Iraq’s national football team were given a heroes' welcome upon their return to Baghdad on Friday, a day after winning the Arabian Gulf Cup in the southern city of Basra.
Thousands of Iraqis
packed the main streets of the capital, mainly along the motorway
linking Baghdad International Airport to the city centre, to greet the
Lions of Mesopotamia.
After their plane landed, the team were received on a red carpet as the Iraq National Band for Musical Heritage danced and sang, waving Iraqi flags.
Watch ๐ฅ | Behind the scenes celebrations for the Lions of Mesopotamia from the Basra Corniche to the Grand Festivites Square in Baghdad for their Arabian Gulf Cup title win. ๐ฎ๐ถ ๐
The Lions of Mesopotamia were greeted by the PM of Iraq, @mohamedshia, in the Republican Palace today after their Arabian Gulf Cup success.
The Council of Ministers rewarded all players with plots of residential land in Baghdad and a diplomatic passport for their achievements. pic.twitter.com/7g22yICSzu
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al Sudani has granted the nation's football team diplomatic passports and plots in Baghdad for winning the Arabian Gulf Cup. pic.twitter.com/0coqXMElEm
Celebrations in Baghdad yesterday as fans make their way to the Grand Festivites Square to welcome the Lions of Mesopotamia on their Arabian Gulf Cup title from Basra. ๐ฎ๐ถ ๐
Following a cruise on Friday afternoon on
the Shatt Al-Arab river, where fans from Basra province greeted the
players and staff, the Iraqi team headed to Baghdad.
From Baghdad airport to the Grand
Festivities Square, the side was welcomed by fans along the side of the
road, which extends for around 16 miles (26 kilometres).
Iraq Football Association President Adnan
Dirjal and other officials were first to ascend the podium in the square
before the players and staff joined them.
In addition, Iraqi foreign ministry
spokesperson Ahmed Al-Sahhaf said Minister of Foreign Affairs Fuad
Hussein ordered diplomatic passports to be given to the members of the
national side in recognition of their win, official news agency INA reported.
The 25th edition of the Arabian Gulf Cup ran from 6 to 19 January 2023. The tournament takes place every other year.
Members of the winning team include: Fahad Talib, Jalal Hassan, Ahmed Basil, Manaf Younis, Zaid Tahseen, Mustafa Nadhim, Ali Faez, Alai Ghasem, Dhurgham Ismail, Hussein Ammar, Hussein Ali, Ibrahim Bavesh, Hassan Abdulkareem, Sherko Karim, Rewan Amin, Amjad Attwan, Amir al_Ammari, Mohammed Ali Abboud, Hussein Jabbar, Moammel Abdul-Ridha, Alaa Abbas, Aymen Hussein and Aso Rostam.
Just
in time for Iraq’s football victory at the Arabian Gulf Cup in Basra
that drew thousands of fans to the Southern port town, the Basrah Museum
has initiated a new project highlighting Iraqi cultural patrimony.
Director Qahtan al Abeed has just launched the first part of a planned
“Garden of Civilization” project in the courtyard of the museum.
Funded
by the local governorate, a copy of the famous Lion of Babylon and the
Assyrian Lamassu from the Iraqi Museum in Baghdad have been installed.
Subject to further funding, plans are afoot for a copy of the Ziggurat
of Ur and Babylon’s Ishtar gate to be installed in the garden.
“There
are many Iraqis who can’t afford to visit their own heritage,” says
Abeed. “This garden will allow them to ‘travel’ across Iraq and
experience their country’s patrimony.”
The Garden of Civilization. Iraq is the birthplace for many historical moments and innovations.
Suffer not Your neighbor's affliction Suffer not Your neighbor's paralysis But extend your hand Extend your hand Lest you vanish in the city And be but a trace Just a vanished ghost And your legacy All the things you knew Science, mathematics, thought Severely weakened Like irrigation systems In the tired veins forming From the Tigris and Euphrates In the realm of peace All the world revolved All the world revolved Around a perfect circle City of Baghdad City of scholars Empirical humble Center of the world City in ashes City of Baghdad City of Baghdad Abrasive aloof
Oh, in Mesopotamia Aloofness ran deep Deep in the veins of the great rivers That form the base Of Eden And the tree The tree of knowledge Held up its arms To the sky All the branches of knowledge All the branches of knowledge Cradling Cradling Civilization In the realm of peace All the world revolved Around a perfect circle Oh Baghdad Center of the world City of ashes With its great mosques Erupting from the mouth of god Rising from the ashes like a speckled bird Splayed against the mosaic sky Oh, clouds around We created the zero But we mean nothing to you You would believe That we are just some mystical tale We are just a swollen belly That gave birth to Sinbad, Scheherazade We gave birth Oh, oh, to the zero The perfect number We invented the zero And we mean nothing to you Our children run through the streets And you sent your flames Your shooting stars Shock and awe Shock and awe Like some, some Imagined warrior production Twenty-first century No chivalry involved No Bushido
-- "Radio Baghdad," written by Patti Smith and Oliver Ray, first appears on her TRAMPIN'
This Samarkand Kufic Quran is an 8th or 9th-century manuscript Quran written in the territory of modern Iraq in the Kufic script.
