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Sun\""},"link":[{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/posts\/default"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default?alt=json-in-script\u0026max-results=100"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/"},{"rel":"hub","href":"http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"},{"rel":"next","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default?alt=json-in-script\u0026start-index=101\u0026max-results=100"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"generator":{"version":"7.00","uri":"http://www.blogger.com","$t":"Blogger"},"openSearch$totalResults":{"$t":"165"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"100"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-7078030726553425851"},"published":{"$t":"2016-01-05T19:42:00.001-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-01-15T23:18:50.477-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Family reunification"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"jail system"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"san francisco"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"sheriff ross mirkarimi"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Vaya con Dios dear SF Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi. Dear Ross..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/pics\/mirkarimi1-waving-hand.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" alt=\"Vaya con Dios amigo nuestro\" title=\"Vaya con Dios amigo nuestro\" \/\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E... I'm not saying good bye, far from it, I'm welcoming you back to the civilian world -- Which will happen on Friday, January 8 2016 at noon -- and wishing you the best in all of your present and future endeavors. Count me in.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EAs a community activist, I know that we'll be meeting each other in the same circles, for, how could it be otherwise? Yes, you were what I refer to as a community activist who chose to also run for elected office to represent and serve the people from there, indeed Ross, that's my impression of you.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EYou were always with the people, in the good times and in the not so desirable ones, no matter the day, or the time of day, you were always there, in those moments of much need of support when we welcome the presence of humans' humane company and solidarity, especially in tragic moments, you were there.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EA community's concern translated by you meant the need to do something about it, which you did so many times and sucessfully I might add. Plastic shopping bags poluting our streets, flying around in the wind tunnels that regularly are what we call 'the streets of San Francisco', chocking water fowl and fish in the bay, plugging our sewage systems? Presente! In those concerns you saw the need to do something, you did and it's been working like a charm ever since. Good job Ross.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EDisplacement of tenants? You were there, and are. Women's rights? You were there, and are. Gay rights? Or closer to me, Transgender issues? You were there, and are. Human and civil rights for immigrants? You were there, and are. Law enforcement and criminal prison system? You were there, and are. I could go on, and on listing all the issues whose concerned advocates can look at you and say, thank you Ross for being there for us.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EAnd there were a few of them who called in the radio program you were on today, Jan. 4, '16. They took the opportunity to say 'thank you' on a day you went on radio, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.hechoencalifornia1010.com\/\" hint=\"Hecho en California: More than a program, it is a movement.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003ESpanish Talk Radio at its best, the  best 'commercial' Spanish radio program in the SF Bay Area which gives space to Un-Screened and Un-Filtered calls from the audience. \u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EMonday through Friday \u003Cbr\u003E09:00 am - 11:00 am; \u003Cbr\u003E12:00 pm - 1:00 pm\u003Cbr\u003E4:00 pm - 5:00 pm\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003ESaturdays \u003Cbr\u003E9:00 am - 10:00 am\u003Cbr\u003E11:30 am - 4:00 pm\"\u003EHecho en California\u003C\/a\u003E at La Grande, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.kiqi1010am.com\/\" hint=\"KIQI AM 1010 is San Francisco's multicultural radio station, providing a unique media voice for Bay Area's diverse communities with the main emphasis on the Hispanic\/Latino community.\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EOfficial Spanish language Radio station for the Oakland Athletics\"\u003EKIQI 1010AM\u003C\/a\u003E in SF, for the last time as SF Sheriff to say good bye and thank the audience who in large part supported you, as it turns out, callers were the ones who felt they had to recognize your contributions and thank you instead. You were there for us.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EClip of his radio appearance\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cobject data=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/javascripts\/player_mp3_maxi.swf\" width=\"250\" height=\"25\" align=\"middle\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"\u003E\n                    \u003Cparam value=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/javascripts\/player_mp3_maxi.swf\" name=\"movie\" \/\u003E\u003Cparam value=\"high\" name=\"quality\" \/\u003E\u003Cparam value=\"transparent\" name=\"bgcolor\" \/\u003E\u003Cparam value=\"mp3=http:\/\/www.elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/audio\/mp3s\/heca\/kiqi-1010am-010416-10-a-11am-entrevista-mirkarimi.mp3\u0026amp;showvolume=1\u0026amp;volume=75\u0026amp;buttoncolor=000000\u0026amp;buttonovercolor=FF3300\u0026amp;slidercolor1=000000\u0026amp;slidercolor2=CCCCCC\u0026amp;volumeheight=15\u0026amp;bgcolor1=d57f83\u0026amp;bgcolor2=f4d3cc\u0026amp;autoplay=0\" name=\"FlashVars\" \/\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EThere is so much to do and the need to do something about it, as you pointed out on the air today, and as you do every time you get the opportunity to speak up. I know that you will continue to work in helping fix our broken justice system, even so you will no longer be an elected official, at least \u003Cb\u003Efor the time being\u003C\/b\u003E... \u003Ci\u003E(Emphasis added)\u003C\/i\u003E but I know it will be a blessing in disguise your being out of office, sometimes people are far more effective and hence, successful working form the outside. No doubt you'll help move forward the innovative programs your predecessor, Sheriff Michael Hennessy and you, put into effect in the San Francisco City And County jail system; it is not a jail problem, but an education and training matter in preparing inmates to deal, once released, with the vagaries that life and society present us with on a daily basis.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EI'm with you that the drug problem is not a criminal matter, or an enemy that you need to declare war on it, it is a health issue and should be treated as such, by the same token, I'm also with you in that undocumented immigration it is not a criminal issue too, but a labor and human rights matter and that violations to immigration laws, are at worst administrative violations. I'm with you in those as well because you've been there for us in these too.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003ESo, again, welcome to the civilian world and now that you are in between jobs, join us in working from the outside at least for the time being!\u003C\/p\u003E \n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EI will be in touch...\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7078030726553425851\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2016\/01\/vaya-con-dios-dear-sf-sheriff-ross.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/7078030726553425851"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/7078030726553425851"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2016\/01\/vaya-con-dios-dear-sf-sheriff-ross.html","title":"Vaya con Dios dear SF Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi. Dear Ross..."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-5722255176435801764"},"published":{"$t":"2015-12-11T22:22:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2015-12-15T14:12:37.632-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"donald trump"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Politics"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Donald Trump Sells Out of His Own Signature at $13 a Copy"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EAn entrepreneurial approach to the campaign\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nDonald Trump has been selling his signature for $13 a pop, and he wanted everyone to know it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe messages have showed up like clockwork on his Facebook and Twitter accounts. “I am signing copies of my book CRIPPLED AMERICA. Order yours now—makes a great holiday gift!” runs the standard copy, which is followed by a link.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nRather than link to an online bookstore, like Amazon, which currently sells the book for $15, the link Trump goes to a Tennessee-based bookseller, which is marketing the book for $28, or $13 more than the listed cover price. The bonus: Along with Trump’s new book, buyers are promised a “numbered, custom bookplate” with Trump’s signature on it, along with a certificate of authenticity.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EThat puts the value of Trump’s signature at $13, a price that may have been set far too low. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5722255176435801764\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2015\/12\/donald-trump-sells-out-of-his-own.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/5722255176435801764"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/5722255176435801764"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2015\/12\/donald-trump-sells-out-of-his-own.html","title":"Donald Trump Sells Out of His Own Signature at $13 a Copy"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-2975695107908573914"},"published":{"$t":"2015-12-08T10:55:00.001-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2015-12-15T13:12:38.098-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"anti-immigrant"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"donald trump"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"immigracion"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"muslim"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"racism"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Piecing Together Donald Trump’s Nonsensical Plan To Ban Muslims"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EPiecing Together Donald Trump’s Nonsensical Plan To Ban Muslims\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003Eby Kira Lerner Dec 8, 2015 \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EAfter Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump announced his proposal Monday to ban all Muslims from entering the United States, reporters and pundits were quick to criticize the plan, saying it would undermine national security and that it’s just really, really racist.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EThe plan would clearly be extremely problematic, not to mention illegal, if enacted. But indulging Trump, we took a look at how such a plan would actually work if Trump managed to win the presidency:\u003Cbr \/\u003EWho exactly is banned?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003ETrump’s original statement called for a “total and complete shutdown” of allowing Muslims into the United States, and according to Trump’s campaign, the billionaire real estate mogul is not messing around. “Everyone,” Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski told CNN said when asked if the ban would also apply to Muslim tourists. The campaign also told The Hill that the ban would include American Muslims currently abroad. How he plans to block U.S. citizens from returning to their homes was not immediately clear.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003ETrump did concede that Muslims currently living in the country could remain here. “I have Muslim friends, Greta, and they’re wonderful people,” he told Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren. “It does not apply to people living in the country, except we have to be vigilant.”\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"related","href":"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2015\/12\/08\/3729449\/trump-muslim-ban-explained\/","title":"Piecing Together Donald Trump’s Nonsensical Plan To Ban Muslims"},{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2975695107908573914\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2015\/12\/piecing-together-donald-trumps.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/2975695107908573914"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/2975695107908573914"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2015\/12\/piecing-together-donald-trumps.html","title":"Piecing Together Donald Trump’s Nonsensical Plan To Ban Muslims"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-5034440800710098893"},"published":{"$t":"2015-12-05T20:35:00.001-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2015-12-12T21:26:04.705-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Immigration Reform Mexico USA Timeline"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"USA-Mexico's Immigration Relations Programs and Operations 1519 - 2015 Timeline "},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003E\n\/* $Id: example.css,v 1.5 2006\/03\/27 02:44:36 pat Exp $ *\/\n\n\/*--------------------------------------------------\n  REQUIRED to hide the non-active tab content.\n  But do not hide them in the print stylesheet!\n  --------------------------------------------------*\/\n.tabberlive .tabbertabhide {\n display:none;\n}\n\n\/*--------------------------------------------------\n  .tabber = before the tabber interface is set up\n  .tabberlive = after the tabber interface is set up\n  --------------------------------------------------*\/\n.tabber {\n}\n.tabberlive {\n margin-top:1em;\n}\n\n\/*--------------------------------------------------\n  ul.tabbernav = the tab navigation list\n  li.tabberactive = the active tab\n  --------------------------------------------------*\/\nul.tabbernav\n{\n margin:3;\n padding: 3px 3px;\n border-bottom: 1px solid #778;\n font: bold 12px Verdana, sans-serif;\n}\n\nul.tabbernav li\n{\n list-style: none;\n margin: 0;\n padding:3;\n display: inline;\n}\n\nul.tabbernav li a\n{\n padding: 3px 0.5em;\n margin-left: 0px;\n border: 1px solid #778;\n border-bottom: none;\n background: #DDE;\n text-decoration: none;\n}\n\nul.tabbernav li a:link { color: #448; 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650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003EAs I have, you've probably seen this type of post before, some longer than others or viceversa. I had a shorter version of it that I published about 14 years ago in my, now defunct, site on my comcast account.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003EBut i had a backup of my files of the comcast site and now, with the 2016 elections looming, there's little doubt that Immigration, for the umpteen time, will be a mayor issue. As a matter of fact, it already is as far as GOP candidate Donald Trump is concerned, for, he is already trying the tried and trite anti-immigration rhetoric. And why not? It has been to a varied degrees successful in stampeding the populace with fear of \"The Others\", i.e. non-white European \u003Ci\u003E(“Anglos”)\u003C\/i\u003E foreigners\/immigrants \u003Ci\u003E“Latin Americans\/Indians”\u003C\/i\u003E, for the last 150 years or so, particularly on economic downturn periods when the claim is made that the immigrants are to blame for taking the jobs away from the \"Real Americans\"(?) And committing crimes, or are the source of an increase in crime, when in reality, the opposite is true, at which point, for variousl reasons -- not the least racism, nativism, misplaced nationalism, etc. -- opportunistic politicians supported by ignorant demagogues, such as Donald Trump, start trumpetting the desperate need to implement immediately, stringent, cruel and without due process under the law, anti-immigrant measures\/bills.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003EUS\/Mexico's History is rife with examples of this behavior and the consequences, during and in the aftermath. where a myriad of laws and individual guarantees are violated leaving a swath of victims, such as to what the \u003Cb\u003E“Operation Wetback”\u003C\/b\u003E, among other programs and operations have proved and yet, this is the model that Mr. Trump is proposing as his solution to Immigration during the current debates in the 2016 campaign.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003EHence, it seemed a good idea to post this \u003Cb\u003EUPDATED PIECE\u003C\/b\u003E, if for no other reason, to have as much information on the issue as possible for reference on the dark history of the immigrant experience. To an extent, this post is incomple and does not touch how the politicians and populace reacted to the arrival of Jews, Italians, Slavs, Eastern Europeans, etc., that'd have to be another post, but for the moment, sufice to say that there is an echo in the experiences of these other ethnias paralleling what we hear about the Latin Americans, Chinese, Caribbean, Africans...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003ENOTE: I've included a description on what you'll find at the end of the link. It shows the snippet on hover when you point at it like \u003Cspan hint=\"Except for links to videos, all the links open in the same page, I thought to open them on a new window but there are so many links in this post that it would be very cumbersome. On the other hand, opening in the same window would be the same. In view that the visible link's description is so brief and tells just the name of the event, the compromise I made is to include hidden text to give you an idea of what the post is about and chose, except for videos, that links open in this window (_self) \u003Cspan style=\"color:blue\"\u003Ein this example\u003C\/span\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E \u003Cb\u003ENOTE: Long story short, I like totally broke my blog and I'm rebuilding it and not very well, some of the old blog features seem still broken. :-( \u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003EAurora\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E \u003Cb\u003E###\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\n\u003Cdiv id=\"text-2\" class=\"tabbertab\" title=\"1519-1861\"\u003E\n\n\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i854.photobucket.com\/albums\/ab103\/Tranny\/American%20Indian%20Tribes_zpswrgfrlil.jpg\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" width=\"150\" \/\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1519\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/500nations.com\/\" hint=\"Native American SuperSite!\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELOCAL INFORMATION for Native American culture and resources in every state and province of the United States and Canada, including casinos, powwows, places to visit, and tribal information.\"\u003E500 Nations\u003C\/a\u003E\n - \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/500-Nations-Kevin-Costner\/dp\/B0002S65WC\" hint=\"500 Nations (DVD)\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E500 Nations is an eight-part documentary that explores the history of cultures of indigenous peoples in North, Central and South America, from pre-Colombian times through the period of European contact and colonization, to the end of the 19th century and the subjugation of the Plains Indians of North America. 500 Nations utilizes historical texts, eyewitness accounts, pictorial sources and computer graphic reconstructions to explore the magnificent civilizations which flourished prior to contact with Western civilization, and to tell the dramatic and tragic story of the Native American nations' desperate attempts to retain their way of life against overwhelming odds.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E500 NATIONS CBS, Jack Leustig, creator, director and senior producer; written by Mr. Leustig, Robert Grossman, Lee Miller, W. T. Morgan and Dr. John M. D. Pohl; Dyanna Taylor, Terry Hopkins, William B. McCullough and Gary Steele, directors of photography; Robert Grossman, series producer; Lisa Sonne, co-producer. Produced by Tig Productions in association with RCS Film and TV and Majestic Film and Television International; Ralph Tornberg and Bernd Eichinger, co-executive producers; Jim Wilson and Kevin Costner, executive producers; Gregory Harrison, narrator; Kevin Costner, host. WITH THE VOICES OF: Tim Bottoms, Tantoo Cardinal, Gary Farmer, Graham Greene, Castulo Guerra, Amy Madigan, Edward James Olmos, Tony Plana, Eric K. Schweig, Patrick Stewart, Wes Studi, Gordon Tootoosis, Floyd Red Crow Westerman and Sheldon Wolfchild.\"\u003EThe story of native Americans - 1995 TV Mini-Series:\u003C\/a\u003E  An exploration of the various Native American nations and their fall to the European conquerors.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHosted by co-Executive Producer Kevin Costner, Narrated by Gregory Harrison |  - \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m6K4ar1nm5A\" hint=\"YouTube video -. (Opens in new window)\"\u003EPart I - The Ancestors.\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zOU_phQTZ0Y\" hint=\"YouTube video - (Opens in new window)\"\u003EPart II - Clash of Cultures.\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0X0_Pld0JDk\" hint=\"YouTube video -. (Opens in new window)\"\u003EPart III -  A Cauldron of War\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vVCD85yoPyU\" hint=\"YouTube video -. (Opens in new window)\"\u003EPart IV -  Struggle for The West.\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003EU.S.-Mexico border region is inhabited by many Native American groups who have lived in the area for centuries.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1519-1521\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003EHernan Cortes conquers central Mexico.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1535\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/motherearthtravel.com\/history\/mexico\/index.htm\" hint=\"History of Mexico\"\u003ESpain establishes colonial government in Mexico.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1819\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/history.state.gov\/milestones\/1801-1829\/florida\" hint=\"Milestones: 1801–1829\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAcquisition of Florida: Treaty of Adams-Onis (1819) and Transcontinental Treaty (1821)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe colonies of East Florida and West Florida remained loyal to the British during the war for American independence, but by the Treaty of Paris in 1783 they returned to Spanish control. After 1783, Americans immigrants moved into West Florida.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1810, these American settlers in West Florida rebelled, declaring independence from Spain.\"\u003EAdam-Onis Treaty\u003C\/a\u003E: U.S.-Mexico boundary established by Spain and the United States.\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1821\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mexconnect.com\/articles\/663-mexico-s-colonial-government-successful-failure\" hint=\"Today, the visible remains of Mexico's Colonial era are the ornate churches and palacios, either government office buildings or the homes of Colonial officials, still surviving, in the center of Mexico's larger cities.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Colonial Government of Nueva Espagna dates from 1530 when the first royal Viceroy, Antonio de Mendoza, started to bring order from chaos. Although it was to rule what is now Mexico for almost 300 years and had many positive achievements, it must be deemed a failure because it put in place political and social systems that launched the revolt against Spanish rule. Its unwillingness to give what had become the majority of the population any voice in government or control over their own destiny was to persist even in the 'democratic ' Republic that replaced it.\"\u003EMexico wins independence from Spain.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1821\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/tshaonline.org\/handbook\/online\/articles\/npm01\" hint=\"MEXICAN TEXAS. The Mexican war of independence (1810–21), one of the rebellions that erupted throughout Latin America to overthrow Spanish colonial rule, left Mexico with an array of problems that touched upon events in the far northern Mexican province of Texas. Economically, the country faced devastation in 1821. It stood in marked contrast to the rich colony that had promised great potential towards the end of the colonial era. \u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMoney barely circulated. Once-rich mines struggled to regain their former efficiency. Ranches and farms were no longer productive. With the economy in shambles, thousands faced unemployment. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEntire areas experienced depopulation as people sought out a livelihood elsewhere. Moreover, differences over class distinctions split the nation as the landed gentry, the military, and church officials sought the preservation of the antebellum order, wherein they ruled alongside government.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Additionally, many of the country's new leaders had had little prior experience in governing..\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E An equally urgent concern for the young country was guarding its far northern possessions from United States expansion; Texas was especially vulnerable to encroachment from that country, and colonization offered the best deterrent. But Mexico lacked the strength of population numbers to settle the north. Consequently, it tried enticing European and American immigrants to the region to act as defense forces against Indians and foreign powers. The political issues raised by the new settlers became the dominant topic in Texas during this period. In January 1821 the Spanish government gave Moses Austin of Missouri a contract to establish a colony on the Brazos River with 300 Catholic families. When he died on June 10, 1821, his son, Stephen F. Austin, inherited the contract, and by the end of 1821 colonists began reaching Texas, some of them establishing themselves on the main settlement, christened San Felipe de Austin. The Mexican government confirmed Austin's contract via the Imperial Colonization Law of January 1823.\"\u003EMexico permits Stephen F. Austin to start Texas colonization.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1824\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1824_Constitution_of_Mexico\" hint=\"The Federal Constitution of the United Mexican States of 1824 (Spanish: Constitución Federal de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos de 1824) was enacted on October 4 of 1824, after the overthrow of the Mexican Empire of Agustin de Iturbide. In the new constitution, the republic took the name of United Mexican States, and was defined as a representative federal republic, with Catholicism as the official and unique religion.[1] It was replaced by the Federal Constitution of the United Mexican States of 1857.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn Oct. 4, 1824, three years after winning independence from Spain and battling the remnants of monarchy, the Mexican people established a republic. In its new constitution, the republic took the name of United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos), and was defined as a representative federal republic.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA decade-long revolution against Spanish colonial rule had achieved independence for Mexico in 1821.\"\u003EMexico becomes a republic.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1835-1836\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Texas_Revolution\" hint=\"The Texas Revolution (October 2, 1835 – April 21, 1836) began when colonists (primarily from the United States) in the Mexican province of Texas rebelled against the increasingly centralist Mexican government. After a decade of political and cultural clashes between the Mexican government and the increasingly large population of American settlers in Texas, hostilities erupted in October 1835. \u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETexians (English-speaking settlers) disagreed on whether the ultimate goal was independence or a return to the Mexican Constitution of 1824. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile delegates at the Consultation (provisional government) debated the war's motives, Texians and a flood of volunteers from the United States defeated the small garrisons of Mexican soldiers by mid-December 1835.\"\u003EStruggle Over Texan Independence.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1842\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.expressnews.com\/150years\/leaders\/article\/Segu-n-The-painful-tale-of-a-Texas-patriot-6035629.php\" hint=\"Seguín: The painful tale of a Texas patriot\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDescendant of Canary Islanders fought for both sides.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJuan N. Seguín’s epic life left him revered and hated in both Texas, where he fought for freedom, and Mexico.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe oldest son of a prominent San Antonio family, he distinguished himself in battle in Texas’ Revolutionary War but was considered a traitor in Mexico. Seguín was credited with saving San Antonio from being burned to the ground to keep it from falling into Mexican hands the year after the Alamo fell. But five years later he invaded it as part of Mexican forces Seguín claimed he was forced to join.\"\u003EJuan Seguín\u003C\/a\u003E is elected Mayor of San Antonio, Texas, but is forced to flee in response to Anglo aggression.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1846\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/mexican-american-war\" hint=\"The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil. It pitted a politically divided and militarily unprepared Mexico against the expansionist-minded administration of U.S. President James K. Polk, who believed the United States had a “manifest destiny” to spread across the continent to the Pacific Ocean. \u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA border skirmish along the Rio Grande started off the fighting and was followed by a series of U.S. victories. When the dust cleared, Mexico had lost about one-third of its territory, including nearly all of present-day California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico.\"\u003EThe U.S. Mexico war\u003C\/a\u003E begins.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1847\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_for_Mexico_City\" hint=\"The major objective of American operations in central Mexico had been the capture of Mexico City. After capturing the port of Veracruz in March, General Winfield Scott was able to secure a base and move inland and defeat a large Mexican force at the Battle of Cerro Gordo. After routing the Mexicans at the Battle of Churubusco, Scott's army was only five miles (8 km) away from its objective of Mexico City.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlthough defeated at Cerro Gordo and Churubusco, General Santa Anna's army remained intact and totally outnumbered Scott.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn September 8, the fight for Mexico City began. Scott believed that a cannon foundry was located at the Molino del Rey, the King's Mill, located just over 2 miles (3 km) outside the city. Scott sent the 1st Division under William J. Worth to seize and destroy the foundry. Worth wished to include Chapultepec Castle in his attack, and when Scott refused, a bitter rivalry began between Scott and Worth. In the ensuing battle, both sides suffered heavy casualties, and Worth drove the Mexicans from the mill, separating them from the forces at Chapultepec. The battle produced no significant military gains for the U.S.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe main assault on the city came a few days later on September 12. Mexico City was guarded in part by Chapultepec Castle, which was being used as a military academy. Scott preceded infantry assault with an all day artillery barrage on September 12. The next day, September 13, the 4th Division, under John A. Quitman, spearheaded the attack against Chapultepec and carried the castle. Future Confederate generals George E. Pickett and James Longstreet participated in the attack. Serving in the Mexican defense were the cadets later immortalized as Los Niños Héroes (the 'Boy Heroes'). The Mexican forces fell back from Chapultepec and retreated within the city.\"\u003EU.S. forces under General Winfield Scott enter Mexico City\u003C\/a\u003E; peace negotiations with Mexico begin.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1848\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/tshaonline.org\/handbook\/online\/articles\/nbt01\" hint=\"TREATY OF GUADALUPE HIDALGO. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed on February 2, 1848, ended the Mexican War, recognized the annexation of Texas to the United States (consummated nearly three years before), and ceded to the United States Upper California (the modern state of California) and nearly all of the present American Southwest between California and Texas. \u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe treaty traced the boundary between the United States and Mexico from the Gulf of Mexico up the main channel of the Rio Grande to the southern boundary of the Mexican province of New Mexico. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe line followed the southern boundary of New Mexico to its western boundary and north to the first branch of the Gila River, then down the Gila to its intersection with the Colorado River, and finally along the old Spanish-Mexican division line between Upper and Lower California.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E The exact boundary was to be surveyed and marked by a joint commission to be appointed by the two governments within a year.\"\u003EThe Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo\u003C\/a\u003E brings the U.S.-Mexican War to an end.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1848\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/tshaonline.org\/handbook\/online\/articles\/pqmck\" hint=\"The treaty provided no standard for validation of land grants. \u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELand grant adjudication proceeded in a piecemeal fashion with the federal government determining the procedures in the new American Southwest, except that, by virtue of its prior claim to the trans-Nueces, the state of Texas controlled the process in the annexed lands. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBecause the federal government never challenged this position, the state determined the manner of settling the titles to lands in the annexed territory. Contrary to popular belief, however, Texas acted equitably by making available several opportunities for adjudication. Still, the validation of Hispanic land grants opened the gates to Tejano land loss, an event that involved complex dynamics beyond the range of this article.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Anglos ultimately took advantage of their growing economic power, used new laws to gain land, and occasionally resorted to devious means to subvert the Mexicans' position as dominant landholders.\"\u003EMEXICAN-AMERICAN LAND GRANT ADJUDICATION\u003C\/a\u003E The Mexican War brought not only soldiers to the lower border country, but also a host of Anglo-Americans who began almost immediately to challenge the Mexicans for control of the land. Spanish and Mexican land grants, some of long standing, became the focus of competition, controversy, and conflict. Despite what Mexicans believed to be specific guarantees to their property and civil rights under Articles VIII and IX of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the older Mexican landholders on the north bank of the Rio Grande often found themselves uncertain about their rights to lands granted by Spain and Mexico. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1848\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.coloma.com\/california-gold-discovery\/history\/\" hint=\"Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe California Gold Rush (1848–1855) began at this site in January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill. Marshall discovered gold on the South Fork of the American River while building a sawmill for John A. Sutter in the valley the Nisenan Indians knew as Cullumah. This event led to the greatest voluntary mass movement of people in the Western Hemisphere and was the spark that ignited the spectacular growth of the West during the ensuing decades. The gold discovery site, located in the still visible tailrace of Sutter's sawmill, in present day Coloma, California, is one of the most significant historic sites in the nation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EExhibits in the Gold Discovery Museum at the Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park tell the story of John Sutter and James Marshall, and how drastically the simple act of noticing a small fleck of gold would alter the lives of hundreds of thousands of people from that day to the present.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Museum has Native American and Gold Rush-era exhibits, including mining equipment, horse-drawn vehicles, household implements and other memorabilia, as well as films about the gold discovery and early mining techniques. Outside, there are mining exhibits, original buildings used by the Chinese, and a full size replica of Sutter's Mill.\"\u003EGold is discovered at Sutter’s Mill in the Sacramento Valley area of California\u003C\/a\u003E Gold is discovered at Sutter’s Mill in the Sacramento Valley area of California. By 1849, large numbers of U.S. pioneers and immigrants from around the world travel to the mining area. Many gold seekers set up camps on Mexican-held land, forcing out some of the original landowners.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1850\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.oac.cdlib.org\/search?style=oac4;Institution=California%20State%20Library::California%20History%20Room;idT=001482545\" hint=\"In 1850 the first California state legislature passed the first Foreign Miners Tax Law, levying a twenty dollars per month tax on each foreigner engaged in mining.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E A revolt resulted and it was repealed in 1851. The Foreign Miners Tax Law was reenacted in 1852. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy 1853 the Foreign Miner's Tax stated in Section 6, 'The amount to be paid for each license shall be at the rate of four dollars per month, and said license shall in no case be transferable.' \"\u003EThe Foreign Miners Tax is levied\u003C\/a\u003E; Mexican (And Chinese \u003Ci\u003E(Who moved in after many Mexicans left))\u003C\/i\u003E miners are among the hardest hit.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1851\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.kcet.org\/socal\/departures\/columns\/laws-that-shaped-la\/how-rancho-owners-lost-their-land-and-why-that-matters-today.html\" hint=\"During the Spanish and Mexican era in California, those governments gave land to reward individuals -- sometimes for service in the military, sometimes as inducements to settle in what was considered a remote, undesirable outpost.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMany of these grants of land were enormous, including land granted in the area around the San Gabriel Mission and the Pueblo of Los Angeles. For example, Manuel Nieto, who was a member of the De Portola expedition (the first land expedition into Alta California), received a grant of almost 300,000 acres in the 1780s. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESurveys were conducted, but were approximate, often using trees, streams or boulders as boundary markers. This worked out okay in the Spanish and Mexican areas because there was simply so much land and so few people. Exact boundaries were not so important.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESurveys were conducted, but were approximate, often using trees, streams or boulders as boundary markers. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis worked out okay in the Spanish and Mexican areas because there was simply so much land and so few people. Exact boundaries were not so important.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHowever, after Alta California became a territory of the United States in 1848 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ending the US-Mexico War, things changed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere was political pressure to open up lands in the West for settlers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlthough the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo had assured that Mexican era land claims would be honored, Congress passed the California Land Act, which created a board that would review all land titles from the Spanish and Mexican eras to determine if they were valid.\"\u003EThe California Land Act\u003C\/a\u003E attempts \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/aztlan.sdsu.edu\/chicanohistory\/chapter05\/c05s02.html\" hint=\"Chapter 5: San Diego's Mexican Community, 1850-1910\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E2. Why did the Mexican Californios lose their lands?Every Chicano history text discusses how, after the end of the Mexican war, despite promises of protection of civil liberties and property contained in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the Mexican land holders in the United States were systematically stripped of their property and denied their civil rights.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn San Diego, the Californio land holders had a shorter distance to fall. They were poor before the Americans arrived, largely because of Indian raids, accidents of geography and political history. After the Americans arrived, the San Diego Californios were subject to the same prejudicial laws, racist intimations, greedy squatters, high taxes, expensive lawyers, and usurious bankers as was true elsewhere in California. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Land Law of 1851, which required all Mexican land owners to validate their grants before a Land Claim Commission, placed a tremendous hardship on Mexican landholders, who had to hire lawyers to represent them against all comers, sometimes hundreds of squatter claimants. All this cost money which could only be gotten by either mortgaging their rancho or selling their cattle. The first option led predictably to forced sale while the second was of limited economic help.\"\u003Eto resolve property disputes between Anglos and Mexican Americans\u003C\/a\u003E with the creation of a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/foundsf.org\/index.php? title=Mexican_Land_Claims%E2%80%94The_U.S._Land_Commission_and_The_Burden_of_Proof,_1851-1854\" hint=\"Mexican Land Claims—The U.S. Land Commission and The Burden of Proof, 1851-1854\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHistorical Essay\u003Cbr \/\u003Eby Nancy J. Olmsted\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommodore John Sloat promised the Mexican-Californians to guarantee their land titles. The pledge was repeated by military governors General Stephen Kearny and Colonel Richard Mason, and backed up in 1848 by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which gave the resident Mexicans their American citizenship. In the excitement of the Gold Rush, from 1848 to 1850, the whole question of Mexican land titles was put aside. But in anticipation of legal questions that were bound to arise, confidential agents of the United States combed the archives (then in considerable disarray) of the California missions and in Mexico City for some semblance of land surveys and documents that could be used as legal proof in United States courts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHoping to settle the messy problem of Mexican land claims in California, Congress created the U.S. Land Commission. Appointed in March of 1851, the three commissioners with their support staff (only one could read Spanish) were to serve for three years. By then, it was hoped, the tangle of land ownership of these large Mexican grants would be unsnarled, if not to everyone’s satisfaction, at least without bloodshed. The life of the U.S. Land Commission was extended to 1856, but some of the titles were still the subject of dispute in courts in 1880.53 \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe burden of proof of ownership lay on the claimants, who had to travel to San Francisco within a specified time and present their claims, papers, and witnesses to the commission. If the commission’s decisions had been final, with no appeal, the process might not have ruined the claimants. But now, as American citizens, they had the right of appeal to the U.S. District Court, and on up to the U.S. Supreme Court, as did all third parties. “In nearly every case, whatever might have been the decision of the Land Commission, an appeal was taken.”54 \"\u003EU.S. Land Commission\u003C\/a\u003E. California regions with the largest \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/everything.explained.today\/Mexican_American\/\" hint=\"In times and places where Mexicans were allotted white status, they were permitted to intermarry with what today are termed “non-Hispanic whites”, though social customs typically only approved of such marriages if the Mexican partner was not of any discernable indigenous heritage.[27] Legally, Mexican Americans could vote and hold elected office, though they were also constrained from voting in most places by literacy tests and poll taxes. \u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Mexicans of Spanish descent ran the state politics and constituted most of the elite of New Mexico since colonial times, property requirements and English literacy requirements were imposed in Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, and Texas in order to prevent Mexican Americans from voting. Some eligible voters were intimidated with the threat of violence if they attempted to exercise their right to vote.[28]\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMexicans were also allowed to serve in all-white units during World War II. However, many Mexican American war veterans were discriminated against and even denied medical services by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs when they arrived home.[29]\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the past, Mexicans were legally considered “White” because either they were considered to be of full Spanish heritage, or because of early treaty obligations to Spaniards and Mexicans that conferred citizenship status to Mexican peoples at a time when whiteness was a prerequisite for U.S. citizenship.[30] [31] Although Mexican Americans were legally classified as “White” in terms of official federal policy, many organizations, businesses, and homeowners associations and local legal systems had official policies to exclude Mexican Americans. Throughout the southwest discrimination in wages were institutionalized in “white wages” versus lower “Mexican wages” for the same job classifications\"\u003EMexican American populations\u003C\/a\u003E are systematically discriminated and taxed more than any other region. But this can be said of every state that went trough the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/tshaonline.org\/handbook\/online\/articles\/pqmck\" hint=\"Anglo-American colonization in Mexican Texas took place between 1821 and 1835. Spain had first opened Texas to Anglo-Americans in 1820, less than one year before Mexico achieved its independence. Its traditional policy forbade foreigners in its territory, but Spain was unable to persuade its own citizens to move to remote and sparsely populated Texas. There were only three settlements in the province of Texas in 1820: Nacogdoches, San Antonio de Béxar, and La Bahía del Espíritu Santo (later Goliad), small towns with outlying ranches. The missions near the latter two, once expected to be nucleus communities, had been or were being secularized (i.e., transferred to diocesan from Franciscan administration), while those near Nacogdoches had been closed since the 1770s. Recruiting foreigners to develop the Spanish frontier was not new. \u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs early as the 1790s, Spain invited Anglo-Americans to settle in Upper Louisiana (Missouri) for the same reason. The foreigners were to be Catholic, industrious, and willing to become Spanish citizens in return for generous land grants. Spain expected the new settlers to increase economic development and help deter the aggressive and mobile Plains Indians such as the Comanches and Kiowas. Mexico continued the Spanish colonization plan after its independence in 1821 by granting contracts to empresarios who would settle and supervise selected, qualified immigrants.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEarly Texas Cabin\u003Cbr \/\u003EA rustic cabin built of rough-sawn cedar planks in about 1823 by John R. Williams who was a Texas colonist and part of the Old Three Hundred. It is the oldest-known structure in Harris County, Texas, and is a part of Sam Houston Park. Courtesy of the Public Domain.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnglo-Americans were attracted to Hispanic Texas because of inexpensive land. Undeveloped land in the United States land offices cost $1.25 an acre for a minimum of 80 acres ($100) payable in specie at the time of purchase. In Texas each head of a family, male or female, could claim a headright of 4,605 acres (one league-4,428 acres of grazing land and one labor-177 acres of irrigable farm land) at a cost about four cents an acre ($184) payable in six years, a sum later reduced by state authorities.\"\u003EANGLO-AMERICAN COLONIZATION\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1853\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/history.state.gov\/milestones\/1830-1860\/gadsden-purchase\" hint=\"Milestones: 1830–1860\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGadsden Purchase, 1853–1854\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Gadsden Purchase, or Treaty, was an agreement between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico. Gadsden’s Purchase provided the land necessary for a southern transcontinental railroad and attempted to resolve conflicts that lingered after the Mexican-American War.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo formally ended the Mexican-American War in February 1848, tensions between the Governments of Mexico and the United States continued to simmer over the next six years. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe two countries each claimed the Mesilla Valley as part of their own country. The Mexican Government demanded monetary compensation for Native American attacks in the region because, under the Treaty, the United States had agreed to protect Mexico from such attacks; however, the United States refused to comply, insisting that while they had agreed to protect Mexico from Native American attacks, they had not agreed to financially compensate for attacks that did occur. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe persistent efforts of private American citizens to enter Mexico illegally and incite rebellions in an effort to gain territory exacerbated tensions between the governments.\"\u003EThe Gadsden Purchase Treaty is signed.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1853\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Court_of_Private_Land_Claims\" hint=\"The United States Court of Private Land Claims (1891–1904), was a United States court created to decide land claims guaranteed by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, in the territories of New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah, and in the states of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDuring Spanish (1598–1821) and Mexican (1821–1846) rule over what was to become the U.S. Southwest, the governments made land grants to various individuals and communities. Under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848), which ended the Mexican-American War, the United States obtained these territories, and in Article VIII guaranteed the rights of Mexican and former Mexican citizens to their property.[1][2] However, the U.S. Senate in ratifying the treaty eliminated Article 10, which stated that the U.S. government would honor and guarantee all land grants awarded in lands ceded to the United States to citizens of Spain and Mexico by those respective governments. Thus land grants were subject to being proved.[2]\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1851, Congress passed the first legislation implementing the property protection provisions of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, however it addressed only the Spanish and Mexican grants in California.[3] Congress focused on California’s land grants first because California was already a populous state, and it wanted to encourage further settlement of the public domain land there.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1854 the U.S. Congress established the office of the Surveyor General of New Mexico to ascertain 'the origin, nature, character, and extent to all claims to lands under the laws, usages, and customs of Spain and Mexico.'\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E At first the Congress tried to deal with each land grant by special bill and the House had a Committee on Private Land Claims, seats on which were sought after as a way of dispensing patronage. By 1880 the corruption[4] inherent in determining these claims by politics rather than on a legal basis forced an end to this practice.[5] For ten years no claims could be proved as against the United States.\"\u003EThe Surveyor of General Claims Office is established in New Mexico\u003C\/a\u003E, though claims by Mexican Americans cannot be processed fast enough to prevent take-overs.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1857\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003EAnglo businessmen try to push Mexican teamsters out of south Texas, violating the guarantees of the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/tshaonline.org\/handbook\/online\/articles\/nbt01\" hint=\"TREATY OF GUADALUPE HIDALGO. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed on February 2, 1848, ended the Mexican War, recognized the annexation of Texas to the United States (consummated nearly three years before), and ceded to the United States Upper California (the modern state of California) and nearly all of the present American Southwest between California and Texas. \u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe treaty traced the boundary between the United States and Mexico from the Gulf of Mexico up the main channel of the Rio Grande to the southern boundary of the Mexican province of New Mexico.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe line followed the southern boundary of New Mexico to its western boundary and north to the first branch of the Gila River, then down the Gila to its intersection with the Colorado River, and finally along the old Spanish-Mexican division line between Upper and Lower California. The exact boundary was to be surveyed and marked by a joint commission to be appointed by the two governments within a year.\"\u003ETreaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1861\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003EDuring the 1860s, \u003Cb\u003ETiburcio Vásquez\u003C\/b\u003E \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tiburcio_V\u0026aacute;squez\" hint=\"\u003Cimg src='http:\/\/i854.photobucket.com\/albums\/ab103\/Tranny\/Pics%20for%20posts\/Joaquin%20Murieta__zpsbhf0rhlw.jpg' align='left' height='150' hspace='5px' vspace='5px'\u003ETiburcio Vásquez (April 11, 1835 – March 19, 1875) was a Californio bandido who was active in California from 1854 to 1874. The Vasquez Rocks, 40 miles (64 km) north of Los Angeles, were one of his many hideouts and are named for him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETiburcio Vásquez was born in Monterey, Alta California Mexico (present day California, USA) on April 10, 1835 to Jose Hermenegildo Vásquez and Maria Guadalupe Cantua.[1][2] In accord with Mexican tradition, Vásquez's birth was celebrated on the feast day of his namesake, St. Tiburtius. Thus, he would always refer to his birthday as August 11, 1835.[3] His great-grandfather came to Alta California with the De Anza Expedition of 1776. Vásquez was slightly built, about 5 feet 7 inches in height. His family sent him to school, and he was fluent in both English and Spanish.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1852, Vásquez was influenced by Anastacio Garcia, one of California's most dangerous bandits.[4] In 1854, Vásquez was present at the slaying of Monterey Constable William Hardmount in a fight with Anastacio Garcia at a fandango. Vásquez denied any involvement and fled, becoming an outlaw. Vásquez would later claim his crimes were the result of discrimination by the norteamericanos and insist that he was a defender of Mexican-American rights.[5] Vásquez and Garcia played leading roles in Monterey County's murderous Roach-Belcher feud, which reached its end when Garcia was executed by hanging in 1857.[3]\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy 1856, he was actively rustling horses. A sheriff's posse caught up with him near Newhall, and he spent the next five years behind bars in San Quentin prison. There he helped organize, and participated in, four bloody prison breaks which left twenty convicts dead.[6] After his release, he committed numerous burglaries, cattle thefts, and highway robberies in Sonoma County in 1866. He was captured after a store burglary in Petaluma and sent to prison again for three years.[7]\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E His \u003Ci\u003E'trademark'\u003C\/i\u003E was \u003Ci\u003E'binding [his victims'] hands behind their back and leaving them face down in the dust.'\u003C\/i\u003E[8]\"\u003E[1]\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sanluisobispo.com\/news\/local\/news-columns-blogs\/times-past\/article39190695.html\" hint=\"\u003Cimg src='http:\/\/i854.photobucket.com\/albums\/ab103\/Tranny\/Pics%20for%20posts\/Tiburcio%20Vazquez__zps3vaqaabn.jpg' align='left' height='150' hspace='5px' vspace='5px'\u003EHe was tried and sentenced in San Jose where he maintained that he had never personally killed anyone.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA professional photographer took pictures of a well-dressed Tiburcio Vasquez. The prisoner sold autographed photos from the window of his cell to raise money for his legal defense. They were purchased mostly by admiring women. Clemency was denied by Gov. Romualdo Pacheco, once the sheriff of San Luis Obispo County.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EVasquez is a legendary California bandido. Between 1852 and 1874, he terrorized the highways and small towns of both Northern and Southern California. Other than Joaquin Murieta, Vasquez was the most notorious bandit in California history. Unlike Joaquin, he is not highly fictionalized, but a real person whose life and death read like a highly imaginative Western novel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven his death became a California legend: His only word on the gallows was “Pronto.” Then he dropped to his death by hanging. The bandido calmly met his fate March 19, 1875, in the still standing 1868 Santa Clara County Courthouse across from St. James Park in San Jose.\"\u003E[2]\u003C\/a\u003E,Joaquín Murieta \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Life_and_Adventures_of_Joaqu%C3%ADn_Murieta\" hint=\"\u003Cimg src='http:\/\/i854.photobucket.com\/albums\/ab103\/Tranny\/Pics%20for%20posts\/Tiburcio%20Vaacutesquez_zpsuniw0vun.jpg'align='left' height='150' hspace='5px' vspace='5px'\u003EThe Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta: The Celebrated California Bandit was originally published in 1854 by John Rollin Ridge, writing as \u003Ci\u003E'Yellow Bird'.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E It is considered to be one of the first novels written in California and the first novel to be published by a Native American.[1]\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E The novel describes the life of a legendary bandit named Joaquín Murieta who, once a dignified citizen of Mexico, becomes corrupt after traveling to California during the Gold Rush.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E The book was originally published as a fictional biography, but was taken as truth by many historians of the time.[2] \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe novel received mass attention and was translated to various European languages, including French and Spanish.[3] \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnfortunately, the novel was highly plagiarized and Ridge never received the economic gain he hoped for\"\u003E[1]\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yyHEp3TU-1w\" hint=\"OPENS IN NEW WINDOW -- Corrido[Video. Spanish]: LA LEYENDA DE JOAQUIN MURRIETA\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/-- \/\u003EIt ia believed by some that this Leyend is the beginning of the 'El Zorro' Character\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESIDE NOTE: He was so renoun and well known that there is a claim that he was born in Chile\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Chile the Legend of Joaquin Murieta has him born in the small town of Quillota, twenty miles from Valparaiso. Like the other variations on the theme, this version of the legend was drawn ultimately from John Rollin Ridge's 1854 novel entitled \u003Cb\u003E'The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, Celebrated California Bandit'\u003C\/b\u003E. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1859 the California Police Gazette printed a version of the same story. The Police Gazette story was translated into Spanish and that version was subsequently translated into French. The French version was translated back into Spanish by Roberto Hynne who claimed to have been in California during the gold rush. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Hynne version had Joaquin born in Chile rather than Mexico and made him the champion of the Chilenos working in the gold fields. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELater Pablo Neruda wrote an opera in Spanish entitled \u003Cb\u003EFulgor y Muerte de Jaoquin Murieta\u003C\/b\u003E.(\u003Ci\u003EThe Splendor and Death of Joaquin Murieta\u003C\/i\u003E.) \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENeruda was a well-known Communist and his opera was written as an Anti-American protest.\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E[2]\u003C\/a\u003E And others who resisted are also labeled \"bandits\" \u003Ci\u003E(Just as Joaquin)\u003C\/i\u003Efor \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.legendsofamerica.com\/ca-murieta.html\" hint=\"CALIFORNIA LEGENDS\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJoaquin Murrieta - Patriot or Desperado?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Depending on a California pioneer’s point of view in the mid 19th century, Joaquin Murrieta was described by some as a Mexican Patriot, while others would say he was nothing but a vicious desperado.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThought to have been born in either Alamos, Sonora, Mexico or Quillota, Chile in 1829; Joaquin traveled with his older brother, Carlos and his wife, Rosita, to California in 1850 to seek his fortune in the gold fields of California. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe three immigrants soon set up a small farm and the brothers began to work a claim near Hangtown. However, in the same year as their arrival, a \u003Cb\u003EForeign Miners Tax was imposed in California\u003C\/b\u003E and their Anglo-Saxon neighbors tried to run them off by telling them that it was illegal for Mexicans to hold a claim.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Reportedly, the Murrieta brothers tried to ignore the threats as long as they could until they were finally forced off their claim. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAngry and unable to find work, Joaquin turned to a life of crime, along with other disposed foreign miners, who began to prey upon those who had forced them from their claims.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJoaquin Murrieta, California bandit\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMurrieta soon became one of the leaders of a band of ruffians called The Five Joaquins, who were said to have been responsible for cattle rustling, robberies, and murders that occurred in the gold rush area of the Sierra Nevadas between 1850 and 1863. Comprised of Joaquin Botellier, Joaquin Carrillo, Joaquin Ocomorenia, and Joaquin Valenzuela, and Murrieta's right hand man Manual Garcia, known as \u003Ci\u003E'Three-Fingered Jack'\u003C\/i\u003E, the tales of their crime spree included stealing over 100 horses, making off with more than $100,000 in gold, and killing 19 men.\"\u003Eresisting the take-over of lands held by Mexican Americans in California.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/history.state.gov\/milestones\/1861-1865\/french-intervention\" hint=\"French Intervention in Mexico and the American Civil War, 1862–1867\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIntroduction\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1862, French Emperor Napoleon III maneuvered to establish a French client state in Mexico, and eventually installed Maximilian of Habsburg, Archduke of Austria, as Emperor of Mexico. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStiff Mexican resistance caused Napoleon III to order French withdrawal in 1867, a decision strongly encouraged by a United States recovered from its Civil War weakness in foreign affairs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Earlier, during the Civil War, U.S. Secretary of State William Henry Seward followed a more cautious policy that attempted to keep relations with France harmonious and prevent French willingness to assist the Confederacy. Consequently, Maximilian’s government rebuffed Confederate diplomatic overtures.\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1857,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Mexico became embroiled in a civil war that pitted the forces of Liberal reformist Benito Juárez against Conservatives led by Félix Zuloaga. Conservatives exerted control from Mexico City, and the Liberals from Veracruz. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe United States recognized the Juárez government in 1859, and in January of 1861, Liberal forces captured Mexico City, greatly strengthening Juárez’s position and legitimacy. However, continued instability had coincided with growing foreign debt that was increasingly difficult for the Mexican government to pay. Secretary of State Seward offered a plan that would provide mining concessions in exchange for American loans. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the event that the debts were not repaid, Mexico would agree to the cession of Baja California and other Mexican states. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe terms of the loan were onerous to the Mexican government, but U.S. diplomat Thomas Corwin successfully negotiated a treaty with Mexican representative Manuel Maria Zamacona. Ultimately, though, the U.S. Congress rejected the treaty on grounds that it would drain money from Civil War expenditures.\"\u003EFrance\u003C\/a\u003E, Britain, and Spain attempt to force \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mexonline.com\/benitojuarez.htm\" hint=\"\u003Cimg src='http:\/\/i854.photobucket.com\/albums\/ab103\/Tranny\/Benito_Pablo_Juaacuterez_Garciacutea_zpsaszx8q5z.png' align='left' height='150' hspace='5px' vspace='5px'\u003EHistory of Benito Juarez\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESUMMARY: Benito Juarez is considered one of Mexico's greatest and most beloved leaders. During his political career he helped to institute a series of liberal reforms that were embodied into the new constitution of 1857. During the French occupation of Mexico, Juarez refused to accept the rule of the Monarchy or any other foreign nation, and helped to establish Mexico as a constitutional democracy. He also promoted equal rights for the Indian population, better access to health care and education, lessening the political and financial power of the Roman Catholic church, and championed the raising of the living standards for the rural poor.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBenito Juarez was born March 21st 1806, the child of Zapoteco Indians. After they died when he was three, he went to live with his uncle, but when he was 12 he joined his sister in Oaxaca. He began studying for the priesthood, but in 1829 changed to studying for a law degree, which he received in 1831. That year he also began his political career, with a seat on the municipal council. In 1841 he became a judge, and the governor of Oaxaca.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1853 the conservatives took power in Mexico and many liberals were exiled, including Juarez, who spent his time of exile in New Orleans. In 1855 the liberals won the election, and Benito Juarez returned from his exile as the Minister of Justice. In 1857 he was elevated to preside over the supreme court, in effect making him the Vice President. In 1858 the conservatives rebelled, and again Juarez had to leave Mexico City, this time fleeing to Veracruz, where he created a government in exile.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn January 1861 the conservatives lost power, and Benito Juarez became the President of Mexico. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs the treasury was practically empty Juarez made the decision to suspend payment on all foreign debts for a two year period. After Mexican congress rejected an agreement Juarez had made with the British Prime Minister to protect the interests of European countries Spanish, British and French troops landed in Vera Cruz. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESpain and Britain were there to protect their financial interests, and left in April, after it became clear that France had conquest in mind. The French troops fought for two years, and although suffering a serious defeat on 5th May 1862, eventually captured Mexico City in June 1863, and placed Archduke Maximilian of Austria on the Mexican throne. \"\u003EBenito Juarez\u003C\/a\u003E's government to repay debts owed. Even thought Britain and Spain withdraw, the French remain, hoping to establish a new empire. On May 5 (\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/latinamericanhistory.about.com\/od\/thehistoryofmexico\/a\/cincodemayo.htm\" hint=\"Cinco de Mayo is a Mexican holiday which celebrates the victory over French forces on May 5, 1862 at the Battle of Puebla. It is often mistakenly thought to be Mexico’s Independence Day, which is actually September 16. More of an emotional victory than a military one, to Mexicans the Battle of Puebla represents Mexican resolve and bravery in the face of an overwhelming foe.\"\u003ECinco de Mayo\u003C\/a\u003E), mestizo and Zapotec soldiers defeat the French army in the Battle of Puebla.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\n\u003Cdiv id=\"text-3\" class=\"tabbertab\" title=\"1867-1928\"\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1867\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003ENapoleon III of France withdraws his support from Maximilian, the Austrian archduke who had been made \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Maximilian-archduke-of-Austria-and-emperor-of-Mexico\" hint=\"\u003Cimg src='http:\/\/i854.photobucket.com\/albums\/ab103\/Tranny\/maximilian%20and%20carlota_zpsgaqllssj.gif' align='left' height='150' hspace='5px' vspace='5px'\u003EMAXIMILIAN I, Emperor of MexicoMaximilian I (1832-1867),\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Emperor of Mexico from 1864-1867, qualifies as one of the country's most ill-fated rulers. Hailing from a European dynasty, Maximilian was duped into accepting the role of Mexico's emperor. Brought to the country under false pretenses, the archduke of Austria was led to believe his presence would be welcome by the people of Mexico. In fact, the opposite was true.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E (born July 6, 1832, Vienna, Austria—died June 19, 1867, near Querétaro, Mex.), archduke of Austria and the emperor of Mexico, a man whose naive liberalism proved unequal to the international intrigues that had put him on the throne and to the brutal struggles within Mexico that led to his execution.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe younger brother of Emperor Francis Joseph, he served as a rear admiral in the Austrian navy and as governor-general of the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom. In 1863 he accepted the offer of the Mexican throne, falsely believing that the Mexican people had voted him their king; in fact, the offer was the result of a scheme between conservative Mexicans, who wished to overturn the liberal government of President Benito Juárez, and the French emperor Napoleon III, who wanted to collect a debt from Mexico and further his imperialistic ambitions there. Backed by a pledge of support from the French army, Maximilian sailed for Mexico with his wife Carlota, daughter of Leopold I, king of the Belgians.\"\u003EEmperor of Mexico\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/emperor-of-mexico-executed\" hint=\"\u003Cimg src='http:\/\/i854.photobucket.com\/albums\/ab103\/Tranny\/Pics%20for%20posts\/benito%20juarez%20-%20el%20respeto%20al_zpsegksahhy.jpg' align='left' height='150' hspace='5px' vspace='5px'\u003E Austrian Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, installed as emperor of Mexico by French Emperor Napoleon III in 1864, is executed on the orders of Benito Juarez, the president of the Mexican Republic.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1861, the liberal Mexican Benito Juarez became president of a country in financial ruin, and he was forced to default on his debts to Europe (born July 6, 1832, Vienna, Austria—died June 19, 1867, near Querétaro, Mex.), archduke of Austria and the emperor of Mexico, a man whose naive liberalism proved unequal to the international intrigues that had put him on the throne and to the brutal struggles within Mexico that led to his execution.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe younger brother of Emperor Francis Joseph, he served as a rear admiral in the Austrian navy and as governor-general of the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom. In 1863 he accepted the offer of the Mexican throne, falsely believing that the Mexican people had voted him their king; in fact, the offer was the result of a scheme between conservative Mexicans, who wished to overturn the liberal government of President Benito Juárez, and the French emperor Napoleon III, who wanted to collect a debt from Mexico and further his imperialistic ambitions there. Backed by a pledge of support from the French army, Maximilian sailed for Mexico with his wife Carlota, daughter of Leopold I, king of the Belgians.an governments. In response, France, Britain, and Spain sent naval forces to Veracruz to demand reimbursement. Britain and Spain negotiated with Mexico and withdrew, but France, ruled by Napoleon III, decided to use the opportunity to carve a dependent empire out of Mexican territory. Late in 1861, a well-armed French fleet stormed Veracruz, landing a large French force and driving President Juarez and his government into retreat.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECertain that French victory would come swiftly in Mexico, 6,000 French troops under General Charles Latrille de Lorencez set out to attack Puebla de Los Angeles, a small town in east-central Mexico. From his new headquarters in the north, Juarez rounded up a rag-tag force of loyal men and sent them to Puebla. Led by Texas-born General Ignacio Zaragoza, the 2,000 Mexicans fortified the town and prepared for the French assault. On May 5, 1862, Lorencez drew his army, well-provisioned and supported by heavy artillery, before the city of Puebla and began his assault from the north. The battle lasted from daybreak to early evening, and when the French finally retreated they had lost nearly 500 soldiers to the fewer than 100 Mexicans killed.\"\u003EBenito Juárez\u003C\/a\u003E regains control of Mexico.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1883\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003EChinese labor is reduced because of the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chinese_Exclusion_Act\" hint=\"This article is about the former U.S. law. For the similar Canadian law, see Chinese Immigration Act, 1923.\u003Cbr\u003ENot to be confused with Asian Exclusion Act.\u003Cbr \/\u003EChinese Exclusion Act Great Seal of the United States\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELegislative history\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESigned into law by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe first page of the Chinese Exclusion Act \u003Ci\u003E(Wikipedia)\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882. It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe act followed the Angell Treaty of 1880, a set of revisions to the US-China Burlingame Treaty of 1868 that allowed the US to suspend Chinese immigration. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe act was initially intended to last for 10 years, but was renewed in 1892 and made permanent in 1902. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Chinese Exclusion Act was the first law implemented to prevent a specific ethnic group from immigrating to the United States. It was finally repealed by the Magnuson Act on December 17, 1943.\"\u003EChinese Exclusion Act\u003C\/a\u003E, and railroad companies search for alternative sources of cheap labor. Mexican workers are increasingly recruited.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1890\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003ECopper mining continues to lure people to Arizona driving more Mexican Americans from their lands leading to \"The 1903 Mexican AFFAIR\" at Clifton which erupted into \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.library.arizona.edu\/exhibits\/bisbee\/docs\/jahpark.html\" hint=\"THE 1903 “MEXICAN AFFAIR” AT CLIFTON\u003Cbr\u003EBy Joseph F. Park\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETHE STRIKE AT CLIFTON IN JUNE, 1903, the only significant outbreak in Arizona until the onset of labor disorders accompanying the First World War, was unique in being largely a Mexican affair.  In all its outward aspects the episode was a paradox that caught the whole Territory by surprise.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Western Federation of Miners, active in Arizona since a labor-management confrontation at Globe in 1896, had not gained a foothold in the Clifton-Morenci district.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere was no apparent labor organization and in view of the preponderant number of alien Mexicans in the area, the strikers could expect no support from the Union.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYet, where the WFM had not succeeded thus far in staging a successful strike on a large scale, the Mexican workers at Clifton managed to tie up the whole district.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn fact, the conduct of the walkout revealed a sense of unity and a power of decision notably lacking in the activities of the predominantly Anglo WFM.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe strike failed through a combination of circumstances that nobody could have expected or foreseen, but it wrote a chapter in the labor history of the state and was a landmark in the painful upward progress of the Mexican workman – without whom Arizona could not have achieved industrial significance.\"\u003E \"The Strike at Clifton in June 1903\"\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1890\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003EIncreasingly, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.farmworkers.org\/immigrat.html\" hint=\"It is already public domain that with the motive of the North-American invasion and the Treaty of Guadalupe in 1846-47, 45 percent of Mexico's original territory is taken away. The Anglo-American ideals of Manifest Destiny which ponder the right to expand by divine right and to direct the destiny of men and women under the pretext of 'civilizer', made possible what is now the states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California -1 million 528 thousand and 241 square kilometers inhabited by more than 100 thousand people- to pass into being property of the United States of America.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFrom then, the Mexican worker in the U.S. will see himself subjected to abuse, discrimination, and excessive exploitation. The expansion of cattle ranches in Texas and New Mexico, and the increase of fruit bearing production in California in the years 1850 and 1880, require a major amount of manual labor of which problem the ranchers intend to resolve by importing foreign manual labor. First, it was the Chinese workers, which more than 200 thousand were legally contracted for the cultivation of Californian fields, but racism and xenophobia of the Anglo-American obligated legislators to approve the Chinese Exclusion Act. Japanese workers substitute for the Chinese in the same appalling working conditions as them but, the Japanese were thrown out in 1903 and replaced by Filipino workers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWith the construction of the railroad between Mexico and the U.S. between 1880 and 1890, grand quantities of Mexican workers, which found more work possibilities in south-eastern North America, got jobs as railway workers. It was said that by that time 60 percent of the crews which worked the western railways were Mexicans.\"\u003EMexican Americans work for the railroads\u003C\/a\u003E. Railroad construction continues throughout the early 20th century.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E[b]1894[\/b]\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.historycentral.com\/TheTwenties\/Immigration.html\" hint=\"Throughout American history, there continued to be a conflict between those who supported continued immigration and those who opposed it. In 1894, the Immigration Restriction League was founded. It supported literacy-tests for would- be immigrants. The literacy test passed in Congress in 1896, but was vetoed by President Grover Cleveland, who insisted that the United States should remain a haven for all oppressed people..\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPresident Theodore Roosevelt, however, was a strong supporter of the literacy test. In addition, responding to the assassination of President McKinley, he called for the exclusion of anarchists. Congress promptly legislated the exclusion of anarchists, and four years later of those who were 'imbeciles, feeble minded and people, with physical or mental defects.'.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1907, the Congress appointed a joint House-Senate Committee called the Dillingham Commission. Its report called for the issuance of literacy tests. It also suggested restrictive policies that would limit immigration based on national origin. The Congress passed a bill requiring a literacy test, but President Wilson vetoed it. In 1917, the Congress once again passed a bill requiring literacy for immigrants. Wilson once again vetoed the bill, but this time the Congress overrode the veto..\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe rising nationalism that occurred during World War I, as well as the support given by the labor unions, resulted in the passage of the Immigration Bill of 1921, which limited immigration to 3% of the population of the United States, based on the 1910 census.\"\u003EThe Immigration Restriction League was founded.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E[b]1896[\/b]\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/tshaonline.org\/handbook\/online\/articles\/pqitw\" hint=\"His action initiated legal maneuvers to disfranchise all Texas Mexicans. This situation lasted almost a year until Judge Maxey delivered his ruling on May 3, 1897, in favor of Rodríguez, thereby legally affirming the civil rights of Texas Mexicans to vote. The Rodríguez citizenship case was the culmination of a series of calls for disfranchisement of Hispanics that had appeared regularly after the Texas Revolution in 1836qv. The Rodríguez case finally brought the status of Tejano voting rights into the courts for settlement.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERodríguez's request for citizenship focused attention on the fact that most Tejanos were born in Mexico and could not vote unless they had applied for naturalization. San Antonio politician T. J. McMinn had already raised the issue of Texas Mexicans' right to vote during previous elections before he stepped into the controversy surrounding Rodríguez's fight for citizenship. In this battle he was joined by another local politician, Jack Evans, in opposing Rodríguez. At the center of the debate on Rodríguez's right to citizenship was the suggestion made by McMinn and Evans that under the law he did not qualify for citizenship since he was not “a white person, nor an African, nor of African descent, and is therefore not capable of becoming an American citizen.” Indeed, an 1872 federal statute specified that only Caucasians and Africans could become citizens, but at the same time did not specifically deny Mexicans that right.\"\u003EIn Re Ricardo Rodríguez\u003C\/a\u003E, a landmark civil-rights case, began when Ricardo Rodríguez, a Mexican of humble means who had resided in San Antonio for 10 years, came before the federal district court of Judge Thomas S. Maxey in May 1896 to request final approval of his application for United States citizenship, which would naturally confer on him the right to vote. \n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1900\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/tshaonline.org\/handbook\/online\/articles\/lhc01\" hint=\"CORRIDOS. The corrido in its usual form is a ballad of eight-syllable, four-line stanzas sung to a simple tune in fast waltz time, now often in polka rhythm. Corridos have traditionally been men's songs. They have been sung at home, on horseback, in town plazas by traveling troubadours, in cantinas by blind guitarreros (guitarists), on campaigns during the Mexican Revolution (1910–30), and on migrant workers' journeys north to the fields. Now they are heard frequently on recordings and over the radio.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn its literary form the corrido seems to be a direct descendent of the romance, a Spanish ballad form that developed in the Middle Ages, became a traditional form, and was brought to the New World by Spanish conquistadors. Like the romance, the corrido employs a four-line stanza form with an abcd rhyme pattern. Paredes surmised that corrido is ultimately derived from the Andalusian phrase romance corrido, which denoted a refrainless, rapidly sung romance. With the noun dropped, the participle corrido, from a verb meaning 'to run,' itself became a noun.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe corrido, like the romance, relates a story or event of local or national interest—a hero's deeds, a bandit's exploits, a barroom shootout, or a natural disaster, for instance. It has long been observed, however, that songs with little or no narration are still called corridos if they adhere to the corrido's usual literary and musical form\"\u003EThe corrido\u003C\/a\u003E (ballad) of the border becomes popular as a musical form.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1900\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003ECopper, silver, and zinc are found in Arizona and New Mexico; \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/tshaonline.org\/handbook\/online\/articles\/dks01\" hint=\"In 1877 the Salt Flat lakes of the Trans-Pecos area became the scene of the Salt War of San Elizario, which arose because individuals who filed on the land including the lakes denied local residents access to the salt. United States soldiers were sent to quell the disturbance, Fort Bliss was reestablished, and diplomatic exchanges were made between the United States and Mexico. \u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1891 Maj. Byron Parsons organized the Lone Star Salt Company and installed steam pipes in the evaporating pans, which greatly increased the output. Richardson installed similar equipment, and the production of salt in Grand Saline increased to 17,000 pounds daily. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1893 Texas produced 18,000 tons of salt, but by 1899 production had risen to 44,634 tons. Between 1901 and 1904 three new salt companies began operations at Grand Saline, and in 1914 the introduction of a new vacuum pan method increased salt output. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy 1917 Texas produced 85,181 tons of salt. The Morton Salt Company absorbed most of the small companies in Grand Saline by 1920 and in 1929 expanded activities by opening a mine to produce rock salt. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1931 the mine began operations at 700 feet below the surface, using a process similar to that in coal mining. Rock salt was crushed, screened, and separated into nine different grades. Salt shipped daily in amounts of 500 tons from this plant was analyzed at over 99 percent sodium chloride. From a production of 208,979 tons in 1934, Texas salt production increased to 1,127,854 tons in 1943 and to 1,191,621 tons in 1947, the greatest production in the state's history.\"\u003ETexas begins to mine salt\u003C\/a\u003E, it led to\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.theirminesourstories.org\/?p=.\" hint=\"Their Mines, Our Stories\u003Cbr\u003EWork, Environment and Justice in Asarco-Impacted Communities\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EASARCO\/GRUPO MEXICO CHRONOLOGY\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EASARCO is one of the oldest US-based multi-national corporations. During its more than 120-year history, the company has owned mines in Mission, Ray and Silver Bell, Arizona; Butte, Troy, Black Pine and Mike Horse, Montana; Knoxville, Tennessee; Glover, Missouri; Garfield, Utah; Tar Creek, Oklahoma; Leadville, Colorado; Ground Hog, New Mexico; and Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, among others.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EASARCO has owned smelting and refining operations in Hayden, Arizona; El Paso and Amarillo, Texas; East Helena, Montana; Garfield and Murray, Utah; Selby, California; Denver, Colorado; Perth Amboy, New Jersey; Baltimore, Maryland; Bunker Hill, Idaho; and Omaha, Nebraska.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EASARCO also had international holdings and investments in Mexico, Peru, Australia, Chile, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Newfoundland, Canada, West Africa, the Congo, and Saudi Arabia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cb\u003ENOTE: if interested in knowing this part of workers' history, this article is a 'MUST READ'\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt includes a detailed timeline, Corporate Challenges\/Community Resistance, Labor’s Place in Community History, quotes from workers, etc.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs I said, A MUST READ!\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAurora\"\u003E further expulsion of Mexican American land owners\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/archive.elpasotimes.com\/news\/ci_14107595\/?source=rss\" hint=\"SALT WAR OF SAN ELIZARIO. The El Paso Salt War began in the late 1860s as a struggle between Republican leaders W. W. Mills, Albert J. Fountain, and Louis Cardis to acquire title to the salt deposits at the foot of Guadalupe Peak, 100 miles east of El Paso. \u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFountain and Mills became leaders of the opposing factions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Fountain, leader of the Anti-Salt Ring, was elected to the Texas Senate in 1869 with the expectation of securing title to the deposits for the people of the El Paso area, but Cardis and Father Antonio Borrajo of San Elizario aroused sentiment against the scheme. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn Oct. 10, armed with a double-barreled shotgun, Howard found Cardis in Samuel Shultz and Brothers store. Howard shot and killed Cardis, who attempted to hide behind a desk. Howard was never prosecuted for Cardis' death.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Feeling between the two factions broke into open warfare with the killing of Judge Gaylord Judd Clarke on December 7, 1870, and Fountain soon moved to New Mexico.\"\u003Esalt war of San Elizario.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1904\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/tshaonline.org\/handbook\/online\/articles\/ncujh\" hint=\"UNITED STATES BORDER PATROL. In 1875 Congress started passing laws limiting immigration. By an Act of March 3, convicts and immoral women were denied entry. The immigration statute of August 8, 1882, forbade the admission of idiots, lunatics, convicts, and persons who might become a public charge. \u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe first Chinese exclusion law was passed that same year, and in 1885 some foreigners were denied entry on the bases of a contract-labor law. Subsequently, many of these individuals sought admission by illegal means, usually by slipping around the entry points. Thus evolved the need for a border-control force. Congress instituted a Bureau of Immigration in 1885, and in 1903 transferred its tasks to the Department of Commerce and Labor. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1904 a small group of mounted inspectors, \u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003Eusually called Mounted Guards or Chinese Immigration Agents\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E, operated out of El Paso. Though they never totaled more than seventy-five, they patrolled as far west as California trying to restrict the flow of illegal Chinese immigration. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn those days, once an undocumented immigrant had slipped past the Mounted Guards and entered the country, no officers existed to seek out and expel them. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn March 1915, Congress authorized a separate group of Mounted Guards, often referred to as Mounted Inspectors. Most rode on horseback, but a few operated cars and even boats. Although these inspectors had broader arrest authority, they still largely pursued Chinese. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe undocumented immigrants disembarked on the Mexican west coast, walked overland to central Mexico, and rode the Mexican Central Railroad to the border town of Juárez, Chihuahua. From there they were smuggled into El Paso and thence to various parts of the nation. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003EBefore the Immigration Act of 1917, almost no restrictions were in effect against Mexicans or Canadians, who could cross at will and go anywhere they wished. \u003Cb\u003EAfter 1917, however, both Canadians and Mexicans paid a head tax of eight dollars to immigrate into the United States.They also had to pass a literacy test.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E  After this restriction, illegal entries from these countries began and flourished until the arrival of troops along the border during the Mexican Revolution and World War I (1910–20). When the war ended and the soldiers went home, prohibited crossings accelerated again.\"\u003EThe first border patrol is established to stop Asian workers from coming into the United States through Mexico.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1910\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.everyculture.com\/multi\/Le-Pa\/Mexican-Americans.html\" hint=\"SIGNIFICANT IMMIGRATION WAVES\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen compared to various periods of the twentieth century, Mexican immigration to the United States between 1850 and 1900 was relatively low. The discovery of gold in the Sierra Nevada of California in 1849 was an initial stimulus for this migration, as was the expansion of copper mining in Arizona beginning in the 1860s. During this same period and on into the twentieth century, ranching and agriculture lured many inhabitants of the northern and central states of Mexico to Texas. By 1900 approximately 500,000 people of Mexican ancestry lived in the United States, principally in the areas originally populated by Spaniards and Mexicans prior to 1848. Roughly 100,000 of these residents were born in Mexico; the remainder were second-generation inhabitants of these regions and their offspring.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA combination of factors contributed to sequential pronounced rises in Mexican migration to the United States during the first three decades of the twentieth century. The Reclamation Act of 1902, which expanded acreage for farming through new irrigation projects, spurred the need for more agricultural laborers. The Mexican Revolution of 1910 and the aftermath of political instability and social violence caused many to flee northward across the border for their safety, and the growth of the U.S. economy in the 1920s attracted additional numbers of immigrants. Though the wages received by most Mexican migrants in these decades were quite low, they were considerably higher than the salaries paid for comparable work in Mexico. Most importantly, the number of jobs for foreign laborers seemed unlimited, especially during World War I and on into the early 1920s.\"\u003EMexican Revolution begins.\u003C\/a\u003E and many\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.everyculture.com\/multi\/Le-Pa\/Mexican-Americans.html\"\u003Ethousands of Mexicans flee across the border for safety.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1910\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003EAt \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Constitution_of_New_Mexico\" hint=\"The Constitution of the State of New Mexico (Spanish: Constitución del Estado de Nuevo México) is the document governing the political framework of the U.S. state of New Mexico. Article II contains a bill of rights. It was adopted by Constitutional Convention on November 21, 1910, ratified by vote of the people on November 5, 1911, and became effective upon admission to the union on January 6, 1912.\"\u003Ethe New Mexican constitutional\u003C\/a\u003E convention, Mexican American delegates mandate that \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.tolerance.org\/latino-civil-rights-timeline\" hint=\"By 1912 New Mexico enters the union as an officially bilingual state, authorizing funds for voting in both Spanish and English, as well as for bilingual education. Article XII of the state constitution also prohibits segregation for children of 'Spanish descent.' At the state's constitutional convention six years earlier, Mexican American delegates mandated Spanish and English be used for all state business. \"\u003Eboth Spanish and English\u003C\/a\u003E be used for all state business; to support the conditions of the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo\u003C\/p\u003E.\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1911\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003Et\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mexicanhistory.org\/Diaz.htm\" hint=\"When Porfirio Diaz (1830-1915) ( full name: José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori ) ,who was a Mestizo, of Mixtec and Japanese ancestry on his mother's side,seized over control of Mexico in 1876 that had an empty treasury, huge foreign debts and a large bureaucracy whose salaries were in arrears .Despite the efforts of the liberals mining, the main engine of the economy, still had not recovered from the chaos of the preceding decades .Farming methods had changed little from colonial days . Like Juarez before him, Diaz felt the key to modernizing the country was to pacify it so foreigners would invest in it . Mexico was still troubled by banditos , agrarian revolts and revolt in favor of the ousted President Lerado on the US border .Theses Diaz dealt with forcefully and had the leaders executed shortly after capture and greatly increased the power of the rurales . The era of Porfirio Díaz’s government from 1876-1911 is known as the Porfiriato and its motto was ' Order and Progress.' During his 33 year rule, Mexico entered the industrial age .\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn late 1911 Orozco and Villa convinced Madero that the rebels should use most of their force to take Ciudad Juarez. At the last minute,Madero changed his mind and called of the attack, afraid stray shells might land in nearby El Paso, brings the US into the conflict .  Orozco ignored this order an launched an attack. On May 10, the outnumbered federal commander surrendered .Madero was angry at Orozco for ignoring his order and did not give him a position in his cabinet and showed that the coalition was falling apart . After the victory at Ciudad Juarez, others towns such as Tehuacan, Durango and Cuatla fell to the rebels .the press began to turn against Diaz and many federal troops began deserting. Diaz realized his time was over and sent negotiators to talk with Madero .In the following Treaty of Ciudad Juarez Diaz agreed to resigned and left for France .Diaz had been overthrown, but the revolution had just started. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1915, Díaz died in exile in Paris. There was tremendous economic advance during the Diaz years, yet there is no Ciudad Diaz today or even a street named after him . His rule became associated with social and political abuses that were too great . The progress enjoyed by the upper classes came at the expense of the masses .\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfterwards, Mexico was racked by 10 years of fighting known as the Mexican Revolution where successive leaders tried to create a stable government .\"\u003EIn Mexico, Porfirio Díaz is forced to dissolve his governmen\u003C\/a\u003E because of a successful revolt led by \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Francisco-Madero\" hint=\"Francisco Madero, in full Francisco Indalecio Madero   (born Oct. 30, 1873, Parras, Mex.—died Feb. 22, 1913, Mexico City), Mexican revolutionary and president of Mexico (1911–13), who successfully ousted the dictator Porfirio Díaz by temporarily unifying various democratic and anti-Díaz forces. He proved incapable of controlling the reactions from both conservatives and revolutionaries that his moderate reforms provoked, however.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe son of a wealthy landowning family, Madero attended Mount St. Mary’s College in Emmitsburg, Md. (1886–88), and then studied for several years at a business school in Paris and one semester at the University of California at Berkeley. He was short, slender, and pale and became a vegetarian, teetotaler, and spiritualist. Madero was a believer in a moderate form of democracy, and he helped organize the Benito Juárez Democratic Club and a political party in Coahuila (1904–05) in an unsuccessful attempt to become governor of the state.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E He quickly learned, however, that efforts to end the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz would require a national democratic movement, and to this end he supported independent journalists and encouraged efforts at political organization.Díaz inadvertently hastened events when, in 1908, he told an American journalist, James Creelman, that Mexico was ready for democracy and that he intended to retire in 1910.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E This declaration prompted a flood of political literature and a flurry of political activity, including an immensely successful book by Madero, \u003Ci\u003ELa sucesión presidencial en 1910 (1908)\u003C\/i\u003E; “The Presidential Succession in 1910”), in which he called for honest elections, mass participation in the political process, and no reelection to the office of president. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe political scene became even more hectic when Díaz changed his mind in 1909 and stated his intention to run for reelection in 1910. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMadero helped organize the Antireelectionist Party and became its presidential candidate with the slogan \u003Ci\u003E\u003Cb\u003E“Effective suffrage—no reelection!”\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn the eve of the farcical election, he was arrested on charges of fomenting a rebellion and insulting the authorities. Released on bond, he escaped to San Antonio, Texas, where in October 1910 he published the Plan de San Luis Potosí, declared himself the legitimate president of Mexico, and called for an armed insurrection to begin on November 20.\"\u003EFrancisco Madero\u003C\/a\u003E. To protect its citizens and property, the U.S. sends troops to the border, where fighting in the Mexican Revolution is so close that U.S. citizens gather to watch.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1914\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003EU.S. Marines are held by Mexican authorities at Tampico, Mexico. Despite Mexico’s apology, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_occupation_of_Veracruz\" hint=\"The United States occupation of Veracruz began with the Battle of Veracruz and lasted for seven months, as a response to the Tampico Affair of April 9, 1914. The incident came in the midst of poor diplomatic relations between Mexico and the United States, and was related to the ongoing Mexican Revolution.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Tampico Affair was set off when nine American sailors were arrested by the Mexican government for entering off-limit areas in Tampico, Tamaulipas.[4] The unarmed sailors were arrested when they entered a fuel loading station. The sailors were released, but the U.S. naval commander demanded an apology and a twenty-one gun salute. The apology was provided but not the salute. In the end, the response from U.S. President Woodrow Wilson ordered the U.S. Navy to prepare for the occupation of the port of Veracruz. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile awaiting authorization from the U.S. Congress to carry out such action, Wilson was alerted of a delivery of weapons for Victoriano Huerta due to arrive in the port on April 21 aboard the German-registered cargo-steamer SS Ypiranga. As a result, Wilson issued an immediate order to seize the port's customs office and confiscate the weaponry. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe weapons had actually been sourced by John Wesley De Kay, an American financier and businessman with large investments in Mexico, and a Russian arms dealer from Puebla, Leon Rasst, not the German government as newspapers reported at the time.[5]\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Huerta had usurped the presidency of Mexico with the assistance of the American ambassador Henry Lane Wilson during a coup d'état in February 1913 known as La decena trágica. The Wilson administration's answer to this was to declare Huerta a usurper of the legitimate government, to embargo arms shipments to Huerta, and to support the Constitutional Army of Venustiano Carranza.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe arms shipment to Mexico, in fact, in part originated from the Remington Arms company in the U.S., went to Odessa, Russia to Hamburg, where De Kay added to the load. The arms and ammunition were to be shipped via Hamburg, Germany, to Mexico allowing Huerta's arms dealers to skirt the American arms embargo.[5] The landing of the arms was blocked at Veracruz but they were discharged a few weeks later in Puerto Mexico, a port controlled by Huerta at the time.\"\u003EPresident Woodrow Wilson sends troops to Veracruz, Mexico and orders the U.S. fleet to attack and occupy Veracruz\u003C\/a\u003E to assert the rights of Americans and as an effort to depose Victoriano Huerta, who soon resigns.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1916\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pancho_Villa_Expedition\" hint=\"The Pancho Villa Expedition—now known officially in the United States as the Mexican Expedition[3] but originally referred to as the “Punitive Expedition, U.S. Army”[1]—was a military operation conducted by the United States Army against the paramilitary forces of Mexican revolutionary Francisco “Pancho” Villa from March 14, 1916, to February 7, 1917, during the Mexican Revolution 1910–1920.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe expedition was launched in retaliation for Villa's attack on the town of Columbus, New Mexico, and was the most remembered event of the Border War. The declared objective of the expedition by the Wilson administration was the capture of Villa.[4] Despite successfully locating and defeating the main body of Villa's command, responsible for the raid on Columbus, U.S. forces were unable to prevent Villa's escape and so the main objective of the U.S. incursion was not achieved.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe active search for Villa ended after a month in the field when troops sent by Venustiano Carranza, the head of the Constitutionalist faction of the revolution and now the head of the Mexican government, resisted the U.S. incursion. The Constitutionalist forces used arms at the town of Parral to resist passage of a U.S. Army column. The U.S. mission was changed to prevent further attacks on it by Mexican troops and to plan for war in the eventuality it broke out.[5] When war was averted diplomatically, the expedition remained in Mexico until February 1917 to encourage Carranza's government to pursue Villa and prevent further raids across the border\"\u003EGeneral John J. Pershing leads 10,000 American soldiers into Mexican territory\u003C\/a\u003E in retaliation for a raid on Columbus, New Mexico by \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/pancho-villa-9518733#synopsis\" hint=\"Synopsis.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBorn on June 5, 1878, in San Juan del Rio, Durango, Mexico, Pancho Villa started off as a bandit who was later inspired by reformer Francisco Modero, helping him to win the Mexican Revolution. After a coup by Victoriano Huerta, Villa formed his own army to oppose the dictator, with more battles to follow as Mexican leadership remained in a state of flux. He was assassinated on July 20, 1923, in Parral, Mexico..\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBirth of a Bandit\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMexican revolutionary Pancho Villa was born Doroteo Arango on June 5, 1878, in San Juan del Rio, Durango. Villa spent much of his youth helping out on his parents' farm. After his father's death when Villa was only 15 years old, he became head of the household. With his new role as protector of his household, he shot a man who was harassing one of his sisters in 1894. He fled, spending six years on the run in the mountains. While there, he joined a group of fugitives and became a bandit.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMexican Revolutionary Leader\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1910, while still living as a fugitive, Pancho Villa joined Francisco's Madero successful uprising against Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz. With Villa's skills as at reading, writing, fighting and his knowledge of the land, Madero was named a revolutionary leader and his company won the first Battle of Ciudad Juárez in 1911. The rebels eventually drove Díaz out of power, and Madero took the position of president, having named Villa a colonel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELights, Camera, Revolution\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe fact that the majority of Villa's battles were on the northern border of Mexico brought the revolutionary to the spotlight in terms of photographs and stories covering the events in Mexico. And surprisingly, the bandit who once hid his presence and changed his name to avoid attention loved being photographed. He even signed a contract with Hollywood's Mutual Film Company in 1913 to have several of his battles filmed.\"\u003EGeneral Francisco \"Pancho\" Villa\u003C\/a\u003E. After 11 months, Pershing is forced to return to the U.S. without ever catching sight of Villa. U.S.-Mexican relations suffer because of the action.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1917\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/education\/lessons\/zimmermann\/\" hint=\"The Zimmermann Telegram\u003Cbr\u003Cbr\u003EBackground\u003Cbr \u003Cbr \/\u003EBetween 1914 and the spring of 1917, the European nations engaged in a conflict that became known as World War I. While armies moved across the face of Europe, the United States remained neutral. In 1916 Woodrow Wilson was elected President for a second term, largely because of the slogan “He kept us out of war.” Events in early 1917 would change that hope. In frustration over the effective British naval blockade, in February Germany broke its pledge to limit submarine warfare. In response to the breaking of the Sussex pledge, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Germany.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn January of 1917, British cryptographers deciphered a telegram from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the German Minister to Mexico, von Eckhardt, offering United States territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause. This message helped draw the United States into the war and thus changed the course of history. The telegram had such an impact on American opinion that, according to David Kahn, author of The Codebreakers, “No other single cryptanalysis has had such enormous consequences.” It is his opinion that “never before or since has so much turned upon the solution of a secret message.” In an effort to protect their intelligence from detection and to capitalize on growing anti-German sentiment in the United States, the British waited until February 24 to present the telegram to Woodrow Wilson. The American press published news of the telegram on March 1. On April 6, 1917, the United States Congress formally declared war on Germany and its allies.\"\u003EA secret telegram from Germany to Mexico—proposing an armed alliance between the two countries\u003C\/a\u003E—is published and causes the U.S. to enter World War I.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1917\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003EIn spite of President Wilson’s veto, an Immigration Act that mandates a literacy test for immigrants is passed.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1921\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/immigrationtounitedstates.org\/589-immigration-act-of-1921.html\" hint=\"The Law: Federal legislation limiting the immigration of aliens into the United States\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDate: Enacted and signed into law on May 19, 1921\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlso known as: Johnson Act; Emergency Quota Act of 1921\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESignificance: The first federal law in U.S. history to limit the immigration of Europeans, the Immigration Act of 1921 reflected the growing American fear that people from southern and eastern European countries not only did not adapt well into American society but also threatened its very existence. The law specified that no more than 3 percent of the total number of immigrants from any specific country already living in the United States in 1910 could migrate to America during any year.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn May 19, 1921, the same day on which the law was passed by the U.S. Congress, recently inaugurated President Warren G. Harding signed the Emergency Quota Act into law. The premise of the act had been debated in the Congress for several years. Indeed, a version of the bill had passed during the previous session of Congress only to fall victim to a pocket veto by the ailing President Woodrow Wilson during the last days of his administration.\"\u003EThe Immigration Act of 1921\u003C\/a\u003E restricts the immigration of Southern and Eastern Europeans. Agriculture lobbyists rally to block the movement to include Mexicans in the proposition.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1924\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/history.state.gov\/milestones\/1921-1936\/immigration-act\" hint=\"The Immigration Act of 1924 (The Johnson-Reed Act)\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. The quota provided immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States as of the 1890 national census. It completely excluded immigrants from Asia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELiteracy Tests and “Asiatic Barred Zone”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1917, the U.S. Congress enacted the first widely restrictive immigration law. The uncertainty generated over national security during World War I made it possible for Congress to pass this legislation, and it included several important provisions that paved the way for the 1924 Act. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe 1917 Act implemented a literacy test that required immigrants over 16 years old to demonstrate basic reading comprehension in any language. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt also increased the tax paid by new immigrants upon arrival and allowed immigration officials to exercise more discretion in making decisions over whom to exclude. Finally, the Act excluded from entry anyone born in a geographically defined “Asiatic Barred Zone” except for Japanese and Filipinos. In 1907, the Japanese Government had voluntarily limited Japanese immigration to the United States in the Gentlemen’s Agreement. The Philippines was a U.S. colony, so its citizens were U.S. nationals and could travel freely to the United States. China was not included in the Barred Zone, but the Chinese were already denied immigration visas under the Chinese Exclusion Act.\"\u003EImmigration Act of 1924\u003C\/a\u003E halts the flow of other immigrant groups, border stations are established to formally admit Mexican workers, and a tax is collected on each person entering.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1924\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003ELargely due to a lack of immigration quotas, more than 89,000 Mexicans come into the United States on permanent visas, making 1924 the peak year for Mexican immigration.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1928\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.u-s-history.com\/pages\/h1646.html\" hint=\"The intention of the new policy was to mend relations with Latin American countries after they criticized The Coolidge Administration during the Sixth Pan-American Conference in Havana in 1928 for armed interventions in Haiti and Nicaragua. U.S. relations with Latin America were at an all-time low.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDuring The Hoover Administration, policies were put into place to improve relations, such as the Clark Memorandum of 1930 in which the State Department retracted Theodore Roosevelt's Corollary to the 1823 Monroe Doctrine, which declared that only the United States could collect debts owed to foreigners by countries in the Western Hemisphere. The Clark Memorandum did not, however, repudiate the right to intervention itself. Also, Hoover's withdrawal of troops from Nicaragua and planned removal from Haiti improved relations with Latin America.\"\u003EThe Good Neighbor Policy\u003C\/a\u003E phrase was first coined by President Herbert Hoover, not President Franklin Roosevelt. Hoover was on a goodwill trip to Latin America soon after his election in 1928 when he gave a speech in Honduras announcing, \"We have a desire to maintain not only the cordial relations of governments with each other, but also the relations of good neighbors.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"content_3\" style=\"display: none;\"\u003E\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1929\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"\" hint=\"If asked about the Trail of Tears, many Americans, especially Oklahomans, would be able to respond that it was a shameful time in U.S. history dealing with the forced removal of Native Americans.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf asked about Manzanar, some would recognize it as one of the Japanese internment camps where Japanese Americans were forced to stay during World War II, and yet another shameful time in U.S. history.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut if asked about The Mexican Repatriation, how many would respond “What?”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Mexican Repatriation was the largest involuntary migration in the United States up to that time. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was greater than the Native American removals of the nineteenth century, or the Japanese American relocations of World War II.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt is estimated up to two million Mexicans and Mexican Americans were “repatriated,” sent back to Mexico, between 1929 and 1944! Why do so few know of this tragic period of our history?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPart of the reason is the Mexican culture itself, a culture of “silence and forgetting.” One Mexican survivor said, “Forgetting is to Mexicans what remembering is to Jews.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEach culture has their own coping mechanisms. But descendents of survivors have started pressuring them to tell the story.\"\u003EMexican Repatriation Program\u003C\/a\u003E refers to a forced return to Mexico of people of Mexican descent from the United States between 1929 and 1944. \u003Ci\u003E“It was a reaction to crys that Mexicans were taking away jobs from American Anglos.”\u003C\/i\u003E -- A recurring theme to the present day (Nov. 2015) From Anti-Immigrant forces led by opportunistic politicians who give people what they want, someone to blame for their economic woes and biases.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe mandate, carried out by American authorities, took place without due process.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E The Immigration and Naturalization Service targeted Mexicans in California, Texas, and Colorado because of \"the proximity of the Mexican border, the physical distinctiveness of mestizos, and easily identifiable barrios.\" Studies have provided conflicting numbers for how many Mexicans were repatriated during the Great Depression, but estimates range from 500,000 to 2 million. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2005, the \u003Ca href=\"ftp:\/\/www.leginfo.ca.gov\/pub\/05-06\/bill\/sen\/sb_0651-0700\/sb_670_bill_20051007_chaptered.html\" hint=\" FEBRUARY 22, 2005\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAn  act to add Chapter 8.5 (commencing with Section 8720) to\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDivision 1 of Title 2 of the Government Code, relating to Mexican repatriation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 670, Dunn  Mexican repatriation program of the 1930s.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis bill would enact the “Apology Act for the 1930s Mexican Repatriation Program” and make findings and declarations regarding citizens and legal residents of Mexican descent, between the years 1929 and 1944, to Mexico from the United States during the 1930s “Mexican Repatriation” Program.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe bill would express the apology of the State of California to those individuals who were illegally deported and coerced into emigrating to Mexico and would require that a plaque to commemorate those individuals be installed and maintained by the Department of Parks and Recreation in an appropriate public place in Los Angeles.\"\u003EState of California passed an official Apology Act\"\u003C\/a\u003E to those forced to relocate to Mexico, an estimated 1.2 million of whom were United States citizens\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1931\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003EMexican American parents successfully sue the school board in Lemon Grove, California to prevent the segregation of their children from Anglo children. In what became to be known as \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegohistory.org\/journal\/86spring\/lemongrove.htm\" hint=\"The nativist and restrictionist attitude fanned by economic troubles of the depression and the precedent of segregation in the  form of the Americanization schools gave the board license to segregate the children. The segregation of Mexican-American children became widespread in California and Texas. In 1928, the enrollment of sixty-four schools in eight California counties was 90 to 100% Mexican-American. During the 1920s segregation was institutionalized in Texas. Texas school boards created Mexican-American section neighborhood schools which then became Mexican-American schools. Between 1922-1923 and 1931-1932, the number of such schools doubled from twenty to forty in Texas....No Southwestern state upheld legally the segregation of Mexican American children, yet the practice was widespread. Separate schools were built and maintained, in theory, simply because of residential segregation or to benefit the Mexican child. He had a “language handicap” and needed to be “Americanized” before mixing with Anglo children. His presence in an integrated school would hinder the progress of white American children.Such schools had been built without much opposition in California but the Lemon Grove board was not prepared for the ensuing contest which reached the Superior Court of the State of California in San Diego in the following month.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn the 8th of January, 1931, the San Diego Evening Tribune published an article, “75 Mexican students go on strike.” It discussed the action taken by Principal Green sending the children to the new Americanization school and the response of the community charging the school board with segregation. The following day the San Diego Sun published a response. “Pupils back at Desks in Lemon Grove,” by the supervisor of attendance, L.H. Lovelace, stating the“ ...matter was amicably settled as far as the school authorities are concerned.” According to the article, Miss Ada York, superintendent of County schools stated that the seventy-five pupils would return to the Americanization school...and H.L. Owens, school board member, said “...the difficulties between authorities and Mexican children had been 'entirely ironed out'.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlthough the school authorities felt the school separation had been settled, during the following month the community went to court and under a writ of mandate from the Superior Court of California in San Diego, they challenged the school board's right to build and maintain a separate and segregated school for Mexican American children. Prior to the school separation, Mexican children had attended special English classes at the school but the building of a separate school and the segregation was viewed as a threat to the community.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Mexican parents organized themselves into the Comite de Vecinos de Lemon Grove (The Lemon Grove Neighbors Committee) and sought help in the Mexican community at large.31 The community went first to Enrique Ferreira who had been the Mexican consul in San Diego for ten years. Ferreira responded with strong support and arranged for San Diego attorneys, Fred C. Noon and A.C. Brinkely, to act as legal counsel for the Lemon Grove Community. \"\u003EThe Lemon Grove Incident\u003C\/a\u003E, The Nation's First Successful School Desegregation Court Case\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1934\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003ESan Antonio community leader \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.utexas.edu\/taro\/utlac\/00118\/lac-00118.html\" hint=\"Abstract\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe personal and business papers of Eleuterio Escobar, including legal papers, correspondence, autobiography drafts, business and financial records, agendas, and photographs, which also relate to the activites of the School Improvement League.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiographical\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E SketchEleuterio Escobar was a businessman and community leader in San Antonio, Texas. Born in Laredo, Texas, September 11, 1894, he served in World War I, became a salesman in south Texas, and then started his own business in San Antonio. During his career, Mr. Escobar owned and operated various businesses, including a furniture company, a leather and importing company, and a music business. His philanthropic activities centered on advocating improved school facilites for Mexican American children in San Antonio, where he also founded the School Improvement League (Liga Defensa Escolar), an organization dedicated to improving schools on the city's west side. Mr. Escobar was a member of several community organizations such as the League of United Latin American Citizens and the Knights of America. He died in 1970.\"\u003EEleuterio Escobar forms La Liga Pro-Defensa Escolar\u003C\/a\u003E (The School Improvement League) because of the gross inequity in spending he discovered between Mexican American and Anglo public schools.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1933\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003EPresident Roosevelt’s \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/history.state.gov\/milestones\/1921-1936\/good-neighbor\" hint=\"Milestones: 1921–1936\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGood Neighbor Policy, 1933\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIntroduction\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPresident Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office determined to improve relations with the nations of Central and South America. Under his leadership the United States emphasized cooperation and trade rather than military force to maintain stability in the hemisphere. In his inaugural address on March 4, 1933, Roosevelt stated: “In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor—\u003Ci\u003E“the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights of others.”\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERoosevelt’s Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, participated in the Montevideo Conference of December 1933, where he backed a declaration favored by most nations of the Western Hemisphere: “No state has the right to intervene in the internal or external affairs of another”. In December Roosevelt stated, “The definite policy of the United States from now on is one opposed to armed intervention.” In 1934 at Roosevelt’s direction the 1903 treaty with Cuba (based on the Platt Amendment) that gave the United States the right to intervene to preserve internal stability or independence was abrogated. Although domestic economic problems and World War II diverted attention from the Western Hemisphere, Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor policy represented an attempt to distance the United States from earlier interventionist policies, such as the Roosevelt Corollary and military interventions in the region during the 1910s and 1920s. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E“NOTE: The Good Neighbor policy phrase was actually coined by President  Hoover who was on a goodwill trip to Latin America soon after his election in 1928 when he gave a speech in Honduras announcing, \u003Cb\u003E“We have a desire to maintain not only the cordial relations of governments with each other, but also the relations of good neighbors.”\u003C\/b\u003E”\u003C\/i\u003E\"\u003E\"Good Neighbor Policy\"\u003C\/a\u003E starts, which opposes armed intervention by any foreign power in the Western Hemisphere. \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/las-malvinas-or-falkland-islands-british-or-argentinean-6106\" hint=\"The first buildings in Las Malvinas – or the Falklands as the British call the islands in the South Atlantic – were houses made of stone and were built by Argentinean hands.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was in 1831 when forty men – led by Luis Vernet, the first Argentinean commander in Las Malvinas – settled here. Along with him came his wife, María who gave birth a girl who was christened Malvinas. The Argentinean settlement in this merciless land didn’t last long though.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1833 the British colonial power invaded Las Mavinas, and what happen afterwards is now called “ethnic cleansing” – hundreds of English settlers were artificially introduced while all Argentineans were expelled.\"\u003EApparently except when is an European.force allied with the United States\u003C\/a\u003E such as with Las Islas Malvinas (Fallklands Islands)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\n\u003Cdiv id=\"text-4\" class=\"tabbertab\" title=\"1934-1974\"\u003E\n\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1934\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/history.house.gov\/HistoricalHighlight\/Detail\/36918\" hint=\"The act not only gave President Franklin D. Roosevelt the authority to adjust tariff rates, but also the power to negotiate bilateral trade agreements without receiving prior congressional approval. Advocates believed that granting these powers to the Roosevelt White House would help the administration quickly conclude agricultural trade agreements to speed recovery of the Depression-ravaged economy. \u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECritics believed Congress had abdicated a key oversight function. Representative Allen Treadway of Massachusetts, Ranking Republican on the Ways and Means Committee, objected that “it would surrender the taxing power of Congress to the President and his subordinates in violation of both the letter and spirit of the Constitution.” Others thought the law might enable the President to forgive or postpone debt owed by a foreign country and undermine American industry. To assuage such concerns, the bill was amended with a three-year expiration date on all trade agreements. \"\u003EThe Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act of 1934\u003C\/a\u003E After hours of debate, the House initially passed the Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act by a vote of 274 to 111 (with 47 Members not voting)—for the first time granting the President its traditional power to levy tariffs.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1935\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003ENovelist John Steinbeck publishes \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tortilla_Flat\" hint=\"Tortilla Flat (1935) is an early John Steinbeck novel set in Monterey, California. The novel was the author's first clear critical and commercial success.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe book portrays a group of paisanos - literally, countrymen - a small band of errant friends enjoying life and wine in the days after the end of the Great War.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETortilla Flat was made into a film in 1942. Steinbeck would later return to some of the panhandling locals of Monterey (though not the Spanish paisanos of the Flat) in his novel Cannery Row (1945).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAbove the town of Monterey on the California coast lies the shabby district of Tortilla Flat, inhabited by a loose gang of jobless locals of Mexican-Indian-Spanish-Caucasian descent (who typically claim pure Spanish blood).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe central character Danny inherits two houses from his grandfather where he and his friends go to live. Danny's house, and Danny's friends, Steinbeck compares to the Round Table, and the Knights of the Round Table. Most of the action is set in the time of Steinbeck's own late teenage and young adult years, shortly after World War I.\"\u003ETortilla Flat\u003C\/a\u003E, a novel about Mexican American life in the United States.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1941\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003EThe League of United Latin American Citizens \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/faculty.csusb.edu\/ramirez\/texas\/projects\/efrat\/es1em.html\" hint=\"Although Rivera does not address the issue of unions in his novel, the setting of the story forms a direct parallel with farm worker movements of the 1940's, 50's and 60's. A clear indication of the worth given to labor is the Bracero program, which lasted from 1942 until 1964. \u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA year before the program was instituted, there was protest by LULAC (the League of United Latin American Citizens) of the Southern Pacific Railroad's refusal to provide skilled apprenticeships to Mexican Americans. That same year, the Fair Employment Practices Committee was forced to address the issue of discrimination against Mexican Americans by purportedly eliminating discrimination in employment. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe stance against Mexican Americans was apparent by the discrimination against them in hiring-- they were continually refused positions other than ones seen as lowly, the only ones they were capable or worthy of in the eyes of those hiring--, things are made doubly clear with the bracero program. The program allowed thetemporary immigration of Mexicans into the United States to provide low-cost labor for growers. Their race and ethnicity became synonymous with cheap hands for the U.S. farmers, as millions of Mexican workers were imported during the duration of the program. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1947 Labor organizer Ernesto Galarza tried to organize farmworkers, but his efforts were stunted by the supply of low-cost labor which the bracero program provided. Furthermore, the U.S. instituted Operation Wetback in 1953, a program which entitled the U.S. Immigration Service to arrest and deport persons of Mexican descent. Now the flow of Mexicans into and out of the U.S. was more confusing-- on the one hand people were being brought in for labor-force, and on the other innumerable, mostly leader-figures, were being expelled.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot only was the bracero program, which imported Mexicans for labor, still in effect for the span of Operation Wetback, but many U.S. citizens were deported unfairly, due to their Mexican descent. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOf those unfairly deported were political activists and other Mexican American leaders. This combination of actions makes the United States' stance rather clear - Mexicans are valuable as a bottom-of-the-ladder labor resource, but are a threat, and therefore should be purged from the country-- even if necessry to stretch the law to do so, for they often hold esteemed positions of leadership. Later in the 1950's there was an unsuccessful appeal by the Asociacion Nacional Mexico-Americana to the U.S. Commission on Human Rights to investigate the status of Mexican farm workers. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1964 when the bracero program was repealed, the Mexican American labor leaders saw the opportunity to unionize farm workers (an impossible feat until the cheap labor provided by the bracero program was eliminated, for workers can not be paid what they're worth when a program that institutes labor 'dirt cheap' is in operation) . A year later, in 1965, the U.S. imposed an immigration quota on Mexico for the first time in history, another indication of the U.S.'s feelings towards Mexicans -- if they were not being imported for cheap labor, then they were not worth allowing into the country.\"\u003E(LULAC) protests discrimination by the Southern Pacific Railroad\u003C\/a\u003E, which refuses to provide skilled apprenticeships to Mexican Americans.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1942\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/braceroarchive.org\/about\" hint=\"The Bracero Program, which brought millions of Mexican guest workers to the United States, ended more than four decades ago. Current debates about immigration policy-including discussions about a new guest worker program-have put the program back in the news and made it all the more important to understand this chapter of American history. Yet while top U.S. and Mexican officials re- examine the Bracero Program as a possible model, most Americans know very little about the program, the nation's largest experiment with guest workers. Indeed, until very recently, this important story has been inadequately documented and studied, even by scholars. \u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E The Bracero Program grew out of a series of bi-lateral agreements between Mexico and the United States that allowed millions of Mexican men to come to the United States to work on, short-term, primarily agricultural labor contracts. From 1942 to 1964, 4.6 million contracts were signed, with many individuals returning several times on different contracts, making it the largest U.S. contract labor program. An examination of the images, stories, documents and artifacts of the Bracero Program contributes to our understanding of the lives of migrant workers in Mexico and the United States, as well as our knowledge of, immigration, citizenship, nationalism, agriculture, labor practices, race relations, gender, sexuality, the family, visual culture, and the Cold War era.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Bracero Program was created by executive order in 1942 because many growers argued that World War II would bring labor shortages to low-paying agricultural jobs. On August 4, 1942 the United States concluded a temporary intergovernmental agreement for the use of Mexican agricultural labor on United States farms (officially referred to as the Mexican Farm Labor Program), and the influx of legal temporary Mexican workers began. But the program lasted much longer than anticipated. In 1951, after nearly a decade in existence, concerns about production and the U.S. entry into the Korean conflict led Congress to formalize the Bracero Program with Public Law 78. \"\u003EThe bracero program begins\u003C\/a\u003E, allowing Mexican nationals to temporarily work in the United States – primarily in the agricultural industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1945\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/cloakinginequity.com\/2014\/05\/27\/in-memoriam-of-wwii-latino-veterans-and-their-families\/\" hint=\"In Memoriam of WWII Latino Veterans and Their Families\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis post is also dedicated to the all of the Heilig, Scott, Vasquez and Cadena who have served our country bravely.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn a new chapter we honor the memory of Latino veterans and their families. This chapter was recently published in the new book Latina\/os and World War II: Mobility, Agency, and Ideology.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe citation for our chapter is:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERodríguez, A. A., Vasquez Heilig, J. \u0026amp; Prochnow, A. (2014). Higher Education, the G.I. Bill, and the Post-War Lives of WWII Latino Veterans and Their Families. In M. Rivas-Rodriguez \u0026amp; B. Olguin (Eds.), Latina\/os \u0026amp; World War II: Mobility, agency and ideology, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHigher Education, the G.I. Bill, and the Post-War Lives of WWII Latino Veterans and Their Families\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1897, a federal district court in Rodriguez v. Texas declared that the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and subsequent federal policies, conferred upon Mexican Americans a “White” racial status for naturalization and classification purposes. Thus, despite the “separate but equal” decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, Latina\/os should have had equal access to the same public schools as Whites. However, racial bias was pervasive. Mexican American “greasers” faced cultural prejudices analogous to the racial animus suffered by African Americans, with several high profile lynchings, and city governments like Houston actively encouraging repatriation during the Great Depression.[i] Professor E. E. Davis of the University of Texas, asserted in a 1923 publication that White American children did not want to attend school with, “the dirty ‘greaser’ type of Mexican child,” and should be required to do so. Instead, Davis advocated that Mexican children be placed in separate schools until they were able to contribute positively to society.[ii]    It is within this context that we will explore the experiences of Latino WWII veterans in U.S. schools pre- and post- war.\"\u003EMexican American veterans return from the war\u003C\/a\u003E and use their G.I. benefits for college education, purchasing homes, and furthering the economic growth of the community.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E1945\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Josefina_Niggli\" hint=\"Josefina Niggli (1910–1983; birth name was Josephine) was a Mexican-born Anglo-American playwright and novelist. Writing about Mexican-American issues in the middle years of the century, before the rise of the Chicano movement, she was the first and, for a time, the only Mexican American writing in English on Mexican themes; her egalitarian views of gender, race and ethnicity were progressive for their time and helped lay the groundwork for such later Chicana feminists as Gloria Anzaldúa, Ana Castillo and Sandra Cisneros.[1] Niggli is now recognized as “a literary voice from the middle ground between Mexican and Anglo heritage.”[2] Critic Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez has written that Niggli should be considered on a par such widely praised Spanish-language contemporaries as Mariano Azuela, Martín Luis Guzmán and Nellie Campobello.[3] She is thought to be the only Mexican-American woman to have a theatre named after her.[4]\"\u003EJosephina Niggli\u003C\/a\u003E publishes \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mexican-Village-Other-Latino-Voices\/dp\/0810123401\" hint=\"Born in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico in 1910, Josefina María Niggli was one of the first Latina writers to have her work published in the United States--and thus one of the first to introduce American audiences to the culture and people flourishing along the U.S.-Mexico border. Well ahead of what is now called Chicano literature, her writings--spanning a broad range of genres, subjects, and styles--offer an insider's view of the everyday lives little known or noted outside of their native milieu. In Niggli's plays, for instance, these often invisible working class Mexicans were literally elevated to the public stage, their hidden reality given expression.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA long-overdue gathering of Niggli's work, this volume showcases the writer's remarkable literary versatility, as well as the groundbreaking nature of her writing, which in many ways established a blueprint for future generations of writers and readers of Chicano literature. This collection includes Niggli's most famous and influential work, Mexican Village--a literary chronicle of Hidalgo, Mexico, which explores the distinct nature and tensions of Mexican life--along with her novel Step Down, Elder Brother, and five of her most well-known plays.\"\u003EMexican Village\u003C\/a\u003E, consisting of ten stories exploring her identity as part Mexican, part Anglo.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E1947\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003EBacked by \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/lulac.org\/about\/history\/\" hint=\"LULAC History - All for One and One for All\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), founded in 1929, is the oldest and most widely respected Hispanic civil rights organization in the United States of America. LULAC was created at a time in our country’s history when Hispanics were denied basic civil and human rights, despite contributions to American society. The founders of LULAC created an organization that empowers its members to create and develop opportunities where they are needed most.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow LULAC was founded.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1945, a California LULAC Council successfully sued to integrate the Orange County School System, which had been segregated on the grounds that Mexican children were “more poorly clothed and mentally inferior to white children.” Additionally, in 1954, LULAC brought another landmark case, Hernandez vs. the State of Texas, to protest the fact that a Mexican American had never been called to jury duty in the state of Texas. The Supreme Court ruled this exclusion unconstitutional. \"\u003ELULAC\u003C\/a\u003E, a \u003Ca href=\"The Méndez Case: Brown v. Board of Education for Mexican Americans\" hint=\"The Méndez Case: Brown v. Board of Education for Mexican Americans\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAuthor:   Méndez et al. v. Westminster School District\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDate:1946\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnnotation: As late as World War II, it was common practice in the Southwest to segregate Mexican Americans in schools. In every California community with a sizable Mexican population, schools were segregated. Sometimes there was just a Mexican room, but many districts identified a separate Mexican school.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGonzalo Méndez, a tenant farmer, and a group of Mexican American World War II veterans in California's Orange County, demanded that their children attend the same schools as Anglos. They filed a lawsuit in federal court against four Orange County school districts seeking an injunction that would order their schools' integration.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETwo years later, in 1947, the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that school districts could not segregate on the basis of national origin or Mexican descent. California Governor Earl Warren persuaded the legislature to repeal laws that segregated Asian and Native American schoolchildren. Warren went on to write the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision that ruled that racial segregation was unconstitutional. Excerpts from the 1946 Méndez et al. v. Westminster School District decision follow. \"\u003Esuit by Gonzalo Méndez against many California school districts\u003C\/a\u003E causes the Federal District Court to rule that segregation in schools is unconstitutional. This sets the judicial precedent for the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/blogs.loc.gov\/law\/2014\/05\/before-brown-v-board-of-education-there-was-mendez-v-westminster\/\" hint=\"May 16, 2014 by Francisco Macías -Libray of Congress.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBefore Brown v. Board of Education There Was Méndez v. Westminster\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn keeping with the subject of the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, May 17, 2014 marks the 60th anniversary of the issuance of the decision on Brown v. Board of Education.  Brown is a landmark case in which the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously found that, contrary to the legal doctrine of separate but equal, “separate education facilities are inherently unequal” and ended segregation in the United States.  While most people educated in the United States are familiar with Brown, I would like to bring your attention to more arcane cases, with arguably equal significance.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs I wrote about earlier in the blog, \u003Cb\u003Ethe case Hernández v. Texas was decided just two weeks prior to Brown; but there is another little-known case that was instrumental for the American civil rights movement:  Méndez v. Westminster.  While many scholars of educational desegregation assure us that the beginning of the end of the “separate but equal” doctrine was set underway with Brown v. Board of Education.  It could be argued that the beginning of that end may actually date back seven years prior,  Méndez v. Westminster\u003C\/b\u003E, which ended the almost 100 years of segregation that had remained a practice since the end of the U.S.-Mexico War of 1848 and the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.  The end of the U.S.-Mexico War gave rise to “anti-immigrant sentiments [that] resulted in increased measures to segregate Mexican-Americans from so-called ‘white’ public institutions such as swimming pools, parks, schools, and eating establishments.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMéndez v. Westminster School District of Orange County was a federal court case that challenged racial segregation in the education system of Orange County, California.  Five Mexican-American fathers—Thomas Estrada, William Guzmán, Gonzalo Méndez, Frank Palomino, and Lorenzo Ramírez—set out to challenge the practice of school segregation in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.  Their claim was that their children and some 5,000 others of Mexican ancestry, had fallen victim to unconstitutional discriminatory practices by being forced to attend separate schools that had been designated “schools for Mexicans” in the school districts of El Modena, Garden Grove, Santa Ana, and Westminster—all of which were in Orange County.  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that the segregation of Mexican and Mexican-American students, by relegating them to “Mexican Schools,” was unconstitutional.\"\u003EBrown vs. Board of Education\u003C\/a\u003E case, which repeals the \"separate but equal\" concept.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E1947\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/ws\/?pid=12841\" hint=\"Address in Mexico City. March 3, 1947\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E“Mr. President, distinguished guests:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMy presence here today as the guest of the great Republic of Mexico is one of the truly happy occasions of my career. I might say, incidentally, that I never had such a welcome in my life. I am deeply moved to be here again, among my friends and neighbors. I have wanted to return to Mexico ever since November 1939, when I visited this city and enjoyed the memorable hospitality of the Mexican Congress. To my good friend President Miguel Aleman, and to all the people of Mexico, I say from the bottom of my heart: Thank you for your gracious welcome.