the official, refereed journal of the SIbE- Society for Ethnomusicology (Spain). For more information, visit http://www.sibetrans.com/trans/index.htm

Beca Pos-Doctoral en Canadá / Postdoc in Canada

Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice: A SSHRC MCRI Research Project

Postdoctoral Fellowship Program 2007-2008

We are pleased to launch our newly awarded MCRI research project with a postdoctoral fellowship program for 2007-2008. We invite applications of postdoctoral researchers for residential fellowships at the University of Guelph, McGill University, or Université de Montréal (in association with the Centre de recherche en éthique).

Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice

This research project plays a leading role in defining a new field of interdisciplinary inquiry. It brings together a dynamic international research team with a demonstrated track record in grant management and student training, and it fosters innovative partnerships with community-based organizations. Outcomes will range across a wide spectrum of electronic, broadcast, and print media, with a focus on policy-oriented and community-facing impacts. The project will have a significant effect on how research is done and how its results are implemented and disseminated, both within and beyond the academy. In addition to public discourse and scholarly publication, our work highlights collaboration with arts presenters, educators, and policy makers to ensure the broadest possible impact on Canadian society.

The project’s core hypothesis is that musical improvisation is a crucial model for political, cultural, and ethical dialogue and action. Taking as a point of departure performance practices from post-1960s jazz and creative improvised music that cannot readily be scripted, predicted, or compelled into orthodoxy, we argue that the innovative working models of improvisation developed by creative practitioners have helped to promote a dynamic exchange of cultural forms, and to encourage new, socially responsive forms of community building across national, cultural, and artistic boundaries. Improvisation, in short, has much to tell us about the ways in which communities based on such forms are politically and materially pertinent to envisioning and sounding alternative ways of knowing and being in the world. Improvisation demands shared responsibility for participation in community, an ability to negotiate differences, and a willingness to accept the challenges of risk and contingency. Furthermore, in an era when diverse peoples and communities of interest struggle to forge historically new forms of affiliation across cultural divides, the participatory and civic virtues of engagement, dialogue, respect, and community-building inculcated through improvisatory practices take on a particular urgency.

Objectives

Our postdoctoral fellowships, funded through the Major Collaborative Research Initiatives (MCRI) program at the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), support the most promising new scholars in the emerging interdisciplinary field of critical studies in improvisation, and assist them in establishing a research base at an important time in their research careers.

Our project seeks to contribute to interdisciplinary research and graduate training in this emerging field. We encourage applications from researchers working in the principal research areas related to our project: music, cultural studies, political studies, sociology and anthropology, English studies, theatre and performance studies, French studies, law, philosophy, and communications. We also welcome applications from different research areas, inasmuch as their research has a direct link with the social, cultural, or political implications of improvised musical practices.

We are particularly interested in critically informed interdisciplinary research proposals that are prompted by the theory and practice of contemporary improvised music and its related social implications. Our research program seeks to create a climate of genuine intellectual excitement where scholars pursue research projects and participate in collaborative research activities as part of a broader network of critical practice. Postdoctoral fellows will be expected to participate in project seminars, institutes, and annual colloquia, and will benefit from the stimulating intellectual environment provided by both our extensive and inter-institutional research network and our wide range of community partners. Postdoctoral fellows will play an active role in planning the activities and research of the project.

Description

Our postdoctoral fellowships provide stipendiary support to recent Ph.D. graduates who are undertaking original research, publishing research findings, and developing and expanding personal research networks.

Fellowships will normally be awarded to candidates affiliated with a university other than that which awarded the Ph.D.

Value and Duration

Our SSHRC funded MCRI Postdoctoral Fellowships are valued at $31,500 CDN per year. These are non-renewable fellowships, tenable for a 12 month period beginning in September 2007.