So many artifacts have been stolen from Iraq. The country's been plundered over and over and people seem to think that if they made it out of Iraq -- for example, Rukmini Callimachi -- that whatever they took is now their own. "They're robbing the cradle of civilization," Patti sings in "Radio Baghdad." And that's been true forever.
The Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz has proposed in a letter to the British Museum
that it return one of its ancient Assyrian treasures to Iraq in
exchange for the donation of his fourth plinth sculpture to the UK.
Rakowitz’s contemporary interpretation of an Assyrian winged bull, known as a lamassu, decorated in tins of date syrup, appeared on the plinth in Trafalgar Square from 2018 to 2020.
He
has tentatively agreed to gift the sculpture to Tate Modern on the
basis that it shares custody with Iraq. But, as part of the deal, he
said that the British Museum should return one of its two Assyrian lamassu sculptures, which were discovered in Nineveh by the Victorian archaeologist Sir Austen Henry Layard.
Rakowitz said returning one of these treasures would help replace a 700BC lamassu, which had stood at the Nergal Gate in Nineveh. It was left in place by Layard but deliberately destroyed
by Islamic State fighters in a raid on Mosul Museum in 2015. Rakowitz’s
proposal is expected to be on the agenda of a visit to London next
month by Iraq’s new minister of culture, Ahmed Fakkak, when he is
expected to be given a tour of the British Museum.
In 1938, the German archaeologist Wilhelm Kรถnig found a clay jar at Khujut Rabu, just outside the Iraqi city of Baghdad. The jar was covered with an asphalt plug and is believed to be around 2,000 years old.
But the curious thing about the whole thing and what amazes the world is what they found inside: an iron bar inside a copper cylinder. This made some wonder: could it be an old battery?
Kรถnig was the first to suggest that the vessel was used as a battery,
18 centuries before the first real battery was invented. Although the
idea was certainly somewhat impossible, the jar would actually work as a
battery.
After World War II, engineer Willard Gray took a replica of the
Baghdad Battery, he filled it with grape juice and was capable of
producing between 1.5 and 2 volts of electricity. In other words, in ancient Iraq they were capable of producing electricity, more than a thousand years ahead of other countries.
While there is debate over what the discovery noted above was used for, ARAB AMERICA explains Iraq is responsible for inventing the wheel, the world's first written code of law, the written word, boats to transport, maps, the concept of time, math and much more. Iraq has given and given and the world has taken and taken.
SAG-AFTRA released the following statement on today's news regarding charges in the Rust tragedy.
"The
death of Halyna Hutchins is a tragedy, and all the more so because of
its preventable nature. It is not a failure of duty or a criminal act on
the part of any performer.
"The prosecutor's contention that an
actor has a duty to ensure the functional and mechanical operation of a
firearm on a production set is wrong and uninformed. An actor’s job is
not to be a firearms or weapons expert. Firearms are provided for their
use under the guidance of multiple expert professionals directly
responsible for the safe and accurate operation of that firearm. In
addition, the employer is always responsible for providing a safe work
environment at all times, including hiring and supervising the work of
professionals trained in weapons.
"The Industry Standards for
safety with firearms and use of blank ammunition are clearly laid out in
Safety Bulletin 1, provided by the Joint Industry-Wide Labor Management
Safety Commission. The guidelines require an experienced, qualified
armorer to be put in charge of all handling, use and safekeeping of
firearms on set. These duties include 'inspecting the firearm and barrel
before and after every firing sequence,' and 'checking all firearms
before each use.'
"The guidelines do not make it the performer’s
responsibility to check any firearm. Performers train to perform, and
they are not required or expected to be experts on guns or experienced
in their use. The industry assigns that responsibility to qualified
professionals who oversee their use and handling in every aspect. Anyone
issued a firearm on set must be given training and guidance in its safe
handling and use, but all activity with firearms on a set must be under
the careful supervision and control of the professional armorer and the
employer."
