LULAC's ethics on Sexism, Corporations, & Monies

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Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:02:06 -0400
Subject: LULAC's ethics on Sexism, Corporations, & Monies


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Subject: Lulac's Ethics,Latino Future Mag. Elvira

	In the Sexist Latino Future Magazine, we see Retired Captain Tony Mandujano being interviewed by Channel 4's David Cruz. It was a Lulac Veterans Summit in 01/08 and it was a few pages away from Sofia Vergara's sexy body poses. Her body encompassed many pages and Lulac only 1 page. Sofia Vergara dominates the magazine like a typical men's sexist magazine of your choice: GQ, Low Rider, and Maxium. In Latina Magazine, there are women in the front covers but with decent clothes on their bodies. I would argue the fact that sexism sells in Corporate America and that groups like Lulac are not for women's rights but for capitalizing on their bodies for empowerment. Even though Shakira can move her hips so they don't lie, Latino Future Magazine is far worse than Low Rider Magazine in showing women with cars. My argument is this: People like Jaime Martinez and Tony Mandujano will give you so many excuses that they didn't know they were in a magazine that shows 3/4 naked women on front covers. In this picture inside the sexist Latino Future Magazine, the National Lulac President Rosa Rosales speaks as she is accompanied with Jaime P. Martinez and Ciro Rodriguez. It's so funny to see this photo cause not too long ago, I received an email from Jaime Martinez to forward to my contacts that the revival of the H.R. 4437 Jim Sensenbrenner is happening in Congress. I get another email from MAPA in California that Ciro Rodriguez is pushing the anti-immigrant rhetoric of the republikkkans. Just a reminder, both Senator Hillary Clinton & Senator Barack Obama voted in favor in the Senate to build the Wall along the U.S.A./Mexico border on the U.S.A. side. The many names that it has, the wall of shame, the neo-berlin wall, El Muro, are the constant reminder that 2 countries will be separated again by another border within a border in borderland. Jaime Martinez should do his research and find out who is promoting the anti-immigrant agenda, cause Congressman Sensenbrenner is not alone. By being in Latino Future Magazine is a great exposure to Lulac. Would you ever see the woman's march in here? Will you ever see the NACCS conference in here? Will you ever see M.E.Ch.A. in this sexist Latino Future magazine? What about the naive answer Jaime Martinez gave the world when he said he returned the checks back to Corrections of Corporate America (CCA) because he didn't know as the National Lulac Treasurer that the Hutto Residential Center was associated with the big checks he was cashing in for National Lulac? Naive or just Stupidity? Sexism or the Latino spotlight? Women's Rights or Corporate Patriarchal Domination for Profits? Lulac in my opinion has had a long history of doing things before they think. For example, the 400 English words that will help jump start the youth was not a bad idea, but making reference to English only was a bad example for Lulac. Maybe it is people like myself and Antonio Diaz who test the powers of Lulac and ask the Powers that be to think. Is your hard work and commitment to National Lulac a compromise to Sexist Magazines for corporate profits? How would Jaime Martinez, Rosa Rosales, and Tony Mandujano react to find out that they were in a magazine that readers will gawk at Sofia Vergara in many ways unimaginable, and then turning the page to Lulac? According to La Prensa in San Antonio recently, Rosa Rosales wants to rename Commerce Street to Cesar E. Chavez. Both Jaime Martinez and Tony Mandujano who live in Bexar County but not in San Antonio are spearheading the 1998 failure campaign to rename Commerce Street to Cesar E. Chavez Avenue. In my opinion, any street will suffice for Cesar E. Chavez! National Lulac needs a mindwipe to deal with Chicano and Chicana Ethics when dealing with English Only, CCA funds, and Sexism. National Lulac in my opinion is its own Corporate Super Power from many donations from Corporations, not the people like me who gave Jaime Martinez my National Dues and never given a Lulac card. In the March/April 2008 issue of Latino Future Magazine, the Columbian Actress now living in the U.S.A. is living the American dream and making her body the attraction to Latino Future Magazine Readers. Sofia Vergara is a single mother who uses her body to land promising movies like Chasing Papi, Lords of Dogtown, and Four Brothers. I like the fact that she said she eats what she wants and can't do diets. This 35 year old can't compare herself to another mother named Elvira Arellano in my opinion. Elvira Arellano was deported by ICE in Los Angeles in 08/07 and sent to Tijuana, Mexico. She was a mother who used a church in Chicago as a refuge against deportation. Does it look like we will see Elvira Arellano in a bikini anytime soon in Latino Future Magazine? Even if she did pose 3/4 naked, do you think people would be interested to read about her or gawk at her curves? This is my hypothetical opinion and not in any way anybody's sick mind, but putting pressure on Lulac to reconsider their Sponsors, rethink their ethics, and do something to educate family values about Sexism and Machismo within Lulac. Please forward to as many Lulac members and help spread the word that the people come first, and that they need to stop being run by corporations who use Lulac as lobbyists. The people United will never be Divided! Chicana Power! Tlazocamati - Ollin Quetzalcoatl 21 www.myspace.com/ollin_quetzalcoatl21