Eligibility, Application, and Deadline

Applicants are invited to submit a research proposal focusing on the social implications (broadly construed) of improvised musical practices. Successful candidates will be chosen on the basis of a rigorous and open nation-wide process of application, with our project's management team serving as the selection committee. Criteria for selection are the quality and originality of the proposed research, the fit with our project's overall mandate and objectives, the candidate's record of scholarly achievement, and his/her ability to benefit from the activities associated with our project. Postdoctoral fellows will receive competitive research stipends, logistical assistance for relocation, office space equipped with state-of-the-art computers, access to the services of the host institution (library, etc), and administrative, placement, and research assistance as needed. In return, fellows are expected to pursue the research project submitted in their application, to participate in our project’s research activities (colloquia, seminars, institutes), and to present their work in progress in the context of our project’s seminars and workshops.

Applicants should have completed a Ph.D. at the time of application (to be conferred by 1 November 2007). The completed application package should be received by no later than April 30, 2007.

Electronic applications are welcome, provided that original hard copies of transcripts and reference letters are submitted. Notification date: June 2007.

Applicants must submit all of the following by April 30th, 2007:

Curriculum vitae;

One scholarly paper or publication written in the course of the last three years;

A statement (1,500 words or less) describing the proposed research project;

Two confidential letters of reference (sent directly to us before the deadline);

Graduate Transcript(s).

Postmark deadline is April 30th, 2007. Send applications to:

Dr. Ajay Heble, Project Director

Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice

School of English and Theatre Studies

University of Guelph

Guelph, Ontario

N1G 2W1

CANADA

Email: improv@uoguelph.ca

Cultural Studies Conference in Jamaica / Conferencia sobre Estudios Culturales en Jamaica

7th International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference

Cultural Studies Initiative
University of the West Indies
Kingston, Jamaica


CALL FOR SESSIONS

Proposals are invited for SESSIONS at the 7th International
Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, scheduled for July 3 to 7,
2008 in the Caribbean.

The Caribbean could well be regarded as one of the first
crossroads of the modern era, where Africa and Asia met Europe on
Amerindian soil. The conditions were a forced and bitter crucible. The
results of that encounter contributed not only to the making of the
modern western world but also to the dynamism that is central to all
the cultures of the Western Hemisphere.

Of Sacred Crossroads
Being a site of conquest, dislocation, crossings, enslavement
and rebellion, but also of memory and survival, hope of return,
culture-building, in-between-ness, and immense creativity and heritage,
the Caribbean is a relevant site for hosting the 7th International
Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, under the theme Of Sacred
Crossroads.
Contemporary emphasis on materialism and consumerism as
measures of our humanity, arising from the unbridled excesses to which
science and technology have been sometimes put, is of growing concern,
putting under duress the intangibles embodied in the values by which we
live as human beings. Out of these concerns has sprung deepening
dialogue at the interface between science and spirituality. UNESCO?s
celebration of the intangible heritage of humankind is a timely
reminder that civilizations rise not only on great edifices, monuments
and artefacts that defy time, but also on those moments of ?livity?, or
human relationships, that last only as long as they are lived, without
which human life would have little meaning.

Of Sacred Crossroads captures many of these concerns in a
manner that allows for the broadest of interpretation and accommodation
across disciplines and forms?religion, art, dance, song, orature,
healing, re-creation, performance, ritual, belief systems, ethics,
globalization, communication, among others. Key themes for the
Conference include: Rituals of arrival and contact; Crossings?the art
of the crossroads; Spirituality and identity; Language rituals;
Globalization and the spirit; Indigenous spiritualities; Rituals of
conflict - rites of rebellion; Virtual realities; virtual
spiritualities; (Spiritual) Tourism; Rituals, substances and sacred
geographies; The spirit of music; Cultures of reconciliation;
Storytelling; Crossroad deities and divination; Geographies of the body
and spirit.


General areas of interest include:

- Body
- Identity and difference
- Media
- Gender and sexuality
- Popular culture
- Cultural industries
- Performance and gender
- Youth culture
- Religion and culture
- Nation states
- Power and knowledge
- New information technology
- Globalization and diaspora
- Nationalism and locality
- Consumerism and fetishism
- Culture and economy
- Fundamentalisms
- Cultural Studies pedagogy
- Policing the crisis
- Culture and ethics
- Critical methodologies
- Politics of opposition
- Cultures of everyday life
- Social and cultural theory
- The city
- Cultural policy
- Centre and periphery
- Space and culture
- Imagined communities


GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS
The deadline for submission of session proposals is June 30,
2007. Please see the Session Organizer's Manual posted on the website
for information on length, format and guidelines for submission of
proposals. Please submit you session abstracts on our website at
www.crossroads2008.org.