“You know what’s scary? People with guns, not queens with books!” EsTitties reminds us before beginning the announcement.
Honoring LGBTQ stories feels more important than ever this year.
“With violence, harmful legislation, false rhetoric and other attacks on
the LGBTQ community continuing to escalate, it’s more crucial than ever
that our community remains visible and included in the stories that the
world sees in film, television, music, journalism, and other forms of
media. This year we have more nominees than ever before to represent
immensely impactful projects that entertain, educate, and grow
acceptance of LGBTQ people. From new stories that debunk lies about
transgender youth to kids and family programming which allows all
families to be represented, this year’s nominated media images are
beloved by audiences and are creating real change,” said GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis.
The GLAAD Media Awards honor media for fair, accurate, and inclusive
representations of LGBTQ people and issues. Since its inception in 1990,
the GLAAD Media Awards have grown to be the most visible annual LGBTQ
awards show in the world, sending powerful messages of acceptance to
audiences globally. The 34th Annual GLAAD Media Awards are presented by
Gilead Sciences, Inc. and Ketel One Family Made Vodka.
For the full list of nominees, see below or here. Follow #glaadawards and @glaad for updates and reactions from nominees throughout the day.
The 34th Annual GLAAD Media Awards nominees were published, released,
or broadcast between January 1 and December 31, 2022. The GLAAD Media
Awards ceremonies, which fund GLAAD's work to accelerate LGBTQ
acceptance, will be held in Los Angeles at the Beverly Hilton on Thursday, March 30, 2023, and in New York City at the Hilton Midtown on Saturday, May 13, 2023.
With more nominees than ever before, GLAAD announced 295 nominees across 33 categories. Two new categories were added this year including Outstanding Podcast and Outstanding Live TV Journalism - Segment or Special. Some additional changes that were made were that the Outstanding Reality Program category was split to nominate both reality competition series and non-competition series independently and The Outstanding Kids & Family Programming
category was also split to nominate animated and live action programs
independently. This year also includes ten nominees in the Outstanding Film - Wide Release category for the first time.
Streaming services saw a total of 70 nominees, 54 nominations for
cable, and broadcast networks received 30. With 21 nominations, Netflix
earned more nominations than any other network. ABC had the second most
with 12 nominees, then HBO MAX with 10, and Hulu received 8. In the
Spanish-language categories, TelevisaUnivision and Univision.com both
received 8 nominations, and Telemundo and Telemundo.com received 3.
2022 was a year where anti-transgender violence rose and lawmakers
across the U.S. introduced an unprecedented number of bills attempting
to stop transgender youth from participating in sports and accessing
gender-affirming healthcare, many of the nominees at the 34th Annual
GLAAD Media Awards centered transgender people and issues in timely,
nuanced, and empowering ways. From television series and talk shows to
video games and comic books, this year’s nominees provided much needed
representation for trans and non-binary folk.
Of the 30 television shows nominated across Outstanding Comedy
Series, Outstanding Drama Series, and Outstanding New TV Series, 17
feature trans and/or nonbinary characters, including:, Sort Of,
9-1-1 Lone Star, Chucky, Grey’s Anatomy, Good Trouble, Gossip Girl,
P-Valley, September Mornings, Star Trek: Discovery, The L Word:
Generation Q, Umbrella Academy,A League of Their Own, Heartbreak High, Our Flag Means Death, Queer as Folk, The Sandman and Somebody, Somewhere. Other nominated shows and films featuring trans and/or nonbinary people or characters include: A
Man Called Otto, Bros, Death and Bowling, Neptune Frost, Wendell &
Wild, Anything’s Possible, Framing Agnes, Queer for Fear, Stay on Board:
The Leo Baker Story, The Book of Queer, The Best Man: The Final
Chapters, Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrls, RuPaul’s Drag Race, Generation Drag, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, The
Come Up, We’re Here, Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City, Dead
End: Paranormal Park, The Dragon Prince, The Owl House, First Day,
Heartstopper, Monster High: The Movie, Raven’s Home, Rebel Cheer Squad: A Get Even Series, and Zombie’s.
A significant number of nominees at the 34th Annual GLAAD Media
Awards also include impactful stories about LGBTQ people of color.
In the film and television categories, those nominees include: Bodies
Bodies Bodies, Bros, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Lightyear,
Nope, Strange World, Neptune Frost, The Inspection, Wendell & Wild,
Anything’s Possible, B-Boy Blues, Crush, Do Revenge, Fire Island, The
Fallout, Wildhood, Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back, Sirens, Harley Quinn,
Love, Victor, Never Have I Ever, Only Murders in the Building, Sex
Lives of College Girls, Sort Of, Good Trouble, Gossip Girl, The L Word:
Generation Q, P-Valley, Heartbreak High, A League of Their Own,
Interview with the Vampire, Our Flag Means Death, Sandman, The Rookie:
Feds, Queer as Folk, among others.