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt is a common failing of many people to complain of hardships and overlook their good fortune. In the international sphere, many people emphasize the disagreements that separate nations and forget the large areas of agreement that bring nations together in mutual understanding. It would be foolish to pretend that fundamental differences in political philosophies do not exist. The task of achieving permanent peace and security for all mankind is not easy, but I am certain that permanent peace and security are the goal of all peoples everywhere, whatever their language, or nationality, race, or creed. Because of my belief that the peoples of the world have peace as a common objective, I refuse to be discouraged by apparent difficulties. Difficulties are a challenge to men of determination.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMr. President, you refer to 1847. We did have tragic difficulties then. In fact, we had difficulties with our northern neighbor Canada in 1814. We also had a terrible quarrel between our own States. But, Mr. president, we have learned the hard way that peace is best at home and abroad with our neighbors. We have fought two world wars within a generation. We have found that the victory loses in total war as well as the vanquished.\u003C\/i\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf a realistic view of the world takes full account of the differences that separate nations, it must also take full account of the common beliefs that unite nations....”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cb\u003ENote: The President spoke at 9:35 p.m. in the Palacio Nacional. His opening words “Mr. president” referred to President Miguel Aleman of Mexico. The address was carried on a nationwide radio broadcast.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\"\u003EHarry S. Truman\u003C\/a\u003E becomes the first president to visit Mexico City, laying a wreath at the foot of the  \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mexonline.com\/history-ninosheroes.htm\" hint=\"Los Niños Héroes\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMexico has known many heroes through her long and eventful history. Perhaps none have captured the imagination and stirred the hearts to the degree that Los Niños Héroes (Heroic Children) have. In 1847, six brave young men fought valiantly for their country during the Mexican-American War. Tragically, they died defending her honor.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERanging in age from just 13 to 19 years of age, these military cadets are remembered today with reverence and national pride. A great monument erected in their honor, Los Niños Héroes Monument, stands proudly at the entrance to Chapultepec Park in Mexico City. This historical memorial is visited by thousands of Mexican citizens and foreign travelers each year.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Mexican-American War was in its final chapters when the Battle of Chapultepec took place. The date was September 13, 1847 and American forces were quickly advancing on Chapultepec Castle. General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who was in charge of forces in Mexico City, recognized the strategic advantage that Chapultepec Hill held. Geographically, its value was enormous as it position protected Mexico City on its west side from invaders.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnfortunately, there were not enough resources available for its defense. Rising some 200 feet above the surrounding landscape, the site was naturally fortified. However, American forces greatly outnumbered their Mexican counterparts, both in manpower and gunpowder. \u003Cb\u003EMany prominent Americans, including Abraham Lincoln and John Quincy Adams considered the war unjust and questioned the rationale for the invasion.\u003C\/b\u003E\"\u003EU.S.-Mexican war monument\u003C\/a\u003E to the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mexconnect.com\/articles\/313-mexico-s-ni%C3%B1os-heroes-heroic-children-reality-or-myth\" hint=\"Mexico's Niños Heroes (“heroic children”): reality or myth...\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn March 5, 1947 President Harry S. Truman was on the next to last day of a three-day whirlwind visit to Mexico. Departing from his prepared agenda, he announced that he wanted to make a stop at Mexico City's historic Chapultepec Castle. As the motorcade came to a halt by a grove of trees, Truman stepped out of his black Lincoln and walked over to a stone monument reading Niños Heroes (“Heroic Children”). These were the six cadets who committed suicide during the Mexican-American War by leaping from the castle battlements rather than surrender. Truman laid a wreath on the monument and then stood for a few moments of silent reverence. All the while a contingent of contemporary Mexican cadets, some with tears streaming down their cheeks, stood at rigid attention.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETruman's action, duplicated fifty years later by Bill Clinton, made him Mexico's all-time most popular U.S. president. FRIENDSHIP BEGAN TODAY headlined one Mexico City paper. Another blazoned this message: RENDERING HOMAGE TO THE HEROES OF '47, TRUMAN HEALS AN OLD NATIONAL WOUND FOREVER. “To think that the most powerful man in the world would come and apologize”, said a cab driver to a passenger. Remarked an engineer: “One hundred years of misunderstanding and bitterness wiped out by one man in one minute. This is the best neighbor policy.” At a lunch later that day, President Miguel Alemán proclaimed him “the new champion of solidarity and understanding among the American republics.” Truman's own comment was characteristically succinct. “Brave men do not belong to any one country. I respect bravery whenever I see it.” Though the President's plane, Sacred Cow, left before dawn on a chilly morning, over a thousand people were at the airport to see him off. \"\u003ENiños Heroes\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E.\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E1948\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003EWorld War II veterans organize the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/tshaonline.org\/handbook\/online\/articles\/voa01\" hint=\"AMERICAN G.I. FORUM OF TEXAS. On March 26, 1948, 700 Mexican-American veterans, led by Hector P. Garcia, met in Corpus Christi and organized the American G.I. Forum, a civil-rights organization devoted to securing equal rights for Hispanic Americans. The first issue the forum dealt with was the failure of the Veterans Administration to deliver earned benefits through the G.I. Bill of Rights of 1944. After securing those benefits, the forum addressed other veterans' concerns, such as hospital care and Mexican-American representation on draft boards. In 1949 the director of the Rice Funeral Home in Three Rivers refused the use of his chapel for the funeral of Private Felix Longoria (see FELIX LONGORIA AFFAIR). Garcia and the Corpus Christi forum organized a widespread protest that gained national attention. Eventually, through the intervention of Lyndon B. Johnson, Longoria was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. The incident in Three Rivers established the forum as an effective civil-rights advocate for Hispanics and expanded the scope and nature of its activities.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe organizational structure promoted this goal. The local chapter was the basic unit; the membership of each local chapter had to be 75 percent veterans. Beyond the local chapter were the district, state, and (after 1958) national governing bodies. In some areas, auxiliary (female) and junior G.I. forums developed. The charter of each unit emphasized loyalty and patriotism. The forum also prohibited official endorsement of a political party or candidate. This sanction blunted possible charges of bloc voting. Skills and experience developed in the forum were, however, applied by members in political campaigns.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1954 forum lawyers, in conjunction with attorneys for the League of United Latin American Citizens, successfully argued before the Supreme Court in Hernandez v. the State of Texasqv that Mexican Americans, although technically classified as Caucasian, suffered discrimination as a class and were entitled to the protection of the Fourteenth Amendment. In 1957 the Texas forum ended a ten-year struggle when a federal court agreed that school segregation of Mexican-American children in Texas schools was unjustified. In the same decade the forum helped thousands of Mexican Americans in the Rio Grande valley to register to vote, and incidents of police brutality were confronted in forum efforts. Health care and veterans' needs remained important concerns, as did scholarship donations, back-to-school drives, and the problems of migrant workers.\"\u003EAmerican G.I. Forum in Texas\u003C\/a\u003E to fight against discrimination and promote the welfare of Mexican Americans.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1951\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/library.uwb.edu\/static\/USimmigration\/1951_public_law_78.html\" hint=\"SUMMARY\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPublic Law 78 was an amendment to the Agricultural Act of 1949 in an effort to include agricultural workers within the act. This was significant because the Act was extended to workers from Mexico. The act was an effort to increase the amount of labor help during World War II, but included strict limitations for both the farmer and the farm worker. One of the limitations in regards to both entities was the limitation of work. The Secretary of Labor had the authority to determine whether a certain area had enough domestic workers, therefore excluding the farmeworker from Mexico from employment. The amendment was had the intention of lasting approximately two years. \"\u003EThe Bracero program is revived\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1953\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views\/2007\/04\/05\/operation-wetback-illegal-immigrations-golden-crisp-myth\" hint=\"The reality of “Operation Wetback” wasn't so simple. Eisenhower's sweep was effective because it was mass deportation on the Soviet model, not because it was admirable, let alone fair or, in thousands of cases, legal. Mexicans were especially targeted whether they were legal immigrants or not. Children of Mexican parents, who were American citizens for having been born on American soil, were deported, too. We just learned that Americans by the thousands (and their children) are being denied Medicaid benefits because they can't produce proof of citizenship under a new law designed to target illegal immigrants. Imagine how many Mexicans were wrongly targeted for deportation in the mid-1950s.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn March 9, 1955, Immigration Commissioner Joseph Swing triumphantly declared mission accomplished to a House subcommittee: “The wetback situation will be definitely under contro;”, he said, with just 300 illegal migrants caught daily, down from 3,000. The figures are as suspect as the government's precise tallies of people leaving voluntarily (45,953 in Texas alone by July 1954) — as if illegals were going up to border posts to record their departure and say farewell. More likely, they did what they do today. When enforcement intensifies in one sector, they move to another.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe government's deportation methods were beyond suspect. A congressional investigation described the Mercurio as a “hell ship” where abuse of deportees may have been rampant. According to a United Press report from August 1956, “The Justice Department permitted the Immigration Service to crowd 500 Mexicans aboard a ship that normally carried seventy to ninety persons.” The Mercurio's two lifeboats had a total capacity of 48. Less than a week after the House Government Committee investigation was made public, Mexicans mutinied aboard the ship after 40 people jumped overboard and seven drowned in an attempt to reach shore. Deportations by ship were halted. Airlifts replaced that method until the late 1950s, but even Stalinist sweeps can't be sustained forever. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EForgotten in that bullying decade and since was the Truman commission on illegal immigration that came closest to solving the issue, but at a price: Better wages for migrant laborers and strictly regulated working conditions. Federal agents wouldn't be raiding workplaces to check on the legality of workers, but to verify employers' documentation of fair pay and the kind of working conditions Americans would not consider beneath them. Employers' advantage of hiring illegal immigrants would vanish. No demand, no need for supply. The recommendations never became law. The West's big farmers defeated them, because that, in the end, is who enables illegal immigration — the employers who profit from it and the consumers who demand it by way of low-cost food, nannies, maids, fern-cutters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E“Illegals” are the most despised, most abused, most punished and most condemned for the problem. But they're the least to blame and the worthiest of praise. They're busboys to American extravagance \u003Cu\u003E“Operation Wetbacks” ended in the sunset of Eisenhower's presidency.\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\"\u003EOperation Wetback\u003C\/a\u003E: The U.S. Immigration Service deports more than 3.8 million people of Mexican heritage.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1954\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003EThe film \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/movies\/la-et-mn-salt-of-earth-review-20141212-column.html\" hint=\"hen he looked over the edge of Brazil's massive Serra Pelada mine, about to take one of the 20th century's most iconic photographs, Sebastião Salgado said, 'every hair on my body stood on edge. The pyramids, Babel, the history of mankind unfolded. I had traveled to the dawn of time.'\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat panoramic shot of 50,000 men working without the aid of machinery in an enormous gold mining pit, each and every one of them 'slaves to the cause of getting rich,' is just one of hundreds of justifiably admired photographs that have made Salgado one of the most recognizable names in contemporary photojournalism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWenders' key idea for this film, to have Salgado look at his photographs and talk about them to the camera, works brilliantly because Salgado is a great storyteller and remembers key details about, for instance, the tribes he spent time with, like Mexico's Tarahumara, who were celebrated long-distance runners, and Ecuador's Saraguros, who thought he was an observer sent by God.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGradually, however, Salgado's photographs began to record tragedy and atrocities, and what he saw changed him. 'We humans are a terrible animal; we are extremely violent, he says. Our history is a history of war; it's an endless story. We should see these images to see how terrible our species is.br\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFinally, after photographing genocidal killings in Rwanda and the Congo in the 1990s, Salgado had enough and began to deeply question his work as a social photographer.\"\u003ESalt of the Earth\u003C\/a\u003E is heralded by many as a true representation of \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1986\/09\/07\/magazine\/faces-of-the-other-americas.html\" hint=\"FACES OF THE OTHER AMERICAS\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETHE FOCUS SHARPENS. THE STARK PANORAMA OF POVERTY in which millions of Latin Americans live suddenly blurs and faces appear. They are dark faces, the faces of Indian peasants and black settlers, in the main - and on them are etched the resignation, patience, faith and hope that make survival possible in the barren sierras and deserts of the ''other Americas.'' These are not the faces of despair, but the faces of solitude, peering at a rapidly changing world that both calls out to them and rejects them. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor Salgado, though, nationality is not the point. The people he portrays are united by common social, religious and cultural experiences rather than divided by borders. Since the Spanish Conquest 460 years ago, for instance, little has differentiated the lives of the indigenous peoples of, say, Bolivia and Mexico. Even today, a Quechua-speaking peon from the Andes of Ecuador probably has more in common with a Portuguese-speaking peasant from Brazil's parched northeast than either has with his urban compatriots. Nor does the passage of time count for much. Salgado's photographs carry dates, but most could have been taken at any time in the last few decades. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E The hidden tension in this world is, of course, the inevitability of change. Gradually, the area's ancient spiritual and cultural defenses are being eroded by modern-day consumerism and communications. Since World War II, tens of millions of peasants have migrated to urban centers, lured by the often false promise of jobs, education and health care. The faces and feelings in Salgado's photographs, therefore, are a part of the world that struggles not to change but nonetheless is shrinking with every passing year.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the “Other Americas”, the powerful spirituality of this vast continent - its superstition, belief in all manner of magic and amalgam of religions - contrasts with the desolation of the environment. Here as elsewhere, an easy acceptance of natural and violent death only makes the formalities and rituals of daily life more important. More than a portrait of an isolated slice of life, ''Other Americas'' is a prism through which all of Latin America can be seen.\"\u003EMexican Americans\u003C\/a\u003E and their struggle.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1962\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003ECésar Chávez organizes the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ufw.org\/_board.php?mode=view\u0026amp;b_code=cc_his_research\u0026amp;b_no=10482\" hint=\"The 1965-1970 Delano Grape Strike and Boycott\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn September 8, 1965, Filipino American grape workers, members of the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, walked out on strike against Delano-area table and wine grape growers protesting years of poor pay and conditions. The Filipinos asked Cesar Chavez, who led a mostly Latino farm workers union, the National Farm Workers Association, to join their strike.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECesar and the leaders of the NFWA believed it would be years before their fledgling union was ready for a strike. But he also knew how growers historically pitted one race against another to break field walkouts. Cesar’s union voted to join the Filipino workers’ walkouts on Mexican Independence Day, September 16, 1965. From the beginning this would be a different kind of strike.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E--Cesar insisted the Latino and Filipino strikers work together, sharing the same picketlines, strike kitchens and union hall.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe boycott connected middle-class families in big cities with poor farm worker families in the California vineyards. Millions stopped eating grapes. At dinner tables across the country, parents gave children a simple, powerful lesson in social justice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy 1970, the grape boycott was a complete success. Table grape growers at long last signed their first union contracts, granting workers better pay, benefits, and protections.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the decades that followed, Cesar and the UFW continued using nonviolent strikes, boycotts, marches and fasts to help farm workers stand up for their rights and gather support from ordinary Americans to aid them in their efforts. Those efforts continue to this day through the work of the United Farm Workers of America and the Cesar Chavez Foundation. \"\u003ENational Farm Workers Association (NFWA)\u003C\/a\u003E in Delano, California.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1964\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.madeinmexicoinc.com\/maquiladora-industry\/a-brief-history\/\" hint=\"The Mexican government initiated the Border Industrialization Program in 1965 as a response to the demise of the “Bracero Program” by the U.S. government in 1964. The “Bracero Program” had allowed Mexican agricultural workers (mostly migrating northbound from the interior of Mexico) to work legally in the U.S. on a seasonal basis.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter the end of the “Bracero Program” the Mexican government was forced to implement the Maquiladora Program to alleviate the rising unemployment burden along the border. This is a concept whereby the Mexican government mostly allows the duty-free, temporary importation of raw materials, supplies, machinery and equipment, etc. as long as the product assembled or manufactured in Mexico is exported. The Mexican government also sought to utilize this program to increase the level of “hard currency” and as a vehicle for the transfer of technology. Since the conception of the Maquiladora program, the changes have been dramatic, to say the least!\"\u003EThe first maquiladoras\u003C\/a\u003E are established under the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/manufacturinginmexico.org\/maquiladora-in-mexico.html\" hint=\"The Maquiladora Program, which allowed maquiladoras to be 100% foreign owned, was initiated in Mexico way back in 1964, and followed the National Border Industrialization Program, which began three years earlier in 1961. The Industrialization Program was created to increase foreign investment and stimulate Mexico's internal market. The Maquiladora Program was developed to foster border region employment rates as well as further attract foreign investment, and a 1989 decree relaxed Mexico's foreign investment laws even more, allowing maquiladoras to sell up to 50% of their products to Mexican domestic markets.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite its impressive, successful history, the maquiladora industry in Mexico never fully bloomed until the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was approved in 1994. Interestingly, NAFTA wasn’t entirely a boon to the industry, as it eliminated certain customs benefits enjoyed by the maquiladora program and determined strict 'rules of origin' for products to qualify for preferential tariffs. But it did allow products manufactured in maquiladoras to be sold to in Mexico without the prior limits in place, and eliminated certain quotas that further impeded full penetration of U.S. and Mexican markets. \"\u003EBorder Industrialization Program\u003C\/a\u003E; mass employment of cheap labor along the Mexican border by U.S. companies begins.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1964\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/geo-mexico.com\/?p=2242\" hint=\"“The Bracero program” started in 1942 as a way to alleviate the severe US labor shortage during the second world war. It gave selected Mexicans renewable six-month visas to work temporarily on US farms. Most workers came from Michoacán, Jalisco, and Guanajuato. Many US farmers became very dependent on the productive and relatively cheap Mexican labor.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELos BracerosMany Mexican workers also entered the USA without visas and easily found well-paying jobs in agriculture and other sectors. Numerous US industries began to depend on these undocumented workers. The US government and public accepted this reality; they were preoccupied fighting a war.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Bracero Program was considered such a success that it continued long after the war ended. It was finally repealed in 1964, largely as a result of pressure from labor unions, who felt it held down farm wages, and Latino groups which felt it impeded the upward mobility of US Hispanics.\"\u003EThe bracero program is finally repealed\u003C\/a\u003E, and Mexican American labor leaders see an opportunity to work \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ufw.org\/_page.php?menu=research\u0026amp;inc=history\/03.html\" hint=\"For more than a century farmworkers had been denied a decent life in the fields and communities of California's agricultural valleys. Essential to the state's biggest industry, but only so long as they remained exploited and submissive farmworkers had tried but failed so many times to organize the giant agribusiness farms that most observers considered it a hopeless task. And yet by the early 1960's things were beginning to change beneath the surface. Within another fifteen years more than 50,000 farmworkers were protected by union contracts.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Bracero program, an informal arrangement between the United States and Mexican governments, became Public Law 78 in 1951. Started during World War II as a program to provide Mexican agricultural workers to growers, it continued after the war.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPublic Law 78 stated that no bracero-a temporary worker imported from Mexico-could replace a domestic worker. In reality this provision was rarely enforced. In fact the growers had wanted the Bracero program to continue after the war precisely in order to replace domestic workers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe small but energetic National Farm Labor Union, led by dynamic organizer Ernesto Galarza, found its efforts to create a lasting California farmworkers union in the 1940's and 50's stymied again and again by the growers' manipulation of braceros.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOver time, however, farmworkers, led by Cesar Chavez, were able to call upon allies in other unions, in churches and in community groups affiliated with the growing civil rights movement, to put enough pressure on politicians to end the Bracero Program by 1964.\"\u003Etoward unionizing the farmworkers\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1965\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/immigration\/news\/2015\/10\/16\/123477\/the-immigration-and-nationality-act-of-1965-turns-50\/\" hint=\"President Lyndon B. Johnson sits at his desk on Liberty Island in New York Harbor as he signs a new immigration bill, October 1965.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFifty years ago this month, President Lyndon B. Johnson stood at the foot of the Statue of Liberty in New York City and signed into law the most sweeping U.S. immigration reform to date—The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. The law did away with the racially discriminatory national origins quota system, which had governed admissions to the United States since the 1920s, and created what we have today: An immigration system largely based around family reunification and—to a lesser extent—employment-based migration.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EComing just a year after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and in the same year as the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Immigration and Nationality Act stands as a major achievement of the civil rights era. Whereas the national origins quotas advantaged immigration from Northern and Western Europe and excluded Asian immigrants entirely, the 1965 act opened the doors to immigrants from around the world. In 1965, just under 10 million Americans were foreign-born, a total that constituted 4.8 percent of the U.S. population. Today, that number stands at 45 million, or 13.9 percent of the U.S. population.\"\u003EThe Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 \u003C\/a\u003Elimits immigrants into the United States.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1974\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nwhm.org\/online-exhibits\/coalition\/11.htm\" hint=\"MANA - A National Latina Organization\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFounded in 1974 by Mexican-American women MANA stood for the Mexican American National Association until 1994 when members voted to become MANA, A National Latina Organization (MANA), to reflect the diversity of its membership. Today, MANA is the largest national Latina grassroots membership organization with chapters, individual members, and affiliates across the country. MANA is governed by a Board of Directors and led by President and CEO Alma Morales Riojas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMANA’s mission is to empower Latinas through leadership development, community service, and advocacy. Its four national goals are to: strengthen Latinas as community leaders; create vital Hispanic communities; advance public policy for an equal and just society; and grow and sustain a healthy organization. MANA achieves its mission through two premiere programs, the AvanZamos® Program (adult leadership training program) and the HERMANITAS® Program (mentoring and leadership program for young Latinas.)\"\u003EThe Mexican American Women's National Association (MANA)\u003C\/a\u003E is established to advance the status of Mexican American women, promote leadership opportunities and work toward parity in the workplace.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\n\u003Cdiv id=\"text-5\" class=\"tabbertab\" title=\"1982-2005\"\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1982\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/migration.ucdavis.edu\/rs\/more.php?id=8\" hint=\"Executive SummaryOver the last two decades, Mexico has dramatically opened its economy to foreign trade and investment. The country has converted itself from an inward-oriented economy to one in which export production is the main source of economic growth. In 2000, the share of international trade in Mexico¡¯s GDP was 32%, up from 11% in 1980. The most dynamic exporters in Mexico are in-bond assembly plants, known as maquiladoras. These plants import parts and components from abroad, assemble the inputs into final goods, and then export their output. They are most active in the electronics, auto parts, and apparel industries. Maquiladoras main point of contact with the Mexican economy is through hiring labor. They purchase few inputs in Mexico and sell virtually none of their output domestically. The United States is the primary source for their inputs and the primary destination market for their sales. While all maquiladoras contract with foreign firms to obtain inputs and distribute outputs, not all are subsidiaries of multinational enterprises. Many are Mexican-owned facilities that deal with multinationals through arms-length transactions.\"\u003EThe largest increase of maquiladoras\u003C\/a\u003E occurs after \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/migration.ucdavis.edu\/mn\/more.php?id=553\" hint=\"\u003Cbr\u003EDevaluation and Mexico to US Migration\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAvoiding increased Mexico-to-US unauthorized migration due to recession in Mexico and a wider US-Mexican wage gap was a pillar argument in favor of the Clinton Administration's proposal to provide $40 billion in Congressionally approved loan guarantees to Mexico. The loan guarantee proposal was withdrawn on January 31, 1995, and replaced with a package of aid that does not require Congressional approval.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMexico's peso hit a record low of US$1=6.55 on January 30, 1995, down over 40 percent from the $1=3.45 pesos on December 20, 1994. After the announcement of the aid program, the peso rebounded to $1=5.75 pesos.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMany in Congress wanted to make the loan guarantee conditional on Mexico cooperating with the US to reduce illegal immigration. Although the aid package has no formal side conditions on immigration, US officials reported that there was an 'understanding' that Mexico would cooperate with the US to manage migration.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPresident Clinton, among others, argued that the Mexican aid package would 'help us to better protect our borders.' The 1982 peso devaluation of 72 percent was followed by a 30 percent increase in apprehensions in 1983 and 1984, from about 1 million to 1.3 million.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELegal and unauthorized Mexican migration to the US, which averaged about 300,000 settlers and 800,000 to two million sojourners per year over the past decade, is expected to increase as a result the peso devaluation and hard times in Mexico. The US Treasury originally predicted 30 percent or 430,000 additional illegal entries in 1995--implying a \"normal\" flow of 1.4 million unauthorized Mexican entries per year-- if the US did not provide aid to Mexico. \"\u003Edevaluation of the Mexican currency\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1994\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.inc.com\/encyclopedia\/north-american-free-trade-agreement-nafta.html\" hint=\"The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is a treaty entered into by the United States, Canada, and Mexico; it went into effect on January 1, 1994. (Free trade had existed between the U.S. and Canada since 1989; NAFTA broadened that arrangement.) On that day, the three countries became the largest free market in the world—the combined economies of the three nations at that time measured $6 trillion and directly affected more than 365 million people. NAFTA was created to eliminate tariff barriers to agricultural, manufacturing, and services; to remove investment restrictions; and to protect intellectual property rights. This was to be done while also addressing environmental and labor concerns (although many observers charge that the three governments have been lax in ensuring environmental and labor safeguards since the agreement went into effect). Small businesses were among those that were expected to benefit the most from the lowering of trade barriers since it would make doing business in Mexico and Canada less expensive and would reduce the red tape needed to import or export goods.\"\u003EThe North American Free Trade Agreement -- NAFTA -- \u003C\/a\u003Ecomes into affect, stimulating trade between the United States and Mexico. Massive increases in border populations occur due to the treaty.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1995\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003EAna Beatriz de Santiago, beauty queen of the U.S.-Mexico Sister Cities International Association, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/1995\/aug\/12\/mexico-beauty-queen-harassed-at-border-agents\/\" hint=\"Ana Beatriz de Santiago, a tall, slender 21-year-old from Ciudad Guzman, Mexico, said the harassment continued even after she showed agents her passport, visa and tiara.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I was very embarrassed. I wanted to come to the United States to finish my title as queen with grace,” Santiago said Friday through an interpreter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I don’t know what to tell my parents. Being pregnant is a shameful thing in my town,” she said, adding that she is a virgin.\"\u003Eis detained\u003C\/a\u003E for two hours by border agents on her way to a convention where she is to turn over her crown to the next queen. A customs agent reportedly lifted her dress and patted her stomach to determine whether she was pregnant. The Sister Cities Association formally complains to U.S. President Bill Clinton.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1996\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003EBill Clinton uses a strict approach to limiting illegal immigration in his re-election campaign in order to sway large electoral states, such as California and Texas. Under his direction, U.S. Border Patrols are bolstered, sensors are installed and 40 miles of 14-foot fence is built to deter the flow of illegal immigrants.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1996\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003EThe Clinton Administration takes credit for decriminalization of the border region, citing its increased funding of border police as major force in stopping crime. According to FBI reports, serious crime was down 30 percent in San Diego, Calif., 5 percent in Nogales, Ariz., 14 percent in El Paso, Texas and 20 percent in Brownsville, Texas.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1996\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Illegal_Immigration_Reform_and_Immigrant_Responsibility_Act_of_1996\" hint=\"The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRAIRA) represents an effort by Congress to strengthen and streamline U.S. immigration laws. The Act was designed to improve border control by imposing criminal penalties for racketeering, alien smuggling and the use or creation of fraudulent immigration-related documents and increasing interior enforcement by agencies charged with monitoring visa applications and visa abusers.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEmployment eligibility verification guidelines are also incorporated into the Act, including sanctions for employers who fail to comply with the regulations and restrictions on unfair immigration-related employment practices, as well as provisions governing the dispersment of governement aid to aliens.\"\u003EIllegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996\u003C\/a\u003E The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, Division C of Pub.L. 104–208, 110 Stat. 3009-546, enacted September 30, 1996 (often referred to as \"i-RAI-ruh,\" and sometimes abbreviated as \"IIRAIRA\" or \"IIRIRA\") vastly changed the immigration laws of the United States.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003EThis act states that immigrants unlawfully present in the United States for 180 days but less than 365 days must remain outside the United States for three years unless they obtain a pardon. If they are in the United States for 365 days or more, they must stay outside the United States for ten years unless they obtain a waiver. If they return to the United States without the pardon, they may not apply for a waiver for a period of ten years.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1997\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_Section_287%28g%29\" hint=\"Delegation of Immigration Authority Section 287(g) Immigration and Nationality Act\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the largest investigative agency in the Department of Homeland Security, is responsible for enforcing federal immigration laws as part of its homeland security mission. ICE works closely with federal, state and local law enforcement partners in this mission. The 287(g) program, one of ICE's top partnership initiatives, allows a state or local law enforcement entity to enter into a partnership with ICE, under a joint Memorandum of Agreement (MOA), in order to receive delegated authority for immigration enforcement within their jurisdictions.\"\u003EImmigration and Nationality Act Section 287(g)\u003C\/a\u003E odified at 8 U.S.C. § 1357(g), was added to the INA by section 133 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (Division C, Title I of the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act of 1997, Pub.L. 104–208, 110 Stat. 3001, enacted September 30, 1996). Section 287(g) authorizes the Federal Government to enter into agreements with state and local law enforcement agencies, permitting designated officers to perform immigration law enforcement functions, pursuant to a memorandum of agreement, provided that the local law enforcement officers receive appropriate training and function under the supervision of sworn U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. Under 287(g), with federal approval and training, ICE provides state and local law enforcement officers with the training and authorization to identify, process, and--when appropriate--detain immigration offenders they encounter during their regular, daily law-enforcement activity.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E1997\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/558943\/US-Mexico-must-cooperate-as-never-before-Clinton-says.html?pg=all\" hint=\" Trying to mend fences south of the border, President Clinton is tackling festering disagreements with Mexico over drugs, immigration and trade. 'We must cooperate as never before,' he declared.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe visit, his first trip to Latin America as president, comes at a low point in U.S.-Mexican relations. A tough new immigration law, an exacting review of Mexican drug-fighting capabilities and U.S. handling of several trade disputes all have angered and embarrassed Mexico.But President Ernesto Zedillo was following Clinton's script, saying the leaders were determined to work out their problems.\"\u003EClinton becomes the first president to visit Mexico since Jimmy Carter in 1979\u003C\/a\u003E. He promises Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo that he will avoid \"mass deportations\" under the U.S. immigration policy.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E1998\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/ALLPOLITICS\/1997\/05\/06\/clinton.mexico\/\" hint=\"Clinton And Zedillo Talk Of Cooperation\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETwo leaders commit their nations to cooperating on illegal drugs and immigration\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E MEXICO CITY (AllPolitics, May 6) -- During a sunny outdoor ceremony following a day of intense talks, President Bill Clinton and Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo announced alliances to fight illegal drugs and increase cooperation on immigration.\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe two leaders signed the 'Declaration of Alliance Against Drugs,' committing both nations to develop a common drug-fighting strategy by the end of the year. The agreement identifies 15 areas for cooperation. \"\u003EBill Clinton signs a declaration with Mexican president Ernesto Zedill\u003C\/a\u003Eo committing their nations for the first time to devise a joint strategy for combating drug trafficking.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E2003\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2012\/jul\/11\/operation-endgame-purge-legal-immigrants\" hint=\"Thanks to the 1996 Immigration Act, which was signed into law by President Bill Clinton, green card holders convicted of even the most minor of crimes can be stripped of their legal status and shipped out of the country. Before 1996, there were only four categories of crime that would have led to the expulsion of a legal permanent resident. The immigration law expanded the number of crimes that could lead to removal to over 50, and so broadly defined their terms that a combination of shoplifting and not returning a library book could be enough to get a person expelled. The law is also retroactive, so people who committed minor crimes decades ago can be subject to deportation. And finally, the law provided for mandatory detention of immigrants undergoing removal proceedings, which ensures the mostly privately run immigrant detention centers are full and turning a profit.\"\u003EOperation \"Endgame\" \u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/cryptogon.com\/docs\/endgame.pdf\" hint=\"U.S. Department of Homeland Security\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u003Cbr \/\u003EForm M-592 (8\/15\/03)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EENDGAME\u003Cbr \/\u003EOffice of Detention and Removal Strategic Plan,\u003Cb \u003Cbr\u003EDetention and Removal Strategy\u003Cbr \/\u003Efor a Secure Homeland\"\u003E[pdf]\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ci\u003E the Clinton administration, minor misdemeanors can get legal immigrants deported. Naturally, it's made a good business.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Since 1996, there have been a couple of other legislative breakthroughs that have helped boost the numbers of immigrants who are sent back where they came from. In 2003, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) took over jurisdiction of immigration law enforcement. A year later, the DHS launched \"Operation Endgame\", a program designed to ensure that all deportable aliens are removed by 2014. In 2005, funding for immigration law enforcement was increased to $10bn, so the getting rid of undesirables plan is in full force and seems to be working out nicely. In 1997, according to the DHS, 51,000 immigrants with criminal convictions were sent home. In 2010, more than 500,000 immigrants were apprehended and 169,000 criminal aliens were deported (pdf). (As a point of interest, it should be noted that the vast majority of these deportees do not have white skin: 83% of the apprehended aliens in 2010 were Mexican or Latin American, and those from African countries make up most of the rest. It's hardly coincidental that the same population is more likely, in general, to be arrested, imprisoned and subjected to racial profiling.)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003C!--  10-Year U.S. Strategic Plan For Detention Camps Revives Proposals From Oliver North \nhttp:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/10-year-u-s-strategic-plan-for-detention-camps-revives-proposals-from-oliver-north\/2045?print=1\nRex 84\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rex_84\nKBR DETENTION CAMPS\nhttp:\/\/www.mail-archive.com\/cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com\/msg05386.html\nHomeland Security Contracts KBR to Build Detention Centers in the US\nhttp:\/\/www.projectcensored.org\/14-homeland-security-contracts-kbr-to-build-detention-centers-in-the-us\/\nHomeland Security Contracts for Vast New Detention Camps\nhttp:\/\/www.hermes-press.com\/detention1.htm --\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E2005\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003EBorder Protection, Antiterrorism and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005 | \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ncsl.org\/research\/immigration\/summary-of-the-sensenbrenner-immigration-bill.aspx\" hint=\"H.R. 4437 would make mandatory an employment eligibility verification system. This system would replace the current verification system, the Basic Pilot, which employers \u003Ci\u003E\u003Cb\u003Emay use voluntarily\u003C\/b\u003E. This bill \u003Ci\u003E\u003Cb\u003Ewould require\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E employers to verify all new hires beginning two years after enactment and all existing employees not previously verified no later than six years after enactment.\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cb\u003E(From voluntary to mandatory)\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\"\u003EH.R. 4437\u003C\/a\u003E AKA \u003Cb\u003E\"The Sensenbrenner Bill\"\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nCo-Sponsors: Representative James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) and Representative Peter King (R-NY)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\nSUMMARY: On Dec. 16, 2005, the Border Protection, Antiterrorism and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005 (H.R. 4437) passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 239 to 182.  This legislation, sponsored by Judiciary Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) and Homeland Security Chairman Peter King(R-NY), seeks to address illegal immigration by strengthening interior enforcement of immigration laws and enacting additional border security measures.  Provisions to establish a guestworker program are not included in this legislation.  This document summarizes key sections of the bill that relate to state and local government.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003EH.R. 4437 was \u003Ci\u003E\u003Cb\u003Ethe straw that broke the camel's back\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E and is recognized as the cathalist for awakening a sleeping giant, which resulted in \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2006_United_States_immigration_reform_protests#Timeline\" hint=\"Timeline of Marches in 40 Cities: March 10 - May 25 \u003Ci\u003E(Incomplete list, as an example, san francisco was not included and had a 100,000 people marching down Market St. To City Hall. If SF was exluded, how many more cities were left out?)\"\u003Emassive protests sustained for 10 weeks across the country\u003C\/a\u003E, with a movilization of more than a million people between March 10, 2006 to May 25, 2006. The largest was held in \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2006\/mar\/26\/local\/me-immig26\" hint=\"A crowd estimated by police at more than 500,000 boisterously marched in Los Angeles on Saturday to protest federal legislation that would crack down on undocumented immigrants, penalize those who help them and build a security wall along the U.S.' southern border.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESpirited but peaceful marchers -- ordinary immigrants alongside labor, religious and civil rights groups -- stretched more than 20 blocks along Spring Street, Broadway and Main Street to City Hall, tooting kazoos, waving American flags and chanting, 'Si se puede!' (Yes we can!).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAttendance at the demonstration far surpassed the number of people who protested against the Vietnam War and Proposition 187, a 1994 state initiative that sought to deny public benefits to undocumented migrants but was struck down by the courts. Police said there were no arrests or injuries except for a few cases of exhaustion.\"\u003ELos Angeles\u003C\/a\u003E where an estimated more than 500,000 people took to the streets. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\n\u003Cdiv id=\"text-6\" class=\"tabbertab\" title=\"2006-2015\"\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E2006\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2006_United_States_immigration_reform_protests#May\" hint=\"In 2006, millions of people participated in protests over a proposed change to U.S. immigration policy. The protests began in response to proposed legislation known as H.R. 4437, which would raise penalties for Illegal immigration and classify undocumented immigrants and anyone who helped them enter or remain in the US as felons. As part of the wider immigration debate, most of the protests not only sought a rejection of this bill, but also a comprehensive reform of the country's immigration laws that included a path to citizenship for all undocumented immigrants.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA major demonstration in Chicago on March 10, 2006 estimated at 100,000 people was the initial impetus for protests throughout the country.[1] The largest single demonstration occurred in Los Angeles on March 25, 2006 with a march of more than 500,000 people through downtown.[2] The largest nationwide day of protest occurred on April 10, 2006, in 102 cities across the country,[3][4] with 350,000–500,000 in Dallas. Most of the protests were peaceful and attracted considerable media attention. Additional protests took place on May Day.\"\u003E'Great American Boycott of MAYDAY 2006' for immigrant rights.\u003C\/a\u003E The national call for a May 1 “Great American Boycott of 2006: No Shopping, No School, No Work” to demand full rights for immigrant workers and their families is gathering momentum. This call, initiated by the March 25th Coalition Against HR4437—a grassroots coalition that grew out of the Los Angeles action that brought hundreds of thousands of immigrant workers into the streets last month—has likened the May action to the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.liberationnews.org\/5-lessons-of-the-2006-immigrant-rights-struggle-that-still-ring-true-today-2\/\" hint=\"On Dec. 16, 2005, the racist, anti-immigrant “Sensenbrenner” bill (the Border Protection, Anti-terrorism and Illegal Immigration Control Act, HR-4437), passed in the House of Representatives. The bill was a real threat to all undocumented people and their families. \u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf the racist bill had become law, approximately 12 million undocumented workers and their families would have been subject to arrest on felony charges, simply for living and working in the United States. The law would have converted immigration violations to felonies rather than civil offenses. This would have been another escalation of the war on immigrants. It also It also provided additional money for work site and border raids.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA huge mass movement arose quickly throughout the United States demanding full rights for undocumented workers. “Amnesty Now!” was the main demand on the streets.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe protests involved millions of people and included marches and rallies in cities across the country. High school and middle school students played a significant role in the organizing, through walkouts, hunger strikes and community organizing. Online organizing spread the people’s message of amnesty, and forced the larger, well-funded immigrant rights groups to listen.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUltimately, the Sensenbrenner bill was defeated. More recently, the movement made significant gains with the Nov. 20, 2014, executive action expanding protection from deportation to 4 to 5 million undocumented residents.\"\u003ELessons of 2006 immigrant rights struggle that ring true today.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOver the last five months, many new young leaders have risen up against police brutality, murder and racism, in the names of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice and many others. The Twitter hashtag #blacklivesmatter has been voted “the word of 2014” by the American Dialect Society.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\nAs new young leaders continue the struggle against state racism and police terror, it can be helpful to reflect on a not-so-distant immigrant rights struggle that took place about nine years ago.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n \u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E2006 - 2007\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n \n \u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2007\/03\/01\/return-to-sender\/\" hint=\"The titles that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) attaches to its operations reveal a great deal about the logic behind current U.S. immigration policy.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmong the most suggestively titled is the ongoing Operation 'Return to Sender,' one of the largest such operations in U.S. history. The program, supposedly designed to target 'fugitive aliens,' has resulted in the indiscriminate round up of over 13,000 undocumented migrants in cities throughout the United States. The cynical name given to this even more cynical operation implies a sender, a receiver — and an object. The object, or rather objects, are migrant workers and their families.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOperation Return to Sender is an instrumentalist policy that ignores the humanity of migrant workers. It refuses to recognize that migrants have hopes and dreams, that they have a legitimate need to eat and think and act. It denies family ties and affective relationships. It also ignores the central role that undocumented workers play in the U.S. economy and the factors that brought them to the country in the first place.\"\u003E\"Operation Return to Sender,\"\u003C\/a\u003E  Is the name for a massive sweep of illegal immigrants by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency that began on May 26, 2006.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003EThe sweeps netted illegal immigrants from 14 countries in all, including Mexico, Honduras, Ukraine, India, Japan, Poland and Trinidad and Tobago.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003EAn ICE press release from June 14, 2006 claims that Operation Return to Sender ended June 13, 2006. However, this is contradicted by numerous citations that the operation is ongoing, including one from the Contra Costa Times newspaper dated March 9, 2007, which quotes ICE as having arrested 13,000 more people from mid-June 2006 through January 2007, and also outlines the ACLU of Northern California's involvement in filing FOIA requests to find out more information about how ICE is conducting this operation.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003ERaids in Marin County, California under \"Return To Sender\" occurred in early March 2007, showing that the operation continues\u003C\/p\u003E. \n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003EOn June 6, 2007 ICE arrested 29 individuals in New Haven, Connecticut as part of Operation Return to Sender and arrested a few days later in nearby North Haven. Some of these individuals had no criminal or immigration history.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E2008 - 2014\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.immigrationpolicy.org\/just-facts\/secure-communities-fact-sheet\" hint=\"What are the concerns about Secure Communities?\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWho does the program target? ICE has stated that it “prioritizes the removal of criminal aliens, those who pose a threat to public safety, repeat immigration violators,” and “the most dangerous and violent offenders.” However, the program has not focused exclusively on convicted criminals, dangerous and violent offenders, or threats to public safety and national security. According to DHS data, in Fiscal Year (FY) 2011, 26% of all Secure Communities deportations were immigrants with Level 1 convictions; 19% of those deported had Level 2 convictions; and 29% were individuals convicted of Level 3 crimes (minor crimes resulting in sentences of less than one year). Twenty-six percent of those deported had immigration violations and no criminal convictions.[i] ICE statistics show that some jurisdictions’ numbers for Level 3 and non-criminal deportations are well above the national average.\u003Cbr \/\u003EObstacles to community policing. Unlike the 287(g) program, Secure Communities does not require an MOA between ICE and the local jail, sheriff, or police department, and local police officers are not directly enforcing federal immigration laws. Nonetheless, there are still concerns about local police being seen as immigration agents. If ICE maintains a presence—even a technological presence—in a local jail, the public will likely associate the local law-enforcement agency with immigration enforcement. Since ICE announced that the program is now mandatory for all jurisdictions, local communities will automatically be included in the data sharing. While this decision may be challenged in court or may be subject to other kinds of limitations, such as local communities declining to receive the information, the link between federal and local enforcement is now definitive.\"\u003EWhat is Secure Communities?\u003C\/a\u003E Officially, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ice.gov\/secure-communities\" hint=\"https:\/\/www.ice.gov\/secure-communities\"\u003E (S-Comm)\u003C\/a\u003E Secure Communities was an immigration enforcement program administered by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from 2008 to 2014.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003EAs of September 27, 2011, Secure Communities was available in 1,595 jurisdictions in 44 states and territories. ICE plans to implement Secure Communities in each of the 3,100 state and local jails across the country by 2013. ICE reported that, as of September 30, 2011, over 11,000,000 fingerprint submissions have resulted in 692,788 database matches. As a result of Secure Communities, ICE had removed more than 142,000 persons.Secure Communities (s-comm) is an American deportation program that relies on partnership among federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the interior immigration enforcement agency within the Department of Homeland Security, is the program manager.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E2014\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.colorlines.com\/articles\/goodbye-secure-communities-hello-priority-enforcement-program\" hint=\"The President asked Secretary Johnson and Attorney General Eric Holder to undertake a rigorous and inclusive review to inform recommendations on reforming our broken immigration system through executive action. This review sought the advice and input from the men and women charged with implementing the policies, as well as the ideas of a broad range of stakeholders and Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle. Our assessment identified the following ten areas where we, within the confines of the law, could take action to increase border security, focus enforcement resources, and ensure accountability in our immigration system.\"\u003EGoodbye, Secure Communities. Hello, Priority Enforcement Program.\u003C\/a\u003E The controversial Secure Communities (s-comm) program is coming to an end under Obama's executive action on immigration. A new program called the Priority Enforcement Program, or PEP-Comm for short, will take its place. But will it be much better?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003EIn his announcement Thursday, and then nearly verbatim in Las Vegas Friday, Obama stressed new targets for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS): \"Felons, not families. Criminals, not children. Gang members, not a mom who's working hard to provide for her kids,\" the president said. \"We'll prioritize, just like law enforcement does every day.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003EThose dichotomies raise concerns for some. \"I was thinking about how certain communities are over-policed à la Ferguson,\" says Angela Chan, policy director and senior staff attorney at the Asian Law Caucus. \"This juxtaposition forgets the reality that some communities are over-policed and over-criminalized.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003ELike PEP, s-comm, its predecessor created a path to deportation. The program--which began in 2008 under George W. Bush and escalated under by Obama--required local jails and prisons to hand over the fingerprints of anyone being processed to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), including people who hadn't yet had their day in court. If ICE deemed the person a threat it would issue them a so-called detainer, a 48-hour hold in a local jail or prison. Although detainers were supposed to last up to two days, many were extended by weeks or months at a time. And although s-comm was created to catch undocumented immigrants, it often swept up U.S. citizens, even those who hadn't been convicted of a crime. Some local agencies and entire states refused to cooperate with s-comm because the detainers weren't warrants issued by a judge. Rather, they were the result of decisions made by a federal agency plagued with problems.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E2014\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003C\/p\u003EThe program was replaced by \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Secure_Communities_and_administrative_immigration_policies\" hint=\"As the courts sort out the legality of President Obama's executive action to grant amnesty and work permits to 5 million illegal aliens, the Obama administration is moving forward on other portions of the president's executive actions announced last November. According to the House Judiciary Committee, the Obama administration has begun implementing its Priority Enforcement Program (PEP) that prohibits U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from targeting most illegal aliens for removal, including most of those who come into contact with state and local police.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnder the new policy, agents can still detain illegal aliens from jails and prisons, but are told to no longer detain individuals charged with drug possession, or theft or fraud if it involved stealing an identity to try to further their unlawful presences in the U.S. \"\u003EPriority Enforcement Program (PEP)\u003C\/a\u003E in July 2015. is a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) program designed to identify immigrants in U.S. jails who are deportable under immigration law. Under Secure Communities, participating jails submit arrestees’ fingerprints not only to criminal databases, but to immigration databases as well, allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) access to information on individuals held in jails. Unlike other ICE-local partnerships, Secure Communities gives ICE a technological, not physical, presence in prisons and jails. Unlike the 287(g) program, no local law-enforcement agents are deputized to enforce immigration laws through Secure Communities.\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/PEPnotafix.html\" hint=\"Detailed s-comm v. PEP Comparataive Analyses\"\u003EWhy ‘PEP’ Doesn’t Fix s-comm’s Failings\u003C\/a\u003E On November 20, 2014, President Obama announced executive actions to change some aspects of our immigration system. One of these announcements, outlined in a memo whose subject is “Secure Communities,” eliminated the widely discredited Secure Communities (s-comm) program and replaced it with the Priority Enforcement Program (PEP).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003EWe continue to learn more details about PEP, but what we already know raises serious concerns that PEP suffers from the same problems that led to s-comm being terminated. Like s-comm, PEP will result in the permanent separation of families through deportation and will threaten public safety by eroding trust between communities and the police.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E2015\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify; 650px;; padding:10px; 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.truthaboutpep.com\/\" hint=\"There is an emerging consensus the United States should end its failed experiment enlisting local sheriffs and police as frontline enforcers of civil immigration law.  And despite a rancid political environment in Washington, DC, a social movement is growing that envisions and demands a US immigration policy with deportations reduced down to zero.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite a wide range of views about the future of immigration reform, there is universal agreement across the political spectrum that transparency must be a cornerstone of effective policy.  Even as the US debates whether and how to modernize its immigration laws to bring them into alignment with constitutional values, there is unanimous support for DHS (Department of Homeland Security) to be more transparent and accountable.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn furtherance of these goals, this website will serve to Uncover the Truth about DHS's Priority Enforcement Program (PEP).  It will be a place to look past slogans and hyperbole, where questions are raised and information is shared.\"\u003EIn the News\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/17\/opinion\/the-great-sanctuary-city-slander.html?_r=0\" hint=\"Lawmakers in Washington and around the country are in an uproar over what they derisively call “sanctuary cities.” \u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Senate is voting Tuesday on a bill from David Vitter of Louisiana to punish these cities by denying them federal law-enforcement funds. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese laws are a false fix for a concocted problem.  They are based on the lie, now infecting the Republican presidential campaign, that all unauthorized immigrants are dangerous criminals who must be subdued by extraordinary means.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey have seized on the tragic death of a woman, Kathryn Steinle, shot in July on a San Francisco pier by an unauthorized Mexican immigrant, to denounce that city’s sanctuary policies and those of other cities. Donald Trump, who began his campaign by slandering Mexico as a nation of drug-toting rapists, used the accused, Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, as exhibit A. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat is clearly false is the claim that he moved to San Francisco to take advantage of its sanctuary policies. He was sent there by federal officials to answer an old, minor drug charge, then released.\"\u003EThe Great Sanctuary City Slander\u003C\/a\u003E (Editorial, New York Times, October 16, 2015)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/la-na-border-profiling-20151015-story.html\" hint=\"An internal email from a Department of Homeland Security lawyer is raising questions about the ongoing use of ethnic profiling by local police against immigrants, despite an Obama administration effort to stop using the justice system to round up low-level suspects for deportation.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETwo Honduran men, waiting for a ride to their construction job, were detained by Louisiana police in May on loitering charges because they looked Latino, according to a Sept. 21 Homeland Security email that was released inadvertently and obtained by the Los Angeles Times.\"\u003EHomeland Security Email Points to Ongoing Racial Profiling by Police\u003C\/a\u003E (LA Times, Joseph Tanfani and Brian Bennett, October 15, 2015)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.montereycountyweekly.com\/blogs\/news_blog\/sheriff-steve-bernal-publicly-addresses-ice-at-the-jail-for\/article_18ac9212-745e-11e5-8d3d-3b5ec465c3d9.html\" hint=\"For the first time since allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to set up shop at the jail, Monterey County Sheriff Steve Bernal publicly shared the details behind his decision with the Monterey County Board of Supervisors.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn Oct. 14, the BOS received a letter from Bernal that said he initiated a pilot program in mid-August, which authorizes immigration agents to work inside the jail to look for individuals who have been flagged as a priority for deportation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe program operates under the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency's Priority Enforcement Program (PEP). The intent, he says, is to 'to prevent the release of inmates who are considered threats to public safety.'\"\u003ESheriff Steve Bernal Publicly Addresses ICE at the Jail for the First Time\u003C\/a\u003E (Monterrey County Weekly, Ana Ceballos, October 19, 2015)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/newamericamedia.org\/2015\/10\/domestic-violence-survivors-urge-san-francisco-to-reject-new-deportation-program.php\" hint=\"SAN FRANCISCO, CA— Maria Hernandez, who came to the United States from Mexico in the early ‘90s, was afraid to report her domestic abuser. But it wasn’t just her abuser’s “control” over her, she says -- she feared involving the police because of her immigration status.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I lived for ten years in a situation of abuse,” she says through a translator. “I saw on TV when women would denounce something that was happening to them or would call the police, they would end up arrested.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHernandez, now an activist with Mujeres Unidas y Activas (United and Active Women), is speaking out against a new federal deportation program known as PEP (the Priority Enforcement Program), in which local law enforcement cooperates with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to deport undocumented immigrants being held in custody. \"\u003EDomestic Violence Survivors Urge San Francisco to Reject New Deportation Program\u003C\/a\u003E (New American Media, October 14, 2015)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.wbaltv.com\/news\/casa-de-maryland-protests-priority-enforcement-program\/34704630\" hint=\"ANNAPOLIS, Md. —Immigration activist organization Casa de Maryland descended on the State House Thursday to protest Gov. Larry Hogan's decision to support the Priority Enforcement Program, which asks local officials to notify the feds about immigrants being released from jail.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E'We are here to send a clear message to the Hogan administration our communities will not stand while the state works voluntarily with immigration and customs to get our people deported,'\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E'They have arrested folks who pose no threat to public safety and those folks have been caught up in a deportation dragnet,' said Gustavo Andrade with Casa de Maryland. 'We have to protest that.' protesters said.\"\u003ECasa de MD Protests Priority Enforcement Program\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5\"\u003E (WBAL-TV, Lisa Robinson, August 13, 2015)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.notonemoredeportation.com\/2015\/08\/29\/icefails\/\" hint=\"This month in the state of Georgia there are two immigrants who could be deported and separated from their families after being charged with nothing else but driving without a license.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccording to this recent TRAC report, detainers issued by ICE in April 2015 included:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E68% of individuals who had never been convicted of a crime;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E81% of people without any felony convictions;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E82% of individuals who had never been deported or ordered deported in the past;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese numbers show that there is a glaring incongruence between the messaging being presented by the White House and high-level DHS officials to the public and the implementation of enforcement practices. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt confirms what immigrants have been seeing in their communities: that ICE continues to raid homes and workplaces, that parents continue to be torn away from their children and that there is still little consequence when ICE doesn’t meet what should be minimum requirements \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\"\u003EImmigration Agency Continues to Fail at Meeting its Own Standards More Blog, Tania Unzueta, August 29, 2015)\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/immigrationimpact.com\/2015\/08\/05\/priority-enforcement-program-launch\/\" hint=\"Among the executive actions on immigration unveiled last November was the announcement that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would end the controversial Secure Communities program and replace it with the new Priority Enforcement Program (PEP). After months of planning, DHS officially launched PEP last month. The agency has begun a full court press on implementation, attempting to enroll states and locals into the program. However as the Washington Post reports, DHS faces significant challenges in bringing local law enforcement agencies and governments into the fold.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPEP began with a memo issued on November 20, 2014 by Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, in which he seemingly acknowledges some of Secure Communities’ shortcomings and recognizes the need to end it. In its place, he announced the launch of PEP, a program that purports to focus efforts on apprehending individuals actually convicted of specified crimes. In theory, this makes it less of a dragnet than the previous program. PEP also reportedly allows locals to design how they will participate.The memo states:\u003Cblockquote\u003E“I am directing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to discontinue Secure Communities. ICE should put in its place a program that will continue to rely on fingerprint-based biometric data submitted during bookings by state and local law enforcement agencies to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for criminal background checks. However, ICE should only seek the transfer of an alien in the custody of state or local law enforcement through the new program when the alien has been convicted of an offense listed in Priority 1 (a), (c), (d), and (e) and Priority 2 (a) and (b) of the November 20, 2014 Policies for the Apprehension, Detention and Removal of Undocumented Immigrants Memorandum, or when, in the judgment of an ICE Field Office Director, the alien otherwise poses a danger to national security. In other words, unless the alien poses a demonstrable risk to national security, enforcement actions through the new program will only be taken against aliens who are convicted of specifically enumerated crimes.\"\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\"\u003EDHS Faces Challenges as it Rolls Out Priority Enforcement Program\u003C\/a\u003E (Immigration Impact, Wendy Feliz, August 5, 2015) \u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.austinmonitor.com\/stories\/2015\/07\/sheriff-candidates-turn-cold-ice\/\" hint=\"City Council is putting pressure on the Travis County Sheriff’s Office to stop reporting undocumented immigrants who are processed at the county jail to immigration authorities.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the body voted Thursday to approve a one-year, $6.58 million interlocal agreement with the county that will allow those detained by city police to continue being processed and housed at the county jail, Council attached a symbolic amendment to the agreement ostensibly aimed at reversing Sheriff Greg Hamilton’s practice of cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to identify undocumented immigrants, some of whom are then deported.\"\u003ESheriff Candidates Turn Cold on ICE\u003C\/a\u003E (Austin Chronicle, Caleb Pritchard, July 28, 2015)\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-protesters-ice-jails-arrested-20150715-story.html\" hint=\"Three people were arrested in Duarte on Wednesday after blocking an intersection in a protest over local police agencies' collaboration with federal immigration officials.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe arrests were made after a heated a community meeting held by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department about a new Immigration and Customs Enforcement program in local jails.\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Sheriff's Department has been seeking public input about how it should cooperate with ICE's new Priority Enforcement Program, which asks jails to notify federal agents when inmates that it believes are in the county illegally are being released.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe issue has gained national attention in recent weeks after the July 1 shooting death of a woman in San Francisco, allegedly by an immigrant in the country illegally. \"\u003EProtesters Opposed to ICE in Los Angeles County Jails Arrested\u003C\/a\u003E (LA Times, Kate Linthicum, July 15, 2015)\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/news\/latinos-desconfian-de-nuevo-programa-de-seguridad\/nmzpq\/?ecmp=statesman_social_facebook_2014_ahorasi_sfp\" hint=\"Con carteles en mano y al ritmo de canciones de protesta, más de 70 personas se reunieron frente a la cárcel del condado de Travis para manifestar su malestar ante el Programa de Prioridad de Aplicación de la Ley (PEP) el martes 7.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDijeron que la iniciativa federal no se enfoca en deportar a criminales peligrosos, sino que es utilizada para capturar sin distinción a inmigrantes indocumentados, la mayoría sin antecedentes penales, y forzar así su expulsión del país, lo que socava aún más la confianza de las comunidades inmigrantes en los agentes de la ley.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESus detractores dicen además que el nuevo programa no es más que Comunidades Seguras (S-Comm) disfrazado, el cual ayudó a deportar al menos a 19 inmigrantes cada semana desde Travis entre 2009 y 2013, según registros oficiales.\"\u003ELatinos desconfían de ‘nuevo’ programa de seguridad\u003C\/a\u003E (Statesman, Marlon Sorto, July 16, 2015)\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ocweekly.com\/navelgazing\/2015\/07\/santa_ana_pepcomm_ociyu_raiz.php\" hint=\"“Hey, hey, ho, ho, PEP-Comm has got to go!”Immigrant organizations kicked off a press conference in SanTana yesterday with chants calling on the city council to denounce a new federal deportation program. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rolled out the “Priority Enforcement Program” (known as “PEP-Comm”) in place of its disgraced “Secure Communities” predecessor last November.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EActivists with Orange County Immigrant Youth United (OCIYU) and RAIZ say there's no significant difference between the two in calling on city leaders to reject the re-branding.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ET“he new PEP program maintains the engine of S-Comm,” OCIYU's Hairo Cortes said in Spanish at the press conference. “Programs like this don't bring security to the community.” Activists argued that PEP still strikes fear into the heart of immigrants just as S-Comm did before DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson announced its end in a memo.\"\u003EImmigrant Activists Give Stern 'PEP' Talk to Santa Ana City Council Over New ICE Program\u003C\/a\u003E (OC Weekly, Gabriel San Roman, July 15, 2015)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-sf-immigrant-advocates-20150714-story.html\" hint=\"\"\u003ES.F. Immigrant Advocates Call for 'Sober' Dialogue in Wake of Killing\u003C\/a\u003E (LA Times, Lee Romney, July 14, 2015)\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.modernluxury.com\/san-francisco\/story\/the-false-framing-of-kathryn-steinles-killing\" hint=\"\"\u003EThe False Framing of Kathryn Steinle's Killing\u003C\/a\u003E (San Francisco Magazine, Joe Eskenazi, July 7, 2015)\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/grassrootsleadership.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/all-they-did-was-change-name-texas-sheriff-exposes-pep-comm-deportation-program\" hint=\"\"\u003E\"All they did was change the name,\" Texas Sheriff Exposes PEP-Comm Deportation Program\u003C\/a\u003E (Grassroots Leadership Blog, Cristina Parker, July 2, 2015)\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/milwaukee\/judge-backs-immigrant-rights-group-in-spat-with-sheriff-david-clarke-b99513109z1-306064321.html\" hint=\"\"\u003EJudge Backs Immigrant Rights Group in Spat with Sheriff David Clarke\u003C\/a\u003E (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Marion Renault, June 3, 2015)\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/milwaukee\/immigrant-rights-group-sheriff-david-clarke-spar-over-records-request-b99495448z1-302843061.html\" hint=\"\"\u003EImmigrant Rights Group, Sheriff David Clarke Spar Over Records Request\u003C\/a\u003E (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Bruce Vielmetti, May 6, 2015)\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/letterstotheeditorblog.dallasnews.com\/2015\/05\/sheriff-dont-work-with-ice.html\/\" hint=\"\"\u003ESheriff, Don't Work With ICE\u003C\/a\u003E (Dallas News, Letter to the Editor, May 25, 2015)\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/headlines\/20150520-dallas-meeting-with-ice-chief-sheriff-erupts-in-anti-deportation-chants.ece\" hint=\"\"\u003EDallas Meeting with ICE Chief, Sheriff Erupts in Anti-Deportation Chants\u003C\/a\u003E (Dallas News, Dianne Solis, May 20, 2015) \u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/bs-md-immigrants-detainers-20150511-story.html#page=1\" hint=\"\"\u003EWhite House Seeking Support for Deportations\u003C\/a\u003E (Baltimore Sun, Joseph Tanfani, Kate Linthicum, and Ian Duncan, May 11, 2015) \u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.districtsentinel.com\/i-c-e-director-clarification-rings-hollow-to-group-stonewalled-in-bid-for-info-on-new-deportation-policy\/\" hint=\"\"\u003EICE Director Clarification Rings Hollow to Group Stonewalled in Bid for Info on New Deportation Policy\u003C\/a\u003E (District Sentinel, Sam Knight, March 23, 2015)\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/03\/19\/immigration-detainers_n_6904240.html\" hint=\"\"\u003EImmigration Official Walks Back Support for Mandating that Police Hold Immigrants\u003C\/a\u003E (Huffington Post, Elise Foley, March 19, 2015)\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.noticiasmundofox.com\/videos\/jornaleros-de-nueva-york-piden-transparencia-al-departamento-de-seguridad-interna-por\" hint=\"\"\u003ENew York Day Laborers Ask Department of Homeland Security for Transparency in New Deportation Program\u003C\/a\u003E (Noticias Mundo Fox, March 17, 2015)\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/newamericamedia.org\/2015\/03\/immigrant-rights-groups-serve-foia-request-to-uncover-truth-about-ices-discontinuation-of-secure-com.php\" hint=\"\"\u003EImmigrant Rights Groups Serve FOIA Request to Uncover Truth About ICE's \"Discontinuation\" of Secure Communities\u003C\/a\u003E (New American Media, March 6, 2015)\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.holaciudad.com\/inmigrantes-piden-transparencia-nuevo-programa-deportacion-n557640#\" hint=\"\"\u003EImmigrants Ask for Transparency in New Deportation Program\u003C\/a\u003E (Hola Ciudad, March 3, 2015) \u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/newamericamedia.org\/2014\/11\/pep-comm-a-wolf-in-sheeps-clothing.php\" hint=\"\"\u003EPEP-Comm: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing?\u003C\/a\u003E (New America Media, Reshma Shamasunder, Nov 25, 2014)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/colorlines.com\/archives\/2014\/11\/goodbye_secure_communities_hello_priority_enforcement_program.html\" hint=\"\"\u003EGoodbye, Secure Communities. 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Even by the loosest standards to measure human behavior, theirs, on December 12,  2011, is beyond the pale.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003ETo wit: On November 15, 2011, Señorita Clementina  Garcia Landgrave, personally hand-delivered a letter to the Office of the  Archdiocese requesting them to open the Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, (Located  on 908 Broadway St. San Francisco in the Russian Hill District) So members of  our Community could honor Our Lady on her day by serenading her with the  traditional Mexican Mañanitas, following a primarily Mexican San Francisco  tradition that started 87 years ago (December 12, 1924). It followed a 480 year  old tradition of honoring her that started in the Great Tenochtitlan, now Mexico  City, at El Tepeyac, where our Mexican-Native-American Ancestors had been  honoring her for far longer than that, to even before the genocidal european  invasion.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003EA staff person took the letter from Srta.  Clementina, dated and signed its receipt.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003ELast Dec. 12, Monday, we did arrive at the Church  and found its doors closed and locked.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003EWe can not think of anywhere in the world where  there is a temple dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe that has been closed on a  December 12, even without asking; in our culture and traditions, it is a given.  And it happened in San Francisco California.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003EIn our hearts, albeit laden with sadness, it didn't  make a difference in fulfilling our commitment to our devotion, we knew we'd be  there, rain or shine, open or closed doors, we wanted to do what our ancestors  have been doing for so long; and we did.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EFor The Record:\u003C\/b\u003E I learned\u0026nbsp;on  Tue. Dec. 13, 2011, from an reliable source, that a letter from the Archdiocese  dated Nov. 30, 2011 was received on Fri. Dec. 9. The envelope's Postmark is Dec.  7, 2011. In it, according to my source, it names our church and Dec. 12, but no  answer to the petition of \u003Ci\u003E'if they would please open the doors of the SF  Church of Our Lady of Guadalup so we could honor her as is has been  traditionally done in that church and on that Day'\u003C\/i\u003E.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003EInstead it says that \u003Ci\u003E'devotion to Our Lady of  Guadalupe is a most precious treasure of Hispanic Catholic Spirituality\".\u003C\/i\u003E  It suggests not to be devoted to any particular \u003Ci\u003E'building'\u003C\/i\u003E, like this  one \u003Ci\u003E'that once served as a place of worship'\u003C\/i\u003E, pointed to the pilgrimage  from South San Francisco to the San Francisco Cathedral (Aprox. 10mi.) Held on  the Saturday closest to December 12 and urging us to go to other parishes which  also have the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003EThere are several factors at play worth considering  for the purpose of a closer understanding of past incidents that culminated in  the event of Dec. 12, 2011.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003EThe Church was built in 1875 with the money of  Mexicans who were then living in that area - around a street aptly named Street  of The Mexicans - and their allies, mainly from Spain and Portugal to receive  Ministry in Spanish. It was burned to the ground in the fire of the 1906 San  Francisco earthquake. The framed image of our Lady survived the fire because a  young Mexican couple rescued and buried it in the ground, thus preserving it for  the temple that was rebuilt in 1912. It is probably the first church in SF built  with reinforced concrete.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003ECiting decline of churchgoers mainly due to  changing demographics and over the pleadings and objections of the parishioners,  it was closed in 1991 alongside 3 other parishes in the first round of church  closings in the San Francisco Archdiocese. Upon learning that the Archdiocese  was going to sell Our Lady of Guadalupe Church and that it may even be  demolished (High price value land), members of the Latino Community mobilized to  stop the sale and possible demolition. The two year struggle that ensued ended  in 1994 when they saw the result of their efforts in petitioning and lobbying  the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and The Historic Preservation Commission,  when the church was designated San Francisco Historical Landmark # 204. Under  this status the sale was stopped and non-parish uses for it were considered.  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003EThe Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989 caused slight  damage to the building that housed the St. Mary's Chinese School, hence the  children had to be relocated until retrofitting upgrades and repairs to the  building were made, the church of Our Lady fit the bill, albeit cramped, it  could provide temporary shelter for them, the parishioners were told, their  requests that the church be returned to the community were put aside because it  was for the children's need. Fittingly, it was Our Lady of Guadalupe Church that  was going to provide refuge for them. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003ENo soon after a three year term for housing the  school was agreed on, word came down from the Archdiocese that it was going to  be for five years, members of our community protested the unilateral change of  terms to no avail. Church Officials estimated that the retrofitting costs to the  old building were prohibitive, a decision was made to sell the old building and  with its sale proceeds buy an empty lot and build a brand new school building.  It turned out to be sixteen and one half years that the school was housed at Our  Lady's Church. The St. Mary's Chinese School brand new approx. $27 million total  cost, 4 1\/2-story building was ready to be occupied in June 2011.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003EPrior to this, over the past few years through  \u003Ci\u003E'friendly' \u003C\/i\u003Echannels in the Archdiocese, word was coming that the  Archdiocese planned to sell the church as soon as it was vacant again. Attempts  to have the Archdiocese inform us of its plans for the church, or to acknowledge  that members of our community wanted to have the church for our community. Or to  have an opportunity to talk or negotiate were futile. Back in the 90s, our  community's representatives made a serious offer for the church to the  Archdiocese. Nothing came out of it. In early 2011, we were still trying to get  a meeting with legal representatives of the Archdiocese to discuss the final  disposition of the church, or at least to let us know their plans for it.  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003EIn a letter dated June 3, 2011, from F.A.N.S. de  Guadalupe and the Latino Heritage and Landmark Preservation Foundation, in  reference to a January 31, 2011 letter\u0026nbsp;where a meeting to discuss the sale  of the church was requested. On February 28, 2011, a letter from Monsignor  Tarantino, Vicar for Administration\/Moderator of the Curia, was received  granting a meeting with him and father Mois\u0026amp;eacute;s Agudo, archdiocesan  vicar for Spanish-speaking, to be held on March 11, 2011. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003EDuring this process and also early this year, we  discovered an online listing for the sale of Our Lady of Guadalupe, referred to  as St. Mary's Chinese School (A former catholic parish) For $3.5 million, listed  on 11\/19\/2010\u0026nbsp; and Set Off-Market on 3\/18\/2011. But for whatever reason, on  the meetting of March 11, 2011, when queried about the listing\u0026nbsp; and why we  were not being told by the Archdiocese about it, a factually incorrect statement  was made, \u003Ci\u003E\"That\u0026nbsp; the church was Off-Market\"\u003C\/i\u003E, that statemente was  made a week before it went Off-Market. Our representatives let it go at that. It  was not until 05\/03\/2011 in a letter from Reverend Monsignor James T. Tarantino  who told us what they were not going to do \u003Ci\u003E\"There are no plans now or in the  future to reopen the church building as a parish or for any other religious  purposes\",\u003C\/i\u003E to \u003Ci\u003E\"Strongly encourage\"\u003C\/i\u003E Us and \u003Ci\u003E\"Solicit our  help\"\u003C\/i\u003E To support an Icon of the Italian-American Community, The Shrine of  St. Francis, and pointing out the \u003Ci\u003E\"Numerous other parishes named after our  Blessed Mother that our Mexican-Latin-American communities should attend\",\u003C\/i\u003E  but no answer to the question of whether or not, the Archdiocese of San  Francisco Corporation Sole, still considers the sale of this church a viable  option.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the long requested meeting with legal representatives  of the Archdiocese was finally held on March 11, 2011, it was suddenly cut  short, but not before our representatives were told again to attend other  parishes, that Our Lady of Guadalupe was \u003Ci\u003E'just another  church'\u003C\/i\u003E.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003EThe last speaks volumes to our having failed to  convey to the Archdiocese that for our community, or maybe it does show the  stark reality of an uncaring and complete intransigent Corporation  which\u0026nbsp;refuses to admit\u0026nbsp;that Our Lady of Guadalupe Sanctuary is not  \u003Ci\u003E'just another church'\u003C\/i\u003E, or just \u003Ci\u003E'another building'\u003C\/i\u003E; for us it  is infinitely more than that. Our position is that it was built and was paid  twice by our community. Therefore, it belongs to our community. We have been  asking that negotiations toward reaching an agreement do take place. No yes or  no, only ignoring us first and then evading the question.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003EFurthermore, these discussions must include the  matters of prior understandings regarding the final disposition of the church  and its condition before it is returned to our community. We also need to talk  about the Crown for Our Lady, made by Mexicans, many women donated even their  wedding rings to be melted down to make the Crown. It does not belong to the  Archdiocese, but they took it and its whereabouts are unknown to us. The  Archdiocese also has the church history's archives, our access to them was one  extraordinary and extremely restrictive exception to date. There is much  historical and cultural information that our community is being denied access  to. Our Lady of Guadalupe Church is the only remaining structure in San  Francisco built by Mexicans. It reminds us that Mexicans once lived in San  Francisco in that era and before. There is not much on it anywhere else. We  share that distinction with the Native Americans living here before us. Except  by the scant Wikipedia entry full of omissions, it is like if Mexicans all of a  sudden 'appeared' in the Mission Distrit. Other than that, any search about  \"Mexicans in San Francisco\" Will yield results about taquerias, tacos and  burritos and not much else.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003EIn a letter dated June 28, 2011 and signed by \"Most  Reverend George Niederauer Archbishop of San Francisco\" (Cc: His Holiness, Pope  Benedict XVI. Cc: Archbishop Pietro Sambi. Cc: Monsignor Tarantino) where he  informs us that: \u003Ci\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\"-- It is now the intent of the Archdiocese of San  Francisco to sell the property and use the proceeds to complete the final phase  of St. Mary's Chinese School. --\"\u003C\/b\u003E,\u003C\/i\u003E He goes on to cite  Archdiocese's statistics of Hispanic Ministries (Not Latino? These are not  interchangeable by definition or by culture.), he continues by noting,  \u003Ci\u003E\"those are merely highlights of Hispanic Ministry in this Archdiocese. As  your shepherd I urge you to become involved in this fine and effective  ministerial outreach, and to conclude your efforts to re-open a church that has  been closed for twenty years and is located in a neighborhood where virtually no  Hispanics live and worship\".\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003EPerhaps our good Archbishop, being from Los Angeles  and not using it, has not heard about the excellent San Francisco Public  Transportation System, in addition to other modes of transportation, including  our feet; because in San Francisco's 7 X 7 miles area, it seems that when it  comes to districts situated on the side of the Bay, many areas are within  'walking distance' from each other. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003EJust for reference: \u003Cbr \/\u003E- Off BART at the  Embarcadero station: Muni Lines #10 and #12, Travel time: about 16 mins, Cost:  $2.00 - one bus every 15 mins during able hours.\u003Cbr \/\u003E- San Francisco Caltrain  Station, route from San Jose through the Peninsula -- Muni line #10, Travel  time: about 22 mins, Cost: $2.00 -- Muni Line #30, Travel time: about 27 mins,  Cost: $2.00 (Since this line cuts through the Financial District (Kearney)and  the heart of the highly populated Chinatown neighborhood, there seems to be one  Muni bus #30 coming down the street every time you look).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003EAfter that letter arrived and on one occasion,  Srta. Clementina sarcastically quipped \u003Ci\u003E'the Chinese Community's School was  housed in Our Church for sixteen and one half years, they have a brand new  building, the Archdiocese wants to sell the church to finish paying off for  their school and the Latino community gets less than a one hour meeting where  mostly we were told to forget about it all?\u003C\/i\u003E And that our request for a  follow-up meeting was answered over the phone with a...(?) \u003Ci\u003E\"You are not  entitled to a meeting\". 'It hardly seems fair',\u003C\/i\u003E she lamented. Stating again  that\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003E'Our community was the one who built that church and has been  telling them that it belongs to our people. That we want to return\u0026nbsp; it to  them'\u003C\/i\u003E. No response to even exploring for a mutually beneficial solution and  agreenment to settle the matter.'\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003EThere is one fact of which the Archdiocese of San Francisco must be  completely clear, we are not going away, even if our church is sold, the  buyer(s) will inherit us. One must hope that, for a change, the SF Archdioces is  honest enough to inform any prospective buyer of that fact. We will continue to  fight, we will challenge any sale. We will inform any buyer that they entered  into a deal over a property which has been for twenty years, and still is, in  active dispute. That they entered into a deal with the SF Archdioces for a  property that doesn't belong to the San Francisco Archdiocese Corporation Sole.  That in reality is 'legal theft' of Mexican people's sweat and tears that is  being carried out by acts of absolute abuse of Eclesiastical Power.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003EAfter all those years of dealing and struggling  with the San Francisco Archdiocese, we knew how heartless, abusive\u0026nbsp;and cold  The Corporation is, but to not open Our Lady of Guadalupe Church on December 12?  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003ESurprisingly, we were actually shocked to witness  that they can also be asinine and vindictive. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003EThe fight to save Our Lady of Guadalupe Church  since its closing has lasted around twenty years and has spanned the times of  three San Francisco Archbishops: John R. Quinn, William Levada and now, George  H. Niederauer, with each one of them being at their respective times, \"The San  Francisco Archdiocese Corporation Sole\".\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003EAn appropriate definition or characterization of  their actions in regards to the Catholics in the San Francisco Bay Area who are  petitioning them to return Our Lady of Guadalupe Church to our community and  specially the ones who were bringing the traditional Mexican Mañanitas to Our  Lady on Dec. 12 2011, escapes us. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003EBut upon reviewing the history of \"The Longest  Standing Struggle in The U.S.A\" That has been waged by catholic parishioners. It  is being waged in the Archdiocese of San Francisco against their Catholic  clerical Hierarchy. There exists a famous question made by the army's chief  legal representative, Joseph Nye Welch. On June 9, 1954 during the Army-McCarthy  hearings, made on the 30th day of the hearings which I feel it is most  appropriate for the de facto ultimately responsible 'legal person', The San  Francisco Archdiocese Corporation Sole, aka The Archbishop of the Archdiocese of  San Francisco:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\"...You've done enough. Have you no  sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of  decency?\"\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003EAurora Grajeda\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003EAdministration, communications and outreach  volunteer\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003EAd Hoc Committee To Save and Preserve Our Lady of  Guadalupe Church in San Francisco\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003E(415) 368-8406\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003ERelated documents @ \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/cihuamexica\/\"\u003Escribd.com\/cihuamexica\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small; font-style: italic;\"\u003EFor anyone interested in expresing an  opinion on these issues to the San Francisco Archbishop, George H. Niederauer,  call (415) 614-5589, fax 415-614-5522,\u0026nbsp;or email \u003Ca href=\"mailto:info@sfarchdiocese.org\"\u003Einfo@sfarchdiocese.org\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;-- We hope  the calls and emails keep coming.; He needs to hear from members in our  communities.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small; font-style: italic;\"\u003E\"Charity is commendable, everyone should    be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if    individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don't go hungry,    unschooled or sick without care. Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim    and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.    Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table; faith-based justice offers    a place at the table.\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small; font-weight: bold;\"\u003E-- Bill    Moyers\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/\"\u003EEl Rinconcito de  Aurora\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/\"\u003EEl Rinconcito  de Aurora\u003C\/a\u003E [@ Blogger]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/graphics\/stophate3.gif\" \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/hladc-sf.blogspot.com\/\"\u003EHispanic \/ Latino Anti-Defamation Coalition  SF\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Chr style=\"margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;\" \/\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E* Se\u0026amp;ntilde;orita Clementina Garcia  Landgrave\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003EShe has been there since the beginning of the  struggle. It was not her intention to be so involved, but 'it happened', she  found herself in it ever since. She has been heading the group F.A.N.S. de  Guadalupe (Feligreses y Amigos de la Iglesia de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe).  She has no title, expects no thanks or recognition. But I think it is important  for people to know about her inspiring story. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003EShe thinks of herself as 'only a messenger' and one  of the few survivors left of a dying generation of people committed to saving  our church, hence she is also a historian for those periods. \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/hechoencalifornia1010.com\/\"\u003EDr. Marcos Guti\u0026amp;eacute;rrez\u003C\/a\u003E  calls her \u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003E'The Guardian at the Gate\",\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E she keeps  updating and reminding us on everything RE Our Church. She coordinates the  group's activities and tasks, including handling communications, mailings  outreach, public relations and when needed and when \u003Ci\u003E\"allowed\"\u003C\/i\u003E by our  local media stations, a reluctant spokesperson in the Spanish format media.  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003EShe is eighty years old, Mexican-born, emigrated to  the United States of America 50 years ago. Has done her share of hard work in  providing services in Spanish and a myriad of duties in Banking Institutions.  While she confides that her gait is not \u003Ci\u003E'as brisk as it used to be',\u003C\/i\u003E  still insists in being at the forefront of the group's activities, like the  event we held on Dec. 12, and as was her attending Tuesday's (Dec. 13) Annual  meeting of the parishioners of St. Brigid, a slightly younger sister struggle to  save their own church too. She went to meet old friends and allies in the  efforts. They are among the people that Julian Guthrie, who was present at the  meeting, wrote in her book we suggest to read, and who knows? Maybe to remember  the ones now departed. Her commitment is \u003Ci\u003E\"until the church is returned to  our community or until her death, whichever comes first\".\u003C\/i\u003E As with most all  seniors, she has serious health problems and her biggest fear is to just drop  dead one day and not fulfilling her mission to save the church. Her hope\/dream  is to one day go back to Mexico City to spend the rest of her life with her only  family left; her sister and her descendants. New generations, many yet to meet  and know. She hopes that when she goes to her final resting place, it is with  the knowledge that \u003Ci\u003E\"the church of Our Lady of San Francisco is finally safe  from the Archdiocese and is in the hands of a responsible Latin-American  Community, its friends and allies to maintain and preserve for many generations  to come\".\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E** Suggested reading\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/articles.sfgate.com\/2011-08-19\/entertainment\/29903937_1_joe-dignan-catechism-class-church-organ\"\u003E\"The  Grace of Everyday Saints\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E By Junian Guthrie.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003EJulian tells the story of parishioners of \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.st-brigid.org\/index12.htm\"\u003ESt. Brigid's \u003C\/a\u003Echurch, banded  together in a struggle to save their church after it was closed in 1993. And  what they found, specially within themselves and about the San Francisco  Archdiocese and how they 'play'.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003ESan Francisco Chronicle\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/articles.sfgate.com\/2011-08-19\/entertainment\/29903937_1_joe-dignan-catechism-class-church-organ\"\u003E'Grace  of Everyday Saints'\u003C\/a\u003E: Joe Dignan\u003Cbr \/\u003EBOOKS\u003Cbr \/\u003EAugust 19, 2011\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot;; font-size: small;\"\u003EJulian Guthrie, a reporter with The Chronicle,  wrote a series of stories in 2007 called \"The Lost Parish,\" about the struggle  of parishioners to save their historic church, St. Brigid, and unravel the  mystery of why it was closed. Her new book, \"The Grace of Everyday Saints\"  (Houghton Mifflin), from which the following excerpt is taken, looks at the  lives of a misfit band of believers, the unfolding clergy-abuse scandal and the  ultimate power of their faith. 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But then the Boss released a new album and was embarking on his 2007-2008 Magic Tour, and his reps called to renege on the deal. \u003Cspan style=\"color:yellow;\" hint=\"They did, didn't they?\"\u003EThey said\u003C\/span\u003E if Bruce played in Broadcast Blues, he would risk pissing off Clear Channel. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vTmnEfe8lgo\" width=\"459\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5962742191042031500\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2015\/11\/the-broadcast-blues-theme-song-who-is.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/5962742191042031500"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/5962742191042031500"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2015\/11\/the-broadcast-blues-theme-song-who-is.html","title":"The Broadcast Blues Theme Song. 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\"...and these are the kind of decisions that will keep me up at night\" ~ Barack Hussein Obama \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/erda.php\/donald-trump-needs-an-encounter#more158\"\u003EDonald Trump needs an Encounter with Reality; Operation Wetback.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"related","href":"http:\/\/www.elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/erda.php\/donald-trump-needs-an-encounter#more158","title":"Donald Trump needs an Encounter with Reality; 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Update 1x"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWhile referring to the -- not really 'organized' in the whole Organization --  Anonymous Collective\/Family, as it's members refer to it, in general, I'm including people who wear masks and claim to be members of it and other people who embrace it and give voice to the Collective's messages or causes.\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nLast night I saw the video published on May 4, 2013 and titled \"A Message to Anonymous\" (Below) It echoed what I've experienced personally after having been subjected to very nasty bullying by people wearing Anonymous masks and their unmasked allies just for being a member of the #UniteBlue Community, which at the creation of an Advisory Board, one of it's members was an individual who had pleaded guilty to sex crimes and currently is awaiting sentencing.\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAfter this fact became known to the #UniteBlue Advisory Board, the individual in question either resigned or was dismissed from the Board and is no longer a member of the UB Community.\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mCEv_mEO8wA\" width=\"560\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThis fact didn't stop the people that the video refers to, from vigorously and viciously harass, bully, label as pedo supporters, actually accusing people of being a pedo themselves, threatening with, and actually doxing and swatting Unite Blue members, or people who didn't join in chorus of their cause\/crusade\/jihad against pedophiles (Pedos), or even worse yet, anyone who denounced these intimidating tactics as unacceptable; in a civilized society, these merit not less than an stern condemnation for being despicable and cowardly -- This drama has been going on unabated for the better part of two months, or more.\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nConvoluted as they are, hence so difficult to understand, are their motives or objectives; as best as I can ascertain from my personal experience and own research on the matter, these range from \"Wanting the 'pedo' off twitter\", which I believe it's a matter that should be taken with the entity that has the power to permanently suspend anyone violating it's rules =\u0026gt; Twitter, and not with regular people, as they have been so mercilessly doing.\nhttps:\/\/support.twitter.com\/articles\/18311-the-twitter-rules#\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nOne component in this dirty campaign, which could be comical if it weren't so pervasive, is this psychotic type of phobia against UniteBlue members who are likened to cultist followers\/pedo supporters -- and anything to do with UB Twibbons -- controlled by a master-mind coding expert who, on behalf of the GOP, is out to \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.drumsnwhistles.com\/2013\/02\/25\/uniteblue-one-hashtag-to-rule-them-all\/\"\u003E'control' it's members via #Hashtags \u003C\/a\u003E and some kind of indoctrination, maybe brainwashing; I kid you not, it's a one cracked-nut conspiracy theory after another, forwarded by a clique of elite 'Twitter personalities' who have a dismal history of previous smear campaigns against perceived enemies, and even with their own members if one of them dares to speak up when they refuse to let themselves be abused; these targets were mostly women,\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nand then... Wham! The whole clique's apparatchik-like operation goes into action against the offender or a perceived enemy, or a perceived threat to their turf, as in the case of UniteBlue; seen as a possible competitor in twitter followers and another leading voice in Liberal\/Progressive political campaigns.\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nTheir operational structure is relatively simple, once an individual is targeted, attacks on his\/her honesty, credibility, integrity, etc., begin. These are followed with posts by clique's members in various sites which in turn are tweeted and re-tweeted relentlessly by members of the clique and their followers, who in all fairness must be said, the latter in most cases ignore the real intentions behind the campaign but that do believe the propaganda that the former gives as the reason for the attacks. (Smear campaign).\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nOne of the clique's most useful tools appears to be an obscure and very secretive online 'news' entity. Literally nothing is known of it's background, though, rumor has it is of Canadian origin, other than that rumor, nothing. Not where it is based, who owns it, the editor\/s, etc., and yet, it has been very effective being the spearhead of the clique's actions and frequently cited as the source (via) of the information which in turn, belittling any 'down to earth' logic, it is believed by many people as factual, hence, it's warnings on UniteBlue's GOP conspiracies, the danger of being in dreaded lists, the unimaginable danger of adding a UB twibbon to their profiles, have led people to, in wholesale mode, unfollow UB members and to echo the anti #UniteBlue fear mongering of which many appear to have succumbed to it themselves.\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nOnce the criminal record of the individual who was briefly a member of the UniteBlue Advisory Board become known, the clique enrolled or recruited the aid of what appeared to be members of the Anonymous Collective\/Family, who dove with gusto into what was the focus of one of their campaigns, hunting pedophiles (Pedos), but it was done with such reckless and irresponsible disregard of people's opinions, freedoms or political affiliations, with actions reminiscent of the infamous vigilante executions and lynchings of times past, where the guilt or the innocence of the targets became a secondary consideration as long as they 'got' the target, kind of like in 'let God sort them out'.\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAs of this moment and due to the anonymous nature of Anonymous, it is not possible to assert who is really a member of the Collective and who is not, but I'm of the opinion that the Anonymous Movement has the best interest of the people's freedoms foremost in their actions, and that anyone who claims to be a part of the Anonymous Collective\/Family and that yet, engages in divisive actions and actually hurts people, and\/or their legitimate causes, or that puts their families or friends at grave risks, does not represent what I understand to be the core values of the Anonymous Movement.\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nI do not support or oppose Anonymous per se, for instance: if the Collective does an expose of a dastardly action\/s by a governmental or corporate entity that the mainstream media fails to report or covers up, I'm in favor of it, as it was when I become aware of the call for an online blackout to protest CISPA, I tweeted and shared the call for action. By the same token, what the apparent members of the collective have been doing in collaboration with the above mentioned clique in Twitter, I've been not only been opposed to it, but \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/azmoderate.com\/2013\/04\/16\/when-is-cyber-bullying-useful\/comment-page-1\/#comment-821\"\u003EI made a stand\u003C\/a\u003E and engaged in an spirited push back.\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAfter seeing the video 'A message to Anonymous', I wholeheartedly agreed with the message, as it should be obvious for anyone who read this long Diary, I wanted to share it with others, but as I soon realized, I was reluctant to do it, I had to ask myself the question of if I felt intimidated into not doing something that may displease the Anonymous Collective\/Family.\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nLets just say in answer to the question I posed to myself, I have a healthy respect for the Anonymous Collective\/Family, but albeit the prospect of rubbing the Anonymous Collective\/Family the wrong way is intimidating, I wasn't intimidated enough into cowing in fear; therefore silenced, hence, I shared it in the morning, both in Twitter and Facebook and I'm sharing it in this Diary.\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nBut, how about other people? Will they be intimidated to the point of keeping silent? Also, is it not the aims of the Anonymous Collective to safeguard the freedoms of the people such as freedom of expression, opinion and to congregate\/associate without fear of becoming targets of vicious smear campaigns or other kinds of persecutions?\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThat's the bottom line.\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAurora Grajeda\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cihuamexica\"\u003E@CihuaMexica\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nFootnote:\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nFor anyone who wonders and may feel inclined to ask why I do not offer 'evidence' to backup what I'm saying; it is because the purpose of this post\/Diary is not to indict anyone, it is just a colloquial narrative intended as a preface to other Diaries where evidence in support of, and to attest to my veracity, will be posted in the near future.\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EUPDATE 1x\u003C\/b\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nSince in one comment with this provocative subject \u003Cb\u003E\"Troll Alert: Going on for MONTHS \u0026amp; not a\"\u003C\/b\u003E, I was asked to \u003Ci\u003E\"Pls provide meaningful evidence or withdraw diary.\"\u003C\/i\u003E  a Kossack, notwithstanding that I did state the purpose and intent of this Diary in the Footnote (Immediately above), I felt that to put a stop to such comments, I'd include at the foot some screenshots which backup some of my claims, so people like the commenter, who is doubtless aligned to the forces I'm denouncing in the diary, I know because he gave himself away in the comment itself.\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"dkimg-c\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cimg alt=\"The women that OpTrollBill3 is talking about, are on their fifties and sixties, I'm one of them, I'm 66 yrs old. The reason we became targets is because we made a stand against being called pedo supporters, defenders, or being pedos, which many UB members were called that just because we are UniteBlue members who refused to take the abuse and spoke up. Some of us pushed back against their ignominy and will continue to do so because such despicable conduct should not be tolerated or encouraged by being silent\" src=\"http:\/\/i854.photobucket.com\/albums\/ab103\/Tranny\/Anonymous%20vs%20UniteBlue%20Community%20Members\/041313-optrollbill3MaybeIshouldcallsocialservices_zps83210a4f.jpg\" height=\"XXX\" title=\"The women that OpTrollBill3 is talking about, are on their fifties and sixties, I'm one of them, I'm 66 yrs old. The reason we became targets is because we made a stand against being called pedo supporters, defenders, or being pedos, which many UB members were called that just because we are UniteBlue members who refused to take the abuse and spoke up. Some of us pushed back against their ignominy and will continue to do so because such despicable conduct should not be tolerated or encouraged by being silent\" width=\"YYY\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"dkimg-cap\"\u003E\nAnon OpTrollBill3 doing her\/his 'thing' - (For some info mouseover the pic)- This Anon has at least 4 Twitter accounts whence he launches his attacks; OpTrollBill, OpTrollBill2 and OpTrollBill4. And mind you, this is only one of many Anons engaged in these activities, some of them wear masks, some don't. Some of them have some variations of Anon in their Twitter handles or in names, and some don't; but all have one thing in common, they proclaim being part of the Anonymous Collective which they also refer to, as the Anonymous Family. -- I direct your attention to OpTrollBill3's mocking reference to maybe 'call social services', for those who ignore it, it refers to something very seriously dangerous, it's Anon code for 'Swatting', which means a false 911 call to a governmental entity, such as the police swat team to their target's place of residence. In this case, social services because some of the women he references, live in a senior community. Here is an instance of such a call against an \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20130315\/11504322340\/security-reporter-raided-swat-team-after-someone-put-bogus-911-call.shtml\"\u003Eonline security reporter\u003C\/a\u003E. This is 'Swatting'\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"dkimg-c\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cimg alt=\"The resistance he is talking about is anybody's guess but her\/him-self and maybe her\/his confederates, as best I can discern, the problem is that we are not doing the same thing they are doing, which is scaring people off being UniteBlue members or they'll be labeled pedo supporters. Something like that, if it sounds really crazy, it's because it is pure, unadulterated cacomanic nuttery\" src=\"http:\/\/i854.photobucket.com\/albums\/ab103\/Tranny\/Anonymous%20vs%20UniteBlue%20Community%20Members\/041313-optrollbill3-libertarian-ButbecauseImalibertariantheysayIamtryingtodestroyUniteBlue_zps4720fa88.jpg\" height=\"XXX\" title=\"The resistance he is talking about is anybody's guess but her\/him-self and maybe her\/his confederates, as best I can discern, the problem is that we are not doing the same thing they are doing, which is scaring people off being UniteBlue members or they'll be labeled pedo supporters. Something like that, if it sounds really crazy, it's because it is pure, unadulterated cacomanic nuttery\" width=\"YYY\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"dkimg-cap\"\u003E\nAnon OpTrollBill3 wants Bill Off twitter. At least that's what he say, also he 'floats' a disclaimer that he is not out to destroy UniteBlue. (Mouseover for more info)\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nOf course you are not trying to destroy UniteBlue Ms.\/Mr. OpTrollBill3, what gave you the idea that anyone would ever think that a Right Wing Libertarian, as yourself are, would even ever consider preventing Liberal\/Progressive Tweeps from joining in a UniteBlue Community to advance a progressive agenda and work toward democratic majorities in both houses of Congress during the 2014 and 2016 election cycles? \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nImpossible too, to even imagine that you could engage with other people of your political persuasion and even some who call themselves Liberal\/Progressive, but whose actions contradict what such a person would do, which is collaborate with you to scare people into believing that there's a UniteBlue Overlord who will take over the Liberal\/Progressive Movement using twitter hashtags, twibbon and the... Oooooh, so terrifying lists. Nah, nobody could believe that.\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"dkimg-c\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cimg alt=\"An extraordinary behavior is that while it appears it is perfectly acceptable to imply guilt by a no longer existing association and adding your handle so you know they are talking about you, on the other side, persons who add their handle in a tweet, it is highly objectionable and merits the Troll label.\" src=\"http:\/\/i854.photobucket.com\/albums\/ab103\/Tranny\/Anonymous%20vs%20UniteBlue%20Community%20Members\/041213CaptAnon-wants-to-block-CM-Politaire_zps2b72d173.jpg\" height=\"XXX\" title=\"An extraordinary behavior is that while it appears it is perfectly acceptable to imply guilt by a no longer existing association and adding your handle so you know they are talking about you, on the other side, persons who add their handle in a tweet, it is highly objectionable and merits the Troll label.\" width=\"YYY\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"dkimg-cap\"\u003E\nIn this convo, a female Anon, who has been very active in this despicable campaign by members of the Anonymous Collective, joins CaptAnonAmerika who mentions besides me, one of the men, Politaire, who has been part of the people's pushback against this ignomiy (\u003Cb\u003EIgnominy:\u003C\/b\u003E \u003Ci\u003E\"deep personal humiliation and disgrace\"\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"dkimg-c\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cimg alt=\"This screenshot was taken on April 23, 2013. Ploting a new strategy with other allies to help them\" src=\"http:\/\/i854.photobucket.com\/albums\/ab103\/Tranny\/Anonymous%20vs%20UniteBlue%20Community%20Members\/captanonamerica-joining-w-kicanon_zpsc0f59f98.jpg\" height=\"XXX\" title=\"This screenshot was taken on April 23, 2013. Ploting a new strategy with other allies to help them\" width=\"YYY\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"dkimg-cap\"\u003E\nAnd yet more connections between Right and Left Wingers working together to bring down #UniteBlue, this is a suggestion to ask \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/508227\/former-south-carolina-gop-head-loves-the-troops-so-much-he-wishes-this-one-vet-had-come-home-in-a-body-bag\"\u003EURWNJ\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Todd+Kincannon\u0026amp;ie=utf-8\u0026amp;oe=utf-8\u0026amp;aq=t\u0026amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official\u0026amp;client=firefox-a\"\u003ETodd Kincannon\u003C\/a\u003E to allegedly help 'get Bill off Twitter'... By scaring off tweeps from joining UB and join them by doing the same. Apparently, they have Matt Osborne, an alleged Liberal\/Progressive very involved in the anti-UniteBlue Campaign since even before Anonymous joined them. As for Roseanne Barr? Ha ha ha ha ha, she knows all about what they are trying to do and last week she told some of them to basically go and perform an acrobatic act of sexual nature upon themselves. 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V-Day es un catalizador que promueve eventos creativos de concientización, recauda fondos y revitaliza el espíritu de organizaciones anti-violencia existentes.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vday.org\/home\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cimg  src=\"http:\/\/www.vday-sf-spa.org\/imgs\/graphics2011\/vday2011logospa250.jpg\" width=\"250\" align=\"center\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cp style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003EV-Day San Francisco        en Español 2011 [TVM] ORGULLOSAMENTE PRESENTA UNA PRODUCCIÓN DE: \"Los Monólogos de La Vagina\" Del premiado guión de Eve Ensler \"The Vagina Monologues\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E       \u003Cp style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"\u003E\u003Ca title=\"Box Office en linea del Teatro Victoria, 2961 16th Street San Francisco, CA (415) 334-3307\" href=\"http:\/\/www.victoriatheatre.org\/boxoffice.htm\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003ETEATRO VICTORIA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E, UN SOLO DÍA MARZO 20, 2011 - DOS FUNCIONES 3:00 p.m. y 6:00 p.m.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003ECOMPREN SUS BOLETOS\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E       \u003Cp style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"\u003E\u003Ca title=\"Box Office en linea del Teatro Victoria, 2961 16th Street San Francisco, CA (415) 334-3307\" href=\"http:\/\/www.victoriatheatre.org\/boxoffice.htm\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cimg height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vday-sf-spa.org\/imgs\/graphics2011\/en_linea__ta_11187_hand.gif\" width=\"160\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca title=\"Compre sus boletos en persona, locaciones en donde comprarlos, cupo limitado, no se la pierdan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vday-sf-spa.org\/vdsf11.php\/2011\/02\/27\/title-1\" alt=\"Compre sus boletos en persona, locaciones en donde comprarlos, cupo limitado, no se la pierdan\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cimg height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vday-sf-spa.org\/imgs\/graphics2011\/en_persona___10450_hand.gif\" width=\"160\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E    \u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E   \u003Ca title=\"Download Web Flyer JPG\" href=\"http:\/\/www.elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/vdaysfspa\/download.php?f=imgs\/graphics2011\/for-web-v2.jpg\" alt=\"Download Web Flyer JPG\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/vdaysfspa\/imgs\/graphics2011\/for-web-v2.jpg\" width=\"500\" align=\"middle\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E      \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E       \u003Cp align=\"justify\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003EV-Day San Francisco en Español        2011, se enorgullece de ser un participante en el V-Day 2011 de la campaña        V-Day. Nos han concedido los derechos para una producción benéfica de        V-Day de la premiada obra de\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E       \u003Cp align=\"justify\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E_ Eve Ensler, Los Monólogos de la        Vagina (En español) , en dos presentaciones el Domingo, Marzo 20 2011, en        el Teatro Victoria en San Francisco para recaudar fondos y levantar        conciencia para las organizaciones locales que trabajan en detener la        violencia contra las mujeres y las niñas.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E       \u003Cp align=\"justify\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003EEn 2010, más de 4000 eventos a        beneficio de V-Day se llevaron a cabo, producido por activistas        voluntarios en 130 países de todo el mundo, la educación de millones de        personas sobre la realidad de la violencia contra las mujeres y las niñas,        tanto a nivel local como mundial.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E       \u003Cp align=\"justify\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003EEn 2011, V-Day de San Francisco        en Español, seró uno de los miles de eventos en todo el mundo, canalizando        su energía creativa en hacer una diferencia en el marco de la campaña de        V-Day. Es nuestra intención hacer de V-Day de San Francisco en Español        2011, un gran éxito. Esto será posible, en gran parte, a través de la        ayuda y la generosidad de los patrocinadores.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E       \u003Cp align=\"justify\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003EParte de lo que hace este evento        tan especial, es la oportunidad que ofrece a las empresas y organizaciones        en las comunidades locales - a participar en este movimiento global, para        celebrar y honrar a las mujeres y las niñas en su vida y de la comunidad,        para formar parte de una voz colectiva, una voz que se niega a ser        ignorada, una voz que dice \u003Cstrong\u003ENO\u003C\/strong\u003E a la violencia contra las        mujeres y las niñas.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E       \u003Cp align=\"justify\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003ETodos los beneficios de nuestro        evento serán donados a estas organizaciones, Casa Rosalie en San Francisco        California y Casa Amiga en Ciudad Juárez, México.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E       \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003EAurora Grajeda Organizadora de V-Day        San Francisco en Español 2011 (TVM) y,\u003Cbr \/\u003ECo-Productora de \"Los Monólogos        de La Vagina\" (Marzo 20th, 2011)\u003Cbr \/\u003E415.368.8406\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"mailto:aurora-grajeda@comcast.net\"\u003E\u003Eaurora-grajeda@comcast.net\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.vday-sf-spa.org\/\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.vday-sf-spa.org\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E       \u003Chr \/\u003E    \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\"Tu tienes que ser el cambio que quieres ver en el        mundo.\"\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E-- Mohandas Karamchand Ghandi\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003C\/center\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4907162187287566673\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/los-monologs-de-la-vagina-regresa-san.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/4907162187287566673"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/4907162187287566673"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/los-monologs-de-la-vagina-regresa-san.html","title":"\"Los Monólogs de La Vagina\" Regresa a San Francisco"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-8869420328197940533"},"published":{"$t":"2011-03-08T09:25:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-03-08T11:16:44.814-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"20"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"2011"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"espanol"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"francisco"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"marzo"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"monologos"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"monologues"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"san"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"theather"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"v-day"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"vagina"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"victoria"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"PARA DISTRIBUCION IMMEDIATA: \"Los Monólogs de La Vagina\"  Regresa a San Francisco"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv style=\"align: right; 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V-Day es un catalizador que promueve eventos creativos de concientización, recauda fondos y revitaliza el espíritu de organizaciones anti-violencia existentes.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vday.org\/home\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003CFONT face=\"Arial\"\u003E\u003CIMG alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vday-sf-spa.org\/imgs\/graphics2011\/vday2011logospa250.jpg\" width=\"250\" align=\"center\" border=\"0\"\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E \u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EV-Day San Francisco en Español 2011 [TVM]\u003Cbr \/\u003E ORGULLOSAMENTE PRESENTA UNA PRODUCCIÓN DE:\u003Cbr \/\u003E \"Los Monólogos de La Vagina\" Del premiado guión de Eve Ensler\u003Cbr \/\u003E \"The Vagina Monologues\"\u003C\/p\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca title=\"Box Office en linea del Teatro Victoria, 2961 16th Street San Francisco, CA (415) 334-3307\" href=\"http:\/\/www.victoriatheatre.org\/boxoffice.htm\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ETEATRO VICTORIA\u003C\/A\u003E, UN SOLO DÍA\u003Cbr \/\u003E MARZO 20, 2011 - DOS FUNCIONES \u003Cbr \/\u003E 3:00 p.m. y 6:00 p.m.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003ECOMPREN SUS BOLETOS\u003C\/p\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CP style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca title=\"Box Office en linea del Teatro Victoria, 2961 16th Street San Francisco, CA (415) 334-3307\" href=\"http:\/\/www.victoriatheatre.org\/boxoffice.htm\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.vday-sf-spa.org\/imgs\/graphics2011\/en_linea__ta_11187_hand.gif\" width=\"160\" height=\"15\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.vday-sf-spa.org\/vdsf11.php\/2011\/02\/27\/title-1\" alt=\"Compre sus boletos en persona, locaciones en donde comprarlos, cupo limitado, no se la pierdan\" title=\"Compre sus boletos en persona, locaciones en donde comprarlos, cupo limitado, no se la pierdan\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.vday-sf-spa.org\/imgs\/graphics2011\/en_persona___10450_hand.gif\" width=\"160\" height=\"15\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CP style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E \u003CBR \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/vdaysfspa\/download.php?f=imgs\/graphics2011\/for-web-v2.jpg\" alt=\"Download Web Flyer JPG\" title=\"Download Web Flyer JPG\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/vdaysfspa\/imgs\/graphics2011\/for-web-v2.jpg\" width=\"575px\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003EV-Day San Francisco en Español 2011, se enorgullece de ser un participante en el V-Day 2011 de la campaña V-Day. Nos han concedido los derechos para una producción benéfica de V-Day de la premiada obra de\u003C\/p\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E_ Eve Ensler, Los Monólogos de la Vagina (En español) , en dos presentaciones el Domingo, Marzo 20 2011, en el Teatro Victoria en San Francisco  para recaudar fondos y levantar conciencia para las organizaciones locales que trabajan en detener la violencia contra las mujeres y las niñas.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEn 2010, más de 4000 eventos a beneficio de V-Day se llevaron a cabo, producido por activistas voluntarios en 130 países de todo el mundo, la educación de millones de personas sobre la realidad de la violencia contra las mujeres y las niñas, tanto a nivel local como mundial.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEn 2011, V-Day de San Francisco en Español, seró uno de los miles de eventos en todo el mundo, canalizando su energía creativa en hacer una diferencia en el marco de la campaña de V-Day. Es nuestra intención hacer de V-Day de San Francisco en Español 2011, un gran éxito. Esto será posible, en gran parte, a través de la ayuda y la generosidad de los patrocinadores.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003EParte de lo que hace este evento tan especial, es la oportunidad que ofrece a las empresas y organizaciones en las comunidades locales - a participar en este movimiento global, para celebrar y honrar a las mujeres y las niñas en su vida y de la comunidad, para formar parte de una voz colectiva, una voz que se niega a ser ignorada, una voz que dice \u003Cstrong\u003ENO\u003C\/strong\u003E a la violencia contra las mujeres y las niñas.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETodos los beneficios de nuestro evento serán donados a estas organizaciones, Casa Rosalie en San Francisco California y Casa Amiga en Ciudad Juárez, México.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAurora Grajeda\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EOrganizadora de V-Day San Francisco en Español 2011 (TVM) y,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003ECo-Productora de \"Los Monólogos de La Vagina\" (Marzo 20th, 2011)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E415.368.8406  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003Eaurora-grajeda@comcast.net\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.vday-sf-spa.org\/\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Chr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\"Tu tienes que ser el cambio que quieres ver en el mundo.\"\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E-- Mohandas Karamchand Ghandi\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttp:\/\/hladc-sf.blogspot.com\/\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttp:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/\u003C\/p\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8869420328197940533\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/para-distribucion-immediata-los.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/8869420328197940533"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/8869420328197940533"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/para-distribucion-immediata-los.html","title":"PARA DISTRIBUCION IMMEDIATA: \"Los Monólogs de La Vagina\"  Regresa a San Francisco"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-6273988177358848536"},"published":{"$t":"2011-01-24T10:00:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-02-11T10:07:30.323-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Consejo"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"danza"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"danzante"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"dialysis"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"ice"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"immigration"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Jonathan Sanchez"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Luis"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"maestro"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"magana"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"medical care"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"mexica"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Quetzalcoatl"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"stockton"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"teacher"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"URGENT, 2bdeported Tues. (on dialysis) JonathanSanchez, Mexica Guerrero-Danza Maestro, Stockton"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003ESource [ConsejoQuetzalcoatl]\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:44 AM, \u003Ca href=\"mailto:malinalcihuatl@yahoo.com\"\u003EMalinalzihuatl\u003C\/a\u003E wrote:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E I got news about Jonathan Sanchez, my guerrero (dance teacher), in stockton born in Jalisco, Guadalajara, Mexico.... immigration has him detained in the san joaquin county jail in stockton, ca and they plan on deporting him on Tuesday. But Luis Magana is trying to get attorneys for him. The family called me telling me that immigration people r tormenting him because he is refusing to sign the release documents to deport him back to mexico. They can not deport him if he does not sign. He is real sick because they r not feeding him properly and is scared and crying. He has no active kidneys. He needs dialisis 3 times a week to clean his blood in order to live. His kidneys do not function and each dialisis takes 4 hours to do. He has maintained not only his aztec group tlalok with a tube sticking out of his chest for 1 and a half years but has maintained his folklorico group as well including his local presentations and attending some aztec ceremonies with me. Luis Magana political activist from Stockton needs anyone who is willing to support the release of Jonathan call him for further info at (209) 405-1213.\u003Cbr \/\u003E I went to visit Jonathan today w a dancer who was under age but they did not allow me to see him because I had an under age person w me. Being that i work for the state dept. of health in administration legal section they were going to allow me to see him even though he already had his 2 visitors for the week even after i showed them my badge. i did not see him. Urgently i am requesting help. I am not knowledgeable about politics. All I know is that Jonathan can not live without his dialisis. He wont survive en Mexico if they deport him. In mexico is cost $150 US Dollars to pay for one session in cleaning his blood. HE Needs 3 a week which totals to $1,800 Dollars a month in mexico which is about 18,000 pesos a month. In Mexico u have to pay up front the money or else they will not serve u. Jonathan is only 20 years old...Please call his aunt Leticia Nieto (209) 390-6414 to see how u can help.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Ca href=\"mailto:malinalcihuatl@yahoo.com\"\u003EMalinalzihuatl\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWant to help Johathan?\u003Cbr \/\u003ECall San Joaquin County’s Sheriff’s Office and ask to speak with Sheriff Steve Moore (209) 469-4400\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf ICE asks for Jonathan Sanchez’s “A” number: A-200869492\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E--\u003Cbr \/\u003EDorinda Moreno, Fuerza Mundial \/ FM Global\u003Cbr \/\u003EHitec Aztec Communications, Elders of 4 Colors 4 Directions\u003Cbr \/\u003EU.S. Representative and Liaison, International Tribunal of Conscience\u003Cbr \/\u003E  (becoming a permanent forum for Migration and Displacement)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFrom the National Council of La Raza,\u003Cbr \/\u003EDream Crushers and Dream Believers\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/salsa.wiredforchange.com\/dia\/track.jsp?v=2\u0026amp;c=5H%2BuBYnsBDJf02KFj9IWUaL40%2FNz3Q00\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDownload your copy of the We Will Not Forget ad here and put it on your fridge!\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cscript type=\"text\/javascript\"\u003Evar _sttoolbar = {}\u003C\/script\u003E\u003Cscript type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/w.sharethis.com\/widget\/stblogger.js\"\u003E\u003C\/script\u003E\u003Cscript type=\"text\/javascript\"\u003EstBlogger.init(\"http:\/\/w.sharethis.com\/button\/sharethis.js#publisher=\u0026type=blogger\u0026post_services=email%2Cfacebook%2Ctwitter%2Cgbuzz%2Cmyspace%2Cdigg%2Csms%2Cwindows_live%2Cdelicious%2Cstumbleupon%2Creddit%2Cgoogle_bmarks%2Clinkedin%2Cbebo%2Cybuzz%2Cblogger%2Cyahoo_bmarks%2Cmixx%2Ctechnorati%2Cfriendfeed%2Cpropeller%2Cwordpress%2Cnewsvine\");\u003C\/script\u003E\u003C\/malinalcihuatl\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6273988177358848536\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/urgent-2bdeported-tues-on-dialysis.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/6273988177358848536"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/6273988177358848536"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/urgent-2bdeported-tues-on-dialysis.html","title":"URGENT, 2bdeported Tues. (on dialysis) JonathanSanchez, Mexica Guerrero-Danza Maestro, Stockton"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-6268294385345245317"},"published":{"$t":"2010-10-29T19:00:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2010-10-30T00:00:25.814-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Arpaio"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"bogus"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"campaign"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"email"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"extremism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"extremists"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Fox News"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"fraud"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hispanic"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Joe"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"latinos"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"michelle malkin"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"no vote"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"republican"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"right wing"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Sheriff"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"suppress"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"ultra"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"vote"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"ANOTHER CAMPAIGN TO SUPPRESS LATINO VOTE: Arpaio just sent this shocking message to his followers:"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Last week we were shocked and angered at the viciously un-American Ad aimed at Latinos\/Hispanics asking us NOT TO \u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003EVOTE.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe now extreme Republican Party, with it's army of right Wing Extremists, are fully engaged in a-not-much-discussed campaign to suppress, by any means necessary, the Latino\/Hispanic Vote in the upcoming election.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEarlier today, I received and email from \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/americasvoiceonline.org\/blog\/entry\/take_action_against_arpaios_attempt_to_block_voters\/\"\u003EAmericanVoiceOnline.org\u003C\/a\u003E, alerting us to an email sent by AZ's Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio addressed to all of his followers, creating and disseminating an image of a 'fraud bogeyman' and inciting to organize against Latino\/Hispanic Voters, by once again,  targeting this much maligned and abused Community, as the villains in this elections, hence creating a climate of mistrust, antagonism and anger for Brown people, thus making it justifiable and acceptable for his \"Army\", to harass and intimidate them around the \u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003Evoting polls. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is the text of his message\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Maricopa County's infamous Sheriff Joe Arpaio\" src=\"http:\/\/americasvoiceonline.org\/page\/-\/americasvoice\/images\/joe.jpg\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/\u003E\"STOP ILLEGALS FROM STEALING THE ELECTION! Our \u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003Egrassroots army\u003C\/span\u003E of VOTER FRAUD PREVENTION VOLUNTEERS will stand vigilant across the nation. We will be the first and strongest line of defense to ensure that only legal citizens vote on November 2nd.\"\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/americasvoiceonline.org\/blog\/entry\/take_action_against_arpaios_attempt_to_block_voters\/\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003EFrom \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/americasvoiceonline.org\/blog\/entry\/take_action_against_arpaios_attempt_to_block_voters\/\"\u003EAmerican  Voice Online\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBogus accusations of  \"illegal voters\" crop up every election, and every election they are proven false.  \u003Cstrong\u003EWhat's truly frightening is that, this year, Arpaio is recruiting an \"army\" to block people from voting in the name of \"fraud prevention.\"\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003EAs would be expected, Fox News is again at the Vanguard on yet another dirty campaign to suppress the vote a minority by having as guests Right Wing Operatives to push this campaign, one of them is Ultra Right Wing Blogger, Michelle Malkin, whose participation in this propaganda channel can be seen in this video, where she declares \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t7zMok1wo58\"\u003E'We Are All Voter Fraud Police Now'\":\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003ELeast be left unsaid, The Latino\/Hispanic voters need to be prepared for the MOST LIKELY EVENTUALITY that their\u003Cbr 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and push us to invade Iraq. - You didn't get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed. - You didn't get mad when the Patriot Act got passed. - You didn't get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us. - You didn't get mad when we spent over 800 billion (and counting) on said illegal war. - You didn't get mad when Bush borrowed more money from foreign sources than the previous 42 Presidents combined. - You didn't get mad when over 10 billion dollars in cash just disappeared in Iraq. - You didn't get mad when you found out we were torturing people. - You didn't get mad when Bush embraced trade and outsourcing policies that shipped 6 million American jobs out of the country.\" \/\u003E\u003Clink rel=\"image_src\" href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/graphics\/jpgs\/posts\/tea-party-signs.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003Cscript\u003Efunction fbs_click() 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style=\"text-decoration:none;\"\u003EShare\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E\u003CFONT face=arial size=2\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003E\"Folks:\u0026nbsp; Lets keep a copy in our pockets for quick reference  when speaking with our ... 'friends' on\u0026nbsp;the other side\" --  Dorinda\u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003EYou didn't get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and  appointed a President.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \r\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou didn't  get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate Energy policy  and push us to invade Iraq.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;  \r\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou didn't get mad when a covert CIA operative got  outed.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \r\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou didn't get mad when the  Patriot Act got passed.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \r\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou didn't get  mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to  us.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \r\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou didn't get mad when we  spent over 800 billion (and counting) on said illegal war.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;  \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \r\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou didn't get mad when Bush borrowed more money from  foreign sources than the previous 42 Presidents combined.