August 27, 2009

why suffer?

Posted by : elenamary
Filed under : Politics, personal

Last night I was at one of my favorite hangouts, CaraBar, with my aunt (from my Mexican side), and my friends Tony from the Bahamas, and Jason.
My aunt doesn’t speak English and so I spent a good deal of the time doing simultaneous interpretation of our conversation. We talked about missing food from [...]


August 3, 2009

Workers in Texas

Posted by : elenamary
Filed under : personal, womyn

My little sister Cristina Tzintzun, is the director of a Non-Profit, Workers Defense Project/ Proyecto Defensa Laboral, that recently teamed up with the University of Texas to do a study on working conditions for laborers in Austin.  Shortly after the study was published my sister recieved a call from an OSHA representative, that due to [...]


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