Many LGBTQ artists of color and/or acts featuring LGBTQ artists of
color were nominated for Outstanding Music Artist, including: Anitta,
Demi Lovato, Hayley Kiyoko, Honey Dijon, MUNA, Rina Sawayama, Doechii,
Dreamer Isioma, Isaac Dunbar, Omar Apollo, and Steve Lacy.
Many of this year’s nominees feature powerful stories of lesbian,
bisexual+, and queer women. Of the 10 nominees for Film: Wide Release,
more than half featured prominent lesbian, bisexual+, or queer female
characters, including Bodies Bodies Bodies, Bros, Lightyear, Scream, Spoiler Alert, and Tรกr.
Of the 30 television shows nominated across Outstanding Comedy
Series, Outstanding Drama Series, and Outstanding New TV Series, 17
feature lesbian, bisexual+, and queer women, including: Derry Girls,
Hacks, Harley Quinn, Never Have I Ever, Only Murders in the Building,
Sex Lives of College Girls, Good Trouble, Gossip Girl, Grey’s Anatomy,
P-Valley, The L Word: Generation Q, Heartbreak High, High School, A
League of Their Own, Queer as Folk, and The Rookie: Feds. Additionally,
many nominees in the Spanish-language Scripted Television category also
feature stories of lesbian, bisexual+, and queer women, including: La flor mรกs bella, Los Espookys, Smiley, and Las de la รบltima fila.
A tip sheet with a full breakdown of nominations by media and trends among the nominees is available here.
Each year, GLAAD presents non-competitive Special Recognition Awards
to media projects that do not fit into one of the existing GLAAD Media
Awards categories. For the 34th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, GLAAD is
presenting Special Recognition honors to eight media projects that
spotlighted diverse segments of the LGBTQ community in innovative ways.
The eight media projects include: Alejandra Caraballo, transgender rights activist, civil rights attorney and clinical instructor at Harvard Law School, Drag Story Hour, a nonprofit organization seeking to use the art of drag to read books to kids in libraries, schools, and bookstores, Rothaniel (HBO), the Emmy-award winning standup special written and performed by Black queer comedian Rothaniel Jerrod Carmichael, The Lesbian Bar Project a docu-series created by Erica Rose and Elina Street to celebrate lesbian queer bars across the U.S., #Letters4TransKids,
a social media campaign started by Axios’ Ina Fried to share letters of
support to trans children in the face of anti-trans legislation and
sentiment, and "En Sus Palabras" [serie] (TelevisaUnivision),
an impressive and ambitious interview series produced by the Social
Impact & Sustainability Team at TelevisaUnivision. These stories
feature LGBTQ people who, in long interviews, share their personal
stories of resilience and courage.
GLAAD's Barbara Gittings Award for Excellence in LGBTQ Media
honors a pioneering individual, group, or community media outlet that
has made a significant contribution to the development of LGBTQ media.
The award is named after Barbara Gittings in recognition of her
groundbreaking work as editor of The Ladder, and for her appearances as
an out lesbian on national news media throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
This year, The Barbara Gittings Award for Excellence in LGBTQ Media will be presented to The Los Angeles Blade and Washington Blade.
Washington Blade is the nation’s oldest LGBTQ newspaper, founded in
1969 just after the Stonewall Rebellion and is the only queer outlet
with a dedicated seat in the White House briefing room and the only such
outlet that is a member of the presidential pool rotation and the White
House Correspondents Association.Together, representing 50 years, the
Los Angeles Blade and Washington Blade’s relentless reporting reflects
best-in-class journalism, reminding us all that LGBTQ issues and people
have a stake in every news story and headline.
The 34th Annual GLAAD Media Awards are presented by Gilead Sciences, Inc. and Ketel One Family Made Vodka.
For more information on how to become a corporate sponsor, please
contact: Melissa Harris, Deputy Vice President of Partnerships at mharris@glaad.org.