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;  \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \r\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou didn't get mad when over 10 billion dollars in cash  just disappeared in Iraq.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \r\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou  didn't get mad when you found out we were torturing  people.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \r\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou didn't get mad  when Bush embraced trade and outsourcing policies that shipped 6 million  American jobs out of the country.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;  \r\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou didn't get mad when the government was illegally wiretapping  Americans.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \r\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou didn't get mad when we  didn't catch Bin Laden. You didn't get mad when Bush rang up 10 trillion dollars  in combined budget and current account deficits.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;  \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \r\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou didn't get mad when you saw the horrible conditions  at Walter Reed.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \r\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou didn't get mad  when we let a major US city, New Orleans, drown.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;  \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \r\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou didn't get mad when we gave people who had more money  than they could spend, the filthy rich, over a trillion dollars in tax  breaks.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \r\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou didn't get mad  with the worst 8 years of job creations in several  decades.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \r\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou didn't get mad when  over 200,000 US Citizens lost their lives because they had no health  insurance.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \r\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou didn't get mad when  lack of oversight and regulations from the Bush Administration caused US  Citizens to lose 12 trillion dollars in investments, retirement, and home  values.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CSPAN  style=\"FONT-SIZE: 18pt\"\u003EYou finally got mad when a black man was elected  President and decided that people in America deserved the right to see a doctor  if they are sick. 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Bottom  line is, many gullible folk are believing them.\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003ESo, after reading \"ThisIsMyTime\" Post with a list  of some of President Obama and Dems' accomplishments in spite of vicious attacks  and blatant obstructionism, do you think these voices are telling the truth to  us all?\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003EMost of us know someone who is repeating the Right  Wing lies, send them this information, ask them to read it and then ask them to  repeat what they've been saying.\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003EMillions of us worked very hard to elect President  Obama and we accomplished this historic and revolutionary act, take credit for  your hard work and foresight, but let's not slip into complacency, the work is  far from done, there is so much that needs to be corrected\/changed, let's  continue with our pledge to work for change, to pressure our Representatives to  act, after all, this is the bargain we entered with then Candidate Barack Obama,  just to be clear, this is what we agreed on \"That we were going to help\/make him  do it\", for,\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E\"WE ARE THE ONES WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR\"  And,\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003EThat \"YES, WE CAN - SI SE PUEDE\"\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003EAurora\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E \u003CH3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/grassroots4obama.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/obama-will-triumph-so-will-america-by.html\"\u003EObama  Will Triumph -- So Will America by Frank Schaeffer\u003C\/A\u003E\u003C\/H3\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/grassroots4obama.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/obama-will-triumph-so-will-america-by.html\"\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E \u003CHR\u003E \u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003Eby \u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/energycommerce.house.gov\/index.php?option=com_content\u0026amp;view=article\u0026amp;id=1797:president-obama-signs-the-ryan-white-hivaids-treatment-extension-act-\u0026amp;catid=122:media-advisories\u0026amp;Itemid=55\"\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003EThisIsMyTime\u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003E  [Daily Kos]\u003C\/STRONG\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EWed Oct 13, 2010 at 08:56:57 AM PDT\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003EAs the battle for control of Congress has tightened  and the so called enthusiasm gap is evaporating, we must continue speaking to  voter about what Democrats in Congress have accomplished.\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003EIf you are a democrat and you have an enthusiasm  gap, I am hoping that this could change your lack of enthusiasm.\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003EThe facts are in the last 23 months, the following  are things that I think are worth keeping scores about what President Obama and  the Democratic congress have accomplished that get over looked without an ounce  of credit by some who are always disappointed about something.\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003EMore below the fold...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2010\/10\/13\/905956\/-Respectfully,-Mr.-President:-Thank-You!\"\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003EThisIsMyTime's  diary\u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003E ::\u003C\/STRONG\u003E :: \u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003ECrossposted at \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.thepeoplesview.net\/\"\u003EThe People's View\u003C\/A\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003EI think it is important to not only speak to voters  about the fact we are moving forward together but remind activists to see what  they have been resisting.\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003EI don't know about you but I am ready to go and  these are the reasons why I have more Enthusiasm than ever:\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003E\u003CFONT size=5\u003EHealth Care  Reform:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u0026nbsp;Coverage \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.healthcare.gov\/law\/provisions\/ChildrensPCIP\/childrenspcip.html\"\u003Ecan't  be denied to children \u003C\/A\u003Ewith pre-existing conditions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;Adults up to  age 26 \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/texas-health-resources\/health-reform-and-texas\/young-adults-can-get-back-on-parents-insurance\/\"\u003Ecan  stay on their parents' health plans\u003C\/A\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sns-ap-us-health-care-qa,0,5788906.story\"\u003EFree\u003C\/A\u003Epreventive  care.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.healthcare.gov\/law\/timeline\/index.html\"\u003ERescinding coverage\u003C\/A\u003E  is now illegal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;Eliminating\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sns-ap-us-health-care-qa,0,5788906.story\"\u003E lifetime  limits \u003C\/A\u003Eon insurance coverage.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;Restricting \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.standupforhealthcare.org\/blog\/the-ban-on-lifetime-and-annual-limits-can-impact-you\"\u003Eannual  limits \u003C\/A\u003Eon insurance coverage.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;More options \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.healthcare.gov\/law\/provisions\/appealing\/Appealing Health Plan Decisions 2\/moreinfo.html\"\u003Eto  appeal coverage decisions\u003C\/A\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/news\/press\/2010pres\/07\/20100701a.html\"\u003E$5 billion in  immediate federal support \u003C\/A\u003Eto affordable Coverage for the Uninsured with  Pre-existing Conditions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.californiahealthline.org\/articles\/2010\/3\/25\/health-reform-boosts-funding-to-community-health-centers.aspx\"\u003E$10  billion investment in Community Health Centers\u003C\/A\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003ECreate \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.progressivestates.org\/node\/25180\"\u003Eimmediate access to  re-insurance \u003C\/A\u003Efor employer health plans providing coverage for early  retirees.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/06\/22\/AR2009062200349.html\"\u003EMade  an $80 billion deal\u003C\/A\u003E with the pharmaceutical industry to contribute to cut  prescription drug costs for the nation's seniors reduce the size of the \"donut  hole\" in the Medicare (Part D) Drug Benefit.\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003E\u003CFONT  size=5\u003EEconomy:\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;The American Recovery and Reinvestment  Act of 2009 (ARRA)\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/buythebookcv.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/financial-exhibits.html\"\u003E has  worked\u003C\/A\u003E. The Economy Has Been Growing - take a look at the \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.cbpp.org\/cms\/index.cfm?fa=view\u0026amp;id=3252\"\u003Egraph of GDP growth  \u003C\/A\u003Ebetween 2007 thru 2010.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;US auto industry rescue plan -- \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/subjects\/c\/credit_crisis\/auto_industry\/index.html\"\u003EDetroit  making profits again \u003C\/A\u003Eand at least 1 million jobs saved.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;Worker,  Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009 that extended Unemployment  benefits \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.fileyourtaxes.com\/resources\/News\/2009\/WHBA-2009.html\"\u003Eup to 20  weeks and more\u003C\/A\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/promises\/promise\/16\/increase-minority-access-to-capital\/\"\u003EProvided  $14.7 billion\u003C\/A\u003E in small business loans increasing minority access to  capital.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/11\/us\/politics\/11cong.html\"\u003EThe $26 billion  aid to states package \u003C\/A\u003Epreventing large-scale layoffs of teachers and public  employees.\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003E\u003CFONT size=5\u003EBanking and Financial  Reform\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;Signed a\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/obama-signs-sweeping-bank-reform-bill-into-law-2010-07-21-12200\"\u003E  sweeping bank-reform bill \u003C\/A\u003E(the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer  Protection Act)into law\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;Managed the \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/ftpdocs\/99xx\/doc9961\/01-16-TARP.pdf\"\u003E$700 Billion  Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)\u003C\/A\u003E that \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/23\/business\/23tarp.html?_r=1\u0026amp;ref=business\"\u003EBanks  have repaid 75% of TARP funds\u003C\/A\u003E, bringing the cost down to $89B as of June  2010.\u003Cbr \/\u003ECuts Salaries \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/04\/16\/pay-czar-cuts-salaries-fo_n_540849.html\"\u003EFor  65 Bailout Executives\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EClosed\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/05\/04\/obama-tax-haven-plan-read_n_195702.html\"\u003E  offshore tax safe havens\u003C\/A\u003E, tax credit loopholes on companies that use the tax  laws to ship American Jobs oversees. \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/waysandmeans.house.gov\/media\/pdf\/111\/America_Jobs_Summary.pdf\"\u003EHR  4213\u003C\/A\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESigned into law the \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.speaker.gov\/blog\/?p=1794\"\u003EFraud Enforcement and Recovery Act  \u003C\/A\u003Eto fight fraud in the use of TARP and recovery funds, and to increase  accountability for corporate and mortgage frauds.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESigned the \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=newsarchive\u0026amp;sid=aM5MWbboKysM\"\u003ECredit  Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act\u003C\/A\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2010\/10\/7\/908506\/-Obama-VETOES-Big-Banks-notarization-sweetheart-deal\"\u003EVETOED  Big Banks' notarization sweetheart deal\u003C\/A\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003E\u003CFONT  size=5\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003E\u003CFONT  size=5\u003EEducation\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHealth Care and Education Affordability  Reconciliation Act of 2010 \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzle.com\/articles\/pell-grant-amount.html\"\u003Ethat increased the  amount of federal Pell Grant awards \u003C\/A\u003Eand \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/03\/30\/obama-to-sign-student-loan_n_518159.html\"\u003Eenabled  the stripping of banks privileges as intermediaries for student loan  servicing\u003C\/A\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003ECreated \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/info\/race-to-the-top-fund\/\"\u003Ethe Race to the Top  Fund\u003C\/A\u003E, a \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/programs\/racetothetop\/executive-summary.pdf\"\u003E$4.35  billion program to reward States that submit the best proposals for  change\u003C\/A\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, f\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/issues\/education\"\u003Eunded over $100 Billion for  reforms to strengthen Elementary and Secondary education, early learning  programs\u003C\/A\u003E, college affordability and improve access to higher education, and  to close the achievement gap.\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003E\u003CFONT size=5\u003EJobs \u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe  $787 billion economic stimulus package has created or saved nearly\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/01\/12\/AR2010011203737.html\"\u003E  2 million jobs \u003C\/A\u003Eslowing\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oSpKxO-lmYs\u0026amp;feature=player_embedded#!\"\u003E  the bleeding\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJobs for Main Street Act (2010)injected $27.5 Billion for  Highways, $8.4 Billion for Transit into the country's transportation system to  create jobs and spur economic activity.\u003Cbr \/\u003EA \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.industryweek.com\/articles\/obama_unveils_33_billion_jobs_package_20960.aspx?Page=1\u0026amp;SectionID=2\"\u003E$33  Billion Jobs Package \u003C\/A\u003Ethat will allow Small businesses to get $5,000 tax  credit for new hires.\u003Cbr \/\u003EA $26 billion State Aid Package Jobs Bill \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.whec.com\/news\/stories\/S1692301.shtml?cat=565\"\u003Esaving 300,000  teachers and public workers jobs from unemployment\u003C\/A\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Auto bailout  saved \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2010\/aug\/5\/obama-auto-industry-bailout-saved-1-million-jobs\/\"\u003E1  million jobs\u003C\/A\u003E.\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003E\u003CFONT size=5\u003EGreen Energy\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/STRONG\u003E  \u003Cbr \/\u003EImplemented renewable fuels mandate of \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/otaq\/fuels\/renewablefuels\/index.htm\"\u003E36 billion gallons  by 2022\u003C\/A\u003E, four times what we currently consume.\u003Cbr \/\u003EAutomakers will be  required to meet a fleet-wide average of \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.insideline.com\/car-news\/tough-gas-mileage-standards-finalized.html\"\u003ENew  Gas Mileage Standards at 35.5 MPH by 2016\u003C\/A\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003EA \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2009\/02\/green-stimulus-bill-60-billion.php\"\u003E$60  billion investment in renewable and clean energy\u003C\/A\u003E.\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003E\u003CFONT size=5\u003EHousing\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/STRONG\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/19\/business\/19housing.html\"\u003E$275 billion  dollar housing plan\u003C\/A\u003E - $75 billion dollars to prevent at-risk mortgage  debtors already fallen victim to foreclosures and $200 billion to bring about  confidence to offer affordable mortgages and to stability the housing  market.\u003Cbr \/\u003EEstablished \"\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2010\/06\/22\/96322\/obama-administration-vows-to-end.html\"\u003EOpening  Doors\u003C\/A\u003E\" to end the homelessness of 640,000 men, women, and children in the  United States in 10 years.\u003Cbr \/\u003EProvided \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.agc.org\/cs\/advocacy\/legislative_activity\/economic_stimulus_draft\/infrastructure_spending_chart\/Native_American_Housing_Block_Grants\"\u003E$510  Million for the rehabilitation of Native American housing\u003C\/A\u003E. ref\u003Cbr \/\u003EProvided  $2 billion for Neighborhood Stabilization Program to rehab, resell, or demolish  in order to stabilize neighborhoods.\u003Cbr \/\u003EProvided\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.gpo.gov\/fdsys\/pkg\/PLAW-111publ5\/pdf\/PLAW-111publ5.pdf\"\u003E $5  billion for Weatherization Assistance Program \u003C\/A\u003Efor low income families to  weatherize 1 million homes per year for the next decade.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/promises\/promise\/498\/provide-grants-to-encourage-energy-efficient-build\/\"\u003EProvided  grants\u003C\/A\u003E to encourage states and localities to take the first steps in  implementing new building codes that prioritize energy efficiency.\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003E\u003CFONT size=5\u003EMedicaid\/Medicare\/Social Security\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/STRONG\u003E  \u003Cbr \/\u003Egiving \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/truthhugger.com\/2009\/05\/07\/one-time-250-comes-from-social-security-not-irs\/\"\u003E$250  economic stimulus check to 55 million Social Security and Supplemental Security  Income (SSI) recipients in 2009\u003C\/A\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003ECutting prescription drug costs for  Medicare recipients by \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.planprescriber.com\/medicare-part-d\/donut-hole\/\"\u003E50% and began  eliminating the plan's gap (\"donut hole\") in coverage\u003C\/A\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003EPassing as part of  \u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-3962\"\u003EH.R.3962  (Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief  Act of 2010)\u003C\/A\u003E a \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/25\/health\/policy\/25medicare.html?_r=1\"\u003E$6.4  billion measure reversing a 21 percent cut \u003C\/A\u003Ein physician payments that would  have started a flood of rejections by some doctors of seniors covered by  Medicare.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/promises\/promise\/57\/expand-eligibility-for-medicaid\/\"\u003EExpanded  eligibility for Medicaid to all individuals under age 65\u003C\/A\u003E with incomes up to  133 percent of the federal poverty level ($14,400 per year for an  individual).\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003E\u003CFONT size=5\u003EMilitary Veterans and Families  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/STRONG\u003EImplemented\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.fedshirevets.gov\/pdf\/Vets_Initiative_Strategic_Plan.pdf\"\u003E a  strategic plan \u003C\/A\u003Eto \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/2008\/10\/military_spouses_federaljobs_100108w\/\"\u003Eincrease  the hiring of Veterans and Military spouses \u003C\/A\u003Ethroughout the Federal civil  service.\u003Cbr \/\u003EProvided for \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2009\/03\/18\/pentagon-to-pay-for-families-of-fallen-soldiers-to-travel-to-dover\/\"\u003Ethe  expenses of families of to be at Dover AFB when fallen soldiers  arrive\u003C\/A\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003EPassed \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/bill.xpd?bill=s111-407\"\u003Ethe Veterans'  Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2009 increasing the rates of  compensation for veterans \u003C\/A\u003Ewith service-connected disabilities and the rates  of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled  veterans.\u003Cbr \/\u003EDeclared the end of the war in Iraqi \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/my.barackobama.com\/page\/content\/iraqremarks\"\u003Ebringing back nearly  100,000 U.S. troops home to their families\u003C\/A\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003EDonated \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2010\/03\/11\/obama-to-give-1-4-million-nobel-peace-prize-award-to-10-charities\/\"\u003E250K  of Nobel prize money to Fisher House\u003C\/A\u003E, a group that helps provide housing for  families of patients receiving medical care at military and Veterans Affairs  medical centers\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003E\u003CFONT size=5\u003ELBGT \u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/06\/02\/AR2010060204654.html\"\u003EExtended\u0026nbsp;  benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/theoval\/post\/2009\/10\/620000629\/1\"\u003ESigned  the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention  Act\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstructed HHS to require any hospital receiving Medicare or Medicaid  funds (virtually all hospitals) \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE63F0BV20100416\"\u003Eto allow LGBT  visitation rights\u003C\/A\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/06\/us\/06gender.html\"\u003EBanned job  discrimination based on gender identity throughout the Federal government  \u003C\/A\u003E(the nation's largest employer)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/energycommerce.house.gov\/index.php?option=com_content\u0026amp;view=article\u0026amp;id=1797:president-obama-signs-the-ryan-white-hivaids-treatment-extension-act-\u0026amp;catid=122:media-advisories\u0026amp;Itemid=55\"\u003ESigned  the Ryan White HIV\/AIDS Treatment Extension Act\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EExtended the Family and  Medical Leave Act to cover \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/22\/us\/politics\/22rights.html\"\u003EGay employees  taking unpaid leave \u003C\/A\u003Eto care for their children of same-sex  partners\u003Cbr \/\u003ELifted the \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.xtra.ca\/public\/Vancouver\/HIV_travel_ban_finally_lifted-8082.aspx\"\u003EHIV  Entry Ban\u003C\/A\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.pamshouseblend.com\/diary\/13677\/obama-administrations-hud-policies-would-ban-discrimination-based-on-gender-identity\"\u003EImplemented  HUD Policies that Would Ban Discrimination Based On Gender Identity\u003C\/A\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003EWell, there is more but you see we have done a lot. We have the tools to  shape the message. We need to move forward together and focus on what we will  accomplish forward in the coming years. That is why we have to work hard for the  next three weeks to GOTV.\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003EThese are my kids at the One Nation March about a week ago. They are fired  up as I am. Are you?\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E \u003CDIV align=center\u003E\u003CIMG alt=\"\" hspace=0  src=\"http:\/\/i894.photobucket.com\/albums\/ac143\/ThisIsMyTime_2010\/Pic558.jpg\"  width=600 align=middle border=0\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003EYes indeed, there is more, check out this  list:\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E \u003CH1\u003E\u003CFONT size=5\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.equalitygiving.org\/Accomplishments-by-the-Administration-and-Congress-on-LGBT-Equality\"\u003EAccomplishments  by the Administration and Congress on LGBT Equality\u003C\/A\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/H1\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E \u003CH3\u003ENo one should rest until we have full LGBT equality.\u0026nbsp; But after eight  years of Republican disrespect, progress is being made.\u0026nbsp; In its first 20  months, the Obama Administration has...\u003C\/H3\u003E \u003CP\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\u003CFONT size=4\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CTABLE width=169 align=left border=0\u003E   \u003CTBODY\u003E   \u003CTR\u003E     \u003CTD style=\"WIDTH: 200px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(201,167,119)\"\u003E       \u003CP\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003EBy Andrew Tobias\u003C\/STRONG\u003E | \u003CA        href=\"http:\/\/www.equalitygiving.org\/Contact-Author\"\u003EContact\u003C\/A\u003E \u003C\/P\u003E       \u003CP\u003E\u003CIMG height=200 alt=\"Democratic National Committee DNC Equality Tobias\"        src=\"mhtml:mid:\/\/00000107\/!http:\/\/www.equalitygiving.org\/files\/Democratic-National-Committee-Equality-Tobias\/Democratic-National-Committee-DNC-Equality-Tobias.jpg\"        width=200 border=0\u003E \u003C\/P\u003EDNC treasurer Andrew Tobias is the author of        several books, including \u003CEM\u003EThe Only Investment Guide You'll Ever        Need\u003C\/EM\u003E and \u003CEM\u003EThe Best Little Boy in the World\u003C\/EM\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/TD\u003E     \u003CTD style=\"WIDTH: 15px\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; 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   \u003CLI class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt\"\u003E\u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/news\/press\/2009pres\/10\/20091021a.html\"    target=_blank\u003EConceived\u003C\/A\u003E a National Resource Center for Lesbian, Gay,    Bisexual and Transgender Elders -- the nation's first ever -- funded by a    three-year HHS grant to SAGE    \u003CLI class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt\"\u003E\u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/www.aclu.org\/lgbt-rights\/administration-will-testify-senate-landmark-employment-non-discrimination-act\"\u003ETestified\u003C\/A\u003E    in favor of ENDA, the first time any official of any administration has    testified in the Senate on ENDA    \u003CLI class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt\"\u003E\u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/remarks-president-reception-commemorating-enactment-matthew-shepard-and-james-byrd-\"\u003ESigned\u003C\/A\u003E    the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which    expanded existing United States federal hate crime law to include crimes    motivated by a victim's actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender    identity, or disability -- \u003CFONT size=3\u003Ethe first positive federal LGBT    legislation in the nation's history\u003C\/FONT\u003E    \u003CLI class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt\"\u003EHired and appointed a record    number of qualified LGBT Americans (like \u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/www.glli.org\/presidential\"\u003Ethese\u003C\/A\u003E), including more than 20    Senate-confirmed appointments    \u003CLI class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt\"\u003E\u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/whitehouse#p\/u\/2\/EqaW8hVSh0c\"\u003ESworn in\u003C\/A\u003E    Ambassador David Huebner    \u003CLI class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt\"\u003E\u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/www.hud.gov\/news\/speeches\/2009-06-23a.cfm\"\u003EChanged\u003C\/A\u003E the    culture of government everywhere from – among others – HUD and HHS to the    Export-Import Bank, the State Department, and the Department of Education    \u003CLI class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt\"\u003E\u003C!--  \/* Font Definitions *\/  @font-face  {font-family:\"Cambria Math\"; 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I look you in the eye and tell you I've said a thousand times that    I wanted Alito and Roberts. \u0026nbsp;I have told anybody who will listen. I    flat-out tell you I will have people as close to Roberts and Alito [as    possible].\"\u003C\/SPAN\u003E \u003C\/P\u003E   \u003CLI class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt\"\u003E   \u003CP class=MsoNormal\u003E\u003CFONT size=2\u003E\u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/26315908\/#34738951\"\u003E\u003CSPAN    style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'\"\u003E\u003C\/SPAN\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/26315908\/#34738951\"\u003ENamed\u003C\/A\u003E open    transgender appointees (the first President ever to do so) \u003C\/P\u003E   \u003CLI class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt\"\u003E   \u003CP class=MsoNormal\u003E\u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/26315908\/#34740161\"\u003EBanned\u003C\/A\u003E job    discrimination based on gender identity throughout the Federal government (the    nation's largest employer) \u003C\/P\u003E   \u003CLI class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt\"\u003EEmphasized LGBT inclusion in    everything from the President's historic \u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the_press_office\/Remarks-by-the-President-to-the-NAACP-Centennial-Convention-07\/16\/2009\"\u003ENAACP\u003C\/A\u003E    address (\"The pain of discrimination is still felt in America.\u0026nbsp; By    African American women paid less for doing the same work as colleagues of a    different color and a different gender.\u0026nbsp; By Latinos made to feel    unwelcome in their own country.\u0026nbsp; By Muslim Americans viewed with    suspicion simply because they kneel down to pray to their God.\u0026nbsp; By our    gay brothers and sisters, still taunted, still attacked, still denied their    rights.\") .\u0026nbsp;.\u0026nbsp;. to the first paragraph of his \u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.org\/a\/2009\/09\/family_day_2009.php\"\u003EFamily Day\u003C\/A\u003E    proclamation (\"Whether children are raised by two parents, a single parent,    grandparents, a same-sex couple, or a guardian, families encourage us to do    our best and enable us to accomplish great things\") and his \u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/presidential-proclamation-mothers-day\"\u003EMothers    Day\u003C\/A\u003E proclamation (\"Nurturing families come in many forms, and children may    be raised by two parents, a single mother, two mothers, a step-mom, a    grandmother, or a guardian.\u0026nbsp; Mother's Day gives us an opportunity to    celebrate these extraordinary caretakers\") .\u0026nbsp;.\u0026nbsp;. to creating the    chance for an adorable 10-year-old at the White House Easter Egg roll to tell    \u003CA href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/story?id=7306401\u0026amp;page=1\"\u003EABC World    News\u003C\/A\u003E how cool it is to have two mommies .\u0026nbsp;.\u0026nbsp;. to including the    chair of the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce along with the    Secretary of the Treasury and the President of Goldman Sachs in the small    audience for the President's economic address at the New York Stock Exchange .    . . to welcoming four gay couples to its first\u003C!-- \/* Font Definitions *\/ @font-face {font-family:\"Cambria Math\"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-1610611985 1107304683 0 0 159 0;} \/* Style Definitions *\/ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:\"\"; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\"; mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {mso-style-unhide:no; color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; color:purple; mso-themecolor:followedhyperlink; text-decoration:underline; 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href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/10\/10\/obama-hrc-speech-video-pr_n_316529.html\"\u003ERecommitted\u003C\/A\u003E,    in a televised address, to passing ENDA .\u0026nbsp;.\u0026nbsp;. repealing Don't    Ask\/Don't Tell\u0026nbsp; .\u0026nbsp;.\u0026nbsp;. repealing the so-called Defense of    Marriage Act    \u003CLI class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt\"\u003E\u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/remarks-president-national-prayer-breakfast\"\u003ESpoken    out\u003C\/A\u003E against discrimination at the National Prayer Breakfast (\"We may    disagree about gay marriage, but surely we can agree that it is unconscionable    to target gays and lesbians for who they are -- whether it's here in the    United States or, as Hillary mentioned, more extremely in odious laws that are    being proposed most recently in Uganda.\")    \u003CLI class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt\"\u003E\u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/02\/02\/mike-mullen-calls-for-rep_n_446067.html\"\u003EDispatched\u003C\/A\u003E    the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to call    on the Senate to repeal Don't Ask \/ Don't Tell, in the meantime dialing back    on discharges    \u003CLI class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt\"\u003ELaunched a \u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/portal.hud.gov\/portal\/page\/portal\/HUD\/LGBT_Discrimination_Study\"\u003Ewebsite    \u003C\/A\u003Eto gather public comment on first-ever federal LGBT housing discrimination    study\u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/portal.hud.gov\/portal\/page\/portal\/HUD\/LGBT_Discrimination_Study\"\u003E    \u003C\/A\u003E   \u003CLI class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt\"\u003E\u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2010\/03\/yesdterday-presdient-obama-announced-that-he-would-make-fifteen-recess-appointments-and-expressed-his-frustration-with-a-lac.html\"\u003EAppointed\u003C\/A\u003E    long-time equality champion Chai Feldblum one of the four Commissioners of the    Equal Employment Opportunity Commission    \u003CLI class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt\"\u003E\u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/www.thetaskforce.org\/press\/releases\/pr_062009\"\u003EEliminated\u003C\/A\u003E the    discriminatory Census Bureau policy that kept our relationships from being    counted, \u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5i1MOQt0DqjJyug18zATl_nHDokJwD9ET5CM02\"\u003Eencouraging\u003C\/A\u003E    couples who consider themselves married to file that way, even if their state    of residence does not yet permit legal marriage    \u003CLI class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt\"\u003EProduced U.S. Census Bureau    PSAs featuring \u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/uscensusbureau#p\/c\/49091729A6064524\/2\/Ju4ia-HZvsg\"\u003Egay\u003C\/A\u003E,    \u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/uscensusbureau#p\/c\/49091729A6064524\/4\/516x-iE6Lu0\"\u003Elesbian\u003C\/A\u003E,    and \u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/uscensusbureau#p\/c\/49091729A6064524\/2\/Ju4ia-HZvsg\"\u003Etransgender\u003C\/A\u003E    spokespersons.    \u003CLI class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt\"\u003E\u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/POLITICS\/04\/15\/hospital.gay.visitation\/index.html\"\u003EInstructed\u003C\/A\u003E    HHS to require any hospital receiving Medicare or Medicaid funds (virtually    all hospitals) to allow LGBT visitation rights.    \u003CLI class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt\"\u003E\u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/releases\/release.aspx?releaseid=13573\"\u003EAppointed\u003C\/A\u003E    Retired Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer, an early public champion of open    service in the military, to the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the    Services    \u003CLI class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt\"\u003E\u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/portal.hud.gov\/portal\/page\/portal\/HUD\/press\/press_releases_media_advisories\/2010\/HUDNo.10-119\"\u003ERequired\u003C\/A\u003E    all grant applicants seeking HUD funding to comply with state and local    anti-discrimination laws that protect LGBT individuals.    \u003CLI class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt\"\u003E\u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/r\/pa\/prs\/ps\/2010\/06\/142922.htm\"\u003EAdopted\u003C\/A\u003E    transgender recommendations on the issuance of gender-appropriate passports    that will ease barriers to safe travel and that will provide government-issued    ID that avoids involuntary \"outing\" in situations requiring ID, like hiring,    where a gender-appropriate driver's license or birth certificate is not    available    \u003CLI class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt\"\u003E\u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/11\/us\/politics\/11gender.html?ref=todayspaper\"\u003EExtended\u003C\/A\u003E    domestic violence protections to LGBT victims    \u003CLI class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt\"\u003EPublicly \u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/www.aclu.org\/lgbt-rights\/mississippi-lesbian-banned-prom-invited-white-house\"\u003Einvited\u003C\/A\u003E    shunned MIssissippi high school prom student to\u0026nbsp;the White House\u0026nbsp;    \u003CLI class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt\"\u003E\u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/www.law.ucla.edu\/WilliamsInstitute\/pdf\/FMLA_Final.pdf\"\u003EExtended\u003C\/A\u003E    the Family and Medical Leave Act to cover\u0026nbsp;employees taking unpaid leave    to care for the children of same-sex partners    \u003CLI class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt\"\u003E\u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/portal.hud.gov\/portal\/page\/portal\/HUD\/program_offices\/fair_housing_equal_opp\/LGBT Housing Discrimination\"\u003EIssued\u003C\/A\u003E    guidance specifically to assist LGBT tenants denied housing on the basis of    sexual orientation or gender identity    \u003CLI class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt\"\u003E\u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/www.kaiserhealthnews.org\/Stories\/2010\/July\/13\/national-aids-strategy-document.aspx\"\u003EIssued\u003C\/A\u003E    a National HIV\/AIDS Strategy praised as \"long-overdue\" by the Task Force,    Lambda and others    \u003CLI class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt\"\u003ESuccessfully \u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/07\/international_gay_rights_group_opposed_by_gop-ers.php\"\u003Efought\u003C\/A\u003E    for UN accreditation of IGLHRC (the International Gay \u0026amp; Lesbian Human    Rights Commission) -- against Republican attempts to block it    \u003CLI class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt\"\u003E\u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/www.lgbtpov.com\/2010\/08\/us-education-departments-kevin-jennings-to-call-for-national-plan-to-deal-with-bullying\/\"\u003EConvened\u003C\/A\u003E    the first-ever anti-bullying summit to craft a national strategy to reduce    bullying in schools.    \u003CLI class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt\"\u003E\u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/laglc.convio.net\/site\/News2?page=NewsArticle\u0026amp;id=13263\"\u003EAwarded\u003C\/A\u003E    $13.3 million to the LA Gay \u0026amp; Lesbian Center to create a model program for    LGBTQ youth in the foster care system. \u003C\/LI\u003E\u003C\/OL\u003E \u003CP\u003EThe Administration will continue to make steady progress on our issues  whether we help strengthen its hand or not.\u0026nbsp; But the stronger it is, the  faster that progress will come.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan 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limbaugh"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"so will america"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Tea Parties"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Obama Will Triumph -- So Will America"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv style=\"padding: 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"right\" bgcolor=\"#ff9900\" height=\"20\" width=\"75\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cmeta name=\"title\" content=\"Obama Will Triumph -- So Will America\"\u003E\u003Cmeta name=\"description\" content=\"Before he'd served even one year President Obama lost the support of the easily distracted left and engendered the white hot rage of the hate-filled right. But some of us, from all walks of life and  ideological backgrounds -- including this white, straight, 57-year- old, former religious right wing agitator, now progressive writer and (given my background as the son of a famous evangelical leader)  this unlikely Obama supporter -- are sticking with our President.Why? -- because he is succeeding.\"\u003E\u003Clink rel=\"image_src\" href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/graphics\/jpgs\/posts\/tea-party-signs.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cscript\u003Efunction fbs_click() {u=location.href;t=document.title;window.open('http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(u)+'\u0026t='+encodeURIComponent(t),'sharer','toolbar=0,status=0,width=626,height=436');return false;}\u003C\/script\u003E\u003Cstyle\u003E html .fb_share_button { display: -moz-inline-block; display:inline-block; padding:1px 20px 0 5px; height:15px; border:1px solid #d8dfea; background:url(http:\/\/b.static.ak.fbcdn.net\/rsrc.php\/zAB5S\/hash\/4273uaqa.gif) no-repeat top right; } html .fb_share_button:hover { color:#fff; border-color:#295582; background:#3b5998 url(http:\/\/b.static.ak.fbcdn.net\/rsrc.php\/zAB5S\/hash\/4273uaqa.gif) no-repeat top right; text-decoration:none; } \u003C\/style\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=%3Curl%3E\" class=\"fb_share_button\" onclick=\"return fbs_click()\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003EShare\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy Frank Schaeffer\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EBefore he'd served even one year President Obama lost the support of the easily distracted left and engendered the white hot rage of the hate-filled right. But some of us, from all walks of life and  ideological backgrounds -- including this white, straight, 57-year- old, former religious right wing agitator, now progressive writer and (given my background as the son of a famous evangelical leader)  this unlikely Obama supporter -- are sticking with our President. \r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy? -- because he is succeeding.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe faithful Obama supporters still trust our initial impression of him as a great, good and uniquely qualified man to lead us. Obama's steady supporters will be proved right. Obama's critics will be remembered as easily panicked and prematurely discouraged at best and shriveled hate mongers at worst.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Context of the Obama Presidency\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot since the days of the rise of fascism in Europe, the Second World War and the Depression has any president faced more adversity. Not since the Civil War has any president led a more bitterly divided country. Not since the introduction of racial integration has any president faced a more consistently short-sighted and willfully ignorant opposition - from both the right and left.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs the President's poll numbers have fallen, so has his support from some on the left who were hailing him as a Messiah not long ago; all those lefty websites and commentators who were falling all over themselves on behalf of our first black president during the 2008 election.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe left's lack of faith has become a self-fulfilling \"prophecy\" -- snipe at the President and then watch the poll numbers fall and then pretend you didn't have anything to do with it!\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EHere is what Obama faced when he took office -- none of which was his fault:\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E# An ideologically divided country to the point that America was really two countries\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E# Two wars; one that was mishandled from the start, the other that was unnecessary and immoral\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E# The worst economic crisis since the Depression\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E#  America's standing in the world at the lowest point in history\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E# A country that had been misled into accepting the use of torture of prisoners of war\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E# A health care system in free-fall\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E# An educational system in free-fall\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E# A global environmental crisis of history-altering proportions (about which the Bush Administration and the Republicans had done nothing)\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E# An impasse between culture warriors from the right and left\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E# A huge financial deficit inherited from the terminally inept, irresponsible Bush Administration.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd those were only some of the problems sitting on the President's desk!\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Help\" from the Right?\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat did the Republicans and the religious right, libertarians and half-baked conspiracy theorists -- that is what the Republicans were reduced to by the time Obama took office -- do to \"help\" our new president (and our country) succeed? They claimed that he wasn't a real American, didn't have an American birth certificate, wasn't born here, was secretly a Muslim, was a white-hating \"racist,\" was secretly a communist, was actually the Anti-Christ, (!) and was a reincarnation of Hitler and wanted \"death panels\" to kill the elderly!\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey not-so-subtly called for his assassination through the not-so-subtle use of vile signs held at their rallies and even a bumper sticker quoting Psalm 109:8. They organized \"tea parties\" to sound off against imagined insults and all government in general and gathered to howl at the moon. They were led by insurance industry lobbyists and deranged (but well financed) corporate \"commentators\" from Glenn Beck to Rush Limbaugh.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe utterly discredited Roman Catholic bishops teamed up with the utterly discredited evangelical leaders to denounce a president who was trying to actually do something about the poor, the   environment, to diminish the number of abortions through compassionate programs to help women and to care for the sick! And in Congress, the Republican leadership only knew one word: \"No!\"\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn other words, the reactionary white, rube, uneducated, crazy American far right, combined with the educated but obtuse neo-conservative war mongers, religious right shills for big business, libertarian Fed Reserve-hating gold bug, gun-loving crazies, child-molesting acquiescent \"bishops,\" frontier loons and evangelical gay-hating flakes found one thing to briefly unite them: their desire to stop an uppity black man from succeeding at all costs!\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Help\" from the Left?\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat did the left do to help their newly elected president? Some of them excoriated the President because they disagreed with the bad choices he was being forced to make regarding a war in Afghanistan that he'd inherited from the worst president in modern history! Others stood up and bravely proclaimed that the President's economic policies had \"failed\" before the President even instituted them! Others said that, since all gay rights battles had not been fully won within virtually minutes of the President taking office, they'd been \"betrayed\"! (Never mind that Obama's vocal support to the gay community is stronger than any other president's has been. Never mind that he signed a new hate crimes law!)\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EThose that had stood in transfixed legions weeping with beatific emotion on election night turned into an angry mob saying how \"disappointed\" they were that they'd not all immediately been translated to Heaven the moment Obama stepped into the White House! Where was the \"change\"? Contrary to their expectations, they were still mere mortals!\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the legion of young new supporters was too busy texting to pay attention for longer than a nanosecond. \"Governing\"?! What  the hell does that word, uh, like mean?\"\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe President's critics left and right all had one thing in common: impatience laced with little-to-no sense of history (let alone reality) thrown in for good measure. Then, of course, there were the white, snide know-it-all commentators\/talking heads who just couldn't imagine that maybe, just maybe, they weren't as smart as they thought they were and certainly not as smart as their president. He hadn't  consulted them, had he? So he must be wrong!\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Obama critics' ideological ideas defined their idea of reality rather than reality defining their ideas - say, about what is possible in one year in office after the hand that the President had been dealt by fate, or to be exact, by the American idiot  nation that voted Bush into office. twice!\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile back in the reality-based community - in just 12 short months -- President Obama:\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E#Continued to draw down the misbegotten war in Iraq;\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E(But that wasn't good enough for his critics)\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E#Thoughtfully and decisively picked the best of several bad choices regarding the war in Afghanistan;\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E(But that wasn't good enough for his critics)\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E#Gave a major precedent-setting speech supporting gay rights;\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E(But that wasn't good enough for his critics)\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E#Restored America's image around the globe;\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E(But that wasn't good enough for his critics)\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E#Banned torture of American prisoners;\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E(But that wasn't good enough for his critics)\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E#Stopped the free-fall of the American economy;\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E(But that wasn't good enough for his critics)\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E#Put the USA squarely back in the bilateral international community;\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E(But that wasn't good enough for his critics)\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E#Put the USA squarely into the middle of the international effort to halt global warming;\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E(But that wasn't good enough for his critics)\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E#Stood up for educational reform;\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E(But that wasn't good enough for his critics)\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E#Won a Nobel Peace Prize;\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E(But that wasn't good enough for his critics)\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E#Moved the trial of terrorists back into the American judicial system of checks and balances;\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E(But that wasn't good enough for his critics)\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E#Did what had to be done to start the slow, torturous and almost impossible process of health care reform that 7 presidents had failed to even begin;\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E(But that wasn't good enough for his critics)\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E#Responded to hatred from the right and left with measured good humor and  patience;\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E(But that wasn't good enough for his critics)\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E#Stopped the free-fall of job losses;\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E(But that wasn't good enough for his critics)\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E#Showed immense personal courage in the face of an armed and dangerous far right opposition that included the sort of disgusting people who show up at public meetings carrying loaded weapons and  carrying Timothy McVeigh-inspired signs about the \"blood of tyrants\" needing to \"water the tree of liberty\";\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E(But that wasn't good enough for his critics)\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E#Showed that he could not only make the tough military choices but explain and defend them brilliantly;\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E(But that wasn't good enough for his critics)\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EOther than those \"disappointing\" accomplishments -- IN ONE YEAR, President Obama \"failed\"! Other than that, he didn't \"live up to expectations\"!\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EWho actually has failed...\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E...are the Americans who can't see the beginning of a miracle of national rebirth right under their jaded noses.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EWho failed are the smart ass ideologues of the left and right who began rooting for this President to fail so that they could be proved right in their dire and morbid predictions.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EWho failed are the movers and shakers behind our obscenely dumb news cycles that have turned \"news\" into just more stupid entertainment for an entertainment-besotted infantile country.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EHere's the good news: President Obama is succeeding without the help of his lefty \"supporters\" or hate-filled Republican detractors!\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Future Looks Good\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter Obama has served two full terms, (and he will), after his wisdom in moving deliberately and cautiously with great subtlety on all fronts -- with a canny and calculating eye to the possible succeeds, (it will), after the economy is booming and new industries are burgeoning, (they will be), after the doomsayers are all proved not just wrong but silly: let the record show that not all Americans were panicked into thinking the sky was falling.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EJust because we didn't get everything we wanted in the first short and fraught year Obama was in  office, not all of us gave up. Some of us stayed the course. And we will be proved right.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EP.S. If you agree that Obama is shaping up to be a great president, please pass this on and hang in there! 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Owner\/Marketing Consultant, MSBideas, Los Angeles\u003Cbr \/\u003E   * Maria Giuriato, President-Giuriato \u0026amp; Associates, Central Coast\u003Cbr \/\u003E   * Maryles Casto, CEO \u0026amp; President, Casto Travel, Inc., Bay Area\u003Cbr \/\u003E   * Olga Enciso Smith, Business Woman\/Hispanic Community Activist, Inca Gardens Personal Chef and Nutrients, Bay Area\u003Cbr \/\u003E   * Dorene Dominguez, Business Owner, Northern California Colleen Jordan Hallinan, Principal and Senior VP, Hewins Financial Advisors, Bay Area\u003Cbr \/\u003E   * Luisa Acosta-Franco, Insurance Executive, Bay Area\u003Cbr \/\u003E   * Teresa Angeles, Business Owner, Bay Area\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E===============================================\u003Cbr \/\u003Emeg whitman on Immigration:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.megwhitman.com\/platform_topic.php?type=immigration\u0026amp;page=1\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.megwhitman.com\/platform_topic.php?type=immigration\u0026amp;page=1\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENO Amnesty, NO Sanctuaries, NO Driver License, NO admission to schools for undocumented students, etc\u003Cbr \/\u003EYES to work-place raids, YES to all enforcement necessary, YES to\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E================================================\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.megwhitman.com\/latinos.php\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.megwhitman.com\/latinos.php\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' 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thatcher"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"neoliberalism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"ronald reagan"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Neoliberalism Triumphant"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003CP\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003E\u003CFONT size=4\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2010\/6\/5\/873189\/-Neoliberalism-Triumphant\"\u003EDailyKos\u003C\/A\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003C\/P\u003Eby  \u003CA href=\"http:\/\/richard-lyon.dailykos.com\"\u003ERichard Lyon\u003C\/A\u003E Sat Jun 05, 2010 at  01:16:04 PM PDT  \u003CP\u003EThe 1980s brought the dawn of a neoliberal era in the Anglo-Saxon world. That  era has continued to the present day in much the same way that the social  democratic era persisted from the 1940s to the 1970s. When the neoliberals came  to power they had a well developed agenda that had been building for 30 years.  They promptly and aggressively set about implementing it.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E\u003C!-- polls come after this --\u003E \u003CDIV\u003EThese three diaries provide background for this diary.\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV id=extended\u003E \u003CP\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2010\/6\/2\/872303\/-Globalization,-A-Pictorial-History\"\u003EGlobalization,  A Pictorial History\u003C\/A\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2010\/6\/3\/872608\/-Neoliberals:-Where-Do-They-Come-From\"\u003ENeoliberals:  Where Do They Come From?\u003C\/A\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2010\/6\/4\/872893\/-Birth-Of-Neoliberalism\"\u003EBirth  Of Neoliberalism\u003C\/A\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EDuring the 1950s and 1960s the business and financial elite grudgingly  tolerated the regime of social democracy. They chafed at its regulatory  restrictions and tax rates. They strongly backed the campaigns that led to the  election of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. At last it was Morning In  America and Nirvana In Albion. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CIMG alt=\" title=\" hspace=10  src=\"http:\/\/i590.photobucket.com\/albums\/ss349\/RichardLyon\/neoliberal origins\/Thatcher_Reagan.jpg\"  align=left vspace=10\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EAt this point let us compare some of the basic policy positions of social  democracy and neoliberalism. As with any political and economic movements there  is no universal dogma to which all people who are associated with the movement  consistently adhere. However, there are some basic areas of difference that have  remained consistently apparent.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003ESocial Democrats \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;Neoliberals\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EFair Trade \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;  \u0026nbsp; Free Trade\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003ERegulated Markets \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;Deregulated Markets\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003ELabor Rights \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; Labor  Flexibility\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EMixed Economy \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; Privatization\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EEconomic Democracy \u0026nbsp; Tax Cuts\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EI am going to confine this discussion to the Regan administration. The  Thatcher government was not fundamentally different in its basic philosophy and  approach and the two governments worked in close concert on international  issues. We will start with a look at the international economic policies of the  Regan administration. They developed into what has become known as the  Washington consensus and it is this group of policies that have been most  frequently associated with the term neoliberal in the general media. However, it  is my view that the domestic economic policies that became popularly known as  Reaganomics are an integral part of neoliberalism.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EThe Breton Woods conference of 1944 developed two international financial  institutions The International Monetary Fund and what eventually became known as  The World Bank. The conference proposed the development of an International  Trade Organization. It was more difficult for that organization to see the light  of day. It got off to a start as the General Agreement On Tariffs And Trade in  1947 and eventually emerged as the World Trade Organization in 1995.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EOriginally the stated purpose of these organizations was to bring financial  stability to the world after the chaos of the Great Depression and WWII. Their  governance and organizational structure were developed in a manner that assured  that they would be consistently dominated and controlled by an American-British  coalition.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EReagan had an explicit policy objective of moving the programs of these  international organizations in a neoliberal direction. The IMF has by far been  the most notorious of the organizations in its policy initiatives. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CIMG  alt=\" title=\" hspace=10  src=\"http:\/\/i590.photobucket.com\/albums\/ss349\/RichardLyon\/neoliberal origins\/imf-f.gif\"  align=left vspace=10\u003E \u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt is the sledge hammer that has been used to  open the economies of the world's poorer countries to the domination of global  capital. The core approach is the\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington_Consensus#List_of_recommendations\"\u003EWashington  Consensus\u003C\/A\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CBLOCKQUOTE\u003E   \u003COL\u003E     \u003CLI value=1\u003EFiscal policy discipline;\u003C\/LI\u003E\u003C\/OL\u003E   \u003CP\u003E\u0026nbsp; 2. Redirection of public spending from subsidies (\"especially    indiscriminate subsidies\") toward broad-based provision of key pro-growth,    pro-poor services like primary education, primary health care and    infrastructure investment; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp; 3. Tax reform – broadening the tax base    and adopting moderate marginal tax rates; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp; 4. Interest rates that    are market determined and positive (but moderate) in real terms; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp; 5.    Competitive exchange rates; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp; 6. Trade liberalization –    liberalization of imports, with particular emphasis on elimination of    quantitative restrictions (licensing, etc.); any trade protection to be    provided by low and relatively uniform tariffs; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp; 7. Liberalization    of inward foreign direct investment; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp; 8. Privatization of state    enterprises; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp; 9. Deregulation – abolition of regulations that impede    market entry or restrict competition, except for those justified on safety,    environmental and consumer protection grounds, and prudent oversight of    financial institutions; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;10. Legal security for property rights.  \u003C\/P\u003E\u003C\/BLOCKQUOTE\u003E \u003CP\u003EThird world countries facing financial crises have been forced to adhere to  policies in compliance with the WC as a condition of stabilization and  development loans from the IMF and World Bank. Rather than possitive economic  development, this approach has often resulted in serious economic disruption and  increased poverty. Indigenous agriculture has been supplanted by imports from  agribiz creating a flood of migrants in search of a means of survival. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CIMG  alt=\" title=\" hspace=10  src=\"http:\/\/i590.photobucket.com\/albums\/ss349\/RichardLyon\/neoliberal origins\/maricopab.jpg\"\u003E  \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EThe fundamental goal of Reagan's domestic economic policies was to roll back  the New Deal. To this day his devoted followers are campaigning to have his head  replace that of FDR on the dime. The programs and policies became known as  Reaganomics. One of the memorable notions is that of trickle down wealth. If we  allow the rich to get richer, somehow we are all supposed to benefit. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CIMG  alt=\" title=\" hspace=10  src=\"http:\/\/i590.photobucket.com\/albums\/ss349\/RichardLyon\/neoliberal origins\/reaganomics_unemployment.jpg\"  align=left vspace=10\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EThe general outlines of the program were:\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\u0026nbsp; 1. Reduce government spending, \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp; 2. Reduce income and capital  gains marginal tax rates, \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp; 3. Reduce government regulation of the  economy, \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp; 4. Control the money supply to reduce inflation.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EOne of his first dramatic acts upon taking office was to destroy the air  traffic controllers union Patco. Yet when he ran for reelection four years  later, large numbers of blue collar union members proudly supported him under  the banner of Reagan Democrats. Ronald Reagan's greatest achievement was to be  the country's unequaled champion in the sale of snake oil. He did it with a  Democratic majority in congress. George H. W. Bush essentially continued the  same policies during his administration.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EBy the beginning of the 1990s neoliberalism had become so entrenched that  traditional social democratic parties despaired of ever holding office again if  they followed the platforms of their predecessors. This quandary gave rise to  what became known as the Third Way movement. It proponents have claimed to be  seeking a synthesis between neoliberalism and social democracy.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EIn 1992 in the teeth of a difficult recession Bill Clinton won the presidency  running on a platform of the New Democrats. A few years later Tony Blair became  UK prime minister on a platform of New Labour. Bill and Tony became a dynamic  trans-Atlantic duo equal to Ronnie and Maggie. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CIMG alt=\" title=\" hspace=10  src=\"http:\/\/i590.photobucket.com\/albums\/ss349\/RichardLyon\/neoliberal origins\/Clinton_Blair.jpg\"  align=left vspace=10\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EGerhard Schröder leader of the German Social  Democratic Party followed a somewhat similar path.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EOne of the impacts of eights years of the Clinton White House was to cut into  the ratings of the more traditional soap operas. The administration never lacked  for entertainment. It has now been long enough to close the books on the Clinton  administration and conduct a political accounting. On the economic front the net  effect was a continuation of the neoliberal policies of the Reagan\/Bush era.  Clinton actively participated in the advancement of those policies in several  instances.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003COL\u003E   \u003CLI value=1\u003EThe establishment of NAFTA the North Atlantic Free Trade  Area.\u003C\/LI\u003E\u003C\/OL\u003E \u003COL\u003E   \u003CLI value=2\u003EThe full establishment of the World Trade Organization with its    committment to open free trade.\u003C\/LI\u003E\u003C\/OL\u003E \u003COL\u003E   \u003CLI value=3\u003EThe repeal of New Deal income assistance programs replaced by    \"workfare\".\u003C\/LI\u003E\u003C\/OL\u003E \u003CP\u003EClinton had the good luck to be riding a major bubble in the stock market  during most of his presidency. There is little plausibility that his policies  had much to do with its beginning or with its end. It did provide him with the  opportunity to establish a balanced budget.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EWhile neither Clinton nor any other Democratic president would ever engage in  Regan's union busting antics, the policies of the Clinton years were decidedly  detrimental to the American labor movement. Manufacturing and technology jobs  declined and union membership in the private sector continued to shrink.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EA five member majority of the United States Supreme Court gave us George W.  Bush and his compassionate conservatism. Economically what this turned out to be  was to cut taxes for the wealthy, maintain government programs at essentially  the same level to keep the middle class happy, drastically increase military  spending with two wars and pay for it all by gargantuan increases in the public  debt. Like Clinton he was helped by a housing bubble for much of his presidency.  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By Aurora Grajeda -- No doubt, Immigration is the hottest issue in the United States, anti-immigrant RAGE is running at a feverish pace thus allowing for decisions that many consider ill thought out and badly implemented. The first thing that needs to be said is that this is a very old and recurring story, it's genesis can be traced back roughly 152 years, since then, it keeps erupting every time there are difficult economic times which result in the need to find the 'guilty' ones, time and time again, immigrants have been the preferred choice for scapegoating, rather than taking an honest look at the real causes of both, the economic downturns and the mass migration of people affected by US Corporatist Policies. \"\u003E\u003Clink rel=\"image_src\" href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/graphics\/jpgs\/posts\/juarez-children.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cscript\u003Efunction fbs_click() {u=location.href;t=document.title;window.open('http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(u)+'\u0026t='+encodeURIComponent(t),'sharer','toolbar=0,status=0,width=626,height=436');return false;}\u003C\/script\u003E\u003Cstyle\u003E html .fb_share_button { display: -moz-inline-block; display:inline-block; padding:1px 20px 0 5px; height:15px; border:1px solid #d8dfea; background:url(http:\/\/b.static.ak.fbcdn.net\/rsrc.php\/zAB5S\/hash\/4273uaqa.gif) no-repeat top right; } html .fb_share_button:hover { color:#fff; border-color:#295582; background:#3b5998 url(http:\/\/b.static.ak.fbcdn.net\/rsrc.php\/zAB5S\/hash\/4273uaqa.gif) no-repeat top right; text-decoration:none; } \u003C\/style\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=%3Curl%3E\" class=\"fb_share_button\" onclick=\"return fbs_click()\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003EShare\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EAre the Spirit and Provisions of SC\/CIRCA being  observed and followed?\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EBy Aurora Grajeda\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:font-size:100%;\"  \u003ENo doubt, Immigration is the hottest issue in the  United States, anti-immigrant sentiment is running at a feverish pace thus  allowing for decisions that many consider ill thought out and badly  implemented.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EThe first thing that needs to be said is that this  is a very old and recurring story, it's genesis can be traced back roughly 152  years, since then, it keeps erupting every time there are difficult economic  times which result in the need to find the 'guilty' ones, time and time again,  immigrants have been the preferred choice for scapegoating, rather than taking  an honest look at the real causes of both, the economic downturns and the mass  migration of people affected by US Corporatist Policies.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EWhile this post is not about the history of  anti-immigrant sentiments in the United States, it is important to mention that  it is very old indeed and that many groups have been the targets, the  nationalities or ethnic characteristics may change, but the words and the  actions, do not; Mexicans, Chinese, Italian, Germans, Japanese and who can  forget the anti-Irish ignominies? All of these were\/are fueled by  a mixture of Racism, Xenophobia, Nativism, etc.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EThe Anti-Immigrant Rage is as old as the Nation  Itself.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EThe latest examples are the SB1070 Arizona Law and  The Secure Communities programs rapid expansion, California is one of the States  which signed on to participate, in San Francisco, it is scheduled to be in  effect June 1st., yes, tomorrow, and is planned to be implemented in all the US  by 2013.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003ESan Francisco's Sheriff, \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsheriff.com\/sheriffs.htm#J__Michael_Hennessey\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EMichael Hennessey\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E, is one  of the many Law Enforcement Officials raising the alarm and voicing concerns  that this program in reality will make our communities less safe, will interfere  with their Law Enforcement duties and will add economic burdens to their already  cash-strapped municipalities.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003ESheriff Hennessey, voiced his concerns  directly to California's Attorney General Jerry Brown with a   \u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Erequest to allow San Francisco \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sfbg.com\/2010\/05\/25\/insecure-sanctuary\" target=\"_self\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Eto opt out of Secure  Communities\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E, ICE’s  latest \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sfbg.com\/politics\/2010\/05\/17\/supes-sf-lets-opt-out-ices-automatic-fingerprint-referral-program\" target=\"_self\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Efederal-local law enforcement  collaboration\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cblockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\"\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.gaidh.sfbg.com\/politics\/2010\/05\/26\/immigration-update-good-news-bad-news\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EAG Brown’s letter\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E:\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Dear Sheriff Hennessey:\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EI am writing in response to your letter regarding  the Secure Communities program developed by U.S. Immigration and Customs  Enforcement (ICE). The program is scheduled to be rolled out in San Francisco  next month. You requested that the California Department of Justice (DOJ) block  ICE from running checks on the fingerprints collected in San Francisco. The  Secure Communities program is up and running in 169 counties in 20 states,  including 17 counties in California. \u003Cstrong\u003EBecause I think\u003C\/strong\u003E this  program serves both public safety and the interest of justice, I am declining  your request...\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E... \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003EI  appreciate your concern. \u003Cstrong\u003EBut I believe\u003C\/strong\u003E that working with the  federal government in this matter advances important and legitimate law  enforcement objectives. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003ESincerely, \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EEDMUND G. BROWN JR.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EAttorney  General.\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EAlbeit the high regard in which CA AG J. Brown's  opinions are held, as California's Top Law Enforncement Officer, his \u003Cstrong\u003E\"I  think..\"\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003E\"I believe...\"\u003C\/strong\u003E Fall far short of what is  to be expected of such High Ranking Law Enforcement Officer as an explanation as  to why Sheriff Hennessey's requests is being declined.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003ECA AG J. Brown, needs to be asked to expand on  how the participation of California with the Secure Communities Program came to  be the State's decision to participate, who was involved in this decision?  Was  the Law Enforcement Community consulted on how this would impact their duties?  The answer to this question appears to be in line with what the Appropriations  Committe expected from ICE to ascertain before implementation of CIRCA, also, an  explanation is owned to the people of California  to this question: Did the  Attorney General entered into, and is following the dictates, of a  \u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMOA (Memorandum of Agreement) with individual states prohibits them  from providing information about Secure Communities to the media, without first  getting the consent of ICE?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EThere seems to be a veil of secrecy RE this program,  so I thought it could be a good idea to inform myself a little more about it,  here are a couple of points on what I found out, I hope that better prepared  persons also do take a closer look to determine, not only what it is, but if the  provisions and the spirit of the bill are being observed and followed, are  they?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cblockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\"\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E“Secure Communities: A Comprehensive Plan  to Identify and Remove Criminal Aliens (Secure Communities\/CIRCA) -- ( H.R.2892  -- SC\/CIRCA)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E[From the:] \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thomas.gov\/cgi-bin\/cpquery\/?\u0026amp;dbname=cp111\u0026amp;sid=cp111Ct6ND\u0026amp;refer=\u0026amp;r_n=hr157.111\u0026amp;item=\u0026amp;sel=TOC_161885\u0026amp;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHouse Report 111-157 - DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY  APPROPRIATIONS BILL, 2010\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EIn the 2008 and 2009 Appropriations Acts, Congress  provided $350,000,000 in unrequested funding to initiate the Comprehensive  Identification and Removal of Criminal Aliens (CIRCA) program, which ICE has  renamed `Secure Communities.' In addition, in the 2009 Appropriations Act,  Congress directed that at least $1,000,000,000 of ICE's budget be used to  identify aliens convicted of crimes, and \u003Cem\u003Eto ensure their removal  \u003Cstrong\u003Eonce they have been judged  deportable\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E \u003Cblockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\"\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003EUsing the funds previously appropriated for  Secure Communities, ICE has instituted an effective pilot program that locates  criminal aliens through coordination with local jail facilities, while  maintaining the clear division between the law enforcement roles of Federal and  local officers. In brief, the ICE system known as `Interoperability' allows  local law enforcement agencies to check fingerprints of individuals booked on  criminal charges against both national criminal and immigration databases.\u003Cem\u003E  If an individual is identified through this system as illegally present in the  United States, ICE can take appropriate \u003Cstrong\u003Esteps to ensure the most  dangerous of these criminals \u003Cu\u003Eare deported upon completion of their jail  sentences\u003C\/u\u003E,\u003C\/strong\u003E while those convicted of lesser crimes are identified  and deported as resources allow.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhile the Committee supports  Secure Communities, it also believes \u003Cu\u003EICE must work to make sure the program's  implementation does not negatively impact other aspects of the judicial  system\u003C\/u\u003E and allows for appropriate transparency for those prosecuted for  immigration violations. \u003Cu\u003EIn particular, the Committee has heard concerns from  some jurisdictions that ICE detains individuals in immigration custody while  criminal charges are still pending against them, effectively trumping the  administration of criminal justice\u003C\/u\u003E.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E To minimize this  occurrence, it is imperative for ICE field agents to maintain regular  communication with local jails and courts on the actions ICE takes relative to  individuals who are identified through the local booking process. Furthermore,  in order to track the program's performance and effectiveness, the  \u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECommittee expects ICE to maintain and regularly update performance  data from the locations where the Secure Communities program has been  implemented, and to report frequently on the results of the program, both to the  public and the Congress.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EIn addition to its Secure Communities initiative,  \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ethe Committee believes ICE must do more with its existing programs  to ensure that it is focusing its efforts \u003Cu\u003Eon those who represent the greatest  threats to society and civil order\u003C\/u\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E Whether it be efforts to  locate at-large criminals through the Fugitive Operations program, disrupt  transnational criminal gangs through targeted investigations, or more effective  use of the Interoperability system at prisons where ICE personnel are already  stationed, the agency must make sure it is doing all that it can to find and  remove criminals who have been judged deportable. In an analysis of its 2009  budget, ICE reported to the Committee that it will spend $1,411,795,000 on these  efforts, well in excess of the $1,000,000,000 Congress directed be allocated to  these activities. Recognizing the increased funding provided both for the Secure  Communities program and other activities related to apprehending criminal  aliens, the Committee directs ICE to use not less than $1,500,000,000 of its  2010 budget to address this issue.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EH.R.2892\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cb\u003ETitle:\u003C\/b\u003E  Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2010\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003ESponsor:  \u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thomas.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d111\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Rep+Price++David+E.%29%29+00930%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003ERep Price, David E.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E [NC-4]  (introduced 6\/16\/2009)      Cosponsors (None)\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003ERelated Bills:\u003C\/b\u003E  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thomas.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d111:HE00573:\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EH.RES.573\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E, \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thomas.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d111:HE00829:\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EH.RES.829\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E, \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thomas.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d111:SN01298:\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003ES.1298\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003ELatest Major Action:  \u003C\/b\u003EBecame Public Law No: 111-83 [GPO: \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thomas.gov\/cgi-bin\/toGPObss\/http:\/\/frwebgate.access.gpo.gov\/cgi-bin\/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_public_laws\u0026amp;docid=f:publ083.111\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EText\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E, \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thomas.gov\/cgi-bin\/toGPObss\/http:\/\/frwebgate.access.gpo.gov\/cgi-bin\/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_public_laws\u0026amp;docid=f:publ083.111.pdf\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EPDF\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E]\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EHouse  Reports: \u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thomas.gov\/cgi-bin\/cpquery\/R?cp111:FLD010:@1%28hr157%29\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E111-157\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E; \u003Cspan class=\"label\"\u003ELatest Conference Report: \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thomas.gov\/cgi-bin\/cpquery\/R?cp111:FLD010:@1%28hr298%29\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E111-298\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E (in Congressional  Record \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thomas.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/R?r111:FLD001:H11196\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EH11195-11257\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E) \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EThrough SC\/CIRCA, each of ICE’s Detention and  Removal Operations (DRO) field offices will be notified of any potential  immigration match from these automatic database checks and can take action  quickly even if the dangerous criminal alien is no longer in  custody.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thomas.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/z?c111:H.R.2892:\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EThere are 6 versions of Bill Number H.R.2892 for the 111th  Congress\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1 . \u003C\/b\u003EDepartment of Homeland Security  Appropriations Act, 2010 (Reported in House)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thomas.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/D?c111:1:.\/temp\/%7Ec111NuJcEl::\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E[H.R.2892.RH]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E[\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/frwebgate.access.gpo.gov\/cgi-bin\/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills\u0026amp;docid=f:h2892rh.txt.pdf\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EPDF\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E]\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E2 .  \u003C\/b\u003EDepartment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2010 (Engrossed as  Agreed to or Passed by House)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thomas.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/D?c111:2:.\/temp\/%7Ec111NuJcEl::\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E[H.R.2892.EH]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E[\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/frwebgate.access.gpo.gov\/cgi-bin\/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills\u0026amp;docid=f:h2892eh.txt.pdf\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EPDF\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E]\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E3 .  \u003C\/b\u003EDepartment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2010 (Placed on Calendar  in Senate)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thomas.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/D?c111:3:.\/temp\/%7Ec111NuJcEl::\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E[H.R.2892.PCS]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E[\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/frwebgate.access.gpo.gov\/cgi-bin\/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills\u0026amp;docid=f:h2892pcs.txt.pdf\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EPDF\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E]\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E4 .  \u003C\/b\u003EDepartment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2010 (Engrossed  Amendment as Agreed to by Senate)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thomas.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/D?c111:4:.\/temp\/%7Ec111NuJcEl::\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E[H.R.2892.EAS]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E[\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/frwebgate.access.gpo.gov\/cgi-bin\/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills\u0026amp;docid=f:h2892eas.txt.pdf\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EPDF\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E]\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E5 .  \u003C\/b\u003EDepartment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2010 (Public  Print)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thomas.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/D?c111:5:.\/temp\/%7Ec111NuJcEl::\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E[H.R.2892.PP]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E[\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/frwebgate.access.gpo.gov\/cgi-bin\/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills\u0026amp;docid=f:h2892pp.txt.pdf\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EPDF\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E]\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E6 .  \u003C\/b\u003EDepartment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2010 (Enrolled as Agreed  to or Passed by Both House and Senate)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thomas.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/D?c111:6:.\/temp\/%7Ec111NuJcEl::\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E[H.R.2892.ENR]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E[\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/frwebgate.access.gpo.gov\/cgi-bin\/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills\u0026amp;docid=f:h2892enr.txt.pdf\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EPDF\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E]\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' 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and 27.9% for Hispanics — is beside the point.\" \/\u003E\u003Clink rel=\"image_src\" href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/graphics\/jpgs\/posts\/tea-party-signs.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003Cscript\u003Efunction fbs_click() {u=location.href;t=document.title;window.open('http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(u)+'\u0026t='+encodeURIComponent(t),'sharer','toolbar=0,status=0,width=626,height=436');return false;}\u003C\/script\u003E\u003Cstyle\u003E html .fb_share_button { display: -moz-inline-block; display:inline-block; padding:1px 20px 0 5px; height:15px; border:1px solid #d8dfea; background:url(http:\/\/b.static.ak.fbcdn.net\/rsrc.php\/zAB5S\/hash\/4273uaqa.gif) no-repeat top right; } html .fb_share_button:hover { color:#fff; border-color:#295582; background:#3b5998 url(http:\/\/b.static.ak.fbcdn.net\/rsrc.php\/zAB5S\/hash\/4273uaqa.gif) no-repeat top right; text-decoration:none; } \u003C\/style\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=\u003Curl\u003E\" class=\"fb_share_button\" onclick=\"return fbs_click()\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"\u003EShare\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EOriginally posted at \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/digbysblog.blogspot.com\/\"\u003EHullabaloo\u003C\/a\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ch3\u003ESunday, March 14, 2010\u003Ca name=\"9082474986019661890\"\u003E \u003C\/a\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E \t\t\t\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/digbysblog.blogspot.com\/2010_03_01_archive.html\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003ECheating The Honest Men\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003Eby digby\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/trueslant.com\/matttaibbi\/2010\/03\/03\/santelli-on-predatory-lending-you-cant-cheat-an-honest-man\/#more-1384\"\u003EMatt Taibbi\u003C\/a\u003E watched an exchange between Janet Tavakoli and Rick Santelli in which the former tried to explain why the financial crisis wasn't precipitated by a bunch of poor people illegally obtaining loans and observed that Santelli wasn't having any of it:\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile she’s saying all this stuff, Santelli, who is one of the fathers of the Tea Party movement, is shaking his head furiously, video-scoffing at everything she’s saying. When he finally does get a chance to speak, this is what he says:\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHere’s my problem with this. It takes two to tango. You  can’t cheat an honest man.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E \u003Cp\u003EYou can’t cheat an honest man? What the fuck does that mean?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003EThat one's a doozy, for sure. Have you ever heard that before?\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003ETaibbi then gets to the heart of the problem with the tea partiers and their cheerleaders like Santelli:\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis whole scene sort of encapsulates what’s wrong with the Tea Party movement. The movement, and let’s admit this, has some of its roots in legitimate grievances about government waste and some not-entirely-inaccurate observations about what’s left of the American welfare state. Of course what resonates most with the suburban whites who mostly make up the Tea Party are stories about minorities and immigrants using section 8 housing, food stamps, Medicaid, TANF and other programs, with the Obama stimulus being for them a symbol of this ongoing government largess. The heat of the Tea Party movement comes from the racial frustrations that actually exist out there, in the real world outside New York and LA, as urban expansion and immigration increasingly throw white and nonwhite communities together, with white Tea Party types more and more often blowing gaskets over increased crime rates, declining school standards, and mislaid or wasted tax revenue.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EThat this perception that minorities are the prime or sole consumers of government entitlement programs is absurdly inaccurate — white people, for instance, are overwhelmingly the largest nonelderly recipients of Medicaid, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.statehealthfacts.org\/comparebar.jsp?ind=158\u0026amp;cat=3\"\u003Emaking  up 42.8% of the program’s rolls nationwide\u003C\/a\u003E, compared to 22.2% for blacks and 27.9% for Hispanics — is beside the point. The point is that the Tea Party is built largely on this narrative of “personal responsibility,” where the central demons are unwed black and Hispanic mothers and absent black and Hispanic fathers, who are, let’s face it, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/LIVING\/wayoflife\/04\/08\/out.of.wedlock.births\/index.html\"\u003Enot  uncommon characters in the American melodrama\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EWhich is another subject for another time, but let’s just say this: the Tea Party movement contains a lot of people who are far more impressed by what they can see with their own eyes than with what, for instance, they read about. I’ve been to Tea Party events where global warming was dismissed by speakers who, without irony, pointed to the fact that there was snow on the ground outside. And while very few people have ever actually seen a CDO manager or a Countrywide executive, or were aware if it when they saw them, the Tea Party folks sure as hell have seen who their neighbors in foreclosure are.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EThe Fox\/CNBC types have very cannily latched on this narrative to rewrite the history of the financial crisis. They know that Tea Partiers will go for any narrative that puts blame on poor (and especially poor minority) homeowners, because the idea of poor blacks and Hispanics borrowing beyond their means fits seamlessly with their world view. But this is a situation where poor minorities were really incidental to a much larger fraud scheme that culminated in a welfare program — the bank bailouts — that dwarfs the entire “entitlement” infrastructure. But the millions of people who are actually in the Tea Party movement seem to have absolutely no idea that their so-called leaders, the Santellis of their world, are shilling for tax cheats and crooks and welfare bums of the sort they would despise (perhaps even more than their black and Hispanic neighbors), if they could actually see them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003EUnfortunately all the elites, political and otherwise, have a vested interest in keeping the rubes focused on the blacks and browns so it's hard to see the mechanism by which they will be revealed. And that's the whole purpose of right wing populism.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8790607268673214510\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/cheating-honest-men.html#comment-form","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/8790607268673214510"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/8790607268673214510"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/cheating-honest-men.html","title":"Cheating The Honest Men"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-2154206379738665044"},"published":{"$t":"2010-02-01T06:58:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2010-02-01T07:04:28.675-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"arms dealers"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"border war"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"ciudad juarez"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"dea"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"drug traffic"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"FBI"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"felipe calderon"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"killings"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"massacre"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"mexico"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"united states"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"violence"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Ciudad Juarez: The USA Drug Traffickers and Users' Killing Field."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv style=\"align: right;  padding: 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ctable width=\"75\" height=\"20\" ALIGN=\"RIGHT\" BGCOLOR=\"#FF9900\"\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cmeta name=\"title\" content=\"Ciudad Juarez: The USA Drug Traffickers and Users' Killing Field.\" \/\u003E\u003Cmeta name=\"description\" content=\"In cities all across the US, the Newspaper Headlines scream news of the drug-related violence in Ciudad Juares and that's good, people need to know what's going on there, however, in the columns that I read, I have not come across headlines screaming that there is such a thing as 'The Laws Of Supply And Demand', I only hear profusely about the Supply, but there is a deafening silence about the Demand, specifically, that the USA is the Market where the Demand for Drugs is what makes possible the Supply from Mexico, or that the USA is the largest arms dealer and it is primarily responsible for the guns that end up in the hands of the Drug Suppliers who are doing the killing.\" \/\u003E\u003Clink rel=\"image_src\" href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/graphics\/jpgs\/posts\/juarez-children.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003Cscript\u003Efunction fbs_click() {u=location.href;t=document.title;window.open('http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(u)+'\u0026t='+encodeURIComponent(t),'sharer','toolbar=0,status=0,width=626,height=436');return false;}\u003C\/script\u003E\u003Cstyle\u003E html .fb_share_button { display: -moz-inline-block; display:inline-block; padding:1px 20px 0 5px; height:15px; border:1px solid #d8dfea; background:url(http:\/\/b.static.ak.fbcdn.net\/rsrc.php\/zAB5S\/hash\/4273uaqa.gif) no-repeat top right; } html .fb_share_button:hover { color:#fff; border-color:#295582; background:#3b5998 url(http:\/\/b.static.ak.fbcdn.net\/rsrc.php\/zAB5S\/hash\/4273uaqa.gif) no-repeat top right; text-decoration:none; } \u003C\/style\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=\u003Curl\u003E\" class=\"fb_share_button\" onclick=\"return fbs_click()\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"\u003EShare\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EI feel that the top of my head will explode sky-high the next time I hear anyone say 'that Mexico needs to fix the drug trafficking problem' or asks 'why Mexico is not fixing.... blah, blah, blah' without going out in full force with a campaign to stop the drug market in the US or at least honestly admits that the demand makes the supply necessary.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ccite\u003ECiudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas, is Mexico's deadliest city. Authorities say turf battles between the Juarez and Sinaloa cartels are largely responsible for a continuing wave of drug-related violence that cost more than 2,500 lives in 2009.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EThroughout Mexico, drug-related violence has killed more than 15,000 people since President Felipe Calderon launched a crackdown on cartels three years ago.\u003C\/cite\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/graphics\/jpgs\/posts\/juarez-children.jpg\" alt=\"he Children of Ciudad Juarez\" title=\"The Children of Ciudad Juarez\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\"\u003EIn cities all across the US, the Newspaper Headlines scream news of the drug-related violence in Ciudad Juares and that's good, people need to know what's going on there, however, in the columns that I read, I have not come across headlines screaming that there is such a thing as \"The Laws Of Supply And Demand\", I only hear profusely about the Supply, but there is a deafening silence about the Demand, specifically, that the USA is the Market where the Demand for Drugs is what makes possible the Supply from Mexico, or that the USA is the largest arms dealer and it is primarily responsible for the guns that end up in the hands of the Drug Suppliers who are doing the killing.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow, when are we going to hear that the USA is going after the demand? Let's not forget, all that river of cash has to be going through somewhere, but I don't see how this could be accomplished without going through some banks.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat is the DEA is doing to crack down on this here in the USA? the FBI? Hmmmm, mum is the word.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EJan. 31, 2010: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/659\/story\/1718999.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E13 young students killed at party in Mexico border\u003C\/a\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EFeb. 1, 2010: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/news\/afp\/Mexico_mass_shootings_kill_23_in_on_02012010.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EAt least 23 people were killed\u003C\/a\u003E in separate mass shootings in northern Mexico as the country continued to reel from drug-related violence.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Ciudad Juarez, gunmen drove up to a house where a high school party was in full swing and opened fire killing 13 people and wounding 17 others, the city public safety agency said.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EMost of the victims were \"youngsters,\" said the Chihuahua state attorney general's office.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was the third mass shooting of youngsters in Mexico since September when, within two weeks, 28 youths were killed in two separate shootings at drug rehabilitation centers.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EMost of the victims were students aged between 19 and 25, authorities said.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe war waged by several powerful drug cartels in Mexico has already left 15,000 people dead. The government has deployed 50,000 troops and thousands of police in an effort to put the violence under control.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EJan. 5, 2010: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/world\/breakingnews\/80740787.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EGunman kill 13 people in single day in border city of Ciudad Juarez\u003C\/a\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EJan. 12, 2010: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thehiphopconsultant.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/12\/mexicos-drug-war-has-69-people-murdered-in-one-day\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EMexico’s Drug War Has 69 People Murdered In One Day\u003C\/a\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EMexico opened the new year with what could be its most dubious distinction yet in the 3-year-old battle against drug trafficking — 69 murders in one day.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe country resembled a grim, statistical dart board Saturday as law enforcement and media reported the deaths from various regions, including 26 in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, 13 in and around Mexico City and 10 in the northern city of Chihuahua.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EMore than 6,500 drug-related killings made 2009 the bloodiest year since President Felipe Calderon declared war on the cartels in late 2006 and deployed 45,000 soldiers to fight organized crime, according to death tallies by San Diego’s Trans-Border Institute\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003ENov. 14, 2009: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/15_people_killed_in_1_day_in_Mexican_border_city_.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E15 people killed in 1 day in Mexican border city\u003C\/a\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ccite\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/n\/15-people-including-child-3-women-killed-in-1-day-in-mexican-border-city-229589\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E15 people, including child, 3 women, killed in 1 day in Mexican border city\u003C\/a\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003ECIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Authorities say a 7-year-old boy, three women and a university professor are among 15 people who were killed in a single day in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez.\u003C\/cite\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003ESept. 3, 2009: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2009\/WORLD\/americas\/09\/03\/mexico.killings\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E17 patients killed in shooting at Mexican drug rehab center\u003C\/a\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd it goes on, and on, and on... And the USA MSM silent about the Demand for Drugs in the good old USA, what? 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'Blackfire'. On August 17 he was kidnapped by the police - On Nov. 27, 2009, at 20:30 approx., Mr. Mariano Abarca Roblero was cowardly murdered in front of his house in the municipal head of Chicomuselo, Chiapas, Mexico.\" \/\u003E\u003Clink rel=\"image_src\" href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/graphics\/jpgs\/posts\/lahaine.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003Cscript\u003Efunction fbs_click() {u=location.href;t=document.title;window.open('http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(u)+'\u0026t='+encodeURIComponent(t),'sharer','toolbar=0,status=0,width=626,height=436');return false;}\u003C\/script\u003E\u003Cstyle\u003E html .fb_share_button { display: -moz-inline-block; display:inline-block; padding:1px 20px 0 5px; height:15px; border:1px solid #d8dfea; background:url(http:\/\/b.static.ak.fbcdn.net\/rsrc.php\/zAB5S\/hash\/4273uaqa.gif) no-repeat top right; } html .fb_share_button:hover { color:#fff; border-color:#295582; background:#3b5998 url(http:\/\/b.static.ak.fbcdn.net\/rsrc.php\/zAB5S\/hash\/4273uaqa.gif) no-repeat top right; text-decoration:none; } \u003C\/style\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=\u003Curl\u003E\" class=\"fb_share_button\" onclick=\"return fbs_click()\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"\u003EShare\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:180%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EFrom: \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lahaine.org\/index.php?p=3161\"\u003Ela haine.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\"\u003Eproject of informational disobedience\u003C\/span\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E29\/11\/2009\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EA Member of the Mexican Network of theAffected by the Mining  (REMA), sustained a constant struggle against the transnational. On August 17 he  was kidnapped illegally by the police \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003EToday (November 27, 2009), at 20:30 approximately, Mister Mariano Abarca  Roblero was cowardly murdered in front of his house in the municipal head of  Chicomuselo, Chiapas, Mexico. According to witnesses, a person in a motorcycle  riddled don Mariano Roblero with a firearm. His companion, Orlando Velazquez was  gravely hurt and moved to the hospital of Comitán. Mariano Abarca leaves a wife  and four sons.\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003EDon Mariano Abarca Roblero, a member of the Mexican Network of the Affected  by the Mining (REMA), maintained a constant struggle against the Canadian  transnational miner who, in the municipality of Chicomuselo, has placed it's  principal interests with the development of the barita, gold and antimony by  means of 10 mining authorizations. From June, Don Mariano held a sit-in at the  municipal head with other members of the REMA demanding the exit of the Canadian  Blackfire from the municipality.\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003EOn July 10, Mr. Luis Antonio Flores Villatoro, Manager of Public Relations  of Blackfire and original of Chicomuselo, interposed a demand addressed to the  Canadian company against Mr Abarca. It includes crimes of 'criminal  affiliation', 'organized crime', 'attacks to the routes of communication',  'damages to the patrimony of the company' and 'offenses on the peace', 'the  corporal and heriditary integrity of the community and of the state'. The  company interposed the declaration of two persons supposedly as witnesses of the  facts,  Mrs. Brenda Liliana León Valadez with residence in Canada and of Mexican  origin ; and Mr. Willis Bradley Craig of Canadian nationality.\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003EIn the same month, Mariano Abarca took part in a long sit-in in front of  the embassy of Canada in the city of Mexico, where the affected by the mining  Canadian companies participated, among them, the Wide Front Opponent (FAO -  Frente Amplio Opositor) demanding the withdrawal of the transnational from the  Hill of San Pedro in the state of San Luis Potosí.  Some days later he took part  in the Forum that was held in Congress about the mining, where he denounced  the effects that the company Blackfire causes in Chiapas. In August 17 don  Mariano Abarca was kidnapped illegally with luxury of violence by the police to  be brought up in arraignment. \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003EIn the following days, the government of the state tried to negotiate with  Mariano Abarca his liberation in exchange for leaving the struggle of resistance  against the mining or, of preventing the  REMA  Meeting II in Chicomuselo  Chiapas by the end of the same month. Don Mariano Abarca chose remaining a  prisoner rather than  negotiate with that planning. Finally, the government of  the state, due to the national and international pressure and the absence of  elements to \"indict\" him ('Bound over'), decided to release him ten days after  his violent detention. In September the Governor of the State came to  Chicomuselo and verified the rejection of it's inhabitants to the mining  Canadian company.\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"contentright_v3 contentright_v3_size\"\u003E \u003Cform class=\"form_mask\" name=\"translateAnotherPhrase\" onsubmit=\"return t_formcheck();\" action=\"\/translate\"\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"tap_new_mainTable\"\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"tap_mt\" id=\"trans\"\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"tr_brst clearfix\"\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"tr_instyle\"\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"tr_ext clearfix\"\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"PD_10\" id=\"content\"\u003EIn recent days, Mariano Roblero Abarca filed with  the corresponding authorities an \"Administrative Act for the possible commission  of criminal acts and the crime of THREATS AND THE ONES RESULTING of existing and  sanctioned by Article 227 and 228 of the penal code in force in the State of  Chiapas , against the CC.  CIRO ANTONIO PEREZ and LUIS FLORES VILLATORO (Public  Relations Manager Blackfire) and the person or persons found responsible (...)  \". \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"PD_10\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"PD_10\"\u003EThe complaint Roblero Mariano Abarca affirms that \"Once back in  this town, I learned that the municipal agent of the colony New  Morelia of the  Chicomuselo Township, Chiapas, had filed and Act because of  a complaint he had  received, dated 20 'August twenty' 2009 'two thousand and nine', where Mr. CIRO  ROBLERO had arrived in the Municipal Agency saying that they had already gone to  seek the undersigned, MARIANO, to \"break the\/his mother with lead\" ('quebrarle  la madre a plomazos' (Translation of this vindictive Mexican slang expression is  meaningless in English - plain language is '\"to shoot him'')), so as not to be  in further disagreement with the mine in Chicomuselo and that the undersigned  and others were already in the list of business owners and the manager of the  mine, the latter being  LUIS ANTONIO FLORES VILLATORO, WHO RESIDES IN THIS TOWN  and serves as Public Relations Manager of THE BLACK FIRE MINING COMPANY, a  company that is working in the mine located in the \u003Cem\u003E'ejido'\u003C\/em\u003E   Greece (\u003Cem\u003E'\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"clickable\" onclick=\"'dr4sdgryt(event,\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"i\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"clickable\" onclick=\"'dr4sdgryt(event,\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"i\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003Eland belonging to a cooperative'\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E   of San Ramon in the municipality of Chicomuselo, Chiapas. \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"PD_10\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"PD_10\"\u003E\"The Administrative ACT by Don Mariano affirms that:\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cblockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\"\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"PD_10\"\u003E\"3 .- In relation to the arrest of the undersigned by the  administrative authority, I was released without finding me guilty of any crime  and the arrest was due to a complaint made by the mining company, same as I am  aware, now wants to cause me harm, then by the remarks of Mr. CYRUS  ROBLERO   PEREZ and that were expressed before Mr. NESTOR ORTIZ VELAZQUEZ,  municipal  officer of the ejido New Morelia of this  municipality, I'm on the list of  people the company has decided to harm, as it clearly refers to me and they have  already gone to look for me and \"break the mother with lead\"  (\u003Cem\u003ESee  above\u003C\/em\u003E)\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"PD_10\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"PD_10\"\u003E4 .- \"I Manifesto to You that I went with the president of the  \u003Cem\u003E'commissary ejidal'\u003C\/em\u003E  of the ejido Nueva Morelia, Municipality of  Chicomuselo, Chiapas, and he said he had an act where it was established that  the mining company had threatened several people and they have tried to run them  over with cars, plus the talk of wanting to kill them, so I requested a copy of  this Act and with this action I Exhibit it for you to act correspondely  in  simple copy, asking the authority to in turn \"send official letter\" (\"\u003Cem\u003Egirar  officio'\") \u003C\/em\u003E to the President of the Ejido Commissariat PEREZ PEREZ HIPOLITO  of said ejido, as well to  Mr DIONICIO PEREZ GONZALEZ, who serves as chairman of  the Supervisory Board of said ejido, to exhibit the original Act and after  comparison with the copy that I display, they  be given a \u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Bookman Old Style;\"\u003Ereturn of ítems (or: of evidentiary ítems)\u003C\/span\u003E.  \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"PD_10\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"PD_10\"\u003E\" 5 .- Given these facts, I turn to you so that Mr. CIRO  ROBLERO PEREZ  and Mr. NESTOR PEREZ VELAZQUEZ ORTIZ  be heard in testimony, to  testify regarding these threats, making clear to you that I have a justified  fear that I might be caused harm inflicted by the threats inferred to my  grievance. \"\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E  \u003Cdiv class=\"gg_img\"\u003EYesterday (26 November), CIRO ROBLERO PEREZ y NESTOR VELAZQUEZ  ORTIZ did not submit to the subpoena to testify before the appropriate  authorities in order to explain \"the circumstances of the offense as time,  place, manner of execution, etc.. , in order to determine if this record rises  to preliminary investigation. \"Therefore, next Thursday they would be presented  to testify. Today, Mariano Abarca Roblero has been murdered. \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"gg_img\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E  \u003Cdiv class=\"gg_img\"\u003EFor all these reasons, we hold responsible the governor Juan  Sabines Guerrero for not having acted in a timely manner to prevent this crime  that further blood-stains the state of Chiapas. The government was aware of the  actions of the Canadian company and the conflict it generates with its mining  concessions. \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"gg_img\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E  \u003Cdiv class=\"gg_img\"\u003EWe hold responsible the Canadian company Blackfire, its  Director General Artemio Avila Cervera, its Public Relations Manager Luis  Antonio Flores Villatoro, and the State government of the violence incidents  against fighters who defend the water, land, territory and the environment. \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"gg_img\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"gg_img\"\u003ETherefore, we demand:\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/form\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E  \u003Cblockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\"\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"contentright_v3 contentright_v3_size\"\u003E\u003Cimg style=\"display: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/wzus1.reference.com\/i\/i.gif?t=a\u0026amp;d=d\u0026amp;s=di\u0026amp;c=ltr\u0026amp;ti=2\u0026amp;ai=51731\u0026amp;l=dir\u0026amp;o=0\u0026amp;sv=0a5c4256\u0026amp;ip=62d2c431\u0026amp;ord=7274869\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/\u003E - Immediate withdrawal of Canadian companies Blackfire and  mining concessions in Chiapas.\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"contentright_v3 contentright_v3_size\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"contentright_v3 contentright_v3_size\"\u003E - Immediate  Justice and  punishment to the perpetrators and masterminds of the crime to it's ultimate  consequences. \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"contentright_v3 contentright_v3_size\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"contentright_v3 contentright_v3_size\"\u003E- Protection for the family of  Mariano Abarca Roblero. \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"contentright_v3 contentright_v3_size\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"contentright_v3 contentright_v3_size\"\u003E- Protection for Mr. Orlando  Velazquez, his family and other members of REMA \u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"contentright_v3 contentright_v3_size\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003E Canada and their  transnational corporations \"Out of  Chiapas and of Mexico!\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"contentright_v3 contentright_v3_size\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"contentright_v3 contentright_v3_size\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003EOtros Mundos, AC \/ FoE  Mexico Mexican Network of People Affected by Mining (REMA)\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' 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Thanksgiving Day"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv style=\"padding: 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"right\" bgcolor=\"#ff9900\" height=\"20\" width=\"75\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cmeta name=\"title\" content=\"Have a bearable 'NATIONAL DAY OF MOURNING' On Thanksgiving Day\"\u003E\u003Cmeta name=\"description\" content=\"My friends help me celebrate 'El Dia de Gracias' (Thanksgiving Day), reminding me it is a family get-together for a meal, for, to celebrate the 'Pligrim Story' As it is told, is to celebrate Genocide hidden on falsehoods.\"\u003E\u003Clink rel=\"image_src\" href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/graphics\/erda\/newposts\/smallpoxblanket.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cscript\u003Efunction fbs_click() {u=location.href;t=document.title;window.open('http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(u)+'\u0026t='+encodeURIComponent(t),'sharer','toolbar=0,status=0,width=626,height=436');return 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width=\"100px\" height=\"66px\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/graphics\/erda\/newposts\/smallpoxblanketlrg.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E16th Century Biological Warfare against men and women of all ages.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EMy dear friends help to remind me that most of us celebrate on \"El Dia de Gracias\" (Thanksgiving Day), as a family get-together for a meal and to at least attempt (Sometimes futile) to strenghten de family ties; I guess it makes it easier for me to cope with the historical fact that celebrating\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.pilgrimhall.org\/museum.htm\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cdfn title=\"The 17th-century Pilgrims are known through the writings and artifacts they left behind.  There is much more to their history, however, than the 17th-century facts.  There is also the 'Pilgrim Story'.  That 'Story' is the celebration of a few selected moments which have fixed the Pilgrims firmly in America's collective memory. This Pilgrim Story has grown and evolved over time.  As each succeeding generation looked to the past for inspiration and guidance, certain key elements of the 17th-century Pilgrims were emphasized.  The attention focused on these key elements has sometimes obscured other parts of the Pilgrim Story, changing the perception of the Pilgrim experience.  Often, these later interpretations of the 17th-century Pilgrims tell us less about the Pilgrims than about the emotional and political needs of the era in which the interpretations were created.\"\u003EThe Pilgrim Story\u003C\/dfn\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E is to celebrate the omision in this story of the Genocide of many people, races, cultures, tradition, religions, etc., and to celebrate it as the story is told, is celebrating a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.racismreview.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/24\/on-thanksgiving-why-myths-matter\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cdfn title=\"On Thanksgiving: Why Myths Matter - The Myth: The Pilgrims landed in 1620 and founded the Colony of New Plymouth. They had a difficult first winter, but survived with the help of the Indians. In the fall of 1621, the grateful Pilgrims held their first Thanksgiving Day and invited the Indians to a big Thanksgiving-Day feast replete with turkey and pumpkins. That we believe in such myths is not, in and of itself, shocking. And that the US has achieved “greatness” through criminal brutality on a grand scale is not news. These arguments have been well-rehearsed and mud-slinging for its own sake does little. This myth matters because it can serve the purposes of unethical and anti-democratic interests. A key vehicle for taming history toward such narrow interests, remain our various patriotic holidays, with Thanksgiving at the heart of our social myth-building. From an early age, we are taught a wonderful story about the hearty Pilgrims, whose search for freedom took them from England to Massachusetts. There, aided by the friendly Indians, they survived in a new and harsh environment, leading to a harvest feast. It is a disturbingly pleasant fiction. Since history is not stable, but open to protestation and debate, I propose we replace our social practices of remembering 'Thanksgiving Day' with fasting and\/or service to the homeless and hungry, done together with our families and our friends. Some indigenous people have offered such a model; since 1970 many have marked the fourth Thursday of November as a Day of Mourning in a ceremony on Coles Hill overlooking Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts, one of the early sites of the European invasion of the Americas.\"\u003Efalsehood\u003C\/dfn\u003E.\u003C\/a\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo, have a loving family get-together meal hoping that at least after the meal, or before as Grace is said, to say a few words of the, not forgotten, but put aside of the 'rest of the story', as the Regressive  \u003Cdfn title=\"Paul Harvey (1918 - 2009)was a close friend of Reverend Billy Graham. When the church moved from its original location on Madison Street to the former Presbyterian Church on Lake Street, Harvey asked his friend Graham to preach at the dedication service. He and his wife regularly attended the Camelback Adventist Church in Scottsdale, Arizona during his winters there. In 2005, Harvey made the following contentious remarks in his radio broadcast: We sent men with rifles into Afghanistan and Iraq, and we kept our best weapons in their silos. Even now, we're standing there dying, daring to do nothing decisive because we've declared ourselves to be better than our terrorist enemies, more moral, more civilized. Our image is at stake, we insist. But we didn't come this far because we are made of sugar candy. Once upon a time, we elbowed our way onto and into this continent by giving smallpox-infected blankets to Native Americans. Yes, that was biological warfare. And we used every other weapon we could get our hands on, to grab this land from whomever, and we grew prosperous. And yes, we greased the skids with the sweat of slaves. And so it goes with most great nation-states, which feeling guilty about their savage pasts, eventually civilize themselves out of business, and wind up invaded and ultimately dominated by the lean, hungry, up-and-coming who are not made of sugar candy.\"\u003EPaul Harvey\u003C\/dfn\u003E used to say. \r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:180%;\"\u003EFROM:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.pilgrimhall.org\/pilstory.htm\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/graphics\/erda\/newposts\/pilglrimpilhead3.gif\" align=\"middle\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOn Thanksgiving Day, many Native Americans\u003C\/strong\u003E  and their supporters gather at the top of Coles Hill, overlooking Plymouth Rock, for \u003Cdfn title=\"On Thanksgiving Day, many Native Americans and their supporters gather at the top of Coles Hill overlooking Plymouth Rock for the 'National Day of Mourning'\"\u003EThe \"National Day of Mourning.\"\u003C\/dfn\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe first National Day of Mourning\u003C\/strong\u003E was held in 1970. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts invited Wampanoag leader Frank James to deliver a speech. When the text of Mr. James’ speech, a powerful statement of anger at the history of oppression of the Native people of America, became known before the event, the Commonwealth \"disinvited\" him. That silencing of a strong and honest Native voice led to the convening of the National Day of Mourning.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe historical event we know today as the \u003Cdfn title=\"It was a harvest festival held in 1621 by the Pilgrims and their Native American neighbors and allies\"\u003E\"First Thanksgiving\"\u003C\/dfn\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E was a harvest festival held in 1621 by the Pilgrims and their Native American neighbors and allies. It has acquired significance beyond the bare historical facts. Thanksgiving has become a much broader symbol of the entirety of the American experience. Many find this a cause for rejoicing. The dissenting view of Native Americans, who have suffered the theft of their lands and the destruction of their traditional way of life at the hands of the American nation, is equally valid.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETo some, the \"First Thanksgiving\" presents a distorted picture\u003C\/strong\u003E of \u003Cdfn title=\"The total emphasis is placed on the respect that existed between the Wampanoags led by the sachem Massasoit and the first generation of Pilgrims in Plymouth, while the long history of subsequent violence and discrimination suffered by Native People across America is nowhere represented.\"\u003E (\"Beyond the Pligrim Story\") the history of relations between the European colonists and their descendants and the Native People\u003C\/dfn\u003E. The total emphasis is placed on the respect that existed between the \u003Cdfn title=\"Wampanoag Location: Southeastern Massachusetts between the eastern shore of Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island to the western end of Cape Cod. This also included the coastal islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. In 1600 the Wampanoag probably were as many as 12,000 with 40 villages divided roughly between 8,000 on the mainland and another 4,000 on the off-shore islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. The three epidemics which swept across New England and the Canadian Maritimes between 1614 and 1620 were especially devastating to the Wampanoag and neighboring Massachuset with mortality in many mainland villages (i.e. Patuxet) reaching 100%. When the Pilgrims landed in 1620, fewer than 2,000 mainland Wampanoag had survived.\"\u003EWampanoags\u003C\/dfn\u003E led by the sachem Massasoit and the first generation of Pilgrims in Plymouth, while the long history of subsequent violence and discrimination suffered by Native People across America is nowhere represented. \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.pilgrimhall.org\/pilstory.htm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Beyond the Pilgrim Story\"\u003E(\"Beyond the Pligrim Story\")\u003C\/a\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETo others, the event shines forth as an example\u003C\/strong\u003E of the respect that was possible once, if only for the brief span of a single generation in a single place, between two different cultures and as a vision of what may again be possible someday among people of goodwill.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHistory is not a set of \"truths\" to be memorized\u003C\/strong\u003E, history is an ongoing process of interpretation and learning. The true richness and depth of history come from multiplicity and complexity, from debate and disagreement and dialogue. There is room for more than one history; there is room for many voices.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003ECOMMENTS ON THE DAY OF MOURNING BY RUSSELL M. PETERS\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERussell Peters is Wampanoag\u003C\/strong\u003E, born and raised in Mashpee, less than twenty miles from Plymouth Rock. Mashpee was considered an Indian community and was, in fact, an Indian District within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, until it was illegally dissolved in 1870.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMr. Peters has been involved in Native American issues\u003C\/strong\u003E at a state, local and national level. He is the President of the Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights from 1976 to 1984, a member of the Harvard Peabody Museum Native American Repatriation Committee, a member of the White House Conference on Federal Recognition in 1995 and 1996, a board member of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, a board member of the Pilgrim Society, and the author of Wampanoags of Mashpee (Nimrod Press), Clambake (Lerner Publications), and Regalia (Sundance Press).\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMr. Peters’ notes that the Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council\u003C\/strong\u003E is constantly working to improve the spiritual and material lives of their people. They are not opposed to demonstrations but are opposed to needless confrontations that serve no purpose for the Native American people they purport to serve.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\"When Frank James, known to the Wampanoag people as Wampsutta, was invited to speak\u003C\/strong\u003E at the 1970 annual Thanksgiving feast at Plymouth, he was not prepared to have his speech revised by the Pilgrims. He left the dinner and the ceremonies and went to the hill near the statue of the Massasoit, who as the leader of the Wampanoags when the Pilgrims landed in their territory. There overlooking Plymouth Harbor, he looked at the replica of the Mayflower. It was there that he gave his speech that was to be given to the Pilgrims and their guests. There eight or ten Indians and their supporters listened in indignation as Frank talked of the takeover of the Wampanoag tradition, culture, religion, and land.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\"This was a missed opportunity to begin a dialogue\u003C\/strong\u003E between the Wampanoags and the Pilgrims. Instead the `Day of Mourning’ began, and continues to this day. I commend Frank for taking the stand that he took, and we and our supporters recognize the token role the Wampanoags had played in this pageantry. It was not appropriate for the native people to feast in thanksgiving; instead we decided to fast and show by contrast our way of remembering our history.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\"As the years went by, the numbers at the Massasoit statue increased\u003C\/strong\u003E and the presentations, skits and demonstrations did indeed show a contrast between feasting and fasting. Reporters arrived from local news media as well as the New York papers, the Atlanta Constitution, the Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times, and told the stories of the Wampanoag to the American people.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\"Some of the Wampanoag people who live in the vicinity of Plymouth began to look at positive ways\u003C\/strong\u003E in which we could impact our lives, both past and present. It occurred to us that the Europeans had a history of the colonists, well documented, albeit quite Eurocentric. The history of the Wampanoag people in southeastern Massachusetts and Martha’s Vineyard was barely mentioned. Ironically, the Indian communities of Mashpee, Aquinnah (Gay Head) and Herring Pond still exist just a short distance away from the Plymouth Rock.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\"The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head\u003C\/strong\u003E is a Federally Recognized Indian Tribe. Their Tribal roll lists 1000 Wampanoags. Under the leadership of their chief, the tribe conducts daily business, economic development, as well as community and social activities for its tribal members. The Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council, of which I am President, has a tribal roll of 1200 Wampanoags. It conducts business and other related activities on a daily basis. Our annual Pow Wow took place in Mashpee on July 3, 4 and 5, 1998. We own and maintain the Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Museum with plans to expand the facilities. We are very active in revitalization of our language which was taken from us by the colonists. And we are doing research and writing of the Wampanoag history, particularly concerning the relationship with the English and other European colonists during the early seventeenth century up to the present.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"These are some of the positive ways\u003C\/strong\u003E in which we can balance the scale of history and establish pride in the Wampanoag identity and heritage. Ours is as much a part of the American story as that of the Pilgrim, in fact more so since it was our land.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\"While the `Day of Mourning’ has served to focus attention\u003C\/strong\u003E on past injustice to the Native American cause, it has, in recent years, been orchestrated by a group calling themselves the United American Indians of New England. This group has tenuous ties to any of the local tribes, and is composed primarily of non-Indians. To date, they have refused several invitations to meet with the Wampanoag Indian tribal councils in Mashpee or in Gay Head. Once again, we, as Wampanoags, find our voices and concerns cast aside in the activities surrounding the Thanksgiving holiday in Plymouth, this time, ironically, by a group purporting to represent our interests.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\"The time is long overdue\u003C\/strong\u003E for the Pilgrims and the Wampanoags to renew a meaningful dialogue about our past and look towards a more honest future. Our history is a vital and dynamic part of pre-American and American history. We must be the ones who research, write, and interpret that history\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"extras\"\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C!--  The page glossary is built here  --\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4804311482447396179\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/have-bearable-national-day-of-mourning.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/4804311482447396179"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/4804311482447396179"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/have-bearable-national-day-of-mourning.html","title":"Have a bearable \"NATIONAL DAY OF MOURNING\" On Thanksgiving Day"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-7020352824439538204"},"published":{"$t":"2009-11-20T00:42:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-11-20T01:37:46.670-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"2009"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"crimes"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"discrimination"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hate"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"homophobia"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"intolerance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"november 20"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"prejudice"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"speech"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Transgender day of Remembrance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"transphobia"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"transsexual"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"IN MEMORIAM: TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE - NOVEMBER 20"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv style=\"align: right;  padding: 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ctable width=\"75\" height=\"20\" ALIGN=\"RIGHT\" BGCOLOR=\"#FF9900\"\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cmeta name=\"title\" content=\"'IN MEMORIAM: TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE 2009 - November 20'\" \/\u003E\u003Cmeta name=\"description\" content=\"This day was set aside to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. The event is held in November to honor Rita Hester, whose murder on November 28th, 1998 kicked off the \"Remembering Our Dead\" web project and a San Francisco candlelight vigil in 1999. Rita Hester’s murder — like most anti-transgender murder cases — has yet to be solved.\" \/\u003E\u003Clink rel=\"image_src\" href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/graphics\/gifs\/sparkly_angel.gif\" \/\u003E\u003Cscript\u003Efunction fbs_click() {u=location.href;t=document.title;window.open('http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(u)+'\u0026t='+encodeURIComponent(t),'sharer','toolbar=0,status=0,width=626,height=436');return false;}\u003C\/script\u003E\u003Cstyle\u003E html .fb_share_button { display: -moz-inline-block; display:inline-block; padding:1px 20px 0 5px; height:15px; border:1px solid #d8dfea; background:url(http:\/\/b.static.ak.fbcdn.net\/rsrc.php\/zAB5S\/hash\/4273uaqa.gif) no-repeat top right; } html .fb_share_button:hover { color:#fff; border-color:#295582; background:#3b5998 url(http:\/\/b.static.ak.fbcdn.net\/rsrc.php\/zAB5S\/hash\/4273uaqa.gif) no-repeat top right; text-decoration:none; } \u003C\/style\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=\u003Curl\u003E\" class=\"fb_share_button\" onclick=\"return fbs_click()\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"\u003EShare\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd colspan=\"3\" align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cfont face=\"brush script mt\" color=\"#ff66ff\" size=\"5\"\u003ETRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE\u003CBR \/\u003ENovember 20\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr valign=\"bottom\"\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/graphics\/gifs\/candles_flames_28.gif\" align=\"top\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/graphics\/gifs\/sparkly_angel.gif\" align=\"middle\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E       \u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/graphics\/gifs\/candles_flames_28.gif\" align=\"top\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctr valign=\"bottom\"\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E       \u003Ctd colspan=\"3\" align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/graphics\/jpgs\/roses_bouquet.jpg\" align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/graphics\/jpgs\/roses_bouquet.jpg\" align=\"right\"\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E       \u003Ctd colspan=\"3\" align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cfont face=\"flemishscript bt\" color=\"#ffffff\" size=\"6\"\u003E\"This day was set aside to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. The event is held in November to honor Rita Hester, whose murder on November 28th, 1998 kicked off the \"Remembering Our Dead\" web project and a San Francisco candlelight vigil in 1999. Rita Hester’s murder — like most anti-transgender murder cases — has yet to be solved.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlthough not every person represented during the Day of Remembrance self-identified as transgender — that is, as a transsexual, crossdresser, or otherwise gender-variant — each was a victim of violence based on bias against transgender people.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Transgender Day of Remembrance serves several purposes. It raises public awareness of hate crimes against transgender people, an action that current media doesn’t perform. Day of Remembrance publicly mourns and honors the lives of our brothers and sisters who might otherwise be forgotten. Through the vigil, we express love and respect for our people in the face of national indifference and hatred. Day of Remembrance reminds non-transgender people that we are their sons, daughters, parents, friends and lovers. Day of Remembrance gives our allies a chance to step forward with us and stand in vigil, memorializing those of us who’ve died by anti-transgender violence.\"\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003ENote: The original post can be found at\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.rememberingourdead.org\/day\/what.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.rememberingourdead.org\/day\/what.html\u003C\/a\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Remembering our Dead Web Project and The Transgender Day of Remembrance are owned by Gwendolyn Ann Smith, All Rights Reserved\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7020352824439538204\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/in-memoriam-transgender-day-of.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/7020352824439538204"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/7020352824439538204"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/in-memoriam-transgender-day-of.html","title":"IN MEMORIAM: TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE - NOVEMBER 20"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-1569165692657275380"},"published":{"$t":"2009-10-08T18:30:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-10-08T19:15:31.829-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"blue dogs"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"conservadem"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"democratic right wing"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"democrats"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"filibuster"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"harry reid"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"health care reform"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"keith olbermann"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Max Baucus"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"medicare for all"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"petition"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"public option"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rachel maddow"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"republicans"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"SIGN PETITION TO SENATE MAJORITY LEADER HARRY REID: \"NO DEM WILL SUPPORT REPUBLICAN  FILIBUSTER\""},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv style=\"padding: 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"right\" bgcolor=\"#ff9900\" height=\"20\" width=\"75\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cmeta name=\"title\" content=\"SIGN PETITION TO SENATE MAJORITY LEADER HARRY REID:\"\u003E\u003Cmeta name=\"description\" content=\"'Any Democratic senators who support a Republican attempt to block a vote on health care reform should be stripped of their leadership titles. Americans deserve a clean up-or-down vote on health care.' (Share widely)\"\u003E\u003Clink rel=\"image_src\" href=\"http:\/\/images.politico.com\/global\/news\/090512_reid_ap_297.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cscript\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Efunction fbs_click() {u=location.href;t=document.title;window.open('http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(u)+'\u0026t='+encodeURIComponent(t),'sharer','toolbar=0,status=0,width=626,height=436');return false;}\u003C\/script\u003E\u003Cstyle\u003E html .fb_share_button { display: -moz-inline-block; display:inline-block; padding:1px 20px 0 5px; height:15px; border:1px solid #d8dfea; background:url(http:\/\/b.static.ak.fbcdn.net\/rsrc.php\/zAB5S\/hash\/4273uaqa.gif) no-repeat top right; } html .fb_share_button:hover { color:#fff; border-color:#295582; background:#3b5998 url(http:\/\/b.static.ak.fbcdn.net\/rsrc.php\/zAB5S\/hash\/4273uaqa.gif) no-repeat top right; text-decoration:none; } \u003C\/style\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=%3Curl%3E\" class=\"fb_share_button\" onclick=\"return fbs_click()\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003EShare\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhich senators would feel pressured from this proposal? All the senators who are siding with the insurance companies and opposing the public option: Max Baucus (D-MT), Kent Conrad (D-ND), Joe Lieberman (I-CT), Ben Nelson (D-NE), Blanche Lincoln (D-AR), and Mary Landrieu (D-LA) are some examples.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003ELet's send a clear message: It's not OK for Democratic senators to join with Republicans to block a vote on health care. Period.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/boldprogressives.org\/majorityvote\/p-dkos\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ESIGN THE PETITION, SEND THEM THE MESSAGE!!!\u003C\/a\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/boldprogressives.org\/majorityvote\/p-dkos\" target=\"_blank\" width=\"575\" align=\"middle\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/img.skitch.com\/20091008-j8euqc15bnwt7h4hx44mhuqwbt.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"center\" border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"5\" width=\"575\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr valign=\"top\"\u003E\u003Ctd align=\"center\" width=\"255\"\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;\"\u003ERachel Maddow broke some amazing news last night on MSNBC:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: 2px solid rgb(1, 36, 92); width: 250px;\"\u003E\u003Cobject height=\"202\" width=\"250\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qB3cU95m1go\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;fs=1\u0026amp;\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qB3cU95m1go\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;fs=1\u0026amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"202\" width=\"250\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/boldprogressives.org\/majorityvote\/p-dkos\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EPLEASE SIGN THE PETITION!!!\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: 2px solid rgb(1, 36, 92); margin: 5px; padding: 5px; height: 270px;\"\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EPETITION TO SENATE MAJORITY LEADER HARRY REID:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\"Any Democratic senators who support a Republican attempt to block a vote on health care reform should be stripped of their leadership titles. Americans deserve a clean up-or-down vote on health care.\"\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EOver 29,300 people \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/boldprogressives.org\/majorityvote\/p-dkos\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E have signed\u003C\/a\u003E -- can we break 30,000 before we deliver signatures to Harry Reid?\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd colspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\"\u003ELast night Rachel Maddow announced:\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E   \"Two major powerbrokers on the left...are encouraging a Senate strategy in which the leadership would revoke chairmanships and other leadership positions from any Democrat who sides with a Republican filibuster to block a vote on health reform.\"\r\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince then, thousands of progressives \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/boldprogressives.org\/majorityvote\/p-dkos\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E have signed\u003C\/a\u003E the Progressive Change Campaign Committee's newpetition to Senate Leader Harry Reid.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EOver 29,300 people have signed -- can we break 35,000 before we deliver signatures to Harry Reid? Click \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/boldprogressives.org\/majorityvote\/p-dkos\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EThousands of people have joined purely through word of mouth, so please send this post to your friends. (HUNDREDS of folks have also shared it on Facebook and Twitter!)