Mujeres Iniciando en las Americas (MIA)
If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest. - Audre Lorde

Female
46 years old
Guatemala, Costa Mesa, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California
United States



Last Login: 6/25/2009
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    Mujeres Iniciando en las Americas (MIA)'s Interests
GeneralWe are interested in ending gender violence in Latin America. Rape, torture, kidnapping, murder, dismemberment, sexual assault, the wage gap, exploitation, sex trafficking, intimate partner violence, child abuse, ....
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Musiclisten to Feminist Radio on KPFK (Wednesdays @7pm on 90.7 fm and streaming on the web at www.kpfk.org)
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TelevisionMiamericas http://www.miamericas.info
Orange Coast Unitarian Universalist Church http://www.ocuuc.org/
Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/
School of the Americas Watch http://www.soaw.org/
Madre http://madre.org/index.html
Ms Magazine http://www.msmagazine.com/
Women Gamers http://www.womengamers.com/
Idealist.org http://www.idealist.org/
Lydia Today http://lydiatoday.org/ National Organization for Women http://now.org/
Fundacion Sobrevivientes http://sobrevivientes.org/
Guatemala Peace and Development Network http://redporlapaz.blogspot.com/
Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala http://www.nisgua.org/home.asp
Center for Gender and Refugee Studies http://cgrs.uchastings.edu/
Michael Parenti http://www.michaelparenti.org/
UNIFEM http://www.unifem.org/
Feminist.com http://feminist.com/
Jackson Katz http://www.jacksonkatz.com/
Meninist: http://www.feminist.com/resources/links/men.htm
Men Can Stop Rape http://www.mencanstoprape.org/
Human Rights Watch http://www.hrw.org/women/
Green Left http://www.greenleft.org
Foundation for Human Rights Guatemala http://www.fhrg.org/mambo/index.php?Itemid=1&option=com_frontpage
Sierra Club http://www.sierraclub.org/
Guatemala Derechos Humanos http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/guatemala/
Human Rights Campaign http://www.hrc.org/
Grist http://grist.org/
Men Stopping Rape http://danenet.wicip.org/msr/
Dads & Daughters http://www.dadsanddaughters.org/
Domestic Abuse Helpline for Men http://www.dahmw.org/
Male Survivor http://www.malesurvivor.org/
White Ribbon Campaign http://www.whiteribbon.ca/
White Ribbon Campaign Blog http://ourfuturehasnoviolenceagainstwomen.blogspot.com/
Men Against Domestic Violence http://www.silcom.com/~paladin/madv/
Men’s Health Network http://www.menshealthnetwork.org/
Men’s Resource Center for Change http://www.mrcforchange.org/
National Organization for Men Against Sexism http://www.nomas.org/
The Mankind Project http://mkp.org/
Jackson Katz on School Shootings http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rG0M9Y6GuI
Wrestling With Manhood: Boys, Bullying & Battering http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikDXcfzA848&feature=related
The Male Family Violence Prevention Association http://www.ntv.net.au/
XY: men, masculinities, and gender politics http://www.xyonline.net/index.shtml
Working with Men and Boys to Prevent Gender-Based Violence http://toolkit.endabuse.org/Home.html
Violence Against Women and the Culture of Masculinity http://www.nea.org/international/images/sid.pdf
Men Against Violence and Abuse http://www.mavaindia.org/
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HeroesSheroes and heroes include Norma Cruz, Rodie Alvarado, Michael Parenti, Walda Barrios, Luz Mendez, Fundacion Sobrevivientes, Guatemalan Peace and Development Network, NISGUA, Center for gender and refugee studies,Amnesty International Interested in helping Miamericas? Email Us! Photobucket Photobucket Photobucket Photobucket Photobucket Photobucket Photobucket Photobucket Photobucket Photobucket Photobucket Photobucket Photobucket Photobucket Photobucket Photobucket Photobucket Photobucket Photobucket

     Mujeres Iniciando en las Americas (MIA)'s Details
Status:Single
Zodiac Sign:Cancer
Occupation:Activistas



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   Mujeres Iniciando en las Americas (MIA)'s Blurbs
About me:
OUR MISSION

It is MIA's mission to increase public awareness in the United States of the maltreatment of women in Guatemala; to improve socioeconomic conditions for Guatemalan women; to remove the gender bias in the Guatemalan government; promote educational programs to reduce domestic violence and femicide, and promote equal treatment for women. Our purpose is to effect genuine and lasting change in the conditions for women in Guatemala.