World of Warcraft: Dragonflight (Blizzard Entertainment)
Wylde Flowers (Studio Drydock)
Outstanding Comic Book
I Hate This Place, by Kyle Starks, Artyom Topilin, Lee Loughridge, Pat Brosseau (Image Comics)
Immortal X-Men, by Kieron Gillen, Lucas Werneck, Michele Bandini, David Curiel, Dijjo Lima, Clayton Cowles (Marvel Comics)
New Mutants, by Vita Ayala, Danny Lore, Charlie Jane Anders,
Danilo Beyruth, Rod Reis, Jan Duursema, Guillermo Sanna, Alex Lins,
Alberto Alburquerque, Ro Stein, Ted Brandt, Dan Brown, Ruth Redmond,
Carlos Lopez, Tamra Bonvillain, Travis Lanham (Marvel Comics)
The Nice House on the Lake, by James Tynion IV, Alvaro Martinez Bueno, Jordie Bellaire, Andworld Design (DC Comics)
Poison Ivy, by G. Willow Wilson, Marcio Takara, Atagun
Ilhan, Brian Level, Stefano Gaudiano, Jay Leisten, Arif Prianto, Ivan
Plascencia, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou (DC Comics)
Sins of the Black Flamingo, by Andrew Wheeler, Travis Moore, Tamra Bonvillain, Aditya Bidikar (Image Comics)
Star Wars: Doctor Aphra, by Alyssa Wong, Minkyu Jung, Natacha Bustos, Rachelle Rosenberg, Joe Caramagna (Marvel Comics)
Superman: Son of Kal-El, by Tom Taylor, Nicole Maines, John
Timms, Cian Tormey, Raul Fernandez, Bruno Redondo, Wade Von Grawbadger,
Adriano Lucas, Clayton Henry, Ruairi Coleman, Scott Hanna, Hi-Fi Color,
Federico Blee, Wes Abbott, Matt Herms, Marcelo Maiolo, Romulo Fajardo,
Jr., Dave Sharpe, Bruno Redondo (DC Comics)
Tim Drake: Robin, by Meghan Fitzmartin, Riley Rossmo, Lee Loughridge, Tom Napolitano, Rob Leigh (DC Comics)
Wynd: The Throne in the Sky, by James Tynion IV, Michael Dialynas, Andworld Design (BOOM! Studios)
"Activists Face An Avalanche Of Anti-Transgender Bills" by Casey Parks (The Washington Post)
"After Threats From Extremist Groups, LGBTQ Activists Rally In Support Of The Center" by Desiree Stennet (Orlando Sentinel)
"A Country Music Comeback: Ty Herndon Knows He Should be Dead" by Jason Sheeler (People)
"EXPLAINER: Pronouns, Nonbinary People and the Club Q Attack" by Jeff McMillan with Jesse Bedayn, Jim Mustian, Colleen Slevin, Jake Bleiberg, Lindsey Tanner (Associated Press)
"'King Richard' Star Aunjanue Ellis Speaks Her Truth About Being Bisexual: 'I Am Queer - This Is Who I Am'" by Angelique Jackson (Variety)
"Niecy Nash And Wife Jessica Are Sure Betts" by Demetria L. Lucas (Essence)
“Pediatricians Who Serve Trans Youth Face Increasing Harassment. Lifesaving Care Could Be on the Line” by Madeleine Carlisle (TIME)
"Pride And Prejudice And Fire Island" by E. Alex Jung (New York Magazine)
"Take My Wheelchair,' Club Q Victim Tells Nurse Upon Leaving 22-Day Hospital Stay" by Carol McKinley and Tina Siegfried (The Gazette [Colorado Springs])
"Will Russia Bring Its War On LGBTQ People To Ukraine?" by Kate Linthicum (Los Angeles Times)
Outstanding Magazine Overall Coverage
The Advocate
Metro Weekly
OUT
People
Variety
Outstanding Online Journalism Article
"A 25-Year-Old Got In A Taxi Outside An N.Y.C. Gay Bar. He Was Dead An Hour Later" by Jay Valle (NBCNews.com)
"Alabama Is Trying to Raise the Legal Driving Age for Trans People to 19" by Nico Lang (TheDailyBeast.com)
"Does Providing Prep, A Drug That Prevents H.I.V., Clash With Christian Beliefs? An Overview Of Church Teaching" by Michael J. O’Loughlin (AmericaMagazine.org)
“The Fear And Loathing Some People Show Sports Pride Events Brings Fear And Pain To This Fan” by Karleigh Webb (Outsports.com)
“‘I See Myself In Her’: Brittney Griner’s Russia Trial Resonates With Queer Black Women And Nonbinary People” by Orion Rummler (the19th.org)
“My Experience As A Target Of Kiwi Farms Speaks To A Scary Truth About Internet Culture” by Katelyn Burns (MSNBC.com)
"The New York Times, The Atlantic, More Keep Publishing Transphobia. Why?" by Lexi McMenamin (TeenVogue.com)
"School Board Meetings Are the New Frontline for LGBTQ+ Rights" by Colleen Hamilton (them.us)
"There Is No Legitimate 'Debate' Over Gender-Affirming Healthcare" by Kit O’Connell (TexasObserver.org)
“What’s So Scary About A Transgender Child?” by Emily St. James (Vox.com)
Outstanding Online Journalism – Video or Multimedia