\r\u003Cbr \/\u003ESign and share petition http:\/\/boldprogressives.org\/majorityvote\/p-dkos\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E        \u003C\/tr\u003E\t\t\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd colspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\"\u003EComment by \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/user\/uid:105745\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ewmholt\u003C\/a\u003E at \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2009\/10\/8\/791026\/-Thousands-Pressure-Harry-Reid-After-Maddows-Report\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaily Kos\u003C\/a\u003E on Thu Oct 08, 2009 at 12:04:28 PM PDT\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EHere's what FreedomWorks sent out this AM\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EYes, it's painful, but I signed up for the FreedomWorks email list.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is what they are saying today:\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E  \u003Cblockquote\u003E \"Obama is leveraging his allies in Congress to try and rush a bill through the Senate Finance Committee.  His hope is that with the help of Harry Reid he can speedily move a bill to the Senate floor and invoke cloture (requiring 60 votes) to shut off debate and get the legislation to his desk where he will quickly sign it.   Ultimately this will require every Senate Democrat, including several moderates still on the fence, to vote in favor of cloture when it comes up for a vote sometime in the next few weeks.\"\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E   \"FreedomWorks has established a list of targeted Senators that will be critical to the final outcome.  You can access this list in our virtual \"war room\" that also includes updated talking points and the latest information on the Left’s government-run health care bill, as well as opportunities for you to take action and help apply the necessary pressure on these targets that will convince them to oppose the hostile government takeover of American health care.  They need to know specifically that a vote for cloture = a vote for government-run health care.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cfont color=\"#ff0000\" size=\"4\"\u003ESO, THEY HAVE A WAR ROOM, DEMOCRATS NEED TO HEAR FROM THE LEFT\/PROGRESSIVE\/LIBERAL SIDE,\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/boldprogressives.org\/majorityvote\/p-dkos\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ESIGN THE PETITION, SEND THEM THE MESSAGE!!!\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E       \u003C\/tr\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\t\t\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd colspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\"\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/video\/flvjwnewest\/player.swf\" bgcolor=\"000000\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"file=http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/video\/playlists\/custom\/keith_special_hcr_oct7_09.xml\u0026amp;image=http:\/\/s3.mediamatters.org\/static\/video\/2009\/09\/23\/ed-20090923-beck.jpg\u0026amp;playlist=right\u0026amp;displayclick=none\u0026amp;repeat=list\u0026amp;bufferlength=10\u0026amp;backcolor=000000\u0026amp;frontcolor=FFCC00\u0026amp;lightcolor=FF9933\u0026amp;screencolor=000000\u0026amp;playlistsize=310\u0026amp;logo=http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/graphics\/gifs\/erda-logo.gif\" height=\"300\" width=\"570\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1569165692657275380\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/sign-petition-to-senate-majority-leader.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/1569165692657275380"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/1569165692657275380"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/sign-petition-to-senate-majority-leader.html","title":"SIGN PETITION TO SENATE MAJORITY LEADER HARRY REID: \"NO DEM WILL SUPPORT REPUBLICAN  FILIBUSTER\""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-3298486522345270288"},"published":{"$t":"2009-10-08T06:23:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-10-08T07:47:06.846-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"countdown"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"health care reform"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"health insurance industry"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"keith olbermann"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"msnbc"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"october 7 2009"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"special comment"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Keith Olbermann on what really matters when it comes to health reform"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv style=\"align: right;  padding: 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ctable width=\"75\" height=\"20\" ALIGN=\"RIGHT\" BGCOLOR=\"#FF9900\"\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cmeta name=\"title\" content=\"Keith Olbermann on what really matters when it comes to health reform\" \/\u003E\u003Cmeta name=\"description\" content=\"Saving American lives. 'The Fight Against Death' 'I do not want to yell. I feel like screaming but everybody is screaming, everybody is screaming that this is about rights or freedom or socialism or the president or the future or the past or a political failure or a political success. We have all been screaming, I have been screaming.'\" \/\u003E\u003Clink rel=\"image_src\" href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/graphics\/jpgs\/keith_fightagainstdeath.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003Cscript\u003Efunction fbs_click() {u=location.href;t=document.title;window.open('http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(u)+'\u0026t='+encodeURIComponent(t),'sharer','toolbar=0,status=0,width=626,height=436');return false;}\u003C\/script\u003E\u003Cstyle\u003E html .fb_share_button { display: -moz-inline-block; display:inline-block; padding:1px 20px 0 5px; height:15px; border:1px solid #d8dfea; background:url(http:\/\/b.static.ak.fbcdn.net\/rsrc.php\/zAB5S\/hash\/4273uaqa.gif) no-repeat top right; } html .fb_share_button:hover { color:#fff; border-color:#295582; background:#3b5998 url(http:\/\/b.static.ak.fbcdn.net\/rsrc.php\/zAB5S\/hash\/4273uaqa.gif) no-repeat top right; text-decoration:none; } \u003C\/style\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=\u003Curl\u003E\" class=\"fb_share_button\" onclick=\"return fbs_click()\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"\u003EShare\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EKeith Olbermann of MSNBC's CountDown, again rises to the occasion when it is most needed that somebody speaks up and says what needs to be said without sugar-coating it in a \"Special Comment\", harshly criticizing members of Congress for paying more attention to the needs of the health care industry, than to patients in need of Health Care, pointing out that \u003Ccite\u003E\"there is no higher human priority than health and therefore no more basic government responsibility than ensuring the care of its citizens..\"\u003C\/cite\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003ELast night, (Wed. Oct. 7, 2009), he devoted the entire hour of his program to address the Health Care Crisis that the people of this country face.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn trying to facilitate the viewing of the Video clips of this very human program, I have placed them in a Video Player (Below) with a Playlist with the clips numbered One to Five, in addition and in the event that anybody would want to read the Transcript, I include a link to the original.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E If you find that this organization of the content of Keith's program helpful and if you also feel that other people should see it, well, please feel free to share this post.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EPlease make sure you watch Clip #5, this is where Keith explains his idea for a plan for Action to pressure the Democrats who are standing in the way of true Health Care Reform. \r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EAurora\r\u003Cbr \/\u003ESFCA 100809\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Health care reform: Saving American lives.\"\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EKeith Olbermann on what really matters when it comes to health reform\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003ESPECIAL COMMENT\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy Keith Olbermann\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnchor, 'Countdown'\r\u003Cbr \/\u003Emsnbc.com\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/33213245\/ns\/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFull Transcript (External (MSNBC))\u003C\/a\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable cellpadding=\"5\" width=\"575\" height=\"300\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\"\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"middle\"\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/video\/flvjwnewest\/player.swf\" width=\"570\" height=\"300\" bgcolor=\"000000\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" 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reform"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-8202607941005147630"},"published":{"$t":"2009-09-26T13:21:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-10-07T06:00:08.518-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Fox News"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"glenn beck"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hate speech in media"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"lou dobbs"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"matt drudge"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Media 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BGCOLOR=\"#FF9900\"\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cmeta name=\"title\" content=\"Media Matters: Move Over Drudge, There's A New Sheriff In Town\" \/\u003E\u003Cmeta name=\"description\" content=\"If the past few months have shown us anything, it's that Drudge's position as the media's assignment editor is now filled by Fox News' Glenn Beck. Beck has made no bones about his desire to shape the media's agenda. He's Fox News' Czar War commander in chief, lead ACORN crusher, resident conspiracy theorist, and favored 'rodeo clown,' all wrapped into one.\" \/\u003E\u003Clink rel=\"image_src\" href=\"http:\/\/www.glennbeck.com\/images\/news\/2009\/08\/082409arugbook.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003Cscript\u003Efunction fbs_click() {u=location.href;t=document.title;window.open('http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(u)+'\u0026t='+encodeURIComponent(t),'sharer','toolbar=0,status=0,width=626,height=436');return false;}\u003C\/script\u003E\u003Cstyle\u003E html .fb_share_button { display: -moz-inline-block; display:inline-block; padding:1px 20px 0 5px; height:15px; border:1px solid #d8dfea; background:url(http:\/\/b.static.ak.fbcdn.net\/rsrc.php\/zAB5S\/hash\/4273uaqa.gif) no-repeat top right; } html .fb_share_button:hover { color:#fff; border-color:#295582; background:#3b5998 url(http:\/\/b.static.ak.fbcdn.net\/rsrc.php\/zAB5S\/hash\/4273uaqa.gif) no-repeat top right; text-decoration:none; } \u003C\/style\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=\u003Curl\u003E\" class=\"fb_share_button\" onclick=\"return fbs_click()\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"\u003EShare\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt used to  be common knowledge that Matt Drudge ruled the media's world. These days, Drudge  must be jealous. If the past few months have shown us anything, it's that  Drudge's position as the media's assignment editor is now filled by Fox News'  Glenn Beck.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/t0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:1_rMxz0Gfl1ZZM:http:\/\/markepstein.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/082409arugbook.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\"\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBeck has  made no bones about his desire to shape the media's agenda. He's Fox News' \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT819\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909090051?lid=1066751\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909090051\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ECzar War commander  in chief\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E, lead ACORN crusher, resident \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT820\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909220027?lid=1066752\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909220027\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Econspiracy theorist\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E,  and favored \"\u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT821\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200909220001?lid=1065751\u0026amp;rid=34955610\u0026amp;lid=1066753\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200909220001?lid=1065751\u0026amp;rid=34955610\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Erodeo  clown\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E,\" all wrapped into one. \u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EOne would  think that the mainstream media would be wary of covering stories promoted by a  man who, while role-playing as President Obama, \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT822\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200904090036?lid=1066754\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200904090036\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Epretended to pour gasoline\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E  on the \"average American\" and asked Obama, \"[W]hy don't you just set us on  fire?\" But one would be wrong.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EBeck brought  to us the 9-12 Project, which served as the inspiration for the 9-12 \"March on  Washington,\" when Americans tearfully \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT823\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200903130029?lid=1066755\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200903130029\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ecame together\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E as we \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT824\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.glennbeck.com%252Fcontent%252Farticles%252Farticle%252F198%252F29986%252F\u0026amp;lid=1066756\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/www.glennbeck.com\/content\/articles\/article\/198\/29986\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Edid\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \"the  day after 9-11\" ... to \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT825\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/200909170027?lid=1066757\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/200909170027\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eprotest\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E taxes, health care  reform, government spending, and an African-American who has taken over the  White House. Did the media sit out the story of tens of thousands of Beck and  Fox News fans invading D.C. to protest these things? Nope. While Fox News \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT826\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/200909190002?lid=1066758\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/200909190002\"\u003Eclaimed\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E that  media outlets \"missed\" the story of the 9-12 protests, as TVNewser.com \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT827\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.mediabistro.com%252Ftvnewser%252Ffnc%252Fin_full_page_ad_fox_asks_where_were_other_media_on_912_the_answer_they_were_there_136133.asp\u0026amp;lid=1066759\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediabistro.com%2Ftvnewser%2Ffnc%2Fin_full_page_ad_fox_asks_where_were_other_media_on_912_the_answer_they_were_there_136133.asp http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/tvnewser\/fnc\/in_full_page_ad_fox_asks_where_were_other_media_on_912_the_answer_they_were_there_136133.asp\"\u003Enoted\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E, \"those other networks \u003Cem\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ewere\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E there\" at the 9-12  protests. As Howard Kurtz \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT828\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.washingtonpost.com%252Fwp-dyn%252Fcontent%252Farticle%252F2009%252F09%252F18%252FAR2009091801102.html\u0026amp;lid=1066760\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F2009%2F09%2F18%2FAR2009091801102.html http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/09\/18\/AR2009091801102.html\"\u003Ewrote\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E in \u003Cem\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Washington Post\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E, \"[T]he  other networks indeed covered the protest, which -- like similar demonstrations  across the country -- were heavily promoted by Fox, especially talk show host  Glenn Beck.\"\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EThe media  have \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT829\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909240002#jones?lid=1066761\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909240002#jones\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Epaid\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E equal  attention to Beck and Fox News' war on Obama's \"czars.\" Beck \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT830\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909090051?lid=1066762\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909090051\"\u003Eled the  charge\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E in attacking White House green jobs adviser Van Jones, accusing him of all manner of sins. After ColorOfChange.org -- a group \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT831\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%253A%252F%252Fcolorofchange.org%252Fabout.html\u0026amp;lid=1066763\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fcolorofchange.org%2Fabout.html http:\/\/colorofchange.org\/about.html\"\u003Eco-founded\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E by Jones -- initiated a campaign against Beck for  calling Obama a \"racist,\" Beck amped up his attacks on Jones. But instead of  pointing out the potential motive behind Beck's relentless assault, the media  merely credited Beck for keeping the Jones story alive. Now that Beck has  shifted his sights to other Obama \"czars,\" the media have dutifully followed,  increasing their coverage of FCC chief diversity officer \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT832\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909240002#lloyd?lid=1066764\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909240002#lloyd\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EMark Lloyd\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E and \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT833\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909240002#sunstein?lid=1066765\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909240002#sunstein\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ECass Sunstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E,  who was confirmed to head the White House Office of Information and Regulatory  Affairs.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EBeck has  also repeatedly promoted allegations -- \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT834\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909150028?lid=1066766\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909150028\"\u003Eoriginally  made\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E on Beck favorite Andrew Breitbart's BigHollywood.com -- that the  National Endowment for the Arts and its former spokesman Yosi Sergant were  \"creating a propaganda machine for the president of the United  States.\" Once again, the media were right  behind Beck. On the September 22 \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT835\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200909220043?lid=1066767\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200909220043\"\u003Eedition\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E of  his CNN program, Lou Dobbs \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT836\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%253A%252F%252Ftranscripts.cnn.com%252FTRANSCRIPTS%252F0909%252F22%252Fldt.01.html\u0026amp;lid=1066768\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Ftranscripts.cnn.com%2FTRANSCRIPTS%2F0909%2F22%2Fldt.01.html http:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/0909\/22\/ldt.01.html\"\u003Eadvanced\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E attacks on the White House, stating that there are  \"[n]ew concerns tonight that the Obama administration may be politicizing the  arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, encouraging groups to produce art  work promoting the president's agenda.\" George Will wrote in his September 17  \u003Cem\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWashington  Post\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT837\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.washingtonpost.com%252Fwp-dyn%252Fcontent%252Farticle%252F2009%252F09%252F16%252FAR2009091602765.html%253Fsub%253DAR\u0026amp;lid=1066769\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F2009%2F09%2F16%2FAR2009091602765.html%3Fsub%3DAR http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/09\/16\/AR2009091602765.html?sub=AR\"\u003Ecolumn\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E that the controversy shows \"the Obama administration's  incontinent lust to politicize \u003Cem\u003E\u003Cem\u003Eeverything\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E.\" \u003Cem\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT838\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.nytimes.com%252F2009%252F09%252F23%252Fus%252Fpolitics%252F23grants.html\u0026amp;lid=1066770\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2009%2F09%2F23%2Fus%2Fpolitics%2F23grants.html http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/23\/us\/politics\/23grants.html\"\u003EThe New York Times\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E, the \u003Cem\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT839\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%253A%252F%252Flatimesblogs.latimes.com%252Fculturemonster%252F2009%252F09%252Fnea-chairman-explains-communications-directors-demotion.html\u0026amp;lid=1066771\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Flatimesblogs.latimes.com%2Fculturemonster%2F2009%2F09%2Fnea-chairman-explains-communications-directors-demotion.html http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/culturemonster\/2009\/09\/nea-chairman-explains-communications-directors-demotion.html\"\u003ELos Angeles Times\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT840\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.politico.com%252Fnews%252Fstories%252F0909%252F27456.html\u0026amp;lid=1066772\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fnews%2Fstories%2F0909%2F27456.html http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0909\/27456.html\"\u003EPolitico\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E, and \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT841\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%253A%252F%252Fblogs.abcnews.com%252Fpoliticalpunch%252F2009%252F09%252Fafter-inappropriate-nea-conference-call-white-house-pushes-new-guidelines.html\u0026amp;lid=1066773\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.abcnews.com%2Fpoliticalpunch%2F2009%2F09%2Fafter-inappropriate-nea-conference-call-white-house-pushes-new-guidelines.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EABC  News\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E? Each covered the White House's issuing of new guidelines that, as  \u003Cem\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe New York  Times\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E wrote, \"instructed government agencies to keep  politics away from the awarding of federal grants.\"  \u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EBeck's been  busy. In addition to \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT842\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200909210019?lid=1066774\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200909210019\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Emaking plans\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E to \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT843\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200909220018?lid=1066775\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200909220018\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehijack\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E the Jewish holiday  of \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT844\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200909230013?lid=1066776\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200909230013\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EYom Kippur\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E, September 22  brought us the release of Beck's second book of 2009, the ironically titled  \u003Cem\u003EArguing with Idiots. \u003C\/em\u003EIn it, Beck  is \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT845\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/200909230015?lid=1066777\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/200909230015\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eengaged\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E in an ongoing  argument with \"the idiot,\" who comes armed with some truly idiotic statements,  such as, \"They may not be perfect, but France is doing socialism right -- we  should be more like them,\" and, \"Private schools aren't beholden to unions, but  they should be closed because they're only for the rich.\" Beck fearlessly tears  down these strawmen throughout the 300-page book.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EBeck \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT846\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909230040?lid=1066778\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909230040\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eattacks\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \"Nanny  State-ism\" by criticizing drunken-driving laws, writing, \"The Nanny State  approach is to use the police department to set up roadblocks and spot-checks,\"  and stating that since \"[t]he largest percentage of vehicular deaths related to  alcohol are from \u003Cem\u003Erepeat  offenders\u003C\/em\u003E,\" the \"commonsense solution is that you lose your license  after a second DUI. Forever. Problem solved.\" Beck never says whether he felt  the same way when he was reportedly arrested for \"speeding in his DeLorean with  one of the car's gull-wing doors wide open,\" after which a former colleague said  Beck was \"completely out of it.\"\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EBeck's book  has also \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT847\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909230042?lid=1066779\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909230042\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eraised the question\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E of  whether Beck supports the slave trade. While purporting to explain to an \"idiot\"  the Founding Fathers' true intentions, Beck praises an obsolete provision of the  U.S. Constitution that prohibited Congress from outlawing the slave trade before  1808 and capped taxes on the slave trade at $10 per slave. In explaining the  provision, Beck doesn't mention slavery, saying instead that the provision means  that the Founders apparently \"felt like there was a value to being able to live  here\" and lamenting: \"Not anymore. These days we can't ask \u003Cem\u003Eanything\u003C\/em\u003E of immigrants -- including that  they abide by our laws.\"  Umm ...\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EIf one were  yearning for some good ol' fashioned racial stereotyping, Beck doesn't  disappoint! His \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT848\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/200909230024?lid=1066780\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/200909230024\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eattack\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E on the 14th  Amendment, which guarantees that \"[a]ll persons born or naturalized in the  United States ... are  citizens of the United  States,\" comes complete with illustrations of a  man and baby wearing sombreros. Yes, his book has illustrations. In fact, the  entire book is designed to look as though it were printed on antiqued, dog-eared  paper. You know, like the Constitution.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EBeck also  subtitled a \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT849\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/200909240019?lid=1066781\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/200909240019\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Esection\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E of his book \"The  chapter Americans just won't write,\" which is little more than 18 pages of  Mexico-bashing lined with text insets that parody NBC's \"\u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT850\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.themoreyouknow.com%252F\u0026amp;lid=1066782\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themoreyouknow.com%2F\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EThe  More You Know\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\" public service announcements. In these insets, the familiar  \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT851\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%253A%252F%252Fthegurglingcod.typepad.com%252Fthegurglingcod%252Fimages%252F2008%252F02%252F12%252Fthe_more_you_know2.jpg\u0026amp;lid=1066783\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fthegurglingcod.typepad.com%2Fthegurglingcod%2Fimages%2F2008%2F02%2F12%2Fthe_more_you_know2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eshooting  star\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E of the NBC graphic has been replaced with a cartoon sombrero, and the  slogan \"The More You Know\" has been changed to \"The Less You Know.\" The chapter  features cartoonish Mexicans wearing sombreros and absurdly thick mustaches, and  a cartoon of a Chinese takeout container that's meant to represent -- you  guessed it -- Chinese immigrants.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EIn his  chapter titled \"U.S. Presidents: A Steady Progression  of Progressives,\" Beck treats us to his list of the \"Top Ten Bastards of All  Time.\" The occupants of that list, in ascending order, are Pol Pot, Robert  Mugabe, Teddy Roosevelt, Bernie Madoff, Adolf Hitler, Keith Olbermann, Pontius  Pilate, FDR, Tiger Woods, and Woodrow Wilson. That's right, in Beck's book, mass  slaughter of millions of innocents makes you a less reprehensible person than  the presidents who won both World Wars for the United  States.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EBecause with  Beck, regardless of their actual ideology, these people are all progressive,  with the exception of Tiger Woods, who appeared to make the list because he has  \"a Swedish-supermodel wife, a gazillion dollars, and ... plays golf for a living  ... bastard!\" In Beck's world, any progressive is an enemy, and any enemy is  progressive.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EBeck's  conspiracy-addled mind treated us this week to hysterical \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT852\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200909240013?lid=1066784\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200909240013\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Erantings\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E about how Obama,  the SEIU, ACORN, the Tides Foundation, and other unnamed unions will \"set  wage[s]\" in this country by dictating \"maximum wage\" to redistribute wealth.  Beck \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT853\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200909240017?lid=1066785\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200909240017\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eviewed\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E a video of  schoolchildren \"singing a song for Barack Obama\" as an \"indoctrination\" linked  to Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, the NEA, the Tides Foundation, and Jones. If  one were to tune into Beck's television show, one would likely find Beck \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT854\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909220027?lid=1066786\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909220027\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Efuriously scribbling\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E on  a chalkboard, desperately trying to illustrate the elaborate progressive  conspiracy to overthrow the republic. On September 22, Beck laughably \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT855\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200909220045?lid=1066787\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200909220045\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Edenied\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E being a \"conspiracy  theorist\" to CBS News' Katie Couric, but the next day, he \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT856\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200909230038?lid=1066788\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200909230038\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eadmitted\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E his conspiracy  theories sometimes make him \"feel like Russell Crowe from \u003Cem\u003EA Beautiful Mind\u003C\/em\u003E.\"  \u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003ENo one  should be surprised by Beck's behavior. As Salon's Alexander Zaitchik \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT857\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909230040?lid=1066789\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909230040\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ereported\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E, \"In his 2003  book, 'Real America,' Beck refers to himself as a borderline schizophrenic.\"  Zaitchik also \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT858\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/200909220037?lid=1066790\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/200909220037\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Edocumented\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E Beck's rise as a  broadcaster, which was marked by cruel attacks and \"racial  hang-ups.\" According to Zaitchik, after a rival radio  host's wife had a miscarriage, \" 'Beck called her live on the air  and says, \"We hear you had a miscarriage,\" remembers Brad Miller, a former Y95  DJ and Clear Channel programmer. 'When Terry [Kelly, wife of Beck's rival] said,  \"Yes,\" Beck proceeded to joke about how Bruce [Kelly, the rival DJ] apparently  can't do anything right -- about he can't even have a baby.' \"  \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT859\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200907280008?lid=1066791\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200907280008\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ERacial hang ups\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E? \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT860\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/200909010014?lid=1066792\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/200909010014\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EVicious personal assaults\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E?  \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT861\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200909230039?lid=1066793\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200909230039 http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200907150016\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EOver-the-top childishness\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E?  Sounds familiar.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Ch2\u003EOther major  stories this week\u003C\/h2\u003E  \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDoes Lou Dobbs  think he works for Fox News?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003ESpeaking of  Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs has recently pushed a number of the same right-wing  narratives that have been aggressively championed by Beck and Fox News, in  addition to \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT862\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200909080041?lid=1066794\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200909080041\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Edefending\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E Beck's remarks  calling Obama a \"racist\" with a \"deep-seated hatred for white people.\" In recent  weeks, Dobbs -- like Beck and many others on Fox -- has \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT863\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909240004?lid=1066795\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909240004\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ecalled\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E for a \"vigorous  investigation\" of ACORN and said that unless there is a \"full-blown FBI  investigation,\" then it will amount to \"a sham.\" He's pushed the conservative  attack that the NEA is \"politicizing the arts\" and has decried as \"propaganda\"  an educational video.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EOn the  September 22 broadcast of his radio show, Dobbs referred to ACORN's \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT864\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%253A%252F%252Facorn.org%252Findex.php%253Fid%253D12439%2526tx_ttnews%25255btt_news%25255d%253D22593%2526tx_ttnews%25255bbackPid%25255d%253D12387%2526cHash%253D4a81607596\u0026amp;lid=1066796\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Facorn.org%2Findex.php%3Fid%3D12439%26tx_ttnews%255btt_news%255d%3D22593%26tx_ttnews%255bbackPid%255d%3D12387%26cHash%3D4a81607596 http:\/\/acorn.org\/index.php?id=12439\u0026amp;tx_ttnews%5btt_news%5d=22593\u0026amp;tx_ttnews%5bbackPid%5d=12387\u0026amp;cHash=4a81607596\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Edecision\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E  to appoint former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger to lead an  internal inquiry into the organization as \"such a sham\" and called for \"a full,  and, I mean, absolutely righteous, vigorous, investigation of everyone running  that organization, everything it's tried to do,\" and \"its relationship to the  Obama administration.\" Dobbs added: \"I truly believe, unless there is that  full-blown FBI investigation that you've asked for of ACORN, that -- you know,  that is, to me, prima facie evidence that this Justice Department, under  Attorney General Eric Holder, has been absolutely politicized to the point that  it is not functioning and serving the interests of the American people or this  country.\" Beck expressed similar opinions during his September 15 Fox News \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT865\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909210031?lid=1066797\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909210031\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eshow\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E.  \u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EOn his  September 22 CNN television show, Dobbs hyped a story favored by Beck and Fox  News, \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT866\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200909220043?lid=1066798\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200909220043\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ereporting\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E that there were  \"[n]ew concerns tonight that the Obama administration may be politicizing the  arts. The National Endowment for the Arts encouraging groups to produce artwork  promoting the president's agenda.\" As mentioned earlier, Beck was at the  forefront of \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT867\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909220035?lid=1066799\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909220035\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Epromoting\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E and advancing  these allegations, interviewing the artist who secretly taped the NEA conference  call on \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT868\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.foxnews.com%252Fstory%252F0%252C2933%252C545660%252C00.html\u0026amp;lid=1066800\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fstory%2F0%2C2933%2C545660%2C00.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ESeptember  1\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E and claiming that the \"people involved in a conference call, including the  White House, knew that this was on the fence, if not outright illegal. They knew  for sure that this would outrage you if it would ever get  out.\"\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EHours after  Beck \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT869\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200909220011?lid=1066801\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200909220011\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Edecried\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E as \"propaganda\" an  educational video called \u003Cem\u003EThe Story of  Stuff\u003C\/em\u003E, Dobbs, too, took to the television to \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT870\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200909220043?lid=1066802\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200909220043\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ewarn\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E of \"more evidence of  left-wing propaganda in our schools: An outrageous new video has surfaced --  this video being shown in classrooms all across the country. It is \u003Cem\u003EThe Story of Stuff\u003C\/em\u003E, as it's called,  blatantly making false accusations against capitalism and the effects of human  consumption on the environment.\"\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThis week's ACORN  update\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EThe  conservative media's feeding frenzy on all things ACORN has continued, resulting  in more ethically questionable actions on behalf the videographers involved and  the right-wing press fighting for scraps. In a recent \"exclusive\" report,  RedState.com editor-in-chief Erick Erickson \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT871\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909220035?lid=1066803\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909220035\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eanalyzed\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \"a list of  [ACORN CEO] Bertha Lewis's contacts\" that \"just showed up one day unsolicited\"  from \"a credible source who is no fan of ACORN\" and claimed, \"We did not ask for  it. We did not expect to get it. But now that we have it, we should see who is  in there.\" However, the private contact list was apparently obtained without  Lewis' knowledge or permission, raising the question of whether RedState's  \"exclusive\" was the result of theft. Not surprisingly, the questionable nature  of how this information was obtained didn't stop \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT872\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200909230006?lid=1066804\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200909230006\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ESean Hannity\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E or \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT873\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200909230016?lid=1066805\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200909230016\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EBeck\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E from promoting  it.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EIncidentally, on September 23,  \u003Cem\u003ELos Angeles Times\u003C\/em\u003E media critic  James Rainey \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT874\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909240037?lid=1066806\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909240037\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ereported\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E that ACORN  official Lavelle Stewart \"told me this week\" that when the videographers, James  O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, came to Stewart's ACORN office in Los Angeles  disguised as a pimp and prostitute, Stewart \"tried to get the 'prostitute,' who  claimed she had been beaten by her pimp, to go to a women's center.\" This report  is further evidence undermining O'Keefe's and Giles' repeated claims that they  were never rebuffed at any of the ACORN offices they visited. Also, in a  September 22 article, the Associated Press \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT875\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.foxnews.com%252Fprinter_friendly_story%252F0%252C3566%252C553423%252C00.html\u0026amp;lid=1066807\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/printer_friendly_story\/0,3566,553423,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ereported\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E  that California police said an ACORN worker  contacted them about \"possible human smuggling,\" reportedly as a result of  O'Keefe and Giles' visit to a San Diego ACORN office. As you might recall, \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT876\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909170031?lid=1066808\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"https:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909170031\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eword broke\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E last week  that O'Keefe and Giles were indeed rebuffed at the Philadelphia ACORN office they  visited; the employees there went so far as to file a police report, which you  can view \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT877\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909170031?lid=1066809\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"https:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909170031\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E. The conservative  activists have yet to release video from the Philadelphia and Los Angeles encounters.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EAlso,  O'Keefe's claims to have been \"completely independent\" were \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT878\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/200909220048?lid=1066810\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/200909220048\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eundermined\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E by a report that  O'Keefe had received thousands, possibly even tens of thousands, of dollars from  a wealthy conservative donor.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003ENonetheless,  this week also \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT879\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909210031?lid=1066811\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909210031\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ebirthed\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E a new  right-wing talking point: that Attorney General Eric Holder should appoint an  independent special prosecutor to investigate ACORN. You know, because Holder  can't be trusted to remain impartial. Better get Ken Starr on the phone  pronto!\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThis week's media  columns\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EThis  week's media columns from the \u003Cem\u003EMedia  Matters\u003C\/em\u003E  senior fellows: Eric Boehlert looks at \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT880\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/columns\/200909220002?lid=1066812\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/columns\/200909220002\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehow Fox's Chris Wallace  became irrelevant\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E, and Jamison  Foser explains \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT881\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/columns\/200909250040?lid=1066813\u0026amp;rid=35125861\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehow the media's treatment of the ACORN story  again demonstrates conservatives' ability to shape the debate\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EGreg Lewis shows 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However, the First Amendment does not protect debate where one side includes the threat or act of violence.\"\u003E\u003Clink rel=\"image_src\" href=\"http:\/\/www.changetowin.org\/connect\/images\/maria.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cscript\u003Efunction fbs_click() {u=location.href;t=document.title;window.open('http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(u)+'\u0026t='+encodeURIComponent(t),'sharer','toolbar=0,status=0,width=626,height=436');return false;}\u003C\/script\u003E\u003Cstyle\u003E html .fb_share_button { display: -moz-inline-block; display:inline-block; padding:1px 20px 0 5px; height:15px; border:1px solid #d8dfea; background:url(http:\/\/b.static.ak.fbcdn.net\/rsrc.php\/zAB5S\/hash\/4273uaqa.gif) no-repeat top right; } html .fb_share_button:hover { color:#fff; border-color:#295582; background:#3b5998 url(http:\/\/b.static.ak.fbcdn.net\/rsrc.php\/zAB5S\/hash\/4273uaqa.gif) no-repeat top right; text-decoration:none; } \u003C\/style\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=%3Curl%3E\" class=\"fb_share_button\" onclick=\"return fbs_click()\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003EShare\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Ccite\u003EWe are taking a stand against this dangerous trend towards the incitement of lawlessness and violence. 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However, the First Amendment does not protect debate where one side includes the threat or act of violence.\u003C\/cite\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"middle\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.stopdomesticterror.com\/\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/graphics\/jpgs\/anti_hate_speech\/VR_Banner.gif\" align=\"middle\" width=\"450\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.stopdomesticterror.com\/\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/graphics\/jpgs\/anti_hate_speech\/domestic_terror_banner.jpg\" align=\"middle\" width=\"460\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ccenter\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:17;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.stopdomesticterror.com\/\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003Ewww.StopDomesticTerror.com\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/center\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;\"\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Ccenter\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"font-size:11;\"\u003EA \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/velvetrevolution.us\/\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EVelvetRevolution.us\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E Campaign\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/center\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EStop Domestic Terror\u003C\/b\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003ERecently, there has been an explosion in threats and acts of domestic terrorism. The majority of these can be traced to groups and individuals who do not accept the results of our recent election or the laws enacted or proposed by those who have been elected. They seek to undermine the democratic process through threats, intimidation, and even outright murder. They can't accept the legitimacy of the President, or a woman's legal right to make choices about her own medical care, or an immigrant's right to be treated humanely under the law, so they carry out acts that are antithetical to American democracy, American values, and both civil and human rights.\u003C\/span\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EThe fringe elements that makes up those who commit these acts of terror, are frequently exploited by a continuous wave of rightwing media advocating violence, either directly or indirectly, by commentators amplifying the talking points of extremist religious leaders and extremist political leaders. The fringe is incited on our public airwaves, and urged to take matters into their own hands, with the underlying belief that the Bible and\/or U.S. Constitution justify using \"whatever means\" are necessary to oppose what they believe to be immoral laws.\u003C\/span\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EWe are taking a stand against this dangerous trend towards the incitement of lawlessness and violence. We strongly believe in the First Amendment right of free expression and discourse, even when that expression is abhorrent or not in line with our own beliefs.  However, the First Amendment does not protect debate where one side includes the threat or act of violence.\u003C\/span\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EWe have written a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder outlining our concerns and requesting that he act quickly to address this  wave of domestic terrorism.  A copy of the letter is \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.velvetrevolution.us\/stop_terror\/images\/Holder_Extremism_Letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\u0026quot;\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E with the exhibits A-F here:\u003C\/span\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.velvetrevolution.us\/stop_terror\/images\/PetforInquiry-HateSpeech.pdf\" target=\"_blank\u0026quot;\"\u003EExhibit A-Pet for Inquiry (FCC Letter)\u003C\/a\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.velvetrevolution.us\/stop_terror\/images\/Letter_to_NTIA_re_hate_speech.pdf\" target=\"_blank\u0026quot;\"\u003EExhibit B-Letter to NTIA (NTIA Letter)\u003C\/a\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.velvetrevolution.us\/stop_terror\/images\/Armed_Revolution_Blog.pdf\" target=\"_blank\u0026quot;\"\u003EExhibit C-Armed Revolution (Armed Revolution Website)\u003C\/a\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.velvetrevolution.us\/stop_terror\/images\/Tiller_Report_II.pdf\" target=\"_blank\u0026quot;\"\u003EExhibit D-Tiller Report (Op Rescue Tiller Baby Killer)\u003C\/a\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.velvetrevolution.us\/stop_terror\/images\/talk_radio.pdf\" target=\"_blank\u0026quot;\"\u003EExhibit E-talk radio(Structural Imbalance of Talk Radio)\u003C\/a\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.velvetrevolution.us\/stop_terror\/images\/Frank_Schaeffer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\u0026quot;\"\u003EExhibit F-Frank Schaeffer letter (Schaeffer Letter to Holder)\u003C\/a\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; text-align: left;\"\u003E  Specifically, we are taking the following steps to address this dangerous trend toward extremism.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Col style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; text-align: left;\"\u003E Urge the Department of Justice to:\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; text-align: left;\"\u003Estudy this trend toward the encouragement of violent lawlessness and initiate action to counter it,\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; text-align: left;\"\u003Einvestigate and prosecute those who are committing and inciting others to commit acts of violence, \u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; text-align: left;\"\u003Ereview whether any media groups are violating antitrust laws by monopolizing media or media markets, or failing in their obligation to meet the \"public interest\" of their FCC broadcast licenses.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; text-align: left;\"\u003Esupport an update and study by the FCC and NTIA of the 1993 report, \"The Role of Telecommunications in Hate Crimes.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; text-align: left;\"\u003EConduct an investigation into the rise of extremism and violence and the role of the media in this phenomenon\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; text-align: left;\"\u003EUrge Congress to hold hearings on the responsibility of the licensed broadcast media to conduct itself in the public interest\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; text-align: left;\"\u003ESupport legislation to require diversity in media ownership, encourage broader minority ownership of FCC licensed media outlets, and that otherwise reverses the dangerous trend of media monopolies allowed following the passage of Bill Clinton's Telecommunications Act of 1996.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; text-align: left;\"\u003EWe are calling on the CEOs and Boards of media organizations to denounce and remove hosts, commentators and others who use the media to incite violence and spread lies that lead others to violence.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; text-align: left;\"\u003EWe are calling on advertisers to cancel all ads on any media that uses the airwaves to spread a message of hate, intolerance, racism, lies and violence.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; text-align: left;\"\u003EWe are calling on religious leaders to denounce all forms of intimidation and violence, and to cooperate with the Department of Justice by reporting information about those who intend to commit violence.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; text-align: left;\"\u003EWe are working with leaders in the religious community who have taken a stand against violence, such as Frank Schaeffer, who was one of the architects of the Religious Right. Mr. Schaeffer, who will be promoting this campaign, has written a letter to Eric Holder offering his cooperation and insight into this trend toward violence and offering suggestions on how to address it.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; text-align: left;\"\u003EWe are supporting the efforts of other organizations that are addressing various aspects of this campaign, such as \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.colorofchange.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ewww.colorofchange.org\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ewww.mediamatters.org\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.shockjock.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ewww.shockjock.org\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ewww.rightwingwatch.org\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ewww.splcenter.org\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nhmc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ewww.nhmc.org.\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/suewilsonreports.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Esuewilsonreports.com\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ewww.alternet.org\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.freepress.net\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ewww.freepress.net\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkprogress.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ewww.thinkprogress.org\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ewww.americanprogress.org\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latinosagansthatespeech.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ewww.latinosagansthatespeech.org\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.adl.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ewww.adl.org\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/hladc-sf.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehladc-sf.blogspot.com\u003C\/a\u003E.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 12pt; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; text-align: left;\"\u003E We ask other organizations to sign on to this campaign by sending an email to \u003Ca href=\"mailto:StopDomestiTerror@velvetrevolution.us\"\u003EStopDomesticTerror@velvetrevolution.us\u003C\/a\u003E. 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13"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"SF Peaceful march for health care on Sept. 13, 2009"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"intro\"\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\"Hello true believers!\"\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E(\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/xpress.sfsu.edu\/archives\/news\/013531.html\"\u003EView pictures of the event\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith these words, At City Hall, State Sen. Mark Leno, who represents the 3rd Senate District-- including portions of San Francisco, saluted us after our march, of course, it is always a pleasure to give and receive a  hug and a peck on the cheek by an old friend who is doing many good things.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EI'm so glad I did March, I saw so many beautiful people who are very committed to fight for True Health Care Reform for All.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"extended\"\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI got to talk to Elizabeth Ward is a 53-year-old Republican who held a sign stating \"Rational Republicans for Reform.\" - She is part of a disappearing breed, 'Rational Republicans'\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EI got to talk to members of two sight-seeing groups, from Spain and from Italy, they took pictures of us and maybe wondered: 'what is wrong with this country?'\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EA middle-aged Italian lady, borrowed my sign for her friend to take a picture of her holding it.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EI do not own a camera and I didn't even take pictures with my cell, I was more focused on marching and displaying the signs I made -\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EI'm terrible at making signs, but they had a lot of work and loving care in them - in one I placed a picture or our dear and, sadly departed friend, Teddy, with the captions \"THANK YOU TEDDY, FAREWELL!\" \"THE DREAM LIVES ON... IN US!\", on the lower right hand side in a 8 1\/2\" by 11\" page, I included two quotes from our President:\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cblockquote\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\"If we are'nt willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all\"\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E-- Barack Obama\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFrom his autobiography \u003Cem\u003E\"The Audacity of Hope\"\u003C\/em\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E \u003C\/blockquote\u003E \u003Cp\u003EThe other quote was:\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cblockquote\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.\"\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E-- Barack Obama\u003C\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E 'February 2008 Election Night'\u003C\/em\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E \u003C\/blockquote\u003E \u003Cp\u003EMy intentions for adding these quotes, were not so much to inspire us in following our President's beautiful words, no, quite the contrary, I wanted for us to let him know that we remember the words with which he inspired so many of us, to put aside our cynicism and loss of faith in politicians, and to believe against historical facts, that maybe in him we had found \u003Cstrong\u003E'un frijol de un kilo'\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cem\u003E(A bean which weighs one pound (old Mexican saying))\u003C\/em\u003E, and that he was ready to work with us to make the changes that the people in this country, and the country itself, desperately need.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EThere was no ambiguity during last year's campaign in what he proposed we would accomplish were he, with our support, be elected President; then, why the ambiguity now?, the parsing of words?, the compromising of the bargain we made during his campaign and which was sealed at the Ballot Box?\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EI wanted to tell him, yes Mi Presidente, I remember your words and I want to also ask you if you still believe that we must ask ourselves if we truly meant what we said, as you so beautifully stated, I know many of us did and still do, how about you?\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EAnyway, back to the story about our SF March, staff from the SFSU Student paper were covering it, Martha Vallejo, a staff writer \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/xpress.sfsu.edu\/archives\/news\/013531.html\"\u003Ewrote a piece\u003C\/a\u003E and there were two staff photographers, Anthony Anastasi and Maria Katrina Echon who took some great pictures which they share in a photo gallery.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EWell, that's about it on the March for HealthCare in San Francisco, organized out of OFA, except, that I can't get out of my mind the thoughts that I had while we were marching: \"Many of us here worked very hard to elect B. H. Obama President and give Dems majorities\" And there are many others, millions actually, who did the same, \"Where are they?\", \"Did they lose their hope and faith?\", \"Did they miss the words 'it is up to you to make change happen' that our candidate kept voicing?\"\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EOh well, I guess it is much easier to complain that Barack Obama is not doing this, or doing that, hey! What a great way to relieve oneself of any  responsibility, isn't?\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EWhile it is true that our President and the Dems seem to be ready to throw us under the bus, it is also true that many of us are abdicating our responsibilities inherent in a Participatory Democracy, albeit Representative in large part, it is still supposed to be participatory and allegedly is what we have in these United States of America.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EBut in any event, it is up to us because we are the stakeholders in this Franchise, yes indeed, we are the Government and whatever is done in our name or happens, it is on us.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EThere is a quote whose words I have been trying to find out, for quite awhile, who voiced them, Cesar Chavez's name keeps popping in my mind as the possible source, maybe one of us here can help me with it; I include it because I do so happen to believe it to be true, paraphrasing: \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cblockquote\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E'Our Struggle will be lost the moment we take it from the streets to the boardrooms'\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E \u003C\/blockquote\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8810906631317875286\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/sf-peaceful-march-for-health-care-on.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/8810906631317875286"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/8810906631317875286"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/sf-peaceful-march-for-health-care-on.html","title":"SF Peaceful march for health care on Sept. 13, 2009"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-7972459437178289243"},"published":{"$t":"2009-09-08T01:44:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-09-08T04:56:25.068-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"email congress"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"email the president"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"health care reform"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"letters to obama"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"public option"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"single payer"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\"Letters to Pres. Barack Obama\"  A simple Pro-Healtlh Care Reform letter writing campaign"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EBuilding on the work of others: \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\"Kid Oakland\", a Diarist at the Daily Kos, wrote a entry of which I include the introduction where he explains his idea and suggestion, the post got \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"cct\"\u003E387\u003C\/span\u003E comments, I don't know how many, maybe half, or one third, hard to know, but in these comments, Kossacks tell of sending a letter and they post the text hoping that if someone who doesn't feel like, or it is difficult to compose a letter, can use the text, or modify it, the important part is that the encouragement is to write a letter.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/graphics\/jpgs\/obama_values.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/\u003EBelow  I include a few sample letters that, in following with the sentiments in the Diary, you can cut and paste and modify to your particular info and send. If you just want to send a simple and small message, here is a pre-formatted Email \u003Ca href=\"mailto:aurora-grajeda@comcas.tnet%20?Subject=Re:%20We%20must%20have%20a%20Public%20Option%20on%20Health%20Care%20Reform\u0026amp;body=Please%20forward%20to%20President%20Barack%20Obama%20-%20Mr.%20President:%20You%20promised%20Public%20Health%20Care%20Plan,%20I%20insist%20you%20demand%20a%20Bill%20with%20a%20Public%20Option%20from%20Congress%20for%20you%20to%20sign.%20Respectfully,%20Your%20Name\"\u003EClick\u003Cbr \/\u003Eto email Email info@barackobama.com \u003C\/a\u003E- If you want to send directly to the White House using their Email Form where you can paste your modified text, you can do it \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ehere\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EIf you want to email to President Obama, it is really quite simple, there is a list of Subject Lines to choose from (\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EShort Msgs. are more effective\u003C\/span\u003E), you can do it \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.congress.org\/congressorg\/mail\/?id=3181\u0026amp;lvl=F\u0026amp;chamber=P\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ehere\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, you can view letters sent to leaders \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.congress.org\/bio\/id\/3181\u0026amp;lvl=F\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ehere\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, letters to the President \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.congress.org\/congressorg\/bio\/letterslist\/?id=3181\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ehere\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EWell, that's it, maybe it will make a difference, maybe it won't, but in the opinion of many, the least we can do is try - \u003Cstrong\u003EPresident Obama campaigned with a promise of change, advocating a set of values, well, IT IS TIME TO LIVE UP TO THEM! Wouldn't you agree?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EBest wishes,\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EAurora\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cblockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"diaryTitle\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/hotlist\/add\/2009\/9\/5\/184817\/1076\/displaystory\/\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003Eletters to Obama\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ch3 class=\"byline\"\u003Eby \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/kid-oakland.dailykos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ekid oakland\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDid you donate to Barack Obama? Did you volunteer to support his campaign?\u003Cbr \/\u003EDo you get his emails? (Heck, maybe like me, you got one today.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHave you noticed that they all come from \u003Ca href=\"mailto:info@barackobama.com\"\u003Einfo@barackobama.com\u003C\/a\u003E?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDid you know that you can write Barack Obama using that email address?\u003Cbr \/\u003EFurther, did you know that when you write to Barack Obama at \u003Ca href=\"mailto:info@barackobama.com\"\u003Einfo@barackobama.com\u003C\/a\u003E, that Barack\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama's staff at barackobama.com will be able to see right away from your email address that you were a donor or a volunteer to his campaign?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWell, it's true. And it's powerful. Trust me. Politicians notice when their donors and volunteers write them an email. There's \u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E13 million of us\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E on Barack Obama's email list. \u003Cem\u003EDo you think he'd notice if we all wrote him this weekend about the need for healthcare reform?\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis weekend I've got a simple, straightforward action we all can take to help pass comprehensive healthcare reform with a robust public insurance option open to all Americans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: thin solid red; padding: 20px 10px; overflow: auto; font-size: 12px; width: 500px; height: 200px; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EDear President Obama, \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EMy name is XXXXXX and I am writing to you today as a volunteer and a donor to express my firm support for the passage of comprehensive healthcare reform including a robust public insurance option open to all Americans.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EI had the privilege of volunteering for your campaign in XXXXX, XXXXX, where I walked a precinct in XXXXX during the XXXXX primary and built a MyBO community group in my neighborhood. I also wrote a series of well-read blog posts online explaining your policy  views...including your support for healthcare reform that provided a public insurance option available to all Americans that would rein in costs and force insurance companies to be honest. I pent the general election in XXXXXX where we worked side-by side-with your campaign to help you win an electoral vote in XXXXXXX's 2nd Congressional District.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EMr. President, I am XX years old, in good health, and I pay over $XXX.00 a month merely to have a generic health insurance policy. For that $X,XXX.OO a year I am still subject to numerous rules and deductibles that limit my care and my security. But I'm not writing you today simply about myself.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EI know firsthand the idealism and principled conviction that led millions to support you. In 2008, we were a nation hungry for change. We still are today. Millions of voters, young and old, from all walks of life and political points of view, cast a vote for you because you embodied hope. Hope for a real change in business as usual in Washington. But we all know that business as usual is powerful.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMr. President, big, for-profit companies have dominated healthcare for too long in the United States. They've made money while excluding some of us, bankrupting others, and causing millions of Americans to live in fear of losing their jobs or getting ill.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt doesn't have to be that way. Big insurance corporations have had their chance to rein in costs and they've failed. We need a change. But for change to happen we need your principled leadership today. Mr. President, please use your speech to the nation this Wednesday to lead Congress to deliver comprehensive healthcare reform that includes a robust public insurance option available to all Americans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESincerely\u003Cbr \/\u003EXXXX XXXXXX\u003Cbr \/\u003ECITY, STATE\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: thin solid red; padding: 20px 10px; overflow: auto; font-size: 12px; width: 500px; height: 200px; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EDear President Obama, \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EI have been a fervent supporter and donor to your campaign. I believed you when you said that the current health care\/health insurance crisis was destroying our country. I have been sickened by the thuggery and scare tactics on the right about something all America needs so badly. \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EPeople suffer and die. Businesses and individuals go bankrupt because the insurance and pharmaceutical companies siphon off their outrageous profit on pain. You know our country needs a public option. You know it is the only solution to this problem. You know that you will lose support and that your followers will lose hope if you waver on this issue. This is the time to stand\u003Cbr \/\u003Efirm not, compromise with people's lives. \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EI know you are the best president I can hope for in my lifetime. If you yield on this issue your followers will sink back into despair that allowed Bush\/Cheney to run amok, and new thugs and fear mongers will win and unleash new horrors on the world. \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EI believe that you are a good and extremely gifted man, and that you must realize how crucial your strength is now. Please do not compromise on America's future now. \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ERespectfully \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ENAME \u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: thin solid red; padding: 20px 10px; overflow: auto; font-size: 12px; width: 500px; height: 200px; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EDear Mr. President, \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EYou are asking for monetary support to \"beat the special interests\"? I need to hear that you are trying to beat the special interests. I am waiting to see what President Obama says about and actively fights for the Public Option before I donate any more time or money. I need to see follow through on what Candidate Obama said when he put forth his \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/healthcarefullplan.pdf\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/HealthCareFullPlan.pdf\u003C\/a\u003E and what I talked to people about when I hustled up votes for him. \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EAs Bill Moyers said in his special comment  (\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/moyers\/journal\/09042009\/watch3.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.pbs.org\/moyers\/journal\/09042009\/watch3.html\u003C\/a\u003E) we need the President to fight and show leadership and stop negotiating with the crazy liars on the Right who will never compromise and only want his demise. Do not ask the Progressives how much change they are willing to negotiate away.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStop protecting the Blue Dogs who will not support any real health reform that does not protect the industry. Stop taking progressive support for granted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EPeople are dying because of the greedy homicidal health care industry. We are where we are because of their \"management\". The only \"health\" they are truly concerned with are their profits and CEOs salaries. We have the most shameful, unfairly-distributed health care system of all the industrialized nations. \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EI believed Candidate Obama when he said he wanted a comprehensive health care plan that included a strong public option, not just a mandate to force people to buy junk insurance from the same corrupt companies denying care now. Why does it seem he is going back on his word to his very SUPPORTERS during the campaign and trying to appease those in the minority who did not support him and NEVER will? \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EWe compromised away single payer which was the best solution for America. We compromised it away with substituting a strong public option. The message can and should be simple: We should be able to voluntarily buy into Medicare before age 65, period. \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThe infrastructure is there and it works. No co-ops. No more corporate giveaways. No toothless regulations that can be dismantled. No triggers. A strong voluntary Medicare-for-anyone option. It can start immediately. It can keep the corrupt health insurance industry honest -- indeed it is the only thing that can. This is what President Obama campaigned on. \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EHealth care reform for America is crucial. It is life and death, literally. For many I spoke to during the campaign, it was the vote-getting issue. It is HUGE! Now is the time. We can not and should not settle for anything less than the real thing. Any bill that the insurance or pharmaceutical industries can support will be bad news for us consumers. \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThe final bill MUST include no pre-existing conditions, no lifetime caps, no triggers, and a strong public option (Medicare). \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EPLEASE: Find your campaign fight! Start this process from scratch if you must. Use leadership and reconciliation! And get what you said you would get done for America, done! \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EKeep your promises and stand behind that record. Then come and ask me for my support in time and money. I'll be happy to give it then. Not before.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EIn the meantime, everything I can spare goes to the members of the Progressive Congressional Caucus.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ERespectfully \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ENAME \u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: thin solid red; padding: 20px 10px; overflow: auto; font-size: 12px; width: 500px; height: 200px; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EDear Mr. President, \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EMy name is XXXXXXX and I was one of your millions of donors and volunteers. I supported you from the primaries on and convinced my family to do the same. I am writing today to ask that you keep your campaign promise. Give Americans a choice between private insurers and a public option. I don’t support a trigger, a co-op or any watered-down proposal. The public option, as you yourself pointed out during the campaign, is the compromise.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EWhen the primaries started, the first thing I did was read through each candidates’ health care plans. Here’s just one of the reasons why health care is my top issue. [Personal story about a pre-existing condition fight] Because of this brief coverage lapse, my insurance company could now flag me as a\u003Cbr \/\u003Epre-existing condition. It didn’t matter that there was no merit to their claim, nor that I was now insured. It only mattered they had an entire department to pursue the matter. [More personal details, the hospital ended writing off my care, the insurance company didn't pursue the matter further] The hospital bore the costs of the insurance company’s greed. Since that time, so many hospitals in my area have closed due to financial problems. We are all paying the price for the insurance companies’ profits.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E[Personal details about what I pay each month for the privelege of being insured] Still, I am one of the lucky ones. Insurance companies have had their chance, now it is time to truly insure all Americans. \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EInsurance companies have had decades to provide affordable insurance to all. Instead they have spent that time devising rules and fine print to exclude people from coverage and denying services to those who do have coverage. If we create new rules and give insurance companies more time, they will only find new ways to get around those rules. The end result will be more people who can’t afford to go to the doctor and even more bankruptcies. Mr. President, insurance companies have already failed. I am asking for true healthcare reform with a public option to keep the insurance companies honest.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EI refuse to allow more millions of people to go through what I did. I know what it’s like to stay up at night and wonder if you’ll have to file bankruptcy...\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EYour supporters did not work so hard to elect a Democratic President and large majorities in both houses of Congress, only to cover just some Americans. Keep your campaign promise to myself and the millions of others who sit up at night wondering what will happen to them. Insuring 20 million is not good enough. How will the Democrats come back to those supporters who don’t get insured under a watered-down plan and ask for their votes? How will they look these people in the eyes? Do the right thing. Pass a healthcare plan with a public option. It’s why so many of us volunteered and donated even though we could barely afford to do either.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ESincerely,\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EXXXXX \u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: thin solid red; padding: 20px 10px; overflow: auto; font-size: 12px; width: 500px; height: 200px; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EDear President Obama, \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EMy name is XXXXXX and I donated to your historic campaign on many occasions, from the lead up to the XXX caucuses all the way through November 5th. All in all, it came to a little over $XXX.00, I believe. That may not seem like much, but it was not easy to do. Even though I couldn't afford to donate, I did so anyway because you vowed to bring change we can believe in.  I viewed it\u003Cbr \/\u003Eas an investment in my family's future. On election night, as the networks called Ohio for you, I never felt more hopeful for my country and for my family.\u003Cbr \/\u003EI was determined to do my part to help you restore the promise that this country has always represented to so many. \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ESo it saddens me that I cannot donate financially to this cause. I cannot give my hard earned money when I fear that it will be wasted. You campaigned that you would get health insurance reform with a strong public insurance option to help keep the greed of the insurance companies in check.\u003Cbr \/\u003EHealth insurance reform without a strong public option is not real health insurance reform at all. Yet, it seems that your administration is willing to give up the public option, even though anywhere from 55-77% of Americans want it based on recent polling. I dread the possibility that you are willing to settle for a weaker but more easily attainable bill, rather than fighting for what this country really needs. During your campaign you gave a speech in South Carolina where you said: \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EI don’t believe we can bring about real change if all we do is change our positions based on what’s popular or politically convenient...I think you deserve a President who’s willing to fight for you every hour of every day for the next four years. That’s the change we can offer in 2008 – not change as a slogan, but change we can believe in. \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThe voices of 70 million strong were heard loud and clear last November 5th, please don't allow our voices to be drowned out now. Because that's not change we can believe in. \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ESincerely, \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EXXXXX XXXXXX \u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: thin solid red; padding: 20px 10px; overflow: auto; font-size: 12px; width: 500px; height: 200px; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EDear President Obama, \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EMy name is XXXX XXXXXXX, and I am writing to you today as a volunteer and a donor to express my firm support for the passage of comprehensive healthcare reform including a robust public insurance option open to all Americans.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EI donated more money to your campaign than I have any campaign in my lifetime. In addition, I worked with my local Democratic party to mobilize voters for the primary purpose of electing you because I believed in your message of change.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EHowever, the latest fight for health care reform has left me very disheartened. In the below email,  terms are used such as \"fight for health insurance reform\", \"campaign for real reform\", and especially \"finally get the health insurance reform we all need.\" But lately all that I've seen and heard after beginning the \"fight\" by compromising on single-payer are calls for \"compromise\" and \"bipartisanship\" with Republicans who have plainly expressed no desire to participate in any legitimate discussion of health care reform. In addition, the administration seems ready, and all too willing, to compromise away the public option, the only real chance to get true health care reform in\u003Cbr \/\u003Ethis country. That's not change I can believe in - that's continued compromise of the values that elected a dominant majority of Democrats to both houses and lifted Obama to an overwhelming victory.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EFrankly, I have no desire to continue to support politicians who consider compromise and  bipartisanship to be higher values than the values they professed to believe in when campaigning, only to appear to have no will to enact change in accordance with those values when holding the majorities they claimed to need to do so. My money and time from this point will be going to candidates who currently support the public option and to the primary opponents of those who do not, and considering that poll after poll continue to show a significant majority that support the public option as well, I'm sure that I'm not alone in that regard.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThere is still time for the you to display the leadership needed to obtain true change in the form of the public option. While the other changes to insurance reform that you've outlined are certainly valuable, big insurance corporations have had decades to rein in costs and they've failed. We need a change - and we need a strong public option available to all Americans to ensure that change. Mr. President, I hope that when you return you choose to lead Congress to deliver health care reform that includes a robust public insurance option to reinforce the faith of the millions of us that were initially inspired by your message of hope but have become disheartened.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ESincerely\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EXXX XXXXXX\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ECITY, STATE \u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E\"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cem\u003Eseek.\"\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E(The words from Obama's February 2008 Election Night speech have become almost legendary,  with \"We are the ones\" featuring in many of his ads and commercials. 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Yet.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI pledge to continue this fight until it is won, or until I die.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/3\/36\/Ted_Kennedy,_official_photo_portrait_crop.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"350\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI strongly suggest to those of us who will be demonstrating on Labor Day, September 7 at Noon in front of the Federal Building in San Francisco, to the hopefully millions who will be marching nationwide on September 13 for true Health Coverage for All and to the ones who make it to the Washington Mall, we dedicate our efforts to Senator Edward Kennedy, not only repeating his words, but living them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/graphics\/jpgs\/roses_bouquet.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/graphics\/gifs\/candle-01-june.gif\" align=\"left\" \/\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/graphics\/jpgs\/roses_bouquet.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/graphics\/gifs\/candle-01-june.gif\" align=\"right\" \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EAND THE DREAM LIVES ON!!!\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003ELET'S BRING IT TO REALITY\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI, Aurora Grajeda from San Francisco California USA (AKA Tranny and CihuaMexica), pledge to continue the fight he fought for so long until it is a reality... Or till the moment I die!\u003Cbr \/\u003EWHICHEVER COMES FIRST.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/tedkennedy\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/u\/7mO5H_UY2fd20EPWqEHB1Q\/watch_header.jpg?v=7589f8\" align=\"middle\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESenator Ted Kennedy Speaks at Alaska Democratic Convention in 1968\u003Cbr \/\u003EA proud Liberal then - A proud Liberal all of his life -- A Liberal to his death\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlways fighting for equality, for justice and Dignity for All\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cobject height=\"344\" width=\"425\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KCEDC-V7-Jg\u0026amp;color1=0x000000\u0026amp;color2=0x000000\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;fs=1\u0026amp;\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KCEDC-V7-Jg\u0026amp;color1=0x000000\u0026amp;color2=0x000000\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;fs=1\u0026amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"344\" width=\"425\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESen. Edward M. Kennedy speaks to the Alaska Democratic Party Convention in Sitka on April 7, 1968, shortly after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Senator Kennedy was standing in for his brother, Robert, who'd been scheduled to speak. Courtesy the Alaska State Library Historical Collections. The original material is a 1 open reel video tape in an unusual format, labeled only Ted Kennedy Sitka.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe tape was transferred to an accessible tape format by a contractor specializing in media conservation. 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hence, let's give others the opportunity to choose  for themselves to mobilize and take action, or not, on this vital issue to  ourselves, to our families, to our fellow citizens and to the Economic Health of  this Republic as a whole.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPLEASE DISTRIBUTE THE  INFORMATION BELOW IN WHATEVER FORM BEST ADJUSTS TO YOUR TIME AND  CAPABILITIES.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cem\u003E(Suggestions are: to post pertinent info on  Blogs, listservs, Facebook Walls and Groups, Tweeter and any and all  info-sharing networks and services, in addition to emailing our family, friends  and any and all individuals in our circles and that we interact  with)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EFor those of us who may even hate or, strongly  dislike or, disapprove of what is being sold and passes as Capitalism today,  feel that in order to lower down costs of Health Coverage, a robust public  option is imprescindible.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EWe need competition in the Health Insurance  Providers Market Place, hence, the need for a Public Option in the Health Care  Reform Bill, and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EWhereas, it is the Responsibility of elected  Representatives to be Responsive to the Needs of their Constituents and do what  the Majority charges them to enact on their behalf, and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EWhereas, it is the duty of the Citizens to be  engaged in what it is supposed to be a De-Facto Participatory Democracy, to,  under no uncertain terms, let their respective Representatives in both Houses of  Congress and to The President of the United States of America, know the terms  and conditions of the Legislation that this majority mandates for their  Representatives to Enact and it's Demands of these same Elected  Representatives\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003ETherefore, it is imperative that each of us, let  our Representatives know our wishes in the loudest and widest possibly  form\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cblockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\"\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMoral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great  intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital, quality for those who seek to  change a world which yields most painfully to change. (\u003Cstrong\u003ERobert F.  Kennedy\u003C\/strong\u003E)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:6;\"\u003EDEMAND A PUBLIC OPTION  NOW!\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"datawrap\" align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\"No Public Option, No  Vote\"\u003C\/strong\u003E - 66 members so far\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"datawrap\" align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E1) CALL or  WRITE PRESIDENT OBAMA!\u003C\/strong\u003E Phone: 202-456-1111 \u003Cstrong\u003Eemai\u003C\/strong\u003El: \u003Ca href=\"mailto:president@whitehouse.gov\"\u003Epresident@whitehouse.gov\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"datawrap\" align=\"center\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"datawrap\" align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003EI'T HAS BEEN ADVISED BY THE STRATEGISTS,  INCLUDING JANE HAMSHER, THAT ALTHOUGH CALLING THE WHITE HOUSE FEELS GOOD, IT'S  MUCH MORE IMPORTANT TO FOCUS ON CALLS AND EMAILS TO CONGRESSPEOPLE. SO PLEASE,  PLEASE MAKE YOUR PRIORITY THE LONG LIST OF CONGRESSPEOPLE WHO MUST HOLD THE LINE  FOR THE PUBLIC OPTION.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2) CALL or WRITE YOUR  SENATORS!\u003C\/strong\u003E The Phone numbers and emails can be found here:\u003Cstrong\u003E  Senate\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/general\/contact_information\/senators_cfm.cfm\"\u003EGeneral  Information\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E3) CALL OR WRITE YOUR  REPRESENTATIVE:\u003C\/strong\u003E The contact information is here:  \u003Cstrong\u003EHouse\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/writerep.house.gov\/writerep\/welcome.shtml\"\u003EWrite your  Representative\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"datawrap\" align=\"center\"\u003E \u003Cblockquote\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDNC Main Phone Number:\u003C\/strong\u003E 202-863-8000\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003ETo contact the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dccc.org\/page\/s\/contact\"\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo contact the  Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dscc.org\/\"\u003Eclick  here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:6;\"  \u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.marchforhealthcare.com\/home\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMARCH FOR  HEALTHCARE\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.marchforhealthcare.com\/events\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMarch For  Healthcare\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.marchforhealthcare.com\/events\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E NationWide Marches on  September 13 at 12:00 - \u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:100%;\" \u003EList of cities where  marches are already comfirmed\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWe will be marching on September 13th  @ 12:00 PM in every city across the country for affordable healthcare.  We  demand a public option.  Let the president and congress know that we will not  accept a watered down bill. Click on events to see locations that are confirmed  for the march.  We will need help to organize all of these rallies.  Please fill  out your information in the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.marchforhealthcare.com\/contact_us\"\u003Econtact us \u003C\/a\u003Esection if  you can help.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPlease join our group on facebook at \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=118144661546\"\u003EMarch For  Healthcare\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERead the March for Healthcare \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.marchforhealthcare.com\/blog\"\u003Eblog\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.marchforhealthcare.com\/blog\"\u003E \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"diaryTitle\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"diaryTitle\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:180%;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2009\/8\/23\/770910\/-An-Activists-Complete-Guide-to-Health-Care-Reform\"\u003EAn  Activist's Complete Guide to Health Care  Reform\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cblockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\"\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003EIt's time to let that voice be heard. Now is time for the  crowds, the independents, the young, new voters to show up by the thousands and  show up for what you want; what you believe in. (\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.everydaycitizen.com\/2009\/08\/the_prose_of_citizenship.html\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGerald  Britt\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E)\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFACEBOOK GROUPS CALLING FOR REAL  HEALTH CARE REFORM \/ PUBLIC OPTION\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThere are many Facebook groups and fan pages demanding  the public option that are rapidly attracting members. If we can get everyone  who belongs to all of these groups to join all of the others, it will  exponentially multiply the effect and send a strong message as to what the  American people really want from health care reform.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;\"  \u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=118144661546\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMarch for  Healthcare\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"font-size:85%;\"\u003E- 1227 members so far\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003EThe purpose of this group is to organize a  march on September 13th across the USA. Congress is wavering on the public  option and we must demand one if we expect healthcare costs to go down. Every  city in the country needs you to come out on that day and March For Healthcare.  I am just one person who is fed up with the system. If there are a million of  you out there like me then we can make our voices heard. Let's  March!!!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PublicOption?ref=search\u0026amp;sid=720441078.1079447501..1\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003EA Public Option for HealthCare\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E - 9315 fans so  far\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EWe are \"Fans\"  of a public option for health care. We are tired of delays, we are tired of  ridiculous scare tactics, and we are tired of excuses. America needs a public  option for health care -- and it's time for Americans to stand up and demand  it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"datawrap\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=89159504529\"\u003E1,000,000 Americans for  a Public Health Care Option\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E - 4769 members so far\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"datawrap\"\u003E This is a place to show support for an  American Public Healthcare option and share stories about issues and solutions  to the current nightmare we call healthcare. Discussion is encourage but  distractors will be blocked from the group.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"datawrap\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"datawrap\"\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"datawrap\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=4634895906\"\u003EHealthcare-NOW!\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E  - 3244 members so far\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"datawrap\"\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"datawrap\"\u003EHealthcare-NOW! is an education and advocacy organization  that addresses the health insurance crisis in the U.S by advocating for the  passage of national, single-payer healthcare legislation. Right now, the  National Health Insurance Act (HR 676) is the only legislation that will create  a national, single-payer healthcare system.\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe see healthcare as a human  right, not a privilege tied to the ability to pay.\u003Cbr \/\u003EHR 676, United States  National Health Insurance Act, was introduced by Representative John Conyers  (MI-14) and has 91 congressional co-sponsors--more than any other current  healthcare legislation in Congress. For more information on HR 676 (it's not  very long or difficult to understand), go to \u003Ca onmousedown=\"'UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this),\" href=\"http:\/\/www.healthcare-now.org\/hr-676\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.healthcare-now.org\/hr-67\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cwbr\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"word_break\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E6\/\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003EHealthcare-NOW! has more than 400 committed  activists all over the country. Let us know if you'd like to get involved by  visiting \u003Ca onmousedown=\"'UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this),\" href=\"http:\/\/www.healthcare-now.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.Healthcare-Now.org\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"datawrap\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"datawrap\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=120902578303\"\u003EDear President Obama:  Keep The Public Option!\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E - 429 members so  far\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E President Obama and his aides have indicated that in  order to reach a compromise, he may drop a government option from the health  care reform. Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says it's \"not the essential element\".  Kent Conrad, a senator in the Finance Committee, calls it \"a wasted effort\". We  need to let them know that this compromise will be unacceptable. Obama should  not waver on something he at one time claimed to have strongly believed in, just  because he has some loud vocal opposition! The public option is necessary, and  dropping it from this bill is not only a disservice to the American people, it  is a slap in the face of every single person who voted for or supported  him!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=236531335386\"\u003EI support the Public  Option\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E - 1415 members so far\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDo you support a  public option component as part of Healthcare Reform?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003ELet Congress  and President Obama hear your voice!\u003Cbr \/\u003EShout louder than the opposition.  There's strength in numbers.\u003Cbr \/\u003EYes We Can Pass A Healthcare Bill That Includes  A Public Option\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=119230374268\"\u003EDemand a Public Health  Care Option TODAY!\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E - 297 members so far\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E I am creating this group because I am sickened by the  way the right wing and the health care corporations have hijacked the Health  Care debate.\u003Cbr \/\u003ELet the DEMOCRATS know we are holding them accountable to  providing a public option.\u003Cbr \/\u003EPlease take ten minutes out of your day to write  or call the White House, your Senators, and your Represantative DEMANDING a  public health care option in this year's Health Care Deform.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E   \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"datawrap\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=115045163935\"\u003EYou can't do  healthcare reform without a public option\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E - 680 members so  far\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003Ctable class=\"profileTable info_table\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\"\u003E \u003Ctbody\u003E \u003Ctr\u003E \u003Ctd class=\"label\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E \u003Ctd class=\"data\"\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"datawrap\"\u003EMeaningful healthcare reform is on the ropes! And it's  partially our fault. The insurance industry and their supporters are organizing  effectively, sending huge numbers of letters and emails to Congress, and sending  people to town hall meetings to stifle other voices.\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe result? Our elected  officials are running for cover on the public option.\u003Cbr \/\u003EPolls show that we are  still in the majority on public option, but as the old saying goes \"the squeaky  wheel gets the grease.\" Right now our opponents are squeakier. We can't let them  defeat meaningful healthcare reform simply by being louder.\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe can still win  a public option, but it will take serious work on our part. Will you renew your  commitment to this effort by taking action right now?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.progressnowcolorado.org\/page\/m2\/4b660776\/1ba3d7ac\/92d3a45\/2dee5ba1\/2538259894\/VEsE\/\"\u003EProgress  Now Colorado\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EContact Info\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEmail:  \u003Ca href=\"mailto:keystoneprogress.org\"\u003Emailto:keystoneprogress.org\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWebsite:  Keystone Progress\u003Cbr \/\u003ELocation: 641 R Penn Ave.\u003Cbr \/\u003EWest Reading, PA\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E   \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"datawrap\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=91992680425\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003ESign the  petition for a public option in the healthcare plan\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E - 669  members so far\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EThis group is intended simply to spread news of a  petition to be signed. If you agree with it, please sign the petition, and  invite all your friends to join this group.\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn his speech on June 3,  President Obama reaffirmed his support for the \"public option\" of the healthcare  plan. That's the crucial ingredient of the plan. The petition at\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca onmousedown=\"'UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this),\" href=\"http:\/\/pol.moveon.org\/popetition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/pol.moveon.org\/popetition\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Eurges legislators to  include that option in the legislation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"datawrap\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=249980910576\"\u003Et's Time to March for  Health Care\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E - 59 members so far\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"datawrap\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E We think that the only acceptable  result of the health care debate is a public option or a single payer system -  and we would be willing to take to the streets to peacefully demonstrate this  belief.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003Eemail: \u003Ca href=\"mailto:jmass@comporium.net\"\u003Ejmass@comporium.net\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cem\u003E\"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who  maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis\"\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cem\u003E\"Los lugares más obscuros en el Infierno están reservados  para aquellos que mantienen su neutralidad en tiempos de crisis  moral\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E-- Dante Alighieri\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7398726418365719062\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/progressives-on-move-nationwide-marches.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/7398726418365719062"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/7398726418365719062"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/progressives-on-move-nationwide-marches.html","title":"PROGRESSIVES ON THE MOVE: NATIONWIDE MARCHES FOR PUBLIC OPTION ON SEPT. 13"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-8141524907780265089"},"published":{"$t":"2009-08-22T11:01:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-08-22T11:26:06.172-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"domestic terrorism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"health care"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"health insurance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"misinformation"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"obama"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"public option"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"right wing"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rightwingnuts"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"swift boat"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"town hall meetings"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"weapons"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Health Care Mobs = Swift Boat Vets... And the Press Plays Dumb, Again"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/media\/142125\/health_care_mobs_%3D_swift_boat_vets..._and_the_press_plays_dumb%2C_again\/\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/images\/site\/logo_2.gif\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E     By    \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/authors\/3440\/\" title=\"View all stories by Eric Boehlert\"\u003EEric Boehlert\u003C\/a\u003E,   \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/\"\u003EMedia Matters for America\u003C\/a\u003E. Posted August 21, 2009.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EMini-mob members being treated as deeply important newsmakers is reminiscent of August 2004.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHere we go  again.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EDuring August's summer daze, right-wing mini-mobs (egged on by corporate interests) have run wild at town hall meetings, propagating all kinds of smears and misinformation in an effort to derail an important Democratic campaign. Yet the mini-mob members have been treated as deeply important newsmakers by the press during a slow summer news month.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"275\"\u003E \u003Ctbody\u003E \u003Ctr\u003E  \u003Ctd class=\"sibtbg\"\u003E MORE ON ALTERNET\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/media\/142140\/unmasking_astroturf:_smear_campaigns_threaten_health_care_and_net_neutrality\/\"\u003EUnmasking Astroturf: Smear Campaigns Threaten Health Care and Net Neutrality\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"small\"\u003ETimothy Karr\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/media\/142138\/michael_moore_on_his_latest:_%27i_made_this_movie_as_if_it_was_going_to_be_the_last_i_was_allowed_to_make%27\/\"\u003EMichael Moore on His Latest: 'I Made This Movie As If It Was Going to Be the Last I Was Allowed to Make'\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"small\"\u003EDiane Sweet\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/media\/142005\/rachel_maddow_slams_dick_armey_for_stirring_up_hate_in_town_halls\/\"\u003ERachel Maddow Slams Dick Armey for Stirring Up Hate in Town Halls\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"small\"\u003EStaff\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/media\/141911\/rush_limbaugh%27s_%22nazi%22_rhetoric:_where%27s_the_outrage\/\"\u003ERush Limbaugh's \"Nazi\" Rhetoric: Where's the Outrage?\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"small\"\u003EEric Boehlert\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/media\/141865\/glenn_beck,_rush_limbaugh,_lou_dobbs_enflame_scary_right-wing_rage\/\"\u003EGlenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs Enflame Scary Right-Wing Rage\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"small\"\u003EJohn V. Santore\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/media\/141868\/whatever_happened_to_progressive_talk_radio_did_air_america_kiss_it_good_bye_\/\"\u003EWhatever Happened to Progressive Talk Radio? Did Air America Kiss it Good Bye? \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"small\"\u003ECynthia Lowen\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"videoextrasvid\"\u003E\u003Cspan=\"smalltitle\"\u003EMore stories by \u003Ca title=\"Stories by Eric Boehlert\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/authors\/3440\"\u003EEric Boehlert\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span=\"smalltitle\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESound familiar? Recall August 2004, when the right-wing Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (egged on by corporate interests) stole a month's worth of campaign headlines by propagating all kinds of smears and misinformation in an attempt to derail an important Democratic campaign. Yet they were treated as deeply important newsmakers by the press during a slow summer news month.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EHonestly, the only thing missing  this time around is a crackpot, best-selling book. In 2004, the Swifties used  the release of \u003Cem\u003EUnfit for Command\u003C\/em\u003E  to launch their media-based smear campaign. This summer, it could have been something like \u003Cem\u003EObamaScare: How Liberal Health Care Will Destroy  America. \u003C\/em\u003E(The Swifties'  right-wing publisher must be kicking  itself over the missed marketing  opportunity.)\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EBut what has been perfectly consistent is the way the press has, again, fallen for a right-wing smear campaign and dressed it up as news. Just as with the Swifties, the press has turned over its summer coverage to a band of agitators spreading misinformation. Five summers ago, the Swift Boat Vets helped hijack the election. They lied about documents, they lied about eyewitness, and they lied about their partisan affiliations and connections. For several crucial weeks during the campaign, journalists turned away from the pile-up of Swift Boat falsehoods and contradictions, rarely daring to call the Swift Boat attack out for what it really was -- a hoax. Too spooked by the GOP Noise Machine and its charge of liberal media bias, the press propped up the Vets as serious men and showered them with attention.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EThis year, the press has handed over untold hours of free airtime to mini-mob members whose sole purpose seems to be to spread \u003Ca linkindex=\"12\" href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fgawker.com%2F5335254%2Fmost-insane-moments-from-the-town-hall-protests%2Fgallery%2F%3Fskyline%3Dtrue%26s%3Dx\" title=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5335254\/most-insane-moments-from-the-town-hall-protests\/gallery\/?skyline=true\u0026amp;s=x\"\u003Eas  much fear as possible\u003C\/a\u003E. (The ones who show up \u003Ca linkindex=\"13\" href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.salon.com%2Fopinion%2Fwalsh%2Fpolitics%2F2009%2F08%2F12%2Fwilliam_kostric%2F\" title=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/walsh\/politics\/2009\/08\/12\/william_kostric\/\"\u003Etoting  guns\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca linkindex=\"14\" href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/200908130027\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/200908130027\"\u003ENazi posters\u003C\/a\u003E make that point rather  emphatically.)\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EFringe players on the right are making wild accusations that cannot be backed up by fact. The mainstream media response? We must cover the phenomenon daily, even hourly!\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003ESo, day after August day, these vacuous health care \"debates\" are aired on cable television, just as news consumers suffered through night after night of vacuous Swift Boat \"debates\" five summers ago. In both cases, the press for the most part handed in its referee's whistle and focused its attention on \u003Ca linkindex=\"15\" href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freep.com%2Fapps%2Fpbcs.dll%2Farticle%3FAID%3D%2F20090807%2FNEWS06%2F908070387%26template%3Dprintart\" title=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20090807\/NEWS06\/908070387\u0026amp;template=printart\"\u003Esimply  reporting the fact-free claims\u003C\/a\u003E and then getting the Democratic response. (i.e. he said\/she said.) It turns out journalists are petrified of calling out right-wing activists as liars, and the other side knows it.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EWhat's amazing is that even a  conservative Republican congressman has \u003Ca linkindex=\"16\" href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fnews%2Fnationworld%2Fnation%2Fla-na-health-gop16-2009aug16%2C0%2C5794904.story\" title=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-health-gop16-2009aug16,0,5794904.story\"\u003Econceded\u003C\/a\u003E that the mini-mobs (this summer's news superstars) appear to be completely detached from reality. \"You cannot build a movement on something that is not credible,'' Rep. Bob Inglis of South Carolina told the \u003Cem\u003ELos Angeles  Times\u003C\/em\u003E after being confronted by belligerent, fact-free protesters who were convinced that as part of health care reform, children would soon be forced to receive swine flu vaccinations. \"At town meetings, the hostility went straight through to hysteria,'' said Inglis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cb\u003E1\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/media\/142125\/health_care_mobs_%3D_swift_boat_vets..._and_the_press_plays_dumb%2C_again\/?page=2\"\u003E2\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/media\/142125\/health_care_mobs_%3D_swift_boat_vets..._and_the_press_plays_dumb%2C_again\/?page=3\"\u003E3\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/media\/142125\/health_care_mobs_%3D_swift_boat_vets..._and_the_press_plays_dumb%2C_again\/?page=4\"\u003E4\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli class=\"last_option\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/media\/142125\/health_care_mobs_%3D_swift_boat_vets..._and_the_press_plays_dumb%2C_again\/?page=2\"\u003ENext page »\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003EYou might be interested in:    \u003Cul id=\"recommendationsList_0_bottom\" class=\"recommendations_ul\"\u003E\u003Cli class=\"outbrain_rec_li\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"rec-link\" target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/traffic.outbrain.com\/network\/redir?key=6bd0efb066b35cf685da3b99ca50e895\u0026amp;rdid=51426185\u0026amp;type=MLT_df5\u0026amp;in-site=true\u0026amp;req_id=49b8ea4507e519a46c44ce3c0e18f025\u0026amp;fp=false\u0026amp;am=get\u0026amp;agent=blog_JS_rec\u0026amp;version=4.4.1\u0026amp;idx=0\" onclick=\"javascript:return(true)\"\u003EInfamous Astroturf Lobbying Firm Behind New Anti-Health Reform Group\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"rec-src-link\"\u003E (\u003Cspan class=\"rec-src-at\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003EAlterNet)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli class=\"outbrain_rec_li\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"rec-link\" target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/traffic.outbrain.com\/network\/redir?key=69c8d9d06248cf3b3a94c6f41c877e99\u0026amp;rdid=51426185\u0026amp;type=MLT_df5\u0026amp;in-site=true\u0026amp;req_id=49b8ea4507e519a46c44ce3c0e18f025\u0026amp;fp=false\u0026amp;am=get\u0026amp;agent=blog_JS_rec\u0026amp;version=4.4.1\u0026amp;idx=1\" onclick=\"javascript:return(true)\"\u003ELike Your Private Health Care? 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And the Press Plays Dumb, Again"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-7880791733529589982"},"published":{"$t":"2009-08-19T01:25:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-08-19T01:32:05.064-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"actions"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"everytown USA"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"grassroots"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"health care reform"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"health insurance industry"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"nationwide"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"public option"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rally"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Public Option or Bust: My  Resolution for Labor Day Weekend"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"My President, Dems who have drawn a line on the sand, and the millions of people who have done the same, I say unto you: \"hold that line, for the Cavalry is on it's way.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOoooh, I have a dream that millions of the real people march to demand that the bargain we made last year, is honored.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI pretty much decided to march in support of a robust Public Option, I'll do it on Labor day, Sept. 7 in San Francisco, from the Embarcadero's Justin Herman Plaza, to the Federal Building where Nacy Pelosi has her office, no, it is not my idea, it is all over, I keep hearing, where are the people who made magic in the 2008 election? I don't know where the rest of us are, but I do know where one of them is, right here and itching for action because I had it, as Popeye would say: \"That's all that I can take, I can't take no more\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs to the location where the march ends, why not? It is a fact that many Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi, have drawn a line on the sand for Public Option, no doubt that The President whom we helped elect and who promised us health reform which would include Government-administered health services in competition with the Insurance Companies, needs to hear from us, didn't we agree that it was up to us? That we, as always, are the ones who have to carry the heavy load, it is up to us, we have to make it happen.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy on Monday? Why not?  Other people may choose to march on Sunday, or on Saturday, while some of us may even march on these three days if there are corresponding actions, Sunday seems a good day for church-going people, worship in the morning and then take action for the Health Reform that each of us, and the nation's economy, desperately need, now is the time, Saturday may sound good to people who simply just like to march on Saturdays, Monday may look appealing for people who still believe in fighting for the rights of all workers and who still live by the principle that \"An injury to one, is an injury to all\", of one thing all of us can be sure, people are getting hurt and dying due to the expensive and deadly nightmare that the Health Care System has turned into, did I say Health Care System? Ha, ha, ha... I laugh to avoid crying, if it is a system at all, it is a 'fleece-the-consumer-system and get obscenely wealthy while doing it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOh yeah, I do have a dream, Labor Day Weekend 2009, a weekend of Actions, a historic time in the USA where once more the people made History and forced passage of a Health Care Plan which works for the people, where the interest of patients is placed before profits and not the other way around, as has been the case forever and the long struggle of trying to change the status quo for... how many? 60, 90 years?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI have not mentioned one of the issues that compel me to march is that WE ARE NOT BEING HEARD, or we are being ignored by many Democrats who forgot that we elected them to take care of a few matters, chief among them is Health Reform, I though we had a bargain because, in addition to being not only our Representatives, they are our employees, we pay their salaries, they were elected to serve the people who put them there and instead they are serving the powers who fought hard to prevent many of them from getting into office, we won that battle and sent them to Washington with overwhelming majorities and with a mandate. WE HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY, I HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELast time I checked, the Democratic Party's Platform lists Universal Health Care and yet, some Democrats are shitting on it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat is up with that?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENo, there are not thousands of people also marching, nor hundreds, not even dozens, there is only one friend I talked over with about this issue who said: \"I'll also march with you, I have to do something about this\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo, there are two of us so far.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDo Something, I don't think there is one pro public option person who isn't saying to him\/herself: \"I've got to do something\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere are many ideas, proposals, a Boycott or Something, in the meantime... time goes bye bye, drip, drip the bleeding continues, the lies get more abundant, widespread and established.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat I say is: let's not complicate what it is in essence a set of simple issues which have complex problems with huge repercussions, we want a choice, we want true competition on the Health Insurance Market Place, we will settle for a Robust Public Option, we do know that Medicare and the VA systems work better than the private systems, so we should be given the opportunity to compete, yes, we, WE ARE THE GOVERNMENT, WE ARE THE SHAREHOLDERS WITH A FRANCHISE ON THIS ENTERPRISE WHICH THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS SUPPOSED TO BE.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECurious that the Health Insurance Industry is spending ungodly amounts of money to defeat it, it seems to me that if they are against something, undoubtedly, it has to be good for us. They don't want competition because it would be... GASP!!!  Unfair?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHey you blood suckers, isn't this a Capitalist System? This is what you keep telling us and you do not want competition? How stupid do you really think we are?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn everytown USA, people make their own resolution, organize and take action, we invite family, friends, co-workers, colleagues, the small business \/ organizations who serve us, we have a Church or some other venue where we attend; all of us have a stake on this struggle, more aptly to call it a war, it is a very old war and we have to put an end to it with a clear objective: Health Care Reform with A Robust Public Option - LET THE COMPETITION COMMENCE AND LET THE BEST PROVIDER OF HEALTH SERVICES WIN.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMany Right Wingers and many in what passes as the Republican Party, are saying that they want their country back, eh?  Hellooooo?  We are the majority, we won the elections, isn't this still a Democracy?  C'mon, who is really in danger of losing the Country? I don't really mean losing our Country, but hey!  I'm told that elections matter and as the gullible and idealistic soul that I am, I believed it, I opened my meager check account, gave tons of my time, a lot of it from my sleeping time to help elect Barack Obama  and to give the Democrats a majority, candidate Obama said that I could own a piece of the campaign, President Obama confirmed that I do own a piece of it - I'll march.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI want to tell my President, to my Representatives who are sticking for our best interests, you are not alone, I may be only one, but I'm with you and I'll say it by making contact with the soles of my shoes to the street's pavement on Labor Day Weekend, Monday for sure, but I'd love to also March on Saturday and on Sunday no matter how long my tired 60 year old bones take to recover.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETarget: Labor Day Weekend, plenty of time to ask other people if they want to do the same, time for them to, in turn, ask others if they want to do the same, time for them to also ask others if they want to do the same, and so forth, and so on.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf many more would make their own commitment and resolve to also do something, it would be magic all over again.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E\"WE ARE THE ONES WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EYES WE CAN, SI SE PUEDE!\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7880791733529589982\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/public-option-or-bust-my-resolution-for.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/7880791733529589982"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/7880791733529589982"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/public-option-or-bust-my-resolution-for.html","title":"Public Option or Bust: My  Resolution for Labor Day Weekend"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-6532535001849382564"},"published":{"$t":"2009-08-17T18:48:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-09-19T00:00:09.306-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"cigna"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"disinformacion"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Entre Mujeres"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"falso"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"industria de seguros"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"medios de comunicacion"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"mentiras"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"seguro de salud"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Wall Street"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"wendell potter"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"De ejecutivo de relaciones públicas de la industria de seguros de salud a denunciante de sus atrocidades"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv style=\"align: right;  padding: 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ctable width=\"75\" height=\"20\" ALIGN=\"RIGHT\" BGCOLOR=\"#FF9900\"\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cmeta name=\"title\" content=\"De ejecutivo de relaciones públicas de la industria de seguros de salud a denunciante de sus atrocidades\" \/\u003E\u003Cmeta name=\"description\" content=\"Un articulo de la reconocida periodista de democracy now Amy Goodman - Insurance Exec Turned Whistleblower Wendell Potter Speaks Out Against Healthcare Industry. Wendell Potter es la peor pesadilla de la industria de los seguros de salud. Se convirtió en informante.\" \/\u003E\u003Clink rel=\"image_src\" href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/images\/story\/72\/17872\/potter-web.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003Cscript\u003Efunction fbs_click() {u=location.href;t=document.title;window.open('http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(u)+'\u0026t='+encodeURIComponent(t),'sharer','toolbar=0,status=0,width=626,height=436');return false;}\u003C\/script\u003E\u003Cstyle\u003E html .fb_share_button { display: -moz-inline-block; display:inline-block; padding:1px 20px 0 5px; height:15px; border:1px solid #d8dfea; background:url(http:\/\/b.static.ak.fbcdn.net\/rsrc.php\/zAB5S\/hash\/4273uaqa.gif) no-repeat top right; } html .fb_share_button:hover { color:#fff; border-color:#295582; background:#3b5998 url(http:\/\/b.static.ak.fbcdn.net\/rsrc.php\/zAB5S\/hash\/4273uaqa.gif) no-repeat top right; text-decoration:none; } \u003C\/style\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=\u003Curl\u003E\" class=\"fb_share_button\" onclick=\"return fbs_click()\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"\u003EShare\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:'Times New Roman','serif';font-size:18;\"  lang=\"ES\" \u003EUn articulo de la reconocida periodista de democracy now Amy Goodman\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003ETraducción cortesía del equipo del Programa Radial, \u003Cb\u003E\"Entre Mujeres\"\u003C\/b\u003E en La Grande 1010AM KIQI en San Francisco CA, 990AM en Sacramento CA y 1540 en Seattle WA\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"mailto:entremujeres1010@yahoo.com\"\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Entre Mujeres\"\u003C\/a\u003E Lunes a Viernes de 1:00 a 2:00 p.m.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable cellpadding=\"10\" width=\"288\" align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/images\/story\/72\/17872\/potter-web.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003E“They Dump the Sick to Satisfy Investors”\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E: \u003Cbr \/\u003EInsurance Exec Turned Whistleblower Wendell Potter Speaks Out Against Healthcare Industry. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2009\/7\/16\/former_insurance_exec_wendell_porter\"\u003EOriginal Program in English\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/video\/flvjwnewest\/player.swf\" width=\"288\" height=\"244\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"file=http:\/\/blip.tv\/file\/get\/Demnow-DemocracyNowThursdayJuly162009657.mp4\u0026image=http:\/\/images.democracynow.org\/statictour\/logo.jpg\u0026backcolor=000000\u0026frontcolor=FFFF99\u0026lightcolor=FFCC66\u0026screencolor=999999\u0026author=Amy Goodman\"\/\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\" lang=\"ES\"\u003EWendell Potter es la peor pesadilla de la industria de los seguros de salud. Se convirtió en informante. Potter, ex principal portavoz de la gigante aseguradora CIGNA, declaró recientemente ante el Congreso: “Mi nombre es Wendell Potter, durante veinte años trabajé como ejecutivo de empresas de seguros de salud y vi cómo confunden a sus clientes y abandonan a los enfermos, todo para dejar conformes a los inversores de Wall Street”.\u003C\/span\u003E  \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\" lang=\"ES\"\u003EPotter estuvo muy involucrado en su trabajo en el desarrollo de estrategias de CIGNA y de la industria de seguros en general para mantener su alto nivel de ganancias, obtenidas gracias al sistema de salud estadounidense. Me dijo: “A lo que más temen es a un sistema de pagador único. Pero temen incluso el hecho de que se proponga la opción de un seguro de salud público. Pondrán todas las trabas que puedan para frustrar eso, para tratar de asustar a la gente para que piense que apoyar una opción de seguro de salud público provocaría una rápida caída hacia el socialismo…poniendo a la burocracia gubernamental entre uno y el médico. Han utilizado estos argumentos durante años y siempre han funcionado”.\u003C\/span\u003E  \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\" lang=\"ES\"\u003EEn 2007, CIGNA negó a una adolescente de California, Nataline Sarkisyan, cobertura médica para un transplante de hígado. Su familia denunció el hecho en los medios. La Asociación de Enfermeros (CNA, por sus siglas en inglés) en California apoyó la denuncia. Geri Jenkins es el director de la CNA. Dijo: «Y es realmente atroz que permitamos que se tomen decisiones pensando en el dinero y no en las vidas humanas y en lo que se necesita para mantener con vida a la gente. La familia Sarkisyan tenía seguro de salud. Y esa es la cuestión aquí. Tenían seguro. Habían hecho todo lo que se esperaba de ellos. Trabajaban mucho, pagaron por su seguro, y sin embargo, cuando lo necesitaron, no estaba allí para ellos». Bajo creciente presión, CIGNA finalmente le otorgó cobertura para realizar el transplante. Pero fue demasiado tarde. Dos horas después de la autorización, Nataline murió. Wendell Potter era el portavoz de CIGNA en aquel entonces.\u003C\/span\u003E  \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\" lang=\"ES\"\u003EDe camino a visitar a unos familiares en Tennessee, Potter se detuvo en una “expedición médica” en Wise, Virginia. La gente manejaba durante horas para recibir asistencia gratuita en clínicas provisorias instaladas en establos para animales en el predio de un parque de atracciones local. Potter me dijo que semanas más tarde, mientras volaba en un avión de la empresa CIGNA junto a su director ejecutivo: “Me di cuenta de que las primas de algunas personas me estaban ayudando a viajar de ese modo, que pagarían mi almuerzo servido en vajillas de porcelana china. Y luego pensé en esos hombres y mujeres que había visto en el Condado de Wise, definitivamente no tenían ni idea de cómo viven los ejecutivos de las empresas de seguros”.\u003C\/span\u003E  \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\" lang=\"ES\"\u003ELos ejecutivos de la industria de seguros y los inversores de Wall Street son adictos a las enormes ganancias y a los aumentos de dos dígitos en las tasas anuales. Para acaparar más ganancias, dice Potter, si una persona hace una solicitud importante de cobertura, el asegurador a menudo inspeccionará la solicitud de cobertura original de la persona, en busca de cualquier error que permita cancelar la póliza. De manera similar, si los empleados de una pequeña empresa hacen demasiados reclamos de reembolso, la aseguradora, dice Potter, “muy probablemente aumente tanto las tasas que a su empleador no le quedará otra alternativa que dejarlo a Ud. y a sus compañeros de trabajo sin seguro médico”.\u003C\/span\u003E  \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\" lang=\"ES\"\u003EEsta semana, mientras la Cámara de Representantes y el Senado presentan sus proyectos de ley sobre el sistema de salud, Potter advierte: “Algo que hay que recordar es que la industria de los seguros de salud se ha venido anticipando a este debate sobre el sistema de salud desde hace muchos años…y se ha posicionado de manera de estar muy cerca de los miembros influyentes de ambos partidos en el Congreso”. El Senador de Montana Max Baucus preside el Comité de Finanzas del Senado, que es clave para la reforma del sistema de salud. Potter prosiguió: “La industria de seguros, la industria farmacéutica y otros involucrados en la industria de la asistencia médica han donado…millones de dólares a sus campañas en los últimos años. Pero además del dinero, son las relaciones las que cuentan, y es por eso que la industria de seguros contrató a muchos, pero muchos lobbistas, algunos de los cuales trabajaron para miembros del Congreso, y algunos que son ex miembros del Congreso para que hicieran lobby por ellos”.\u003C\/span\u003E  \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\" lang=\"ES\"\u003ELa industria de los seguros y otros grupos que tienen intereses económicos en la industria de la salud están haciendo un fuerte lobby contra la opción de seguro de salud público sin fines de lucro que propone el gobierno, y están gastando, según el Washington Post, 1,4 millones de dólares al día para persuadir al Congreso y a la opinión pública.\u003C\/span\u003E  \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\" lang=\"ES\"\u003ENo nos dejemos engañar. La negativa de las empresas de seguro médico a proporcionarles a sus clientes la cobertura requerida mata gente, y Wendell Potter conoce todos los secretos. Sus denuncias podrían ser justo lo que se necesita para abandonar por fin lo que está ‘enfermo’ en nuestro sistema de asistencia de salud.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:'Times New Roman','serif';font-size:18;\"  lang=\"ES\" \u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6532535001849382564\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/de-ejecutivo-de-relaciones-publicas-de.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/6532535001849382564"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/6532535001849382564"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/de-ejecutivo-de-relaciones-publicas-de.html","title":"De ejecutivo de relaciones públicas de la industria de seguros de salud a denunciante de sus atrocidades"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-1778420497337649285"},"published":{"$t":"2009-08-04T10:49:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-08-04T11:10:50.284-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"blue dogs"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"democrats"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"health care"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"health insurance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"health reform"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"keith olberman"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"public option"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"sellouts"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Olbermann tears the Worst Sellouts on Health Care in Congress"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Keith Olbermann exposes Sen. 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John McCain, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans  -- as well as a few Democrats, too: specifically the \"Blue Dogs.\", warns them on the political consequences of derailing Health Reform.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETelling it like it is\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3036677#32277034\"\u003E\"Legislators For Sale\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ciframe height=\"339\" width=\"425\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22425001\/vp\/32277034#32277034\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;\"\u003EVisit msnbc.com for \u003Ca style=\"text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\"\u003EBreaking News\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" style=\"text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;\"\u003EWorld News\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" style=\"text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;\"\u003ENews about the Economy\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1778420497337649285\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/olbermann-tears-worst-sellouts-on.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/1778420497337649285"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/1778420497337649285"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/olbermann-tears-worst-sellouts-on.html","title":"Olbermann tears the Worst Sellouts on Health Care in Congress"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-1559543653312674709"},"published":{"$t":"2009-08-02T10:31:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-08-02T10:41:18.612-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"blue dog"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"democrats"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"health care reform"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"jonathan Alter"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"newsweek"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"public option"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"satire"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"What's Not to Like?  Reform? Why do we need health-care reform? Everything is just fine the way it is."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv\u003EI just had to share this article, I'm confident you will want to share\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003Eit with others, go ahead, it's a beaut.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EAurora\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"article-section\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ch2 class=\"authorname\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EJonathan Alter -- \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/\"\u003ENewsweek\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/209817\/page\/1\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:180%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat’s Not to Like?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003EReform? Why do we need health-care reform? Everything is\u003Cbr \/\u003Ejust fine the way it is.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\" class=\"articleUpdated\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EJul 31, 2009\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"subinfo\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/182970\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ndn2.newsweek.com\/media\/37\/alter_237-thumb7.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" \/\u003E \u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"box box2\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"top\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"content\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Ca href=\"mailto:webeditors@newsweek.com\"\u003EEmail the Author\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"content\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/182970\"\u003EMore by the\u003Cbr \/\u003EAuthor\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"subinfo\"\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"box box2\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"story\"\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"subinfo\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"box box2\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"story\"\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EGo ahead, shoot me. I like the status quo on health care in the United  States. I've got health insurance and I don't give a damn about the 47 million  suckers who don't. Obama and Congress must be stopped. No bill! I'm better off  the way things are.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EI'm with that woman who wrote the president complaining about \"socialized  medicine\" and added: \"Now keep your hands off my Medicare.\" That's the  spirit!\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EWhy should I be entitled to the same insurance that members of Congress get?  Blue Dogs need a lot of medical attention to treat their blueness. I'm just a  regular guy and definitely deserve less.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EI had cancer a few years ago. I like the fact that if I lose my job, I won't  be able to get any insurance because of my illness. It reminds me of my  homeowners' insurance, which gets canceled after a break-in. I like the choice  I'd face if, God forbid, the cancer recurs—sell my house to pay for the hundreds  of thousands of dollars in treatment, or die. That's what you call a  \"post-existing condition.\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EI like the absence of catastrophic insurance today. It meant that my  health-insurance plan (one of the better ones, by the way) only covered about 75  percent of the cost of my cutting-edge treatment. That's as it should be—face  cancer and shell out huge amounts of money at the same time. Nice.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EI like the \"lifetime limits\" that many policies have today. Missed the fine  print on that one, did you? It means that after you exceed a certain amount of  reimbursement, you don't get anything more from the insurance company. That's  fair.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003ESpeaking of fair, it seems fair to me that cost-cutting bureaucrats at the  insurance companies—not doctors—decide what's reimbursable. After all, the  insurance companies know best.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EYes, the insurance company status quo rocks. I learned recently about  something called the \"loading fees\" of insurance companies. That's how much of  every health-care dollar gets spent by insurance companies on things other than  the medical care—paperwork, marketing, profits, etc. According to a University  of Minnesota study, up to 47 percent of all the money going into the  health-insurance system is consumed in \"loading fees.\" Even good insurance  companies spend close to 30 percent on nonmedical stuff. Sweet.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EThe good news is that the $8,000 a year per family that Americans pay for  their employer-based health insurance is heading up! According to the Council of  Economic Advisers, it will hit $25,000 per family by 2025. The sourpusses who  want health-care reform say that's \"unsustainable.\" Au contraire.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EAnd how could the supporters of these reform bills believe in anything as  stupid as a \"public option\"? Do they really believe that the health-insurance  cartel deserves a little competition to keep them honest? Back in the day, they  had a word for competition. A bad word. They called it capitalism. FedEx versus  the U.S. Postal Service, CNN versus PBS—just because it's government-backed  doesn't mean you can't compete against it. If they believed in capitalism, the  insurance companies would join the fray and compete.