THE VENUE
The 7th Crossroads Conference will be held at the University of
the West Indies (UWI), Mona Campus in Kingston, Jamaica, the largest of
the three UWI campuses. The Campus is situated in a suburb of the city
of Kingston, itself a cultural magnet, with excellent communications
and telecommunications systems, accessibility through two international
airports, and a highly developed road network.

The campus, with a student population of over 15,000, has a
rich tradition in hosting international conferences. Nestled in the
Hope Valley under the Blue Mountains, the campus is itself culturally
diverse, drawing on regional as well as international students and
boasting its own choir, steel band, dance group and rich nightlife.
There is accommodation in student Halls of Residence as well as the
Mona Visitor's Lodge, and interconnectivity including an extensive
wireless network is a feature.
Given Jamaica's appeal as a tourist destination we encourage
international participants to plan a vacation which can include
excursions to famous beaches in Negril, Ocho Rios, Montego Bay or
Portland. Various cultural and natural sites of interest include, in
Kingston, the Bob Marley Museum and the National Gallery of Art, and
elsewhere in the island the spectacular Dunn?s River Falls, the Blue
and John Crow Mountains National Park, Seville Heritage Park, and
Treasure Beach, among many others.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Registration information will be available by summer 2007.
Note: To avoid no-shows and guarantee the quality of all sessions, all
paper presenters will be asked to register before April 30, 2008.

CALL FOR PAPERS
- A General Call for Papers will be Issued in July 2007

For further details on the Conference
or on the Cultural Studies Initiative and Programme
at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus,
please email: crossroads_2008@yahoo.com



Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference 2008:
www.crossroads2008.org
_________________________________

Singin la vida loca

Ya que el único mercado musical que está creciendo es el hispano, ahora todo el mundo va a hacer discos en castellano - de J-Lo a Beyonce. "El español se está volviendo el jardín secreto, donde [los rtistas] pueden salir a oler las flores, sin ser 'lobos'. Pueden ser expresivos y románticos"dice un productor. Enlace Veremos con esto el tipo de persecución a circuitos de distribución no tradicionales en español como lo hemos visto en inglés (demandas a usadores de software peer-to-peer, el arresto de DJs de hip hop)?

Since the only musical market that's growing is Spanish-language, now everyone and their mother is going to do albums in Spanish, from J-Lo to Beyonce. "Spanish is becoming the secret garden, where [artists] can go smell the flowers without being 'wolves' [?]. They can be expressive and romantic," says one producer. Link, translated. (Exoticism, anyone?) Anyhow, we'll see if this kind of persecution of non-traditional distribution systems in Spanish will happen as it has has in English - suing peer-to-peer software users, arresting mixtape DJs, etc....

News/Noticias

• Paisas en New Jersey Enlace
• A special on the Colombian community in Morristown, NJ Link (translated)
  
• Gobierno colombiano enfrenta 10 comisiones de DD.HH. en 2 días Enlace
• Colombian government faces 10 human rights comissions in 2 days over massacres and other badness Link (translated)
• Obras de construcción en el Puerto de Buenaventura Enlace
• Construction work in Buenaventura's Port Link (translated)
  