"+TALK: Sex, Dating & Disclosure" by Karl Schmid (PlusLifeMedia.com)
"Deaths In The Family" (Insider.com)
"Florida’s So-Called 'Don’t Say Gay' Bill Explained" (TampaBay.com)
"How Is the Gay Rodeo Different?" by Jordon Jones (PBS.org)
“How Medicine's Fixation on the Sex Binary Harms Intersex People" (ScientificAmerican.com)
"How New Anti-LGBTQ Laws Echo An Infamous Conservative Activist's Campaign From 1977" by John Avlon (CNN.com)
“Lawmakers Say Trans Athlete Bans Are About Protecting Women’s Sports …” by Julie Kliegman (SI.com)
"Logo's Trans Youth Town Hall" by Raquel Willis (LogoTV.com)
"The Stonewall Generation Has Found Their Voice with Leslie Jordan & Donald M. Bell" (LGBTQNation.com)
“White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Opens Up About Brittney Griner's Release” by Tracy E. Gilchrist (AdvocateChannel.com)
Outstanding Blog
Charlotte's Web Thoughts
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters
Mombian
My Fabulous Disease
The Reckoning
Outstanding Podcast
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamo (Studio71)
In The Deep: Stories that Shape Us (iHeartMedia)
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang (iHeartMedia/Big Money Players)
Life Out Loud with LZ Granderson (ABC News)
LGBTQ&A (Jeffrey Masters, The Advocate)
PRIDECAST (iHeartMedia)
Sibling Rivalry (Studio71)
TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones (TransLash Media)
V Interesting (Lemonada Media)
Yass Jesus! (Daniel Franzese Entertainment)
Special Recognition
Alejandra Caraballo
Drag Story Hour
"Rothaniel" (HBO)
"The Lesbian Bar Project"
#Letters4TransKids
NOMINEES FOR THE 34TH ANNUAL GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS
SPANISH-LANGUAGE CATEGORIES
Outstanding Spanish-Language Scripted Television Series
Los Espookys (HBO)
La flor mรกs bella (Netflix)
Ser o no ser (RTVE)
Smiley (Netflix)
Las de la รบltima fila (Netflix)
Outstanding Spanish-Language TV Journalism
"Activistas exigen a Correcciรณn trasladar de inmediato a Aurora a una cรกrcel de mujeres" Las Noticias de Teleonce (Teleonce)
"Avanzan en Ohio y Texas propuestas similares a la ley 'Don't say gay' de Florida" Hoy Dรญa (Telemundo)
"Azafata le pide matrimonio a su novia piloto" Ediciรณn Digital (TelevisaUnivision)
"El 'Chascas' Valenzuela cuestiona la ley 'No digas gay' de Florida 'Nos hizo retroceder 50 aรฑos'" Hoy Dรญa (Telemundo)
"La Familia de la Sigla XX1" Primer Impacto (TelevisaUnivision)
"Jesรบs Ociel Baena, la primera persona no binaria en Amรฉrica Latina en llegar a un cargo de magistrado electoral" Perspectivas Mรฉxico (CNN en Espaรฑol)
"La Magia de PFLAG" Despierta Amรฉrica (TelevisaUnivision)
"Mariachi Arcoรญris: el grupo musical 'queer' que revoluciona el gรฉnero" Primer Impacto (TelevisaUnivision)
"Protestan en 95 secundarias de Virginia por iniciativas del estado contra estudiantes transgรฉnero" Noticias Univision Washington D.C. (TelevisaUnivision)
"Amelio Robles fue el primer hombre trans mexicano y revolucionario" por Luis Garcia (Homosensual.com)
"'Esta es mi vida intersexual': asรญ fue cรณmo una boricua se convirtiรณ en una heroรญna" por Marcos Billy Guzmรกn (ElNuevoDรญa.com)
"Con miedo, pero peleando sus derechos: asรญ viven las familias con niรฑos LGBTQ en estados que quieren criminalizarlos" por Patricia Clarembeaux (Univision.com)
"Hay que votar por nuestras vidas: la comunidad hispana LGBTQ explica quรฉ le motiva a participar en esta elecciรณn" por Albinson Linares (Telemundo.com)
"Madres con hijos de la comunidad LGBTQ unen fuerzas en Amรฉrica Latina para luchar por sus derechos" por Rodrigo Serrano (ElVocer.com)
"Mucho mรกs que hablar con 'e', quรฉ es ser no binarie" por Marina Prats (HuffingtonPost.Es)
"No nos quitarรกn la risa" por Lucas Garรณfalo (Vice.com)
"El Primer Comedor Comunitario LGBTQ de la Ciudad de Mรฉxico" por Delilah Friedler, fotos de Luis Pimental (Vice.com)
"Proyectos de ley anti LGBTQ+ en Florida son una 'licencia para discriminar' y reviven el dolor de Pulse, dicen grupos locales" por Jennifer A. Marcial Ocasio (OrlandoSentinel.com)
"Por quรฉ los bisexuales, el colectivo no heterosexual mรกs numeroso de Espaรฑa, siguen siendo invisibles en televisiรณn" por Hรฉctor Llanos Martรญnez (ElPaรญs.com)