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E \u003Cp\u003EI'm glad they don't. I prefer the status quo, where the for-profit insurance  companies suck at the teat of the federal government. Corporate welfare's what  we've got, and it's a damn good system. Through a wonderful program called  Medicare Advantage, the insurance companies receive hundreds of billions of  dollars in fees to administer a program that the government is already running.  Don't touch that baby. You'd be messing with the handiwork of some fine  lobbyists.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EYou know what part of the status quo I like best? It's a longstanding system  for paying doctors called \"fee for service.\" That's where doctors get paid for  each procedure they perform, as if my auto dealer got paid separately for the  steering wheel, brakes, and horn instead of for the car. Fee-for-service is why  the medical care at that doc-in-a-box at my mall is so superior to the Mayo  Clinic or Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where the doctors are on  salary. Who would want to mess with that?\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EOK, if you really press me, I'm for one change. It's the one that Republicans  trot out to prove they're \"reformers,\" too. We could save our whole system if we  just capped malpractice awards. Two of our biggest states—California and  Texas—did it a few years ago and nothing has changed there, but who cares? It  sounds good.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003ESo tell your congressmen and senators when they're home for the summer recess  that it's too soon to address this issue. We've only been debating it for 97  years, since Theodore Roosevelt put national health insurance in the Bull Moose  Party platform of 1912. We've only had 745 congressional hearings on the subject  (I made that number up, but it's got to be close). That's not enough! Let's  study this problem more before we do anything about it.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EDid I say \"problem\"? Who said there was a problem? Not me. I like the status  quo.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1559543653312674709\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/whats-not-to-like-reform-why-do-we-need.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/1559543653312674709"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/1559543653312674709"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/whats-not-to-like-reform-why-do-we-need.html","title":"What's Not to Like?  Reform? Why do we need health-care reform? Everything is just fine the way it is."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-2343636632856385895"},"published":{"$t":"2009-07-30T23:11:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-07-30T23:26:44.432-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"health care reform"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Max Baucus"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"National Rifle Association"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"nra"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"public option"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"sonia sotomayor"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"united states supreme court"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Baucus: 'No idea' how he'll vote on Sotomayor"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003EThis guy is really seriously compromised, him and  others like him quickly forget that we gave tons of money to elect Obama and  other Dems, I'm sure we can pitch in with funds to Dem Candidates who may be in  trouble during the mid-term elections - in addition, they do not seem to realize  that the same way we contributed to elect Representatives, the contributions can  be used to support any other Dem who will oppose them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003EI'm not the only one who has already decided that  if the Blue Dog Dems screw the people and help the 'Dark Side', we will spend as  much as we can to make sure they are defeated.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003EAlbeit I disagree with them in many of their  political positions, I'm OK with it because the Dem Party really is supposed to  be a Big Tent, but when it comes to the issue of Public Option in Health Care  and they do not support it, they will prove beyond any doubt that friends of the  people is not one political characteristics they have. (I do prefer a 'single  payer plan' but I don't think it could be reachable now)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow, after all that we have witnessed on the attacks on Sonia Sotomayor, he will not support her being in the Supreme Court, just pushes him over the line to the racist wing nut as far as I'm concerned.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat the hell more do they want from us?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJudge Sonia Sotomayor did what people who want to get ahead are expected to do and she did it very well.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThank you very much for nothing Max.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003EFrom \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Hill\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/leading-the-news\/baucus-says-he-has-no-idea-how-hell-vote-on-sotomayor-2009-07-30.html\"\u003EBaucus: ‘No idea’ how he’ll vote on Sotomayor\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"contentauthor\"\u003E By J. Taylor Rushing \u003C\/span\u003EPosted: 07\/30\/09 08:27 PM [ET] \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003ESen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said  Thursday he hasn’t made up his mind on whether he will vote to confirm Supreme  Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBaucus this summer has infuriated liberals  on and off Capitol Hill by working to strike a deal with Republicans on  healthcare reform. A “no” vote on Sotomayor would be adding fuel to the left’s  fire at the Finance Committee chairman.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBaucus on Thursday twice told  The Hill he is undecided on next week’s floor vote on Sotomayor.\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E“I have no idea,” Baucus said. “I haven’t paid any attention and I haven’t  announced … I’ve been so busy with healthcare. It’s under consideration. I’ll  certainly know when I vote, but right now I can’t tell you.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe National  Rifle Association (NRA) has come out against Sotomayor, stating it will factor  the vote into its legislative scorecard because the group feels the nominee  would curb gun rights.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBaucus had an A rating from the NRA in 2008, as  did two other Senate Democrats who ran last year: Tim Johnson of South Dakota  and Mark Warner of Virginia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJohnson supports Sotomayor’s  nomination.\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003EWarner told The Hill on Thursday he intends to support Sotomayor — and that  he was “very disappointed” in the gun lobby. Warner also said he is not worried  that Sotomayor will restrict the rights of gun owners.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I’m very  disappointed. [NRA seems] to be going beyond their Second Amendment issues,  particularly when I think the judge’s positions on those issues are still fairly  open,” Warner said. “I trust in her judgment and temperament. I think the NRA at  some point has gone beyond its mission, and are perhaps allowing themselves to  get hijacked by those who are in the extreme.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe NRA did not  immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA Baucus “no” vote against  President Barack Obama’s high-court nominee would attract national headlines. It  would also create a politically awkward situation with the White House as it is  trying to prod Baucus to produce a healthcare reform bill.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELiberal groups  are incensed at Baucus for his refusal to embrace the so-called public option in  revamping the nation’s healthcare system. Democracy for America and the  Progressive Change Campaign Committee are running ads against Baucus in Montana  on the issue.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBaucus voted to confirm John Roberts, President George W.  Bush’s nominee for chief justice. He later voted against now-Supreme Court  Justice Samuel Alito.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFellow Democrat Jon Tester of Montana said he also  has traditionally received NRA support, while noting that he will support  Sotomayor.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETester said he pressed Sotomayor on gun-rights issues during  his private meeting with her and, like Warner, feels comfortable with the  nominee.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I think she’ll be fine on gun rights. I asked about some of her  past cases, and I just think she’s going to be fine,” Tester said.\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003ESen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), who has an A rating from the NRA, on  Thursday announced his support of Sotomayor. Other Republicans who say they will  vote yes on her nomination are: Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Lindsey Graham  (S.C.), Richard Lugar (Ind.), Mel Martinez (Fla.) and Olympia Snowe  (Maine).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn a letter to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)  and Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) last week, the NRA cited two  controversial decisions in Sotomayor’s past: Maloney v. Cuomo, in which she  ruled the Second Amendment did not apply to state and local governments, and  United States v. 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 padding: 10px;\"\u003E\u003Ctable width=\"75\" height=\"20\" ALIGN=\"RIGHT\" BGCOLOR=\"#FF9900\"\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cmeta name=\"title\" content=\"Health Care Reform and The Media: Who is Wendell Potter?\" \/\u003E\u003Cmeta name=\"description\" content=\"In his first extended television interview since leaving the health  insurance industry, Wendell Potter tells Bill Moyers why he left his successful  career as the head of Public Relations for CIGNA, one of the nation's largest  insurers, and decided to speak out against the industry.\" \/\u003E\u003Clink rel=\"image_src\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/moyers\/journal\/07102009\/images\/vid2.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003Cscript\u003Efunction fbs_click() {u=location.href;t=document.title;window.open('http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(u)+'\u0026t='+encodeURIComponent(t),'sharer','toolbar=0,status=0,width=626,height=436');return false;}\u003C\/script\u003E\u003Cstyle\u003E html .fb_share_button { display: -moz-inline-block; display:inline-block; padding:1px 20px 0 5px; height:15px; border:1px solid #d8dfea; background:url(http:\/\/b.static.ak.fbcdn.net\/rsrc.php\/zAB5S\/hash\/4273uaqa.gif) no-repeat top right; } html .fb_share_button:hover { color:#fff; border-color:#295582; background:#3b5998 url(http:\/\/b.static.ak.fbcdn.net\/rsrc.php\/zAB5S\/hash\/4273uaqa.gif) no-repeat top right; text-decoration:none; } \u003C\/style\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=\u003Curl\u003E\" class=\"fb_share_button\" onclick=\"return fbs_click()\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"\u003EShare\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EThis is a story that any one who feels that we  should have Health Care for everybody must see and share with others, there is  so much propaganda as to why Health Care Reform, as proposed by President Obama,  is VERY BAD! How it would lead us to... SOCIALISM! How it would destroy the very  fabric of our society or something of that sort.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EWe hear Senators and Congressmen, both Republican  and BLUE DOG Democrats, tell us through all the media outlets that the Public  Health Systems in Canada, England and France are total disasters, how Public  Health leads to health rationing and blah, blah, blah... The interesting part is  that these elected Representatives are in the pockets of the Health Care  Insurance Companies - I mentioned Blue Dog Democrats, but it also includes other  Dems who are closeted Blue Dog Democrats, and who are no friends to common  folk's interests, that's for sure.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/video\/flvjwnewest\/player.swf\" width=\"340\" height=\"275\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"file=http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/moyers\/journal\/07102009\/flv\/wendellpotter.flv\u0026author=Bill Moyers\u0026description=Bill Moyers Journal Interview with former health insurance insider named Wendell Potter\u0026image=http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/moyers\/journal\/07102009\/images\/vid2_big.jpg\u0026link=http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/moyers\/journal\/07102009\/watch2.html\u0026title=The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One.\u0026title=Wendell Potter on Profits Before Patients\u0026backcolor=FFCC66\u0026frontcolor=33FF33\u0026lightcolor=FFCCFF\u0026screencolor=000000\u0026bufferlength=10\u0026controlbar=bottom\" \/\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EAs somebody who is very concerned and well informed  of how the media allows itself to be used as long there is a lot of money to buy  space, it doesn't surprise me to see how gleefully they join in the campaigns of  misinformation, they have a license to lie to the public, as Producer Director  Sue Wilson documents on her movie \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.broadcastblues.tv\/\"\u003E\"Broadcast Blues\"\u003C\/a\u003E , there is at least  one court ruling which said that there is no law which prohibits or sanctions  lying while presenting \"News\" (FOX NOISE ANYONE?) or on their Ads, while the FCC  may have Administrative Jurisdiction in some of these matters, it doesn't even  want to look into it, much less do something about it, till now that  is.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EAs a learning bonus, it is very interesting to see  how the 'Media Personalities' put these sellouts on their programs and allow  them to make their claims without a challenge to provide evidence on the  failures of Government-run Health Care in other industrialized countries,  needless to say, they do not challenge any claim no matter how outrageous and  patently false it may be.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EI don't know what else to say about how important  it is to also fight this battle, I'm constantly reminded of the saying that  \u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E'you can lead a horse to the water, but you can't make it  drink'\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E, all we can do is make the truth available.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFor those interested in to at least know  how we, our children and our children's children are and will be royally screwed  and even killed for lack of care if the Insurance Companies have their way,  there is some info below, and for those also interested and willing to join the  fight for Media Reform, \u003Ca href=\"mailto:aurora-grajeda@comcast.net\"\u003Esend me an  email\u003C\/a\u003E to get connected with other people who will not go quietly into the  night without a fight.\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EWendell Potter interview on the Bill Moyer on his July 10 PBS Program, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/moyers\/journal\/07102009\/profile.html\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\"Profits  Before Patients\"\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E,  \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003Cblockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\"\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/moyers\/journal\/07102009\/images\/vid2.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003EIn his first extended television interview since leaving the health  insurance industry, Wendell Potter tells Bill Moyers why he left his successful  career as the head of Public Relations for CIGNA, one of the nation's largest  insurers, and decided to speak out against the industry. \"I didn't intend to  [speak out], until it became really clear to me that the industry is resorting  to the same tactics they've used over the years, and particularly back in the  early '90s, when they were leading the effort to kill the Clinton  plan.\"\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003EEven so he doesn't tell us anything new, as a former insider, he confirms  what we have been saying all along about the current Health \"System\", what is  very revealing is to confirm their tactics to keep the 'status quo' hence their  profits, as of last week, the Health Insurance Company's Lobby was spending  $1,000,000,00 a day, yes, you read right, \u003Cstrong\u003EONE MILLION DOLLARS A DAY TO  DEFEAT THE PUBLIC OPTION\u003C\/strong\u003E (They do not want any competition that would  drive down the cost of buying Health Care).\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003EHe also confirms that \u003Cstrong\u003EMichael Moore's \"SiCKO\"\u003C\/strong\u003E Is right on  target and describes how they went about discrediting Michael and the  Documentary, if you didn't get a chance to see the Movie, you can watch \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=6646340600856118396\u0026amp;ei=CCI8SqhlkfqsApez7KsK\u0026amp;q=sicko\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ethe  full version here\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/a\u003E(02:03:12), I have also embed the video at the foot of this post.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E.\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003EEven so this movie came out in 2007, two years later it is still current  and highly pertinent.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003EIn his Moyer's interview, Potter reveals his struggle in deciding what to do about his epiphany on the  horrible reality of Health Care in These United States, going as far as quoting  Dante Alighieri \u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\"\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"body\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe  darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in  times of moral crisis.\"\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIn closing, let me just tell you a little known secret, \u003Cu\u003Ethe  current media status is literally killing people, the Fourth State has failed us  and many of our Representatives have betrayed us, for money\u003C\/u\u003E.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EOn the bright side, there are exceptions in  the Media chicanery, there are many journalists who still do their work with  honesty, under traditional journalist's guidelines and principles, on the down  side, these honorable Journalists are outnumbered by a ratio of at least 10 to 1  according to the Sept. 12 2007 Media Matters' \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/press\/releases\/200709120002\"\u003EReport: Black and  White and Re(a)d All Over\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E (\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/static\/pdf\/oped_report.pdf\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EPDF\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E which should tell us that before we can  realistically have any type of just and comprehensive reform on Health Care,  Immigration, Working conditions, Education, etc., WE NEED TO HAVE MEDIA REFORM  FIRST.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cembed id=\"VideoPlayback\" src=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/googleplayer.swf?docid=6646340600856118396\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;fs=true\" style=\"width: 400px; height: 326px;\" 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\/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EHe later updated his post with video of the exchange from ABC's Good Venezia also added video from \u003Cem\u003EGood Morning America\u003C\/em\u003E to his post.\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfter a Free Republic member \u003Ca title=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/focus\/f-chat\/2289053\/posts\" href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freerepublic.com%2Ffocus%2Ff-chat%2F2289053%2Fposts\"\u003Eposted\u003C\/a\u003E a \u003Ca title=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/nphotos\/slideshow\/photo\/090709\/ids_photos_wl\/r3356552547.jpg\/\" href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.yahoo.com%2Fnphotos%2Fslideshow%2Fphoto%2F090709%2Fids_photos_wl%2Fr3356552547.jpg%2F\"\u003EReuters photo\u003C\/a\u003E  described as \"U.S. President Barack Obama (C) and France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (R) tak[ing] their places with junior G8 delegates for a family photo at the G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy,\" Matt Drudge \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.drudgereportarchives.com%2Fdata%2F2009%2F07%2F09%2F20090709_201429.htm\"\u003Epromoted\u003C\/a\u003E the same photo.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cobject height=\"335\" width=\"320\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/cloudfront.mediamatters.org\/static\/flash\/mmplayer.swf\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"flashvars\" value=\"config=http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/embed\/mm-cfg?id=200907100014\"\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/cloudfront.mediamatters.org\/static\/flash\/mmplayer.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" flashvars=\"config=http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/embed\/mm-cfg?id=200907100014\" align=\"left\" height=\"335\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"320\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003ESubsequently, ABC News' Jake Tapper, Fox News, and the \u003Cem\u003ENew York Post\u003C\/em\u003E followed their lead, highlighting the photo online and on screen, in some cases with provocative, needling, or scolding commentary. But a review of the video, which the media promoting the photo either did not watch or did not allow to give pause, makes clear that Obama was attempting to navigate high steps, while reaching back to help someone behind him do so as well. As Fox News host Greta Van Susteren \u003Ca title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200907100001\" href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200907100001\"\u003Esaid\u003C\/a\u003E after airing \u003Ca title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200907100001\" href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200907100001\"\u003Evideo\u003C\/a\u003E of the event, \"Yes, a\u003Cbr \/\u003Estill picture can lie. And this one does.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs \u003Cem\u003EMedia Matters for america\u003C\/em\u003E has \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200804180010\"\u003Edocumented\u003C\/a\u003E, media figures previously attacked Obama based on an interpretation of a photograph that was similarly disproved by video evidence.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Reuters photo posted on Free Republic by TornadoAlley3 at 2:45 p.m. ET:\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200907100014#update\"\u003E*\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/cloudfront.mediamatters.org\/static\/images\/item\/photo-20090709-reuters.jpg\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" height=\"221\" width=\"259\" \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EAt 3:14 p.m. ET, the Drudge Report \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.drudgereportarchives.com%2Fdata%2F2009%2F07%2F09%2F20090709_201429.htm\"\u003Eposted\u003C\/a\u003E  the photo with the headline, \"Mr. President!\" Drudge later revised the headline to \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.drudgereportarchives.com%2Fdata%2F2009%2F07%2F10%2F20090710_110249.htm\"\u003E\"Second Stimulus Package!\"\u003C\/a\u003E The Drudge Report subsequently \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.drudgereportarchives.com%2Fdata%2F2009%2F07%2F10%2F20090710_142027.htm\"\u003Eincluded\u003C\/a\u003E  a link to Tapper's blog post under the headline, \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.abcnews.com%2Fpoliticalpunch%2F2009%2F07%2Fwhen-in-rome.html\"\u003EABCNEWS: NO HE DIDN'T ...\u003C\/a\u003E\"\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/cloudfront.mediamatters.org\/static\/images\/item\/photo-20090709-drudge.jpg\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" height=\"275\" width=\"561\" \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMedia figures making dubious claims about the photo following its posting on Free Republic and the Drudge Report include:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul type=\"disc\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe Fox Nation picked up the photo with the headline, \"Another Stimulus?\" which was later revised to \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thefoxnation.com%2Fpolitics%2F2009%2F07%2F09%2Fanother-stimulus\"\u003E\"Busted?\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/cloudfront.mediamatters.org\/static\/images\/item\/photo-20090709-foxnation1.jpg\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" height=\"366\" width=\"508\" \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EThe Fox Nation subsequently posted the following photo with the headline, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thefoxnation.com%2Fpolitics%2F2009%2F07%2F10%2Fgirl-obama-was-checking-out-17\"\u003E\"Girl\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama Was Checking Out Is 17?\"\u003C\/a\u003E:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/cloudfront.mediamatters.org\/static\/images\/item\/photo-20090709-foxnation2.jpg\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" height=\"388\" width=\"539\" \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cul type=\"disc\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAt 5:20 p.m. ET, Tapper \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.abcnews.com%2Fpoliticalpunch%2F2009%2F07%2Fwhen-in-rome.html\"\u003Eposted\u003C\/a\u003E  the photo with the headline, \"When In Rome...?\" Around 4 a.m. ET on July 10, Tapper \u003Ca title=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jaketapper\/status\/2565390304\" href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fjaketapper%2Fstatus%2F2565390304\"\u003Eposted\u003C\/a\u003E  on Twitter, \"that foto of POTUS seeming to be sneaking a leer is misleading, im told -- video shows the moment was completely innocent.\" He also updated his blog post, including \u003Ca title=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalpunch\/2009\/07\/when-in-rome.html\" href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.abcnews.com%2Fpoliticalpunch%2F2009%2F07%2Fwhen-in-rome.html\"\u003Evideo\u003C\/a\u003E  of the incident:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn first glance, the snapshot appears to show President Obama caught in a\u003Cbr \/\u003Emoment of less than lofty analysis. But upon looking at \u003Ca title=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/video\/playerIndex?id=8049121\" href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fabcnews.go.com%2Fvideo%2FplayerIndex%3Fid%3D8049121\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ethe video\u003C\/a\u003E, the moment might seem to appear quite innocent -- one of those times when a picture can be misleading. The president was on a higher step and was stepping down -- so he looked down to assure his footing as the woman was walking up the stairs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlthough: not everyone agrees. Judge for yourself.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe later updated his post with video of the exchange from ABC's \u003Cem\u003EGood\u003Cbr \/\u003EMorning America\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul type=\"disc\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003EOn the July 9 edition of his Fox News show, Sean Hannity stated, \"[S]o\u003Cbr \/\u003Ethere I am. I'm on the radio today, and I click on to the Drudge Report. And I\u003Cbr \/\u003Esay, 'Oh, Barack Obama in his Bill Clinton moment,' \" before showing the\u003Cbr \/\u003Ephotograph on air. After Fox News political analyst Kirsten Powers stated,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"They're looking at something else, like out of -- it's the camera angle. ...\u003Cbr \/\u003E[I]t's not in the picture,\" Hannity replied, \"He's looking at her backside,\u003Cbr \/\u003Ecan we just say it?\" \u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/cloudfront.mediamatters.org\/static\/images\/item\/photo-20090709-fnf2.jpg\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" height=\"324\" width=\"432\" \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cul type=\"disc\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIn a July 10 \u003Cem\u003ENew York Post \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca title=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/07102009\/news\/nationalnews\/tail_to_the_chief_178552.htm\" href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nypost.com%2Fseven%2F07102009%2Fnews%2Fnationalnews%2Ftail_to_the_chief_178552.htm\"\u003Earticle\u003C\/a\u003E  published online at 3:28 a.m. ET and linked to by \u003Ca title=\"http:\/\/www.drudgereportarchives.com\/data\/2009\/07\/10\/20090710_111052.htm\" href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.drudgereportarchives.com%2Fdata%2F2009%2F07%2F10%2F20090710_111052.htm\"\u003EDrudge\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Eby 6:10 a.m. ET, Todd Venezia posted the photo and wrote:\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBaby got Barack!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe leader of the free world and his French counterpart were caught sneaking a peek at a the pink-satin-draped booty of a 17-year-old junior G-8 delegate just moments before the summit's official group photo was snapped in Italy yesterday.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EObama wasn't the only head of state getting Yankee Doodle randy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003EVenezia also added video from \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EGood Morning America\u003C\/span\u003E to his post.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cul type=\"disc\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe following day, \u003Cem\u003EFox \u0026amp; Friends\u003C\/em\u003E aired the photo with the caption, \"Tail to the chief.\" Co-hosts Brian Kilmeade and Gretchen Carlson,  along with guest co-host Andrew Napolitano, \u003Ca title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200907100002\" href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200907100002\"\u003Easserted\u003C\/a\u003E that the photo  was evidence that Obama \"sneak[ed] a \"peek\" at \"a beauty's backside.\" Carlson stated of the photo, \"That's just a natural reaction, is it not, guys?'  Napolitano responded, \"It surely is. That's why there's so many pictures of it.\"\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFox \u0026amp; Friends\u003C\/em\u003E subsequently aired another photograph from the G-8 summit with the caption, \"Yes, nice can\":\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/cloudfront.mediamatters.org\/static\/images\/item\/photo-20090709-fnf.jpg\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" height=\"284\" width=\"379\" \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DknDusOm-cZw\"\u003Evideo\u003C\/a\u003E  of that incident makes clear, the claim that Obama is \"check[ing] out the ladies\" from this photo is also 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Claudia Huete with reports of Karla Ramos from Tegucigalpa.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.vtv.gov.ve\/envivo.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Evtv venezuela en vivo (Spanish live feed)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/174.129.242.117:8080\/gigajsp\/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EVTV en vivo, senal alternativa (alternate signal)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable cellpadding=\"10\" width=\"340\" height=\"278\" align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003ELive Feed\u003Cbr \/\u003Estreamer=rtmp:\/\/67.202.41.81\/rtplive\u0026file=vtv.flv\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/video\/flvjwnewest\/player.swf\" width=\"340\" height=\"278\" bgcolor=\"undefined\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"bufferlength=5\u0026streamer=rtmp:\/\/67.202.41.81\/rtplive\u0026file=vtv.flv\u0026autostart=false\u0026volume=50\u0026backcolor=000000\u0026frontcolor=FFFF99\u0026lightcolor=FFCC66\u0026screencolor=000000\"\/\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003ELive Feed\u003Cbr \/\u003Estreamer=rtmp:\/\/174.129.177.79\/rtplive\u0026file=vtv.flv\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/video\/flvjwnewest\/player.swf\" width=\"340\" height=\"278\" bgcolor=\"undefined\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"bufferlength=5\u0026streamer=rtmp:\/\/174.129.177.79\/rtplive\u0026file=vtv.flv\u0026autostart=false\u0026volume=50\u0026backcolor=000000\u0026frontcolor=FFFF99\u0026lightcolor=FFCC66\u0026screencolor=000000\"\/\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E \u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThe incident according to witnesses and reporters on the scene who talked live to TeleSur, DESCRIBED IT AS AN AMBUSH.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccording to the reports, the military had blocked access to the airport to protesters, they had standing orders to not let anybody get through, at some point, the soldiers opened up pathways and people went in, shortly afterwards the soldiers opened fire against the ones who had gone inside.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe number of dead reported so far vary from 1 to 3 but people who saw what happened fear there were more dead.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPeople getting the live TV Feed from TeleSur and Venezuelat TV (VTV), including me, feel that there is a high probability that there were more fatalities and wonded than the ones being reported.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI could hear rapid fire for 2 to 3 seconds, then slower fire for a second or two and then rapid fire again, the shooting seemed to last for a long time, people were running, ducking and hitting the ground, there was no way that I could count the shots, but I could safely say that there were dozens and dozens of them, more than 100?  sure, I can say that.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the new curfew hours were announced, people hurried back to their homes so as to not be caught outside, they are vowing to be back on the streets in the morning, around 8:00 and 8:30 a.m.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUntil this moment no one from the \"Golpistas\" Has disclosed what article of the Constitution they are basing their actions on.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/marketsNews\/idUSN0522298120090705\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/resources\/images\/logo_reuters_media_us.gif\" align=\"right\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/marketsNews\/idUSN0522298120090705\"\u003EOne killed in Honduras protest, more wounded-medics\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETEGUCIGALPA, July 5 (Reuters) - At least one person was killed and two were badly wounded on Sunday when protesters demanding the return of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya clashed with troops at the main airport in the capital, a medic and emergency services at the scene told Reuters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETroops spread out in positions around the airport. (Reporting by Mica Rosenberg and Enrique Andres Pretel; writing by Patrick Markey)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090705\/ap_on_re_la_am_ca\/lt_honduras_coup\"\u003EZelaya's plane circles Honduran runway, can't land\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/a\/i\/us\/nws\/p\/ap_logo_106.png\" align=\"left\"\u003E  By WILL WEISSERT and NESTOR IKEDA, Associated Press Writers Will Weissert And Nestor Ikeda, Associated Press Writers\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Ousted President Manuel Zelaya says he can't land at the main Honduras airport because soldiers are blocking the runway with several military vehicles.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe pilot of his Venezuelan plane circled around the airport and decided that landing is \"totally impossible\" because of the trucks in the way.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGroups of police and soldiers also are stationed around the runway and the perimeter of the airfield, facing off against thousands of Zelaya supporters outside.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EZelaya says he'll announce later where they'll land. A crew of the Venezuelan network Telesur is on the plane. He told them Sunday that the pilots won't risk a crash, and vowed to try again on Monday or Tuesday.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETHIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Ousted President Manuel Zelaya appealed to the Honduran military to return its loyalty to him as he prepared to land in the capital Sunday, facing warrants for his arrest by security forces defending the airport against a crowd of thousands.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESpeaking live from the Venezuelan plane carrying him back to Tegucigalpa, Zelaya said he was just minutes away from landing in his high-stakes attempt to return to power.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe asked that soldiers return their allegiance to him, \"in the name of God, in the name of the people, and in the name of justice.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the politicians who ousted him aren't backing down, and violence broke out among the huge crowd surrounding the airport, with at least one person killed so far. The man was shot in the head by gunfire from inside the airport as people tried to break through a security fence, according to an Associated Press photographer at the scene.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESecurity forces fired warning shots and tear gas, and some Zelaya supporters threw rocks and set a fire. A van tore through the crowd, with someone shouting to make way for the wounded. A spokesman said the Red Cross was treating about 30 people for injuries, including a woman who had been stabbed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I am the commander of the armed forces, elected by the people, and I ask the armed forces to comply with the order to open the airport so that there is no problem in landing and embracing with my people,\" Zelaya told Venezuela's Telesur network while en route. \"Today I feel like I have sufficient spiritual strength, blessed with the blood of Christ, to be able to arrive there and raise the crucifix.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInterim President Roberto Micheletti refused to withdraw his order to prevent the plane from landing, and said he would not negotiate with anyone until \"things return to normal.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We will be here until the country calms down,\" Micheletti told a news conference. \"We are the authentic representatives of the people.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHonduras' civil aviation director said Zelaya's plane had been ordered not to enter Honduran air space. Police helicopters hovered over the airport. Commercial flights were canceled, and private planes were met by armed police.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMicheletti also alleged that Nicaragua is moving troops to their border in an attempt at psychological intimidation, and warned them not to cross into Honduras, \"because we're ready to defend our border.\" Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega called the allegation \"totally false.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EZelaya won wide international support after his military ouster a week ago, but the only prominent escort aboard his plane was the U.N. General Assembly president after Latin American leaders backed out, citing security concerns. Washington advised him against flying back, fearing it would make a peaceful resolution more difficult.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt least three other planes left the Washington area separately, carrying Latin American presidents, the secretary-general of the Organization of American States and journalists. They were trailing Zelaya to see what happens in the skies over Honduras before deciding where to land.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFlying with Zelaya were close advisers and staff, two journalists from the Venezuela-based network Telesur, and U.N. General Assembly President Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann, a leftist Nicaraguan priest and former foreign minister who personally condemned Zelaya's ouster as a coup d'etat.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWith their safety not guaranteed, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa pleaded with the Honduran military forces to avoid bloodshed. \"If there is violence the whole world must clearly know who is responsible,\" he said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Zelaya's plane is allowed to land, the others will land as well, Correa said. If not, Correa, the presidents of Paraguay and Argentina and Jose Miguel Insulza, the secretary-general of the Organization of American States, planned to land in El Salvador.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHonduras' new government has vowed to arrest Zelaya for 18 alleged criminal acts including treason and failing to implement more than 80 laws approved by Congress since taking office in 2006.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite a Supreme Court ruling, Zelaya had also pressed ahead with a referendum on whether to hold an assembly to consider changing the constitution. Critics feared he might press to extend his rule and cement presidential power in ways similar to his ally Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. But instead of prosecuting him or trying to defeat his referendum idea at the ballot box, other Honduran leaders sent masked soldiers to fly Zelaya out of the country at gunpoint.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe military solution prompted condemnation at the United Nations and the OAS suspended Honduras in response. Many called it a huge step back for democracy, and no nation has recognized the new government. President Barack Obama has united with Chavez and conservative Alvaro Uribe in criticism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWithout OAS membership, the isolated interim government faces trade sanctions and the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidized oil, aid and loans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMicheletti's vice foreign minister, Martha Lorena Alvarado, said the interim government sent the OAS a letter expressing \"willingness to conduct conversations in good faith.\" In Washington, senior Obama administration officials took that as a positive sign.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESpeaking on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the State Department, the officials said the United States and other OAS member countries are coordinating contacts and outreach to facilitate a resolution, despite their insistence on having no formal relations with the interim government.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe immediate concern, however, was avoiding more bloodshed. The poor Central American country's Roman Catholic archbishop and its human rights commissioner urged Zelaya to stay away.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We have to defend our rights in a way that is personal but peaceful. Against the bayonets, we must put forth our conscience and our patriotism,\" Zelaya said as Venezuelan pilots flew him toward home.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe protests turned violent despite efforts by their leaders to keep things peaceful.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We have no pistols or arms, just our principles,\" organizer Rafael Alegria said. \"We have the legitimate right to fight for the defense of democracy and to restore President Zelaya.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELarge crowds of Zelaya's critics also have staged daily demonstrations to back Micheletti, who was named by congress to finish the remaining six months of Zelaya's term.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EZelaya has drawn most of his support from the working and middle classes of this impoverished nation, while his opponents are based in the ranks of the well-to-do, although the increasingly leftist approach of the wealthy rancher had eroded his popular support.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E___\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWeissert reported from Tegucigalpa and Ikeda from Washington. Associated Press writers Freddy Cuevas, Marcos Aleman and Esteban Felix in Tegucigalpa; and Robert Burns and Jeanneth Valdivieso in Washington contributed to this report.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7929802051944120372\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/honduras-president-zelaya-prevented.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/7929802051944120372"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/7929802051944120372"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/honduras-president-zelaya-prevented.html","title":"Honduras President Zelaya prevented from landing, is being reported that two were killed and ten wonded at Toncontín Airport"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-1294325639999652974"},"published":{"$t":"2009-07-05T05:13:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-07-05T05:40:38.723-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"cultural christians"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"fundamentalism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"gop"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"jihad"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"republicans"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"resignation"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"right wing media"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rigth wing"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"sarah palin"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Sarah Palin's brilliance? Her Mission and her Jihad."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"A Kamikaze for the taking?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI'm reminded of the donkey who while grazing found a harmonica that as he was sniffing it, made it play by accident, so the donkey says in amazement \"I know how to play\", or something like that.(\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.hispanorama.de\/hplus\/mmoral98.htm\"\u003E\"El Burro que toco la flauta por casualidad\"\u003C\/a\u003E - Orotava (Tenerife), Tomás de Iriarte (1750 - 1791))\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI was pondering for a short while if the fable was analogous to Sarah Palin's raise to fame and some political power by accident, she was picked as VP Nominee and presto, she says \"I'm great, terrific, awesome...\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI was thinking about all the speculations from all the angles being discussed about Sarah's resignation, for all I know, all of them are valid and on target.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo many of us had laughs, guffaws, chuckles, etc. with her apparently nonsensical comments and what we see as an illogical political move, understandably so if we see or read within the context of the accepted norms in politics, regular (Mainstream) politicians do not normally do what she does, nor say what she says or the way she says it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHowever, if we see or read what she does and says in Ultra-RightWingNut thinking and Lingo, bingo! It makes sense, crazy sense I admit, but sense.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe wasn't talking to us, she was talking to her adoring base who swallows everything she says at face value, if you read her comments again, this time from this angle, I'm curious to know if what I have to say further down does make any sense to you as it does to me.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo, unlike the donkey, she may have played the harmonica on purpose and accidentally hit the right note, for her aims of course; for she has plans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDo you think you saw fireworks on the 4th? You have not seen anything yet, watch out for Sara \"Barracuda\", she is pissed off, feels like a victim, has targets acquired, has built a reputation of holding grudges, of being mercilessly vindictive, can be ruthless and has scores to settle - I think it is relevant to mention that she did not only supports killing animals from a helicopter - a 'hunting' practice that it is not only \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2199140\/\"\u003Eillegal\u003C\/a\u003E, but it is widely viewed as inhumane and cruel - she appears to also do it with gusto.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf she can do that to defenseless animals who also are at a huge tactical and technological disadvantage, think about what practices or tactics she will use against two legged animals who she is absolutely sure wronged her - David Letterman anybody? Note: in my conclusions, for her goals, it is irrelevant if she wins or loses in the mainstream, her troop of worshipers will be happy and she is betting on this because she will milk this cash cow for all that it is worth and for as long as she can.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf we continue to perceive her as ill prepared, a low information person, intellectually uninterested, et al, to then measure her up vis a vis with our own standards, we do so at our own peril, for she is very talented and skilled in areas which are a perfect match for in-the-gutter political trenches warfare, more effective if no ethics are in the mix.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe has by her side, the former \"First Gentleman\" Of Alaska who seems to have had a quasi official standing in the Governorship, they are a team, plus she also has hers and Todd's ultra right wing 'friends', are they advising her?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne important point to consider is, notwithstanding not having a biologically pair, hers are bigger and harder to break than her Republican colleagues, I'll also throw in the pile that she was exorcised for protection against all forms of 'witchcraft' and blessed in The Name of Jesus by Bishop Thomas Muthee so she can win her battles aflame in religious zeal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat she will be making a fast buck in this venture is the icing on the cake.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe saw and tapped into a force of 'thirsty-for-leadearship' ultra right wing Republican Party base.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe defined for them how to look at her resignation and her vision of what America should and needs to be.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cobject height=\"242\" width=\"300\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Lpe_lOEn0VY\u0026amp;color1=0xFFCC33\u0026amp;color2=0xFFCC00\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;fs=1\u0026amp;\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Lpe_lOEn0VY\u0026amp;color1=0xFFCC33\u0026amp;color2=0xFFCC00\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;fs=1\u0026amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" align=\"left\" height=\"242\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"300\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003EGeneralizing I'd say that ultra right wingers and fundamentalist Christians, see their lives in a B\u0026amp;W grandiose context, with a larger than life sense of righteous purpose, ready to sacrifice it all in the name of God and America or a cause they perceive bigger than themselves, who also have a default tendency to see themselves as victimized by others thus it explains to them their shortcomings and miserable lot in life.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESarah Palin is on a mission, in her fundamentalism, she may even believe that it is from God Himself, she is telling her supporters and followers, I'm ready to lead you with no holds barred - And she is going for broke.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt'll be interesting to see how much pressure Sarah and her brownshirts will be able to put on the somewhat more moderate Republicans, plus what kind and how much blow-back they will get.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs for Sarah, she is ready to charge head on against what she thinks is wrong with this country, it's perceived enemies and hers, she is full of, albeit misguided, righteous indignation, the fact that she seems ready to accept money and gifts easily, makes her a perfect candidate to deploy as a new right wing political weapon, an operative with the mindset of a Kamikaze.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow effective will they be?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe downside for the GOP and, who knows? It may also turn out to be their good luck, is that she also is prone to self destruction when she tries to operate in the real world.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI don't think I'll get an argument if I say that the right wing media and many others in the MSM, will be more than happy to play in her game, right wing media will relish the raw meat and both will greedily whistle while on their way to the bank.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd as far as the lemmings go, poor suckers, they will be financing almost the whole thing, but, taking from G.W., McCain and Graham, they will be 'Psychologically' boosted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut for me, I'm kind of worried, I think I really understand Palinese and it's culture.\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1294325639999652974\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/sarah-palins-brilliance-her-quest-and.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/1294325639999652974"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/1294325639999652974"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/sarah-palins-brilliance-her-quest-and.html","title":"Sarah Palin's brilliance? Her Mission and her Jihad."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-4842081058741904057"},"published":{"$t":"2009-07-02T02:22:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-07-02T04:08:41.008-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"farewell"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"gender bender"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hate"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hate speech"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"intolerance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"michael jackson"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rest in peace"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rip"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"transgender woman"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"transphobia"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"we are the ones we have been waiting for"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"we are the world"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Michael Jackson, Rest In Peace, farewell dear sister... If you were one."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"There are two conditions under which I'd dare to call someone a Transgender, Lesbian, Gay, etc.\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe obvious one is when that person self identifies as one.\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe other one is when the person in question, engages in sexual acts with a  person of the same sex while at the same time, hypocritically, attacks us for the same acts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI'm making an exception, with great respect, to that rule with Michael Jackson.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo much is being said and written about Michael, some of what I see is a person who went to great lengths so his physical appearance was that of the opposite gender, by \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transgender\"\u003Edefinition\u003C\/a\u003E, he appeared to be and would fit the description of Transgender.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI'm not trying to establish whether or not Michael Jackson was Transgender or a Transgender Woman, these farewell words, are just that, ' farewell dear Michael ',  'what if' and 'thank you' words.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/graphics\/gifs\/candle-01-june.gif\" alt=\"Candle-01-june.gif - 2kb\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" height=\"64\" width=\"48\" \/\u003EDear Michael,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI want to say a few things to you and in a selfish manner, to me as well.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou are dead and you are still being disrespected, I saw the words, 'Jacko' and 'Wacko' in print, I won't say that you were a Trangender Woman, however, I'm very comfortable in asking \"What if?\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMaybe it is just my imagination, but when I see close up pictures of you, the look in your eyes always jumps at me, in a way, it feels that I'm looking at an Enlakesh of my gender. \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E(Mayan - I am another yourself)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI never fail to glimpse that there is something else behind the facade, I want to say it again for the last time, maybe it is just my imagination, but when I saw your pictures with your children, I didn't see a daddy, I saw a mommy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere are many of us who are good mothers and, many-times-many, others who have a yearning to be mothers, some will adopt, others will join a man with children and help him  raise them as their own, with all the maternal love and care that we are capable of, with the knowledge that this is what we want to do, what we chose to do,  fulfilling what we were meant to be, and now are.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere are times when I also see in your eyes an old acquaintance of mine, pain, profound pain at being unable to live your life as who you really are, the pain of knowing that you are being pressured to be ashamed to be who you are and to live your life as they feel you should, the pain of being made to feel guilty because of who you are, pain in knowing that  to rebel and be your true self, is to invite more spiritual, emotional and psychological pain into your life, this is in addition to the heavy penalties and punishments in the social, legal, professional, religious and family life for having the audacity to be who you really are, and to live your life as such.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI also self-medicated to stop the pain, but the medication which took away a lot of it, was when I decided to not allow anybody else but me, to define me or to rule my life, realizing at the same time, that the people who call us freaks or mentally ill, are the real sick and deformed freaks in a human caricature.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe doctors and the professors are starting to come out of the woods and into the limelight of the 24\/7 networks, I'm afraid it won't be pretty, in all seriousness I can tell you that if you were not already dead, they would psychoanalyze you to your grave, I don't know if you were a Transgender Woman, but you can rest assured that any and all attacks will be confronted, by me if by no one else.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut I don't think you need defending, at least on the surface I also see you as way above that, you were very brave by defying convention in so many ways, you minced the hypocritical crap of \u003Ccite\u003E\"Be yourself\"\u003C\/cite\u003E that we are continously fed in \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E\"The Land of the Free and The Home of the Brave\"\u003C\/span\u003E, contributed generously to worthy causes, enjoyed being a parent and who can forget, \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E\"We are the World\"\u003C\/span\u003E?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI hope you made the best of the hand nature dealt you, I prefer to think that you did, I have the feeling that we didn't get to really know your true self in life, most likely I'm wrong in my perceptions, I don't know if you were a Transgender Woman, but in case you were, I want to at least in death, acknowledge you as one who felt as I did, I also want to tell you from the bottom of my heart:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou are free now, whomever you may really be, to be who you are.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFarewell dear Michael, rest in peace.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAurora\u003Cbr \/\u003E070109\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPS\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/graphics\/gifs\/candles_flames_28.gif\" 10=\"\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" height=\"85\" width=\"31\" \/\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/graphics\/gifs\/candles_flames_28.gif\" 10=\"\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" height=\"85\" width=\"31\" \/\u003EThank you for the great music and performances, you did well, yes indeed, you did good, TXs!\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlso, for what is worth, there are many of us around who still think \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E\"We Are The World\"\u003C\/span\u003E, that \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E\"We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For\"\u003C\/span\u003E, we will keep advancing the torches of basic human rights and dignity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EWe Are The World:\u003C\/span\u003E Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, Cindy Lauper, Steve Wonder, Paul simon, kenny rogers, Dionne warwick, willie nelson, Bob dylan,  Cindy lauper, \u0026amp; Many Other Friends\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cobject height=\"344\" width=\"425\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jzw6GiqZyD0\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;fs=1\u0026amp;\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"\u003E\u003Cembed 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width=\"425\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003ELyrics:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"\u003ELionel richie\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere comes a time when we heed a certain call\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELionel richie \u0026amp; stevie wonder\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the world must come together as one\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStevie wonder\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere are people dying\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPaul simon\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd its time to lend a hand to life\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPaul simon \u0026amp; kenny rogers\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe greatest gift of all\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKenny rogers\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe cant go on pretending day by day\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJames ingram\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat someone, somewhere will soon make a change\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETina turner\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe are all part of gods great big family\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBilly joel\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the truth, you know, love is all we need\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChorus:\u003Cbr \/\u003EMichael jackson\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe are the world, we are the children\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe are the ones who make a brighter day\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo lets start giving\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDiana ross\u003Cbr \/\u003ETheres a choice were making\u003Cbr \/\u003EWere saving our own lives\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMichael \u0026amp; diana ross\u003Cbr \/\u003EIts true well make a better day\u003Cbr \/\u003EJust you and me\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDionne warwick\u003Cbr \/\u003ESend them your heart\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo theyll know that someone cares\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDionne warwick \u0026amp; willie nelson\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd their lives will be stronger and free\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWillie nelson\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs God has shown us by turning stones to bread\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAl jarreau\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo we all must lend a helping hand\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChorus:\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe are the world, we are the children\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe are the ones who make a brighter day\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo lets start giving\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBob dylan\u003Cbr \/\u003ETheres a choice were making\u003Cbr \/\u003EWere saving our own lives\u003Cbr \/\u003EIts true well make a better day\u003Cbr \/\u003EJust you and me\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMichael jackson\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen youre down and out, there seems no hope at all\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHuey lewis\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut if you just believe theres no way we can fall\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECindy lauper\u003Cbr \/\u003EWell, well, well, well let us realize that a change can only come\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKim carnes\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen we stand together as one\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChorus:\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe are the world, we are the children\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe are the ones who make a brighter day\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo lets start giving\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETheres a choice were making\u003Cbr \/\u003EWere saving our own lives\u003Cbr \/\u003EIts true well make a better day\u003Cbr \/\u003EJust you and me\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe are the world, we are the children\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe are the ones who make a brighter day\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo lets start giving\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETheres a choice were making\u003Cbr \/\u003EWere saving our own lives\u003Cbr \/\u003EIts true well make a better day\u003Cbr \/\u003EJust you and me\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe are the world......\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' 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If you were one."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-5064928280828200316"},"published":{"$t":"2009-06-25T03:03:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-06-25T10:03:34.050-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"crimenes de odio"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"discurso"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hate radio"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hate speech"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"lenguage"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"maria elena salinas"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"media consolidation"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"medios de comunicacion"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"odio"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"odio a muerte"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"retorica de odio"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"right wing"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"univision"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"videos"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\"Odio a Muerte\", Maria Elena Salinas, \"¿Denunciarías un Crimen Racial?\""},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Por: Aurora Grajeda\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEl Martes 23 de Junio, 2009, vi el programa \"Aquí y Ahora\" Con Maria Elena Salinas En Univisión, un reportaje titulado \"Odio a Muerte\", se trata sobre el asesinato del Mexicano Luís Ramírez en Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, el 12 de Julio del 2008, las reacciones e impresiones de los testigos, lo que la Mama de Luís esta pasando y dice, otros aspectos de esta historia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable  bordercolor=\"#000000\" bgcolor=\"#999999\" align=\"left\" border=\"3\" cellpadding=\"10\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"400\"\u003E \u003Ctbody\u003E \u003Ctr\u003E \u003Ctd width=\"400\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.univision.com\/content\/flashvideo\/embed.jhtml?vars=videoCID%3D1990564\"\u003EOdio a Muerte\u003C\/a\u003E, \"Aquí y Ahora\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E Con Maria Elena Salinas sobre el asesinato de Luís Ramírez in Shenadoah\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E \u003Ctd class=\"sibtbg\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ciframe frameborder=\"0\" height=\"380\" src=\"http:\/\/www.univision.com\/content\/flashvideo\/embed.jhtml?vars=videoCID%3D1990564\" width=\"400\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003EAl Final del reportaje, hay un segmento en la cual se hace una dramatización de un brutal ataque racial en pleno día y con testigos casuales en esta dramatización, la idea, según Maria Elena la explica, es ver si alguien de los testigos intervendrían para ayudar a la víctima, los resultados fueron muy interesantes y tristes a la vez, aunque algunos de los testigos devuelven mi fe de que algunos de nosotros estamos decididos a ayudar a un semejante en sufrimiento, otros no, no puedo culpar ni exculpar totalmente a los que no intervinieron, porque las razones de algunos hacen eco a los argumentos que muchos de nosotros hemos utilizado en oposición a legislación que permite que los Alguaciles y Policía Metropolitana funcionen como agentes de ICE (\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.impre.com\/laopinion\/noticias\/la-california\/2009\/2\/27\/en-vez-de-delincuentes-arresta-111518-1.html\"\u003E387g\u003C\/a\u003E), una de las personas entrevistadas, Víctor, que era amigo de Luís, hace unos puntos de mucho impacto a través del reportaje, en mi opinión, esta totalmente en lo correcto.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable  bordercolor=\"#000000\" bgcolor=\"#999999\" align=\"left\" border=\"3\" cellpadding=\"10\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"400\"\u003E \u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E \u003Ctd class=\"sibtbg\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.univision.com\/content\/videoplayer.jhtml?cid=1988552\"\u003E\"¿Denunciarías un ataque racial?\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CB\u003ENOTA: Al parecer este video fue retirado\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E \u003Ctr\u003E \u003Ctd width=\"400\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ciframe frameborder=\"0\" height=\"380\" src=\"http:\/\/www.univision.com\/content\/flashvideo\/embed.jhtml?vars=videoCID%3D1988552\" width=\"400\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003EEl reporte de Maria Elena fue excelente, y repitiéndolo, impactante, la felicito y doy fe en mi reconocimiento de su esfuerzo... Aunque...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E... En mi opinión, aunque muy bien hecho, esta incompleto.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EComo ya mencione, en el segmento final donde dramatizan un ataque racial, en lo que parecen reflexiones de Maria Elena sobre lo que nos presento, hace una pregunta: \"¿Denunciarías un ataque racial?\", aplaudo la pregunta por certera aunque esto me lleva a hacer dos preguntas pertinentes,\u003Cbr \/\u003E  1.¿que es lo que estas dispuesto@ a hacer, o mas bien, que es lo que estas haciendo para poner un alto, contrarrestarlos o por lo menos aminorarlos?\u003Cbr \/\u003E2.  ¿Que es lo que causa que todo este prejuicio y odio se propague en forma tan uniforme y extensa?\u003Cbr \/\u003EMe parece haber oído que este reportaje es parte de una serie, ojala, porque falta llegar al meollo del asunto, \u003Ccite\u003E¿que es lo que hace que todo este odio racial se este expandiendo a lo largo y lo ancho de este país?\u003C\/cite\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEn un estudio reciente del UCLA, se vislumbra una correlación muy directa y fuerte entre lo que llamamos \"La retórica de Odio\" En los medios de comunicación y la National Hispanic Media Coalition presento a la Comisión Federal de Comunicaciones una \"Petition of Inquire on Hate Speech in the Media\" (\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nhmc.org\/documents\/Sumary-FCCPetitionforInquiryonHateSpeechinMedia.pdf\"\u003ESummary\u003C\/a\u003E - \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nhmc.org\/documents\/PetforInquiry-HateSpeech.pdf\"\u003EFull Petition\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable  bordercolor=\"#000000\" bgcolor=\"#999999\" align=\"left\" border=\"3\" cellpadding=\"10\" cellspacing=\"10\" width=\"400\"\u003E \u003Ctbody\u003E \u003Ctr\u003E \u003Ctd width=\"400\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.univision.com\/content\/videoplayer.jhtml?cid=1983506\"\u003EControversia por Hispano asesinado\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELa sentencia de los culpables ha sido muy controversial\u003Cbr \/\u003E06\/17\/2009 | 2:25\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E \u003Ctd class=\"sibtbg\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ciframe frameborder=\"0\" height=\"380\" src=\"http:\/\/www.univision.com\/content\/flashvideo\/embed.jhtml?vars=videoCID%3D1983506\" width=\"400\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003EEsto es muy importante, porque va al génesis de la expansión y virulencia del sentimiento anti-inmigrante, Hispano\/Latino inmigrantes para ser mas específicos y particularmente contra los Mexicanos.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESi, ojala sea parte de una serie, porque si no se hace la pregunta que hago y que nada mas hago eco a las voces de muchas personas que preguntan lo mismo, el reporte de Maria Elena seria equivalente a un reporte sobre narcotráfico y que se limite a presentar lo que pasa en ventas de drogas en las esquinas de nuestras ciudades, pasando por alto los grandes narcotraficantes que operan al por mayor y a nivel internacional.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAunque encontré la pagina del video titulado \"¿Denunciarías un ataque racial?\" y lo que parece ser el video, no se encuentra ahí, no esta ahí \"¿¿¿ ???\" - este es el video en el que presenta la dramatización de un ataque racial, estando a la expectativa y con cámaras ocultas para obervar las reacciones de los testigos casuales, es al final de este segmento donde Maria Elena hace las reflexiones y la pregunta.\u003Cbr \/\u003EAl parecer fue removido o ¿¿¿ ???.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEn el programa que siguió a \"Aquí y Ahora\", \"Ultima Hora\", se le hace una entrevista al Sr. Raul Izaguirre ex-presidente de NCLR \u003Cdiv style=\"align: middle;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nclr.org\/section\/events\/building_grand_opening\/leadership_through_the_years\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.nclr.org\/files\/51292_image_leadershipthroughtheyears.jpg\" title=\"Janet Murguia, Raul Izaguirre y senorita no identificada\" align=\"middle\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"10\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEl tema era sobre que es lo que causa todo este odio, Don Raul hizo muy buenos puntos \"Esto no es nada nuevo\" dijo y muestra un libro sobre \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.antorcha.net\/biblioteca_virtual\/politica\/ap1915\/27.html\"\u003ELa Revolución en Tejas, o Los levantamientos en Texas\u003C\/a\u003E y prácticamente no tuvo tiempo a elaborar un poco sobre el libro, hablo un poco en respuesta a una pregunta ¿de como se hace este odio contra nuestro grupo étnico? Se comienza a antagonizar a los Estadounidenses blancos contra nuestra etnia, pintándonos en forma negativa hasta el punto de deshumanizarnos, a llamarnos criminales y también  comenzó a explicar de que había una red en la que se disemina esto, y fue interrumpido, no se le permitió terminar lo que estaba tratando de decir, que en mi opinión es \"de que manera se difunde este odio a través de los medios de comunicación, lo que llamamos 'discurso de odio', 'retórica de odio'\" (Hate Speech)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBusque el video de esta entrevista y tampoco se encuentra en su sitio, o por lo menos no lo he encontrado aun.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHay muchas preguntas sin respuesta todavía, entre ellas esta ¿Porque no se saco a relucir la aparente correlación entre los crímenes de odio y la retórica de odio en los medios de comunicación en este reporte y en la entrevista que siguió?, tal vez sea mucho esperar, o pedir, de nuestros medios que nos informen aun yendo a contra de la industria en la que trabajan y expongan lo que están haciendo algunos de sus colegas muy mal informados o mal intencionados.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable  bordercolor=\"#000000\" bgcolor=\"#999999\" align=\"left\" border=\"3\" cellpadding=\"10\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"400\"\u003E \u003Ctbody\u003E \u003Ctr\u003E \u003Ctd width=\"400\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.univision.com\/content\/videoplayer.jhtml?cid=1981946\"\u003EEn aumento los crímenes de odio\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELos hispanos entre los más afectados\u003Cbr \/\u003E06\/16\/2009 | 2:22 \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E \u003Ctd class=\"sibtbg\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ciframe frameborder=\"0\" height=\"380\" src=\"http:\/\/www.univision.com\/content\/flashvideo\/embed.jhtml?vars=videoCID%3D1981946\" width=\"400\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003EY para enfatizar la desesperada necesidad de informar al publico en su totalidad, la pude ver al comenzar a indagar sobre el reporte inmediatamente al terminar este, entre a un foro de discusión en las paginas de Univisión, es cierto, hay indignación ante este crimen tan horrendo cometido contra Luís Ramírez y al ver que parece que hay una licencia que ampara a los malhechores, no solo de este crimen, sino trágicamente de los muchos otros que se han estado cometiendo.\u003Cbr \/\u003EEn general los medios (En Ingles principalmente) y el publico exculpa o minimiza el crimen cometido, como si paso al vacío, el resultado de una persona con problemas psicológicos o algo por el estilo, y en ningún momento conectan, por lo menos preguntando, acerca del papel que juegan los Shock Jocks en la radio que vomitan odio e intolerancia todo los días de la semana, de cada semana, de cada ano, contra nuestras comunidades.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAbajo se encuentran algunos de los comentarios, lo mas notable para mi es que para nada se menciona la \u003Ccite\u003E\"Retórica de Odio\"\u003C\/cite\u003E y el papel que juega en los \u003Ccite\u003E\"Crímenes de Odio Raciales\"\u003C\/cite\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPara mi, el incitar al odio, a la intolerancia, es un \u003Ccite\u003E\"Crimen de Odio\"\u003C\/cite\u003E y con todo respeto hago esta ultima pregunta, esta dirigida a Maria Elena y a Univisión, \u003Ccite\u003E¿denunciaras un crimen de odio?\u003C\/cite\u003E, en caso de que no estén de acuerdo conmigo de que es un crimen de odio, por lo menos puedo preguntar ¿no creen que seria bueno que se entablara una conversación en el publico sobre el tema?, idealmente acompañado de una investigación oficial de parte de la FCC sobre la retórica de odio en los medios, como lo que la National Hispanic Media Coalition esta\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nhmc.org\/documents\/Sumary-FCCPetitionforInquiryonHateSpeechinMedia.pdf\"\u003Epidiendo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEn el Video titulado \"En aumento los crímenes de odio\", solamente el Sr.. Daniel Herrera, (MALDEF: Coalition Reports) saco a relucir la retórica de odio \u003Ccite\u003E\"hace unos dos anos que los medios de comunicación dejaron que activistas anti-inmigrantes tomaran su odio de hispanos inmigrantes al publico Americano\"\u003C\/cite\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELa reportera comento como causa \u003Ccite\u003E\"la crisis económica y el lenguage de organizaciones\"\u003C\/cite\u003E pero no del papel que juegan los medios, aun después de haber sido introducido en la entrevista por  Daniel Herrera.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERecommended Post at The Sanctuary:\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/promigrant.org\/diary\/687\/the-luis-ramirez-murder-a-logical-step-in-the-process-of-establishing-a-subhuman-class\"\u003E\"The Luis Ramirez Murder: A Logical Step in the Process of Establishing a Subhuman Class\u003C\/a\u003E\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUstedes juzguen.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESFCA062409\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Comentarios en el Foro de Discusión en Univisión\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/foro.univision.com\/univision\/board\/message?board.id=aquiyahora\u0026message.id=25190\u0026page=2\"\u003ERe: Odio a Muerte Por Maria Elena Salinas\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable  bordercolor=\"#000000\" bgcolor=\"#999999\" align=\"left\" border=\"3\" cellpadding=\"10\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"400\"\u003E \u003Ctbody\u003E \u003Ctr\u003E \u003Ctd width=\"400\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.univision.com\/content\/videoplayer.jhtml?cid=1984990\"\u003EIndignacion con la Sentencia\u003C\/a\u003E - Univision\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EReacciones a la sentencia de los asesinos de un hispano\u003Cbr \/\u003E06\/18\/2009 | 1:58 \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E \u003Ctd class=\"sibtbg\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ciframe frameborder=\"0\" height=\"380\" src=\"http:\/\/www.univision.com\/content\/flashvideo\/embed.jhtml?vars=videoCID%3D1984990\" width=\"400\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Ccite\u003E\"miramos el show y pensamos que no es justo que esos muchachos esten afuera para seguir matando a otros hispanos! a ellos les deben dar la pena de muerte.\u003Cbr \/\u003Ey los jurados por que eran blancos le dieron la rason a ellos! es injusto!!!! y ojala que le den la pena de muerte a todos ellos! las autoridades no estan a si endo nada por los hispanos pero si fuera un blanco al que hubieran matado asta los mandan al pavellon de la muerte... ojala que aiga justicia!\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"que pasa con los hispanosque no hacemos nada al respecto nos estan matando y uno no hace nada parece que tenemos miedo? nosotros somos iguales somos seres humanos . que pasa ya es hora de que tambien nosotros seamos escuchados, lo siento estoy muy molesto por lo que paso y nadie dice nada que pasa con nuestros lideres,ustedes los periodistasque son nuestra voz solo dan las noticias y no hacen nada estoy muy indignado con ese caso yme enoja mucho gracias\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"ESTA HISTORIA NOS TIENE QUE HACER A TODOS LOS LATINOS ABRIR NUESTROS OJOS Y APOYARNOS E UNIRNOS CADA DIA MAS. EN ESTE PAIS SIEMPRE SEREMOS UNOS INTROMETIDOS ASI SEAMOS YA CIUDADANOS AMERICANOS. ESTOS JOVENES QUE COMETIERON ESTA BARBARIDAD CONTRA ESTE MUCHACHO NECESITAN IR A MI PAIS COLOMBIA Y SEGURO QUE ALLA SI LES ENSENAN A SER HOMBRECITOS Y ESO SI QUE NI SE METAN CON UN COLOMBIANO BIEN ATRAVEZADO PORQUE SEGURO QUE LOS HACEN PEDACITO!! 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font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thecrest.com\/\"\u003ECrest Theater\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13;\"  \u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold;\" align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:14;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-stretch: normal;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EThe  San Francisco Premiere will be on June 28th 2009 at 4:00 p.m.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn a film review by Gary Chew in Sacramento on March 15, 2009,  he had this to say:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cblockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\"\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold;\" align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EIn  another effort to describe what happens in a society that vigorously embraces  the laisse-faire when it comes to the notion that bigger is always better,  northern California independent journalist, Sue Wilson almost bites-off more  than she can chew with “Broadcast Blues.” In just under 75 minutes, this new  documentary chronicles a long list of the electronic media’s snowballing  shortcomings over the last three decades.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold;\" align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBroadcast  Blues” tackles corporate media growth and consolidation, deregulation, the  Fairness Doctrine, manipulation of news content, indecency, the importance of  broadcast Localism, how the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) responds to  citizens who petition it---and more.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E \u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EI had the opportunity to preview the  documentary and I found it gripping; w\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003Ehile Broadcast Blues  is about the Media Consolidation, about the abuse and misuse of the privilege we  give them to transmit over 'our' airwaves, more than anything else, it leaves  you with the awareness of the harm it does to our Democracy, to our well-being  and that of future generations, it is about the 'dummbing down of America' in  order to acquire more power, more control of politics and policies, a dive to  the bottom line of obscene profits - Broadcast Blues is a call to Action to get  back what is rightfully ours, for our own sake.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EThis film is for both, the barely informed people  on this issue and for the super informed ones, I highly recommend it - I thank  and applaud Sue for another outstanding production of her illustrious filmmaker  career.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EIn addition to the great success in Sacramento, she  had the distinction of being \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/home\/daily\/site_051208\/content\/01125112.guest.html\"\u003Etargeted and attacked\u003C\/a\u003E by Rush Limbaugh, who did the  right thing in following the suggestion that 'when you have to pick a fight with  someone, you always engage your better', way to go \"Rush\", you just may \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.broadcastblues.tv\/bb1\/suesresponse.html\"\u003Elearn  a few things\u003C\/a\u003E sorely missing in you understanding of what a true Democracy is and what The United States of America is supposed to be, get enlightenment on the principled heights we aim to reach and the Ideals we passionately embrace.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EPRESS RELEASE \/ COMUNICADO DE PRENSA\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E \u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: right;\" align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003Efor immediate release\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;\" align=\"left\"\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EThe Movie the Media Does Not Want You to  See!\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EBroadcast  Blues\u003C\/i\u003E blows the whistle on today's media madness, from the rise of Rush  Limbaugh to the court ruling that news does not have to be true.\u003Cspan\u003E    \u003C\/span\u003EThis documentary is everything TV and Radio owners do not want you to  know, so Common Cause and the Media Alliance are making sure you get a chance to  see it, and find out what you can do about it.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EPublic Interest  Pictures' \u003Ci\u003EBroadcast Blues\u003C\/i\u003E features Danny Glover, Naomi Judd, Phil  Donahue, Helen Thomas, Amy Goodman and many others.\u003Cspan\u003E   \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:black;\"\u003EBut it's stories of real people  who have been damaged and even killed by reckless broadcasters that steal the  show.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:black;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EThis special  screening of \u003Ci\u003EBroadcast Blues\u003C\/i\u003E will be held 4 PM Sunday, June 28, at San  Francisco's Victoria Theater, 2961 16th Street, at the 16th St BART  station.\u003Cspan\u003E  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E  \u003C\/span\u003ETickets are $12 at the box office, or $10  in advance at\u003Cspan\u003E  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/broadcastblues\"\u003Ewww.commoncause.org\/broadcastblues\u003C\/a\u003E  .\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EDirected by Emmy  winner Sue Wilson.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\"We the People are  taking the media back.\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; 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Este documental es todo lo que los  propietarios de la televisión y la radio no quieren que usted sepa, por lo que  Common Cause y la Media Alliance se están asegurando de que usted tenga la  oportunidad de verla y saber lo que usted puede hacer al respecto.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBroadcast Blues\u003C\/em\u003E de  \"Public Interest Pictures\", Presenta a Danny Glover, Naomi Judd, Phil Donahue,  Helen Thomas, Amy Goodman y muchos otros. Pero son las historias de personas  reales que han sido dañados e incluso asesinados por los imprudentes organismos  de radiodifusión, los que se roban el show.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:black;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EEsta proyección especial de  \u003Cem\u003EBroadcast Blues\u003C\/em\u003E se llevará a cabo el Domingo, 28 de junio,  a las 4 PM  en el Teatro Victoria de San Francisco, en el 2961 de la calle16ª, cerca de la  estación del BART de la 16 ª. Los boletos son $ 12 en la taquilla, o $ 10 por  adelantado en \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/broadcastblues\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003Ewww.commoncause.org\/broadcastblues\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E.  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDirigido por la receptora del premio  Emmy, Sue Wilson.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Nosotros, \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003Eel Pueblo, estamos reclamando los medios de  comunicación\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E# # #\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E  \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5587198166790233141\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/broadcastblues-san-francisco-premiere.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/5587198166790233141"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/5587198166790233141"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/broadcastblues-san-francisco-premiere.html","title":"\"BROADCAST BLUES\" San Francisco Premiere"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-1164221009027460233"},"published":{"$t":"2009-06-09T14:26:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-06-15T20:51:56.766-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"bill o'reilly"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"broadcast blues"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"broadcastblues"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"desinformation"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Fox News"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"glenn beck"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hate speech in media"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hatemongers"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"lou dobbs"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Media Matters"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"michael savage"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"misinformation"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"sue wilson"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I present to you the class of 2009... By Karl Frisch"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I saw this post and I knew I had to publish it on my blog too.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe ignorance, misinformation, desinformation, et al or the Shock Jocks in Right Wing Media is so out of hand that when I just consider the harm it causes, my head goes reeling and I get a feeling of sadness at witnessing people selling their souls, willing to lie ad infinitum et ad nauseam.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI believe in Free Speech but, the people who are privileged to have a microphone which reaches millions of listeners \/ viewers, should be held accountable when they abuse it, furthermore, the outlets which hire these Shock Jocks, should answer by having their broadcast licenses not renewed or canceled for failing to live up to the conditions under which these were issued, specifically, one of the clauses is that they provide a public service, lying, misinforming, defaming, attacking members of that public, fosters a climate of intolerance, ignorance and hate, it doesn't affect the population in a positive manner, quite the contrary.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/200906090007\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003ECOUNTY FAIR - MEDIA MATTERS\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI present to you the class of 2009...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJune 09, 2009 9:17 am ET by Karl Frisch\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe path here was long. Some said it would never end.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou lost your integrity.  You lost your senses. But you did it with gusto!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou lied. You misled. You twisted the truth beyond recognition.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETogether, you may not have learned much, but you certainly sounded convincing to the unsuspecting ear. And that's what really matters, right?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHistory, science, economics, pre-med, pre-law... the degrees you have earned may mean nothing in real life but in the cable news business, well, it's solid gold (and if you need the money, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DsZ9rQgWousU\"\u003EG. Gordon Liddy\u003C\/a\u003E will gladly sell it for you at 2 a.m. on basic cable for a modest commission.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFriends.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFamily.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFellow wingnuts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI present to you, the Conservative Misinformation University class of 2009!\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cobject width=\"425\" height=\"344\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/e8vro-ecUIQ\u0026amp;color1=0x2b405b\u0026amp;color2=0x6b8ab6\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;feature=player_embedded\u0026amp;fs=1\"\u003E\u003C\/param\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\u003E\u003C\/param\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/e8vro-ecUIQ\u0026amp;color1=0x2b405b\u0026amp;color2=0x6b8ab6\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;feature=player_embedded\u0026amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1164221009027460233\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/i-present-to-you-class-of-2009-by-karl.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/1164221009027460233"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/1164221009027460233"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/i-present-to-you-class-of-2009-by-karl.html","title":"I present to you the class of 2009... By Karl Frisch"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-7837241411162552812"},"published":{"$t":"2009-06-02T12:38:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-06-02T13:14:05.238-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"barack obama"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"equality"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"LGBT Pride Month proclamation"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"lgbt rigths"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"President Obama issues LGBT Pride Month proclamation"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Sent by Dorinda\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.proudparenting.com\/node\/3123\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMon, 06\/01\/2009 - 6:01pm\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPresident Obama issued the following Pride Month proclamation late this afternoon on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Stonewall:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETHE WHITE HOUSE\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the_press_office\/Presidential-Proclamation-LGBT-Pride-Month\/\"\u003E Office of the Press Secretary\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E___________________________________________________________\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor Immediate Release                                     June 1, 2009\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER PRIDE MONTH, 2009\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E- - - - - - -\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EBY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EA PROCLAMATION\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.proudparenting.com\/files\/obama22.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/\u003EForty years ago, patrons and supporters of the Stonewall Inn in New York City resisted police harassment that had become all too common for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. Out of this resistance, the LGBT rights movement in America was born. During LGBT Pride Month, we commemorate the events of June 1969 and commit to achieving equal justice under law for LGBT Americans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELGBT Americans have made, and continue to make, great and lasting contributions that continue to strengthen the fabric of American society. There are many well-respected LGBT leaders in all professional fields, including the arts and business communities. LGBT Americans also mobilized the Nation to respond to the domestic HIV\/AIDS epidemic and have played a vital role in broadening this country's response to the HIV pandemic.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDue in no small part to the determination and dedication of the LGBT rights movement, more LGBT Americans are living their lives openly today than ever before. I am proud to be the first President to appoint openly LGBT candidates to Senate-confirmed positions in the first 100 days of an Administration. These individuals embody the best qualities we seek in public servants, and across my Administration -- in both the White House and the Federal agencies -- openly LGBT employees are doing their jobs with distinction and professionalism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe LGBT rights movement has achieved great progress, but there is more work to be done. LGBT youth should feel safe to learn without the fear of harassment, and LGBT families and seniors should be allowed to live their lives with dignity and respect.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMy Administration has partnered with the LGBT community to advance a wide range of initiatives. At the international level, I have joined efforts at the United Nations to decriminalize homosexuality around the world. Here at home, I continue to support measures to bring the full spectrum of equal rights to LGBT Americans. These measures include enhancing hate crimes laws, supporting civil unions and Federal rights for LGBT couples, outlawing discrimination in the workplace, ensuring adoption rights, and ending the existing \"Don't Ask, Don't Tell\" policy in a way that strengthens our Armed Forces and our national security. We must also commit ourselves to fighting the HIV\/AIDS epidemic by both reducing the number of HIV infections and providing care and support services to people living with HIV\/AIDS across the United States.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese issues affect not only the LGBT community, but also our entire Nation. As long as the promise of equality for all remains unfulfilled, all Americans are affected. If we can work together to advance the principles upon which our Nation was founded, every American will benefit. During LGBT Pride Month, I call upon the LGBT community, the Congress, and the American people to work together to promote equal rights for all, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 2009 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month. I call upon the people of the United States to turn back discrimination and prejudice everywhere it exists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this first day of June, in the year of our Lord two thousand nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-third.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBARACK OBAMA\u003Cbr \/\u003E__,_._,___\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E--\u003Cbr \/\u003EDorinda Moreno\u003Cbr \/\u003EElders of 4 Colors 4 Directions\u003Cbr \/\u003EHitec Aztec Collaborations\/FM Global\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cfuerzamundial@gmail.net\u003E\u003C\/fuerzamundial@gmail.net\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7837241411162552812\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/president-obama-issues-lgbt-pride-month.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/7837241411162552812"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/7837241411162552812"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/president-obama-issues-lgbt-pride-month.html","title":"President Obama issues LGBT Pride Month proclamation"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-9189807425347229279"},"published":{"$t":"2009-05-31T15:20:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-05-31T15:42:19.677-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"california"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"christians"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"civil rights"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"cultural christians"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"h8"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hate"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"homophobia"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"human rights"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"intolerance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"proposition 8"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"religion"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"religious right"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"spiritual violence"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"transphobia"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"California's Prop H8: The State Supreme Court Punts."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Upon hearing the decision of the Supreme Court of California on Prop H8, the first comment I made to my friend Juanita was made 'off-the-cuff', she asked me what I thought and I said \"The Supreme Court is buying time\", the reason I felt that was the case is very simple, in the previous rulings they have pleased the Pro Prop H8 proponents and angered the LGBT Community when they ruled that licenses for same-sex marriage were invalid under State Law because it barred such unions \u003Ccite\u003E(\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California_Proposition_22_%282000%29\"\u003ECalifornia Proposition 22\u003C\/a\u003E (2000))\u003C\/cite\u003E, next, in another decision, they pleased the LGBT Community and angered the Prop H8 Proponents when they ruled that Prop 8 was an unconstitutional abridgment of civil rights, oookey... So, in their latest ruling, which they announced on Tuesday May 26, 2009, they declared the Prop H8 constitutional amendment is valid, albeit it takes away rights protected under the 'equal treatment under the law constitutional clause' \u003Ccite\u003E(Part of the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution\"\u003EFourteenth Amendment\u003C\/a\u003E to the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Constitution\"\u003EUnited States Constitution\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003C\/cite\u003E, furthermore, they ruled that the 18,000 or so same-sex marriages performed in between their second and third ruling, were valid, because of their second ruling which was apparently reversed on their third.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe, he, he... I don't mean to laugh at this very serious issue, but, in addition to being a little confusing to follow their steps and logic, it brings to my mind overtones of the 'Keystone Cops' on a State Supreme Court Scenario, bumbling and fumbling.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut just taking a sample of the opinion pieces out there, here is Dan Walter's on the San Jose Mercury News on May 27th:\u003Cblockquote\u003EOpinion: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/opinion\/ci_12460225?nclick_check=1\"\u003ECalifornia Supreme Court followed the law on Prop. 8\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"marriage licenses that San Francisco was issuing to same-sex couples at the behest of Mayor Gavin Newsom were invalid because state law prohibited such marriages.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA year ago, the same court pleased gay rights groups and angered conservative \"pro-family\" groups when it declared that the statute barring same-sex marriages, although enacted by voters, was an unconstitutional abridgment of civil rights.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe court seemingly reversed itself again Tuesday, declaring that Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment again outlawing same-sex marriages, is valid. But all three decisions were correct, even courageous, because they upheld the limited role that courts play in public policy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs the court itself said, \"In a sense, this trilogy of cases illustrates the variety of limitations that our constitutional system imposes upon each branch of government — the executive, the legislative and the judicial.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn petitioning the court to set aside Proposition 8, gay marriage advocates wanted the court to rule that it was a constitutional revision, rather than an amendment, and thus could not be enacted via initiative. But had it done so, it would have made a mockery of the initiative system — which, for all its flaws, remains a valuable tool for effecting public policy — and created a legal quagmire with unimaginable unintended consequences.\"\u003C\/blockquote\u003EIt is not a simple issue no matter which way you look at it, but two points are blatantly clear, 1. Protection of Civil Rights on equal treatment under the Law and, 2. Public Policy or, putting it another way, pure, unbridled democracy, \u003Ccite\u003Ethe worst kind of government but the best thing we got going for us\u003C\/cite\u003E, on the one hand, the governed have, supposedly, participatory prerogatives on a democracy, on the other, notwithstanding that nobody is either better or worse than the other, we humans have differences on how we look, what we think or our nature, but... And this is a big but, regardless of our differences, all of us are supposed to have the same inalienable rights, hence, \u003Ccite\u003E\"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities.\"\u003C\/cite\u003E. but, there seems to always be a but, isn't?, what about democracy? Well, this beautiful monster called democracy, in it's extreme, purest form, is what is known as 'anarquism', another extreme manifestation of unbridled democracy is that \u003Ccite\u003E\"Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.\"\u003C\/cite\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIs it just? According to Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, \u003Ccite\u003E\"The voice of the majority is no proof of justice\"\u003C\/cite\u003E, Maximilien Robespierre said that \u003Ccite\u003E\"Any law which violates the indefeasible rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.\"\u003C\/cite\u003E and the great humanitarian, Mahatma Karumanchi Gandhi, left us one of his tenets \u003Ccite\u003E\"In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.\"\u003C\/cite\u003E, the answer to me appears to be a resounding no!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGoing back to my comment that the California Supreme Court was 'buying time' or, as stated in this post's title, they 'punted', I must say that the point is valid because a) in their first ruling they validated the voice of the majority and, b) on their second ruling they upheld the inalienable rights of the individual and, c) in their latest ruling they upheld unbridled democracy as the supreme policy-maker of the land, making a little aside to say that because in their second ruling, they temporarily made legal the marriage between persons of the same sex, the legal marriage contracts made during that period, remained legal (Something to do with legal retroactivity versus current legal status, I think)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYes, the State Supreme Court punted, they decided to go the political route, they left it to the electorate to decide public policy instead of settling once and for all the issue of whether or not a majority has the prerogative to take away constitutional rights from a minority, or until the US Supreme Court rules on the issue, which will happen, since already legal suits challenging the Cal Supremes' ruling have been filed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI do totally agree with Dan Walter's point that the California Supreme Court have \u003Ccite\u003E\"created a legal quagmire with unimaginable unintended consequences\"\u003C\/cite\u003E, fortunes and majorities change, public opinion attitudes change as well, today's majority may in the near, or far future, whichever may be the case, change too; so, let the 'political pin ball game' commence, the 'pro-this' or 'pro-that' will win a scrimmage or a battle here and there, only to be reversed later by the 'con-this' or 'con-that' majority, only to be set back later by the 'pro or con on this or that', yes indeed, by all means, let the 'political pin ball game' commence instead of answering two simple, yet vital, questions: \"Does the individual has inalienable rights?\" and \"Does a majority has the right to abridge them?\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI do also agree with Dan on another point he makes because there is no question on my mind that same-sex marriage contracts will be legal in California and other states sooner than later, but I disagree that it is the appropriate course of action, as he and others are saying:\u003Cblockquote\u003EThe appropriate course for same-sex marriage advocates to take is to pursue their cause in the same political arena in which their opponents prevailed in November. Polls indicate that Californians are split roughly 50-50 on the issue of gay marriage, but support is growing over time, and a pro-gay marriage measure has a fair chance of succeeding next year.\u003C\/blockquote\u003EIn closing, I do most fervently disagree with the opinion of many and that Dan also exposes in his piece, while leaving for another post the role of \"Organized Religion\", more aptly called \"The Religious Right\" And the innumerable and outrageous ironies and the accompanying plethora of hypocrisies in this matter:\u003Cblockquote\u003EA victory at the polls would have much more moral validity than the Supreme Court's ignoring legal precedent and blithely overturning Proposition 8.\u003C\/blockquote\u003EI'll state why I disagree, moral validity is acquired when what is just is followed, what Dan and others are saying is that they expect that their views will be validated by political Trends\/Will - What legal precedent? It seems to me this claim was done in a vacuum due to his not specifying to which precedent he is referring to.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI heard somewhere that the California State Supreme Court's ruling on Prop H8 was courageous, excuse me?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey punted, the stage is set thus bringing up a final question: Which minority will be next?\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/9189807425347229279\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/californias-prop-h8-state-supreme-court.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/9189807425347229279"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/9189807425347229279"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/californias-prop-h8-state-supreme-court.html","title":"California's Prop H8: The State Supreme Court Punts."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-8271713773228216226"},"published":{"$t":"2009-05-23T03:17:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-05-23T12:56:46.137-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"bailout"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"geithner"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"goldman sachs"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"summers"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Wall Street"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Why Goldman Sachs Is the Greediest and Most Dastardly of the Wall Street Pigs"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The best explanation of what happened in the whole Wall Street Bailout, was made in  \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/story\/26793903\/the_big_takeover\"\u003E\"THE BIG TAKEOVER\"\u003C\/a\u003E By Matt Taibbi (If you can't find the complete report, it is also located \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/the_big_takeover.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E (\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/golpe.html\"\u003ESpanish version\u003C\/a\u003E))\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERecommended reading, all of the full 8 pages of it - It is worth reading to fully understand it all.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EFrom: \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/workplace\/140166\/why_goldman_sachs_is_the_greediest_and_most_dastardly_of_the_wall_street_pigs\/\"\u003EAlternet\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E     By    \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/authors\/1289\/\" title=\"View all stories by Jim Hightower\"\u003EJim Hightower\u003C\/a\u003E,   \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/\"\u003EAlterNet\u003C\/a\u003E. Posted \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/ts\/archives\/?date%5BF%5D=05\u0026amp;date%5BY%5D=2009\u0026amp;date%5Bd%5D=22\u0026amp;act=Go\/\" title=\"View all stories published on May 22, 2009\"\u003EMay 22, 2009\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ccite\u003EGoldman holds billions in taxpayer cash, plans for billions in exec bonuses this year, and has powerful friends in Obama's govt. up the wazoo.\u003C\/cite\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENo doubt you're going to feel terrible about this. Top executives of Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street powerhouse, are in a pout about how they're being treated by you and me -- i.e., the public.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese execs are used to being revered as financial geniuses, but having taken a $10 billion bailout from us taxpayers last fall, they're now widely viewed as ... well, as welfare recipients. Like other welfare checks, the big one that Washington doled out to Goldman Sachs came with some strings attached, causing the chieftains to get all huffy. Especially galling to these princes of privilege is the limit on salaries and bonuses that bailed out banks are allowed to give to those in the executive suites.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThus, Goldman recently threw a little hissy fit and haughtily declared that it will pay back our $10 billion to get the blankety-blank government out of its private business. Bold move! At last, Wall Streeters are reasserting their rugged, free-enterprise ethic, right?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUh, not exactly.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhat Goldman officials fail to mention is that they'll still be clinging to several other lifeboats floated to them by those skinflint meanies in Washington. For example, when insurance giant AIG was given some $200 billion last year to save it from total collapse, $12 billion of it was actually a pass-through payment to Goldman Sachs. Best of all, this quiet handout did not come with any of those nasty restrictions on executive pay -- so Goldman is happily hanging onto this backdoor subsidy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThen there's another $28 billion that was slipped to these hardy free-marketers in the form of special low-interest loans guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. -- a subsidy that Goldman's chief financial officer concedes is vital to its survival. Far from foregoing this government underwriting, the bankers say they expect to ask for $7 billion more of it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdditionally, Goldman has taken many more billions' worth of low-cost loans from Federal Reserve funds. How many more billions? The Fed and the bank say this is \"proprietary\" information, not for public disclosure, even though it is public money.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESo, while these golden ones are loudly repudiating the $10 billion public subsidy they took from us, they are coyly retaining at least 40 billion of our dollars to stay afloat -- a tidy sum that does not include any restrictions on pay levels. Coincidentally, Goldman has since announced that it is setting aside nearly $5 billion to be distributed at the end of the year as compensation for its executives, including payments for outlandish bonuses for those at the top.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESaying that such-and-such is the greediest bunch of bankers on Wall Street is like someone claiming to have the biggest hairdo in Dallas -- the competition is fierce. But that's quite a head of hair atop Goldman Sachs. Well, sniff the executives, we merely play the game according to the rules we're given.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESure, and the Mafia plays its game strictly according to Hoyle. The difference is that the Mafia must actually break the rules, while Wall Street simply hires lobbyists and politicians to write the rules.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIndeed, Goldman Sachs has been nicknamed \"Government Sachs\" by its rivals, for it always seems to have at least one of its top officials strategically placed inside government to bend federal financial rules to its benefit. In the 1990s, for example, two Goldman foxes -- Robert Rubin and Larry Summers -- were inside the Clinton administration henhouse, where they helped craft the deregulation scams that enriched their former banks, before the scams caused the crash of our economy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFollowing that crash, up stepped Hank Paulson, who had been Goldman's CEO before George W. plucked him off the Street to run the very bailout that has now deposited so much of our money in his bank. With Bush's demise, Hank is gone, but not Goldman. That sly Goldman Fox from the Clinton years, Larry Summers, is back, this time in Barack Obama's henhouse, where he's top economic advisor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENot surprisingly, our gold keeps flowing to Goldman Sachs -- but don't expect the bankers to be grateful to you.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETo find out more about Jim Hightower, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate web page at www.creators.com.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8271713773228216226\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/why-goldman-sachs-is-greediest-and-most.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/8271713773228216226"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/8271713773228216226"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/why-goldman-sachs-is-greediest-and-most.html","title":"Why Goldman Sachs Is the Greediest and Most Dastardly of the Wall Street Pigs"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-4896296464203602090"},"published":{"$t":"2009-05-22T02:25:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-05-22T02:43:33.731-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Abu Ghraib"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Alberto Gonzales"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"cia"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Condoleezza Rice"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Dick cheney"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"donald rumsfeld"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"FBI"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"George W. Bush"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"guantanamo"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Iraq War"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Marcy Wheeler"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"news"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Politics"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"torture"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The 13 people who made torture possible"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ccite\u003E\"The Bush administration's Torture 13. They authorized it, they decided how to implement it, and they crafted the legal fig leaf to justify it.\"\u003C\/cite\u003E      \u003Cp id=\"byline\"\u003EBy Marcy Wheeler\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EFROM: \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/feature\/2009\/05\/18\/torture\/\"\u003ESALON.COM\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPages \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/feature\/2009\/05\/18\/torture\/\"\u003E1\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/feature\/2009\/05\/18\/torture\/index1.html\"\u003E2\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/feature\/2009\/05\/18\/torture\/index2.html\"\u003E3\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMay 18, 2009 | On April 16, the Obama administration released four memos that were used to authorize torture in interrogations during the Bush administration. When President Obama released the memos, he said, \"It is our intention to assure those who carried out their duties relying in good faith upon legal advice from the Department of Justice that they will not be subject to prosecution.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYet 13 key people in the Bush administration cannot claim they relied on the memos from the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel. Some of the 13 manipulated the federal bureaucracy and the legal process to \"preauthorize\" torture in the days after 9\/11. Others helped implement torture, and still others helped write the memos that provided the Bush administration with a legal fig leaf after torture had already begun.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Torture 13 exploited the federal bureaucracy to establish a torture regime in two ways. First, they based the enhanced interrogation techniques on techniques used in the U.S. military's Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) program. The program -- which subjects volunteers from the armed services to simulated hostile capture situations -- trains servicemen and -women to withstand coercion well enough to avoid making false confessions if captured. Two retired SERE psychologists \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/feature\/2007\/06\/21\/cia_sere\/print.html\"\u003Econtracted with the government to \"reverse-engineer\" these techniques to use in detainee interrogations\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Torture 13 also abused the legal review process in the Department of Justice in order to provide permission for torture. The DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) played a crucial role. OLC provides interpretations on how laws apply to the executive branch. On issues where the law is unclear, like national security, OLC opinions can set the boundary for \"legal\" activity for executive branch employees. As Jack Goldsmith, OLC head from 2003 to 2004, explains it, \"One consequence of [OLC's] power to interpret the law is the power to bestow on government officials what is effectively an advance pardon for actions taken at the edges of vague criminal statutes.\" OLC has the power, Goldsmith continues, to dispense \"get-out-of-jail-free cards.\" The Torture 13 exploited this power by collaborating on a series of OLC opinions that repeatedly gave U.S. officials such a \"get-out-of-jail-free card\" for torturing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBetween 9\/11 and the end of 2002, the Torture 13 decided to torture, then reverse-engineered the techniques, and then crafted the legal cover. Here's who they are and what they did:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E1. \u003Cstrong\u003EDick Cheney\u003C\/strong\u003E, vice president (2001-2009)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn the morning of 9\/11, after the evacuation of the White House, Dick Cheney summoned his legal counsel, David Addington, to return to work. The two had worked together for years. In the 1980s, when Cheney was a congressman from Wyoming and Addington a staff attorney to another congressman, Cheney and Addington argued that in Iran-Contra, the president could ignore congressional guidance on foreign policy matters. Between 1989 and 1992, when Dick Cheney was the elder George Bush's secretary of defense, Addington served as his counsel. He and Cheney saved the only known copies of abusive interrogation technique manuals taught at \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.soaw.org\/type.php?type=8\"\u003Ethe School of the Americas\u003C\/a\u003E. Now, on the morning of 9\/11, they worked together to plot an expansive grab of executive power that they claimed was the correct response to the terrorist threat. Within two weeks, \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usdoj.gov\/olc\/warpowers925.htm\"\u003Ethey had gotten a memo\u003C\/a\u003E asserting almost unlimited power for the president as \"the sole organ of the Nation in its foreign relations,\" to respond to the terrorist attacks. As part of that expansive view of executive power, Cheney and Addington would argue that domestic and international laws prohibiting torture and abuse could not prevent the president from authorizing harsh treatment of detainees in the war against terror.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut Cheney and Addington also fought bureaucratically to construct this torture program. Cheney led the way by controlling who got access to President Bush -- and making sure \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.washingtonpost.com\/cheney\/chapters\/chapter_1\"\u003Ehis own views preempted others\u003C\/a\u003E'. Each time the torture program got into trouble as it spread around the globe, Cheney intervened to ward off legal threats and limits, by \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2008\/07\/hbc-90003234\"\u003Ebadgering the CIA's inspector general\u003C\/a\u003E when he reported many problems with the interrogation program, and by \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/07\/22\/AR2005072201727.html\"\u003Elobbying Congress\u003C\/a\u003E to legally protect those \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2008\/07\/hbc-90003234\"\u003Ewho had tortured\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMost shockingly, \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thewashingtonnote.com\/archives\/2009\/05\/the_truth_about\/\"\u003ECheney is reported to have ordered torture himself\u003C\/a\u003E, even after interrogators believed detainees were cooperative. Since the 2002 OLC memo known as \"Bybee Two\" that authorizes torture premises its authorization for torture on the assertion that \"the interrogation team is certain that\" the detainee \"has additional information he refuses to divulge,\" Cheney appears to have ordered torture that was illegal even under the spurious guidelines of the memo.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E2. \u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Addington\u003C\/strong\u003E, counsel to the vice president (2001-2005), chief of staff to the vice president (2005-2009)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E     \u003Cimg alt=\"David Addington\" src=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/feature\/2009\/05\/18\/torture\/story_addington.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px none ; float: left; padding-right: 12px;\" height=\"120\" width=\"100\" \/\u003E   \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDavid Addington championed the fight to argue that the president -- in his role as commander in chief -- could not be bound by any law, including those prohibiting torture. He did so in two ways. \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/hearings\/printers\/110th\/43152.PDF\"\u003EHe advised the lawyers\u003C\/a\u003E drawing up the legal opinions that justified torture. In particular, he ran a \"War Council\" with Jim Haynes, John Yoo, John Rizzo and Alberto Gonzales (see all four below) and other trusted lawyers, which crafted and executed many of the legal approaches to the war on terror together.\u003C\/p\u003E     \u003Cp\u003EIn addition, Addington and Cheney wielded bureaucratic carrots and sticks -- \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t\u0026amp;source=web\u0026amp;ct=res\u0026amp;cd=2\u0026amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F2007%2F05%2F15%2FAR2007051501032.html\u0026amp;ei=qpj4SZ3hOJOMtgfm76ijDw\u0026amp;usg=AFQjCNHdSzmOeNE2gdmnuyztCOyMTAVpRw\"\u003Enotably by giving or withholding promotions\u003C\/a\u003E for lawyers who supported these illegal policies. When Jack Goldsmith withdrew a number of OLC memos because of the legal problems in them, \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t\u0026amp;source=web\u0026amp;ct=res\u0026amp;cd=4\u0026amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D3uFre3VPSz8C%26dq%3Dterror%2Bpresidency%26printsec%3Dfrontcover%26source%3Dbn%26hl%3Den%26ei%3DSKv3SaiyJ4vSNLCavMAP%26sa%3DX%26oi%3Dbook_result%26ct%3Dresult%26resnum%3D4\u0026amp;ei=SKv3SaiyJ4vSNLCavMAP\u0026amp;usg=AFQjCNGOx4JRXBxsmjz022zz_YNuYs_hag\"\u003EAddington was the sole administration lawyer who defended them\u003C\/a\u003E. Addington's close bureaucratic control over the legal analysis process shows he was unwilling to let the lawyers give the administration a \"good faith\" assessment of the laws prohibiting torture.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E3. \u003Cstrong\u003EAlberto Gonzales\u003C\/strong\u003E, White House counsel (2001-2005), and attorney general (2005-2008)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E     \u003Cimg alt=\"Alberto Gonzales\" src=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/feature\/2009\/05\/18\/torture\/story_gonzales.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px none ; float: left; padding-right: 12px;\" height=\"120\" width=\"100\" \/\u003E   \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs White House counsel, Alberto Gonzales was nominally in charge of representing the president's views on legal issues, including national security issues. In that role, Gonzales wrote and reviewed a number of the legal opinions that attempted to immunize torture. Most important, in a Jan. 25, 2002, opinion reportedly written with David Addington, Gonzales paved the way for exempting al-Qaida detainees from the Geneva Conventions. His memo claimed the \"new kind of war\" represented by the war against al-Qaida \"renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners.\" In a signal that Gonzales and Addington adopted that position to immunize torture, Gonzales argued that one advantage of not applying the Geneva Convention to al-Qaida would \"substantially reduce the threat of domestic criminal prosecution under the War Crimes Act.\" \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.lp.findlaw.com\/hdocs\/docs\/torture\/gnzls12502mem2gwb.html\"\u003EThe memo even specifically foresaw the possibility of independent counsels' prosecuting acts against detainees\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E4. \u003Cstrong\u003EJames Mitchell\u003C\/strong\u003E, consultant\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEven while Addington, Gonzales and the lawyers were beginning to build the legal framework for torture, a couple of military psychologists were laying out the techniques the military would use. James Mitchell, a retired military psychologist, had been a leading expert in the military's SERE program. In December 2001, with his partner, Bruce Jessen, Mitchell reverse-engineered SERE techniques to be used to interrogate detainees. Then, in the spring of 2002, before OLC gave official legal approval to torture, Mitchell oversaw Abu Zubaydah's interrogation. An FBI agent on the scene describes Mitchell overseeing the use of \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usdoj.gov\/oig\/special\/s0805\/final.pdf\"\u003E\"borderline torture.\"\u003C\/a\u003E And after OLC approved waterboarding, Mitchell oversaw its use in ways that exceeded the guidelines in the OLC memo. Under Mitchell's guidance, interrogators used the waterboard with \"far greater frequency than initially indicated\" -- a total of 183 times in a month for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and 83 times in a month for Abu Zubaydah. \u003C\/p\u003E       \u003Cp class=\"next_page\"\u003ENext page (2): \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/feature\/2009\/05\/18\/torture\/index1.html\"\u003EYoo drafted many of the memos that would establish the torture regime, starting with the opinion claiming virtually unlimited power for the president in times of war\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003ENext page(3): \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/feature\/2009\/05\/18\/torture\/index2.html\"\u003E\"Rumsfeld's authorization of interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay was a direct cause of detainee abuse there\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPages \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/feature\/2009\/05\/18\/torture\/\"\u003E1\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/feature\/2009\/05\/18\/torture\/index1.html\"\u003E2\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/feature\/2009\/05\/18\/torture\/index2.html\"\u003E3\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"box\" id=\"about_the_writer\"\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EAbout the writer\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003E Marcy Wheeler writes as \"emptywheel\" at \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/\"\u003EFireDogLake.com \u003C\/a\u003E and is the author of \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Anatomy-Deceit-Bush-Administration-Media\/dp\/0979176107\"\u003E\"Anatomy of Deceit.\" She has written extensively on the Bush Administration's abuses of power, including warrantless wiretapping, the exposure of Valerie Plame, and torture. She recently won the 2009 Hillman Award for blogging. \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4896296464203602090\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/13-people-who-made-torture-possible.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/4896296464203602090"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/4896296464203602090"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/13-people-who-made-torture-possible.html","title":"The 13 people who made torture possible"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-8193983847760127804"},"published":{"$t":"2009-05-21T19:05:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-05-22T02:23:46.184-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"board of supervisors"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"certificate of honor"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"gay"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hecho en california"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"homesexual"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"I.C.E. Protest Oct. 31st 2008 San Francisco"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"kiki 1010AM. la grande"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"roberto hernandez"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"spanish radio"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Host of Gay Radio Talk Show in Spanish Format, Roberto Hernandez, Honored by the SF Board of Supervisors"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Congratulations Roberto for a well deserved recognition!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI'll not make the pronouncement that \"Roberto al Mediodia\" Is the first Spanish Format Radio Program conducted by an openly Homosexual man, if there is another please tell me, however, it is important to mention that, albeit his program deals with sex-orientation and gender issues primarily, it covers a wide range of situations and problems that our society faces, same as other mainstream radio programs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor instance, on \"Women's Month\" (March), Roberto dedicated the total of his time on the air for the month, on V-Day09, violence against women \/ girls, and women's issues in general (2 hours total, his program runs 1\/2 hour on Fridays at noon)) - Not much time by other program's time-on-air standards, but it is all he had to give, and he gave, not only that, but on the week of Mar. 22 - 28, he mentioned in the first of a few conversations we had on the issue RE making a program on violence against girls \/ women for the month of March, he decided to do it on the 27 so more people would be aware that March was \"International Women's Month\", that March 1st was \"International Women of Color Day\" and that March 8th celebrates \"International Women's  Day\", furthermore, he wanted to promote presentations of the \"Vagina Monologues\" In Spanish (Los Monologos de La Vagina) For the first time ever in San Francisco and San Jose by two different groups in Commemoration and and as part of the V-Day Campaign against violence - The one in San Francisco with an entire cast of volunteers, where the totality of the proceeds were destined for two organizations which provide basic services and assistance to women victims of violence who are ready to end the cycle, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lacasadelasmadres.org\/\"\u003ECasa de Las Madres\u003C\/a\u003E in San Francisco and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.casa-amiga.org\/\"\u003ECasa Amiga\u003C\/a\u003E in Ciudad Juared, Mexico.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter he did the program, he called me all excited and thrilled with the experience and how good it felt to have a show for a cause in which he believed so strongly, that he had decided to do it for the whole month.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo, actually he dedicated 2 1\/2 hours.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EReminds me of the story that Jesus told about the donations that a very wealthy person and a very poor woman made to the church, the rich person was very generous and enjoyed that people saw it, whereas the poor woman, a bit ashamed a how little she was donating, kind of did it surreptitiously. I remember His words \"In truth, in truth I tell you...\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the question which begs an answer is: Who gave more?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHuge crumbs of the one who had a lot, or a little from who did not have much.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECongratulations again Roberto with the gratitude I feel for the good work you do.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAurora Grajeda\u003Cbr \/\u003ESFCA 052109\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px;\"\u003E\u003Ctable  style=\"border-collapse: collapse; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em; display: table;font-size:inherit;\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003E\u003Ctbody style=\"outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;\"\u003E\u003Ctr style=\"outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em; display: table-row; vertical-align: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em; display: table-cell;\" bg=\"\"\u003E\u003Cp style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em; display: block; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\" align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 21px;font-size:130%;\" \u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003ECertificate of Honor to Roberto Hernandez\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em; display: block; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\" align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 21px;font-size:18;\" \u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 15px;font-size:16;\" \u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003EFrom The Board of Supervisors\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003Eof the City and County of  SF\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em; display: block;\" align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr style=\"outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em; display: table-row; vertical-align: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em; display: table-cell;\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" valign=\"top\" width=\"100%\"\u003E\u003Ctable style=\"border-collapse: collapse; font-size: inherit; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em; display: table;\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003E\u003Ctbody style=\"outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;\"\u003E\u003Ctr style=\"outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em; display: table-row; vertical-align: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em; display: table-cell;\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" valign=\"top\" width=\"33%\"\u003E\u003Ctable style=\"border-collapse: collapse; font-size: inherit; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em; display: table;\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"5\" width=\"100%\"\u003E\u003Ctbody style=\"outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;\"\u003E\u003Ctr style=\"outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em; display: table-row; vertical-align: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em; display: table-cell; color: rgb(23, 56, 93);\" bg=\"\"\u003E\u003Ctable style=\"border-collapse: collapse; font-size: inherit; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em; display: table;\" bgcolor=\"#17385d\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"200\"\u003E\u003Ctbody style=\"outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;\"\u003E\u003Ctr style=\"outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em; display: table-row; vertical-align: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em; display: table-cell;\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"https:\/\/vrimg.secure.miisolutions.net\/images\/tinymce\/layouts\/img\/corner-w-tl.gif\" alt=\"\" style=\"border-width: 0px; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;\" dfsrc=\"https:\/\/vrimg.secure.miisolutions.net\/images\/tinymce\/layouts\/img\/corner-w-tl.gif\" \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em; display: table-cell;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em; display: table-cell;\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"https:\/\/vrimg.secure.miisolutions.net\/images\/tinymce\/layouts\/img\/corner-w-tr.gif\" alt=\"\" style=\"border-width: 0px; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;\" dfsrc=\"https:\/\/vrimg.secure.miisolutions.net\/images\/tinymce\/layouts\/img\/corner-w-tr.gif\" \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr style=\"outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em; display: table-row; vertical-align: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em; display: table-cell;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em; display: table-cell;\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"https:\/\/5be592fffb-custmedia.vresp.com\/library\/1241042853\/66dd5de5fe\/RobertoH.jpg\" alt=\"RobertoH.jpg\" style=\"border-width: 0px; width: 236px; height: 319px; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;\" dfsrc=\"https:\/\/5be592fffb-custmedia.vresp.com\/library\/1241042853\/66dd5de5fe\/RobertoH.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003Cp style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em; display: block;\" align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:78%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: bold; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;font-size:100%;\" \u003ERoberto Hernandez\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em; display: table-cell;\" valign=\"top\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr style=\"outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em; display: table-row; vertical-align: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em; display: table-cell;\" align=\"left\" valign=\"bottom\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"https:\/\/vrimg.secure.miisolutions.net\/images\/tinymce\/layouts\/img\/corner-w-bl.gif\" alt=\"\" style=\"border-width: 0px; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;\" dfsrc=\"https:\/\/vrimg.secure.miisolutions.net\/images\/tinymce\/layouts\/img\/corner-w-bl.gif\" \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em; display: table-cell;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em; display: table-cell;\" align=\"right\" valign=\"bottom\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"https:\/\/vrimg.secure.miisolutions.net\/images\/tinymce\/layouts\/img\/corner-w-br.gif\" alt=\"\" style=\"border-width: 0px; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;\" dfsrc=\"https:\/\/vrimg.secure.miisolutions.net\/images\/tinymce\/layouts\/img\/corner-w-br.gif\" \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255); outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em; display: table-row; vertical-align: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em; display: table-cell; color: rgb(23, 56, 93);\" bg=\"\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E   Roberto Hernandez is a gay man who immigrated to the United States from \u003Cspan class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1242944014_8\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;\"\u003EMexico\u003C\/span\u003E in 1990. He started from zero, working as dishwasher. Over the years he learned English and situated himself professionally.  In 2002 he experienced perhaps the most difficult challenge for a gay men: his sexual orientation was disclosed as a prank call during a radio show airing nationally. Hernandez pursued a lawsuit and three years later the Court favored him. Since then, his focus has been to educating his community against negative stereotyping affecting the LGBT community.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em; display: table-cell;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1242944014_9\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;\"\u003ESan Francisco, CA\u003C\/span\u003E (May 19) - The Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco hereby issues, and autorizazes the execution of the Certificate of honor in appreciative public recognition of distintion and merit for outstanding service to a significant portion of the poeple of the City and County of San Francisco by Roberto Hernandez.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\" \u003EThe San Francisco Board of Supervisors applaudes the contributions of Roberto Hernandez to the San Francisco community. Roberto Hernadez, a Spanish-language columnist and announcer, is perhaps the only openly gay Latino in Spanish-language media. Hernandez is the producer and annoucer of \"Roberto Al Medio Dia\" a radio founded en 2007 on Spanish-language's KIQI 10101AM.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;\"  \u003EHerandez was a recipient of the 2009 GLAAD Media Award for his writing in Spanish about the gay rights and marriage. Alianza Metropolitan News has also published his columns. The GLAAD Media Awards recognize and honor media for the fair accurate and inclusive representation of the Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;\"  \u003EThe San Francisco Board of Supervisors acknowledges Roberto Hernandez's courage, perseverance and complete dedication to equality and justice.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: bold; line-height: 15px;\"\u003EFor interviews or further information\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;\"  \u003Eplease contact Roberto Hernandez directly at \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1242944014_13\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;\"\u003E415-517-2948\u003C\/span\u003E, or\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;\"  \u003ERobertoalmediodí\u003Cspan class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1242944014_14\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT68\"\u003Ea@yahoo.com\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; outline-style: none; line-height: 1.2em;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:arial black;font-size:100%;\"  \u003ERoberto Al Medio Dia \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 153, 0);font-family:Mistral;font-size:130%;\"  \u003E  \u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E¡Cambiando de Conversación!\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 153, 0);font-family:Mistral;\" \u003E  \u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(96, 0, 191);font-size:130%;\" \u003E1010AM Area de la Bahía • 990AM Sacramento\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E  \u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(96, 0, 191);font-size:130%;\" \u003EViernes 12:30 del Mediodía\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cb style=\"color: rgb(255, 153, 0);\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Helvetica-Bold;\"\u003E  \u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003ERoberto B. 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May 13, 2009 | 6:31pm\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Ctable width=\"174\" height=\"180\" align=\"right\" cellpadding=\"10\"\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.tdbimg.com\/files\/2009\/05\/13\/img-bs-top---windrem-dick-cheney-torture_180849362188.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"-2\"\u003EChip Somodevilla \/ Getty Images\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/table\u003EFormer NBC News investigative producer Robert Windrem reports that the vice president’s office suggested waterboarding an Iraqi prisoner who was suspected of knowing about a relationship between al Qaeda and Saddam.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERobert Windrem, who covered terrorism for NBC, reports exclusively in The Daily Beast that:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E*Two U.S. intelligence officers confirm that Vice President Cheney’s office suggested waterboarding an Iraqi prisoner, a former intelligence official for Saddam Hussein, who was suspected to have knowledge of a Saddam-al Qaeda connection.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E*The former chief of the Iraq Survey Group, Charles Duelfer, in charge of interrogations, tells The Daily Beast that he considered the request reprehensible.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E*Much of the information in the report of the 9\/11 Commission was provided through more than 30 sessions of torture of detainees.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt the end of April 2003, not long after the fall of Baghdad, U.S. forces captured an Iraqi who Bush White House officials suspected might provide information of a relationship between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein’s regime. Muhammed Khudayr al-Dulaymi was the head of the M-14 section of Mukhabarat, one of Saddam’s secret police organizations. His responsibilities included chemical weapons and contacts with terrorist groups.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003ETwo senior U.S. intelligence officials at the time tell The Daily Beast that the suggestion to waterboard an Iraqi prisoner came from the Office of Vice President Cheney.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“To those who wanted or suspected a relationship, he would have been a guy who would know, so [White House officials] had particular interest,” Charles Duelfer, head of the Iraqi Survey Group and the man in charge of interrogations of Iraqi officials, told me. So much so that the officials, according to Duelfer, inquired how the interrogation was proceeding.