MIA'S GOALS

Insist on the prosecution for rape and femicide
To encourage the Guatemalan government to honor peace accords made to eliminate discrimination against women
Promote careers in the justice system to women in Guatemala
Press for judicial reform in Guatemala
Insist on progress toward prosecution of outstanding cases
To obtain reparations from the Guatemalan government
Obtain just and fair compensation for the survivors and families of massacred women
To create domestic violence intervention and prevention workshops for abused women in Guatemala
To improve social and economic conditions for Guatemalan women
In Guatemala, gender discrimination is part of the reality of life, but it doesn't have to be. Because of laws that discriminate against women and existing cultural values, violence against women is considered normal. Rape, sexual harassment, and domestic violence aren't treated seriously by the justice system in Guatemala, so guilty men get away with crimes against women. This impunity reinforces discrimination enabling continued violence. Callous treatment by the justice system further victimizes women reporting crimes. Organizations including the United Nations and Amnesty International have recognized the unjust treatment of women in Guatemalan courts. MIA was founded to change the laws in Guatemala to better suit the needs of the victimized women.

MIA

Mujeres Iniciando en las Américas campaigns against gender bias and domestic violence in Guatemala. MIA provides financial support for organizations in Guatemala with similar missions, such as Sobrevivientes, a Guatemalan organization led by Nobel prize nominee Norma Cruz, who works for women's rights in Guatemala. Programs and Projects MIA has applied for and won several grants to aid Sobrevivientes. One such grant from the Unitarian Universalist Women's Fund (UUWF) will pay for radio ads in Guatemala decrying violence against women. We have also obtained an anonymous grant from a private donor which is paying for Norma Cruz's daughter to learn English. Another grant we obtained on behalf of Sobrevivientes paid for $12,000 of office equipment: desks, computers and other office needs.

ABOUT OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, LUCIA MUNOZ

I was born in Guatemala in 1963 and moved to the U.S. when I was five years old. I returned to Guatemala in my teen years (1976), and was there during some of the worst years of the civil war which lasted until 1996. I heard gunfire constantly and witnessed military personnel stop people on the street and on buses and lead them away. My friend, a teenage neighbor of mine, disappeared in the middle of the night. I started asking questions but was instructed by my family to ignore all of these things. I moved back to the U.S. to attend high school in 1980. I got married in 1982 at 19 years of age and my husband and I started an import-export business. As part of this business, I traveled to Guatemala repeatedly. During these trips I asked questions and began to learn and understand what was happening in the civil conflict, in particular, that girls and women were being tortured, raped and killed. I learned that this brutality towards women was being employed as a means of population control to keep mothers from raising leftist children. It was also a tool to instill fear and prevent rebellion. As a U.S. taxpayer, I was horrified to learn that the abuse of women was being taught by the School of the Americas as a counter-insurgency tactic, and thus that my tax dollars were being spent to promote the evil and injustice in Guatemala. The war in Guatemala ended in 1996, but with the conservatives in control, the torture and killings of girls and women continued. This became what is now termed "the femicide." In 2001, I started an organization with a group of Guatemalans named Guatemala Peace and Development Network. The goal of this organization was to help honor the 1996 peace accords from a distance. I became the women's affairs coordinator for the group which is how I learned of the numbers of killings of women in Guatemala. Because I came from a military family, I was embarrassed to know that my family could be part of this gender violence. By 2004, I needed to become more directly involved with ending the femicide. In 2005, I founded MIA, Mujeres Iniciando en Las Americas (Women Initiating in the Americas) to help end this injustice. As executive director, I work with students and others here in the U.S. raising awareness about this issue, and also work with Sobrevivientes in Guatemala working to end femicide. Sobrevivientes is a center in Guatemala City which helps survivors of femicide crimes and family members of women who have been killed. Since 2001, I have traveled to Guatemala at least once a year for at least two weeks each time. Last year, I traveled to Guatemala twice for a total of four weeks. I just returned from a two-week fact-finding visit in March of this year. On this trip I had the opportunity to witness a trial during which a flawed police investigation resulted in a typical example of impunity. During every visit I meet with survivors at the Sobrevivientes Center to learn first-hand the true extent of the femicide.
Who I'd like to meet:
Volunteers, feminists, women and men who are concerned about the femicide in Guatemala, activists, dancers, teachers, artists, students, speakers, writers, radicals, musicians, intellectuals, lovers of art, music, dance, translators, passionate people.
Please check out our website: www.miamericas.info
The photos from the 2008 Guatemala Delegation are up: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21602967@N08/

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ZUR zona urbana rock





Jun 25 2009 6:13 PM

Much Love and Respect!
DI NO A LA VIOLENCIA DOMESTICA!





Jun 24 2009 10:55 PM





Cumpleanos - Mensajes y Imágenes!







Cumpleanos - Mensajes y Imágenes!


ZUR zona urbana rock





Jun 12 2009 7:43 PM

Gracias por el agregue!