Outstanding Spanish-Language Online Journalism - Video or Multimedia
"Las abuelas trans buscan dignificar su vejez" por Liliana Rosas y Silvana Flores (ReporteIndigo.com)
"Un hogar para las mujeres trans en Mรฉxico" por Gladys Serrano (ElPaรญs.com)
"¿Al clรณset? ni pa' coger impulso: Carolina Giraldo, congresista bisexual" por Mariana Escobar Bernoske (ElEspectador.com)
"La comunidad trans recibe atenciรณn mรฉdica de calidad y con calidez, en la USIPT" por Jorge รngel Pablo Garcia y Tania Molina Ramรญrez (Jornada.com.mx)
"Migrantes Trans buscan una nueva vida en Estados Unidos" por Alma Paola Wong (Milenio.com)
Yesterday, I sent a letter to the court-appointed UAW Monitor with new evidence reported to me by workers of voter suppression by the UAW bureaucracy. The letter is copied below.
In December, I filed an official protest over the conduct and results of the first round of the UAW elections, documenting extensive evidence of voter suppression by the UAW bureaucracy. I encourage all my supporters to read and share the protest and submit your statements supporting the challenge to the election results.
**
Dear Monitor:
It has now been a month since I submitted my protest over voter suppression in the first round of the UAW national officer election, and I have still not received a response.
In the month since I submitted my report, rank-and-file UAW members and former members have been submitting very concerning reports to you with information proving that the UAW did not adequately update the Local Union Information System (LUIS), contrary to the claims your office made to the federal court when I brought my lawsuit asking for an extension to voting.
The following information creates the presumption that it was common for UAW Locals not to take action to update the LUIS system. To overcome this presumption, I am therefore demanding that your office provide me with an audit of what actions every single local took to update the LUIS system.
Local 2320—Protest by Benjamin Brown
I received documentation from Benjamin Brown who emailed your office on December 21, 2022, to report that his local, Local 2320, has done nothing in over five years to update LUIS. This union has almost 5,000 members, and this means possibly thousands were disenfranchised in the first round of the election.
Mr. Brown is an attorney and was bargaining chair in Local 2320 in New York state. He wrote to you that he has not been a member of the UAW since May 2017:
Shockingly, I received a ballot for the recently held Local 2320 elections as well as the international elections—more than 5 years after I quit my unionized employment and more than 5 years since I have been a member of either Local 2320 or the UAW overall. This reflects troubling disorganization as well as a lack of elections integrity, because I am ineligible to vote in these elections and the membership list has apparently not been cleaned up in more than 5 years.
Mr. Brown also explained to your office:
When I was a member of Local 2320 and a bargaining unit chairperson, I noticed two significant problems with the Local’s membership list: New members of the union were too often not added to the list, and departing members were too often not removed. I was aware of the issues and raised them back when I was a bargaining unit chair person. But I never expected that the dysfunction was so significant, or the leadership so deaf to my contemporaneous efforts to raise these concerns, that I would still be on a membership list used for elections more than 5 years after I departed.
Mr. Brown concluded his letter:
The stakes are far too high, the historical moment too decisive, working peoples’ adversaries too dangerous, to accept anything but high responsibility, competence, conscientiousness, work ethic, and integrity of people in union leadership positions. Don’t the UAW and its locals deserve leaders like that? Maintaining a well-organized and up-to-date membership list is basic. The goal should be to avoid leaving anyone behind, giving every dues-paying member the opportunity to participate. Every local, every vote.