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn his new book, Hide and Seek: The Search for Truth in Iraq, and in an interview with The Daily Beast, Duelfer says he heard from “some in Washington at very senior levels (not in the CIA),” who thought Khudayr’s interrogation had been “too gentle” and suggested another route, one that they believed has proven effective elsewhere. “They asked if enhanced measures, such as waterboarding, should be used,” Duelfer writes. “The executive authorities addressing those measures made clear that such techniques could legally be applied only to terrorism cases, and our debriefings were not as yet terrorism-related. The debriefings were just debriefings, even for this creature.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDuelfer will not disclose who in Washington had proposed the use of waterboarding, saying only: “The language I can use is what has been cleared.” In fact, two senior U.S. intelligence officials at the time tell The Daily Beast that the suggestion to waterboard came from the Office of Vice President Cheney. Cheney, of course, has vehemently defended waterboarding and other harsh techniques, insisting they elicited valuable intelligence and saved lives. He has also asked that several memoranda be declassified to prove his case. (The Daily Beast placed a call to Cheney’s office and will post a response if we get one.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWithout admitting where the suggestion came from, Duelfer revealed that he considered it reprehensible and understood the rationale as political—and ultimately counterproductive to the overall mission of the Iraq Survey Group, which was assigned the mission of finding Saddam Hussein’s WMD after the invasion.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Everyone knew there would be more smiles in Washington if WMD stocks were found,” Duelfer said in the interview. “My only obligation was to find the truth. It would be interesting if there was WMD in May 2003, but what was more interesting to me was looking at the entire regime through the slice of WMD.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut, Duelfer says, Khudayr in fact repeatedly denied knowing the location of WMD or links between Saddam’s regime and al Qaeda and was not subjected to any enhanced interrogation. 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\/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Ctable height=\"100%\" width=\"100%\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr valign=\"top\"\u003E\u003Ctd width=\"50%\"\u003EHistorical alliance in San Francisco, Immigrants making May Day what it is supposed to be, Organized Labor doing what is in their best interest, which is to work to prevent wages from being deflated by Employers when they hire workers vulnerable to exploitation \/ low wages, in addition to fulfilling their responsibility and duty; to help ALL OF THE WORKERS.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA broad Coalition of Pro-Immigrant groups, Labor Unions, Religious and Community Organizations was formed under the banner \"Workers Without Borders, United in Struggle\" Organized the Rallies and March - The subtitle of this year's May Day March was \"Nativa o Extranjera, somos la misma Clase Obrera\" (\"Native or foreign, we are the same Working Class\")\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETroughout the nation, we marched and that was good. however, our struggle just got harder, President Barack Obama has \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/keepingfaithfortheillegalextraterrest.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/obama-reverses-stance-on-immigration.html\"\u003Ereversed his position\u003C\/a\u003E on Immigration Reform - Our work had just began anew.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ccite\u003E\"On the thorniest of political issues, President Obama has embraced the enforcement-first position on immigration that he criticized during last year's presidential campaign, and he now says he can't move forward with the type of comprehensive bill he wants until voters are convinced that the borders can be enforced.\"\u003C\/cite\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd width=\"50%\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/graphics\/jpgs\/audio_icon3.jpg\" align=\"top\" border=\"0\" height=\"14\" width=\"222\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EIMMIGRANTS AND LABOR JOIN\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EIN SUPPORT FOR THE\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEMPLOYEE FREE CHOICE ACT. \u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESan Francisco—On Tuesday, On April 21st immigrant rights groups held a press joint press conference with Unions in the Bay Area to address their support for the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). \"Workers Without Borders, United In Struggle\" is a coalition of organizations representative of the different communities advocating for the rights of immigrant and workers, and were organizing the May 1st March in San Francisco.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs a candidate and in subsequent announcements, President Barack Obama has supported the passage of the Employee Free Trade Act. At this press conference, and at the May First March, the Coalition did challenge Senator Dianne Feinstein to reconsider, and take a public position in support of the rapid passage of the EFCA.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Ctable bordercolordark=\"#eaad31\" bordercolorlight=\"#fbe7a8\" bg=\"\" style=\"color: rgb(253, 237, 181);\" align=\"center\" border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"10\" cellspacing=\"5\" height=\"100%\" width=\"100%\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ccaption align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(253, 237, 181);font-family:system;font-size:130%;\"  \u003EBackground Song \"El Mojado\" (\"The Wetback\")\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/caption\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr valign=\"top\"\u003E\u003Ctd width=\"50%\"\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:85%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEmpacó un par de camisas, un sombrero\u003Cbr \/\u003ESu vocación de aventurero, seis consejos, siete fotos\u003Cbr \/\u003EMil recuerdos\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEmpacó sus ganas de quedarse\u003Cbr \/\u003ESu condición de transformarse\u003Cbr \/\u003Een el hombre que soñó\u003Cbr \/\u003Ey no ha logrado\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDijo adiós con una mueca disfrazada de sonrisa\u003Cbr \/\u003EY le suplicó a su Dios crucificado en la repisa\u003Cbr \/\u003EEl resguardo de los suyos\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EY perforó la frontera\u003Cbr \/\u003EComo pudo\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESi la luna suave se desliza\u003Cbr \/\u003EPor cualquier cornisa\u003Cbr \/\u003ESin permiso alguno\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPorque el mojado precisa\u003Cbr \/\u003EComprobar con visas\u003Cbr \/\u003Eque no es de neptuno\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEl mojado tiene ganas de secarse\u003Cbr \/\u003EEl mojado esta mojado por las lagrimas que evoca la\u003Cbr \/\u003Enostalgia\u003Cbr \/\u003EEl mojado, el indocumentadoCarga el bulto que el legal no\u003Cbr \/\u003Ecargaría\u003Cbr \/\u003ENi obligado\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEl suplicio de un papel lo ha convertido en fugitivo\u003Cbr \/\u003EY no es de aquí porque su nombre no aparece en los\u003Cbr \/\u003Earchivos\u003Cbr \/\u003ENi es de allá porque se fue\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESi la luna suave se desliza\u003Cbr \/\u003EPor cualquier cornisa\u003Cbr \/\u003ESin permiso alguno\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPorque el mojado precisa\u003Cbr \/\u003EComprobar con visas\u003Cbr \/\u003Eque no es de Neptuno\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMojado\u003Cbr \/\u003ESabe a mentira tu verdad\u003Cbr \/\u003ESabe a tristeza la ansiedad\u003Cbr \/\u003EDe ver un freeway y soñar con la vereda\u003Cbr \/\u003EQue conduce hasta tu casa\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMojado, mojado de tanto llorar\u003Cbr \/\u003ESabiendo que en algún lugar\u003Cbr \/\u003Eespera un beso haciendo pausa\u003Cbr \/\u003EDesde el día en que te marchaste\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESi la luna suave se desliza\u003Cbr \/\u003EPor cualquier cornisa\u003Cbr \/\u003ESin permiso alguno\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPorque el mojado precisa\u003Cbr \/\u003EComprobar con visas\u003Cbr \/\u003Eque no es de neptuno\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESi la visa universal se extiende\u003Cbr \/\u003Eel día en que nacemos\u003Cbr \/\u003Ey caduca en la muerte\u003Cbr \/\u003Epor que te persiguen mojado\u003Cbr \/\u003Esi el cónsul de los cielos\u003Cbr \/\u003Eya te dio permiso\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERicardo Arjona\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFuente: musica.com\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELetra subida por marcoleon\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctd width=\"50%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:85%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe packed a pair of shirts, a hat\u003Cbr \/\u003EHis vocation of adventurer, six warnings, seven photos\u003Cbr \/\u003EThousand memories\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe packed his desire to stay\u003Cbr \/\u003EHis condition to transform himself\u003Cbr \/\u003Ein the man he dreamed\u003Cbr \/\u003Eand that he has not achieved\u003C\/p\u003E      \u003Cp\u003EHe said goodbye with a disguised face of smile\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd he begged to his crucified God  in the shelf\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe protection for his close ones\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd he perforated the border\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs he could\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf the moon softly slides\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn any cornice\u003Cbr \/\u003EWithout any permission\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy does the wetback requires\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo verify with visas\u003Cbr \/\u003Ethat he is not from Neptune\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe wetback has the desire to be dry (To dry  himself)\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe wetback is wet by the tears that the nostalgia evokes\u003Cbr \/\u003ECarries the load that the legal one would not carry\u003Cbr \/\u003ENor even if forced\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe burden of a paper has turned him into a fugitive\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd he is not from here because his name does not\u003Cbr \/\u003Eappear in the records\u003Cbr \/\u003ENor is he from there because he went away\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf the moon softly  slides\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy any cornice\u003Cbr \/\u003EWithout any permission\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy does the wetback requires\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo verify with visas\u003Cbr \/\u003Ethat he is not from Neptune\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWetback\u003Cbr \/\u003EYour truth tastes of lie\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe anxiety tastes of sadness\u003Cbr \/\u003Eto see a freeway and dream about the path\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhich leads to your home\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWetback, wet of so much crying\u003Cbr \/\u003EKnowing that in some place\u003Cbr \/\u003Ea kiss awaits making a pause\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince the day in which you left\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf the moon softly slides\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy any cornice\u003Cbr \/\u003EWithout any permission\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy does the wetback requires\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo verify with visas\u003Cbr \/\u003Ethat he is not from Neptune\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf the universal visa extends\u003Cbr \/\u003Ethe day in which we are born\u003Cbr \/\u003Eand expires in the death\u003Cbr \/\u003Ewhy do they chase you wetback\u003Cbr \/\u003Eif the heavenly consul\u003Cbr \/\u003Ealready gave you permission\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERicardo Arjona\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESource: musica.com\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELyrics uploaded by marcoleon\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003ETranslation to English by: Aurora Grajeda\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan 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EFCA."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-5342891126125154126"},"published":{"$t":"2009-05-12T20:04:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-05-12T20:08:12.951-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"anti hispanic hate"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"illegal alien"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"immigrants"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"immigration"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"immigration reform"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"intolerance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"may 1st."},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"may day 2009"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"nativism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"racism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"the illegal extraterrestrial"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Announcing a New Blog - Keeping faith for \"The Illegal Extraterrestrial\" - and a New Blogger, Marisa Loza."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"As a result to my interest \/ desire to know where and when actions for May Day 2009 in the US would take place, as many of you know, I compiled a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/mayday-2009-list-of-marches-and-actions.html\"\u003Elist of events\u003C\/a\u003E, a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/may-day-2009-no-swine-flu-nor-rain.html\"\u003Epost-action post\u003C\/a\u003E and subsequently I \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/us-90898-to-96993-demonstrators-with-63.html\"\u003Eposted a report\u003C\/a\u003E of what I learned.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn carrying out the tasks for this project, I had the opportunity and privilege of talking with activists all across the Nation, got to talk to many people united in the worthwhile struggle for justice, equality or, saying it differently, just plain fairness and goodness.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMy experiences were so inspirational, energizing and rewarding - I heard stories of what they were doing, I heard their optimism, energy, conviction and commitment - I was told how their Actions turned out, albeit the low turnouts everywhere, I didn't sense any dismay or other negative feelings normally associated to when our expectations are not fulfilled.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOf the many people I talked with, for details first and then updates, I also contacted our sister, comrade and friend Marisa Loza, of 'Latinos Unidos del Valle de Napa', who has helped organize many Actions in that area and who was again among the organizers for a May Day 2009 Vigil, which was eventually canceled, during one of our phone conversations, I learned that she had a story to tell about a day planned with high expectations but instead turned into 1. Disappointment, 2. Conviction, 3. Commitment and ended up being 4. Very Rewarding.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI asked to tell me about her experiences on May 1st '09, after she finished, the first thought that came to my mind was: This story has to be shared, I interrupted her to voice it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWell, she had the same thing in mind and so it came to pass, she went ahead to setup a Blog and publish her first post and I decided to bestow upon myself the honor and pleasure to talk about it in a post of my own in my Blog.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAurora\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CBLOCKQUOTE\u003ESaturday, May 9, 2009\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/keepingfaithfortheillegalextraterrest.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/keeping-faith-for-illegal.html\"\u003EKeeping faith for \"The Illegal Extraterrestrial\" \u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/keepingfaithfortheillegalextraterrest.blogspot.com\/\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_9lAJeGZKhak\/SgX1baagqII\/AAAAAAAAAFo\/PwieeqTO7t8\/s320\/IMGP0937.JPG\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EEvery year is a different experience, every year I learn something new. But this year, it was like I was dragged from one place to another to hear a message from God. The swine flu, the rain, the new president, the unemployment and bad economy, everything plays an important factor for people to come out and show support to \"La Causa\" or hide in the shadows and do nothing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEverything started like any other event, looking for the perfect venue so we can have the greatest number of people involved. We thought that our local Church will be the perfect place. Have a spiritual vigil, community speakers and end it with a mass. Everything looked perfect! For reasons out of my reach, the father from the Church did not let us use the Church as our venue. OK, we started with plan B: a public park. We did all the arrangements, pay the city dues and on May 4, around 4:00 p.m., the majority of the board of directors decided to cancel our event \"for safety reasons\". What! After all the hard work, besides more people die crossing the border every year than from flu. What about all the people that called me to confirm the date, time and spot. The swine flu is a justified cause; on the other hand, my compromise with the people that called and I said I'll be there. I called the other organizers and said to them \"llueva, truene o relampage, I'll be there\" So I did.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn May 1st. at 5:00 p.m. I was standing at the Napa Veteran's Park in downtown Napa with my umbrella, a light blue sweater, jeans and sandals. Why sandals? I was positive hoping for a sunny day and something comfortable to walk. Two other members Marcos and Ricky, arrived with their umbrellas too. Their umbrellas were twice as big as mine and they were dressed accordingly to the rainy weather. We stayed there for an hour. Because it was raining so hard, nobody else showed. It was kind of a disappointment because we worked so hard all the month of April and have this canceled at the last minute.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI invited my two good friends to have a cup of hot coffee a few blocks away from the Park. They agreed with me, so we walked to this place that neither of us had ever been before. When we were ordering we noticed that they were setting a small stage with a camera, speakers and a microphone.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/keepingfaithfortheillegalextraterrest.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/keeping-faith-for-illegal.html\"\u003EMORE...\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/BLOCKQUOTE\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CBLOCKQUOTE\u003E...he announced the first person: Julio Soriano Soriano. I believe that besides us three, he was the only Latino there. In the middle of different conversations among the people inside the coffee place, the espresso machine and the rainfall, he approached the crowd by introducing himself. He said something about a mix of Native Indian and Mexican, Illegal Immigrants, and he did not have a guitar with him. These three things got my attention. Then he started to read a poem of his own inspiration. The crowd started to quite down to the point that only his words and his breath were left in the room: \u003CI\u003E“Just imagine! A human wannabe asking for fair wages? Asking for representation, opportunity and justice. Absurd!\u003C\/I\u003E”\u003C\/BLOCKQUOTE\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CBLOCKQUOTE\u003EIn the less expected place, his words came and reminded me that I have to keep my faith and hope up high because sooner or later, there will be a change in this world where everyone will be treated equally regardless of race, religious beliefs, or gender. To me, he was like a messenger from God. Maybe I am simply doing my job too: Fulfilling and manifesting my destiny. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarisa Loza\u003Cbr \/\u003EImmigration Consultant\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEnjoy this young man poetry.\u003C\/BLOCKQUOTE\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CBLOCKQUOTE\u003E\"The Illegal Extraterrestrial\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI was born here on earth.\u003Cbr \/\u003EBorn from two human parents.\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor as long as I can remember\u003Cbr \/\u003EI have lived among the human species.\u003Cbr \/\u003EI can see, touch, and taste.\u003Cbr \/\u003EI can hear and speak.\u003Cbr \/\u003EI have a family; I have emotions.\u003Cbr \/\u003EI’m able to love.\u003Cbr \/\u003EI’m able to hate.\u003Cbr \/\u003EI’m able to cry.\u003Cbr \/\u003EI’m able smile.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI have the same organs that everyone else has.\u003Cbr \/\u003EI have only one brain, only one heart, just two lungs.\u003Cbr \/\u003EStill don’t believe me?\u003Cbr \/\u003EWell, I have 46 chromosomes.\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou can check my DNA if you want.\u003Cbr \/\u003EI promise I’m really the same as you.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI’m sorry undocumented immigrant, whoops,\u003Cbr \/\u003EDid I say undocumented immigrant? I meant illegal alien.\u003Cbr \/\u003ELets not go and call you undocumented immigrant.\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe don’t want you poking around thinking that\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou have a chance to be like us humans.\u003Cbr \/\u003EJust imagine! A human wannabe asking for fair wages?\u003Cbr \/\u003EAsking for representation, opportunity and justice.\u003Cbr \/\u003EAbsurd!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat about us you say, we’re immigrants too?\u003Cbr \/\u003EWell, you see,\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe’re the GOOD kind of immigrants.\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe were chosen by God.\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen we came into these lands, we were simple doing our job:\u003Cbr \/\u003EFulfilling our Manifest Destiny.\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe came to civilize the savage beings of the Americas.\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe actually brought goodness to these lands. We made it a better place.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESee those great concrete cities spread across the nation? We made them.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESee the millions and millions of great cars? We made those too.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESee the vast fertile fields with grains, fruits and vegetables? We put those there and removed the savages.\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis nation, in fact the whole world, should be grateful for our existence.\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnlike you, who brings nothing useful. You’re just an annoying pest...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/keepingfaithfortheillegalextraterrest.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/keeping-faith-for-illegal.html\"\u003EMORE...\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/BLOCKQUOTE\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5342891126125154126\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/announcing-new-blog-keeping-faith-for.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/5342891126125154126"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/5342891126125154126"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/announcing-new-blog-keeping-faith-for.html","title":"Announcing a New Blog - Keeping faith for \"The Illegal Extraterrestrial\" - and a New Blogger, Marisa Loza."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_9lAJeGZKhak\/SgX1baagqII\/AAAAAAAAAFo\/PwieeqTO7t8\/s72-c\/IMGP0937.JPG","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-3425332224469374246"},"published":{"$t":"2009-05-12T01:57:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-05-12T02:31:50.598-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"2008 year in review"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"a day of remembrance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"abuses"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"aniversary"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"children"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"civil"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"guatemala"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"human"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"ice"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"immigants"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"immigration"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"iowa"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"nativism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"one"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"postville"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"racism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"raids"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rights"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"women"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"xenophobia"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Postville One Year Later: A Day of Remembrance and Action"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"FROM:  \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/fairimmigration.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/11\/postville-one-year-later-a-day-of-remembrance-and-action\/\"\u003EStanding FIRM\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMay 11, 2009\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003ETomorrow, May 12th, marks the one year anniversary of the devastating ICE raid at Agriprocessors, a kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa. That day, hundreds of ICE agents descended on the small Iowa town. They brought helicopters, they brought buses and they brought a show of force that would rival any big-budget action flick this summer. Almost 400 workers were arrested and herded like cattle through a “fast-track” version of the American judicial system.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt the time, it was the largest workplace raid in history – sort of mind-blowing to think that since then the raid in Laurel, Mississippi has actually surpassed that number with over 600 people arrested. Postville quickly became symbolic of everything that was wrong with our country’s approach to immigration enforcement, immigration policy, human rights and civil rights. Families were separated, an entire community was destroyed and a small church, St. Bridget’s, was left to deal with the aftermath.\u003C\/blockquote\u003EAcross the country, communities will hold days of remembrance, will ring bells at 10 AM (the time the raid began) and will don red ribbons in solidarity with the Postville community.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor more information, and to find an action near you, visit the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.interfaithimmigration.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/15\/day-of-remembrance\/\"\u003EInterfaith Immigration Coalition.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPOSIBLY RELATED POSTS:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/article.php?story=20080820023722902\u0026amp;query=postville+\"\u003ECitizens of postville, Iowa report ICE has created 'open-air' prison in town that keeps detained immigrant women from feeding their children\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/article.php?story=20080804014541258\u0026amp;query=postville+\"\u003EGovernment how-to manual on expediting guilty pleas from undocumented immigrants uncovered by ACLU\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/article.php?story=2008072800311952\u0026amp;query=postville+\"\u003EHundreds protest immigration raid in small-town America\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/fairimmigration.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/23\/action-day-of-remembrance-for-postville\/\"\u003EACTION: Day of Remembrance for Postville\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/fairimmigration.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/28\/1000-march-to-protest-postville-raid\/\"\u003E1,000 March to Protest Postville Raid\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/fairimmigration.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/09\/update-crime-rate-up-in-postville-since-mays-raid\/\"\u003EUPDATE: Crime Rate up in Postville since May’s Raid\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EFROM: \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/chi-postville-guate_avilamay12,0,6027529.story\"\u003ETHE CHICAGO TRIBUNE\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/chi-postville-guate_avilamay12,0,6027529.story\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/images\/branding\/masthead_subpages.gif\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EIN GUATEMALA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/chi-postville-guate_avilamay12,0,6027529.story\"\u003EAfter Postville raid, Guatemalan town is hurting\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdl class=\"byline\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"story-byline\"\u003EBy Oscar Avila \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E|\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"story-titleline\"\u003ETribune correspondent\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"story-dateline\"\u003E\u003Cdd\u003E May 12, 2009\u003C\/dd\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/dl\u003E                                                                                                       \u003C!-- sphereit start --\u003E                 SAN JOSE CALDERAS, Guatemala  --  Here was Angela Noemi Pastor's blueprint for prosperity: She borrowed $12,000 to cross \u003Ca class=\"taxInlineTagLink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/topic\/politics\/government\/national-government\/united-states-ORGOV0000001.topic\" title=\"United States\" id=\"ORGOV0000001\"\u003Ethe U.S.\u003C\/a\u003E border illegally with three of her children, a crossing that posed many risks. Her payoff was a job making less than $7 an hour in rural \u003Ca class=\"taxInlineTagLink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/topic\/us\/iowa-PLGEO100102200000000.topic\" title=\"Iowa\" id=\"PLGEO100102200000000\"\u003EIowa\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn paper, it sounds like a questionable business plan. Except it was a formula that meant prosperity to many in this village, the main source of labor for the \u003Ca class=\"taxInlineTagLink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/topic\/agriprocessors-inc.\/ORCRP007133.topic\" title=\"Agriprocessors, Inc.\" id=\"ORCRP007133\"\u003EAgriprocessors Inc.\u003C\/a\u003E meat-processing plant in \u003Ca class=\"taxInlineTagLink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/topic\/us\/iowa\/allamakee-county\/postville-PLGEO100101101011271.topic\" title=\"Postville\" id=\"PLGEO100101101011271\"\u003EPostville\u003C\/a\u003E, Iowa.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe pipeline -- workers going north, money flowing south -- ended when U.S. \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/chi-immigration-storygallery,0,407645.storygallery\"\u003EImmigration\u003C\/a\u003E agents raided the plant a year ago and deported hundreds of illegal workers, including Pastor.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Thank God we were able to work a little bit,\" Pastor said. \"But with a little bit more time, we could have done even more.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs with Pastor, the raid has brought the bitterness of dashed dreams to this cloistered community of 3,800, which lies up a winding gravel road dotted with peach orchards.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMen -- including several who were deported -- loiter outside straw shacks as they wait for odd jobs as farmhands. A handful of general stores, which once buzzed with daily commerce, are quiet. Several of the newer, concrete homes display \"For Sale\" signs for neighboring plots of land.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHere and elsewhere across Latin America, workers are out of jobs because of tougher U.S. \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/chi-immigration-storygallery,0,407645.storygallery\"\u003EImmigration\u003C\/a\u003E enforcement and a downturn in the American economy, according to experts. That means a dwindling of remittances sent back home, a development that holds deep implications for a region dependent on money from illegal workers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccording to 2008 data, remittances to Latin America declined in real terms for the first time since accurate data has been kept. The Inter-American Development Bank forecasts even greater declines for 2009.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe trend likely will place even greater pressure on Guatemala and other countries battling epidemics of crime. With employment opportunities bleak, out-of-work young men are prime candidates to fall into illicit activities in a country that is a key crossroads for illegal drugs into the U.S., according to local residents and experts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile supporters of tougher \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/chi-immigration-storygallery,0,407645.storygallery\"\u003EImmigration\u003C\/a\u003E enforcement warn of the harm that illegal \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/chi-immigration-storygallery,0,407645.storygallery\"\u003EImmigration\u003C\/a\u003E may cause in the U.S., American officials and international development experts worry that America's security also could suffer if pockets of poverty and instability grow in Latin America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe drop in remittances has been especially harsh in Guatemala, which relies on the cash for an estimated 12 percent of its gross domestic product. Guatemala took in about $4.3 billion in remittances last year.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe seeds of hardship already are beginning to sprout in San Jose.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe town is a bumpy 45-minute ride from the cobblestone streets of tourist hot spot Antigua, but the espresso bars and Internet cafes there seem a world away.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven in their isolation, San Jose residents used to eke out livings by growing vegetables that were exported throughout Central America, lifelong resident Mario Junech said. But soon, mostly because of overfarming, the fields lost their fertility and the markets closed. About a decade ago, the first residents found their way to Postville, followed by a typical chain of others.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJunech worked at the Postville plant, where he came to love the small-town friendliness that reminded him of home as well as new treats, such as Chinese buffets and Mexican \u003Cem class=\"i\"\u003Etaquerias\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJunech came back to San Jose about four years ago after working long enough to pay off his \"coyote,\" who smuggled him north. Once home, he built a small house and an attached general store.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJunech could make a living in San Jose by selling milk, detergent and other staples to townspeople flush with cash from the north. Since the Iowa raid, his business is down about 50 percent.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHis teenage son was among those deported from Postville, having tried to follow in father's footsteps. The son was away for a few days working in the countryside, where he makes $7 a day, about the same as an hour's wage in Postville.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe country's unrest is already hitting San Jose as residents complain of a crime wave that makes it unsafe to go out at night. Even worse, kidnappers are targeting returning immigrants, assuming they have more money than the typical resident, villagers say.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"How are you going to compare life in the United States to what a family finds here?\" Junech said. \"If God allows it, maybe one day we will return.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"mailto:oavila@tribune.com\"\u003Eoavila@tribune.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3425332224469374246\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/postville-one-year-later-day-of.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/3425332224469374246"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/3425332224469374246"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/postville-one-year-later-day-of.html","title":"Postville One Year Later: A Day of Remembrance and Action"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-7474338411439026360"},"published":{"$t":"2009-05-11T13:06:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-05-11T18:00:11.006-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Amnesty International"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"arizona"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"barack obama"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"bush"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"cheney"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Chertoff"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"immigration"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"June 20 2009"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"phoenix"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"T. Don Hutto detention facility"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"un-American practice"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"vigil"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"World Refugee Day"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"June 20, 2009 in World Refugee Day Would you personally be willing to participate with us again in a planned vigil @ the T. Don Hutto detention Ctr.?"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"SENT BY: Candela A. [Phoenix]\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGood afternoon friends...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHere's a call for solidarity...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJune 20, 2009 is the World Refugee Day...also known as the International Refugee Day.  It falls on a Saturday.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETwo years ago we collaborated with Amnesty International and dozens of other organizations held the largest protest against the imprisonment of children at the T. Don Hutto detention facility.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChildren are still imprisoned there.  Other such \"family\" prisons are in the planning stages by the Department of Homeland Security.  This immoral and un-American practice must stop.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWould you personally be willing to participate with us again in a planned vigil, on June 20th, the World Refugee Day, in solidarity with the innocent children and their mothers who are imprisoned in Hutto...to encourage the new President and new Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to put an end to the Bush-Cheney-Chertoff practices?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPresident Obama has called for an end to tyranny of Guantanamo and torture.  How about if we encourage him to bring an end to the immoral incarceration of children, asylum seekers and desperate refugees...which is being done, not for national security but \"for profit\"?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf you and are willing to join us or simply endorse this event from wherever you are, please e-mail Sarah Boone at \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/sboone@stx.rr.com\"\u003Esboone@stx.rr.com\u003C\/a\u003E or call (830)768-1100.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalling for solidarity...to free innocent children...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJay\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EP.S.  Please feel free to pass along...  jjj\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBorder Ambassadors\u003Cbr \/\u003EJay J. 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Don Hutto detention Ctr.?"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-1101961715008738907"},"published":{"$t":"2009-05-07T05:57:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-05-07T11:00:23.486-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"count"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"efca"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"figures"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"immigrants"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"list"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"lista"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"march"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"marcha"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"marchas"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"marches"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"may 1st 2009"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"may day 2009"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"mayday 2009"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"numbers"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"primero de mayo 2009"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"raids"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"totals"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"US: 90,898 TO 96,993 Demonstrators, with 63% of the actions held yet to report, took to the Streets on May Day 2009"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"With only 37% of Actions reporting, between 90,898 TO 96,993 people marched, ralied or held vigils in the United States on May Day 2009 -- 67out of 100 of the actions held in different states have yet to report numbers, amongst them are, New York, Oakland, San Diego, ect, Javier Rodriguez thinks that Sacramento already reported numbers but neither of us has them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs you can see, 3 in the cancelled event en Napa, 15 in Memphis, 100 in Hayward, with the actions in Los Angeles combined - 10,000 marched, 10,000 in Tuczon's explosion, 15,000 in Chicago or the whoping 30,000 in  Milwaukee, no matter how big or how small the turnout was, it all adds up.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBelow please find an alpha sorted list of actions where we don't have numbers, yet - pass the word around that we need to fill in the gaps, it is important because as you may remember, we got hammered by the media, even the in the Spanish-speaking one, remember what they were saying?  That people were afraid of the Swine Flu, [influenza], figures in authority were advising us to avoid large gatherings, we got reports that churches were not only telling people to stay in their home, they even cancelled their meetings, and on, and on, and on, geeeee, I wonder why.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou don't think that it has anything to do with immigrant and workers rights, eh? nah, of course not, the EFCA and Immigration Reform issues could not have anything to do with it, could they? Their being two of the most contentious issues in the US today in no way could they have shaped and framed the messages from the People in Power and the Media.... What? Are they one and the same? Ooooh, live and learn, and here I was thinking that they just loooved workers and that their primary interest was our well being, our health and welfare.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOK, satire and sarcasm aside, please help us compile the numbers, will you?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAurora Grajeda\u003Cbr \/\u003ESFCA 050709\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"masterdiv\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"menutitle\" onclick=\"SwitchMenu('sub30')\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"menutitle\" onclick=\"SwitchMenu('sub31')\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:#ff9900;\"\u003E\u003Cspan and=\"\" onmouseover=\"doRainbow(this);\" onmouseout=\"stopRainbow();\" name=\"rl\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETable 1 lists the actions which have not reported numbers, yet = 63.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cspan id=\"sub31\" class=\"submenu\"\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Ctable border=\"1\" border cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"570\" style=\"color:#FFCC00;\"\u003E   \u003Ctbody\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EBerkeley, CA Rally y Marcha - Sproul Plaza al City Hall, 11        AM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECal State Dominguez Hills: Labor and Social Justice Fair        Conference\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECalexico, May 1st Binational immigration symposium        Conference - 08:30 AM-08:30 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EChico, CA Mitin\/Marcha - City Hall, 3 - 8 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EDavis, CA Mitin y marcha - UC Davis Campus, 11 – 2        PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EFarmersville, CA - Marcha - Parque Memorial 4      PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EFort Bragg, CA - Marcha, Tienda La Bamba 9:00      AM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ELos Angeles, CA ABRIL 30 Immigrant Rights Teach In - Antioch        University 2 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EMadera, CA - Mitin, 5 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EMartinez, CA - Vigilia y marcha, Martinez Marina 5:30        PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EMendota, CA ABRIL 29 Marcha de los Niños - 10      AM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EModesto, CA - Mitin - Hatch Road\/Crow Landing, 10        AM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EModesto, CA ABRIL 29 Rally-March - Gil’s Plaza 3        PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EMountain View, CA Vigilia - The Worker Center, Calvary        Church 5 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EOakland, CA: Program at Fruitvale Plaza 3:30-4:30pm        Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum to State Capitol\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EOakland, CA: Students\/Youth MARCH to City Hall! 10:00        AM-01:00 PM GATHER at High St. and International Blvd.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ESacramento, CA - Marcha, Hiram Johnson High School a State        Capitol 10 AM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ESalinas, CA - Cuatro marchas - Constitutional y Laurel, 12        PM – 5 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ESan Diego, CA - Marcha - Chicano Park a City Hall, 10        AM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ESan Rafael, CA - Vigilia y marcha - Community Center –        Canal, 6 AM – 10 AM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ESanta Barbara, CA - Begins at 6:30pm in Presidio Springs at        721 Laguna Street\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ESanta Cruz, CA: May 1st March \u0026amp; Rally for Immigrant        \u0026amp; Worker Rights\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ESFA 'Dine with Dignity' May 1st Campus actions\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EVancouver CANADA Marcha, Solidaridad con Inmigrantes,        Migrantes e Indocumentados- Clark Park a Grandview Park 6 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECAN\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ELongmont, CO: UNITY MARCH - Detention \u0026amp; Deportation -        11:30 AM-01:30 PM - (Unconfirmed event)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECO\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EWashington D.C. ABRIL 30 100TH DAY ACTION IN DC - Detention        \u0026amp; Deportation 10:00 AM-03:00 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EDC\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EClearwater, FL. Prayer Vigil - 1366 Lakeview Rd., 9:00        pm\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EFL\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EDade City, FL. RALLY - Meridian and Seventh Street, 12:00 pm        to 2:00pm\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EFL\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EFellsmere, FL. RALLY - at City Hall, 5: pm to      7:pm\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EFL\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EFORT PIERCE, FL. RALLY - 2200 VIRGINIA AVE.- 5-7        PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EFL\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EFORT PIERCE, FL. RALLY - 2200 VIRGINIA AVE.- 5-7        PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EFL\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EGainesville, FL: Mayday Demonstration - Kirby Smith        Community Center, 620 East University Ave - 04:30 PM-06:30  PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EFL\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EImmokalee, FL, RALLY - Immokalee Community Park at 321 1st        Street North, 5:30 – 8:30 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EFL\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EOrlando, FL. RALLY - 101 N. Rosalind Ave. 4:30 to 6:00pm        (32801 Lake Eola Park)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EFL\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ESarasota, FL , Reclaim the Streets PARTY - (Meet at) 5 Ponts        Park, 3:00pm - 6:00pm\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EFL\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EWest Palm Beach, FL, Letters to Michelle Obama for Mothers        Day - Location \u0026amp; Time (Unconfirmed, TB posted later) \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EFL\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EAtlanta, GA - Begins at 10AM at the Capitol Building on        Washington Street\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EGA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EIndianapolis, IN Marcha - 5 – 9 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EIN\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EWichita, KS: May Day March - City Hall, 455 N. Main Street -        06:00 PM-08:00 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EKS\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ELouisville, KY Mitin y marcha - Courthouse a Jefferson Park        5 – 7 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EKY\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EChelsea, MA Marcha - City Hall a Central Square 2 – 5        PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EMA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EKalamazoo, MI: MayDay March - 5:00 pm, St. Joseph Gymnasium,        930 Lake St.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EMI\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EAsheville, NC - Begins at 5:30pm in Pack Square, Downtown        Asheville\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENC\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ERaleigh, NC Manifestación pasiva - Cámara        legislativa\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENC\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EElizabeth, NJ Mitin - Warinanco park 11 AM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENJ\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EAlbuquerque, NM - March Starts at 4:30pm at Holy Rosary        Church, 5525 Fortuna Road - Tiguex Park 3 – 5 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ESanta Fe, NM - Marcha - Downtown – De Vargas Park 4 – 7        PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENew York, NY - APRIL 30 Public Forum (For Publico) on the        STRIVE Act - LaGuardia Community College 1 – 2:30 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENY\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENew York, NY - MayDay Rally \u0026amp; March for Workers \u0026amp;        Immigrant Rights, Union Square 04:00 PM-06:30 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENY\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EPortland, OR March \u0026amp; Rally - South Park Blocks, SW        Salmon and SW Park, 1pm Posters \u0026amp; Party, 4pm – Speakers \u0026amp;        Entertainment \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EOR\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EPhiladelphia, PA - Elmwood Park @ South 71st St. and Buist        Ave, Southwest Philly NOON TO 2 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EPA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EPITTSBURGH, PA: - 4:00 p.m. Vigil at ALLEGHENY COUNTY JAIL,        2ND AVE - 5:00 p.m. March for Immigrants' Rights\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EPA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EProvidence, Rhode Island - Rally outside of the USCIS office        at 3:30pm\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ERI\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EEl Paso, TX - Gather at the corner of Mills and Walnut at        4:30pm and march to downtown - Placita de los Lagartos\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ETX\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EMcAllen, TX Marcha - Municipal Park 6 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ETX\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ESan Antonio, TX - Mitin y marcha, Plaza del Zacate 12 PM – 7        PM \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ETX\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EMontpelier, VT: Rally - Vermont Statehouse, 111 State St. -        12:00 PM-03:00 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EVT\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EBellingham, WA Mitin - Cornwall Park 12-6\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EWS\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EForks, WA - March, Rally, and Potluck, Saturday, May 2        Saturday, May 2 - Saturday, May 2, Starting at noon at Tillicum Park        \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EWA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EMt. Vernon, WA Mitin y marcha 11am\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EWA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EOlympia, WA BRICK’s 6th Annual May Day Hoe Down (Bust the        Banks!) @ SPSCC Gymnasium, 2011 Mottman Rd SW 7pm-Midnight\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EWA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ESeattle, WA: 9th Annual May 1st March \u0026amp; Rally - Rally        3:30PM Judkins Playfield (behind St. Marys Church)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EWA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"78%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EYakima, WA Marcha - Miller Park 3:30 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"6%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EWA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"15%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"menutitle\" onclick=\"SwitchMenu('sub30')\"\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"menutitle\" onclick=\"SwitchMenu('sub32')\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:#ff9900;\"\u003E\u003Cspan and=\"\" onmouseover=\"doRainbow(this);\" onmouseout=\"stopRainbow();\" name=\"rl\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETable 2 gives totals to date for the states and nationwide. \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cspan id=\"sub32\" class=\"submenu\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E     \u003Cp align=\"center\"\u003EMAY DAY 2009: ACTIONS', STATES' AND NATIONWIDE TOTAL NUMBERS TO DATE MAY 07, 2009\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Ctable border=\"1\" border cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"488\" style=\"color:#FFCC00;\"\u003E   \u003Ctbody\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"23%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EArizona =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E2\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EAZ Total =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E12,000\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003Eto\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E13,000\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"23%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECalifornia =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E35\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA Total =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E14,653\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003Eto\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     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style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E3,500\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"23%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EDC =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E2\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EDC Total =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr 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style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EFlorida =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E12\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EFL Total =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E340\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003Eto\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E340\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"23%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EGeorgia =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E1\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EGA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E Total \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E=\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E0\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003Eto\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E0\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"23%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EIllinois =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E1\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EIL Total =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E15,000\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003Eto\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E15,000\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"23%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EIndiana =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E1\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EIN Total =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E0\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003Eto\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E0\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"23%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EKansas =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E1\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EKS Total =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E0\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003Eto\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E0\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"23%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EKentucky =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E2\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EKY Total =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E450\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003Eto\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E500\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"23%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EMassachusetts =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E3\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EMA Total =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E1,500\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003Eto\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E1,500\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"23%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EMichigan =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr 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width=\"23%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENew Jersey =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E3\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENJ Total =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E1,000\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003Eto\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E1,050\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"23%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENew Mexico 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style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003Eto\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E0\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"23%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENew York =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E3\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENY Total =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E500\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003Eto\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E500\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"23%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENorth Carolina =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E2\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENC Total =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E0\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003Eto\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E0\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"23%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EOregon =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E2\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EOR Total =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr 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style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E1\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ETN Total =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E15\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003Eto\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E30,900\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"23%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ETexas =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E6\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       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style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E890\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"23%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EVermont =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E1\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EVT Total =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E0\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003Eto\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E0\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"23%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EWashington =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E5\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EWA Total =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E0\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003Eto\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E0\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"23%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EWisconsin =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E3\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EWI Total =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E30,700\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003Eto\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E30,900\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"23%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EGrand Total =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E99\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"23%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"18%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"14%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ETotal =\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     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onmouseover=\"doRainbow(this);\" onmouseout=\"stopRainbow();\" name=\"rl\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETable 3 shows all the actions on May Day 2009. \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cspan id=\"sub33\" class=\"submenu\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E  \u003Cp align=\"center\"\u003ENUMBERS ON INDIVIDUAL EVENTS \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Ctable border=\"1\" border cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"1\" width=\"575\" style=\"color:#FFCC00;\"\u003E   \u003Ctbody\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EAlbuquerque, NM - March Starts at 4:30pm at Holy Rosary        Church, 5525 Fortuna Road - Tiguex Park 3 – 5 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr 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style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EAsheville, NC - Begins at 5:30pm in Pack Square, Downtown        Asheville\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENC\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EAtlanta, GA - Begins at 10AM at the Capitol Building on        Washington Street\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EGA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EAustin, TX - Will be held on the State Capitol South Steps,        5 – 7:30 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ETX\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E300\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E500\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EBellingham, WA Mitin - Cornwall Park 12-6\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EWS\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EBerkeley, CA Rally y Marcha - Sproul Plaza al City Hall, 11        AM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E   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style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EBoston, MA - March and Rally - Glendale Park, Elm St.,        Everett, MA 4:30 pm - March from Central Square\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EMA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E500\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E500\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECal State Dominguez Hills: Labor and Social Justice Fair        Conference\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECalexico, May 1st Binational immigration symposium        Conference - 08:30 AM-08:30 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EChelsea, MA Marcha - City Hall a Central Square 2 – 5        PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EMA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EChicago, IL MARCH ON MAY FIRST, MARCHA EL PRIMERO DE MAYO -        Union Park, Ogden and Ashland 10:00 AM-04:00 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EIL\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E15,000\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E15,000\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr 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style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EClearwater, FL. Prayer Vigil - 1366 Lakeview Rd., 9:00        pm\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EFL\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EDade City, FL. RALLY - Meridian and Seventh Street, 12:00 pm        to 2:00pm\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EFL\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EDallas, Tejas - Marcha - Catedral Santurario de Guadalupe,        2215 Ross Ave. a Alcaldia de Dallas 6:00 p.m.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ETX\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E80\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E90\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EDavis, CA Mitin y marcha - UC Davis Campus, 11 – 2        PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EDenver, CO - 12th \u0026amp; Mariposa Lincoln Park 10 AM, Denver,        CO is only a meeting point to drive up together to the Greeley's        March\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECO\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E1,000\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E1,500\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EDetroit, MI - 4th Grand Peaceful March - W. Vernor \u0026amp;        Woodmere 10:00 AM, RALLY at Clark Park at 12:00 Noon\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EMI\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E5,000\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E5,000\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EE. Boston, MA Mitin y marcha - Boston Common 4pm, gathering        time 2:00pm - March from Chelsea City Hall, gathering time        3:00pm\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EMA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E1,000\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E1,000\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EEl Paso, TX - Gather at the corner of Mills and Walnut at        4:30pm and march to downtown - Placita de los Lagartos\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ETX\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EElizabeth, NJ Mitin - Warinanco park 11 AM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENJ\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EFarmersville, CA - Marcha - Parque Memorial 4      PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EFellsmere, FL. RALLY - at City Hall, 5: pm to      7:pm\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EFL\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EForks, WA - March, Rally, and Potluck, Saturday, May 2        Saturday, May 2 - Saturday, May 2, Starting at noon at Tillicum Park        \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EWA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EFort Bragg, CA - Marcha, Tienda La Bamba 9:00      AM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EFORT PIERCE, FL. RALLY - 2200 VIRGINIA AVE.- 5-7        PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EFL\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EFORT PIERCE, FL. RALLY - 2200 VIRGINIA AVE.- 5-7        PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EFL\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EFresno, CA Eaton Plaza March (at the water tower) Gathering        at 5:00 p.m begins at 6:00 p.m.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E250\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E250\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EGainesville, FL: Mayday Demonstration - Kirby Smith        Community Center, 620 East University Ave - 04:30 PM-06:30  PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EFL\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EGreeley, CO, May 2nd Unity March - Island Grove Park – 514        N. 14th Ave - More info 970.388.0834 or 303.887.2795\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECO\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E1,500\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E2,000\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EHAYWARD, CA - March \u0026amp; Rally - 10 a.m. Weekes Park @        27182 Patrick Ave, 10:30 - 12:30 March to City Hall, 1:30 Rally @ City        Hall\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E100\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E100\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EImmokalee, FL, RALLY - Immokalee Community Park at 321 1st        Street North, 5:30 – 8:30 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EFL\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EIndianapolis, IN Marcha - 5 – 9 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EIN\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EJersey City, NJ ABRIL 29 Rally - Journal Square 3        PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENJ\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E300\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E350\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EKalamazoo, MI: MayDay March - 5:00 pm, St. Joseph Gymnasium,        930 Lake St.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EMI\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ELas Vegas, NV: Justice for Immigrants March - 3:30 Meet-up        Commercial Center, 5:00 March to Fed. Courthouse Mitin 7 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENV\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E1,500\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E2,000\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ELongmont, CO: UNITY MARCH - Detention \u0026amp; Deportation -        11:30 AM-01:30 PM - (Unconfirmed event)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECO\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ELos Angeles, CA ABRIL 30 Immigrant Rights Teach In - Antioch        University 2 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ELos Angeles, CA March by MIWON \u0026amp; LA County Fed, 1:30 PM        Meet @ Echo Park, 4:30 PM Rally\u0026amp; postcard action @ Placita        Olvera\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E5,000\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E5,000\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ELos Angeles, CA Marcha - Cinco Puntos a City Hall 11        AM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E1,500\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E1,800\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ELos Angeles, CA Marcha - Olympic\/Broadway 12  PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E1,500\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E1,500\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ELos Angeles, CA Marcha y Mitin - 3rd\/Vermont a McArthur Park        2 – 7 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E1,000\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E1,500\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ELouisville, KY Mitin y marcha - Courthouse a Jefferson Park        5 – 7 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EKY\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ELouisville, KY: May Day Rally 11:30 AM -01:30 PM. Gather at        Courthouse (Broadway \u0026amp; 6th) - Noon: Rally at Jefferson \u0026amp;        6th\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EKY\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E450\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E500\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EMadera, CA - Mitin, 5 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EMadison WI March for the poor, immigrants \u0026amp; workers -        11:00 a.m. Gathering at Brittingham Park\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EWI\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E700\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E900\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EMartinez, CA - Vigilia y marcha, Martinez Marina 5:30        PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EMcAllen, TX Marcha - Municipal Park 6 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ETX\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EMemphis, TN - Overton Park in Veteran's Plaza, 4-6        PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ETN\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E15\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E15\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E* First Time!!!\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EMendota, CA ABRIL 29 Marcha de los Niños - 10      AM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EMIAMI, FL MAYDAY 2009 - Downtown Miami, 100 Chopin Plaza        4:00 to 7:00 pm\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EFL\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E300\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E300\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EMilwaukee, WI: Statewide Immigrant \u0026amp; Labor Rights March        - Depart from 5th and Washington Streets 12:00 PM-02:00 PM \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EWI\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E30,000\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E30,000\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EMinneapolis, MN - International Workers Day March \u0026amp;        street festival - Lake Street \u0026amp; 13th Ave S - 04:00 PM-08:00        PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EMN\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E500\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E500\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EModesto, CA - Mitin - Hatch Road\/Crow Landing, 10        AM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EModesto, CA ABRIL 29 Rally-March - Gil’s Plaza 3        PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EMontpelier, VT: Rally - Vermont Statehouse, 111 State St. -        12:00 PM-03:00 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EVT\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EMountain View, CA Vigilia - The Worker Center, Calvary        Church 5 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EMt. Vernon, WA Mitin y marcha 11am\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EWA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENAPA, CA - Vigilia \/ Vigil - Veterans Park in Napa Downtown        From 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E3\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E3\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECANCELLED\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENew Hampshire, NH - Manchester City Hall Plaza,        4pm\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENH\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E60\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E60\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENew York, NY - APRIL 30 Public Forum (For Publico) on the        STRIVE Act - LaGuardia Community College 1 – 2:30 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENY\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENew York, NY - May Day Rally for Workers and Immigrants        Rights, Union Square, 14th Street \u0026amp; Broadway 12:00 PM-07:00        PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENY\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E500\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E500\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENew York, NY - MayDay Rally \u0026amp; March for Workers \u0026amp;        Immigrant Rights, Union Square 04:00 PM-06:30 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENY\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENewark, New Jersey - Rally Starts at 11:00AM in Lincoln Park        on Broad Stree, march to 970 Broad St (Federal Immigration        Buliding)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENJ\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E700\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E700\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EOakland, CA: Program at Fruitvale Plaza 3:30-4:30pm        Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum to State Capitol\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EOakland, CA: Students\/Youth MARCH to City Hall! 10:00        AM-01:00 PM GATHER at High St. and International Blvd.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EOlympia, WA BRICK’s 6th Annual May Day Hoe Down (Bust the        Banks!) @ SPSCC Gymnasium, 2011 Mottman Rd SW 7pm-Midnight\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EWA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EOrlando, FL. RALLY - 101 N. Rosalind Ave. 4:30 to 6:00pm        (32801 Lake Eola Park)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EFL\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EPhiladelphia, PA - Elmwood Park @ South 71st St. and Buist        Ave, Southwest Philly NOON TO 2 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EPA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EPhoenix, AZ - May 2 Marcha Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum to        State Capitol 8:30 AM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EAZ\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E2,000\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E3,000\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EPITTSBURGH, PA: - 4:00 p.m. Vigil at ALLEGHENY COUNTY JAIL,        2ND AVE - 5:00 p.m. March for Immigrants' Rights\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EPA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EPortland, OR March \u0026amp; Rally - South Park Blocks, SW        Salmon and SW Park, 1pm Posters \u0026amp; Party, 4pm – Speakers \u0026amp;        Entertainment \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EOR\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EProvidence, Rhode Island - Rally outside of the USCIS office        at 3:30pm\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ERI\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ERaleigh, NC Manifestación pasiva - Cámara        legislativa\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENC\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ERiverside, CA: Immigrants \/ Workers Rights = Human Rights        Cesar Chavez Community Center on the Eastside to City Hall \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E350\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E350\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ESacramento, CA - Marcha, Hiram Johnson High School a State        Capitol 10 AM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ESalem, OR: Unity March - Rally and March for Comprehensive        Immigration Reform - Oregon State Capitol - 11:00 AM-03:00  PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EOR\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E3,000\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E3,500\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ESalinas, CA - Cuatro marchas - Constitutional y Laurel, 12        PM – 5 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ESan Antonio, TX - Mitin y marcha, Plaza del Zacate 12 PM – 7        PM \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ETX\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ESAN ANTONIO, TX: International Workers Day March - Milam        Park In Front of Santa Rosa Hospital - 06:00 PM-08:00 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ETX\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E300\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E300\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ESan Diego, CA - Marcha - Chicano Park a City Hall, 10        AM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ESan Diego, CA - Rally - City College TO Chicano Park, 3        PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E250\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E250\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ESan Francisco, CA: SF May Day March And Rally - Dolores Park        12 Noon March to Civic Center for 4 PM Rally\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E1,500\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E2,000\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ESan Jose, CA: May Day Action - Mi Pueblo Shopping Center,        Story Rd. \u0026amp; King Rd. to City Hall, 04:00 PM-06:00 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E2,800\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E3,500\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ESan Rafael, CA - Vigilia y marcha - Community Center –        Canal, 6 AM – 10 AM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ESanta Barbara, CA - Begins at 6:30pm in Presidio Springs at        721 Laguna Street\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ESanta Cruz, CA: May 1st March \u0026amp; Rally for Immigrant        \u0026amp; Worker Rights\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ESanta Fe, NM - Marcha - Downtown – De Vargas Park 4 – 7        PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ESanta Rosa, CA - Marcha - Old Albertsons Shopping Center 11        AM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E400\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E500\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ESarasota, FL , Reclaim the Streets PARTY - (Meet at) 5 Ponts        Park, 3:00pm - 6:00pm\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EFL\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ESeattle, WA: 9th Annual May 1st March \u0026amp; Rally - Rally        3:30PM Judkins Playfield (behind St. Marys Church)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EWA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ESFA 'Dine with Dignity' May 1st Campus actions\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ECA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ETampa, FL - RALLY - Corner of Dale Mabry and Columbus, 3:00        pm to 5:30 pm\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EFL\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E40\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E40\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ETucson, AZ - Marcha y mitin - South Gate Shopping Center 8        AM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EAZ\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E10,000\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"right\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E10,000\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EWashington D.C. 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Main Street -        06:00 PM-08:00 PM\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"5%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EKS\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"8%\"\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"12%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003ENo data yet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E   \u003Ctr\u003E     \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"67%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003E       \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"\u003EYakima, WA Marcha - 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WE MARCHED!!!\""},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003ENi la lluvia ni el temor nos intimidaron o acobardaron y la Influenza Porcina nos hizo lo que el Viento a Juárez - MARCHAMOS!!!\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFirst of all, I like to thank you for your help in carrying out this project of tracking the numbers in our May Day 2009 Mobilizations in the US.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is an incomplete report on the nationwide number of sisters and brothers who marched on May Day 2009, below you will find some numbers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI take the opportunity to ask you to look at the list of the events which have no data and if you know the numbers for any of those or, if you know of an event which is not listed, please let me know. (Marta Zarate mentions San Bernardino and Perris, I didn't hear of those before, I heard there was an action in Utah but I have not been able to get numbers - Videos have been also hard to come by, I found some that I'm sharing with you and that you can view on the sidebar's FLV Video Player, I know of a couple more that will be added with the ones that I find in the coming days)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn one side, it has been very difficult to compile the numbers, on the other, it has been a very rewarding and fulfilling project, thanks to the opportunity to talk to so many people all across the country coupled to the emails I've received, they have rewarded and re-invigorated me.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA common view and feeling was that, albeit lower turnouts than in previous years, the fact of the matter is that, incomplete as the numbers are, tens of thousands of us marched, rallied or had a vigil for a just and humane cause, that is so much needed for the good of the country and society as a whole, that we had to deal with a Swine Flu [AH1N1] 'campaign of panic'  waged in and by the corporatist media, the rain that fell on our heads, a workday and for many, a payday, we did good and if I might add, we've only just began, furthermore on a personal level, the wonderful people I talked to so far, planted in my mind the idea that what we did elevated our actions to subliminal heights.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe rain felt good and energizing, in San Francisco it was a beautiful day, it was raining but it wasn't cold and there was no wind, we had a lot of fun marching, we had a good number of people to start with and along the way more people joined in, while some people were kind of disappointed that many of us left at the conclusion of the March, I didn't, we had a Rally at Dolores Park and a great March, the latter was the main reason why we came out and it was to march, according to the people who were leaving too, it felt good how we braved the misinformation they fed us and the paranoia on the AH1N1 OUTBREAK they attempted to implant on us, in spite of all that, we didn't buy their crap.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESeriously, the numbers on the cases that they give us, do not match the alarming message they send out, plus let's not forget that in the United States alone, 35,000 people a year die of common flu related causes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETake heart, with 31 events that I have numbers for, I get this nationwide total estimates, a Low of 48,213 and a High of 54,808.\u003Cbr \/\u003EI'd like to remind you that we had aprox. 99 events nationwide and about two thirds have not reported numbers yet.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThank you all.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI know that I'm not the only one who feels the frustration at the lack of readily available information on our actions, I looked for videos and photos which contained panoramic views of the gatherings to have a chance of counts by averaging grids, much as I searched, there is little of it out there this time - in terms of videos, I got the impression that the regressive anti-immigrant types did take more video than we did.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETherefore, it seems to me that we need to do a better job at covering our events, in the past there have been controversies on the numbers that the police gives and the media releases, we all know that they regularly deflate the numbers and I have to admit that some of us inflate them on occasion.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI believe that it couldn't be too difficult that when we organize an event, much as each of us takes on commitments in groups such as, fundraising, outreach, logistics, program, press, etc., a few organizers could volunteer to learn, or device a way, to count crowds while others would take panoramic-view photos and video in addition to the ones we take to capture the sights and feeling of the crowd.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd, we must absoultely improve our nationwide communications to our networks, that I'm confident will expand, as a matter of fact, it is already happening according to people that I contacted about the numbers of attendees at the events.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf you find strange that Napa CA is listed as CANCELED and you see that 3 people showed up, well, there is a nice and warm story behind it, Marisa Loza, one of the organizers of that action and who provides Immigration Services in that City, was concerned that some people might show up after all, it so happens that during her outreach efforts, she told everybody she talked to, that she'd be there, since it was a last-minute cancellation, she felt that she would feel awful if some people who didn't get the last minute notice, showed up only to find the place empty, it was raining so she dressed accordingly, took her umbrella and went there where she was joined by two people, they waited for almost an hour under the rain until they felt sure nobody else would show up.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfterwards, they went to a cafe where they found a poetry reading session, they heard this young man, a teenager, recite one of his own powerful pro immigrant poems, Marisa went to talk to him for awhile and, always and activist organizer, asked him if it was O.K. to contact him to be a speaker in the next event they hold, he said yes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOh yeah, about the 3 people listed, as I told Marisa, you and two other people were there, therefore, that makes 3 attendees.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E(There are other not so uplifting turns and twists to the Napa story, but I should let the people involved tell it themselves and in their own time, all I can tell you is that it is about lack of democratic decision making and communication)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJavier Rodríguez, Coalición 25 De Marzo Director, in an email via my friend Candela A. from Phoenix, shares some info and thoughts with us, some of his numbers do not completely match the ones I have, I just received the email late last night and any corrections and\/or incorporations I do, will be updated later on today on the post:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\"In San Bernardino we expected a lot more people to join our caravan and we failed, precisely because of the famous flu, the caravan of Perris the same. CHURCHES OUTHERE ANNOUNCED IN their Mass about not going out, not go to where there were many people, ETC, FURTHERMORE, THEY CANCELLED ALL THE MEETINGS OF THE CHURCHES\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E--- Rosa Martha Zarate Braceros of The North\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJavier gives us a little rundown on what info he has and also gives his analytical rundown on the questions out there and that we all have heard:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EDefinitely there are several criteria on reading May 1st 2009. In Los Angeles, the approximate combined total for all the protests were around 10,000. Understanding that organizational and political conditions are not accurate for each city or region, not bad if you read the results at the national level. In Texas were 7 to 10 cities and in San Antonio only 300 arrived (Ruben Solis),  there is where the first fatality for swine influenza happened. In the past, the movement there has been strong immigrant mobilizations of up to 75,000 protesters. Colorado, which has also raised 75,000 a few came out in Greeley. Chicago, with a pact of unity, according to one of the factions, they reached 15,000 and still no panoramic photos of the event. In San Francisco, the capital of progressive trade unionism and politics in the Southwest, there were hundreds. But the small city of Tucson exploded with 10,000 according to compañeros. In Detroit was not bad either with 5,000 and still we don't have the results of other major metropolis like New York. We don't have the nationwide total either, but the political impact of the process, during the journey on a national level, peeked in various instances and the first indicator after the 1st, emerged with a strong editorial in the NY Times.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI don't know where did Javier got the numbers from SF, the people I asked with the exception of one who said hundreds, said numbers at the very least above 1,500 - Finally, one of the comrades I asked, promised last night to send me a panoramic photo he took so I can have a good look and get a better feel for the SF numbers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHere are a few things I was told:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EHola Aurora -\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe had about 300 in Miami...wish it was bigger, but it was great to unite unions and the struggle for legalization. :)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Solidarity,\u003Cbr \/\u003EKatherine\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EI'd say in Memphis there were a good 15 people. Nice turnout for us--first time!!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETake care,\u003Cbr \/\u003ESally.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMark from Miami writes:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E.Our best guess is between 250 and 300, much smaller than we were\u003Cbr \/\u003Eexpecting. Still, it was bigger than last year, and in the heart of\u003Cbr \/\u003Edowntown Miami, where the right-wing Cubans have run things for so\u003Cbr \/\u003Elong.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/460\/story\/1028514.html\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/460\/story\/1028514.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA sample of how the media tends to deflate the numbers:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EAurora-\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor the event we put on in NJ, AP says 225.  FIRM blog has it at 700.  Probably more like 300-350.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELou.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA very dear friend of mine who is a Mexica Dancer (Aztec), send me her number of the Rally in Hayward and a bit more info:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003Ehi, when we got there around 1:30 there were maybe 100 people around, i'm not good at counting, just sitting there like they were waiting for something.  it had been raining all morning.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Eso i talked to ramon, our contact, and we started; i drummed and we had 3 dancers.  there were about 20 kids from tennyson, which is where we practice, so they were excited to see us (though can't ever get those teens to go to practica).  much smaller than previous years and they didn't have a mic or anything.  i thought there would be people giving speeches or something, but when we left it seemed like they were waiting for something. (we had to leave right away to p\/u kids from school).\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehope this helps you.\u003Cbr \/\u003Esf\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAdel from the Silicon Valley \/ San Jose March also with a glimpse of what the media does when reporting numbers and why we need to get going and do a better job at documenting our actions ourselves:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EMedia reported 1K, but I think it was 3K. We walked a very busy street and it only got bigger as we proceeded..\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWell done but I'm confident that in the next mobilization we will do waaaay better.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Fraternal Solidarity,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAurora Grajeda\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESFCA 050609\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"masterdiv\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"menutitle\" onclick=\"SwitchMenu('sub30')\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"menutitle\" onclick=\"SwitchMenu('sub31')\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:#ff9900;\"\u003E\u003Cspan and=\"\" onmouseover=\"doRainbow(this);\" onmouseout=\"stopRainbow();\" name=\"rl\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETable 1 shows the numbers that I got so far, it is sorted first by State and then by City, I believe it lists 31 events out of more than one hundred that took place..\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cspan id=\"sub31\" class=\"submenu\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CDIV\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable style=\"color: rgb(204, 255, 153);\" align=\"center\" border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"1\" width=\"568\"\u003E \u003Ctbody\u003E \u003Ctr\u003E \u003Ctd height=\"16\" width=\"50%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003EPhoenix, AZ - 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Actually, they appear to\u003Cbr \/\u003Ebelieve that the GOP simply needs to change its image, as opposed to\u003Cbr \/\u003Efundamentally changing the party itself.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETranslated, this means that it has been determined by some GOPers that\u003Cbr \/\u003Eits Guns, Gays  \u0026amp; God message has to change. On the other hand, many\u003Cbr \/\u003Eothers seem to think the new message has to include: Gohome! Enter the\u003Cbr \/\u003ENational Council for a New America (NCNA); its primary objective seems\u003Cbr \/\u003Eto be to determine whether the party traditionally identified as in\u003Cbr \/\u003Etouch with the rich and traditionally identified as a war party, will\u003Cbr \/\u003Ealso become a European-style anti-immigrant party. 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The decision limits efforts to prosecute illegal workers.\"\u003C\/cite\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/supreme-court-rules-against-government.html\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003ESupreme Court rules against government in immigration  identity-theft case\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E -- \u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EVia: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-court-identity5-2009may05,0,7732350.story\"\u003ELos  Angeles Times\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EIt was about time the US Supreme Court Ruled on  this harmful issue which has been used so maliciously and has caused so much  harm.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EAnd this brings so many different angles, least of  it is how workers who are undocumented and have forged documents will be  considered if and when, there is an Immigration Reform Proposal, on the 2007  STRIVE ACT there was a clause where people who committed a crime were not  eligible for legalization, this posed the reality that since in order to survive  by working, undocumented immigrants had to procure some type of documents to  have a chance at being hired - and so many did, I'd venture that the number is  in the millions that would be automatically excluded for consideration and if  things don't change, summarily deported and bringing terror and anguish to their  families - the separation of families - the violation to the constitutional  rights of US born children with undocumented parent\/s, the list is so  long.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cblockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\"\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/24ahead.com\/blog\/archives\/006974.html\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EJudge Michael Bennett: using false identity results in no deportation  order\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \"\u003Cem\u003EI'm sure there are hundreds or thousands of U.S. citizens  in prisons for purchasing birth certificates of those who died as children,  assuming their identities, and then obtaining other identity documents such as  SSN cards and passports. However, I guess there were \"mitigating circumstances\"  in this \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/news\/oregonian\/index.ssf?\/base\/news\/1188010542311670.xml\u0026amp;coll=7\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ecase\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E:\"  \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAugust 2007 \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EIdentity Theft carries a mandatory 2 year  prison sentence when in the commission of a felony\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cblockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\"\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E \"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETASHIMA, Senior  Circuit Judge. Defendant-Appellant Cori A. Godin challenges her conviction for  aggravated identity theft under 18 U.S.C. § 1028A(a)(1). The statute adds a  mandatory two-year term of imprisonment to that otherwise provided for certain  enumerated felonies if, “during and in relation to” the felony, the perpetrator  “knowingly transfers, possesses, or uses, without lawful authority, a means of  identification of another person.” 18 U.S.C. § 1028A(a)(1). The question before  this court is how far the “knowingly” mens rea requirement extends. [\u003C\/em\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/caselaw.lp.findlaw.com\/cgi-bin\/getcase.pl?court=1st\u0026amp;navby=docket\u0026amp;no=072332\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EFind Law\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E ]\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003EAt present, I don't have the 'Statutory  Construction' for simply using false documents or ID, that is, without the  commission of a felony and \u003Cem\u003E\"being in this country without papers is a civil  violation, not a crime\"\u003C\/em\u003E as \u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca title=\"View all stories by Joshua Holland\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/bloggers\/joshua\/\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJoshua  Holland\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E, at \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/bloggers\/www.alternet.org\/138630\/www.alternet.org\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlterNet\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E says  when asking this question \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/bloggers\/www.alternet.org\/138630\/\"\u003E\"Could  Anti-Immigrant Bloggers Be Any More Ignorant?\"\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003EIn any event, this is was good day for Judicial Jurisprudence, for the  millions who are trying to survive and, possibly, have a chance at a  better future for them and their families and above all, for Society as a whole  because how we threat the less fortunate than us, speaks volumes as to who and  what we are.\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003EAurora\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E            \u003Cdiv class=\"storybyline\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 15px ! important; color: rgb(153, 153, 153) ! important; font-weight: bold;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 153, 102);\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"storybyline\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 15px ! important; color: rgb(153, 153, 153) ! important; font-weight: bold;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 153, 102);\"\u003EBy David G. Savage     \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 153, 102);\"\u003E9:20 AM PDT, May 4, 2009\u003C\/span\u003E     \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"storybody\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"storybody\"\u003EReporting Form Washington -- The Supreme Court today took away one tool for prosecuting and deporting workers who are in this country illegally, ruling that the crime of identity theft is limited to those who knew they had stolen another person's Social Security number.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe 9-0 decision overturns part of an Illinois man's conviction for using false documents.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E             \u003Cdiv class=\"storybody\"\u003E The court agreed he could be imprisoned for using an ID card he knew was false, but it also said he could not be charged with a felony of \"aggravated identity theft\" because he did not know he was using someone's Social Security number.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELast year, immigration officials in the Bush administration had rounded up hundreds of illegal workers at several plants and charged them with \"aggravated identity theft.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFacing such a serious charge, many agreed to plead guilty and be deported.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E    \u003Cdiv class=\"storybody\"\u003E The lesser charge of using false documents is not a felony and does not trigger an automatic deportation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn today's opinion in Flores-Figueroa vs. United States, the court cited the words of the identity theft law. It refers to a person who \"knowingly\" uses the means of identification \"of another person.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDuring the oral argument in the case, the justices were told that about half of all the possible combinations of nine-digit Social Security numbers have been used at some time.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIgnacio Flores-Figueroa, a citizen of Mexico, said he had bought a set of false documents in Chicago and used them to work at a steel plant in East Moline, Ill. His employer later reported him to immigration authorities. He was charged with entering the country illegally, using false documents and aggravated identity theft. Only the latter charge was at issue in the Supreme Court.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJustice Stephen G. Breyer said that in most cases of identity theft, the defendant sets out to steal someone's identity so to take money from their accounts. 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style=\";font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E      \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003EEl  columnista y conductor de radio es un inmigrante mexicano gay radicado en  Estados Unidos desde 1990. De recién llegado tuvo que empezar de cero. Lavó  platos y trabajo en lo que pudo hasta colocarse profesionalmente.  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003EEn el  2002 vivió quizás el reto más grande del hombre gay: pusieron al descubierto su  orientación sexual en un programa de radio sin su consentimiento.  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003EHernández  demandó a la corporación y la Corte dictaminó a su favor tres años después y  desde entonces, él se enfoca en educar a su comunidad contra los  estereotipos.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E \u003Ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"67%\"\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:85%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003ESan  Francisco, CA (29 de Abril del 2009) - Roberto Hernández, la única personalidad  de medios hispanos abiertamente gay en el Norte de California recibe un  importante premio de periodismo de parte de la Alianza Contra la Difamación de  Gays y Lesbianas, GLAAD por sus siglas en Inglés, por su trabajo como columnista  de periódico respecto al controvertido tema del matrimonio entre personas del  mismo sexo, particularmente la propuesta 8, publicado en Alianza Metropolitan  News con base en San José.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELos Premios GLAAD a los medios de comunicación  reconocen lo mejor de las imagenes veraces, objetivas e influyentes de la  comunidad lésbica, gay, bisexual y transgénero (LGBT) y los asuntos que afectan  las vidas de estas comunidades.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Este reconocimiento reafirma mi visión  de un mundo donde cada vez hay más aceptación del ser humano, con sus  similitudes y diferencias,\" dice Roberto Hernández y agrega  \"significa un  incentivo personal y profesional para seguir luchando por lo que creo: la  igualdad y la justicia.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDesde el 2007, Hernández además produce y  conduce \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.robertoalmediodia.com\/\"\u003E\"Roberto al Mediodía,\"\u003C\/a\u003E  en \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.marcosgutierrez.com\/english\"\u003EKIQI 1010 \u003C\/a\u003Eam. Su estilo  atrevido y directo lo convierte en una importante voz no sólo para la comunidad  gay hispano-hablante, sino para la comunidad Latina e inmigrante.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELa  columna que le valió el premio de GLAAD es sobre la propuesta 8.  \"Aunque yo no  creo en el matrimonio, considero que casarse es un derecho también de las  parejas del mismo sexo. La religión nos ha hecho mucho daño al juzgar duramente  a los seres humanos bajo sus reglas de lo normal y lo anormal, por eso la  escribí,\" dice el premiado.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EPara  entrevistarlo, comuníquese directamente a Robertoalmediodí\u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT34\"\u003Ea@yahoo.com\u003C\/span\u003E. ó al 415-517-2948. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EAdjunto: Columna y Foto de Roberto  Hernández.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:85%;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"images-1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/5be592fffb-custmedia.vresp.com\/library\/1241136168\/a03985979d\/images-1.jpg\" 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\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan id=\"sub32\" class=\"submenu\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResolución de la \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nahp.org\/About_NAHP\/index.asp\"\u003EAsociación Nacional de Publicaciones Hispanas (NAHP)\u003C\/a\u003E Respecto a las Redadas y Acciones Ejecutorias del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECONSIDERANDO QUE la Asociación Nacional de Publicaciones Hispanas (NAHP) es una organización que representa a las principales publicaciones en idioma español que sirven a 41 mercados en 39 estados, el Distrito de Columbia y Puerto Rico, con una circulación combinada de más de 23 millones,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECONSIDERANDO QUE nuestra misión incluye servir y capacitar a las comunidades hispanas,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECONSIDERANDO QUE creemos contundentemente que las redadas de inmigración no resolverán el problema de la inmigración de indocumentados,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECONSIDERANDO QUE la NAHP ha exhortado al Congreso a promulgar una reforma amplia de inmigración que ofrezca un camino a la ciudadanía para aproximadamente 12 millones de inmigrantes indocumentados forzados a vivir en la sombra,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECONSIDERANDO QUE las redadas y otras acciones ejecutorias del DHS provocan la separación de niños ciudadanos de los Estados Unidos y sus familias,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECONSIDERANDO QUE las acciones ejecutorias del DHS violan frecuentemente los derechos de las enmiendas Cuarta y Quinta de la Constitución de los Estados Unidos,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESE DETERMINA QUE LA ASOCIACION NACIONAL DE PUBLICACIONES HISPANAS (NAHP) exhorta al Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS) y a la administración del Presidente Obama a:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECesar la ejecución de redadas en sitios de trabajo y residenciales,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EConcentrar las actividades ejecutorias del DHS en la protección de la población americana, enfocándose en personas que han cometido delitos serios, tráfico de dinero, armas y drogas en ambos lados de la frontera México-americana, y personas perjudiciales, y no en ejecutar acciones que separen familias,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEliminar el programa de Operaciones Fugitivas, que ya no cumple con el objetivo inicial de aprehender delincuentes,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERealizar todas sus acciones ejecutorias de manera que los agentes solamente aprehendan a los objetivos de sus investigaciones y cesen los “arrestos colaterales”,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEliminar las cuotas de arrestos de los agentes, que han originado violaciones a los derechos legales de la población,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAcreditar a los agentes únicamente por el número de aprehensiones de los objetivos de las acciones, y no acreditarlos por el número de arrestos colaterales, Y,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EApoyar los esfuerzos para reducir verdaderamente la cantidad de inmigración de indocumentados mediante la promulgación de una reforma amplia de inmigración.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EQue el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS) elimine las redadas en lugares de trabajo y residenciales.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHistorial de la Asociación Nacional de Publicaciones Hispanas (NAHP). La NAHP fue fundada en 1982 para promover las publicaciones en idioma español, el medio más efectivo para llegar a la creciente comunidad hispana. La afiliación está disponible para periódicos y revistas en idioma español y de propiedad hispana.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeográficamente, los miembros de la NAHP abarcan todo el país, concentrándose en áreas de población hispana considerable. Los miembros de la NAHP producen anualmente más de 15 billones de páginas de información. NUESTRA MISION: En aras de la excelencia, reconocimiento y uso de las publicaciones hispanas, proveemos acceso a las oportunidades de desarrollo professional para servir más apropiadamente y capacitar a las comunidades hispanas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Chr color=\"red\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResolution of \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nahp.org\/About_NAHP\/index.asp\"\u003EThe National Association of Hispanic Publications (NAHP)\u003C\/a\u003E on Raids and Enforcement Actions of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWHEREAS the National Association of Hispanic Publications (NAHP) is a organization representing the leading Spanish language publications serving 41 markets in 39 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, with a combined circulation of over 23 million,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWHEREAS our mission includes serving and empowering the Hispanic communities,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWHEREAS we strongly believe that immigration raids will not solve the problem of undocumented immigration,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWHEREAS NAHP has urged Congress to enact comprehensive immigration reform that offers a path to citizenship to the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants forced to live in the shadows,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWHEREAS raids and other DHS enforcement actions result in separating United States citizen children from their families,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWHEREAS DHS enforcement actions often violate persons' fourth and fifth amendment rights under the United States Constitution,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBE IT RESOLVED THAT THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HISPANIC PUBLICATIONS (NAHP) urges the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the administration of President Obama to:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECease conducting worksite and residential raids,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EConcentrate DHS enforcement activity to protect the American people, by focusing on persons who have committed serious crimes, the trafficking of money, arms, and drugs on both sides of the Mexican-United States border, and persons who would do us harm, and not conduct actions that separate families,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEnd the Fugitive Operations program which no longer is accomplishing its initial goal of apprehending criminals,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EConduct all its enforcement actions in a manner in which agents only apprehend the target of the investigations and cease to make “collateral arrests”,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEliminate arrest quotas for agents, which have resulted in violations of people's legal rights,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECredit agents only for the number of apprehensions of the targets of the action, and not crediting them with the numbers of collateral arrests, AND,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESupport efforts to truly reduce the number of undocumented immigrations by enacting comprehensive immigration reform.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to end worksite and residential raids,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBackground on the National Association of Hispanic Publications (NAHP. NAHP was founded in 1982 to promote Spanish language publications, the most effective medium to reach the fast growing Hispanic community. Membership is open to Spanish language and Hispanic owned newspapers and magazines.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeographically, NAHP members span the country, with a concentration in areas of large Hispanic populations. NAHP members produce over 15 billion pages of information annually. 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(Links to info-source-sites and, or contacts would be very helpful and very much appreciated - TXs!)\u003C\/cite\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003E(Latest additions: Fort Pierce FL, Forks WA, Memphis TN and Dallas TX)\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENo May Day Action in your city? Or, you just can't make it to one?\u003Cbr \/\u003EJoin the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2009\/4\/30\/154323\/385\"\u003EVirtual May Day Immigration Reform March\u003C\/a\u003E, May 1 March Location \u0026amp; Immigration Reform Updates\u003Cbr \/\u003Eby ufw\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Ci\u003EMore info on these events in this list will be added as it becomes available, this list will be updated up to where we feel it is correct.\u003Cbr \/\u003E(Last update: 05\/03\/09 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMas información sobre estos eventos serán añadida a como se vaya sabiendo, esta lista será actualizada hasta que sentamos que es correcta.\u003Cbr \/\u003EActualizado: 05\/03\/09 12:00 p.m. Tiempo del Pacifico)\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca name=\"top\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.immigrantsolidarity.org\/\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.immigrantsolidarity.org\/MayDay2009\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/383956711.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOur thanks to: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.anewdayforimmigration.org\/\"\u003EA New Day For Immigration\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.radiobilingue.org\/inmigrantes\/noticias\/nl_070428.htm\"\u003ERadio Bilingue\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/peaceandfreedom.org\/home\/events-calendar\/466-may-day-2009-events\"\u003EThe Peace and Freedom Party\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.burningcane.org\/2009\/04\/may-day-2009.html\"\u003EBurning Cane\u003C\/a\u003E - For their combined help in compiling this list.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"#abreviatedlist\"\u003E(Click for Abreviated list of MayDay 2009 events in Ascending Alpha Order)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlbuquerque, New Mexico\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarch Starts at 4:30pm at Holy Rosary Church, 5525 Fortuna Road\u003Cbr \/\u003ETiguex Park\u003Cbr \/\u003E3 – 5 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003EContact: Rachel Lazar\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAsheville North Carolina\u003Cbr \/\u003EBegins at 5:30pm in Pack Square, Downtown Asheville\u003Cbr \/\u003EAda Colkmer - \u003Ca href=\"mailto:adacolkmer@colawnc.org\"\u003Eadacolkmer@colawnc.org\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAtlanta Georgia\u003Cbr \/\u003EBegins at 10AM at the Capitol Building on Washington Street\u003Cbr \/\u003EContact: Adelina Nicholls \u003Ca href=\"mailto:adelinan@aol.com\"\u003Eadelinan@aol.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAustin, Texas\u003Cbr \/\u003EMitin \/ Rally\u003Cbr \/\u003ECapitolio estatal - Will be held on the State Capitol South Steps\u003Cbr \/\u003E5 – 7:30 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003EContact: Caroline Keating-Guerra, \u003Ca href=\"mailto:austinirc@gmail.com\"\u003Eaustinirc@gmail.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBellingham, Washington\u003Cbr \/\u003EMitin\u003Cbr \/\u003ECornwall Park\u003Cbr \/\u003E12-6\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBerkeley\u003Cbr \/\u003ERally y Marcha\u003Cbr \/\u003ESproul Plaza al City Hall\u003Cbr \/\u003E11 AM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBoston - March and Rally\u003Cbr \/\u003ETake the day off on May 1! Join the BMDC contingent!\u003Cbr \/\u003EFriday, May 1, 2009\u003Cbr \/\u003EGlendale Park, Elm St., Everett, MA 4:30 pm\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarch from Central Square,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003EEast Boston, gathering time 2:00 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarch from Chelsea City Hall, gathering time 3:00 PM\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis event is organized by the May 1st. Coalition of Chelsea, East Boston \u0026amp; Everett and supported by: The Boston May Day Committee.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/www.bostonmayday.org\"\u003Ewww.bostonmayday.org\u003C\/a\u003E - 617-290-5614\u003Cbr \/\u003EContact: Marcony Almeida - \u003Ca href=\"mailto:malmeida@miracoalition.org\"\u003Emalmeida@miracoalition.org\u003C\/a\u003E OR Sarang Sekhvat - \u003Ca href=\"mailto:ssekhvat@miracoalition.org\"\u003Essekhvat@miracoalition.org\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECal State Dominguez Hills: Labor and Social Justice Fair Conference\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia Labor \u0026amp; Workers\u003Cbr \/\u003E12:00 PM-09:00 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003EFriday, May 1st.\u003Cbr \/\u003EApril 16, 2009 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.csudh.edu\/univadv\/Newsroom\/2009\/DH09_ABS31.html\"\u003ELabor Leader, UFW Co-Founder Dolores Huerta to Open Labor and Social Justice Fair at CSU Dominguez Hills \u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalexico, May 1st Binational immigration symposium Conference\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia\u003Cbr \/\u003EImmigrant Rights\u003Cbr \/\u003E08:30 AM-08:30 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/imperialvalleynews.com\/index.php?option=com_content\u0026amp;task=view\u0026amp;id=4476\u0026amp;Itemid=2\"\u003EMentor Program Promotes Student-Faculty Cooperation at SDSU, IVC\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChelsea, Massachussetts\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarcha\u003Cbr \/\u003ECity Hall a Central Square\u003Cbr \/\u003E2 – 5 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChicago, IL: MARCH ON MAY FIRST, MARCHA EL PRIMERO DE MAYO\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnion Park, Ogden and Ashland\u003Cbr \/\u003E10:00 AM-04:00 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003EContact: \u003Ca href=\"mailto:comite10demarzo@gmail.com\"\u003Ecomite10demarzo@gmail.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMore information at \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.movimiento10demarzo.org\/\"\u003Ewww.movimiento10demarzo.org\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChico, CA\u003Cbr \/\u003EMitin\/Marcha\u003Cbr \/\u003ECity Hall\u003Cbr \/\u003E3 – 8 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EClearwater, FL  - RALLY\u003Cbr \/\u003ELocation:  1366 Lakeview Rd., Clearwater, FL 33756\u003Cbr \/\u003EDate:  May 1th\u003Cbr \/\u003ETime:   9:00 pm\u003Cbr \/\u003ESpoke Persons:\u003Cbr \/\u003ERev. Moises\u003Cbr \/\u003ERev. Feliz Pérez\u003Cbr \/\u003ERev. Nancy Mayeux\u003Cbr \/\u003EJuan Pablo Chávez\u003Cbr \/\u003EParticipants Organizations: Iglesia el Shadai, El Calvario, Florida Immigrant Coalition, , Pinellas Immigrant Coalition, Justice for our Neighbors a program of United Methodist Church.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.floridaimmigrant.org\/\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.floridaimmigrant.org\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDallas, Tejas - Marcha\u003Cbr \/\u003E6 p.m. del viernes 1 de mayo\u003Cbr \/\u003ELa marcha inicia en la Catedral Santurario de Guadalupe, 2215 Ross Ave., hacia la Alcaldia de Dallas\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Marcha: La Coalicion Internacional de Mexicanos en el Exterior invita a la comunidad a una marcha para exigir una moratoria a las deportaciones de personas sin\u003Cbr \/\u003Eantecedentes criminales en la region y pedir una reforma migratoria.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDade City, FL  - RALLY\u003Cbr \/\u003ELocation: Meridian and Seventh Street\u003Cbr \/\u003EDate:  Friday, May 1th\u003Cbr \/\u003ETime: 12:00 pm to 2:00pm\u003Cbr \/\u003ESpoke Persons:  Margarita Romo\u003Cbr \/\u003EParticipants Organizations: Farmer Workers Self Help\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.floridaimmigrant.org\/\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.floridaimmigrant.org\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDavis, CA\u003Cbr \/\u003EMitin y marcha\u003Cbr \/\u003EUC Davis Campus\u003Cbr \/\u003E11 – 2 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDenver, CO\u003Cbr \/\u003ENOTE: \u003Ccite\u003EDenver, CO is only a meeting point for people to drive up together to the Greeley Co. In other words, the Denver event is not a march..the statewide march is in Greeley CO.\u003C\/cite\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E12th \u0026amp; Mariposa Lincoln Park\u003Cbr \/\u003E10 AM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDetroit MI: 4th Grand Peaceful March\u003Cbr \/\u003E10:00 AM, Start at W. Vernor \u0026amp; Woodmere\u003Cbr \/\u003ERALLY at Clark Park at 12:00 Noon\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEl Paso, Texas\u003Cbr \/\u003EGather at the corner of Mills and Walnut at 4:30pm and march to downtown - Placita de los Lagartos\u003Cbr \/\u003EContact: Marisol Miranda \u003Ca href=\"mailto:mrslmiranda@yahoo.com\"\u003Emrslmiranda@yahoo.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EElizabeth, New Jersey\u003Cbr \/\u003EMitin\u003Cbr \/\u003EWarinanco park\u003Cbr \/\u003E11 AM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFarmersville, CA\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarcha\u003Cbr \/\u003EParque Memorial\u003Cbr \/\u003E4 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFellsmere, FL - RALLY\u003Cbr \/\u003ELocation:  at City Hall\u003Cbr \/\u003EDate:  Friday, May 1th\u003Cbr \/\u003ETime: 5: pm to 7:pm\u003Cbr \/\u003ESpoke Persons:  Yolanda Gomez\u003Cbr \/\u003EParticipants Organizations: The Farmer Association of Florida, Voices of Justice\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.floridaimmigrant.org\/\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.floridaimmigrant.org\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EForks, WA - March, Rally, and Potluck\u003Cbr \/\u003ESaturday, May 2\u003Cbr \/\u003EStarting at noon at Tillicum Park\u003Cbr \/\u003EOrganized by: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.socialism.com\/whatsnew\/checkpoint_protest.html\"\u003EStop the Checkpoints Committee of the North Olympic Peninsula\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDear Aurora,\u003Cbr \/\u003EPlease include our May Day March, Rally, and Potluck in Forks, Washington, on Saturday, May 2, starting at noon at Tillicum Park.\u003Cbr \/\u003EThanks for putting this list together.  It is very energizing!\u003Cbr \/\u003ESusan Dorazio, on behalf of the Stop the Checkpoints Committee of the North Olympic Peninsula.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPast actions: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.labournet.net\/antiracism\/0809\/checkpoints1.html\"\u003ESTOP the CHECKPOINTS Rally \u0026amp; March\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ci\u003E(Saturday, Sept. 20, 2008 at 1:00pm)\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFORT PIERCE, FL. - RALLY\u003Cbr \/\u003ELocation: 2200 VIRGINIA AVE.\u003Cbr \/\u003EDate: Friday, May 1th\u003Cbr \/\u003ETime: 5-7 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003ESpoke Persons: José Cabriales o Irma Cabriales\u003Cbr \/\u003EParticipants Organizations: Florida Immigrant Coalition, Latin Chambers of Commerce,LAC (Latin american Coalition) Centro Pastoral San Juan Diego, Iglecia Missionera 'UN ENCUENTRO CON JESUS' (Pastor Favio Ocampo) Haitian American Assoc. (Mrs. Bernadette)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.floridaimmigrant.org\/\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.floridaimmigrant.org\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFresno, CA\u003Cbr \/\u003EFriday, May 1, 2009\u003Cbr \/\u003EGathering at 5:00 p.m.\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarch begins at 6:00 p.m.\u003Cbr \/\u003EEaton Plaza (at the water tower)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/c3hqdq\"\u003EFresno Street and \"O\" Street\u003C\/a\u003E, Fresno, CA\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFresno, CA\u003Cbr \/\u003EMitin y marcha\u003Cbr \/\u003ECentro Civico - Fulton Mall\u003Cbr \/\u003E4 - 8 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFort Bragg, CA\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarcha\u003Cbr \/\u003ETienda La Bamba\u003Cbr \/\u003E9:00 AM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGainesville, FL: Mayday Demonstration\u003Cbr \/\u003EKirby Smith Community Center, 620 East University Ave.\u003Cbr \/\u003E04:30 PM-06:30 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGreeley, CO: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/colorado.indymedia.org\/node\/1645\"\u003EUnity March for Immigrants Rights!\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003ESaturday, May 2nd, 2009\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStarts at the Island Grove Park – 514 N. 14th Ave, Greeley, Colorado\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor More Information: \u003Ca href=\"mailto:alfrentedelucha@gmail.com\"\u003Ealfrentedelucha@gmail.com\u003C\/a\u003E, 970.388.0834 or 303.887.2795 OR,\u003Cbr \/\u003EJulien Ross - \u003Ca href=\"mailto:julien@coloradoimmigrant.org\"\u003Ejulien@coloradoimmigrant.org\u003C\/a\u003E OR Alonzo Barron \u003Ca href=\"mailto:zo_aztec35@hotmail.com\"\u003Ezo_aztec35@hotmail.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDenver! Meet at one of these points to Caravan or take a Bus to Greeley at 9:30 AM, Saturday, May 2nd, 2009!\u003Cbr \/\u003EAurora—16th \u0026amp; Dallas or Denver —12th \u0026amp; Mariposa (Lincoln Park)\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou are welcome to bring Food or Donations for Greeley families affected by ongoing immigration Raids!\u003Cbr \/\u003EDenver Contacts: Homero 303.437.7805 \u0026amp; Nacho 720.621.7468\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.greeleytribune.com\/article\/20090424\/NEWS\/904249928\/-1\/rss02\"\u003ECity officials meet to discuss safety issues around Unity March\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ccite\u003EGreeley officials met Friday to discuss precautions to ensure next Saturday’s \u003Cb\u003E(May 2)\u003C\/b\u003E “Unity March,” which is expected to draw hundreds of people from out of town, is a peaceful and safe event.\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe meeting was organized by Rich Lopez, a board member of the Greeley Latino Chamber of Commerce. Besides raising safety concerns, Lopez said he called the meeting to emphasize that \u003Cb\u003E\u003Cu\u003Ethe Latino Chamber of Commerce has no connection to the Unity March.\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThe chamber this year is sponsoring the local Cinco de Mayo celebration, which previously had been organized by the city.\u003C\/b\u003E By coincidence, Cinco de Mayo events will also take place next Saturday afternoon at Island Grove Regional Park.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThe fact that both events will take place at the park — the march begins and ends there — has fueled confusion, officials said.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/cite\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHAYWARD, CA - March \u0026amp; Rally\u003Cbr \/\u003E10 a.m. Weekes Park, (\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/culwwc\"\u003E27182 Patrick Ave\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003Cbr \/\u003E10:30 - 12:30 March to City Hall\u003Cbr \/\u003E1:30 Hayward City Hall Rally ('hopefully with Mexica Danzantes' said our source)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EImmokalee, FL - RALLY\u003Cbr \/\u003EBegins at 5pm in the Immokalee Community Park at 312 1st Street North\u003Cbr \/\u003EContact: Gloria Hernandez or Adan Labra\u003Cbr \/\u003EImmokalee, FL\u003Cbr \/\u003ELocation:  Immokalee Community Park 321 1st Street\u003Cbr \/\u003EDate: MAY 1st\u003Cbr \/\u003ETime: 5:30 – 8:30 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003ESpoke Persons:\u003Cbr \/\u003EGloria Hernandez\u003Cbr \/\u003EAdán Labra\u003Cbr \/\u003ENaples Marcos Ramírez\u003Cbr \/\u003EPueblo Bonito: Pastor Carlos\u003Cbr \/\u003ERita Méndez\u003Cbr \/\u003EMargarita Garza\u003Cbr \/\u003EJuan Medina:\u003Cbr \/\u003EParticipants Organizations: Farmer Worker Association, Violencia Domestica de Immokalee, Immigrant United for Freedom, Meyers Stanley INC, LULAC.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.floridaimmigrant.org\/\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.floridaimmigrant.org\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJersey City, NJ - ABRIL 29\u003Cbr \/\u003ERally\u003Cbr \/\u003EJournal Square\u003Cbr \/\u003E3 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKalamazoo, MI: MayDay March\u003Cbr \/\u003E5:00 pm, St. Joseph Gymnasium, 930 Lake St.\u003Cbr \/\u003Econtact: Adrian Vazquez\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELas Vegas, NV: May 1st Justice for Immigrants March\u003Cbr \/\u003E3:30 Meet-up Commercial Center, Sahara and Eastern\u003Cbr \/\u003E5:00 March to Federal Courthouse\u003Cbr \/\u003E03:30 PM-06:30 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELas Vegas, Nevada\u003Cbr \/\u003EMitin\u003Cbr \/\u003EUS Federal Courthouse\u003Cbr \/\u003E7 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELongmont, CO: UNITY MARCH\u003Cbr \/\u003EDetention \u0026amp; Deportation\u003Cbr \/\u003E11:30 AM-01:30 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003ENOTE: \u003Ccite\u003EThis event to this moment is still unconfirmed, any clarification would be deeply appreciated, what is confirmed is that a UNITY MARCH will be held in Greeley CO \u003C\/cite\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELos Angeles\u003Cbr \/\u003EMay Day March\u003Cbr \/\u003EW Olympic Blvd \u0026amp; S Broadway\u003Cbr \/\u003EBegins at Broadway and Olympic, Los Angeles, 01:00 PM-04:00 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003EDowntown Los Angeles Ends at I.C.E. Detention Facility - Temple Street (between Los Angeles and Alameda) 4PM [\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/dj3mm6\"\u003EMap\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor more info, (323) 602-3480 or \u003Ca href=\"mailto:immigrationcoalition@yahoo.com\"\u003Emailto:immigrationcoalition@yahoo.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELos Angeles, CA: May 1st March by MIWON and LA County Fed\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/my.barackobama.com\/page\/event\/detail\/gptldw\"\u003EMarch May Day 2009 Mobilization\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFriday, May 1st 2009\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Postcard to the President” March and Rally\u003Cbr \/\u003EMIWON, along with its partners for May 1st 2009, the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor (LACFL) and the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN), invite you to join us in an exciting new approach to the annual May 1st March.\u003Cbr \/\u003E01:30 PM-06:30 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003E1:30 PM Meet at Echo Park, Echo Park \u0026amp; Park Ave.\u003Cbr \/\u003E4:30 PM Rally and postcard action at La Placita Olvera 535 N. Main Street\u003Cbr \/\u003EContact: Xiomara Corpeno,  \u003Ca href=\"mailto:xcorpeno@chirla.org\"\u003Excorpeno@chirla.org\u003C\/a\u003E OR Antonio Bernabe CHIRLA Organizer  \u003Ca href=\"mailto:abernabe@chirla.org\"\u003Eabernabe@chirla.org\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELos Angeles, CA - ABRIL 30\u003Cbr \/\u003EImmigrant Rights Teach In\u003Cbr \/\u003EAntioch University\u003Cbr \/\u003E2 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELouisville, KY: May Day Rally\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"mailto:http:\/\/thebridge.typepad.com\/thebridge\/2009\/04\/join-the-may-day-coalitions-rally-for-passge-on-the-employees-free-choice-act-and-other-urgently-needed-changes.html\"\u003EThe Bridge\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003EConnecting You to the Politics and Events of Greater Louisville and Kentucky\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJOIN THE MAY DAY COALITION’S RALLY FOR PASSGE ON THE EMPLOYEES FREE CHOICE ACT AND OTHER URGENTLY NEEDED CHANGES\u003Cbr \/\u003E11:30 AM-01:30 PM. Gather at Courthouse for March (Broadway \u0026amp; 6th)\u003Cbr \/\u003ENoon: Rally at Jefferson \u0026amp; 6th\u003Cbr \/\u003EMore info contact Vivian Marin \u003Ca href=\"mailto:villarrealufcw227@yahoo.com\"\u003Evillarrealufcw227@yahoo.com\u003C\/a\u003E OR \u003Ca href=\"mailto:sbartlett@ag-missions.org\"\u003Esbartlett@ag-missions.org\u003C\/a\u003E or call (502) 896 9171\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELouisville, KY\u003Cbr \/\u003EMitin y marcha\u003Cbr \/\u003ECourthouse a Jefferson Park\u003Cbr \/\u003E5 – 7 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMcAllen, Texas\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarcha\u003Cbr \/\u003EMunicipal Park\u003Cbr \/\u003E6 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMadera, CA\u003Cbr \/\u003EMitin\u003Cbr \/\u003E5 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMadison WI: March for the poor, immigrants \u0026amp; workers\u003Cbr \/\u003E11:00 a.m. Gathering at Brittingham Park\u003Cbr \/\u003E11:45 p.m. Depart Park to the Capitol\u003Cbr \/\u003E12:00 p.m. Capitol event\u003Cbr \/\u003E12:30 p.m. Depart Capitol to City-County Building\u003Cbr \/\u003E12:45 p.m. City-County event\u003Cbr \/\u003EMore information in the Official Website of the rally \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/www.maydayinmadison.org\"\u003Ewww.maydayinmadison.org\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EContact: Yvonne Geerts 608\/335-0357, Alex Gillis (608) 345-9544\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.maydayinmadison.org\/Prints\"\u003EPrint and Post Posters\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMartinez, CA\u003Cbr \/\u003EVigilia y marcha\u003Cbr \/\u003EMartinez Marina\u003Cbr \/\u003E5:30 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMemphis, TN -\u003Cbr \/\u003EOverton Park in Veteran's Plaza, 4-6 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMendota, CA - ABRIL 29\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarcha de los Niños\u003Cbr \/\u003E10 AM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMIAMI  MAYDAY 2009! - RALLY\u003Cbr \/\u003EDowntown Miami, 100 Chopin Plaza - 33131 (S.E. 2 Street \u0026amp; Biscayne Blvd.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E04:00 PM-08:00 PM Friday\u003Cbr \/\u003E4:00: RALLY Music, Speakers, More\u003Cbr \/\u003E5:30: MARCH on Brickell \"Bank\" Ave\u003Cbr \/\u003ESpoke Persons:  Carlos Pereira\u003Cbr \/\u003EFlorida Immigrant Coalition\u003Cbr \/\u003EKatherine Gorell\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/stpeteforpeace.org\/mayday.html\"\u003EMay Day 2009 Mobilization\u003C\/a\u003E [\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/stpeteforpeace.org\/mayday.miami.flyer.version5.jpg\"\u003EFlyer\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.floridaimmigrant.org\/\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.floridaimmigrant.org\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECarpool from St. Petersburg leaves at 11:00am from the Park N Ride, 22nd Ave and 19th St, N.  Cost of $7 per passenger to cover the cost of gas.  Reserve your spot:  email\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"mailto:carpool@stpeteforpeace.org\"\u003Ecarpool@stpeteforpeace.org\u003C\/a\u003E or call Bruce at 727-278-1547.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/MiamiMayDay@gmail.com\"\u003EMiamiMayDay@gmail.com\u003C\/a\u003E 305 801-0245\u003Cbr \/\u003EOR Juan Pablo Chavez \u003Ca href=\"mailto:juanpablo@floridaimmigrant.org\"\u003Ejuanpablo@floridaimmigrant.org\u003C\/a\u003E OR \u003Ca href=\"mailto:Maria@floridaimmigrant.org\"\u003EMaria@floridaimmigrant.org\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EParticipants Organizations: Miami May Day Alliance, Broward Anti-War Coalition, Centro de Orientación del Inmigrante (CODI), Florida Immigrant Coalition (FLIC), Florida Peace Congress, Green Party of Florida, Socialist Party USA, South Florida Palestine Solidarity Network, Students Working for Equal Rights (S.W.E.R.), Unity Coalition \/Coalicion Unida, Power U, We Count!, Fanm Ayisyen Nan Miyami, Inc. (FANM)\/Haitian Women of Miami, League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC Florida), Miami Veterans for Peace, South Florida Interfaith Worker Justice, Vecinos Unidos, American Friends Service Committee,Guatemalan Community--Hispanics Without Borders, The Coalition of Hispanics Integrating Spanish Speakers through Advocacy and Service (CHISPAS), Human Services Coalition, Pax Christi Palm Beach, Lake Worth Catholic Worker, Fort Lauderdale Food Not Bombs, Democracia USA, Miami for Peace, Pan-African Nationalists Movement of South Florida, BocaPeaceCorner.com, Haiti Solidarity, South Florida Peace and Justice Network (SFPJN) and School of the Americas Watch\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMilwaukee, WI: Statewide Immigrant \u0026amp; Labor Rights March\u003Cbr \/\u003EMay Day 2009 Mobilization\u003Cbr \/\u003E12:00 PM-02:00 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003EVoces de la Frontera is holding a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/milwaukeetalkee.com\/?p=180\"\u003Estatewide immigrant and labor rights march\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDepart from 5th and Washington Streets to Veteran's Park (VDLF office: 1027 S. 5th Street)\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor more information on May 1 activities and how to participate in Milwaukee and other Wisconsin cities, contact Voces at (414) 643-1620. Those interested in sponsorship should also contact Jeanne Geraci at \u003Ca href=\"mailto:jeanne@vdlf.org\"\u003Ejeanne@vdlf.org\u003C\/a\u003E. You can also drop by the workers’ rights center at 1027 S. 5th St. in Milwaukee.\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr 414-643-1620 x-201 or \u003Ca href=\"mailto:vanessa@vdlf.org\"\u003Evanessa@vdlf.org\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMinneapolis, Indiana - International Workers Day March \u0026amp; street festival\u003Cbr \/\u003EFrom Lake Street \u0026amp; 13th Ave S to Street Festival at 29th \u0026amp; Nicollet\u003Cbr \/\u003E04:00 PM-08:00 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mirac1.wordpress.com\/\"\u003EMIRAc Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Coalition\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESmall size flyers for leafletting:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mirac1.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/may1eng4up.pdf\"\u003EMay 1 quarter-page flyer - English\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mirac1.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/may1span4up.pdf\"\u003E1 de mayo - volante pequeno - Espanol\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003ENOTICE Submitted by ludditerobot on Thu, 04\/23\/2009 - 13:20\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECALL-IN TODAY: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/twincities.indymedia.org\/2009\/apr\/call-today-permits-denied-immigrant-rights-march\"\u003EPermits Denied for Immigrant Rights March\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(\u003Ci\u003EThe MN Immigrant Rights Action Coalition and the May 1st Coalition are planning the\u003Cbr \/\u003E4th Annual March for Immigrant Rights on May 1st, 2009. We have solicited permits\u003Cbr \/\u003Efor a march down Lake St. and a rally on Nicollett Ave, and they have both been\u003Cbr \/\u003Edenied.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EModesto\u003Cbr \/\u003EMitin\u003Cbr \/\u003EHatch Road\/Crow Landing\u003Cbr \/\u003E10 AM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EModesto, CA - ABRIL 29\u003Cbr \/\u003ERally-March\u003Cbr \/\u003EGil’s Plaza\u003Cbr \/\u003E3 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMontpelier, VT: Rally\u003Cbr \/\u003EMay Day 2009 Mobilization\u003Cbr \/\u003EVermont Statehouse, 111 State St.\u003Cbr \/\u003E12:00 PM-03:00 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere will be a Brattleboro VT May Day event, the only details we have are related to the Montpelier event from the Liberty Union Party as part of their \u003Ccite\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.libertyunionparty.org\/?p=51#more-51\"\u003EStatewide May Day Campaign \"Healthcare is a Human Right\"\u003C\/a\u003E  - Liberty Union will be holding their usual Brattleboro MayDay event, at 3:30pm AT THE TOWN COMMON (as the Montpelier rally goes from 12-2 )\u003C\/cite\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMt. Vernon, Washington\u003Cbr \/\u003EMitin y marcha\u003Cbr \/\u003E11am\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMountain View, CA\u003Cbr \/\u003EVigilia\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Worker Center\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalvary Church\u003Cbr \/\u003E5 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENAPA, CA - Vigilia \/ Vigil\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatinos Unidos del Valle de Napa y Solano, La Unión de Campesinos, Voluntarios de la comunidad de Santa Helena, Club de Atacheo, Michoacan, El Balet folklórico del Napa Valley Collage and Clubs CHA \u0026amp; Puente. INVITES YOU TO,\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat: A Vigil\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen: Friday, May 1st.\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhere: Veterans Park in Napa Downtown From 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.\u003Cbr \/\u003EMore Info: Marisa Loza at (707) 226-1088 or Hector Olvera at (707) 258-2369\u003Cbr \/\u003EDownload Flyers: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/docs\/mayday09\/vigilia_en_napa_mayday09_eng.doc\"\u003EEnglish\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/docs\/mayday09\/vigilia_en_napa_mayday09_esp.doc\"\u003ESpanish\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENew Hampshire\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt Manchester City Hall Plaza, 4pm.\u003Cbr \/\u003EContact: ecastillo@miracoalition.org\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENew York, NY MayDay\u003Cbr \/\u003ERally \u0026amp; March for Workers \u0026amp; Immigrant Rights - \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/Friday,%20May%201st%202009\"\u003ENY May 1st Coalition\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E04:00 PM-06:30 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003EFriday, May 1st 2009 [\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.leftshift.org\/may1\/2009\/MayDay2009en.pdf\"\u003EFlyer\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnion Square\u003Cbr \/\u003EAssemble: 12 noon\u003Cbr \/\u003E14th St. \u0026amp; Broadway, Manhattan\u003Cbr \/\u003EMusic \u0026amp; Performances: 4:00 pm\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarch to Federal Plaza: 5:30 pm\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENew York, NY: May Day Rally for Workers and Immigrants Rights\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnion Square, 14th Street \u0026amp; Broadway\u003Cbr \/\u003E12:00 PM-07:00 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003E2:00pm, RALLY at ROOSEVELT PARK in CHINATOWN\u003Cbr \/\u003E(Grand St. between Forsyth and Chrystie St., B\/D Train to Grand St. Station)\u003Cbr \/\u003E3:00pm, MARCH to UNION SQUARE\u003Cbr \/\u003EJoin \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dfnyc.org\/\"\u003ENational Mobilization Against Sweatshop (NMASS)\u003C\/a\u003E at a rally at Roosevelt Park in Chinatown\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor more information, contact the Break the Chains Alliance, c\/o NMASS 212-358-0295  |  \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/info@breakthechainsnow.org\"\u003Einfo@breakthechainsnow.org\u003C\/a\u003E  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it      |  \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/www.breakthechainsnow.org\"\u003Ewww.breakthechainsnow.org\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENew York, NY\u003Cbr \/\u003EForo Publico sobre Acta STRIVE (Public Forum on the STRIVE Act)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaGuardia Community College\u003Cbr \/\u003E1 – 2:30 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENewark, New Jersey\u003Cbr \/\u003EStart at 11:00AM in Lincoln Park on Broad Stree, march to 970 Broad St (Federal Immigration Buliding) - rally will begin at 1:00pm\u003Cbr \/\u003EContact: Lou Kimmel, \u003Ca href=\"mailto:lkimmel@newlabor.org\"\u003Elkimmel@newlabor.org\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOakland, CA:\u003Cbr \/\u003EFRIDAY MAY 1ST 2009\u003Cbr \/\u003EProgram at Fruitvale Plaza 3:30-4:30pm [\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/?q=%2C+Oakland%2C+CA%2C+%2C+us\"\u003EMap\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarch to City Hall 4:30-6:00pm\u003Cbr \/\u003EMore info: Sagnicthe Salazar\u003Cbr \/\u003EYouth Together\u003Cbr \/\u003ECastlemont Site Organizer\u003Cbr \/\u003E510-812-1426\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOakland, CA: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.iww.org\/en\/node\/4680\"\u003EStudents\/Youth MARCH to City Hall!