ZUR
XPLOLA LIVES !





May 19 2009 6:08 PM

OZELOTL PRODUCTIONS  INVITED YOU TO REBEL MUSIC HOUSE PARTY ! AT THE DOOR $ 4.00 THANK YOU !:

Cumbia Chicana

When:
Saturday, May 23, 2009
07:00 PM to 12:30 AM


Where:
Aztlanito
2003 W. 42nd Place
Los Angles, CA, 90062




This weedend...Rebel Music + House Party = Rebel House Party!!!

      - Ozelotl Productions

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XPLOLA LIVES !





May 1 2009 8:24 PM

ONE LOVE ONE HEART ONE UNIVERSE INI FAMILY RASTA LOVE TO EVERYONE PEACE AND HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEKEND !:)adik4 Pictures, Images and Photos
EL REFLEJO





Apr 26 2009 5:52 AM

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FUEL PROM 2009 UPDATES AND CHANGES:

Yes, it's an unfortunate change.


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BUT NOW IT'S GONNA BE BIGGER AND BETTER!


NEW DATE: May 21st 9:00 pm - 2:00 am

(After you are all done with finals.
Come party it
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OUR NEW LOCATION is at CLUB FUZION
10632 Lower Azusa Rd El Monte, 91731
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WITH DJ KANE
Prom King and Queen contest
with a very special, FANTASTIC prize that you don't want to miss!
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All proceeds will go to AB540 students.



Tickets are going so fast that we had to get a bigger venue!
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Clau - Clau 562 - 745 - 5009



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XPLOLA LIVES !





Apr 23 2009 5:58 PM

REBEL MUSIC FOREVER ONE INI Photobucket
EL REFLEJO





Apr 15 2009 11:47 PM

SLEEP DEALER comes out this weekend. If you haven't heard...

It's a sci-fi film about immigration and globalization! No, no -- not the documentary type, the "entertaining" type.




Some staff members have seen this movie at an advance screening and URGE you to check it out on opening weekend, April 17-19.


***What's more... for every ticket stub you give us, the production company will refund the money -- to El Reflejo! Have fun at the movies, support progressive immigration reform AND your local Chican@/Latin@ newsletter!


We'll post some showtimes for local theatres, but you can check them out yourself when they become available at: http://www.sleepdealer.com/theaters.html


SEE YOU AT THE MOVIES!
There will be a TICKET DROP-OFF BOX in the RAZA Resource Center or you can hand your stub(s) to Espie in the Chican@/Latin@ Studies Department Office (FO3-300), just tell her it's for El Reflejo.
XPLOLA LIVES !





Apr 9 2009 3:13 PM

F U KNOW LAURA U KNOW I SMOKES SO ITS THAT TIME AGAIN.​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​.



PARTY @ MY FRIEND HOUSE ON APRIL 18, 2009

FROM 8 PM -???? (hasta quel cuerpo aguante)

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PLEASE LEAVE THE DRAMA AT HOME!!!
BRING YOUR OWN HERBAL REFRESHMENTS/​DRINKS

C U THERE!!Four Twenty Pictures, Images and Photos
DESADAPTADOZ





Mar 8 2009 4:40 PM



Chicas las queremos, las respetamos y les tenemos mucha admiración...usted hacen de todo y un poco mas… besos para todas!


HOMENAJE A LAS HIJAS DE PUTA...
Ellas, las hijas de puta.

Las hembras de las lunas rebeldes de la intemperie oscura, y de los soles tórridos calcinantes del yugo.

Ellas las odiadas, las despreciadas, las olvidadas, las negras, las rojas, las asesinadas, las torturadas, las...
Seguirán de frente con sus pechos polvorientos y ametrallados inflamando tus caminos, mostrándote su sexo orgullosamente erguido de guerrillas.

Continuarán explotando, gimiendo demenciales de verdades radicales, inundando los silencios de estas selvas de orgasmos libertarios.

Y ellas seguirán fecundando al mundo de más hijas e hijos de puta,
Y en las calles tomadas con sus cuerpos agirosalados de fusil, para saltarte encima y escupirle la cara a tu cabrona opresión y a tu cafiche sistema...
¡¡Porque hoy más que nunca la
LIBERTAD lleva tatuada en la piel a una
Hija de puta!!!


Poema de Claudia López Beinages joven anarkista chilena, estudiante de danza, asesinada el 11 de septiembre por los carabineros de su país.



WSSA





Feb 18 2009 7:06 PM

WSSA <3 MIA!
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Feb 13 2009 5:27 PM

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The DREAM Act





Jan 9 2009 5:12 AM

What Are Your Top 10 Ideas for Change in America?

The Ideas for Change in America competition was created in response to Barack Obama's call for increased citizen involvement in government. The final round of voting began on January 5.