Mr. Brown emailed this list to your office and to the UAW. That same day, December 21, the UAW replied via email by dismissing his concerns as follows:
Mr. Brown,
Thank you for reaching out to us. The UAW is not in control of this election. Please forward all complaints to the court appointed monitor. Please shred the ballot, thank you again for letting us know. If you receive another one please write us again. Happy Holidays.
Mr. Brown informed me that your office never replied to him.
Mr. Brown also informed me that when he was still a UAW member he filed a complaint on December 6, 2015, with UAW official Gordon Deane demanding that the UAW take action to update its lists, on the grounds that members were not receiving adequate information about local elections. On December 21, 2015, Mr. Deane informed Mr. Brown that he was discharging the complaint without taking any action and without forwarding the complaint to the local’s executive board. On that date, Mr. Deane wrote:
Attached is my reply to your letter of December 6, 2015. On a personal level, I’m disappointed that you felt it necessary to pursue a formal appeal—without even attempting to find out any more information about how the election was conducted before filing your complaint.
This shows the UAW’s entrenched leadership systematically attempts to suppress efforts to update its email list, including through veiled coercion. Mr. Deane was subsequently promoted from the position he held at the time he wrote this letter to national leadership. He is currently Assistant Director of UAW Region 9A. This shows that the entire entrenched leadership’s attitude to good faith efforts by UAW members to update the LUIS system is one of hostility. It also shows that large numbers of locals took no real measures aimed at sufficiently updating their lists.
Local 1264 and Local 869—Protest by Michelle Nadasky
In November 2022, Michelle Nadasky of Local 1264 in Sterling Heights, Michigan, wrote to your office to raise serious concerns about the maintenance of the LUIS system at her local. Ms. Nadasky began working at Local 1264 in April 2022 after transferring from another UAW local, well before the national officers election took place. She first called your office on November 1 and November 11. As a result of your office’s delay in getting back to her, her vote was not counted.
Ms. Nadasky received a ballot from her old local, not her new one, indicating that both locals had refused to update their membership lists.
Aside from violating her right to vote, this also raises serious concerns about the veracity of information your office gave to Judge David Lawson in federal court at a hearing on November 22.
On December 2, 2022, Ms. Nadasky wrote you an email with the subject line “Updating membership list”:
Good afternoon, this is Michelle Nadasky, Welder Repair Apprentice at Sterling Stamping Plant. I would like to know if the Monitor’s office has access to the UAW’s LUIS system so that they have the most accurate membership list, provided by the UAW, available to them?
The Financial Secretary of Local 1264 here at Sterling Stamping insisted that he updated the LUIS system in June of this year 2022, and added me as a member. I don’t believe that to be true. The last time I spoke to someone at the monitor’s office was 11/16/22 and her name was Grace. She had no record of an update and still had me listed under Local 869.
But in federal court six days after Grace told Ms. Nadasky that no LUIS update had taken place, Michael Ross, attorney for your office, said, “The LUIS system has information about all the members that is inputted through the local unions. There’s 600 plus local unions that input information about members,” clearly implying that all locals were updating LUIS. See pages 30–31 of the hearing transcript.
This is greatly concerning, because if Ms. Nadasky called your office and was told by “Grace” that “she had no record of an update” to LUIS, then your office knew that some locals were not updating LUIS but did not tell the judge, and instead told the judge that all the locals were inputting information about members.
Ms. Nadasky contacted me and told me that “11/16/22 is when Grace called me and told me for the first time I was Local 869 and there was no record of me ever being a member of Local 1264.” Your office then sent her a ballot, which she immediately filled out and mailed. She tracked the ballot and learned that it was never scanned. In other words, because the locals did not update their membership lists in LUIS, her vote was never counted. Only on January 4, 2023, did the UAW finally update her information, well after the election.
Local 1264 has over 2,000 members, and Local 869 also has about 2,000 members. In other words, these two protests show that locals representing almost 10,000 members were definitively not updating LUIS.
This is further proof that hundreds of thousands of UAW members—perhaps up to a million—never received a ballot, and that the UAW’s entrenched leadership was engaged in a systematic effort to stop rank-and-file members from voting.
During the ballot counting in Dayton, Ohio, in early December, Mr. Glen McGorty, a representative of your office, informed me that it was “not my responsibility” (in his words) to ensure that any local had taken any action to update LUIS.
Yes, it is. Please send me your audit of every local to show what specific actions each local took to update the LUIS system. Also, I reiterate my demand that a revote be held with actual notice to the entire membership and all candidates’ names on the ballot.