\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGATHER at High St. and International Blvd.\u003Cbr \/\u003E10:00 AM-01:00 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOlympia, WA\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/cascadia.olympiaworkers.net\/brick039s-6th-annual-may-day-hoedown\"\u003EBRICK’s 6th Annual May Day Hoe Down (Bust the Banks!)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMay 1, 7pm-Midnight\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt the SPSCC Gymnasium - 2011 Mottman Road SW\u003Cbr \/\u003EFeaturing live music (The Blackberry Bushes, The Grizzle Grazzle Tune Snugglers, and squaredance caller Paul Silveria), food, dancing, and a celebration of International Worker’s Day. The best part is, it’s all free.\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat is May Day?\u003Cbr \/\u003EToday we see tens of thousands of activists embracing the ideals of the Haymarket Martyrs and those who established May Day as an International Workers' Day. Ironically, May Day is an official holiday in 67 countries and unofficially celebrated in many more, but rarely is it recognized in this country where it began.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOrlando, FL\u003Cbr \/\u003ELocation:  101 N. Rosalind Ave.\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarch from downtown Orlando to immigration courthouse.\u003Cbr \/\u003EDate: Friday, May 1th\u003Cbr \/\u003ETime: 4:30 to 6:00pm\u003Cbr \/\u003ESpoke Persons: Tirso Moreno\u003Cbr \/\u003EElvia Zamora- Ana Treviño\u003Cbr \/\u003ERoberto Cancel\u003Cbr \/\u003EJosé Luis Marantes\u003Cbr \/\u003EJuan Pablo Chávez\u003Cbr \/\u003EJoyce Hamilton\u003Cbr \/\u003EParticipants Organizations:  Hope Community Center, Democracia Ahora, ACLU, Florida   Immigrant Coalition, Farmer Worker Association, Job for Justice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.floridaimmigrant.org\/\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.floridaimmigrant.org\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPhiladelphia, a May Day Rally is being organized by  the Pennsylvania Labor History Society (PLHS) and the Philadelphia Area Project of Occupational Safety and Health (PHILAPOSH).\u003Cbr \/\u003EMAY DAY USA – A DAY TO HONOR ALL WORKERS\u003Cbr \/\u003EFRIDAY, MAY 1 – NOON TO 2 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003EElmwood Park @ South 71st St. and Buist Ave.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESouthwest Philly\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPITTSBURGH, PA: May Day - International Workers' Day\u003Cbr \/\u003E4:00 p.m. Vigil at ALLEGHENY COUNTY JAIL, 2ND AVE.\u003Cbr \/\u003E5:00 p.m. March for Immigrants' Rights\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPhoenix, AZ: Walk For Respect-Stop Arpaio! Stop 287(g)'s! Stop the Cruelty!\u003Cbr \/\u003ERally March\u003Cbr \/\u003EVeteran’s Memorial Coliseum to State Capitol\u003Cbr \/\u003EMay Day 2009 Mobilization\u003Cbr \/\u003E08:00 AM-11:00 AM\u003Cbr \/\u003EMEET AT:    ACLU-AZ Office\u003Cbr \/\u003EADDRESS:  77 E. Columbus Ave. Suite 205, Phoenix\u003Cbr \/\u003ETIME: 8:00 AM Breakfast \u0026amp; Coffee\u003Cbr \/\u003E8:30 AM Collectively, we will take the light rail to the   downtown Wells Fargo Tower, 100 W Washington, to Tent City (4 mi)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cFybwY-vtaE\"\u003EMARCH TO ARPAIO'S JAILS THIS SATURDAY, May 2nd!\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJoin us and Zack De La Rocha this saturday as we protest Arpaio and 287g in Phoenix AZ.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/Humanleague002\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/Humanleague002\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPortland, Oregon \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/willamettereds.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/may-day-events-in-salem-portland.html\"\u003EMay Full Mobilization\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMay Day 2009 - March and Rally for Immigrant and Workers’ Rights: Economic Justice for All!\u003Cbr \/\u003EFriday, May 1st, South Park Blocks, SW Salmon and SW Park\u003Cbr \/\u003E1pm – Posters and Party, 4pm – Speakers and Entertainment, 5pm\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/maydaypdx.blogspot.com\/\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/maydaypdx.blogspot.com\/\u003C\/a\u003E - [\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.jwjpdx.org\/documents\/final-flyer-color.pdf\/download\"\u003EFlyer\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003Cbr \/\u003EPortland May Day Coalition (503) 236-5573\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EProvidence, Rhode Island\u003Cbr \/\u003ERally outside of the USCIS office at 3:30pm\u003Cbr \/\u003EContact: Michelle DePlante, \u003Ca href=\"mailto:mdeplante@iiri.org\"\u003Emdeplante@iiri.org\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERaleigh, North Carolina\u003Cbr \/\u003EManifestación pasiva\u003Cbr \/\u003ECámara legislativa\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERiverside, CA: Immigrants \/ Workers Rights = Human Rights MayDay March\u003Cbr \/\u003EFriday, May 1, 2009 4 04:00 PM-06:00 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarch begins at Cesar Chavez Community Center 2060 University Ave, Riverside CA\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarch to City Hall, 3900 Main Street\u003Cbr \/\u003ELegalization, an end to raids, DREAM Act, Employee Free Choice Act, good jobs for all and racial unity! [\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/dz64ln\"\u003EMap\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESacramento Bail out the Workers not the Bosses \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/lclaasacramento.com\/index.html\"\u003ELCLAA Site\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFriday, May 1, 2009, 6 p.m.\u003Cbr \/\u003EState Capitol (west steps)[\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/dywk43\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003Cbr \/\u003ESacramento, CA\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor questions, contact march committee:  (916) 446-3021 or\u003Cbr \/\u003Ecel: 712-4251 cel\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESacramento, CA\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarcha\u003Cbr \/\u003EHiram Johnson High School a State Capitol\u003Cbr \/\u003E10 AM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESalem, OR: Unity March\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/willamettereds.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/may-day-events-in-salem-portland.html\"\u003EMay Day Rally and March for Comprehensive Immigration Reform\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFriday, May 1st, 11:00 AM-03:00 PM,\u003Cbr \/\u003EOregon State Capitol, 900 Court St. NE, Salem, Oregon\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn Friday May 1st, thousands of Latinas and Latinos and our allies will march and rally at the Oregon State Capitol to call attention to our plight for a just immigration reform that will bring millions of immigrants out of the shadows.\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor more information call CAUSA at 503-269-5694 OR   visit \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.causaoregon.org\/\"\u003Ewww.causaoregon.org\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESalinas, CA\u003Cbr \/\u003ECuatro marchas\u003Cbr \/\u003EConstitutional y Laurel\u003Cbr \/\u003E12 PM – 5 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESAN ANTONIO, TX: International Workers Day March\u003Cbr \/\u003EMay Day 2009 Mobilization\u003Cbr \/\u003E06:00 PM-08:00 PM, Milam Park In Front of Santa Rosa Hospital\u003Cbr \/\u003ESAN ANTONIO, TX: International Workers Day MArch\u003Cbr \/\u003ERally\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESan Antonio, Texas\u003Cbr \/\u003EMitin y marcha\u003Cbr \/\u003EPlaza del Zacate\u003Cbr \/\u003E12 PM – 7 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESan Diego, CA\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarcha\u003Cbr \/\u003EChicano Park a City Hall\u003Cbr \/\u003E10 AM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESan Diego, CA\u003Cbr \/\u003ERally\u003Cbr \/\u003ECity College\u003Cbr \/\u003E3 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESan Francisco, CA: SF May Day March And Rally\u003Cbr \/\u003EFriday, May 1, 2009\u003Cbr \/\u003E12:00 p.m. (Noon) \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/workers-without-borders-united-in.html\"\u003EDolores Park\u003C\/a\u003E, San Francisco, CA \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/c72mj3\"\u003E[Map]\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFlyers: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/14521128\/Sf-Mayday09-Flier-Eng\"\u003ESf Mayday09 Flier Eng\u003C\/a\u003E - \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/14521561\/Sf-Mayday09-Volante-Esp\"\u003ESf Mayday09 Volante Esp\u003C\/a\u003E - \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/14536137\/Sfbos-Mayday08-Intl-Workers-Day-Resolution\"\u003ESFBOS Mayday08 Intl Workers Day Resolution\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESan Jose, CA: May Day Action\u003Cbr \/\u003EStory Rd. \u0026amp; King Rd. to City Hall (Santa Clara St. \u0026amp; 4th St.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E04:00 PM-06:00 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESanta Barbara, CA\u003Cbr \/\u003EBegins at 6:30pm in Presidio Springs at 721 Laguna Street\u003Cbr \/\u003EContact: Belen Seara\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESanta Cruz, CA: May 1st March \u0026amp; Rally for Immigrant \u0026amp; Worker Rights\u003Cbr \/\u003EWatsonville Plaza to Main Street and Beach Street\u003Cbr \/\u003E04:00 PM-09:00 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESanta Fe, New Mexico\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarcha\u003Cbr \/\u003EDowntown – De Vargas Park\u003Cbr \/\u003E4 – 7 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESan Rafael, CA\u003Cbr \/\u003EVigilia y marcha\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunity Center – Canal\u003Cbr \/\u003E6 AM – 10 AM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESanta Rosa, CA\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarcha\u003Cbr \/\u003EOld Albertsons Shopping Center\u003Cbr \/\u003E11 AM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESarasota, FL\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sarasota.indymedia.org\/local\/04-12-2009-reclaim-streets-party-may-day-2009-sarasota\"\u003EReclaim the Streets PARTY - May Day 2009 - Sarasota\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeet at) 5 Ponts Park\u003Cbr \/\u003EMay 1, 2009 - 3:00pm - 6:00pm\u003Cbr \/\u003E1331 First Street\u003Cbr \/\u003EContact: Rick Pfahl\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESeattle, WA: 9th Annual May 1st \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/seattleactivism.org\/events\/event6698.htm\"\u003EMarch \u0026amp; Rally\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMay Day 2009 Mobilization - \u003Ccite\u003ECONFIRMED, THIS IS THE ONLY MAYDAY '09 ACTION IN SEATTLE.\u003C\/cite\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERally 3:30PM Judkins Playfield (behind St. Marys Church - 611 20th Ave S)\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarch 4:00PM [\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elcomitewa.org\/mayeng.html\"\u003EFlyer\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor More Info: (206) 324-6044\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/www.elcomitewa.org\"\u003Ewww.elcomitewa.org\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ccite\u003E(CORRECTION - THIS ENTRY WAS FOUND INVALID, NO SUCH ACTION IN SEATTLE)\u003Cbr \/\u003ESeattle, Washington\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarcha y mitin\u003Cbr \/\u003ESeattle Center Fisher Pavillion\u003Cbr \/\u003E3 PM\u003C\/cite\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESFA 'Dine with Dignity' May 1st Campus actions\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeeting\u003Cbr \/\u003EU.S.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/causes\/sharings?context_id=578\u0026amp;context_type=Cause\u0026amp;m=370a5b0b\"\u003EMay Day 2009 Mobilization\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E09:00 AM-09:00 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETampa, FL\u003Cbr \/\u003ELocation:  Columbus and Dale Mabry\u003Cbr \/\u003EDate:  Friday, May 1th\u003Cbr \/\u003ETime: 3:00 pm to 5:30 pm\u003Cbr \/\u003ESpoke Persons: Lurvin Lizardo\u003Cbr \/\u003EBlanca Gonzales\u003Cbr \/\u003EParticipants Organizations: Hondurenos Unidos, Immigrant United for Freedom\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETucson, AZ\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarcha y mitin\u003Cbr \/\u003ESouth Gate Shopping Center\u003Cbr \/\u003E8 AM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EVancouver, Canada\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarcha en Solidaridad con los Inmigrantes, Migrantes e Indocumentados\u003Cbr \/\u003EClark Park a Grandview Park\u003Cbr \/\u003E6 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWashington DC\/Maryland\/Northern Virginia May 1st Rally\u003Cbr \/\u003EMalcolm X Park, W St. NW and 16th St. NW\u003Cbr \/\u003E03:00 PM-06:00 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003EContact: Esteban Garces, \u003Ca href=\"mailto:egarces@tenantsandworkers.org\"\u003Eegarces@tenantsandworkers.org\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWashington D.C.\u003Cbr \/\u003EAPRIL 30TH- 100TH DAY ACTION IN DC!!!\u003Cbr \/\u003EProtest\u003Cbr \/\u003EDetention \u0026amp; Deportation\u003Cbr \/\u003E10:00 AM-03:00 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWest Palm Beach, FL - Letters to Michelle Obama for Mothers Day\u003Cbr \/\u003ELocation:  (Waiting for info)\u003Cbr \/\u003Eemail to  \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/iwillresist@gmail.com\"\u003Eiwillresist@gmail.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDate:  Friday, May 1th\u003Cbr \/\u003EContact:  Radym\u003Cbr \/\u003EParticipants Organizations: Palm Beach Coalition\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWichita, KS: May Day March\u003Cbr \/\u003ECity Hall, 455 N. Main Street, 455 N. Main Street\u003Cbr \/\u003E06:00 PM-08:00 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003EContact: Emira Palacios, \u003Ca href=\"mailto:emira@sunfloweract.org\"\u003Eemira@sunfloweract.org\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYakima, Washington\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarcha\u003Cbr \/\u003EMiller Park\u003Cbr \/\u003E3:30 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca name=\"abreviatedlist\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Chr style=\"color: rgb(255, 204, 51);font-size:100%;\"  width=\"100%\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 0);\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EAbreviated list of MayDay 2009 events in Ascending Alpha Order \u0026amp; list sorted by State\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E - \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/post-edit.g?blogID=1794095320758100201\u0026amp;postID=3052526111394871595#top\"\u003E(Top)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"masterdiv\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"menutitle\" onclick=\"SwitchMenu('sub30')\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"menutitle\" onclick=\"SwitchMenu('sub31')\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 153, 0);\"\u003E\u003Cspan and=\"\" onmouseover=\"doRainbow(this);\" onmouseout=\"stopRainbow();\" name=\"rl\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EClick to view Mayday 2009 Actions sorted by ascending Alpha Order \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan id=\"sub31\" class=\"submenu\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Col\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Albuquerque, NM - March Starts at 4:30pm at Holy Rosary Church, 5525 Fortuna Road - Tiguex Park 3 – 5 PM NM \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Asheville, NC - Begins at 5:30pm in Pack Square, Downtown Asheville NC \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Atlanta, GA - Begins at 10AM at the Capitol Building on Washington Street GA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Austin, TX - Will be held on the State Capitol South Steps, 5 – 7:30 PM TX \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Bellingham, WA Mitin - Cornwall Park 12-6 WA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Berkeley, CA Rally y Marcha - Sproul Plaza al City Hall, 11 AM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Boston, MA - March and Rally - Glendale Park, Elm St., Everett, MA 4:30 pm - March from Central Square MA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Cal State Dominguez Hills: Labor and Social Justice Fair Conference CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Calexico, May 1st Binational immigration symposium Conference - 08:30 AM-08:30 PM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Chelsea, MA Marcha - City Hall a Central Square 2 – 5 PM MA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Chicago, IL MARCH ON MAY FIRST, MARCHA EL PRIMERO DE MAYO - Union Park, Ogden and Ashland 10:00 AM-04:00 PM IL \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Chico, CA Mitin\/Marcha - City Hall, 3 - 8 PM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Clearwater, FL. Prayer Vigil - 1366 Lakeview Rd., 9:00 pm FL \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Dade City, FL. RALLY - Meridian and Seventh Street, 12:00 pm to 2:00pm FL \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Dallas, Tejas - Marcha - Catedral Santurario de Guadalupe, 2215 Ross Ave. a Alcaldia de Dallas 6:00 p.m. TX \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Davis, CA  Mitin y marcha - UC Davis Campus, 11 – 2 PM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Detroit, MI - 4th Grand Peaceful March - W. Vernor \u0026 Woodmere 10:00 AM, RALLY at Clark Park at 12:00 Noon MI \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E E. Boston, MA Mitin y marcha - Boston Common 4pm,  gathering time 2:00pm - March from Chelsea City Hall, gathering time 3:00pm MA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E El Paso, TX - Gather at the corner of Mills and Walnut at 4:30pm and march to downtown - Placita de los Lagartos TX \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Elizabeth, NJ Mitin - Warinanco park 11 AM NJ \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Farmersville, CA - Marcha - Parque Memorial 4 PM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Fellsmere, FL. RALLY - at City Hall, 5: pm to 7:pm FL \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Forks, WA - March, Rally, and Potluck, Saturday, May 2 Saturday, May 2 - Saturday, May 2, Starting at noon at Tillicum Park  WA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Fort Bragg, CA - Marcha, Tienda La Bamba 9:00 AM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E FORT PIERCE, FL. RALLY - 2200 VIRGINIA AVE.- 5-7 PM FL \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E FORT PIERCE, FL. RALLY - 2200 VIRGINIA AVE.- 5-7 PM FL \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Fresno, CA Eaton Plaza March (at the water tower) Gathering at 5:00 p.m begins at 6:00 p.m. CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Gainesville, FL: Mayday Demonstration - Kirby Smith Community Center, 620 East University Ave - 04:30 PM-06:30 PM FL \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Greeley, CO, May 2nd Unity March - Island Grove Park – 514 N. 14th Ave - More info 970.388.0834 or 303.887.2795 CO \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E HAYWARD, CA - March \u0026 Rally - 10 a.m. Weekes Park @ 27182 Patrick Ave, 10:30 - 12:30 March to City Hall, 1:30 Rally @ City Hall CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Immokalee, FL, RALLY - Immokalee Community Park at 321 1st Street North, 5:30 – 8:30 PM FL \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Indianapolis, IN Marcha - 5 – 9 PM IN \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Jersey City, NJ ABRIL 29 Rally - Journal Square 3 PM NJ \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Kalamazoo, MI: MayDay March - 5:00 pm, St. Joseph Gymnasium, 930 Lake St. MI \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Las Vegas, NV: Justice for Immigrants March - 3:30 Meet-up Commercial Center, 5:00 March to Fed. Courthouse Mitin 7 PM NV \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Longmont, CO: UNITY MARCH - Detention \u0026 Deportation - 11:30 AM-01:30 PM - (Unconfirmed event) CO \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Los Angeles, CA ABRIL 30 Immigrant Rights Teach In - Antioch University 2 PM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Los Angeles, CA March by MIWON \u0026 LA County Fed, 1:30 PM Meet @ Echo Park, 4:30 PM Rally\u0026 postcard action @ Placita Olvera CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Los Angeles, CA Marcha - Cinco Puntos a City Hall 11 AM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Los Angeles, CA Marcha - Olympic\/Broadway 12 PM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Los Angeles, CA Marcha y Mitin - 3rd\/Vermont a McArthur Park 2 – 7 PM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Louisville, KY Mitin y marcha - Courthouse a Jefferson Park 5 – 7 PM KY \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Louisville, KY: May Day Rally 11:30 AM -01:30 PM. Gather at Courthouse (Broadway \u0026 6th) - Noon: Rally at Jefferson \u0026 6th KY \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Madera, CA - Mitin, 5 PM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Madison WI March for the poor, immigrants \u0026 workers - 11:00 a.m. Gathering at Brittingham Park WI \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Madison WI Marcha y Mitin - Capitolio estatal 12 PM WI \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Martinez, CA - Vigilia y marcha, Martinez Marina 5:30 PM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E McAllen, TX Marcha - Municipal Park 6 PM TX \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Memphis, TN - Overton Park in Veteran's Plaza, 4-6 PM TN \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Mendota, CA ABRIL 29 Marcha de los Niños - 10 AM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E MIAMI, FL  MAYDAY 2009 - Downtown Miami, 100 Chopin Plaza 4:00 to 7:00 pm FL \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Milwaukee, WI: Statewide Immigrant \u0026 Labor Rights March - Depart from 5th and Washington Streets 12:00 PM-02:00 PM  WI \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Minneapolis, MN - International Workers Day March \u0026 street festival - Lake Street \u0026 13th Ave S - 04:00 PM-08:00 PM MN \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Modesto, CA - Mitin - Hatch Road\/Crow Landing, 10 AM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Modesto, CA ABRIL 29 Rally-March - Gil’s Plaza 3 PM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Montpelier, VT: Rally - Vermont Statehouse, 111 State St. - 12:00 PM-03:00 PM VT \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Mountain View, CA Vigilia - The Worker Center, Calvary Church 5 PM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Mt. Vernon, WA Mitin y marcha 11am WA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E NAPA, CA - Vigilia \/ Vigil - Veterans Park in Napa Downtown From 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E New Hampshire, NH - Manchester City Hall Plaza, 4pm NH \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E New York, NY - APRIL 30 Public Forum (For Publico) on the STRIVE Act - LaGuardia Community College 1 – 2:30 PM NY \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E New York, NY - May Day Rally for Workers and Immigrants Rights, Union Square, 14th Street \u0026 Broadway 12:00 PM-07:00 PM NY \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E New York, NY - MayDay Rally \u0026 March for Workers \u0026 Immigrant Rights, Union Square 04:00 PM-06:30 PM NY \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Newark, New Jersey - Rally Starts at 11:00AM in Lincoln Park on Broad Stree, march to 970 Broad St (Federal Immigration Buliding) NJ \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Oakland, CA: Program at Fruitvale Plaza 3:30-4:30pm Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum to State Capitol CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Oakland, CA: Students\/Youth MARCH to City Hall! 10:00 AM-01:00 PM GATHER at High St. and International Blvd. CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Olympia, WA BRICK’s 6th Annual May Day Hoe Down (Bust the Banks!) @ SPSCC Gymnasium, 2011 Mottman Rd SW 7pm-Midnight WA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Orlando, FL. RALLY - 101 N. Rosalind Ave. 4:30 to 6:00pm (32801 Lake Eola Park) FL \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Philadelphia, PA - Elmwood Park @ South 71st St. and Buist Ave, Southwest Philly NOON TO 2 PM PA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Phoenix, AZ - May 2 Marcha Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum to State Capitol 8:30 AM AZ \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E PITTSBURGH, PA: - 4:00 p.m. Vigil at ALLEGHENY COUNTY JAIL, 2ND AVE - 5:00 p.m. March for Immigrants' Rights PA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Portland, OR March \u0026 Rally - South Park Blocks, SW Salmon and SW Park, 1pm Posters \u0026 Party, 4pm – Speakers \u0026 Entertainment  OR \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Providence, Rhode Island - Rally outside of the USCIS office at 3:30pm RI \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Raleigh, NC Manifestación pasiva - Cámara legislativa NC \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Riverside, CA: Immigrants \/ Workers Rights = Human Rights Cesar Chavez Community Center on the Eastside to City Hall  CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Sacramento, CA - Marcha, Hiram Johnson High School a State Capitol 10 AM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Salem, OR: Unity March - Rally and March for Comprehensive Immigration Reform - Oregon State Capitol - 11:00 AM-03:00 PM OR \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Salinas, CA - Cuatro marchas - Constitutional y Laurel, 12 PM – 5 PM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E San Antonio, TX - Mitin y marcha, Plaza del Zacate 12 PM – 7 PM  TX \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E SAN ANTONIO, TX: International Workers Day March - Milam Park In Front of Santa Rosa Hospital - 06:00 PM-08:00 PM TX \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E San Diego, CA - Marcha - Chicano Park a City Hall, 10 AM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E San Diego, CA - Rally - City College, 3 PM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E San Francisco, CA: SF May Day March And Rally - Dolores Park 12 Noon March to Civic Center for 4 PM Rally CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E San Jose, CA: May Day Action - Mi Pueblo Shopping Center, Story Rd. \u0026 King Rd. to City Hall, 04:00 PM-06:00 PM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E San Rafael, CA - Vigilia y marcha - Community Center – Canal, 6 AM – 10 AM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Santa Barbara, CA - Begins at 6:30pm in Presidio Springs at 721 Laguna Street CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Santa Cruz, CA: May 1st March \u0026 Rally for Immigrant \u0026 Worker Rights CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Santa Fe, NM - Marcha - Downtown – De Vargas Park 4 – 7 PM NM \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Santa Rosa, CA - Marcha - Old Albertsons Shopping Center 11 AM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Sarasota, FL , Reclaim the Streets PARTY - (Meet at) 5 Ponts Park, 3:00pm - 6:00pm FL \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Seattle, WA: 9th Annual May 1st March \u0026 Rally - Rally 3:30PM Judkins Playfield (behind St. Marys Church) WA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E SFA 'Dine with Dignity' May 1st Campus actions CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Tampa, FL - RALLY - Corner of Dale Mabry and Columbus, 3:00 pm to 5:30 pm FL \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Tucson, AZ - Marcha y mitin - South Gate Shopping Center 8 AM AZ \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Washington D.C. ABRIL 30 100TH DAY ACTION IN DC - Detention \u0026 Deportation 10:00 AM-03:00 PM DC \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Washington D.C: May 1st Rally - Malcolm X Park, W St. NW and 16th St. NW - 03:00 PM-06:00 PM DC \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E West Palm Beach, FL, Letters to Michelle Obama for Mothers Day - Location \u0026 Time (Unconfirmed, TB posted later)  FL \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Wichita, KS: May Day March - City Hall, 455 N. Main Street - 06:00 PM-08:00 PM KS \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Yakima, WA Marcha - Miller Park 3:30 PM WA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/ol\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"menutitle\" onclick=\"SwitchMenu('sub30')\"\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"menutitle\" onclick=\"SwitchMenu('sub32')\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 153, 0);\"\u003E\u003Cspan and=\"\" onmouseover=\"doRainbow(this);\" onmouseout=\"stopRainbow();\" name=\"rl\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EClick to view Mayday 2009 Actions sorted by State then City \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan id=\"sub32\" class=\"submenu\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Col\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Arizona = 2 \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E California = 35 \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Canada = 0 \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Colorado = 2 \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E DC = 2 \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Florida = 12 \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Georgia = 1 \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Illinois = 1 \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Indiana = 1 \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Kansas = 1 \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Kentucky = 2 \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Massachusetts = 3 \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Michigan = 2 \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Minnesota = 1 \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Nevada = 1 \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CLI\u003E New Hampshire = 1 \u003C\/LI\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E New Jersey = 3 \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E New Mexico = 2 \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E New York = 3 \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E North Carolina = 2 \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Oregon = 2 \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Pennsylvania = 2 \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Rhode Island = 1 \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Tennessee = 1 \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Texas = 6 \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Vermont = 1 \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Washington = 6 \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Wisconsin = 3 \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/ol\u003E      Total = 99 \u003Cbr \/\u003ENumber of States participating = 27\u003Cbr \/\u003E* CANADA NOT A STATE, LISTED BUT NOT COUNTED\u003Cbr \/\u003E* Seattle Center Fisher Pavillion action removed, invalid entry.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Col\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003CB\u003EARIZONA\u003C\/B\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E   \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Phoenix, AZ - May 2 Marcha Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum to State Capitol 8:30 AM AZ \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Tucson, AZ - Marcha y mitin - South Gate Shopping Center 8 AM AZ \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003CB\u003ECALIFORNIA\u003C\/B\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Berkeley, CA Rally y Marcha - Sproul Plaza al City Hall, 11 AM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Cal State Dominguez Hills: Labor and Social Justice Fair Conference CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Calexico, May 1st Binational immigration symposium Conference - 08:30 AM-08:30 PM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Chico, CA Mitin\/Marcha - City Hall, 3 - 8 PM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Davis, CA  Mitin y marcha - UC Davis Campus, 11 – 2 PM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Farmersville, CA - Marcha - Parque Memorial 4 PM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Fort Bragg, CA - Marcha, Tienda La Bamba 9:00 AM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Fresno, CA Eaton Plaza March (at the water tower) Gathering at 5:00 p.m begins at 6:00 p.m. CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E HAYWARD, CA - March \u0026 Rally - 10 a.m. Weekes Park @ 27182 Patrick Ave, 10:30 - 12:30 March to City Hall, 1:30 Rally @ City Hall CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Los Angeles, CA ABRIL 30 Immigrant Rights Teach In - Antioch University 2 PM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Los Angeles, CA March by MIWON \u0026 LA County Fed, 1:30 PM Meet @ Echo Park, 4:30 PM Rally\u0026 postcard action @ Placita Olvera CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Los Angeles, CA Marcha - Cinco Puntos a City Hall 11 AM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Los Angeles, CA Marcha - Olympic\/Broadway 12 PM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Los Angeles, CA Marcha y Mitin - 3rd\/Vermont a McArthur Park 2 – 7 PM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Madera, CA - Mitin, 5 PM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Martinez, CA - Vigilia y marcha, Martinez Marina 5:30 PM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Mendota, CA ABRIL 29 Marcha de los Niños - 10 AM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Modesto, CA - Mitin - Hatch Road\/Crow Landing, 10 AM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Modesto, CA ABRIL 29 Rally-March - Gil’s Plaza 3 PM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Mountain View, CA Vigilia - The Worker Center, Calvary Church 5 PM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E NAPA, CA - Vigilia \/ Vigil - Veterans Park in Napa Downtown From 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Oakland, CA: Program at Fruitvale Plaza 3:30-4:30pm Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum to State Capitol CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Oakland, CA: Students\/Youth MARCH to City Hall! 10:00 AM-01:00 PM GATHER at High St. and International Blvd. CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Riverside, CA: Immigrants \/ Workers Rights = Human Rights Cesar Chavez Community Center on the Eastside to City Hall  CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Sacramento, CA - Marcha, Hiram Johnson High School a State Capitol 10 AM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Salinas, CA - Cuatro marchas - Constitutional y Laurel, 12 PM – 5 PM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E San Diego, CA - Marcha - Chicano Park a City Hall, 10 AM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E San Diego, CA - Rally - City College, 3 PM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E San Francisco, CA: SF May Day March And Rally - Dolores Park 12 Noon March to Civic Center for 4 PM Rally CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E San Jose, CA: May Day Action - Mi Pueblo Shopping Center, Story Rd. \u0026 King Rd. to City Hall, 04:00 PM-06:00 PM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E San Rafael, CA - Vigilia y marcha - Community Center – Canal, 6 AM – 10 AM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Santa Barbara, CA - Begins at 6:30pm in Presidio Springs at 721 Laguna Street CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Santa Cruz, CA: May 1st March \u0026 Rally for Immigrant \u0026 Worker Rights CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Santa Rosa, CA - Marcha - Old Albertsons Shopping Center 11 AM CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E SFA 'Dine with Dignity' May 1st Campus actions CA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003CB\u003ECOLORADO\u003C\/B\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Greeley, CO, May 2nd Unity March - Island Grove Park – 514 N. 14th Ave - More info 970.388.0834 or 303.887.2795 CO \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Longmont, CO: UNITY MARCH - Detention \u0026 Deportation - 11:30 AM-01:30 PM - (Unconfirmed event) CO \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003CB\u003EDC\u003C\/B\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Washington D.C. ABRIL 30 100TH DAY ACTION IN DC - Detention \u0026 Deportation 10:00 AM-03:00 PM DC \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Washington D.C: May 1st Rally - Malcolm X Park, W St. NW and 16th St. NW - 03:00 PM-06:00 PM DC \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003CB\u003EFLORIDA\u003C\/B\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Clearwater, FL. Prayer Vigil - 1366 Lakeview Rd., 9:00 pm FL \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Dade City, FL. RALLY - Meridian and Seventh Street, 12:00 pm to 2:00pm FL \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Fellsmere, FL. RALLY - at City Hall, 5: pm to 7:pm FL \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E FORT PIERCE, FL. RALLY - 2200 VIRGINIA AVE.- 5-7 PM FL \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E FORT PIERCE, FL. RALLY - 2200 VIRGINIA AVE.- 5-7 PM FL \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Gainesville, FL: Mayday Demonstration - Kirby Smith Community Center, 620 East University Ave - 04:30 PM-06:30 PM FL \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Immokalee, FL, RALLY - Immokalee Community Park at 321 1st Street North, 5:30 – 8:30 PM FL \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E MIAMI, FL  MAYDAY 2009 - Downtown Miami, 100 Chopin Plaza 4:00 to 7:00 pm FL \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Orlando, FL. RALLY - 101 N. Rosalind Ave. 4:30 to 6:00pm (32801 Lake Eola Park) FL \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Sarasota, FL , Reclaim the Streets PARTY - (Meet at) 5 Ponts Park, 3:00pm - 6:00pm FL \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Tampa, FL - RALLY - Corner of Dale Mabry and Columbus, 3:00 pm to 5:30 pm FL \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E West Palm Beach, FL, Letters to Michelle Obama for Mothers Day - Location \u0026 Time (Unconfirmed, TB posted later)  FL \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003CB\u003EGEORGIA\u003C\/B\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Atlanta, GA - Begins at 10AM at the Capitol Building on Washington Street GA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003CB\u003EILLINOIS\u003C\/B\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Chicago, IL MARCH ON MAY FIRST, MARCHA EL PRIMERO DE MAYO - Union Park, Ogden and Ashland 10:00 AM-04:00 PM IL \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003CB\u003EINDIANA\u003C\/B\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Indianapolis, IN Marcha - 5 – 9 PM IN \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003CB\u003EKANSAS\u003C\/B\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Wichita, KS: May Day March - City Hall, 455 N. Main Street - 06:00 PM-08:00 PM KS \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003CB\u003EKENTUCKY\u003C\/B\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Louisville, KY Mitin y marcha - Courthouse a Jefferson Park 5 – 7 PM KY \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Louisville, KY: May Day Rally 11:30 AM -01:30 PM. Gather at Courthouse (Broadway \u0026 6th) - Noon: Rally at Jefferson \u0026 6th KY \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003CB\u003EMASSACHUSETTS\u003C\/B\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Boston, MA - March and Rally - Glendale Park, Elm St., Everett, MA 4:30 pm - March from Central Square MA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Chelsea, MA Marcha - City Hall a Central Square 2 – 5 PM MA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E E. Boston, MA Mitin y marcha - Boston Common 4pm,  gathering time 2:00pm - March from Chelsea City Hall, gathering time 3:00pm MA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003CB\u003EMICHIGAN\u003C\/B\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Detroit, MI - 4th Grand Peaceful March - W. Vernor \u0026 Woodmere 10:00 AM, RALLY at Clark Park at 12:00 Noon MI \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Kalamazoo, MI: MayDay March - 5:00 pm, St. Joseph Gymnasium, 930 Lake St. MI \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003CB\u003EMINNESOTA\u003C\/B\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Minneapolis, MN - International Workers Day March \u0026 street festival - Lake Street \u0026 13th Ave S - 04:00 PM-08:00 PM MN \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003CB\u003ENORTH CAROLINA\u003C\/B\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Asheville, NC - Begins at 5:30pm in Pack Square, Downtown Asheville NC \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Raleigh, NC Manifestación pasiva - Cámara legislativa NC \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003CB\u003ENEW HAMPSHIRE\u003C\/B\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E New Hampshire, NH - Manchester City Hall Plaza, 4pm NH \u003C\/li\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003CB\u003ENEW JERSEY\u003C\/B\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Elizabeth, NJ Mitin - Warinanco park 11 AM NJ \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Jersey City, NJ ABRIL 29 Rally - Journal Square 3 PM NJ \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Newark, New Jersey - Rally Starts at 11:00AM in Lincoln Park on Broad Stree, march to 970 Broad St (Federal Immigration Buliding) NJ \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003CB\u003ENEW MEXICO\u003C\/B\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Albuquerque, NM - March Starts at 4:30pm at Holy Rosary Church, 5525 Fortuna Road - Tiguex Park 3 – 5 PM NM \u003C\/li\u003E People Present\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Santa Fe, NM - Marcha - Downtown – De Vargas Park 4 – 7 PM NM \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003CB\u003ENEVADA\u003C\/B\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Las Vegas, NV: Justice for Immigrants March - 3:30 Meet-up Commercial Center, 5:00 March to Fed. Courthouse Mitin 7 PM NV \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003CB\u003ENEW YORK\u003C\/B\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E New York, NY - APRIL 30 Public Forum (For Publico) on the STRIVE Act - LaGuardia Community College 1 – 2:30 PM NY \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E New York, NY - May Day Rally for Workers and Immigrants Rights, Union Square, 14th Street \u0026 Broadway 12:00 PM-07:00 PM NY \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E New York, NY - MayDay Rally \u0026 March for Workers \u0026 Immigrant Rights, Union Square 04:00 PM-06:30 PM NY \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003CB\u003EOREGON\u003C\/B\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Portland, OR March \u0026 Rally - South Park Blocks, SW Salmon and SW Park, 1pm Posters \u0026 Party, 4pm – Speakers \u0026 Entertainment  OR \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Salem, OR: Unity March - Rally and March for Comprehensive Immigration Reform - Oregon State Capitol - 11:00 AM-03:00 PM OR \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003CB\u003EPENNSYLVANIA\u003C\/B\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Philadelphia, PA - Elmwood Park @ South 71st St. and Buist Ave, Southwest Philly NOON TO 2 PM PA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E PITTSBURGH, PA: - 4:00 p.m. Vigil at ALLEGHENY COUNTY JAIL, 2ND AVE - 5:00 p.m. March for Immigrants' Rights PA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003CB\u003ERHODE ISLAND\u003C\/B\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Providence, RI - Rally outside of the USCIS office at 3:30pm RI \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003CB\u003ETENNESSEE\u003C\/B\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Memphis, TN - Overton Park in Veteran's Plaza, 4-6 PM TN \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003CB\u003ETEXAS\u003C\/B\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Austin, TX - Will be held on the State Capitol South Steps, 5 – 7:30 PM TX \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E El Paso, TX - Gather at the corner of Mills and Walnut at 4:30pm and march to downtown - Placita de los Lagartos TX \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Dallas, Tejas - Marcha - Catedral Santurario de Guadalupe, 2215 Ross Ave. a Alcaldia de Dallas 6:00 p.m. TX \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E McAllen, TX Marcha - Municipal Park 6 PM TX \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E San Antonio, TX - Mitin y marcha, Plaza del Zacate 12 PM – 7 PM  TX \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E SAN ANTONIO, TX: International Workers Day March - Milam Park In Front of Santa Rosa Hospital - 06:00 PM-08:00 PM TX \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003CB\u003EVERMONT\u003C\/B\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Montpelier, VT: Rally - Vermont Statehouse, 111 State St. - 12:00 PM-03:00 PM VT \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003CB\u003EWASHINGTON\u003C\/B\u003E\u003CBR \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Bellingham, WA Mitin - Cornwall Park 12-6 WA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Forks, WA - March, Rally, and Potluck, Saturday, May 2 Saturday, May 2 - Saturday, May 2, Starting at noon at Tillicum Park  WA \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E Mt. 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The report is titled \"Assessing Treasury's Strategy: Six Months of TARP.\" Though the title is dry, what Warren has to say is very important and she does a solid job getting her points across. Another way to put it is, watch this video, Warren is doing us all a great service and she deserves our attention.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cobject height=\"344\" width=\"425\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7bRerUGAOAw\u0026amp;color1=0xb1b1b1\u0026amp;color2=0xcfcfcf\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;feature=player_embedded\u0026amp;fs=1\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7bRerUGAOAw\u0026amp;color1=0xb1b1b1\u0026amp;color2=0xcfcfcf\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;feature=player_embedded\u0026amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"344\" width=\"425\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"middle\"\u003EApril 15, 2009\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EElizabeth Warren Pt. 1\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EElizabeth Warren details how much taxpayer money has been sent to Wall Street and what they've done with it.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable style='font:11px arial; color:#333; background-color:#f5f5f5' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='360' height='353'\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr style='background-color:#e5e5e5' valign='middle'\u003E\u003Ctd style='padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;'\u003E\u003Ca target='_blank' style='color:#333; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold;' href='http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/'\u003EThe Daily Show With Jon Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style='padding:2px 5px 0px 5px; text-align:right; font-weight:bold;'\u003EM - Th 11p \/ 10c\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr style='height:14px;' valign='middle'\u003E\u003Ctd style='padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;' colspan='2'\u003E\u003Ca target='_blank' style='color:#333; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold;' href='http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/video\/index.jhtml?videoId=224261\u0026title=elizabeth-warren-pt.-1'\u003EElizabeth Warren Pt. 1\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr style='height:14px; background-color:#353535' valign='middle'\u003E\u003Ctd colspan='2' style='padding:2px 5px 0px 5px; width:360px; overflow:hidden; text-align:right'\u003E\u003Ca target='_blank' style='color:#96deff; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold;' href='http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/'\u003Ethedailyshow.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr valign='middle'\u003E\u003Ctd style='padding:0px;' colspan='2'\u003E\u003Cembed style='display:block' src='http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:224261' width='360' height='301' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='window' allowFullscreen='true' flashvars='autoPlay=false' allowscriptaccess='always' allownetworking='all' bgcolor='#000000'\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr style='height:18px;' valign='middle'\u003E\u003Ctd style='padding:0px;' colspan='2'\u003E\u003Ctable style='margin:0px; text-align:center' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='100%' height='100%'\u003E\u003Ctr valign='middle'\u003E\u003Ctd style='padding:3px; width:33%;'\u003E\u003Ca target='_blank' style='font:10px arial; color:#333; text-decoration:none;' href='http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/full-episodes\/index.jhtml'\u003EDaily Show\u003Cbr\/\u003E Full Episodes\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style='padding:3px; width:33%;'\u003E\u003Ca target='_blank' style='font:10px arial; color:#333; text-decoration:none;' href='http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/tagSearchResults.jhtml?term=Clusterf%23%40k+to+the+Poor+House'\u003EEconomic Crisis\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style='padding:3px; width:33%;'\u003E\u003Ca target='_blank' style='font:10px arial; color:#333; text-decoration:none;' href='http:\/\/www.indecisionforever.com'\u003EPolitical Humor\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"middle\"\u003EApril 15, 2009\u003Cbr \/\u003EElizabeth Warren Pt. 2\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EElizabeth Warren says capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell. \u003Ctable style='font:11px arial; color:#333; background-color:#f5f5f5' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='360' height='353'\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr style='background-color:#e5e5e5' valign='middle'\u003E\u003Ctd style='padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;'\u003E\u003Ca target='_blank' style='color:#333; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold;' href='http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/'\u003EThe Daily Show With Jon Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style='padding:2px 5px 0px 5px; text-align:right; font-weight:bold;'\u003EM - Th 11p \/ 10c\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr 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wmode='window' allowFullscreen='true' flashvars='autoPlay=false' allowscriptaccess='always' allownetworking='all' bgcolor='#000000'\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr style='height:18px;' valign='middle'\u003E\u003Ctd style='padding:0px;' colspan='2'\u003E\u003Ctable style='margin:0px; text-align:center' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='100%' height='100%'\u003E\u003Ctr valign='middle'\u003E\u003Ctd style='padding:3px; width:33%;'\u003E\u003Ca target='_blank' style='font:10px arial; color:#333; text-decoration:none;' href='http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/full-episodes\/index.jhtml'\u003EDaily Show\u003Cbr\/\u003E Full Episodes\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd style='padding:3px; width:33%;'\u003E\u003Ca target='_blank' style='font:10px arial; color:#333; text-decoration:none;' href='http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/tagSearchResults.jhtml?term=Clusterf%23%40k+to+the+Poor+House'\u003EEconomic Crisis\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd 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reform"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"labor"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"march"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"may 1st"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"mayday"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"obama"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"primero de mayo"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"san francisco"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"trabajador"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"union"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"unions"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Workers Without Borders, United in Struggle: San Francisco Mayday '09 March"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Other Mayday and we march again in cities throughout the Country, in San Francisco, once more, we will be starting from my favorite Park, the beautiful Dolores Park on the corner of 18th \u0026amp; Dolores.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor many of us, this park has spiritual significance, for centuries this is where the bones of native ancestors were laid to rest and,  in our time, this is where we have ceremonies in observance of Native Americans Traditions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAppropriately this is where we, their descendants in the struggle gather in our quest for fairness and justice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dolores_Park#History\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/9\/99\/DoloresParkPanorama.jpg\/700px-DoloresParkPanorama.jpg\" align=\"middle\" width=\"530\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EDolores Park -- officially Mission Dolores Park -- is named after \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mission_Dolores\" title=\"Mission Dolores\" class=\"mw-redirect\"\u003EMission Dolores\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E, established by Spanish \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Missionaries\" title=\"Missionaries\" class=\"mw-redirect\"\u003Emissionaries\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E in 1776. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States\" title=\"Native Americans in the United States\"\u003ENative Americans\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E of the \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ohlone\" title=\"Ohlone\"\u003EOhlone\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E tribe inhabited the area for several centuries before Spanish missionaries arrived. The Ohlone shared the land with Spanish ranchers and shopkeepers until the 1849 \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California_Gold_Rush\" title=\"California Gold Rush\"\u003EGold Rush\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E, when new settlers, gamblers, and tavern keepers flooded San Francisco.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003ESan Francisco, a city of Immigrants, a city of Workers, the city of Saint Francis of Assisi, once more honors it's tradition as the accepting place we have come to know and love.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA city of workers where we have written a history of struggle, sacrifice and advances for the betterment of all, is writing another chapter in solidarity, honoring our worker tenet that \"An Injury to One, Is An Injury to All\", this year Union and Non-Union workers will be marching shoulder to shoulder making the statement that \"Native or Foreign Born, We Are The Same Working Class\" (\"Nativa o Extranjera, La Misma Clase Obrera\")\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EThe AFL-CIO and Change to Win, the nation's top two labor federations announced a framework for comprehensive immigration reform, setting aside differences with the hope of pushing legislation through this year.\u003C\/blockquote\u003EBravo for Organized Labor for finally doing the right thing, yes indeed, a worker, is a worker, is a worker, period.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EImmigrant Rights Groups and Unions in the Bay Area have announced their support for the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) . \u003Cu\u003EWorkers Without Borders, United In Struggle\u003C\/u\u003E is a coalition of organizations representing of the different communities advocating for the rights of immigrant and workers, and currently is organizing the May 1\u003Csup\u003Est\u003C\/sup\u003E March in San Francisco.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E“We want to show that we support the initiative for the liberty of all the workers in this country to decide to collectively organize in unions to improve their standard of life.”\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003EAn historical alliance during a Mayday March in a city where Labor and Immigrants have made our mark and have established San Francisco as a city of Workers and Immigrants and where the Honorable Board of Supervisors in a Resolution, Proclaimed May 1st 2008 to be \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E\"International Workers Day, affirming San Francisco as a Sanctuary City and urging the Congress of the United States to repeal the REAL ID Act of 2005\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"middle\"\u003E\u003Ca title=\"View Sf Mayday09 Flier Eng on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/14521128\/Sf-Mayday09-Flier-Eng\" style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px; 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In fact, in the 10 days  leading up to the protests, Fox News \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT156\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200904170011?f=h_latest\u0026amp;lid=1005476\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200904170011?f=h_latest\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eaired 107  ads\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E promoting them. And in addition to encouraging its viewers  to attend the protests, Fox News \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT157\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904150017?lid=1005477\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904150017\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eannounced\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E  that viewers who couldn't attend could attend \"a  virtual tax day tea party\" at TheFoxNation.com.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EWell, tax day arrived, and Fox News didn't  disappoint. Reporting from a protest in Boston, Fox Business Network anchor Cody  Willard \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT158\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904150045?show=1\u0026amp;lid=1005478\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904150045?show=1\"\u003Estated\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E, \"I'm on your side. I'm  trying to take down the Fed.\" He also  \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT159\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904150024?lid=1005479\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904150024\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Easked\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E,  \"Guys, when are we going to  wake up and start fighting the fascism that seems to be permeating this  country?\" At a protest in front of the Alamo,  Glenn Beck hosted unofficial NRA head Ted Nugent, who played guitar while Beck interviewed Joe Horn, who was \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT160\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904150053?lid=1005480\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904150053\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eidentified\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E  by a Fox News graphic as having \"shot 2  illegals burglarizing home.\" Of course, Beck wasn't covering the protest so much  as leading it. Meanwhile, John Gibson  \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT161\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904150031?show=1\u0026amp;lid=1005481\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904150031?show=1\"\u003Eexpressed\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E his \"hope[]\"  that \"millions of people\" would participate in the protests, while Neil Cavuto appeared  to inflate the numbers at the rally he was attending in Sacramento. Cavuto stated  of the Sacramento tea party: \"They were expecting  5,000 here, it's got to be easily double, if not triple that.\" However, moments  earlier, before Cavuto went on the air, a microphone \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT162\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200904160022#041709?lid=1005482\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200904160022#041709\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ecaught Cavuto  stating\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E to a producer \"There's gotta be 5,000\" -- not \"double,  if not triple\" that number.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EGeraldo Rivera was not impressed, \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT163\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904160042?show=1\u0026amp;lid=1005483\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904160042?show=1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Easserting\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E, \"The grand total of all of the tea party  demonstrators\" was less than the number \"at that immigration rally in 2006 in  the city of Chicago alone.\" Rivera added that the  immigration rally was a \"truly spontaneous demonstration,\" while the tea parties \"may have had aspects  of spontaneity.\"\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Ctable align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"350\"\u003E \u003Ctbody\u003E \u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Ci\u003E Colbert marvels at \"unexpected...spontaneous\" tea parties, adds \"I would like to throw my support behind this grassroots effort by Fox News Corporation\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPublished Thu, Apr 16, 2009 8:37am ET by Media Matters staff\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E  \u003Ctd class=\"sibtbg\"\u003E  \u003Cobject width=\"320\" height=\"260\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/static\/flash\/mediaplayer316.swf\"\u003E\u003C\/param\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"flashvars\" value=\"config=http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/embed\/cfg%3Fflv%3Dhttp:\/\/mediamatters.org\/static\/video\/2009\/04\/15\/colbert-20090415-alamo.flv\"\u003E\u003C\/param\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/static\/flash\/mediaplayer316.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" flashvars=\"config=http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/embed\/cfg%3Fflv%3Dhttp:\/\/mediamatters.org\/static\/video\/2009\/04\/15\/colbert-20090415-alamo.flv\" width=\"320\" height=\"260\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E \u003Cp\u003EWhile Bill O'Reilly was defending  Fox News' coverage of the tea parties, \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT164\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904160040?lid=1005484\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904160040\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ecalling  it\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \"vastly superior to anything else around,\" other networks  were calling out Fox News for its support of the protests. On CNN, reporter  Susan Roesgen grilled a Chicago protester who referred to President Obama as a  \"fascist\" and \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT165\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904150038?show=1\u0026amp;lid=1005485\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904150038?show=1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Esaid\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E the protests were \"highly  promoted by the right-wing conservative network Fox.\" On the \u003Cem\u003ECBS  Evening News\u003C\/em\u003E, reporter Dean Reynolds \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT166\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904150052?show=1\u0026amp;lid=1005486\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904150052?show=1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ecited\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E Beck and Cavuto as among the  \"rightward-leaning commentators\" who \"embraced the cause.\" On ABC's \u003Cem\u003EWorld News\u003C\/em\u003E, reporter Dan Harris \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT167\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904150050?show=1\u0026amp;lid=1005487\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904150050?show=1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Esaid\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E the protests were \"cheered on  by Fox News and talk radio.\" And CNN's Howard Kurtz \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT168\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904150029?show=1\u0026amp;lid=1005488\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904150029?show=1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Easserted\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E: \"I don't think I've ever  seen a news network throw its weight behind a protest like we are seeing in the  past few weeks with Fox and these tea parties.\"\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EBut Stephen Colbert \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT169\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904160008?show=1\u0026amp;lid=1005489\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904160008?show=1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Esummed it up\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E best: \"I would like to  throw my support behind this grassroots effort by Fox News  Corporation.\"\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EConservatives  freak out about a report on extremist hate  groups\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EOvershadowing the tea-party protests was the  leaking of an April 7 Department of Homeland Security \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT170\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.fas.org%252Firp%252Feprint%252Frightwing.pdf\u0026amp;lid=1005490\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" title=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/irp\/eprint\/rightwing.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eintelligence  assessment\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E of right-wing extremism. Several conservative media  figures \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT171\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200904150014?lid=1005491\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200904150014\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Echose to align  themselves\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E with the  violent and racist hate groups mentioned in the report rather than  the DHS. The report sought to identify factors -- such as the economic downturn  and an African-American president -- that these extremist groups would use to  target new recruits. Rush Limbaugh \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT172\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/limbaughwire\/2009\/04\/14#0016?lid=1005492\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/limbaughwire\/2009\/04\/14#0016\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eclaimed\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E:  \"[Y]ou have a report from Janet Napolitano and Barack Obama Department of  Homeland Security portraying standard, ordinary, everyday conservatives as  posing a bigger threat to this country than Al Qaeda terrorists or genuine  enemies of this country like Kim Jong-Il.\"  And Sean Hannity \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT173\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200904150014#041709?lid=1005493\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200904150014#041709\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Estated\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E  that the DHS \"is  warning law enforcement officials about the rise in right-wing extremist  activity\" and asserted that the department \"would define it as people that maybe  think we're not controlling our borders, people that have pro-life bumper  stickers.\" And Lou Dobbs \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT174\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200904150014#04170901?lid=1005494\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200904150014#04170901\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Easked his  viewers\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E: \"Do you think a person concerned about borders  and ports that are unsecured, illegal immigration, Second Amendment rights, or a  returning veteran from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is likely or even  possibly probable, as the Department of Homeland Security suggests, to be a  right-wing extremist?\" Of course, the report doesn't actually say that, but  Dobbs' point was echoed ad nauseam in the conservative media. Rather than  explaining that the report focused on how certain views are used as tools by  hate groups to recruit, the DHS report was portrayed as an indictment of anyone  who holds those views.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EConservative media also seized upon  an aspect of the report -- that returning military veterans are likely to be  targeted by extremist groups -- to claim that the report considered war veterans  a threat. Cavuto \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT175\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200904170005?f=s_search\u0026amp;lid=1005495\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200904170005?f=s_search\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eclaimed\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E  that the report \"more or less states the government considers you a terrorist  threat if you oppose abortion, speak out against illegal immigration, or you are  a returning war veteran.\" In fact, the report \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT176\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.fas.org%252Firp%252Feprint%252Frightwing.pdf%2523page%253D8\u0026amp;lid=1005496\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fas.org%2Firp%2Feprint%2Frightwing.pdf%23page%3D8\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Econcludes\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E that \"rightwing extremists  will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to exploit  their skills and knowledge derived from military training and  combat.\"\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EMore significantly, in reporting on  this aspect of the report, Cavuto and others in the conservative media did not note that  in reaching its conclusion about returning veterans, the DHS \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT177\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200904140033?f=s_search\u0026amp;lid=1005497\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200904140033?f=s_search\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ecited\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E a 2008 FBI \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT178\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%253A%252F%252Fcryptome.org%252Fspy-whites.pdf\u0026amp;lid=1005498\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fcryptome.org%2Fspy-whites.pdf http:\/\/cryptome.org\/spy-whites.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ereport\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E -- authored during the Bush  administration -- that stated, in the words of the DHS, that \"some returning  military veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have joined extremist  groups.\" But it should come as no surprise that conservative media figures would overlook  the Bush administration's role in their efforts to portray the Obama administration as  anti-military.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EWhile decrying the partisan nature  of the report, most media outlets  also failed to note that the DHS \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT179\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200904160006?lid=1005499\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200904160006\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eissued\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E an assessment  on January 26 of left-wing extremism, which concluded that \"a number of emerging  trends point to leftwing extremists maturing and expanding their cyber attack  capabilities over the next decade with the aim of attacking targets in the  United  States.\"\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EThe paranoia persisted on Fox News,  \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT180\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200904160035?f=h_latest\u0026amp;lid=1005500\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200904160035?f=h_latest\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eeven after\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E Shepard Smith and Catherine  Herridge \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT181\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904150046?lid=1005501\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904150046\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Edebunked\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E the claims on which much of  it was based. Herridge noted the January DHS report and said: \"[E]ven at the end of last year, prior to the  inauguration, the Homeland Security Department under the Bush administration was  sounding the alarm about the potential for right-wing groups to act,  specifically because of the economy, and also because America was  going to have its first African-American president.\" Herridge also asserted:  \"I would point out that both of these assessments ... were commissioned under the Bush  administration. It takes some time to do them. They only came out after he had  left office.\"\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003ESince the DHS report came to light  on the eve of the tea parties, several media figures drew a link between those  events and the DHS report, suggesting that the DHS would be watching the  protesters. Limbaugh \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT182\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904160019?show=1\u0026amp;lid=1005502\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904160019?show=1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eclaimed\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E: \"When Obama's policies are  the centerpiece then the people that showed up at the tea parties have to be  monitored by Homeland Security.\" And TheFoxNation.com \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT183\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904160016?lid=1005503\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904160016\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eran the  headline\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E: \"Is Homeland Security Targeting Tea Parties?\"  \u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOther noteworthy  quotes this week: \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EFollowing a three-judge panel's  ruling in the Minnesota Senate race that Democratic candidate Al Franken \"won,\"  Joe Scarborough \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT184\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904140001?show=1\u0026amp;lid=1005504\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904140001?show=1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Easked\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E, \"[W]hen are the Republicans  going to give up the ghost on this?\" He continued: \"Seriously. Norm [Coleman], I like you.  You lost, OK?\" He again added: \"It's over. I'm sorry.\"  \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBernard Goldberg, author of \u003Cem\u003EA Slobbering Love Affair: The True (and Pathetic)  Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT185\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904130032?lid=1005505\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904130032\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Etold  Hannity\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E: \"I'm sorry, Sean ... but we have to stop going out of  our way to find fault with every single thing he [Obama] does.\"  \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIn an April 15 \u003Cem\u003ESpectator\u003C\/em\u003E article, former Bush  speechwriter David Frum \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT186\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904160030?lid=1005506\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904160030\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ewrote\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E: \"[T]o listen to Fox News and  other conservative media, you'd think we were living in Czechoslovakia in the final hours  before the 1948 communist coup.\"\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EOn MSNBC, Chris Matthews \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT187\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904170010?lid=1005507\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904170010\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ecalled\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E  Texas Gov. Rick Perry a \"bozo\" and said, \"I'm sorry ... you can't decide whether to stay in the  Union or not.\" He added: \"Why are you talking  about secession? That is whack-job stuff.\"\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EOn CNN's \u003Cem\u003ELou  Dobbs Tonight\u003C\/em\u003E, Minneapolis radio host  Chris Baker \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT188\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200904150042?f=s_search\u0026amp;lid=1005508\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200904150042?f=s_search\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Esaid\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E of stimulus spending: \"The  craziest expenditure I've seen so far is Ed Rendell in Pennsylvania. To cheer up  the people of Pennsylvania -- a World Series apparently  didn't do it -- but they're hiring comics, magicians, and mimes. True. Check the  facts.\" In fact, Baker was apparently the victim of an April Fools' Day \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT189\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.pennlive.com%252Feditorials%252Findex.ssf%252F2009%252F04%252Fno_more_mopin_around_gov_rende.html\u0026amp;lid=1005509\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" title=\"http:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/editorials\/index.ssf\/2009\/04\/no_more_mopin_around_gov_rende.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ejoke\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E by \u003Cem\u003EThe Patriot-News\u003C\/em\u003E of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E  \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThis week's media  columns\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EThis week, \u003Cem\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMedia Matters\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E Senior Fellow Eric Boehlert examines \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT190\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/columns\/200904160001?lid=1005510\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/columns\/200904160001\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFox  News' militia media: mainstreaming the fringe\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E, while Senior Fellow Jamison Foser  examines the media's \u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT191\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/columns\/200904170029?lid=1005511\u0026amp;rid=26049312\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/columns\/200904170029\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eweak tea\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E -- their failure to report on the real problem of taxation without  representation in  D.C.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWeek in Review  video\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"middle\"\u003E\u003Cobject width=\"425\" height=\"344\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/iQkWSHQwwBY\u0026hl=en\u0026fs=1\"\u003E\u003C\/param\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\u003E\u003C\/param\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"\u003E\u003C\/param\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/iQkWSHQwwBY\u0026hl=en\u0026fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" align=\"middle\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis weekly wrap-up was compiled by  \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fbrifred\" title=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/brifred\"\u003EBrian Frederic\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fbrifred\" title=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/brifred\"\u003Ek\u003C\/a\u003E, deputy  editorial director at \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediamatters.org%2F\" title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediamatters.org%2F\"\u003EMedia Matters for  America\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cem\u003E. 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It would place us in the favor of a man who turns red and starts screaming when anyone disagrees with him. My grade-school teacher, wise Sister Nathan, would have called in your parents and recommended counseling with Father Hogben.\u003Cp\u003E Yes, the Sun-Times is liberal, having recently endorsed our first Democrat for President since LBJ. We were founded by Marshall Field one week before Pearl Harbor to provide a liberal voice in Chicago to counter the Tribune, which opposed an American war against Hitler. I'm sure you would have sided with the Trib at the time.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI understand you believe one of the Sun-Times misdemeanors was dropping your syndicated column. My editor informs me that \"very few\" readers complained about the disappearance of your column, adding, \"many more complained about \u003Ci\u003ENancy.\"\u003C\/i\u003E I know I did. That was the famous Ernie Bushmiller comic strip in which Sluggo explained that \"wow\" was \"mom\" spelled upside-down.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYour column ran in our paper while it was owned by the right-wing polemicists Conrad Black (Baron Black of Coldharbour) and David Radler. We dropped it to save a little money after they looted the paper of millions. Now you call for an advertising boycott. It is unusual to observe a journalist cheering for a newspaper to fail. At present the Sun-Times has no bank debt, but labors under the weight of millions of dollars in tax penalties incurred by Lord Black, who is serving an eight-year stretch for mail fraud and obstruction of justice. We also had to pay for his legal expenses.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere is a major difference between Conrad Black and you: Lord Black is a much better writer and thinker, and authored a respected biography about Roosevelt, who we were founded to defend. That newspapers continue to run your column is a mystery to me, since it is composed of knee-jerk frothings and ravings. If I were an editor searching for a conservative, I wouldn't choose a mad dog. My recommendation: The admirable Charles Krauthammer.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBill, I am concerned that you have been losing touch with reality recently. Did you really say you are more powerful than any politician?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat reminds me of the famous story about Squeaky the Chicago Mouse. It seems that Squeaky was floating on his back along the Chicago River one day. Approaching the Michigan Avenue lift bridge, he called out: \u003Ci\u003ERaise the bridge! I have an erection! \u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn more realistic terms, Keith Olbermann on his segment \"Best Persons\" Where his #1 was Roger Ebert for his open letter to Bill O'Reilly, he described it as the 'best smackdown' and suggested it as a 'must read', inspired, he called it \"Poetry\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ciframe src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22425001\/vp\/30116266#30116266\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"339\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"425\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 11px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); margin-top: 5px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; text-align: center; width: 425px;\"\u003EVisit msnbc.com for \u003Ca 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bold;\"\u003ENOTE: UPDATE FROM A.N.S.W.E.R AT FOOT OF POST WITH PRELIMINARY VICTIMS AND ARRESTS COUNT - SEEKING EYEWITNESS TO THESE EVENTS.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYesterday (March 21, 2009), I attended the action organized by the ANSWER Coalition in SF against the 6 year-old occupation of Iraq, what started as a day with some drizzle, turned out to be beautiful weather for a peaceful demonstration \/ rally at Civic Center Plaza.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was peaceful in spite of a couple of dozens pro-Iraq occupation counter-protesters, waving Israeli flags, and the usual verbal exchanges between the two sides across a cops-lined Polk street.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI started hearing that the cops were arresting a young boy behind the stage, I was located to the left of the stage as you face it and saw that there was a commotion to my right and saw cops and ANSWER Security volunteers moving toward the side where I was, the group marched and continued to an area to the left of my location, I started to shot video with my cell camcorder as I moved toward the area where they had stopped.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs you will see in the video, the group was calm, I started to hear that the cops had decided not to arrest the boy after all, while I have not confirmed that this is what happened, this was indeed the info that was circulating among the people around me.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne of the cops in the back of the group, relative to my location, can be seen given instruction to the other officers, then he moves in to where the boy and what I assume was his mother, were starting to leave walking in my direction, the cop intercepted the boy and started to push him to the back and right, members of the group started to yell in protest of the cop's action, what happened next was chaotic, to put it mildly, the other officers charged the group, pushing them as other cops converged in a flash, pushing, shoving and clubbing people in what appeared to me to be in a undiscriminated and unwarranted fashion.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs a eyewitness to these events, in my opinion, the police over-reacted and their actions were totally disproportionate to the situation, they inflamed an, albeit emotionally charged, peaceful conditions, into a melee where police abuse of force can be seen.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESF Cop moves in to arrest 9 year old boy\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cobject height=\"283\" width=\"350\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yot2a2tX0pk\u0026amp;color1=0xFF9966\u0026amp;color2=0xFFCC00\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;fs=1\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yot2a2tX0pk\u0026amp;color1=0xFF9966\u0026amp;color2=0xFFCC00\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" align=\"left\" height=\"283\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"350\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003EIn this clip (1 of 4), a Cop moves in to arrest 9 year old boy - 032109 SF Anti Irak Occupation March \u0026amp; Rally\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is one of the clips I shot with my cell camcorder during the protest in SF against the 6th year occupation of Irak, some of it was done with my hand over the head trying to aim by feel, sorry if I miss the heads of participants in some scenes but by chance I got some of\u003Cbr \/\u003Ethe action.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs a witness, in my opinion, the cops' actions were unprovoked and disproportionate to the situation, they over-reacted, although to call it over- react may not be the correct term to use, a more accurate description would be to say 'they acted'\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn this clip, you can clearly see how all was relatively calm, as the video rolls, there was a small cluster of people and cops on the street, the young boy they wanted to arrest, his mother? when the young woman, the boy and a young man started to walk away because I believe the decision was made not to arrest the boy, a cop on their right moved in to stop them and push the boy back, from then on, as you know, was very chaotic, anyway, this is the clip that captured some of that action.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight:bold;\"\u003EUPDATE:\u003C\/span\u003E This video taken by \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/Meklorka\"\u003EMeklorka\u003C\/a\u003E of same scenes but clearer.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"550\"\u003E \u003Ctbody\u003E \u003Ctr\u003E  \u003Ctd class=\"sibtbg\"\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cobject height=\"283\" width=\"350\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6dKKiaha3V4\u0026amp;color1=0xFF9966\u0026amp;color2=0xFFCC00\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;fs=1\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6dKKiaha3V4\u0026amp;color1=0xFF9966\u0026amp;color2=0xFFCC00\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"283\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"350\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cb\u003E- Here is a completely unedited video of the very beginnings of this confrontation, which clearly shows the police attacking the crowd without provocation. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe situation began when it was announced from the stage that the police were trying to arrest a nine year old Palestinian boy for reasons they would not divulge. A crowd of people rushed over to video tape and witness what was going on.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight:bold;\"\u003EUPDATE:\u003C\/span\u003E This video taken by \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/herbnotbombs\"\u003Eherbnotbombs\u003C\/a\u003E is more complete in that it shows the very beginning, it also includes the scenes of the other two videos above.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"550\"\u003E \u003Ctbody\u003E \u003Ctr\u003E  \u003Ctd class=\"sibtbg\"\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cobject height=\"283\" width=\"350\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XWlSbdCmPcU\u0026amp;color1=0xFF9966\u0026amp;color2=0xFFCC00\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;fs=1\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XWlSbdCmPcU\u0026amp;color1=0xFF9966\u0026amp;color2=0xFFCC00\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"283\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"350\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cb\u003E- The video start after the police have plucked the boy from the other demonstrators, from here they walked in the direction where I was located, you can see that all was calm, you can see protest's volunteers talking to officers in what appear to be negotiations to not have the boy arrested.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe peaceful discussion continued until one cop goes and talks to a grup of officers and then moves in to detain the young boy, this scenes ware the ones captured by the videos above.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYoung man arrested - cop with loaded grenade launcher\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"550\"\u003E \u003Ctbody\u003E \u003Ctr\u003E  \u003Ctd class=\"sibtbg\"\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cobject width=\"350\" height=\"283\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/j-BVmEZPNF4\u0026hl=en\u0026fs=1\"\u003E\u003C\/param\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\u003E\u003C\/param\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"\u003E\u003C\/param\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/j-BVmEZPNF4\u0026hl=en\u0026fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"350\" height=\"283\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cb\u003E- In this clip (3 of 4), I captured some of the activity when a young man was arrested and at the end he was led away, somewhere in the middle of the clip, there is cop with a fully loaded grenade launcher and two more grenades on the butt of the launcher, he looked very menacing,on two times I focused on him, you will catch a brief sights of another cop on his right with what appears to be a belt full of grenades\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable style=\"width: 723px; height: 681px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\" bg=\"\" align=\"center\" border=\"2\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" frame=\"box\" rules=\"none\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd colspan=\"2\"\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Ctable cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd width=\"33%\"\u003E\u003Cp align=\"justify\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Object\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT44\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.pephost.org\/site\/R?i=hRgC31SgkNcFgiYLLEuKMQ..\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.pephost.org\/images\/content\/pagebuilder\/12651.gif\" alt=\"tell a friend 1\" dfsrc=\"http:\/\/www.pephost.org\/images\/content\/pagebuilder\/12651.gif\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E \u003Ctd rowspan=\"3\" bgcolor=\"#a3a3a3\" width=\"25\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E \u003Ctr\u003E \u003Ctd\u003E \u003Ctable style=\"width: 622px; height: 415px;\" cellpadding=\"4\" cellspacing=\"4\"\u003E \u003Ctbody\u003E \u003Ctr\u003E \u003Ctd class=\"greengroove\"\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESeeking Eyewitnesses \u0026amp; Video of Mar. 21 SFPD Attack;\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemand Release of Those Arrested\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E \u003Ctable align=\"right\" cellpadding=\"4\" cellspacing=\"4\"\u003E \u003Ctbody\u003E \u003Ctr\u003E \u003Ctd\u003E \u003Cp align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.pephost.org\/images\/content\/pagebuilder\/60144.jpg\" dfsrc=\"http:\/\/www.pephost.org\/images\/content\/pagebuilder\/60144.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E \u003Ctr\u003E \u003Ctd\u003E \u003Cp align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.pephost.org\/images\/content\/pagebuilder\/60145.jpg\" dfsrc=\"http:\/\/www.pephost.org\/images\/content\/pagebuilder\/60145.jpg\" border=\"0\" height=\"722\" width=\"313\" \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003ESan Francisco police arrested 10 people and assaulted many more during and after a permitted March 21 rally in the Civic Center marking the sixth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Dozens of people suffered bruises, cuts and other injuries in unprovoked attacks. The police particularly focused their attack on young Palestinians and other Arab Americans. As of this writing, eight of those arrested remain in jail, all but one facing felony charges, their average bail is set at $50,000. One of the women arrested remains hospitalized for a head injury inflicted by an SFPD officer. The ANSWER Coalition, which was one of the central organizers of the March 21 march and rally is calling upon everyone to take action. What follows are: 1) An appeal for anyone who has eyewitness testimony and\/or video to call the National Lawyers Guild Hotline; and 2) An appeal from Arab American community organizations to make calls to the offices of the Mayor, District Attorney and SFPD demanding that charges against all those arrested at the March 21st rally be dropped and that they be immediately released.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELegal Update from the National Lawyers Guild on Mar. 21 Anti-War March in S.F.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere was a large amount of police violence at yesterday’s anti-war rally and march. The SFPD arrested ten people. Five are being held on felony Lynching and Resisting charges after a skirmish with police in the Civic Center. Their bails are $53,000 each. At least one woman reportedly suffered a head injury during the arrests. During the same incident SFPD also reportedly seriously injured two women who were not arrested but were hospitalized with numerous injures including reports of head trauma and multiple broken bones. Another five people were arrested in the BART station as the rally was ending after an incident involving pepper spray. Police arrested five Arab youths who were reportedly the victims of the pepper spraying. Two of them who were under eighteen were released to their parents; the other three are being held on Battery and Conspiracy charges also with bails of $53,000 each.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe NLG and legal volunteers are keeping track of evidence concerning these arrests. If you witnessed the incidents or know anyone who did, please have them call the legal support hotline at 415-285-1011.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe NLG will also be looking for lawyers to help with arraignments anticipated for next week.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EImmediate Action Alert from Arab American Community\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EYou can use the following to call or email city officials about the March 21st arrests:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHi my name is____________________________.\u003Cbr \/\u003EI am calling about the arrests of:  \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EMustafa Albouyha\u003Cbr \/\u003EMajdi Abu Hamdieh\u003Cbr \/\u003EElizabeth Haskell\u003Cbr \/\u003EMohammed Ibrahim\u003Cbr \/\u003ENadeen Elshorafa\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese individuals were wrongfully arrested while participating in a legal, peaceful march yesterday. 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Para Mujeres en las Artes\"\u003C\/strong\u003E -\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.brava.org\/index.php?option=com_content\u0026amp;view=article\u0026amp;id=58\u0026amp;Itemid=73\"\u003E2781 24th St. (24th @ York)\u003C\/a\u003E - Dos Presentationes: 2 p.m. \u0026amp; 6 p.m.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EMarch 8, 2009 - \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.brava.org\/\"\u003EBrava Theater\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003E\"Brava! For Women in the Arts\"\u003C\/strong\u003E -\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.brava.org\/index.php?option=com_content\u0026amp;view=article\u0026amp;id=58\u0026amp;Itemid=73\"\u003E2781 24th St. (24th @ York)\u003C\/a\u003E  - Two Presentations: 2 p.m. \u0026amp; 6 p.m\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 255);font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMARZO ES EL \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=marzo+mes+de+la+mujer\u0026amp;ie=utf-8\u0026amp;oe=utf-8\u0026amp;aq=t\u0026amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official\u0026amp;client=firefox-a\"\u003EMES DE LAS MUJERES\u003C\/a\u003E - MARCH IS \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=march+women%27s+month\u0026amp;ie=utf-8\u0026amp;oe=utf-8\u0026amp;aq=t\u0026amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official\u0026amp;client=firefox-a\"\u003EWOMEN'S MONTH\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 255);font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E1ro de Marzo: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.womenofcolorday.com\/\"\u003E\"Dia Internacional de las Mujeres de color\"\u003C\/a\u003E -\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarch 1st: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.womenofcolorday.com\/\"\u003E\"International Women of Color Day\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 255);font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E8 de Marzo: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.me.gov.ar\/efeme\/diamujer\/\"\u003E\"Dia International de La Mujer\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E- March 8th: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalwomensday.com\/\"\u003E\"International Women's Day\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003EÚ\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:arial;\"\u003Enete a este esfuerzo totalmente Comunitario asistiendo a esta Obra Teatral que cuenta con un elenco de 36 mujeres, todas ellas Activistas de la Comunidad, unidas por el afán común de despertar la conciencia al problema de la violencia doméstica y para recabar fondos en beneficio de \u003Ca href=\"mailto:tod@s\"\u003Etod@s\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\"mailto:aquell@s\"\u003Eaquell@s\u003C\/a\u003E que necesiten ayuda para romper el círculo de la violencia familiar  - \u003Cstrong\u003Etodos los ingresos, excepto la renta del Teatro, van a ser donados\u003C\/strong\u003E a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lacasadelasmadres.org\/\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\"La Casa de Las Madres\"\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E En SF y \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.casa-amiga.org\/\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\"Casa amiga\"\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E En Ciudad Juárez, México, dos organizaciones \u003Cstrong\u003Eque proveen\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003Elo necesario\u003C\/strong\u003E para salir de un círculo de violencia en el que se puedan encontrar. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:arial;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E (Casa de Las Madres en SF HELP CRISIS LINE 1.877.503.1850)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:arial;\"\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003ESi por cualquier motivo no pueden asistir, hay otras maneras de Colaborar \/ Contribuir: \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E1.\u003C\/strong\u003E Haciendo una Donación, que puede ser deducida de sus impuestos, pueden mandar cheque ó money order a nombre de \"La Casa de Las Madres\" \u003Cem\u003E(Memo:V-DAY SF09\u003C\/em\u003E) @ 730 South 11th St. S.J. CA 95112 - Tax ID 94-2330864\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2.\u003C\/strong\u003E Comprando voleto\/s para regalar a un familiar, amigo\/a - Pasando la voz é instando a otras personas que se aúnen al \u003Cstrong\u003EMOVIMIENTO V-DAY\u003C\/strong\u003E, no nadamás en el 2009, pero \u003Cstrong\u003E\"HASTA QUE LA VIOLENCIA PARE\"\u003C\/strong\u003E - Hay todavía mucho por hacer y un largo camino que recorrer.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;\"  \u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E---------------------------------\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EJoin this totally Community effort byattending this Theater Play with a cast of 36 women, all of them Community\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EActivists united with the common eagerness of raising the awareness to the domestic violence problem and to raise funds in benefit of all of those who need help to break the family violence cycle - \u003Cstrong\u003Eall of the funds raised, except rental of the theater, will be donated\u003C\/strong\u003E to \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lacasadelasmadres.org\/\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\"La Casa de Las Madres\"\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E In SF and  \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.casa-amiga.org\/\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\"Casa Amiga\"\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E In Ciudad\u003Cbr \/\u003EJuarez, Chihuahua - Mexico, two organization \u003Cstrong\u003Ewho provide what's needed\u003C\/strong\u003E to get out from a cycle of violence that anyone may face. \u003Cstrong\u003E (Casa de Las Madres en SF HELP CRISIS LINE 1.877.503.1850)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EIf for some reason you can not assist, there are other ways to Collaborate \/ Contribute.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E1.\u003C\/strong\u003E By making a Tax-Deductible Donation, by sending a check or money order to  \"La Casa de Las Madres\" \u003Cem\u003E(Memo:V-DAY SF09\u003C\/em\u003E) @ 730 South 11th St. S.J. 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Until the Violence Stops \/ Hasta que La Violencia Pare"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-314454468256699012"},"published":{"$t":"2009-02-20T03:29:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-02-20T03:57:00.227-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Archbishop Oscar Romero"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"catholic"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"christian fundamentalism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"courage"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hate"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"intolerance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"jerry maneker"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"lgbt"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"ministries"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"spiritual violence"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"transgender"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"vatican"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"FLEE TOXIC RELIGION LIKE THE PLAGUE THAT IT IS"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003ESOURCE:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"titlewrapper\"\u003E  \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/christianglbtrights.blogspot.com\/\"\u003EA CHRISTIAN VOICE FOR GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER RIGHTS\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\"A Church that doesn't provoke any crisis, a gospel that doesn't unsettle, a word of God that doesn't get under anyone's skin, a word of God that doesn't touch the real sin of society in which it is being proclaimed, what gospel is that?\" -- Archbishop Oscar Romero (1917-1980)\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E \"Never let other people define your reality or put you into bondage to their ways of thinking.\"\u003Cspan\u003E -- Jerry Maneker.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp class=\"description\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EThursday, February 19, 2009\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the pathetic attempt to deal with the \"homosexual problem\" that they themselves, the Vatican and most of the clergy within the Roman Catholic Church, have created, \"ministries\" to Gay Roman Catholics are occurring within many parishes to help Gay people deal with their \"problem\" and thereby presumably remain closer to God.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"post-body entry-content\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI have absolutely no illusion that I am any closer to God than anyone else out there. Nor do I have any inside track as to what God wants for anyone else's life! Like the Pope and the clergy within the Roman Catholic Church, and the clergy within the Protestant churches, I am a mere human being, and I would never presume to speak for God when it comes to anyone else's life!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn what I view as a cynical attempt to \"minister\" to Gay Roman Catholics so as to keep the gullible and self-loathing Gay people and their families remaining in that Church, and hopefully attract other Gay people and their families to join the Roman Catholic Church, some parishes have begun facing this \"issue\" (an \"issue\" that they, themselves, have helped create) by initiating a program called \"Courage.\" \"Courage\" views homosexuality as a \"problem to be overcome!\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo, the Vatican helps define and create being Gay as a \"problem\"; seeks to deprive and\/or rescind civil and human rights protections from Gay people; calls being Gay \"intrinsically disordered\"; calls Gay relationships \"sinful.\" And many Roman Catholic clergy now have the chutzpa to create a \"ministry\" to deal with the fallout from their (and other toxic religions') nefarious creation, and their condemnation of the very essence of a person made in God's image; seek to do so by reinforcing the correctness of their equation of Gay \"inclinations\" as being \"disordered\" and Gay relations as being \"sinful.\" And they call \"Courage\" a \"ministry,\" and undoubtedly view that \"ministry\" as being a \"loving outreach\" to \"disordered\" people!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThe Rev. James Fukes, pastor of St. Julia Catholic Church in Siler City, N.C., who will serve as the spiritual director for Courage, said the new ministry was added at the request of parishioners.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"There have been some people who asked for some ministry by the Catholic Church to help them deal with the challenges and difficulties they have and remain close to God,\" he said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENext month, the Rev. Paul Check, national director of Courage, will lead a workshop in Raleigh for priests and lay leaders. A priest in the Diocese of Bridgeport, Conn., Check has written widely on homosexuality, including one article in which he suggests that gay men come from broken homes or grew up alienated from their fathers and overprotected by their mothers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"For example, many men with same sex attraction lack hand-eye coordination and as a result were spurned or the subject of jokes by their fathers or the neighborhood boys because they could not play certain sports easily,\" Check wrote in the St. Austin Review's November-December 2008 edition.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E[For the full article, see \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.pressofatlanticcity.com\/243\/story\/405892.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.]\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll people, Gay and Straight, regardless of the pull of inertia, must flee toxic religion like the plague that it is, at all costs, given the tremendous harm it does to people's psyches and, often, to their very lives!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Christianity\" is the epitome of showing love and compassion; respecting and honoring all of God's creation; being harmless and never judging or condemning others; trusting God over and above seen circumstances and one's own prejudices; being agents of God's grace in this world!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe pathetic assertion of Rev. Paul Check, the national director of \"Courage\" that being Gay results from \"lack of hand-eye coordination and as a result [being] spurned or the subject of jokes by their fathers or the neighborhood boys because they could not play certain sports easily,\" or that \"gay men come from broken homes or grew up alienated from their fathers and overprotected by their mothers,\" would be laughable if it weren't so pathetically ignorant, simplistic, and downright dangerous.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFrankly, if being Gay resulted from the old discarded theory that one is Gay because of having strong mothers and weak or absent fathers, then I suggest that virtually everyone would be Gay! And I can't even find the words to deal with the asserted \"lack of hand-eye coordination\" and the ensuing reactions and their relationship to being Gay. This kind of arrogant ignorance boggles the mind!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut such arrogant ignorance is part and parcel of the discrimination and hateful rhetoric visited upon Gay people and their families by assorted clergy in most denominations of the institutional Church as well as by all too many professing \"Christians,\" \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldextra.com\/content\/view\/300201\/155\/\"\u003Eby some politicians\u003C\/a\u003E, and even by many youngsters in schools.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd, it's that kind of arrogant ignorance, if not downright hateful stupidity, that leads emotionally vulnerable Gay kids and adults to live lives of shame and self-loathing, resulting in lives lived in quiet and sometimes not so quiet desperation. All sorts of risk taking behaviors are likely to ensue, as well as many suicides. And the verbal and physical assaults and even murders of Gay people, or murders of people perceived to be Gay, can also be seen to be the direct result of such arrogant stupidity ironically spoken with oracular authority \"in the name of God.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERegarding the Roman Catholic Church: here we have presumably celibate clergy, and many of their followers, whose Church has been rife with, and tainted by, assorted ephebophilia scandals by not too few of their clergy, and their systematic coverups by assorted Bishops (who, in my opinion, would be serving hard time in prison for criminal facilitation, if they were not associated with the powerful Roman Catholic Church) presuming to lecture the rest of us on criteria of \"morality,\" as well as on love and sex!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELet's make it crystal clear: God doesn't make junk! God doesn't make mistakes! Being Gay is a gift from God! To deny or seek to suppress this gift is not honoring to God or to the person who seeks to repress this wonderful gift!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo be a Christian is to be a conduit for the love of God to others! And anyone who dares condemn in the name of God what God has made, is a heretic who, wittingly or unwittingly, is a tool of the devil!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShun and run from toxic religion for your own sake and for the sake of all of God's children! And always trust your own experience and never let other people define your reality for you or put you into bondage to their ways of thinking!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo, who do you trust? God and the reality of your own awareness and life-experience OR those who invoke the name of God to justify their prejudices, and spew ignorant hate-speech couched in sanctimony, falsely invoking the name of God in so doing?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou decide!  \u003C\/div\u003E   \u003Cspan class=\"post-author vcard\"\u003E Posted by \u003Cspan class=\"fn\"\u003EJerry Maneker\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cspan class=\"post-timestamp\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/314454468256699012\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/flee-toxic-religion-like-plague-that-it.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/314454468256699012"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/314454468256699012"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/flee-toxic-religion-like-plague-that-it.html","title":"FLEE TOXIC RELIGION LIKE THE PLAGUE THAT IT IS"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-2851280385160373255"},"published":{"$t":"2009-02-14T23:51:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-02-15T13:58:52.191-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"alianza news"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"homofobia"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"imigracion"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"joe arpaio"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"la tierra prometida"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"maricopa county"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"nativismo"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"prop 8"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"racismo"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"roberto al mediodia"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"roberto hernandez"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"somos america"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"the promised land"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"xenofobia"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"La tierra prometida  (The Promised Land)"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Articulo publicado en \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.alianzanews.com\/\"\u003EAlianza Metropolitan News\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPor: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/alianzanews.com\/noticiafull.asp?id=350\"\u003ERoberto Hernandez\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"250\"\u003E \u003Ctbody\u003E \u003Ctr\u003E \u003Ctd width=\"100\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/alianzanews.com\/laopinion\/aut6.jpg\" border=\"0\" height=\"114\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"100\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERoberto Hernández\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E  \u003Cb\u003E  Roberto Hernández nació en México. Es conductor de Roberto al Mediodía; el primer programa radial de Estados Unidos en español, dedicado a informar, analizar y promover el respeto a la comunidad homosexual.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.robertoalmediodia.com\/\"\u003Ewww.robertoalmediodia.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPrograma Roberto al Mediodía\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/alianzanews.com\/opinionde.asp?id=6\"\u003E13 de febrero de 2009\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETema: Violaciones a los derechos humanos de inmigrantes indocumentados en Arizona, cometidas por el sheriff Joe Arpaio.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEscuche el programa completo y tome acción para frenar los abusos de este servidor público.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInvitados al Programa:\u003Cbr \/\u003EHector Iturralde\u003Cbr \/\u003EPresidente de Somos America, y\u003Cbr \/\u003ELydia Guzman\u003Cbr \/\u003EVice-Presidenta\u003Cbr \/\u003E     \u003Cdiv class=\"player\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E         \u003Cobject type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/javascripts\/player_mp3_maxi.swf\" height=\"22\" width=\"250\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E             \u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/javascripts\/player_mp3_maxi.swf\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E             \u003Cparam name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"mp3=http:\/\/alianzanews.com\/archivo\/audio\/robertomediodia1.mp3\u0026amp;showvolume=1\u0026amp;volume=75\u0026amp;buttoncolor=000000\u0026amp;buttonovercolor=33FF33\u0026amp;slidercolor1=000000\u0026amp;slidercolor2=CCCCCC\u0026amp;volumeheight=6\u0026amp;bgcolor1=FFCC33\u0026amp;bgcolor2=FF9933\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E      \u003Cbr \/\u003E         \u003C\/object\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E     \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESOMOS AMERICA\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cobject height=\"202\" width=\"250\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OhnLzCVQnnI\u0026amp;color1=0xFF9966\u0026amp;color2=0xFFCC00\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;feature=player_embedded\u0026amp;fs=1\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OhnLzCVQnnI\u0026amp;color1=0xFF9966\u0026amp;color2=0xFFCC00\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;feature=player_embedded\u0026amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"202\" width=\"250\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPeticiones al DOJ a investigar\u003Cbr \/\u003ESheriff Joe Arpaio\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/americasvoiceonline.org\/page\/content\/sheriff\"\u003EAmerica's Voice Online Petition\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/salsa.wiredforchange.com\/o\/2749\/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=530\"\u003E\u003E Peticion de ACORN al DOJ y al Congreso que investigue violaciones a los derechos civiles en Arizona\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com\/bastard\/2009\/02\/its_on_like_donkey_kong_anti-a.php\"\u003E\u003E Febrero 28, Marcha en Phoenix en protesta de Joe Arpaio\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHoy escribo con una tristeza infinita y una gran desilusión al ver como el pasado 4 de noviembre, las comunidades afro-americana y latina que han sufrido en carne propia la discriminación en este país, han dado su aprobación a seguir con este mal que ha padecido la nación por años. Me refiero a la Proposición 8, que retira los derechos civiles a las parejas del mismo sexo a contraer matrimonio civil. Faltan palabras para describir el daño tan grande que se ha hecho a una comunidad que por años ha luchado por la igualdad de derechos y el respeto a las garantías civiles y humanas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFue verdaderamente asombroso ver cómo California, el estado más liberal y progresista de este país, y que siempre se ha distinguido por ser el líder en protección y apoyo incondicional a los derechos humanos y civiles, sin embargo, en estas ultimas elecciones nos dejó saber que en el país todavía existen seres humanos de segunda clase, tal y como lo fueron las mujeres cuando se les negó su derecho al voto, la comunidad negra luchando en contra de la esclavitud, los latinos en su lucha por injusticia a los inmigrantes indocumentados, y podríamos seguir y seguir con una lista interminable de triunfos y lágrimas en cuestión de derechos humanos.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EQuisiera enfatizar la importancia del momento histórico que se está viviendo en este país y el ser testigo y vivirlo es todo un privilegio, del cual algún día les hablaremos a nuestras futuras generaciones, de cómo influimos en él para combatir las injusticias, la discriminación y los abusos a nuestros semejantes. Para mí como inmigrante latino, gay y trabajador incansable de la igualdad de los seres humanos, es muy triste saber de cómo la historia hablará de mi comunidad hispana, máximo cuando sabemos lo que es ser maltratados, violados en nuestras garantías, excluidos a un segundo término, engañados y discriminados, y sin embargo, en esta ocasión cerramos la razón y nuestros corazones. Tal parece que el sueño del Dr. Martín Luther King Jr. se dejó escuchar parcialmente y sin mucho eco en las minorías que, antepusieron su fanatismo y creencias en el nombre de un Dios inquisidor y discriminador, para negar igualdad y derechos a sus semejantes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EComo parte de una comunidad que ha sido expulsada de congregaciones religiosas en el nombre de Dios, de países que nos han negado nuestras garantías individuales, víctimas de homofobia, violaciones a nuestro cuerpo, maltrato en nuestras comunidades y peor aun, separados de nuestras familias por el simple hecho de ser homosexuales, más de una ocasión me he preguntado si la comunidad gay, al igual que la judía, tenemos que buscar nuestra tierra prometida en donde al igual que la mayoría de los seres humanos podamos vivir en paz, gozar del aire y el sol libremente, compartir nuestra vida con quien más nos plazca, formar nuestras familias en donde ni el color ni el sexo de la persona tenga que ser un impedimento para darse amor, protección y respeto. Hoy quisiera compartir un sentimiento que me ha perseguido por toda la vida y creo que la mayoría de la comunidad LGBT (Lesbianas, Gay, Bisexual y Transgénero) lo han experimentado al igual que yo, y es el complejo de ET, el extraterrestre, como lo llamo, siempre añorando volver a casa, de regreso a nuestra galaxia, ya que sentimos que por equivocación Dios nos dejó abandonados en este mundo lleno de prejuicios y convencionalismos, que cada día nos separan más y nos envuelven en guerras por la ambición del dinero y el poder.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHoy las palabras de ese amante de la paz y la igualdad de los seres humanos, John Lennon, me suenan más sensatas que nunca, \"Imaginar que no hay gloria como tampoco un infierno, solamente un cielo soleado... Imaginar que no existen países, como nada porque matar o morir y tampoco religión… Imaginar que no existe el hambre y el dolor, solamente la hermandad del hombre... Imaginar a toda la gente viviendo la vida en paz... Imaginar a toda la gente compartiendo el mundo... Podrán decir que soy un soñador, pero no soy el único, sólo espero que algún día ustedes se unan a este sueño\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E* Fragmentos de la canción Imagina de John Lennon\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"middle\"\u003EEscuche \"Imagine\" de John Lennon\u003Cdiv class=\"player\"\u003E\u003Cobject type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/javascripts\/player_mp3_maxi.swf\" height=\"22\" width=\"250\"\u003E                 \u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/javascripts\/player_mp3_maxi.swf\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E             \u003Cparam name=\"FlashVars\" 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Land)"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-1299133273031831023"},"published":{"$t":"2009-02-14T18:49:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-02-14T18:52:46.047-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"bobby scott"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"department of justice"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"eric holder"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"house judiciary committee"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"janet napolitano"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"jerrold nadler"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"joe arpaio"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"john conyers"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"racial profiling"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"zoe loftgren"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Judiciary Committee Members Call for Investigation of Sheriff Arpaio’s Disregard for Rights of Hispanic Residents"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp class=\"header\" align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/news\/090212.html\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/images\/ConyersJC2.jpg\" alt=\"Congressman John Conyers\" height=\"126\" width=\"576\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003C!-- InstanceEndEditable --\u003E\u003C!-- InstanceBeginEditable name=\"Page Content\" --\u003E \u003Ctable border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003E \u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E \u003Ctd class=\"content\"\u003EFor Immediate Release\u003Cbr \/\u003EFebruary 13, 2009\u003C\/td\u003E \u003Ctd align=\"right\" valign=\"top\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"content\" align=\"right\"\u003E Contact: Jonathan Godfrey (Conyers)\u003Cbr \/\u003EPedro Riberio (Lofgren)\u003Cbr \/\u003EIlan Kayatsky (Nadler)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELarry Dillard (Scott)\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E \u003C\/tr\u003E \u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E \u003Cp\u003EWASHINGTON – House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), and Immigration Subcommittee Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Constitution Subcommittee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), and Crime Subcommittee Chairman Bobby Scott (D-Va.) called on Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to investigate allegations of misconduct by Maricopa County (Arizona) Sheriff Joe Arpaio.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003ESheriff Arpaio has repeatedly demonstrated disregard for the rights of Hispanics in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Under the guise of immigration enforcement, his staff has conducted raids in residential neighborhoods in a manner condemned by the community as racial profiling. On February 4, 2009, Arpaio invited the media to view the transfer of immigrant detainees to a segregated area of his \"tent city\" jail, subjecting the detainees to public display and \"ritual humiliation.\" Persistent actions such as these have resulted in numerous lawsuits; while Arpaio spends time and energy on publicity and his reality television show, \"Smile… You’re Under Arrest!\", Maricopa County has paid millions of dollars in settlements involving dead or injured inmates.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003E\"Racial profiling and segregation are simply not acceptable.\" said Conyers. \"Media stunts and braggadocio are no substitute for fair and effective law enforcement.\"\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\"The basic premise of our justice system is that people are innocent until proven otherwise,\" said Rep. Zoe Lofgren. \"I’m concerned that in Maricopa County that basic premise appears to have been turned upside down and that Latino members of community are considered \"undocumented\" until proven otherwise. That’s not how our Constitution works and it’s time for the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security to take a closer look.\"\u003C\/p\u003E   \u003Cp\u003E\"We cannot tolerate vigilantes using the police power to violate the fundamental rights of anyone they can get their hands on,\" said Nadler. \"Sheriff Arpaio has consistently abused his office in violation of federal law. It is time for the federal government to step in and uphold the rule of law in this country, even in Maricopa County.\" \"Law enforcement is not a game or a reality show, it is a public trust,\" said Scott. \"There is no excuse for callous indifference to the rights of the residents of Arizona, whether in their neighborhoods or as pretrial detainees.\"\u003C\/p\u003E          \u003Cp class=\"content\"\u003EThe text of the attached letter is linked \u003Ca class=\"content\" href=\"http:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/news\/pdfs\/Committee090212.pdf\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E                \u003Ccenter\u003E####\u003C\/center\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1299133273031831023\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/judiciary-committee-members-call-for.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/1299133273031831023"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/1299133273031831023"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/judiciary-committee-members-call-for.html","title":"Judiciary Committee Members Call for Investigation of Sheriff Arpaio’s Disregard for Rights of Hispanic Residents"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-2010140853167412463"},"published":{"$t":"2009-02-11T17:46:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-02-11T18:00:02.739-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"brown berets"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hispanic activists"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"ice"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"immigration"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"nativism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"private prison system"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"protest"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"racial profiling"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"racism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"texas"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"xenophobia"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Activists accuse Balcones Heights of profiling"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Is this a case of combining Racism, Xenophobia, Nativism to Profits?  Just fill these jails in the Private Prison Complex anyway you can?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003ESOURCE:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/local_news\/Racial_profiling_denounced.html\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/media.mysanantonio.com\/designimages\/logo-mysa-sm.gif\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/media.mysanantonio.com\/designimages\/sct-logo-news.gif\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"txt-time\"\u003EWeb Posted: 02\/10\/2009 12:00 CST\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"txt-basic\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/email_us?contentID=39346942\"\u003E                    \u003Cb\u003EBy Jeorge Zarazua \u003C\/b\u003E                    \u003C\/a\u003E                   - Express-News\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"article\"\u003E      \u003Cp\u003EMore than 40 protesters rallied outside the Balcones Heights Police Department on Monday, accusing officers of racial profiling in efforts to detain unauthorized immigrants.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E“Since early December there have been cases of racial profiling,” said Carlos de Leon, spokesman for the activist group Brown Berets of San Antonio. “The Police Department has been acting as immigration agents. As a result, they have been randomly stopping anyone who looks Hispanic and asking them for their papers.”\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EBut city officials denied the allegations, saying officers understand they cannot enforce federal immigration policies.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E“We're not acting as an ICE agent, no way,” said Police Chief Bill Stannard, referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “We're just acting as a police officer.”\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EStannard said officers do not stop anyone unless they have probable cause, such as a traffic violation. He said officers then question the suspect, and if the person doesn't have any identification and can't be identified via computer, additional steps are taken.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E“If we think they are a foreign-born national, we will call immigration,” he said. “The officer will call immigration. The agent will come out immediately or they talk to them on the telephone, and many of the times immigration is the one who will identify these people,” Stannard said.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EIt's that practice that drew the ire of the Brown Berets and several other Hispanic activist groups Monday as they marched into the Police Department's front parking lot, carrying banners and posters and shouting for justice.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E“Everybody knows we're here today to stop racial profiling here at Balcones Heights,” Tony Mandujano of the American G.I. Forum said through a bullhorn.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EMandujano, De Leon and others argued that local police officers have no business enforcing federal immigration laws.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EJim Harrington, director of the Texas Civil Rights Project, said he didn't understand why Balcones Heights would be calling immigration officials.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E“I think that's pretty reprehensible,” Harrington said. “They really don't have the right to demand people give their identification unless they have some reason to believe that the identification that person is giving them is wrong. People are not required in this country to carry some sort of proof with them of their identity.”\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003ESpokesmen for both the Bexar County Sheriff's Department and the San Antonio Police Department said they don't make it a practice to call immigration authorities regarding suspects they detain. But Ino Badillo, spokesman for the Sheriff's Department, said immigration officials do make daily stops at the county jail in search of possible unauthorized immigrants.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EStannard, a 33-year peace officer, said he feels his department is acting properly when officers detain people who can't be identified.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E“I took an oath as a police officer,” he said. “I feel like we're not racially profiling and that we're doing the right thing. It's not about race. It's not about color. 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In the process, Corrections Corporation of America has made record \u003Cspan class=\"RedLarge\"\u003Eprofits\u003C\/span\u003E. Critics suggest the CCA cuts corners on its detention \u003Cspan class=\"RedLarge\"\u003Econtracts \u003C\/span\u003E in order to increase its revenue at expense of humane conditions. Thanks to political \u003Cspan class=\"RedLarge\"\u003Econnections\u003C\/span\u003E and lobby spending, it dominates the industry of immigrant detention. \u003Cspan class=\"BoldLarge\"\u003ECCA\u003C\/span\u003E now has close to 10,000 new beds under development in anticipation of continued \u003Cspan class=\"BoldLarge\"\u003Edemand\u003C\/span\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003ERELATED: \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/%7Eaurora-grajeda\/html\/pildora\/operationendgame.html\"\u003EOPERATION ENDGAME\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Ca style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/%7Eaurora-grajeda\/html\/pildora\/operationendgame.html\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"info\"\u003E\u003Ca style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessofdetention.com\/?p=74\" rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"title\"\u003EDETENTION\u003C\/a\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EPrivate detention centers – most of which are operated by CCA – are key to the federal government’s goal of “ensuring the departure from the United States of all removable aliens,” which are estimated to total about 12 million.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHouston, TX\u003C\/strong\u003E - In a business park aptly named Export Plaza, Corrections Corporation of America runs a complex of concrete buildings surrounded by razor wire. It’s here where immigrants, like Sergia Santibanez, are locked up until they agree to leave the country.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E“When you first get there, they tell you you’re nobody,” said Santibanez, who spent 16 months there. She still breaks into tears whenever she recalls the experience.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EIn 2005, the mother of three U.S.-born children was giving several people a ride outside of Austin, where she had been living as legal resident since the 1980s. She got into an accident, and when the police came, she was arrested and eventually convicted for transporting undocumented immigrants, an aggravated felony that revoked her legal status. She served four months in a federal prison before ending up at CCA’s Houston Processing Center while the court decided whether she should be deported. \u003Ca style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessofdetention.com\/?p=74\"\u003ERead More...\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"303\"\u003E \u003Ctbody\u003E \u003Ctr\u003E \u003Ctd width=\"5\"\u003E\u003Cobject type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2H0abuwDkGg\" height=\"204\" width=\"303\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2H0abuwDkGg\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E  \u003Cb\u003E  Renee Feltz on Democracy Now! talking about Business of Detention.\u003C\/b\u003E \u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"info\"\u003E\u003Ca style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessofdetention.com\/?p=71\" rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"title\"\u003EPROFITS\u003C\/a\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EThe math is simple. More demand for immigrant detention beds, plus more government funding, equals more business for Corrections Corporation of America. Every year since 2003, the company has made record profits.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECCA generated its highest revenue ever in 2006 when ICE doubled its detention beds from 19,500 to 27,500. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe company won contracts to provide about half of these new beds.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E“We’ve never seen the wind at our back like it is today,” CCA’s President and Chief Executive Officer, John D. Ferguson said after discussing $1.3 billion in revenue during a May 2006 conference call with investors.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EThe infusion of detention center contracts marked a high point for the company after it had struggled for several years to expand. In 1999, independent auditors expressed doubt that CCA could even stay in business after the company suffered a net loss of $72 million mainly due to an abundance of empty beds.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EThat year, CCA spun off its real estate operations, Prison Realty Trust, from its correctional management services in a failed move that required a bailout from well-connected private equity firm, The Blackstone Group. The firm brought in Lehman Brothers and Bank of America to lend $350 million in exchange for four seats on the company’s board and 25 percent of company stock.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EBlackstone’s Senior Managing Director, Thomas Saylak, convinced the Wall Street partners that the infusion of capital would allow CCA to “maximize growth prospects. Over time, we believe this new direction will be recognized and rewarded by investors.” \u003Ca style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessofdetention.com\/?p=71\"\u003ERead More...\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"info\"\u003E\u003Ca style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessofdetention.com\/?p=66\" rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"title\"\u003ECONTRACTS\u003C\/a\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EIn San Diego, the ACLU lawsuit prompted ICE to move some of the detainees to other detention centers. It also prompted CCA to propose constructing a new facility nearby that would hold four times more detainees. Thus, rather than being penalized for overcrowding, the company may even end up winning a new contract.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESan Diego, CA\u003C\/strong\u003E - In 2006, the CCA-run San Diego Correctional Facility was so crowded that three immigrant detainees lived in cells designed for two. So where did the third person sleep?\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E“They would put what they called a boat, a plastic unit, on the floor in the only floor space available in the room – beneath the toilet,” explained Tom Jawetz, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Prison Project.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EThe detainees soon became restless from living in cells where they could barely move around. When new detainees were brought in, they nearly broke out into a riot and had to be subdued with teargas. By the time Jawetz filed suit to stop the overcrowding, CCA was housing overflow population in the facility’s day rooms.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EOver the years, ACLU has sued CCA for overcrowding and substandard medical treatment. ACLU lawyers say that CCA squeezes profit from immigrant detention contracts by scrimping on the already minimal services it is required to provide. Unlike prison contracts, immigrant detention contracts only provide for housing, food and medical services, not rehabilitation and education services.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003ECCA makes the most money from facilities that are full or beyond capacity. In San Diego, the ACLU lawsuit prompted Immigration and Customs Enforcement to move some of the detainees to other detention centers. It also prompted CCA to propose constructing a new facility nearby that would hold four times more detainees.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EThus, rather than being penalized for overcrowding, the company may even end up winning a new contract. “We have an existing relationship with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal customers and we want to be able to maintain that relationship,” CCA spokesman, Steve Owen, told the San Diego Union Tribune.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003ECCA also got away with providing only substandard medical care. At the San Diego facility, conditions were so bad that the Department of Immigration Health Services was forced to take over.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E“The DHS concluded CCA’s provision of medical care was deficient and that CCA was attempting to increase its profits by decreasing the medical services to detainees,” said Jawetz. \u003Ca style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessofdetention.com\/?p=66\"\u003ERead More...\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"info\"\u003E\u003Ca style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessofdetention.com\/?p=7\" rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"title\"\u003ECONNECTIONS\u003C\/a\u003E  \u003Cp\u003ECCA plays the game of politics like a pro. After all forty percent of its revenue comes from federal contracts. The company backs key politicians who support an immigration crackdown, and has intensified its lobbying in order to influence those still on the fence.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWashington, D.C.\u003C\/strong\u003E - CCA plays the game of politics like a pro. After all forty percent of its revenue comes from federal contracts.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EThe company backs key politicians who support an immigration crackdown, and has intensified its lobbying in order to influence those still on the fence. For good measure, it hires former prison and immigration officials to coordinate its federal relations.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EWhen Republicans and Democrats failed to agree on comprehensive immigration reform, CCA backed lawmakers who found common ground on the issue of funding detention. 2007 was the first year CCA’s Political Action Committee, otherwise staunchly Republican, donated $15,000 to the Democratic Congressional and Senatorial Committees, according the Federal Election Commission. However, the company gave twice this amount to the GOP.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EThe rest of CCA’s political giving went directly to lawmakers who determine detention funding through their positions on the appropriations committee in the House and Senate. In 2008, the committees approved a $2.3 billion budget for ICE detention and deportation of undocumented immigrants, including funds for an additional 4,870 new beds.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EMore than half the senators backed by CCA’s PAC are on the appropriations committee, and four of them are on the subcommittee on Homeland Security. The company was most generous with the minority ranking member, donating $5,000 each to Thad Cochran (R-MS), and the Senate Minority leader, Mitch McConnell.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 2006, it gave $1,000 to committee member, Loretta Sanchez (D-CA), who nonetheless remains critical of mass detention based. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E“In Orange County, we’ve had electronic monitoring devices and more supervision when we’ve let people out of detention centers, its been a most cost effective way to deal with a certain portion of the population, especially women with children, the elderly, and the ill,” said Sanchez. “I think there are ways we could use appropriate alternatives to keep the costs down and still monitor where people are.”\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EOne CCA-backed appropriations committee member deserves special mention. Former Tennessee governor, Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) received $31,200 from 2003-2008 from the Nashville-based company and its employees, spouses and their subsidiaries, according to Federal Election Commission documents. Alexander’s history of supporting CCA includes endorsing its failed bid in 1985 to take over the Tennessee prison system. \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.businessofdetention.com\/?p=7\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003ERead More...\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003C\/div\u003E  \u003C\/div\u003E  \u003C\/div\u003E  \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/988222593655227246\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/cca-no-1-in-immigration-detention.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/988222593655227246"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/988222593655227246"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/cca-no-1-in-immigration-detention.html","title":"CCA No. 1 in Immigration Detention Contracts"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-8165250497082958408"},"published":{"$t":"2009-02-05T01:43:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-02-05T01:50:54.906-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hate"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"human rights"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"immigrant children"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"immigrant detention centers"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"nativism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"racism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"xenophobia"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Big Business of Family Detention"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003ESOURCE: Dorinda Moreno\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFrom:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/cs\/articles?article=the_big_business_of_family_detention\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/site\/_media\/_logos\/logo.gif\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"bkt_title_pick\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"des_hed\"\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EIt's not just alleged terrorists who are suffering from our inhumane treatment of detainees. It's also children.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ctable class=\"printwidth\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"752\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr height=\"10\"\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"printwidth\" align=\"left\" height=\"10\" valign=\"top\" width=\"522\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E    \u003Ctd class=\"noprint\" align=\"left\" height=\"10\" valign=\"top\" width=\"230\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E   \u003C\/tr\u003E    \u003Ctr height=\"10\"\u003E   \u003Ctd class=\"printwidth\" align=\"left\" height=\"10\" valign=\"top\" width=\"522\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"pad_10L\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"article_byline\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"black\"\u003ECourtney E. Martin | \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"article_date\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"article_date\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"article_ital_red\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"black\"\u003EFebruary 2, 2009\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"pad_10L10R\"\u003E        \u003Cp\u003EWhen President Barack Obama made it his first act in office to shut down Guantánamo Bay prison, he effectively ended one shameful chapter in our country's embarrassingly large book of human-rights abuses. It was not so much redemption as a reminder that this country has a long, long way to go when it comes to detention, due process, and the Geneva Convention. It's not just alleged terrorists that are suffering from our inhumane treatment. It's also children. \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EThe United States is currently holding 30,000 immigrants in detention while they await hearings. The country operates three family immigrant detention centers, the most notorious of which is the T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Taylor, Texas, a former prison currently under the private management of Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). The 600-bed center detains families who are awaiting asylum or immigration hearings, a major departure from past federal policy. Pre-September 11, families charged with immigration violations (which are not criminal violations) or who came to the country asking for asylum were generally allowed to live independently as long as they agreed to attend a hearing. \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EThe transition from \"catch and release\" to \"catch and detain\" has been riddled with controversy. Immigrant detention became a boom business under the Bush administration, which supplied the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency's (ICE) $1 billion-plus detention budget. Private contractors get $200 a head per day for family detention and lobbied hard for the policy shift: \u003Ci\u003EMother Jones\u003C\/i\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/news\/feature\/2008\/07\/slammed-texas-hold-em.html\"\u003Ereports\u003C\/a\u003E that \"in 2004, when Congress passed legislation authorizing ICE to triple the number of immigrant detention beds, CCA's lobbying expenditures reached $3 million; since then, it has spent an additional $7 million on lobbyists.