Miranda beats Green / Miranda le gana a Green

Miranda won. I told you so. It was a wierd fight, though. Green was trying to play it cool and stay out of reach, tapping a Miranda and going for many less punches than Miranda, who just got hotter with each round, a couple of time just lowering his hands, making faces, and being like "fuckin hit me already!" One time he stuck out his tongue and pantomimed jerking off. Finally in the 8th, Miranda lowered the right hand he had up for practically the whole fight at precisely the moment when he was backing up. Green sent his Codrington-tested left hook at him and for the first time in his 29 fight career, Miranda was on the ground. It was more an opportune shot than a real haymaker but it made Miranda mad. By the 10th round, Miranda had Green reeling, knocking him down twice and pummeling him straight into the last bell - even though he already had the fight pretty much won in the scores, he couldn't control his urge to pummel Green, and if this had been a 12 round fight, he probably would gotten the KO he seemed to want so badly. Still, Miranda's most attractive feature - his power and aggression - might someday get the best of his worst feature - lack of discipline. This guy just couldn't go 10 rounds of chess match and really just wanted to tussle. He needs a bit more discipline to be a great boxer - I mean, why risk stepping close to Green for the KO when he clearly already had the fight won in decision (The scores were 96-91, 96-91 and 97-90, all for Miranda)? One of these days somebody's gonna rope-a-dope him, although they'd have to be a power hitter (like Green is) to get Miranda to even notice. But that same hotheadedness is what makes him a great fighter to watch. Let's see how he does with Kelly Pavlik, probabloy his next opponent.

ESPN article

And in other news, Colombian super-middleweight Alejandro Berrío knocked out Russian-German Robert Steiglitz in 3 for the title in the International Boxing Federation - the same belt vacated by Joe Calzaghe. Link

Ganó Miranda. No les dije? Pero de todas maneras, fue una pelea rara. Green quería que fuera ajedrez y se mantuvo fuera del alcance de Miranda, Miranda se se emputó más con cada round. Algunas veces se bajó las manos haciendo muecas como para decirle a Green "me vas a pegar o qué?!" Una vez le saceo la lengua e hizo un gesto como de paja. En la octava, Green se aprovechó de que Miranda se bajó la mano derecha (que tenía alzada casi toda la pelea, evedentemente para bloquear el famoso gancho izquierdo de Green) y por primera vez en su carrera de 29 peleas, Miranda se encontró bocaarriba. Fue más un golpe oportuno que un bambucazo definitivo, porque cayó justo cuando Miranda tenía los pies cruzados, pero sí que le calentó a Miranda. Ya en la 10a, Miranda tenía a Green borracho de golpes, le tumbó dos veces y todavía le estaba mandando de un puño al otro cuandó sonó la campana. Si fuera una pelea de 12 rondas, a lo mejor hubiera obtenido el KO que estaba intentando conseguir. Se nota que el hombre ya tenía la pelea ganada en cuanto a las calificaciones de los jurados (obviamente dominaba casi todas las rondas) pero no pudo controlar las ganas de matar a Green. Esto es la característica de Miranda es más vacano ver - su agresión, verraquera y poder. Sin embargo, puede llegar a ser su talón de Aquiles porque al fin y al cabo es una falta de disciplina - el hombre simplemente no pudo aguantar 10 rondas de ajedrez, lo que quería era darle como sea a Green. Las marcas eran 96-91, 96-91 and 97-90, todos por Miranda, entonces porqué quiso arriesgarse para conseguir el KO? Algún día, alguien más inteligente que Green le va a incitar y después meterle un rope-a-dope (aunque tendría que tener una mano dura para hacerlo, Miranda tiene mucho aguante) y va a caer el porteño. Pero de todas maneras, como digo, es una cosa bella ver a un tipo tan guerrero como Miranda. Vamos a ver como le va con Kelly Pavlik, probablemente su próximo openente.

Artículo de ESPN aquí (traducido)
Y en otras noticias, el super-middleweight colombiano Alejandro Berrío ganó al ruso-alemán Robert Steiglitz con un KO en la 3era por el título de la Federación Internadcional del Boxeo - el mismo título que hace poco tenía Joe Calzaghe. Enlace

RIAA smacks bloggers / RIAA jodiendo a los bloqueros

What's up with these people?
Link

Internal Review Boards and you...

An article on Internal Review Boards (AKA "human subjects"), a medical model for ethical standards that maps very poorly on ethnographic or qualitative research and can be downright oppressive. See the American Folk Society and American Anthropological Association official pages on their respective policies relating to IRB's.
AFS link
AAA Link