The top 10 rated ideas from the final round will be presented to the Obama administration on January 16th at an event at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. At that event they will also announce the launch of a national advocacy campaign behind each of the top 10 ideas in collaboration with nonprofit partners to turn each idea into an actual policy.


WELL GUESS WHAT????????? THE DREAM ACT IS IN 15th PLACE!!!

It only takes a minute of your precious time to sign up and vote in favor of THE DREAM ACT. Just for a moment think about all those undocumented students that depend on THE DREAM ACT to come out of the shadows. I'm sure they will be forever grateful.


THE VOTING ENDS AT 5pm ET on Thursday, January 15th! WE ONLY HAVE 7 MORE DAYS LEFT!
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD AND START VOTING!!!

USE THIS LINK:

Feminist Magazine





Jan 7 2009 10:29 PM

Much Respect!

Tonight, at 7:00 PM (PST) join your host Josy Catoggio for another fiercely independent edition of Feminist Magazine as we look at the top stories of 2008 with a feminist lens, and a new approach to ending rape, attempted rape and sexual assault.

Joining us is Editor in chief Rita Henley Jensen. Founder and Editor in Chief of Women's eNews (www. womensenews. org), Jensen was named by the New York Daily News one of the 100 most influential women in New York. A former senior writer for the National Law Journal and columnist for The New York Times Syndicate, Jensen has more than 20 years of experience in journalism and journalism education. Ms Jensen will be dialoging with us about the barriers for women that were broken in U.S. politics and hints of reform which emerged in unlikely places this year. At the same time, how women faced the impact of a global recession and a backlash in the battle to secure equal rights.

Later we will be opening the phones, so get ready to discuss with Josy and Rita your thoughts, opinions on the top issues for women in 2008.

And, joining us is writer and activist Jaclyn Friedman co editor of "Yes Means Yes! Visions Of Female Sexual Power & A World Without Rape." This groundbreaking book addresses a shift from the "No means No" model. In 2006, 272,350, women survived rape, attempted rape or sexual assualt, according to the U.S. Dept of Justice, -this statistic, attests, that saying "NO" does not guarantee safety.

That is all tonight, January 7, 2009, at 7:00 PM (PST) with your host Josy Catoggio, heard at 90.7 FM, Los Angeles, 98.7 FM, Santa Barbara, and streaming live and archived at kpfk. org.
Tha Truth a.k.a Tha Kid





Dec 14 2008 9:11 AM

Say Hey Now!!! What up, im just stay'n tuned n 2 your world ya dig..... Get at me wheneva,, And stay tuned...
South Central Farm





Dec 12 2008 4:42 AM

Boycott Forever 21
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J.





Dec 10 2008 10:05 PM

Stop the Violence against women in this World.
Enough is Enough.
it's time to take a stand.
why do we just ignore this.
APCF





Nov 26 2008 9:01 PM

Thanks so much for the add. We very much appreciate your support and every little bit helps.

16 DAYS LEFT!
Important Community Programs
Need Your Help

Click Here: http://www. amiestreet. com/APCF



Always wanted to help the community, but didn’t have the money? Now you don’t need to.


Download this FREE song, and APCF will receive a donation. Tell all your friends. You get this song for free, and APCF will receive the donation! It couldn't be easier and more worthwhile!

More about APCF:

The Asian Pacific Community Fund (APCF) and its Affiliate Agencies provide education, housing, job training, health care, counseling, legal assistance, immigrant advocacy, and senior services to over 200,000 people in need each year. www. apcf. org

--
Christine Vasquez
cvasquez@apcf.org
L.:.STAR™





Nov 23 2008 9:10 PM

i hope the trip is going well so far!
Maya Chapina





Oct 15 2008 2:29 AM

Hope to see you there!






Las Manas Tres and  Mangos with Chili
LOCOPEZ





Oct 3 2008 7:35 AM

Sarah Palin Protest Flier
South Central Farm





Sep 21 2008 8:18 PM

Thank you for Supporting
South Central Farm!

Say "NO!" to Forever 21 Warehouse on old South Central Farm Land.

Let's Bring the Farm Back!

Visit www. southcentralfarmers. com

SCF
LULAC CALIFORNIA





Sep 6 2008 2:52 AM

Super Happy que somos amigos! Lets make sure all of our friends and family are registered to vote!



Es facil! Es Importante!
Yes We Can!
Lotus/Melissa Fem Mag





Aug 29 2008 8:23 PM

you are the best as always thank you for spreading the word-oh,Peace Over Violence will be joining us!
much love and respect~
Supergirl





Aug 27 2008 1:47 AM

I just found them on myspace. They are called trust your struggle collective and they are on a mural tour across the u.s. right now.
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