\" \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EThe bottom line is not just economic, however. Children and families have suffered inexcusable indignities under this new policy, which treats them like convicted criminals instead of asylum-seekers and potential citizens. Despite the fact that myriad human rights and community groups -- such as the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Immigration Studies -- have condemned the practice of detaining children in prison-like environments, ICE is seeking to open three new family detention centers, doubling its capacity. As of this writing, ICE still hasn't released the names of the winning contractors and\/or locations, but the announcement is expected to be made sometime this year with the new facilities scheduled to open in 2010. \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EImagine this: 7- and 8-year-old children dressed in hospital scrubs, savoring the last few minutes of their one hour of recreation time a day before they are brought back to their family cells, the heavy metal door closing them in for another painfully boring stint. No toys allowed. This nightmare was a reality for too many children when Hutto first opened in 2006. The Women's Refugee Commission, a New York-based nonprofit that conducted a study in collaboration with the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, found that \"immigration detention facilities for families in this country may be re-traumatizing families and their children, many of whom are seeking asylum from persecution in their home countries.\" The commission reports that on a visit to the facility, one child slipped a note into the hand of an outside visitor that said, \"Help us and ask us questions.\" \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EThanks to lawsuits against CCA, children can now wear pajamas, play, and attend classes during the day, and pregnant women are receiving \u003Ci\u003Esome\u003C\/i\u003E neonatal care, but the spirit of incarceration continues. Immigration officials claim that family detention is necessary in order to prevent immigrants and asylum-seekers from fleeing the country. However, even ICE admits that alternatives -- like its own pilot program in 2004 where specialists were assigned a limited caseload of detainees whom they monitored using home visits and telephone calls -- have a 94 percent appearance rate overall. \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EFamily detention centers may provide a meager 6 percent reduction in flight risk, but this country pays a far bigger price in lost integrity. We lock up children and their families -- many of whom have suffered economic deprivation, exploitation, and oftentimes, domestic and sexual abuse -- before they've even had a hearing as to their immigration status. \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003ERenee Feltz, a multimedia investigative journalist based in New York City who co-runs a project on \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/immigration.investigativeprojects.com\/about\/\"\u003Ethe business of immigrant detention\u003C\/a\u003E, reports that waiting in such unbearable conditions often brings immigrants -- especially women with children -- to their knees. \"Many of the people we talked to are so miserable in these facilities that they will eventually agree to being deported even if they think they have a legitimate claim to asylum,\" Feltz says. \"They just want to get out as fast as possible.\" \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EIn this way, one of the first lessons we teach potential new citizens about America is one of cruel, Orwellian hypocrisy. You must earn your freedom, if at all, via imprisonment. Dignity comes only by bearing undignified conditions. The last administration's obsession with family values is glaringly absent from this Civics 101 course. We welcome children who have heard tall tales of the abundance and liberty of America with rehabbed cells and 10 minutes to wolf down an inadequate lunch of cheap starches on a prison tray. \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EFirst and foremost, immigrant family detention must stop. On Jan. 21, Grassroots Leadership, a Southern community organizing group, launched a campaign with this goal, calling it \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.grassrootsleadership.org\/100Actions.html\"\u003E100 Actions in 100 Days\u003C\/a\u003E. Given the new administration, hope for immigration reform, and a renewed focus on addressing corporate corruption, it's an opportune time to reactivate the country around this issue. \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EBut there's an even bigger picture here that we must not lose sight of. Immigrant detention, on the whole, is riddled with corruption, inefficiencies, and indignities. Comprehensive immigration reform is a vital component of our country's next few years of healing and reform. \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EAnd an even bigger picture still: We live in a society that has bought blindly into the privatization and proliferation of our prisons. It's not so surprising that we force immigrant children to live in cells and wear hospital garb when you consider the national tendency toward incarceration, racism, and xenophobia. \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EWe've got a lot to heal. 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immigrants"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"racism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"xenophobia"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Sheriff Joe to March Chained Immigrant Detainees Through Town to New Tent City"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EThe hate and ego in this man knows no bounds, words fail to describe him, to call him an animal would be an insult to animals.\u003Cbr \/\u003EDoesn't this act fall under the category of  'cruel and inhuman treatment?' this \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003Ehumiliation\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E to  the detainees is clearly an attempt to punish, isn't he overstepping his authority?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EIf he goes through and carries out his plans, the least we can do is to file a complain with the United Nation's Human Rights Commission for this clear violation of Universal Human Rights.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EAurora\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESOURCE\u003C\/strong\u003E: Candela A.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFROM: \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lafronteratimes.com\/blog.php?id=62\u0026amp;_s=1\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELA  FRONTERA TIMES\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"txt1\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lafronteratimes.com\/blog.php?id=62\u0026amp;_s=1\"\u003EArpaio humiliates  undocumented detainees\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"txt2\"\u003EPublished by\u003Cstrong\u003E Alfredo Gutierrez \u003C\/strong\u003E- 03\/02\/2009\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"txt2\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026amp; \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/migramatters.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/sheriff-joe-to-march-immigrant.html\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMIGRA  MATTERS\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003ETuesday, February 3,  2009\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"post\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Ca name=\"683481890505455437\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ch3 class=\"post-title\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/migramatters.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/sheriff-joe-to-march-immigrant.html\"\u003ESheriff  Joe to March Immigrant Detainees Through Town to New Tent City\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"post-header-line-1\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"post-author\"\u003E \u003Cdiv  style=\"font-size:75%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003Eposted by  Duke1676\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"post-body\" id=\"post-683481890505455437\"\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"tent city\" src=\"http:\/\/i26.photobucket.com\/albums\/c144\/duke1676\/sanctuary\/tentcity.jpg\" align=\"left\" width=\"275\" \/\u003ETomorrow afternoon, Sheriff Joe Arpaio plans to parade 220  chained immigrant detainees, carrying their own bedding, through the streets of  Phoenix from the county jail to their new home in a newly expanded area in  Arpaio's infamous \"Tent City\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHaving expanded his tent facility to house  2500 of the 10,000 inmates currently incarcerated in the county jail with a  newly authorized $1.6 million dollar grant from the state, Arpaio vows to fill  it with immigrant detainees.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESurrounded by an electrified fence that Joe  jokes will be one that immigrants \"won't want to scale,\" the tent facility will  eventually become the new home for those caught in Arpaio's racial profiling  roundups.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs usual, Arpaio has invited the press to document the hour  long march in order fuel his colossal ego and need for constant media  attention.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EPRESS RELEASE\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMaricopa County Sheriff’s Office\u003Cbr \/\u003EDeputy Lindsey Smith\u003Cbr \/\u003EMedia Relations – M.C.S.O.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESpokeswoman\u003Cbr \/\u003EOffice:  602-876-1802\u003Cbr \/\u003EL_Smith@MCSO.Maricopa.Gov\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EARPAIO ORDERS MOVE OF HUNDREDS OF ILLEGAL ALIENS TO THEIR OWN TENT  CITY\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EElectric Fence to Minimize Escape Risk\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(PHOENIX,  AZ.) At 1:00 PM tomorrow, Wednesday, February 4, 2009, Maricopa County Sheriff  Joe Arpaio will order of approximately 200 illegal aliens to \u003Cstrong\u003Ebe chained  and marched \u003C\/strong\u003Einto a separate area of Tent City, their new place of  incarceration until their sentences are served and the illegal aliens are  deported to their home countries.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe move to Tent City frees up much  needed space in the Sheriff's hard facilities serving as a management tool for  potential jail overcrowding, Arpaio says.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMore importantly, the move is  a financially responsible alternative to taxpayers already over burdened by the  economic drain imposed by a growing number of illegal aliens on social services  like education and healthcare.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe move also facilitates security and  transportation issues as well as provides easier and quicker access for foreign  government visits to these inmates, the Sheriff says.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe move to Tent  City also makes room for the future. Now that the Arizona state government has  given Arpaio back his $1.6 million dollars slated for fighting illegal  immigration, more arrests by the Sheriff's human smuggling unit and crime  suppression operations are anticipated.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We have expanded the tents to  be able to house as many as 2500 inmates out of the 10,000 currently  incarcerated in the jails,\" Arpaio says. \"As we planned the expansion, I decided  to have a special area to house this particular population of inmate more  effectively and safely. Starting tomorrow, Tent City will be their new address,\"  Arpaio says.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETent City is Arpaio's canvas incarceration compound which  he opened in August of 1993. Since then, it has been a safe and cost effective  way of housing inmates and has gained worldwide attention as a model jail  program. The consolidation of a large number of illegal aliens into Tent City,  Arpaio says, should pose no substantial security problems as the area where they  will be housed is protected by an electric fence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"This is a population  of criminals more adept perhaps at escape,\" the Sheriff says. \"But this is a  fence they won't want to scale because they risk receiving quite a shock -  literally.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETomorrow's move is expected to take about an hour as the  illegal aliens make their way from the Durango Jail complex to Tent City on  Gibson Road. Traffic will be rerouted during the transfer, Arpaio says.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe inmates will enter Tent City through the west gate and pick up their  bedding before making their way to their section of the tents.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey will  be treated like all other inmates incarcerated here with two exceptions. Arpaio  wants them to be instructed in American immigration laws, as a way to help them  understand that the violation of these laws has serious consequences not only to  them but to society as a whole. And anyone found to violate jail rules, may end  up on a chain gang. This chain gang will work to clean the areas of the valley,  which have been impacted by human trafficking trade.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe inmate march  begins at 1:00 PM on Wednesday beginning at the entrance gate of Durango Jail on  Gibson Street. The 220 inmates will march east to Tent City. Interested media  are asked to park on the access road west of Estrella Jail at 2939 West Durango.  SEE MAP ATTACHED. Sheriff Arpaio will answer questions at 1:30 PM from inside  Tent City. Call the on call Media Relations person for more  information.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow much longer is this racist clown going to  be allowed to humiliate and degrade working men and women whose only real crime  was to seek a better life.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy not give Joe a call, or drop him an  e-mail to let him know just how much you appreciate the fine work he's doing out  there in Maricopa Co\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/americasvoiceonline.org\/page\/-\/americasvoice\/resources\/sherrifjoe.pdf\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EGet the facts of Sheriff Joe\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/immigrationpolicy.org\/images\/File\/factcheck\/SheriffJoeArpaio12-17-08.pdf\"\u003E \u003Cb\u003ELearn about the costs of Sheriff Joe's antics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/americasvoiceonline.org\/page\/content\/sheriff\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ESign a petition demanding a Justice Department investigation into Joe's tactics\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/41520333306015091\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/sheriff-joe-to-march-chained-immigrant.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/41520333306015091"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/41520333306015091"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/sheriff-joe-to-march-chained-immigrant.html","title":"Sheriff Joe to March Chained Immigrant Detainees Through Town to New Tent City"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/i26.photobucket.com\/albums\/c144\/duke1676\/sanctuary\/th_tentcity.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-1744818665839653695"},"published":{"$t":"2009-02-02T10:55:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-02-02T10:59:28.311-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Children Sue Obama"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003ESOURCE:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.docudharma.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=11766\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.docudharma.com\/upload\/banner111207.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable width=\"100%\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Ch2 class=\"author\"\u003Eby: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.docudharma.com\/userDiary.do;jsessionid=F91E2EAEC46343925550AC9C6CCDC443?personId=35\"\u003EPatriot Daily\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E                  \u003Ch3 class=\"diaryTimestamp\"\u003E             \u003Ci\u003ESat Jan 31, 2009 at 13:06:47 PST\u003C\/i\u003E          \u003C\/h3\u003E \u003C!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --\u003E \u003Cscript type=\"text\/javascript\"\u003Eaddthis_pub = 'DocuDharmaBlog'; 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The \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/vivirlatino.com\/2009\/01\/29\/600-children-tell-obama-dont-deport-our-parents.php\"\u003Echildren do not oppose President Obama\u003C\/a\u003E, but rather are hopeful that he will exercise his authority to either adopt an Executive Order or  promote immigration reform in Congress to cease this governmental policy of separating families.  A similar lawsuit against Bush did not accomplish diddly-shit.  This is another problem that Obama has inherited from Bush's immigration policies and also from immigration \"reform\" enacted in 1996.   One thing the children really need is public pressure.  While children suing Obama should be an attention-getting story, so far the lawsuit has been \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/feetin2worlds.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/28\/group-representing-600-children-of-immigrants-sues-president-obama\/\"\u003Ereported\u003C\/a\u003E \"almost exclusively by Spanish-language media.\"  \u003C\/td\u003E     \u003C\/tr\u003E     \u003Ctr\u003E         \u003Ctd class=\"theFlip\"\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.docudharma.com\/userDiary.do;jsessionid=F91E2EAEC46343925550AC9C6CCDC443?personId=35\"\u003EPatriot Daily\u003C\/a\u003E :: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.docudharma.com\/showDiary.do;jsessionid=F91E2EAEC46343925550AC9C6CCDC443?diaryId=11766\"\u003EChildren Sue Obama\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E     \u003C\/tr\u003E     \u003Ctr\u003E         \u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i141.photobucket.com\/albums\/r41\/patriotdaily\/human%20rights\/726254.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"160\" \/\u003ETwo children, 12-year old Cecia and 9-year old Ronald Jr., are part of the over \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/services\/newspaper\/printedition\/local\/sfl-flbdeport0131sbjan31,0,7545931.story\"\u003E600 children\u003C\/a\u003E who want to file a lawsuit to stop our government from deporting their immigrant parents.  Last December, immigration agents picked up their mother, Maricela Soza, and her children decided to fight to keep their family together here in the US.  Cecia and Ronald even tried a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/feetin2worlds.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/28\/group-representing-600-children-of-immigrants-sues-president-obama\/\"\u003Ehunger strike\u003C\/a\u003E: \u003Cblockquote\u003EWe're doing a hunger strike to help my mom get out of jail,\" a sobbing Cecia told The Associated Press. \"I would do whatever it takes to get my mommy out... I want Obama to see me to help my mother.\" The girl said she had only ingested liquids in the previous 24 hours.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E \u003Cp\u003ELast Wednesday, the US government deported Soza to Nicaragua. The children now are living with their uncle because their \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.laht.com\/article.asp?ArticleId=326786\u0026amp;CategoryId=23558\"\u003Efather is hiding\u003C\/a\u003E to avoid deportation. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is one of those under-the-radar issues that has not been deemed significant enough to warrant some basic fact-finding before our government changes laws or policies.  In 1996, Congress enacted the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, which is partially responsible for the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/feetin2worlds.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/28\/group-representing-600-children-of-immigrants-sues-president-obama\/\"\u003Elegal nightmare\u003C\/a\u003E now faced by undocumented parents.  Prior to this legislation, undocumented parents of American children had the right to judicial review of deportation and could obtain residency if \"they could show that they had been in the U.S. for over seven years, had good moral character, and the hardship inflicted on their kids by their deportation would be extreme.\"  This was the law for 40 years before the 1996 \"reform\" created automatic deportation. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBefore changing the law, Congress apparently did not determine the nature or extent of impacts on the human rights and civil rights on American children or their parents.  It is unclear how many families have been and continue to be torn apart by our policy of deporting parents.  Some figures present a dismal story.   There are more than \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/services\/newspaper\/printedition\/local\/sfl-flbdeport0131sbjan31,0,7545931.story\"\u003E3 million\u003C\/a\u003E US born children who have undocumented immigrant parents.   Since last June, many of the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/printer_friendly_wires\/2007Apr04\/0,4675,ImmigrationRaidsChildren,00.html\"\u003E18,000\u003C\/a\u003E  men and women that the US arrested and deported under Operation Return to Sender (or immigration raids at businesses) were parents living with their families here.  It was reported in 2006 that \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/democraciausa.org\/en\/headlines\/120706en3\/\"\u003Eno survey\u003C\/a\u003E had been conducted to determine how many US-born children remain in the US when their parents have been deported.  However, one study indicated a large potential pool because \"one in five children has an immigrant parent\" and 1\/3 of those immigrant parents are believed to be undocumented.  This translates to approximately \"3 million to 5 million children risk a parent's deportation.\"  While Bush's policies no doubt contributed immensely to this mess, there is some nexus between the 1996 law and the number of \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/democraciausa.org\/en\/headlines\/120706en3\/\"\u003Eincreased deportations\u003C\/a\u003E, which \"jumped from about 40,000 a year in the mid-'90s to 204,000 in 2005.\" \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis forces a most difficult choice for the parents and children between two equally unpleasant alternatives.  Do the children stay in a free, democratic US without their parents or relocate to the country from which their parents fled for some damn good reason in hopes of building a better life for their children.  For the children, their \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/printer_friendly_wires\/2007Apr04\/0,4675,ImmigrationRaidsChildren,00.html\"\u003Ehome is the US\u003C\/a\u003E:  This is where they have lived, established friendships and community ties and some worry about not being able to write in Spanish should they go with their parents. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOf course, some who support stricter immigration laws feel that our government's policy is not the culprit breaking up families. No, it is the parents who violated the law and have no respect for the rule of law. Seriously, some \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/news.newamericamedia.org\/news\/view_article.html?article_id=4276386407fb681f77bfd30820503c45\"\u003Epeople have the audacity\u003C\/a\u003E to hide under the rule of law that Bush has violated into oblivion: \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EGod also tell us that we must obey the laws of our land. Anyone that has come into this country illegally has broken those laws... . The leaders of this country take an oath to support the Constitution and protect our land. They have fallen very short on this area, by NOT enforcing our EXISTING immigration laws. In my opinion, they should be charged with treason! I welcome immigrants coming into this country, as long as they follow our laws! We need to stop the leaches from living off us!\u003C\/blockquote\u003E \u003Cblockquote\u003EBoo hoo. Maybe their parents should have thought of that before they CHOSE to come to the US illegally. The deportation of their parents should also include their anchor terds.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E \u003Cblockquote\u003EWhat are we to do change the law for each and every criminal who wants to break the law, but have children that depend on them! Please! Come on! Get real!\u003C\/blockquote\u003E \u003Cp\u003EOne big obstacle for these children is that Congress apparently determined that class-action immigration lawsuits can not be filed in federal courts, only the US Supreme Court.  Thus, this case is now before the US Supreme Court to obtain an order allowing it to be filed in the federal courts. A similar lawsuit had been filed against former President Bush, but it was \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/feetin2worlds.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/28\/group-representing-600-children-of-immigrants-sues-president-obama\/\"\u003Erejected by the US Supreme Court\u003C\/a\u003E on some technicality.  \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA House committee has been checking into this issue and may have a report with some answers in a couple weeks. The committee requested information from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement on how many parents have been deported, what is the rationale for the deportations, how long did immigrants live in the US before deportation and how many children decided to remain here when their parents were deported. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELet's hope President Obama and Congress resolve this human rights tragedy.  \u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1744818665839653695\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/children-sue-obama.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/1744818665839653695"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/1744818665839653695"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/children-sue-obama.html","title":"Children Sue Obama"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/i141.photobucket.com\/albums\/r41\/patriotdaily\/human%20rights\/th_881-Ninos245_Deportac_1_Lnew_rkstan.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-8054727064801144954"},"published":{"$t":"2009-01-29T15:05:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-01-29T15:52:11.449-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"governor rod blagojevich"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"illiois"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"impeached"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Patrick J. Quinn"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"state legislature"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Illinois: By a 59 to 0 vote, State Legislature removes Governor Rod Blagojevich from Office"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Patrick J. Quinn\u003Cbr \/\u003ELieutenant Governor of Illinois and\u003Cbr \/\u003Enow, the new Governor of Illinois\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/00\/PQuinnIllinois.jpg\/225px-PQuinnIllinois.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Cable Networks are reporting that about 30 minutes ago, by unanimous vote (59 - 0 ), the Illinois State Legislature removed Governor Rod Blagojevich from office, in addition, there was an subsequent motion to bar him from holding any public office in the future.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Governor in a change of heart, decided to make a statement to the State Legislature, which he did for about an hour, and asked them not to remove him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs of today, he is no longer Governor of Illinois, as of this moment \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pat_Quinn_%28politician%29\"\u003EPatrick J. Quinn\u003C\/a\u003E Lieutenant Governor of Illinois has been sworn in.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI really do not want to get into whether or not he broke any laws, what I really want to focus on, is the fact that many elected officials feel that the office belongs to them, that it is a vehicle for their benefit and that they can do whatever they want.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe \"Pay to Play\" Scheme is sickening, the vote and will of the people should not be up for sale, that's the bottom line.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMy hope is that many voices are raised to denounce this practice, for all we can see and hear, the Blagojevich  practice is emblematic in politics and needs to be stopped, yeah, I know it is a pipe dream but something needs to be done and, for all of the comedy of this saga, I'm glad this came to light, hopefully it will start a conversation and needed changes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELet it be so... If we do so wish and do act accordingly, in the final analysis, it is up to us.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/story\/0,25197,24983405-2703,00.html\"\u003EFrom The Australian\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003ECORRUPTION-tainted Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has been ousted from office after being accused of trying to auction off Barack Obama's Senate seat for personal gain.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Illinois state Senate has voted 59 to 0 that Democrat Mr Blagojevich abused his power and should be removed. He will be replaced by Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey found Mr Blagojevich guilty of engaging in a lengthy pattern of pay-to-play politics in which he traded campaign donations for political favors and tried to swap his ability to pick Mr Obama's replacement for a cabinet post, ambassadorship or high-paying job for himself or his spouse.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E``He repeatedly abused his power and we need to extinguish it and extinguish it today,'' senator Kirk Dillard said before the vote.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe bulk of the charges in the articles of impeachment stem from a 76-page FBI affidavit released in the wake of his December 9 arrest amid what prosecutors called a ``political corruption crime spree''.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMr Blagojevich has not yet been indicted on the fraud and extortion charges and his criminal trial is months or possibly years away.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut Illinois politicians believed the evidence against Mr Blagojevich.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMr Blagojevich, who boycotted the first three days of the trial and refused to answer questions from state MPs, made an impassioned plea to save his job.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E``I have done absolutely nothing wrong,'' Mr Blagojevich said in closing arguments.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E``I followed every law ... and when the whole truth is heard, and the whole story is told, that ultimately is what will be shown.''\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMr Blagojevich said he wanted all of the FBI wiretaps to be played to prove that the damning quotations used in the affidavit were taken out of context, including an expletive-filled description of his chance to name a senator as a ``golden'' opportunity he would not give away for ``nothin'.''\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFour of the secretly taped conversations were played during the impeachment trial but federal prosecutors asked lawmakers not to dig into the criminal charges against Mr Blagojevich out of concern that it could interfere with the criminal trial.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EProsecutors say those tapes show Mr Blagojevich pressuring a racetrack owner for a hefty campaign donation in exchange for help passing favorable legislation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut Mr Blagojevich said they are simply ``conversations relating to the things all of us in politics do in order to run campaigns and try to win elections.''\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile it would involve some ``political embarrassment,'' Mr Blagojevich said he could be exonerated if those he discussed the Senate seat with were required to testify: including Obama's chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and senate majority leader Harry Reid.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the senators were not swayed and said the limited evidence that federal prosecutors allowed them to examine was more than sufficient.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMr Obama, who has not been accused of any wrongdoing, so far has managed to emerge essentially unsullied by the scandal that shone a national spotlight on the culture of corruption in Illinois.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFive of the past nine Illinois governors have been indicted or arrested for fraud or bribery and Mr Blagojevich's predecessor, Republican George Ryan, is serving a six-and-a-half year sentence for fraud and racketeering.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMr Blagojevich, a Democrat, is the first Illinois governor to be impeached. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan 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louisiana"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"unjustice"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Crimes of Poverty: Lesson, \"Never steal anything small\""},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"SOURCE: Justin de Castro\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/article\/265402#tab=article\u0026amp;sc=0\u0026amp;local\"\u003E\"Homeless man gets 15 years for stealing $100\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis news item reminded me of the 1959 James Cagney movie titled \"Never Steal Anything Small\", the movie itself was not noteworthy acording to the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/movie\/review?res=9503E5DB1E39E632A25751C1A9649C946892D6CF\"\u003Ereview\u003C\/a\u003E by A. H. WEILER Published: February 12, 1959\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EWORKING on the somewhat startling premise that union politics simultaneously can be rough, funny, chivalrous, profitable, romantic and tuneful, scenarist-director Charles Lederer and a company of energetic players headed by James Cagney have not made anything especially big out of \"Never Steal Anything Small.\" For the comedy with music that was unveiled at the Capitol yesterday is merely an amiable antic that is only partly successful on any of these counts.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe reason I bring it up is in relation to the Ponzi scheme perpetrated by \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_L._Madoff\"\u003EBernard Lawrence \"Bernie\" Madoff\u003C\/a\u003E who allegedly defrauded investors of $50 BILLION dollars in a Ponzi scheme (Pyramid) and how this case was handled.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFrom \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_L._Madoff\"\u003EWikipedia\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMadoff was arrested by the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation\"\u003EFBI\u003C\/a\u003E on December 11, 2008 on criminal charges of securities fraud, turned in by his sons after he allegedly told them that his business was \"a giant \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ponzi_scheme\"\u003EPonzi scheme\u003C\/a\u003E.\"\u003Csup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-AP1_90-0\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_L._Madoff#cite_note-AP1-90\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E[\u003C\/span\u003E91\u003Cspan\u003E]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003Csup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-WSJ1_91-0\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_L._Madoff#cite_note-WSJ1-91\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E[\u003C\/span\u003E92\u003Cspan\u003E]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccording to the SEC, Madoff confessed to an FBI agent that there was “no innocent explanation” for his behavior,\u003Csup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-Times1_92-0\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_L._Madoff#cite_note-Times1-92\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E[\u003C\/span\u003E93\u003Cspan\u003E] \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/sup\u003Eand that he \"paid investors with money that wasn't there.\"\u003Csup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-Times121208_52-1\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_L._Madoff#cite_note-Times121208-52\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E[\u003C\/span\u003E53\u003Cspan\u003E]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe New York Times has reported that Madoff's lawyer, Ira Sorkin, has confirmed in a court filing that Madoff confessed.\u003Csup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-SorkinSays_7-1\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_L._Madoff#cite_note-SorkinSays-7\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E[\u003C\/span\u003E8\u003Cspan\u003E]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe criminal complaint alleges that investors lost $50 billion through the scheme,\u003Csup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-Times1_92-1\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_L._Madoff#cite_note-Times1-92\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E[\u003C\/span\u003E93\u003Cspan\u003E] \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/sup\u003Ethough \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Wall_Street_Journal\"\u003EThe Wall StreetJournal\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E reports \"that figure includes the alleged false profits that Mr. Madoff's firm reported to its customers for decades. It's unclear exactly how much investors deposited into the firm.\"\u003Csup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-1223WsjA_93-0\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_L._Madoff#cite_note-1223WsjA-93\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E[\u003C\/span\u003E94\u003Cspan\u003E]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe was charged with a single count of \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Securities_fraud\"\u003Esecurities fraud\u003C\/a\u003E. He faces up to 20 years in prison and a fine of $5 million if convicted.\u003Csup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-AP1_90-1\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_L._Madoff#cite_note-AP1-90\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E[\u003C\/span\u003E91\u003Cspan\u003E] \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/sup\u003EHis attorney, \u003Ca class=\"new\" title=\"Ira Sorkin (page does not exist)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Ira_Sorkin\u0026amp;action=edit\u0026amp;redlink=1\"\u003EIraSorkin\u003C\/a\u003E, stated that Madoff \"will fight to get through this unfortunate set of events.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe case is \u003Ci\u003EU.S. v. Madoff\u003C\/i\u003E, 08-MAG-02735, \u003Ca class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/U.S._District_Court_for_the_Southern_District_of_New_York\"\u003EU.S.District Court for the Southern District of New York\u003C\/a\u003E (Manhattan) with presiding Judge \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ronald_L._Ellis\"\u003ERonald L. Ellis\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Csup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-Bloom1_37-1\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_L._Madoff#cite_note-Bloom1-37\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E[\u003C\/span\u003E38\u003Cspan\u003E]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EApart from 'Bernard L. Madoff' and 'Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (\"BMIS\")', the order to freeze all activities\u003Csup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-94\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_L._Madoff#cite_note-94\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E[\u003C\/span\u003E95\u003Cspan\u003E] \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/sup\u003Ealso forbids acting and trading from the companies Madoff Securities\u003Cbr \/\u003EInternational Ltd. (\"Madoff International\") and Madoff Ltd.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMadoff was released on the same day of his arrest after posting $10 million bail.\u003Csup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-AP1_90-2\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_L._Madoff#cite_note-AP1-90\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E[\u003C\/span\u003E91\u003Cspan\u003E]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMadoff and his wife have surrendered their \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Passport\"\u003Epassports\u003C\/a\u003E, and he at first was subject to travel restrictions, a 7 p.m. curfew at his co-op, and electronic monitoring as a condition of \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bail\"\u003Ebail\u003C\/a\u003E. Although Madoff only had two co-signers for his $10 million bail, his wife and his brother Peter, rather than\u003Cbr \/\u003Ethe four required, a judge allowed him free on bail but ordered him confined to his penthouse.\u003Csup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-nydn1_95-0\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_L._Madoff#cite_note-nydn1-95\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E[\u003C\/span\u003E96\u003Cspan\u003E]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMadoff wears an electronic ankle bracelet to ensure compliance.\u003Csup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-nydn1_95-1\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_L._Madoff#cite_note-nydn1-95\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E[\u003C\/span\u003E96\u003Cspan\u003E]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMadoff has reportedly received death threats that have been referred to the FBI, and the SEC referred to fears of \"harm or flight\" in its request for Madoff to be confined to his Upper East Side apartment.\u003Csup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-nydn1_95-2\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_L._Madoff#cite_note-nydn1-95\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E[\u003C\/span\u003E96\u003Cspan\u003E]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003Csup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-nydn2_96-0\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_L._Madoff#cite_note-nydn2-96\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E[\u003C\/span\u003E97\u003Cspan\u003E]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECameras will monitor the apartment's doors, its communication devices will send signals to the FBI, and his wife will be required to pay for additional security.\u003Csup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-nydn2_96-1\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_L._Madoff#cite_note-nydn2-96\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E[\u003C\/span\u003E97\u003Cspan\u003E]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProsecutors asked on January 5, 2009, that his bail be revoked, after Madoff and his wife allegedly violated a court-ordered asset freeze by mailing jewelry worth up to $1 million to relatives, including their sons and Madoff's brother.\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was also noted that $173 million in signed checks had been found in Madoff's office desk after he had been arrested.\u003Csup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-Bloom1609_97-0\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_L._Madoff#cite_note-Bloom1609-97\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E[\u003C\/span\u003E98\u003Cspan\u003E]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003Csup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-nytimes_revoke_98-0\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_L._Madoff#cite_note-nytimes_revoke-98\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E[\u003C\/span\u003E99\u003Cspan\u003E]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHis sons reported the mailings to prosecutors. Previously, Madoff was thought to be cooperating with prosecutors.\u003Csup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-nytimes_revoke_98-1\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_L._Madoff#cite_note-nytimes_revoke-98\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E[\u003C\/span\u003E99\u003Cspan\u003E]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe following week, the Judge Ellis refused the government's request to jail Madoff, but required as a condition of bail that Madoff make an inventory of personal items and that his mail be searched.\u003Csup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-nytimes11209_99-0\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_L._Madoff#cite_note-nytimes11209-99\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E[\u003C\/span\u003E100\u003Cspan\u003E]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003EWhat a stark contrast with \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/article\/265402#tab=article\u0026amp;sc=0\u0026amp;local\"\u003Ethe crime that Roy Brown committed\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EA homeless man robbed a Louisiana bank and took a $100 bill. After feeling remorseful, he surrendered to police the next day. The judge sentenced him to 15 years in prison.\u003C\/blockquote\u003EIn comparison, Bernie Madoff faces up to 20 years in prison and a fine of $5 million if convicted and according to his lawyer, Madoff \u003Ccite\u003E\"will fight to get through this unfortunate set of events.\"\u003C\/cite\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERead, compare and weep at the sight of 'equality for all' crapola.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/img\/1\/7\/0\/5\/i\/4\/6\/4\/o\/roy_brown.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/\u003ERoy Brown, 54, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/wesawthat.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/shreveport-man-gets-15-years-for.html\"\u003Erobbed\u003C\/a\u003E the Capital One bank in Shreveport, Louisiana in December 2007. He approached the teller with one of his hands under his jacket and told her that it was a robbery.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe teller handed Brown three stacks of bill but he only took a single $100 bill and returned the remaining money back to her. He said that he was homeless and hungry and left the bank.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe next day he surrendered to the police voluntarily and told them that his mother didn’t raise him that way.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBrown told the police he needed the money to stay at the detox center and had no other place to stay and was hungry.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Caddo District Court, he pleaded guilty. The judge sentenced him to 15 years in prison for first degree robbery.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\"honesty is the Best Policy?\", \"Character counts?\" - Not according to the comparisons I made on these two cases.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELady Justice is blind? Ironically it is so true and yet it is so false, but the lessons that can be drawn are: 1. Never Steal Anything Small, 2. Do not, repeat, do not be born as a person of color and 3. 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And so are the Lemmings while going over the edge - \"Elephants In The Room\""},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I said it many times before and I'll say it again \u003Ccite\u003E\"I must be dumber than I thought I was\"\u003C\/cite\u003E, I don't get it; of course, I refer to the Republicans claim that to stimulate the economy we must go with \u003Ccite\u003E\"the true and tried... must give more tax cuts\"\u003C\/cite\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile my 'dumber than I thought I was' comment was made tongue-in-cheek, it is true in many areas, however, I'm sure that on this issue, I'm neither dumb nor as gullible as the Republicans take many people to be.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe traditional 'true and tried' method of tax cuts to stimulate the economy has been 'tried', the latests are the past Administration's ones and the only 'true' of it is that it benefits mostly the rich, they don't create jobs and they sink the country as a whole in a deeper economic hole, specially when it comes to Corporate Tax Cuts which are nothing less than Corporate Welfare.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe part that I don't get is how the Republican-following sheeple believe that tripe, I mean, you give money to the corporations for what? To produce more? Yeah, right, they are going to create jobs to produce more and provide more services for the people from whose pockets these tax cuts come out from to buy them? Ha!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI'm nowhere near to knowing how the economy works, but it seems to me that if the consumers have monetary resources, they will purchase products and services, if there is no supply, the demand will compel the companies and corporations to fill that need by increasing production, which in turn will trigger a need for more employees to meet the demand, which in turn will place resources in the employees' pockets adding them to the consumer base, which in turn will increase the demand. which in turn....\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy the way, the employees will have to pay taxes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESimplistic? Of course it is, but according to 'supply and demand', that's how it works, isn't?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt is not that tax cuts do not stimulate the economic activity, they do, albeit modestly, they do, but it does make a big difference who receives them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENo, I'm neither dumb nor gullible on this issue, I'm no economist and do not have the expertise on it to clearly eleborate on this matter, but today I got reinforcement for my beliefs while watching the \"Rachel Maddow Show\" where she gave information she got from \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.economy.com\/default.asp\"\u003EMoody's Economy.com\u003C\/a\u003E, here is the basic lowdown on \"Most Stimulative Spending\", in other words, the returns for each dollar spent:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"250\"\u003E \u003Ctbody\u003E \u003Ctr\u003E  \u003Ctd class=\"sibtbg\"\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"mva\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/images\/articles\/most_stimulative_spending_foodstamps_infraestructure.jpg\" alt=\"most_stimulative_spending_foodstamps_infraestructure.jpg - 78kb\" border=\"0\" width=\"250\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E  \u003Cb\u003EFood Stamps = $1.73\u003Cbr \/\u003EInfrastructure = $1.59\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E \u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"right\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"250\"\u003E \u003Ctbody\u003E \u003Ctr\u003E  \u003Ctd class=\"sibtbg\"\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"mva\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/images\/articles\/most_stimulative_spending_taxcuts_corporatetaxcuts.jpg\" alt=\"most_stimulative_spending_taxcuts_corporatetaxcuts.jpg - 65kb\" border=\"0\" width=\"250\" \/\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E  \u003Cb\u003ETax Cuts = $1.03\u003Cbr \/\u003ECorporate Tax Cut = \u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E¢\u003C\/span\u003E 0.30\u003C\/b\u003E \u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"425\"\u003E \u003Ctbody\u003E \u003Ctr\u003E  \u003Ctd class=\"sibtbg\"\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"mva\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd this is the video where she explains it all and asks pertinent questions, very interesting segment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Ciframe src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22425001\/vp\/28902483#28902483\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"339\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"425\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003Cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003E.msnbcLinks {font-size:11px; 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And so are the Lemmings while going over the edge - \"Elephants In The Room\""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-6079847685454297796"},"published":{"$t":"2009-01-20T10:41:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-01-20T11:04:22.438-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"acceptance speech text"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"barack obama inauguration"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Inaugural Address"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"oath of office"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"video"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Barack Obama, 44th President of USA - Oath of Office \u0026 Inaugural Address"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv 339=\"\" width=\"425\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22425001\/vp\/28738177#28738177\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" align=\"\"\u003EHere is video of Barack Obama taking the Oath of Office becoming the 44th President of the United States, followed by his Inaugural Address.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ciframe height=\"339\" width=\"425\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22425001\/vp\/28738177#28738177\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003Cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003E.msnbcLinks {font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;} .msnbcLinks a {text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px;} .msnbcLinks a:link, .msnbcLinks a:visited {color: #5799db !important;} .msnbcLinks a:hover, .msnbcLinks a:active {color:#CC0000 !important;} \u003C\/style\u003E\u003Cp class=\"msnbcLinks\"\u003EVisit msnbc.com for \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/\"\u003EBreaking News\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\"\u003EWorld News\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\"\u003ENews about the Economy\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EText of Speech as prepared for delivery:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   OBAMA: My fellow citizens:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because we the people have remained faithful to the ideals of our forebears, and true to our founding documents.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   So it has been. So it must be with this generation of Americans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   These are the indicators of crisis, subject to data and statistics. Less measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across our land — a nagging fear that America's decline is inevitable, and that the next generation must lower its sights.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America — they will be met.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   We remain a young nation, but in the words of scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted — for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things — some celebrated but more often men and women obscure in their labor, who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   For us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the West; endured the lash of the whip and plowed the hard earth.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   For us, they fought and died, in places like Concord and Gettysburg; Normandy and Khe Sahn.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   Time and again these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked till their hands were raw so that we might live a better life. They saw America as bigger than the sum of our individual ambitions; greater than all the differences of birth or wealth or faction.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   This is the journey we continue today. We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year. Our capacity remains undiminished. But our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions — that time has surely passed. Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act — not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. All this we can do. And all this we will do.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions — who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them — that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply. The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified. Where the answer is yes, we intend to move forward. Where the answer is no, programs will end. And those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account — to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day — because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   Nor is the question before us whether the market is a force for good or ill. Its power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched, but this crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control — and that a nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous. The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on our ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart — not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our founding fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake. And so to all other peoples and governments who are watching today, from the grandest capitals to the small village where my father was born: know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity, and that we are ready to lead once more.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   Recall that earlier generations faced down fascism and communism not just with missiles and tanks, but with sturdy alliances and enduring convictions. They understood that our power alone cannot protect us, nor does it entitle us to do as we please. Instead, they knew that our power grows through its prudent use; our security emanates from the justness of our cause, the force of our example, the tempering qualities of humility and restraint.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   We are the keepers of this legacy. Guided by these principles once more, we can meet those new threats that demand even greater effort — even greater cooperation and understanding between nations. We will begin to responsibly leave Iraq to its people, and forge a hard-earned peace in Afghanistan. With old friends and former foes, we will work tirelessly to lessen the nuclear threat, and roll back the specter of a warming planet. We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus — and non-believers. We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth; and because we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation, and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united, we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself; and that America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West — know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds. And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   As we consider the road that unfolds before us, we remember with humble gratitude those brave Americans who, at this very hour, patrol far-off deserts and distant mountains. They have something to tell us today, just as the fallen heroes who lie in Arlington whisper through the ages. We honor them not only because they are guardians of our liberty, but because they embody the spirit of service; a willingness to find meaning in something greater than themselves. And yet, at this moment — a moment that will define a generation — it is precisely this spirit that must inhabit us all.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies. It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break, the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends — hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism — these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility — a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   This is the price and the promise of citizenship.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   This is the source of our confidence — the knowledge that God calls on us to shape an uncertain destiny.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   This is the meaning of our liberty and our creed — why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration across this magnificent mall, and why a man whose father less than sixty years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   So let us mark this day with remembrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled. In the year of America's birth, in the coldest of months, a small band of patriots huddled by dying campfires on the shores of an icy river. The capital was abandoned. The enemy was advancing. The snow was stained with blood. At a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt, the father of our nation ordered these words be read to the people:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   \"Let it be told to the future world ... that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive...that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet (it).\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   America, in the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6079847685454297796\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/barack-obama-44th-president-of-usa-oath.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/6079847685454297796"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/6079847685454297796"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/barack-obama-44th-president-of-usa-oath.html","title":"Barack Obama, 44th President of USA - Oath of Office \u0026 Inaugural Address"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-3037983476305832889"},"published":{"$t":"2009-01-19T18:46:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-01-19T19:06:26.556-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Bush guilty of torture"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"countdown"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"keith olbermann"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"war crimes"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Olbermann: Bush guilty of torture"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003ESOURCE:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/28739674\/\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EMSNBC'S COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMAN\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Ccite\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\"President-elect Obama should not be afraid to prosecute\"\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/cite\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003ESPECIAL COMMENT\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"textMedBlackBold\"\u003EBy Keith Olbermann\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"textMedBlack\"\u003EAnchor, 'Countdown'\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"textMedBlack\"\u003Emsnbc.com\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"textTimestamp\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\"udtD\"\u003Eupdated 27 minutes ago\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cscript language=\"javascript\"\u003E   function UpdateTimeStamp(pdt) {    var n = document.getElementById(\"udtD\"); 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We have tortured people. You and I.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"textBodyBlack\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\"byLine\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003EThis is the people's democracy, we are the people, these are our elected officials. That they did not come to us and ask to act thusly in our names is unfortunate, indeed criminal, but it is also almost irrelevant. They work for us, they tortured people, and so, we have tortured people.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"textBodyBlack\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\"byLine\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003EYou and I know we have tortured Khalid Sheikh-Mohammed. We not only know about it; we have now heard it boasted about by one of the men who as of tomorrow will no longer work for us: George Walker Bush.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"textBodyBlack\"\u003E\"...the techniques were necessary and are necessary to be used on a rare occasion to get information necessary to protect the American people,\" Mr. Bush said to Fox News on January 11\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E. \"One such person who gave us information was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"textBodyBlack\"\u003E\"And I'm in the Oval Office and I am told that we have captured Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the professionals believe he has information necessary to secure the country. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"textBodyBlack\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\"byLine\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\"So I ask what tools are available for us to find information from him, and they give me a list of tools. And I said, are these tools deemed to be legal? And so we got legal opinions before the decision was made.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"textBodyBlack\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\"byLine\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\"And I think when people study the history of this particular episode they'll find out we gained good information from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in order to protect our country. We believe that the information we gained helped save lives on American soil.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"textBodyBlack\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\"byLine\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Ciframe src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22425001\/vp\/28740622#28740622\" align=\"left\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"339\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"425\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003Cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003E.msnbcLinks {font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;} .msnbcLinks a {text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px;} .msnbcLinks a:link, .msnbcLinks a:visited {color: #5799db !important;} .msnbcLinks a:hover, .msnbcLinks a:active {color:#CC0000 !important;} \u003C\/style\u003E\u003Cp class=\"msnbcLinks\"\u003EVisit msnbc.com for \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/\"\u003EBreaking News\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\"\u003EWorld News\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\"\u003ENews about the Economy\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ENever mind Mr. Bush's delusions here—never mind that all primary sources who witnessed the interrogation of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said they got nothing from him until they started buddying up to him.\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"textBodyBlack\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\"byLine\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003ENever mind that Mr. Bush's supporters' favorite torture construction—the mythical \"ticking time bomb\" scenario—not only did not transpire here, but Mr. Bush hasn't even had the imagination to pretend it, in order to just slightly cover his moral tracks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"textBodyBlack\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\"byLine\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003EThe key, is that this statement, if it had been under oath, would be…. a confession to a war crime. Mr. Bush is proactive, \"I ask what tools are available\". \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"textBodyBlack\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\"byLine\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003EMr. Bush is aware of the legal haze into which he steps: \"And I said, are these tools deemed to be legal?.\" Mr. Bush realizes the tools he has chosen… have been used: \"We gained good information from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed\". \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"textBodyBlack\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\"byLine\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003ESince we know from previous admissions from the Pentagon that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was water-boarded, we can infer that Mr. Bush knew he would be water-boarded, and knew afterwards that he had been water-boarded. Mr. Bush is guilty.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"textBodyBlack\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\"byLine\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003EHe's guilty as sin. Mr. President-Elect, you were first asked about all this on the 18\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E of April, last. I am proud to say you were asked about it by a fellow who got onto his high school newspaper while I was the editor—Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"textBodyBlack\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\"byLine\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\"I think you are right,\" you told him. \"If crimes have been committed, they should be investigated. You're also right that I would not want my first term consumed by what was perceived on the part of Republicans as a partisan witch hunt, because I think we've got too many problems we've got to solve. So this is an area where I would want to exercise judgment.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"textBodyBlack\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\"byLine\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"width: 100%;\" class=\"box_brl sitewrapperbox\"\u003E\u003Cscript\u003E\u003C\/script\u003E\u003Ctable class=\"boxH_brl\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"boxHC_brl\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"*\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"hauto textSmallBold\"\u003E  Click for related content\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Ctable class=\"boxB_brl\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr valign=\"top\"\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"boxBI_brl\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"bigRedLink\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/16270176\/\"\u003EMore Special Comments by Keith Olbermann\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thenewshole.msnbc.msn.com\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EThe News Hole: The blog of Countdown\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3036677\/\"\u003ECountdown's home page\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp class=\"textBodyBlack\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\"byLine\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003EGood. Amen. But in that brief interview, was born—or at least elucidated—the loophole, as you put it, of \"genuine crimes as opposed to really bad policies.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EVice-President-Elect Biden echoed it on December 21\u003Csup\u003Est\u003C\/sup\u003E - a statement to which your transition team has directed all those to whom this is a paramount issue, \"The questions of whether or not a criminal act has been committed or a very, very, very bad judgment has been engaged in, is something the Justice Department decides.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"t1 f70 c666 p7\"\u003E\u003Cspan cm=\"PageNavBot\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"b\" id=\"gted\" ce=\"2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/28739674\/page\/2\/\"\u003E          CONTINUED\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Chr size=\"1\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"fL pS\"\u003E1 |         \u003Ca class=\"b\" id=\"gted\" ce=\"2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/28739674\/page\/2\/\"\u003E2\u003C\/a\u003E        | \u003Ca class=\"b\" id=\"gted\" 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torture"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-6333746495494564754"},"published":{"$t":"2009-01-18T10:35:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-01-18T13:10:53.116-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"nativism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"racism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"ricardo montalbán"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"stereotyping"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"xenophobia"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Ricardo Montalbán, Turning Fantasy into reality"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ch2 id=\"stand-first\" class=\"stand-first-alone\"\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/nol\/shared\/img\/v3\/start_quote_rb.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"13\" width=\"24\" \/\u003ERicardo Montalban fought against Hollywood's racist depiction of Latinos and opened doors to a new generation of actors\u003Cimg alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/nol\/shared\/img\/v3\/end_quote_rb.gif\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" height=\"13\" width=\"23\" \/\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003ERequiescat In Pace for a great actor and extraordinary human being.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERicardo Montalbán, rightly so, did fought the inherent racism in American Society which is reflected in so many areas of everyday life.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt is both, an uplifting and sad commentary to say that while he, together with other actors, had an impact in inspiring new Latino actors to acquire and maintain a conscience of awareness to the stereotyping that ethnic groups are victims of in the entertainment industry and on the positive way that occasionally, Latinos \/ Hispanics are portrayed in films and shows, but that there is still so much to do in a system where, till now, racism and xenophobia are still institutional.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI find it ironic and highly revealing that as Latinos \/ Hispanic are portrayed in films, slighted when white actors get the roles of Latinos in Hollywood big productions' starring characters, Ricardo himself got to play Native Americans, which he did with sensitivity and respect, nevertheless, he was portraying Native Americans because apparently this ethnic group is still unacceptable to be in films, in addition, a sad fact is that he has not been the only one, the great Mexican Actress, Dolores del  Río in \"Flaming Star\",  plays the role of the beatiful Kiowa Indian wife of a white rancher (John McIntire) Their half-breed son's character was played by Elvis Presley (Pacer Burton) - \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ENOTE: This production made in 1960, is still considered a somewhat pro Native-American where la Sra. Del Río gave another stellar performance and Elvis Presley did actually gave a good performance.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn any event, I want to celebrate the life of Ricardo Montalbán and his legacy, furthermore, in his memory, I also want to reaffirm my commitment to fighting the racism and xenophobia that permeates into our daily lives, specially the misinformation and false character portrayals which people of color still endure.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/nol\/shared\/img\/v3\/start_quote_rb.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"13\" width=\"24\" \/\u003EWhen you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced - May the rest of your life be such, that when you die, the world will cry and you will rejoice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E-- From the Anonymous Poem \"The Winner's Creed\"\u003Cimg alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/nol\/shared\/img\/v3\/end_quote_rb.gif\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" height=\"13\" width=\"23\" \/\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDon Ricardo, may you rest in peace with our acknowledgment - Well Done!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAurora Grajeda\u003Cbr \/\u003ESFCA 011809\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003ESOURCE:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/cifamerica\/2009\/jan\/16\/ricardo-motalban-hollywood-latinos\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/static\/68546\/original\/zones\/comment\/images\/logo.gif\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"image\" align=\"center\"\u003E        \u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2009\/1\/16\/1232127492555\/montalban.jpg\" alt=\"The perfect hosts ... Herve Villechaize and Ricardo Montalban (right) in Fantasy Island. Photograph: Everett Collection\/Rex Features\" height=\"276\" width=\"460\" \/\u003E            \u003Cp class=\"caption\"\u003EThe perfect hosts ... Herve Villechaize and Ricardo Montalban (right) in Fantasy Island. Photograph: Everett Collection\/Rex Features\u003C\/p\u003E      \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/nol\/shared\/img\/v3\/start_quote_rb.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"13\" width=\"24\" \/\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2008\/09\/10\/damarys_ocana_140x140.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"60\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"60\" \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/damarysocaa\" name=\"\u0026amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{Damarys Ocaña}\u0026amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{1}\"\u003EDamarys Ocaña\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/\" name=\"\u0026amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{guardian.co.uk}\u0026amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{2}\"\u003Eguardian.co.uk\u003C\/a\u003E,                        Friday 16 January 2009 17.00 GMT\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/cifamerica\/2009\/jan\/16\/ricardo-motalban-hollywood-latinos#history-byline\" classname=\"rollover historylink\" id=\"historylink-byline\" class=\"rollover historylink\"\u003EArticle history\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERicardo Montalban \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/culture\/2009\/jan\/16\/ricardo-montalban-obituary\"\u003Edied on Wednesday\u003C\/a\u003E at age 88, and we got the news from a local politician who made the announcement at a Los Angeles city council meeting. To those who only knew the Mexican-born actor \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/culture\/tvandradioblog\/2009\/jan\/15\/ricardo-montalban-fantasy-island\"\u003Eas the mysterious Mr Roarke of TV's Fantasy Island\u003C\/a\u003E or may only remember his purring praise for \"soft Corinthian leather\" in those old \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/uk.youtube.com\/watch?v=vIL3fbGbU2o\"\u003EChrysler commercials\u003C\/a\u003E, it was just as well.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut to those who recognise that the Emmy-winning icon was a talented but underused actor who persevered through decades of Hollywood bigotry and typecasting with elegance and grace, a trailblazer who jeopardised his own career by advocating for younger generations of Latino actors, it was a meagre send-off. What we've lost, simply put, is one of the last remaining Hispanics who first busted through Hollywood's doors and then struggled not to pay for their audacity with their dignity and cultural identity. \"My career has been the constancy of doing the best I could with the role I had,\" Montalban once said. \"I persevered. That's the only quality that I recognise in myself.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlready a Latin American star when he hit Hollywood in the mid 1940s, Montalban could act, dance and sing and showed it off in his first American film, the Mexico-set musical \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yawR_40cJnI\"\u003EFiesta\u003C\/a\u003E. Montalban, born in Mexico of Spanish parents, had style and phenomenal presence. Hollywood, however, was a topsy-turvy world where Latinos – particularly Mexicans – were often portrayed onscreen as \"bandits, gigolos, hot señoritas and indolent peons,\" as Montalban once put it. Lead Latino characters, such as they were, were often played by white actors. Latino actors were mostly relegated to playing stereotypical ethnic bit roles – everything from filthy Mexican peasants to Japanese soldiers – even if they had the chops to do more. It's as if they were paying a never-ending string of dues for a reward that rarely came.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHispanics who succeeded in old Hollywood did so by either passing as Anglos, as in the case of Rita Hayworth – a flamenco-dancer-turned-actress who became a leading lady only after dying her dark hair red and dropping her Spanish father's last name of Cansino – or by sheer will and the willingness to risk obscurity, as in the case of Puerto Rican actress Rita Moreno. By the time Moreno won a best supporting actress Oscar in 1962 for \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Qy6wo2wpT2k\"\u003EWest Side Story\u003C\/a\u003E, the actress had endured several demeaning Latin sex-pot roles and, she once told me in an interview, the scorn of racist directors who ignored her on set. After her win, Moreno refused to make a film for seven years. Despite the award, she continued to be offered infuriatingly one-dimensional roles.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMoreno's gamble paid off as she went on to earn a Tony, Grammy and two Emmys, but Montalban chose another path. After a phenomenal start working alongside stars including Clark Gable, Lana Turner and Cyd Charisse, Montalban played small roles as Latin lovers and, bizarrely, as a Japanese Kabuki actor (Sayonara) and an Indian chief (TV's How the West Was Won, for which he won the Emmy). Part of the reason was money, he said in a fabulously revealing \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8b1xi414MLI\"\u003E2002 video interview\u003C\/a\u003E with the Archive of American \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/culture\/television\"\u003ETelevision\u003C\/a\u003E – he was a married father of four. The other reason was he simply wanted to act. \"I never had the luxury of getting 10, five or even two scripts at a time,\" Montalban says in the interview. \"As a Mexican actor, you got one, take it or leave it. I always tried to play people of different nationalities with the dignity that I wished Americans would show when they play Mexicans.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMontalban said he challenged studio executives on their portrayals of Latinos and later took the issue public by co-founding the non-profit Nosotros (\"we\" in Spanish), which pushes studios to give Latino actors more opportunities and present a more balanced portrayal of Latinos onscreen. That got the actor virtually blacklisted, and he was forced for years to make a living by hitting the road with a theatre troupe.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut two roles brought him acclaim and pop culture status late in his career: One was as the villain Khan in \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EAAl2zfk684\"\u003EStar Trek II: The Wrath of Khan\u003C\/a\u003E and the other was as Mr Roarke on \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/watch\/39275\/fantasy-island-mary-ann-and-miss-sophisticate--jungle-man\"\u003EFantasy Island\u003C\/a\u003E. It's deliciously ironic that with Roarke, Montalban, so long at the mercy of the whims of studios, got to play someone who wields the power to make wishes come true. And watching his visceral portrayal of Khan, a superhuman banished to the far reaches of the universe by Captain Kirk who comes back seeking revenge, you can't help but wonder how much of the rage is real. Reality-based or not, the performance was ballsy and grand. Said legendary film critic Pauline Kael: \"It was the only validation he has ever had of his power to command the big screen.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhat's changed in Hollywood since Montalban's time? Not much – and a lot. While Latinos are still called on to play maids, sluts, criminals and random cops on TV and in films, Montalban – and actors like Moreno – helped make the careers of current luminaries possible: Edward James Olmos, Oscar-winners Javier Bardem and Benicio del Toro, Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek and America Ferrera.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\"He was one of the true giants of arts and culture,\" \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/la-me-montalban15-2009jan15,0,3732229.story\"\u003EOlmos told the Los Angeles Times\u003C\/a\u003E. \"He was a stellar artist and a consummate person and performer with a tremendous understanding of culture ... and the ability to express it in his work.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHere's hoping Olmos is not the only one who remembers.\u003Cimg alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/nol\/shared\/img\/v3\/end_quote_rb.gif\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" height=\"13\" width=\"23\" \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6333746495494564754\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/ricardo-montalbn-turning-fantasy-into.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/6333746495494564754"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/6333746495494564754"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/ricardo-montalbn-turning-fantasy-into.html","title":"Ricardo Montalbán, Turning Fantasy into reality"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-5053498207782171286"},"published":{"$t":"2009-01-17T14:10:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-01-17T14:45:00.004-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"bush presidency"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"countdown"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"keith olbermann"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"the progress report"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"think progress"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"worst ever"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The 43 Who Helped Make Bush The Worst Ever \u0026 The Bush Presidency | eight years in eight minutes"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003ESOURCES:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/pr.thinkprogress.org\/2009\/01\/pr20090116\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/pr.thinkprogress.org\/img\/progressreport.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:180%;\"\u003E\u003Ca style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/pr.thinkprogress.org\/\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"THINK PROGRESS.ORG\"\u003C\/a\u003E And\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3036677#28699663\"\u003ECOUNTDOWN\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EWITH KEITH OLBERMANN\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003ENote: “Yes, we can” take Monday and Tuesday off. The Progress Report team will return with its normal schedule on Wednesday.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003ENext week, \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V7RRBlng8fg\"\u003Echange is coming to America,\u003C\/a\u003E\" as President George W. Bush wraps up his tenure as one of the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/01\/14\/bush-five-worst-presidents\/\"\u003Eworst American presidents ever\u003C\/a\u003E. He wasn't able to accomplish such an ignominious feat all by himself, however; he had a great deal of help along the way. The Progress Report heralds the conclusion of the Bush 43 presidency by bringing you our list of the top 43 worst Bush appointees. Did we miss anyone? Who should have been ranked higher? \u003Ca href=\"mailto:mailto:pr@thinkprogress.org\"\u003ELet us know what you think.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"231\"\u003E \u003Ctbody\u003E \u003Ctr\u003E \u003Ctd class=\"sibtbg\"\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"sih\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size:100;\" \u003EBush Presidency | eight years in eight minutes\u003C\/span\u003E  \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"o\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"o\"\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ciframe src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22425001\/vp\/28699663#28699663\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"339\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"425\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003Cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003E.msnbcLinks {font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;} .msnbcLinks a {text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px;} .msnbcLinks a:link, .msnbcLinks a:visited {color: #5799db !important;} .msnbcLinks a:hover, .msnbcLinks a:active {color:#CC0000 !important;} \u003C\/style\u003E\u003Cp class=\"msnbcLinks\"\u003EVisit msnbc.com for \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/\"\u003EBreaking News\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\"\u003EWorld News\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\"\u003ENews about the Economy\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E1. Dick Cheney\u003C\/span\u003E -- The worst Dick since Nixon. The man who \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/POLITICS\/02\/12\/cheney\/\"\u003Eshot his friend\u003C\/a\u003E while in office. The \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cheney-Americas-Powerful-Controversial-President\/dp\/B001AQVTJE\/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;s=books\u0026amp;qid=1232111984\u0026amp;sr=8-2\"\u003Emost powerful and controversial\u003C\/a\u003E vice president.\" Until he got the job, people used to actually think it was a bad thing that the vice presidency has historically been a do-nothing position. Asked by PBS's Jim Lehrer about why people hate him, Cheney rejected the premise, saying, \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.editorandpublisher.com\/eandp\/news\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003930623\" title=\"http:\/\/www.editorandpublisher.com\/eandp\/news\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003930623\"\u003EI don't buy that\u003C\/a\u003E.\" His top placement in our survey says otherwise.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E2. Karl Rove\u003C\/span\u003E -- There wasn't a scandal in the Bush administration that \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/08\/14\/rove-papers\/\"\u003ERove\u003C\/a\u003E didn't have his fingerprints all over -- see \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/06\/01\/rove-mcclellan-plame\/\"\u003EPlame\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sourcewatch.org\/index.php?title=White_House_Iraq_Group\"\u003EIraq war deception\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/nation\/article\/0,8599,1627427,00.html\"\u003EGov. Don Siegelman\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/06\/12\/new-justice-dept\/\"\u003EU.S. Attorney firings\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/04\/13\/rove-missing-emails\/\"\u003Emissing e-mails\u003C\/a\u003E, and more. As senior political adviser and later as deputy chief of staff, \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/shows\/architect\/\"\u003EThe Architect\u003C\/a\u003E\" was responsible for \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/07\/18\/mass-politicization\/\"\u003Epoliticizing\u003C\/a\u003E nearly every agency of the federal government.\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E3. Alberto Gonzales\u003C\/span\u003E -- \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/08\/30\/AR2007083000995.html\"\u003EFundamentally dishonest\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/07\/30\/doj-ig-gonzales-%E2%80%98said-he-wasnt-aware-of-what-was-going-on%E2%80%99-in-his-agency\/\"\u003Ewoefully\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2170146\/\"\u003Eincompetent\u003C\/a\u003E, Gonzales was involved in a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/07\/25\/new-doc-spying\/\"\u003Eseries\u003C\/a\u003E of \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/07\/28\/doj-report-on-hiring\/\"\u003Escandals\u003C\/a\u003E, first as White House counsel and then as Attorney General. Some of the most notable: pressuring a \"feeble\" and \"barely articulate\" Attorney General Ashcroft at his \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/08\/16\/AR2007081601358_pf.html\"\u003Ehospital bedside\u003C\/a\u003E to sign off on Bush's illegal wiretapping program; \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A48446-2005Jan4.html\"\u003Eapproving waterboarding\u003C\/a\u003E and other \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/04\/21\/sands-guantanamo\/\"\u003Etorture techniques\u003C\/a\u003E to be used against detainees; and leading the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/conason\/2007\/02\/09\/united_states_attorneys\/\"\u003Efiring of U.S. Attorneys\u003C\/a\u003E deemed not sufficiently loyal to Bush.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E4. Donald Rumsfeld\u003C\/span\u003E -- After \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-415357\/The-rise-fall-Donald-Rumsfeld.html\"\u003Ewinning praise\u003C\/a\u003E for leading the U.S. effort in ousting the Taliban from Afghanistan in 2001, the former Defense Secretary \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.newamericancentury.org\/iraqclintonletter.htm\"\u003Estrongly\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/04\/11\/feith-rumsfeld\/\"\u003Eadvocated\u003C\/a\u003E for the invasion of Iraq and then grossly \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/02\/27\/wolfowitz-shinseki\/\"\u003Emisjudged\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.noendinsightmovie.com\/\"\u003Emishandled its aftermath\u003C\/a\u003E. Rumsfeld is also responsible for \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/01\/13\/AR2009011303372_pf.html\"\u003Eauthorizing the use of torture\u003C\/a\u003E against terror detainees in U.S. custody; according to a bipartisan Senate report, Rumsfeld \"conveyed the message that physical pressures and degradation were \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/12\/washington\/12detainee.html\"\u003Eappropriate treatment for detainees\u003C\/a\u003E.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E5. Michael Brown\u003C\/span\u003E -- This \u003Ca title=\"Daily Kos: FEMA Dir. Mike Brown fired from prior job at Horse Assoc.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2005\/9\/2\/34622\/68348\"\u003Eformer \u003C\/a\u003Ecommissioner of the International Arabian Horse Association was appointed by Bush to head FEMA in 2003. After Katrina \u003Ca title=\"Think Progress » KATRINA TIMELINE\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/katrina-timeline\/\"\u003Emade landfall as a Category 4 hurricane\u003C\/a\u003E, Brownie promptly did a \"\u003Ca title=\"CNN.com - 'Can I quit now?' FEMA chief wrote as Katrina raged - Nov 3, 2005\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/US\/11\/03\/brown.fema.emails\/\"\u003Eheck of a job\u003C\/a\u003E\" \u003Ca title=\"FEMA Chief Was Recalled After High-Level Meeting - New York Times\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/09\/11\/national\/nationalspecial\/11fema.html\"\u003Ebungling the government's relief efforts\u003C\/a\u003E, and was \u003Ca title=\"CNN.com - Admiral takes over Katrina relief - Sep 9, 2005\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/POLITICS\/09\/09\/katrina.washington\/index.html\"\u003Esent back to Washington\u003C\/a\u003E a few days later. He \u003Ca title=\"CNN.com - FEMA director Brown resigns - Sep 12, 2005\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/POLITICS\/09\/12\/brown.resigns\/\"\u003Ewas forced to resign\u003C\/a\u003E shortly thereafter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E6. Paul Wolfowitz\u003C\/span\u003E -- As Deputy Secretary of Defense from 2001 to 2005, Wolfowitz was one of the primary architects of the \u003Ccountry-region st=\"on\"\u003E\u003Cplace st=\"on\"\u003EIraq\u003C\/place\u003E\u003C\/country-region\u003E war, arguing for the invasion \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.historycommons.org\/context.jsp?item=complete_timeline_of_the_2003_invasion_of_iraq_60\"\u003Eas early as Sept. 15, 2001\u003C\/a\u003E. Testifying before Congress in February 2003, Wolfowitz said that it was \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=7s-uIICROyYC\u0026amp;pg=PA98\u0026amp;lpg=PA98\u0026amp;dq=It+is+hard+to+conceive+that+it+would+take+more+forces+to+provide+stability+in+post-Saddam+Iraq\u0026amp;source=web\u0026amp;ots=aUJjGNBVMY\u0026amp;sig=g7uqFYft1tibX2h9UVMkhAnWM9Y\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;sa=X\u0026amp;oi=book_result\u0026amp;resnum=10\u0026amp;c\"\u003Ehard to conceive that it would take more\u003C\/a\u003E forces to provide stability in post-Saddam \u003Cplace st=\"on\"\u003E\u003Ccountry-region st=\"on\"\u003EIraq\u003C\/country-region\u003E\u003C\/place\u003E than it would take to conduct the war itself.\" Wolfowitz eventually admitted that \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/world\/iraq\/2003-05-30-wolfowitz-iraq_x.htm\"\u003Efor bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue\u003C\/a\u003E, weapons of mass destruction,\" as a justification for war, \"because it was the one reason everyone [in the administration] could agree on.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E7. David Addington\u003C\/span\u003E -- \"Cheney's Cheney\" was the \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/usnews\/news\/articles\/060529\/29addington.htm\"\u003Emost powerful man\u003C\/a\u003E you've never heard of.\" As the leader of Bush's legal team and Cheney's chief of staff, Addington was the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/06\/26\/AR2008062603456.html\"\u003Ebiggest proponent\u003C\/a\u003E of some of Bush's most \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/04\/29\/addington-testify-torture\/\"\u003Enotorious\u003C\/a\u003E legal abuses, such as \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/04\/21\/sands-guantanamo\/\"\u003Etorture\u003C\/a\u003E and warrantless surveillance, and is a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/archive\/2006\/07\/03\/060703fa_fact1\"\u003Eloyal follower\u003C\/a\u003E of the so-called unitary executive theory.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E8. Stephen Johnson\u003C\/span\u003E -- The \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\/2008\/04\/24\/stephen-johnson-gonzales\/\"\u003EAlberto Gonzales of the environment\u003C\/a\u003E,\" EPA Administrator Johnson \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceprogress.org\/2008\/04\/enormously-pathetic-agency\/\"\u003Esubverted the agency's mission\u003C\/a\u003E at the behest of the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\/2008\/05\/19\/waxman-white-house-epa\/\"\u003EWhite House\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.peer.org\/news\/news_id.php?row_id=1015\"\u003Ecorporate interests\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/04\/11\/johnson-claims-he-listens-to-staff\/\"\u003Esuppressing staff recommendations\u003C\/a\u003E on pesticides, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/02\/08\/AR2008020802269.html\"\u003Emercury\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.peer.org\/news\/news_id.php?row_id=508\"\u003Elead paint\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.americablog.com\/2008\/03\/bush-intervened-to-weaken-smog-rule.html\"\u003Esmog\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\/2008\/04\/02\/epa-anniversary\/\"\u003Eglobal warming\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E9. Douglas Feith\u003C\/span\u003E -- Undersecretary of Defense for Policy from 2001-2005, Feith headed up the notorious \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/news\/feature\/2004\/01\/12_405.html\"\u003EOffice of Special Plans\u003C\/a\u003E, an in-house Pentagon intelligence shop devised by Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz to \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/archive\/2003\/05\/12\/030512fa_fact\"\u003Eproduce intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq\u003C\/a\u003E. A subsequent investigation by the Pentagon's Inspector General found the OSP's work produced \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/02\/08\/AR2007020802387_pf.html\"\u003Econclusions that were not fully supported by the available intelligence\u003C\/a\u003E.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E10. John Bolton\u003C\/span\u003E -- As Undersecretary of State, Bolton offered a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/06\/26\/bolton-iraq-ad-hominem\/\"\u003Estrong voice in favor\u003C\/a\u003E of invading Iraq and pushed for the U.S. to disengage from the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/pubs\/pas\/pa-311.html\"\u003EInternational Criminal Court\u003C\/a\u003E and key international \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2005\/mar\/08\/usa.julianborger\"\u003Earms control agreements\u003C\/a\u003E. A recess appointment landed Bolton the job of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, despite his stringent \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/12\/03\/media-bolton-rice\/\"\u003Eanimosity\u003C\/a\u003E toward the world body. Today, he spends his time calling for \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/01\/02\/bolton-iran-regime-change\/\"\u003Ewar with Iran\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E11. John Yoo\u003C\/span\u003E -- As a lawyer for the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, Yoo \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/02\/washington\/02terror.html?_r=1\u0026amp;hp\u0026amp;oref=slogin\"\u003Eauthored a series of legal memos\u003C\/a\u003E giving military interrogators authority to use torture and coercive techniques when interviewing terrorist suspects. Yoo said that only those techniques that inflict pain equivalent to \"death, organ failure or permanent damage resulting in a loss of significant body functions\" constitute torture. Last year, he refused to answer whether or not the president could order a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/06\/26\/yoo-burry-alive\/\"\u003Edetainee to be buried alive\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E12. Ari Fleischer\u003C\/span\u003E -- Bush's first press secretary helped redefine the role as that of liar-in-chief rather than informer of the public, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/doc.mhtml?i=w070416\u0026amp;s=chait041607\" title=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/doc.mhtml?i=w070416\u0026amp;s=chait041607\"\u003Eearning\u003C\/a\u003E a reputation as \"the world's most dishonest flack.\" Whereas his successors sometimes looked uncomfortable lying, Fleischer was having fun, spinning a cowed and gullible press corps through two massive tax cuts and the initiation of a war undertaken on false pretenses.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E13. John Ashcroft\u003C\/span\u003E -- In 2003, as Bush's first Attorney General, Ashcroft \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/04\/09\/bush-principals-torture\/\"\u003Eapproved waterboarding\u003C\/a\u003E and other torture techniques on detainees. Ashcroft's nomination was controversial, as he had a history of \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html?res=9E05E3D9153DF937A25752C0A9679C8B63\"\u003Eopposing school desegregation\u003C\/a\u003E. The chief \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2003-09-15-ashcroft-usat_x.htm\"\u003Earchitect\u003C\/a\u003E of the invasive Patriot Act, Ashcroft maintains to this day that Bush is \"among the most \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/02\/10\/ashcroft-bush-is-the-most-respectful-ever-of-civil-liberties\/\"\u003Erespectful of all leaders ever\u003C\/a\u003E\" of civil liberties.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E14. Henry Paulson\u003C\/span\u003E -- Even as the financial system was crashing down around him, Treasury Secretary Paulson insisted for months that th\u003Ccountry-region st=\"on\"\u003E\u003Cplace st=\"on\"\u003Ee\u003C\/place\u003E\u003C\/country-region\u003E banking system was \"\u003Ca title=\"http:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\/2008\/09\/17\/paulson-safe-sound\/\" href=\"http:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\/2008\/09\/17\/paulson-safe-sound\/\"\u003Esafe and sound\u003C\/a\u003E.\" Once he decided that the economy needed saving, Paulson requested nearly \u003Ca title=\"http:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\/2008\/09\/22\/paulson-unfettered\/\" href=\"http:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\/2008\/09\/22\/paulson-unfettered\/\"\u003Eunfettered authority\u003C\/a\u003E to send billions of taxpayer dollars to banks with \u003Ca title=\"http:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\/2008\/12\/22\/banks-tarp\/\" href=\"http:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\/2008\/12\/22\/banks-tarp\/\"\u003Eno oversight\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E15. L. Paul Bremer\u003C\/span\u003E -- This \u003Ca title=\"Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient L. Paul Bremer III\" href=\"http:\/\/www.medaloffreedom.com\/PaulBremer.htm\"\u003EPresidential Medal of Freedom winner\u003C\/a\u003E took over the Coalition Provisional Authority in May 2003. Under his mismanagement, the \u003Ca title=\"What Bremer Got Wrong in Iraq   - washingtonpost.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/05\/15\/AR2007051501322.html\"\u003Einsurgency exploded\u003C\/a\u003E in Iraq. Bremer claimed he had \u003Ca title=\"DefenseLink News Transcript: Ambassador Bremer Conference Call with Editorial Writers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.defenselink.mil\/transcripts\/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=2890\"\u003Eall the troops he needed\u003C\/a\u003E to secure the country, overestimated the strength of the new U.S.-trained Iraqi army, \u003Ca title=\"Joint Chiefs Bypassed in Decision to Disband Iraqi Army: Pace\" href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headlines04\/0218-06.htm\"\u003Edisbanded the Iraqi army\u003C\/a\u003E leaving thousands of Iraqi soldiers with \u003Ca title=\"Bush  is foggy on Iraq army - Los Angeles Times\" href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2007\/sep\/03\/nation\/na-bush3\"\u003Eno income and no occupation\u003C\/a\u003E, and enacted a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/pr.thinkprogress.org\/2008\/01\/pr20080116\"\u003Ede-Baathification law\u003C\/a\u003E that barred many experienced Iraqis from government positions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E16. Bradley Schlozman\u003C\/span\u003E -- As a recent DOJ Inspector General \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/01\/13\/AR2009011301184.html?hpid=moreheadlines\"\u003Ereport\u003C\/a\u003E demonstrates, Schlozman was \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/06\/05\/schlozman-101\/\"\u003Ea central figure in Bush's politicization\u003C\/a\u003E of the Justice Department. Violating civil service laws, Schlozman used political and ideological considerations to ensure that only \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/01\/13\/AR2009011301184.html?hpid=moreheadlines\"\u003Eright-thinking Americans\u003C\/a\u003E\" received jobs. He eventually lied to Congress about his efforts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E17. J. Steven Griles -- \u003C\/span\u003EA former energy lobbyist and no. 2 official in the Interior Department, Griles went to jail for lying to Congress about \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/03\/23\/griles-to-admit-he-lied-to-congress-about-abramoff\/\"\u003Eillegal favors he did for corrupt lobbyist Jack Abramoff\u003C\/a\u003E. Griles also \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\/2008\/10\/16\/snowmobile-for-george\/\"\u003Eabused his position\u003C\/a\u003E \"to \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/stclair06282003.html\"\u003Eunlock nearly every legal barrier to exploitation\u003C\/a\u003E\" of our nation's oil and mineral reserves. Before his conviction, Griles left the White House to become a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/02\/14\/oil-lobbyist-and-bush-enviro-lawyer-share-vacation-home\/\"\u003Elobbyist for ConocoPhillips\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E18. Condoleezza Rice\u003C\/span\u003E -- As Bush's national security adviser, Rice was another strong advocate for invading Iraq, once famously warning that the U.S. should attack Iraq and not wait for solid proof of its WMD because \"we don't want the smoking gun to be a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/US\/01\/10\/wbr.smoking.gun\/\"\u003Emushroom cloud\u003C\/a\u003E.\"  Rice also \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2006\/10\/03\/rice-urgent-threat\/\"\u003Eignored an urgent warning\u003C\/a\u003E from the CIA before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that a strike inside the U.S. was imminent.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E19. Scooter Libby\u003C\/span\u003E -- Cheney's former chief of staff was a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/politics\/special\/plame\/Plame_KeyPlayers.html\"\u003Ekey player\u003C\/a\u003E in the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame as part of the Bush administration's quest to punish Plame's husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, for publishing an \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html?res=9C07E3D61E3AF935A35754C0A9659C8B63\"\u003Eop-ed\u003C\/a\u003E debunking one of the White House's main justifications for invading Iraq. Libby was \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/17479718\/\"\u003Eultimately convicted\u003C\/a\u003E of perjury and obstructing justice in a federal investigation into Plame's outing but later had his 30-month prison sentence \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/07\/02\/AR2007070200825.html\"\u003Ecommuted by Bush\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E20. Monica Goodling\u003C\/span\u003E -- Goodling was the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/education\/higher\/articles\/2007\/04\/08\/scandal_puts_spotlight_on_christian_law_school\/\" title=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/education\/higher\/articles\/2007\/04\/08\/scandal_puts_spotlight_on_christian_law_school\/\"\u003Emost notorious graduate\u003C\/a\u003E of Pat Robertson's Regent University during her tenure in the Justice Department. As the White House liaison at the DOJ, she based the department's hiring of candidates on their \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/07\/28\/goodling-googler\/\" title=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/07\/28\/goodling-googler\/\"\u003Esexual preference\u003C\/a\u003E, GOP loyalty, and adherence to conservative ideology.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E21. Alphonso Jackson\u003C\/span\u003E -- As Housing and Urban Development Secretary, Jackson let the U.S. housing market crumble while he was busy \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/03\/31\/jackson-resign\/\" title=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/03\/31\/jackson-resign\/\"\u003Egiving lucrative contracts to his golfing buddies\u003C\/a\u003E, retaliating against Bush critics, and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/02\/20\/a-photo-homage-to-alphonso-jackson\/\" title=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/02\/20\/a-photo-homage-to-alphonso-jackson\/\"\u003Eerecting giant photo homages to himself\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E22. Michael Hayden\u003C\/span\u003E -- As director of the National Security Agency, Hayden ran Bush's \u003Ca title=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2006\/05\/18\/politics\/main1628427_page2.shtml\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2006\/05\/18\/politics\/main1628427_page2.shtml\"\u003Ewarrantless wiretapping program\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca title=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2005\/12\/19\/nsa-director\/\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2005\/12\/19\/nsa-director\/\"\u003Emisled Congress\u003C\/a\u003E about the program's legality. After moving to the CIA, he dismissed the \u003Ca title=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/07\/washington\/07intel.html?_r=1\u0026amp;hp\u0026amp;oref=slogin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/07\/washington\/07intel.html?_r=1\u0026amp;hp\u0026amp;oref=slogin\"\u003Edestruction of evidence\u003C\/a\u003E implicating the CIA in torture as \"\u003Ca title=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/12\/07\/hayden-rizzo-tapes\/\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/12\/07\/hayden-rizzo-tapes\/\"\u003Ein line with the law\u003C\/a\u003E.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E23. Lurita Doan\u003C\/span\u003E --  The former head of the General Services Administration (GSA)who doled out a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/04\/30\/AR2008043001271.html\"\u003Eno-bid contract\u003C\/a\u003E to a friend, Doan famously hosted a meeting of White House political operatives where she asked how GSA employees could \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/03\/25\/AR2007032501048.html\"\u003Ehelp 'our candidates' in the next election\u003C\/a\u003E.\" After the Office of Special Counsel called for her firing, she was \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/govexec.com\/dailyfed\/0408\/043008cdam1.htm?rss=getoday\"\u003Eforced to resign\u003C\/a\u003E at the request of the White House.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E24. Gale Norton\u003C\/span\u003E -- A former industry lobbyist and Bush's first Secretary of the Interior, Norton pushed a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views01\/0109-07.htm\"\u003Eradical ideological agenda\u003C\/a\u003E \"through \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/environment\/33802\"\u003Eregulatory rollbacks\u003C\/a\u003E, suppression of science, preferential treatment, and collusion with industry\" -- including \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.monitor.net\/monitor\/0110a\/nortonanwr.html\"\u003Edoctoring scientific findings\u003C\/a\u003E on the impacts of oil drilling on caribou. After resigning under the cloud of \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/news\/2006\/Interior_Secretary_to_resign_Ties_to_0310.html\"\u003Eties to Jack Abramoff\u003C\/a\u003E, she joined  \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2006\/12\/28\/norton-sails-through-the-revolving-door\/?sortby=toprated\"\u003EShell Oil\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E25. Lester Crawford\u003C\/span\u003E -- After promising to act on the morning-after contraceptive pill during his confirmation hearings, the former FDA Commissioner \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/9455426\/\"\u003Eindefinitely postponed\u003C\/a\u003E nonprescription sales of emergency contraception over the objections of staff scientists who had declared the pill safe.\" Crawford resigned after just two months on the job and later \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/10\/16\/AR2006101600569.html\"\u003Epleaded guilty\u003C\/a\u003E \"to charges that he hid his ownership of stock in food and drug companies that his agency regulated.\" \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E26. Harriet Miers\u003C\/span\u003E -- Well-known for being Bush's failed Supreme Court nominee, Miers also thought it was \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/schumer.senate.gov\/SchumerWebsite\/pressroom\/record.cfm?id=273881\"\u003Eimportant\u003C\/a\u003E\" to her as White House Counsel that Rove protege Tim Griffin was installed as a U.S. Attorney, making her a central figure in the U.S. Attorney scandal. She is said to have called Bush \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/frum.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=MjliZWZlOWJhNjQ0ZjA0MmQyYThiMTBlNjhjYmE3ZTg=v\"\u003Ethe most brilliant man she had ever met\u003C\/a\u003E.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E27. Hans Von Spakovsky\u003C\/span\u003E -- Originally a political appointee in the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, Spakovsky \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/docs\/spakovsky-letter\/?resultpage=1\u0026amp;\"\u003Einjected partisan political factors\u003C\/a\u003E into decision-making\" and used every opportunity \"to make it difficult for voters -- \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/06\/07\/AR2007060702289.html\"\u003Epoor, minority and Democratic\u003C\/a\u003E -- to go to the polls.\" In 2008, Spakovsky \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/n\/a\/2008\/05\/16\/national\/w135514D26.DTL\"\u003Ewithdrew\u003C\/a\u003E his name from consideration for the FEC, following months of opposition from lawmakers and civil rights groups.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E28. Tommy Franks\u003C\/span\u003E -- As head of U.S. Central Command from 2000 to 2003, Franks oversaw Osama bin Laden's great escape from Afghanistan, gave orders for the stabilization of Iraq via \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.gwu.edu\/%7Ensarchiv\/NSAEBB\/NSAEBB214\/Tab%20K.pdf\" title=\"http:\/\/www.gwu.edu\/~nsarchiv\/NSAEBB\/NSAEBB214\/Tab K.pdf\"\u003EPowerPoint\u003C\/a\u003E, assumed that the U.S. would draw down to 25,000 troops by the end of 2004, and had American soldiers stand idly by as chaos and lawlessness took hold after the invasion.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E29. Thomas Scully\u003C\/span\u003E -- As chief administrator for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Scully was the White House's head negotiator on the Medicare prescription drug bill. Scully \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headlines04\/0325-04.htm\"\u003Ethreatened to fire chief actuary Richard Foster\u003C\/a\u003E if he revealed that Bush's Medicare Part D legislation \"would cost \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html?res=9F00E5DC1231F93BA25750C0A9629C8B63\"\u003E25% to 50% more\u003C\/a\u003E than the Bush administration's public estimates.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E30. Julie MacDonald\u003C\/span\u003E -- A top Interior Department appointee, MacDonald \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.paysonroundup.com\/news\/2009\/jan\/02\/endangered_species_process_abused_wildlife_service\/\"\u003Einterjected herself personally and profoundly\u003C\/a\u003E\" and \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/12\/16\/bushs-interior-department_n_151307.html\"\u003Etainted nearly every decision\u003C\/a\u003E made on the protection of endangered species\" over a five-year period, intimidating the staff with \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.doioig.gov\/uploadPDF\/Kendall_073107.pdf\"\u003Eabrupt and abrasive, if not abusive\u003C\/a\u003E\" tactics. MacDonald also leaked government documents to a young acquaintance whom she met while playing \"internet role-playing games.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E31. William Haynes\u003C\/span\u003E -- As the former general counsel at the Defense Department, he was part of a five-person team of high-level administration lawyers, dubbed the \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/detainees\/story\/38886.html\"\u003EWar Council\u003C\/a\u003E,\" that tossed the Geneva Conventions aside and hatched out the legal framework \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/02\/25\/torture-advocate-william-haynes-resigns\/\"\u003Efor torture\u003C\/a\u003E in secret meetings.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E32. David Safavian\u003C\/span\u003E -- Safavian was (\u003Ca title=\"Safavian convicted again in Abramoff scandal - Capitol Hill- msnbc.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/28315057\/\"\u003Etwice\u003C\/a\u003E) tried and convicted for his role in the jack Abramoff scandal. Safavian was found guilty of \"\u003Ca title=\"Ex-Aide To Bush Found Guilty\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/06\/20\/AR2006062001626.html\"\u003Elying and obstructing justice\u003C\/a\u003E\" in an attempt to cover-up \"his many efforts to assist Abramoff in acquiring two properties controlled by the GSA.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E33. James Connaughton\u003C\/span\u003E -- As chairman of the White House Council of Environmental Quality, Connaughton wrote EPA press releases \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2003\/08\/09\/national\/main567489.shtml\"\u003Edownplaying the danger of the air quality\u003C\/a\u003E in lower Manhattan following 9\/11. \"A former \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.utne.com\/2004-06-01\/a-dirty-dozen.aspx\"\u003Elobbyist for utilities\u003C\/a\u003E, mining, chemical, and other industrial polluters,\" Connaughton insisted \"there's \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/white-house-environmental-chief-launches-stealth-attack-on-climate-science\"\u003Ea lot of disagreement\u003C\/a\u003E\" about humans' impact on global warming, and he \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/story\/15148655\/the_secret_campaign_of_president_bushs_administration_to_deny_global_warming\/1\"\u003Etouted a bogus study\u003C\/a\u003E purporting to show that the 20th century was not unusually warm\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E34. William Luti\u003C\/span\u003E -- A former Navy officer and Cheney aide, Luti was \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/cs\/articles?articleId=11401\" title=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/cs\/articles?articleId=11401\"\u003Edispatched\u003C\/a\u003E to the Pentagon in 2001 to work underneath Feith to find \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.progressivebookclub.com\/pbc2\/viewArticle.pbc?aid=1245\" title=\"http:\/\/www.progressivebookclub.com\/pbc2\/viewArticle.pbc?aid=1245\"\u003Eevidence\u003C\/a\u003E\" to support his boss's belief in conspiracy theories linking Saddam to al Qaeda. Luti was an integral component of Cheney's \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/samizdat.cc\/shelf\/archives\/2003\/11\/the_radical.html\" title=\"http:\/\/samizdat.cc\/shelf\/archives\/2003\/11\/the_radical.html\"\u003Ecampaign\u003C\/a\u003E to pressure intelligence professionals to conform their judgments to administration policy rather than reality.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E35. Susan Orr\u003C\/span\u003E -- As Assistant Deputy Secretary for Population Affairs, this \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2007\/10\/18\/health\/main3380290.shtml\"\u003Eformer Family Research Council official\u003C\/a\u003E oversaw funding for the only federal program that provided contraceptive services to low-income Americans. Orr cheered Bush's anti-contraception record, saying, \"Fertility is not a disease. \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.rhrealitycheck.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/21\/dr-susan-orr-steps-down\"\u003EIt's not a medical necessity that you have [contraception]\u003C\/a\u003E.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E36. Christopher Cox\u003C\/span\u003E -- Under Chairman Cox, the Securities and Exchange Commission \u003Ca title=\"http:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\/2008\/10\/07\/sec-censors-report\/\" href=\"http:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\/2008\/10\/07\/sec-censors-report\/\"\u003Ecensored internal reports\u003C\/a\u003E showing that it ignored critical signs pointing to Wall Street's meltdown. Cox's SEC also failed to detect Bernie Madoff's \u003Ca title=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/financetopics\/financialcrisis\/3724006\/Bernie-Madoff-arrested-over-alleged-50-billion-fraud.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/financetopics\/financialcrisis\/3724006\/Bernie-Madoff-arrested-over-alleged-50-billion-fraud.html\"\u003E$50 billion Ponzi scheme\u003C\/a\u003E, despite a \u003Ca title=\"http:\/\/business.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/business\/industry_sectors\/banking_and_finance\/article5356348.ece\" href=\"http:\/\/business.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/business\/industry_sectors\/banking_and_finance\/article5356348.ece\"\u003Edecade of warnings\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E37. Elliott Abrams\u003C\/span\u003E -- An \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2113690\/\"\u003EIran-Contra convict pardoned by Bush 41\u003C\/a\u003E, Abrams was named by Bush 43 as the Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Democracy, Human Rights, and International Operations. As a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.newamericancentury.org\/statementofprinciples.htm\"\u003Efounding\u003C\/a\u003E Project for a New American Century signatory and a staunchly pro-Israel neoconservative, Abrams supported expanding \u003Ccountry-region st=\"on\"\u003EIsrael\u003C\/country-region\u003E's 2006 bombing of \u003Ccountry-region st=\"on\"\u003ELebanon\u003C\/country-region\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/lobe\/?articleid=9630\"\u003Einto Syria\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/conflictsforum.org\/2007\/elliot-abrams-uncivil-war\/\"\u003Eadvocated a Fatah coup\u003C\/a\u003E after Hamas won the February 2006 Palestinian elections.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E38. Philip Cooney\u003C\/span\u003E -- A former oil lobbyist who served as chief of staff of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, Cooney \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/06\/08\/politics\/08climate.html?_r=1\"\u003Edoctored climate reports\u003C\/a\u003E to \"soften\" words and phrases linking greenhouse gas emissions to global warming. After his political interference was revealed, Cooney \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/story\/0,20867,21418971-2703,00.html\"\u003Eleft the White House\u003C\/a\u003E to become a lobbyist for Exxon.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E39. Colin Powell\u003C\/span\u003E -- Though Bush called him \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/1073564.stm\"\u003Ean American hero\u003C\/a\u003E\" when he appointed him to be the first African-American Secretary of State, Powell placed an ugly \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/2020\/Politics\/story?id=1105979\u0026amp;page=1\"\u003Eblot\u003C\/a\u003E\" on his record when he pushed the Bush administration's faulty case for the Iraq war in a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/secretary\/former\/powell\/remarks\/2003\/17300.htm\"\u003Espeech\u003C\/a\u003E to the U.N. on Feb.5, 2003, using \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headlines04\/0715-05.htm\"\u003Einaccurate information\u003C\/a\u003E. Liberal hawks and the media rallied around Powell's false case, calling it the \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200709220002\"\u003Ewinning hand\u003C\/a\u003E\" for war.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E40. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EElaine Chao -- \u003C\/span\u003EThe Labor Secretary made it through \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/10\/washington\/10chao.html\"\u003Eall eight years\u003C\/a\u003E of the Bush administration, driving morale at the Labor Department so low that staffers threw a \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/01\/12\/AR2009011203056.html\"\u003Egood-riddance party\u003C\/a\u003E\" to cheer her departure. She leaves behind a \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/11\/30\/AR2008113001900.html?nav=rss_business\u0026amp;sid=ST2008113002564\u0026amp;s_pos=\"\u003Edeeply troubled department\u003C\/a\u003E\" that \"spent eight years \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/blog.aflcio.org\/2009\/01\/09\/confirmation-hearings-today-on-solis-for-labor-secretary\/\"\u003Eattacking workers' rights\u003C\/a\u003E, strong workplace health and safety rules, and unions while they carried the water for Big Business.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E41. Julie Myers\u003C\/span\u003E -- After being hired as head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement based on \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2005\/09\/16\/unqualified-homeland-security\/\" title=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2005\/09\/16\/unqualified-homeland-security\/\"\u003Elittle more than her personal connections\u003C\/a\u003E, Myers made herself famous by awarding \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/02\/07\/controversial-halloween-pictures-released\/\" title=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/02\/07\/controversial-halloween-pictures-released\/\"\u003EMost Original Costume\u003C\/a\u003E\" to an employee who dressed up in blackface and a prison costume for Halloween. She was also heavily criticized for conducting \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/10\/18\/tam-tran\/\" title=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/10\/18\/tam-tran\/\"\u003Epolitically-motivated immigration raids\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E42. Wade Horn\u003C\/span\u003E -- As Assistant Secretary for Community Initiatives at the Department of Health and Human Services, Horn funneled millions of tax-payer dollars into right-wing abstinence-only programs. Shortly before he resigned, it was revealed that he had given nearly $1 million \"to the National Fatherhood Initiative (NFI), where he was the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mediatransparency.org\/story.php?storyID=190\"\u003Epresident for at least three years until joining the Bush administration in 2001\u003C\/a\u003E.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E43. George Deutsch\u003C\/span\u003E -- As a young, inexperienced press officer for NASA, Deutsch \"told public affairs workers to \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/02\/08\/politics\/08nasa.html\"\u003Elimit reporters' access\u003C\/a\u003E to a top climate scientist and told a Web designer to add the word 'theory' at every mention of the Big Bang.\" He \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/02\/08\/politics\/08nasa.html\"\u003Eresigned in 2006\u003C\/a\u003E after it was discovered he had lied on his resume, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/scientificactivist.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/breaking-news-george-deutsch-did-not.html\"\u003Efalsely claiming\u003C\/a\u003E that he had a journalism degree from Texas A\u0026amp;M.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EDishonorable Mentions:\u003C\/span\u003E Bush appointees who didn't quite make the list included a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.talkleft.com\/story\/2006\/04\/08\/885\/23545\"\u003Echild pornography aficionado\u003C\/a\u003E, a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/04\/28\/tobias-prostitution\/\"\u003Epatron of hookers\u003C\/a\u003E, a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2137895\/\"\u003Eshoplifter\u003C\/a\u003E, a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2006\/06\/30\/national\/main1769127.shtml\"\u003Email fraudster\u003C\/a\u003E, an operator of an \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/08\/30\/washington\/30broadcast.html?ex=1314590400\u0026amp;en=194dd8e78d3d1467\u0026amp;ei=5090\u0026amp;partner=rssuserland\u0026amp;emc=rss\"\u003Eillegal horse gambling ring\u003C\/a\u003E, and a CIA official who took \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/05\/21\/former-cia-official-indicted-for-accepting-bribes-of-sexual-companionship\/\"\u003Ebribes in the form of prostitutes\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan 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href=\"http:\/\/blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com\/bastard\/2009\/01\/janet_napolitano_at_dhs_equals.php\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com\/bastard\/img\/blog_header.jpg\" width=\"575\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"byLine\"\u003EBy Stephen Lemons in \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com\/bastard\/feathered_bastard\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFeathered Bastard\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E     \u003Cdiv class=\"entryDate\"\u003EFriday, Jan. 16 2009 @ 10:34AM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"350\"\u003E \u003Ctbody\u003E \u003Ctr\u003E  \u003Ctd class=\"sibtbg\"\u003E \u003Cscript src=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/js\/2.0\/video\/evp\/module.js?loc=dom\u0026amp;vid=\/video\/politics\/2009\/01\/15\/sot.napolitano.immigration.cnn\" type=\"text\/javascript\"\u003E\u003C\/script\u003E\u003Cnoscript\u003EEmbedded video from \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\"\u003ECNN Video\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/noscript\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat's the difference between neo-Nazi hugger, and forwarder of white supremacist e-mail, state Senator Russell Pearce and Gov. Janet Napolitano on immigration? Well, to judge by this CNN excerpt from Nappy's DHS confirmation hearings yesterday, I'd say, not much. A lot's being made in the national press \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/01\/15\/AR2009011501542.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Econcerning Napolitano's \"shift\" in focus\u003C\/a\u003E, promising to bust employers of illegal aliens for a change. But that doesn't mean she won't be parading illegal immigrants through ICE gauntlets in shackles, as was done in the now infamous \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/05\/17\/AR2008051702474.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EPostville, Iowa raid in 2008\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndeed, when the Napster states that there should be enforcement on \"the demand side as well as the supply side,\" and that what draws Mexican immigrants across the Southern border is \"the prospect of a job,\" she is echoing the constant refrain of state Sen. Pearce, the most notorious of Arizona's nativist politicians. Take this excerpt \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/law\/jan-june08\/crackdown_06-11.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Efrom a PBS Newshour segment broadcast in June\u003C\/a\u003E, for which Pearce is interviewed about the new employer sanctions law, which was his baby:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJEFFREY KAYE: One in 10 Arizona workers is believed to be an illegal immigrant, double the national share, so Pearce decided to aim for the magnet: jobs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERUSSELL PEARCE: Just like Disneyland or any other theme park learned a long time ago, if you want the crowd to go home, you've got to shut down the rides, turn off the lights.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJEFFREY KAYE: Last year, Pearce wrote a controversial law that penalizes employers who hire illegal immigrants.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERUSSELL PEARCE: We passed a good bill, in fact, considered the toughest bill in the nation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E                \u003Ca name=\"more\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E             \u003Cspan\u003ENapolitano signed Pearce's bill into law. And in her U.S. Senate confirmation, she is hardly apologetic about not vetoing this legislation, which has been so harmful to the state's economy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I signed the nation's strongest employer sanctions bill when I was governor,\" she told the Senators, neglecting the fact that she still is governor, \"in part because of my belief that you have to get at the employer side as well as the employee side.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo there you go. No concern for the human rights of those coming here for work. No worry over the families torn apart as thugs like Sheriff Joe Arpaio raid candlemaking factories and water parks to arrest people guilty of no more than trying to provide for their familes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome Dems have deluded themselves into thinking that Nappy's new role as head of DHS will mean that undocumented migrants will somehow be cut some slack. Don't bet on it, if it's up to the Napster alone. Because on immigration, she stands shoulder pad to shoulder with racist knuckledragger Russell Pearce.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMORE ARTICLES AT 'FEATHERED BASTARD'\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com\/bastard\/2009\/01\/is_anti-immigrant_uberbabe_mic.php\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EIs Anti-Illegal Immigrant Uberbabe Michelle Dallacroce Back on the Haterade?\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com\/bastard\/2009\/01\/dennis_gilman_godsmacks_the_mc.php\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDennis Gilman Godsmacks the MCSO; Plus, the B.S. in Joe Arpaio's Latest Presser\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com\/bastard\/2009\/01\/access_denied_mcso_blocks_me_f.php\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ENew York Times Blogs Video of Kids Traumatized by MCSO; and I'm Blocked from Latest Arpaio Presser\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com\/bastard\/2009\/01\/guadalupes_betrayal_mayor_fran.php\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EGuadalupe's Betrayal: Mayor Frankie Montiel Meets with Sheriff Joe Arpaio Today, Presser at 3 p.m.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2360437991729428060\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/janet-napolitano-at-dhs-equals-russell.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/2360437991729428060"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/2360437991729428060"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/janet-napolitano-at-dhs-equals-russell.html","title":"Janet Napolitano at DHS Equals Russell Pearce with Skunk Hair and Shoulder Pads"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-5277998111042923174"},"published":{"$t":"2009-01-09T11:18:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-01-09T13:10:05.149-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"2008 year in review"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"bailout money"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Blagojevich"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Britney"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"bush library"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"bushisms"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Christmas"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Cyrus"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Gay  marriage"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Kennedy"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"mccain"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Miley"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"New  Year"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"obama"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Palin"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Phelps"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"uncle jay"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"What to do with the Federal bailout money, Bush's Library \u0026 Uncle Jay Explains 2008 In Review!"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003ESOURCES: \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EJustin DeCastro \u0026amp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EDorinda Moreno\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E- In case you get (by mistake) some of that Federal bailout money, here's something to donate to...\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003Ctable align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"231\"\u003E \u003Ctbody\u003E \u003Ctr\u003E \u003Ctd width=\"5\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/shared\/img\/o.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" hspace=\"0\" width=\"5\" \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E \u003Ctd class=\"sibtbg\"\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"sih\"\u003EUncle Jay Explains: Year-end! 12-22-08\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.unclejayexplains.com\/\" target=\"blank\"\u003EWWW.UncleJayExplains.Com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"o\"\u003E\u003Cobject height=\"283\" width=\"350\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TWiXy55OHyY\u0026amp;color1=0xFF9966\u0026amp;color2=0xFFCC00\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;fs=1\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TWiXy55OHyY\u0026amp;color1=0xFF9966\u0026amp;color2=0xFFCC00\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"283\" width=\"350\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"o\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/nol\/shared\/img\/v3\/inline_dashed_line.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"2\" width=\"226\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"miiib\"\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"arr\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/i\/k3t3_8KA-Lchd09gGspaBQ\/1.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/\u003E It's been a whole year since Uncle Jay has SUNG an entire episode, and here's the reminder why! It's the year-end review of the news, and maybe it'll seem a little better with music.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe George W. Bush Presidential Library is now in the planning stages  and accepting donations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Library will include:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Hurricane Katrina Room, which is still under construction.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Alberto Gonzales Room, where you won't be able to remember anything.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Texas Air National Guard Room, where you don't even have to show  up.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Walter Reed Hospital Room, where they don't let you in.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Guantanamo Bay Room, where they don't let you out.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Weapons of Mass Destruction Room, which no one has been able to  find.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe National Debt Room, which is huge and has no ceiling.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Tax Cut Room, with entry only to the wealthy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Economy Room, which is in the toilet.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Iraq War Room. (After you complete your first visit, they make\u003Cbr \/\u003Eyou to  go back for a second, third, fourth, and sometimes fifth visit.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Dick Cheney Room, in the famous undisclosed location, complete\u003Cbr \/\u003Ewith  shotgun gallery.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Environmental Conservation Room, still empty.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe U.S. Supreme Court Gift Shop, where you can buy an election.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Decider Room, complete with dart board, magic 8-ball,\u003Cbr \/\u003EOuija board, dice, coins, and straws.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENote:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe library will feature an electron microscope to help you\u003Cbr \/\u003Elocate  and view  the President's accomplishments.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe library will also include many famous Quotes by George\u003Cbr \/\u003EW. Bush:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"The vast majority of our imports come from outside\u003Cbr \/\u003Ethe country.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Republicans understand the importance of bondage  between a mother and  child.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"No senior citizen should ever have to choose between  prescription drugs  and medicine.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and  democracy--but that could change.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any  Governor, and that one  word is 'to be prepared'.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I have made good judgments in the past. I have made  good judgments in the  future.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"The future will be better tomorrow.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We're going to have the best educated American people in the world.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"One of the great things about books is sometimes\u003Cbr \/\u003Ethere are some fantastic  pictures.\" (during an\u003Cbr \/\u003Eeducation photo-op)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in\u003Cbr \/\u003Eterms of not havin it.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Enot occur.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"It isn't pollution that's harming the\u003Cbr \/\u003Eenvironment.\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt's the impurities in  our air and water that are\u003Cbr \/\u003Edoing it.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I stand by all the misstatements that I've\u003Cbr \/\u003Emade.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E...George W. Bush to Sam Donaldson\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPLEASE GIVE GENEROUSLY!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESincerely,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EG.W. Bush Library Board of Directors\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5277998111042923174\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/what-to-do-with-federal-bailout-money.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/5277998111042923174"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/5277998111042923174"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/what-to-do-with-federal-bailout-money.html","title":"What to do with the Federal bailout money, Bush's Library \u0026 Uncle Jay Explains 2008 In Review!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-235225380987619586"},"published":{"$t":"2009-01-08T12:26:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-01-08T12:38:03.952-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"aid"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"bombardment"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"gaza"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"humanitarian crisis"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"medical official"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"palestinian red crescent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"red cross acussed israel"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"wonded"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Israel accused over Gaza wounded"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ctable class=\"storycontent\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd colspan=\"2\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"mxb\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003ESource : Campaign for Migrants Rights\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EE-mail : \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"mailto:campaignformigrantsrights@yahoo.com\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);font-size:100%;\" \u003E\u003Cspan class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1229097092_0\"\u003Ecampaignformigrantsrights@yahoo.com\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003ETel :00212-15619532\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/7817926.stm\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/7817926.stm\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E \u003Ctr\u003E \u003Ctd class=\"storybody\"\u003E \u003Ctable align=\"right\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"226\"\u003E \u003Ctbody\u003E \u003Ctr\u003E \u003Ctd\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Gaza City mosque hit by bombardment - photo 8 January\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/45356000\/jpg\/_45356982_006690419-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"0\" width=\"226\" \/\u003E  \u003Cdiv class=\"cap\"\u003EThursday's Israeli bombardment was the heaviest so far\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E \u003Cp class=\"first\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThe Red Cross has accused Israel of failing to fulfil its obligation to help wounded civilians in Gaza.\u003C\/b\u003E  \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EICRC staff found four weak and scared children beside their mothers' bodies in houses hit by shelling in Zeitoun.  \u003Cdiv\u003EThe Israeli military has not yet responded to the accusation, but said it worked closely with aid groups so that civilians could get assistance. \u003Cdiv\u003EMeanwhile the UN said it was suspending aid operations in Gaza because of the danger to staff from Israeli attacks.  \u003Cdiv\u003E\"We have suspended our operations in Gaza until the Israeli authorities can guarantee our safety and security,\" said Chris Gunness, spokesman for the United Nations relief agency Unwra. \u003Cdiv\u003E\"Our installations have been hit, our workers have been killed in spite of the fact that the Israeli authorities have the co-ordinates of our facilities and that all our movements are co-ordinated with the Israeli army. \u003Cdiv\u003E\"It is with great regret that Unwra has been forced to make this difficult decision.\"  \u003Cdiv\u003EEarlier, Unwra said one person had been killed and two injured when a fork-lift truck on a UN aid mission came under Israeli tank fire at Gaza's Erez crossing. \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003Ctable align=\"right\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"231\"\u003E \u003Ctbody\u003E \u003Ctr\u003E \u003Ctd width=\"5\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/shared\/img\/o.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" hspace=\"0\" width=\"5\" \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E \u003Ctd class=\"sibtbg\"\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"mva\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/nol\/shared\/img\/v3\/start_quote_rb.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"13\" width=\"24\" \/\u003E \u003Cb\u003EThe Israeli military must have been aware of the situation but did not assist the wounded - neither did they make it possible for us or the Palestinian Red Crescent to assist the wounded\u003C\/b\u003E \u003Cimg alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/nol\/shared\/img\/v3\/end_quote_rb.gif\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" height=\"13\" width=\"23\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"mva\"\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003EPierre Wettach\u003Cbr \/\u003EICRC head for Israel and the Palestinian territories\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"o\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/nol\/shared\/img\/v3\/inline_dashed_line.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"2\" width=\"226\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"miiib\"\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"arr\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/in_pictures\/7817426.stm\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EIn pictures: Gaza conflict\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"arr\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/7818122.stm\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EGaza 'human shields' criticised\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"arr\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/7816794.stm\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EIsraelis back Gaza action - for now\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"arr\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/7815840.stm\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EPoints of view on Gaza\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003EThe UN says the delivery had been co-ordinated with Israel.  \u003Cdiv\u003EThe Israeli army has not commented on that claim but has said it is looking into the matter.  \u003Cdiv\u003EThe aid agencies' concerns come amid fears the conflict with Gaza militants may spread, with at least three rockets fired from Lebanon into northern Israel, prompting Israel to reply with artillery. \u003Cdiv\u003EThe incident followed Israel's heaviest bombardment so far of Gaza in nearly two weeks of conflict, with 60 air strikes targeting Hamas facilities. \u003Cdiv\u003EPalestinian medical officials said at least 10 Gaza residents had been killed on Thursday.  \u003Cdiv\u003EMore than 700 Palestinian and 11 Israeli lives are said to have been lost since the offensive began 13 days ago.  \u003Cdiv\u003EFor a second day, Israeli forces observed a three-hour pause in fighting to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza.  \u003Cdiv\u003EThe first of what Israel said would be a daily ceasefire, on Wednesday, allowed aid agencies into the territory for the first time in days. \u003Cdiv\u003EEfforts have continued to broker a full ceasefire - a senior Israeli official is in Cairo to hear details of a plan put forward by Egypt and France. \u003Cdiv\u003EA Hamas delegation is expected in the Egyptian capital at some stage for parallel \"technical\" talks, Egyptian diplomats said.  \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003E'Access denied'\u003C\/b\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003EThe International Committee of the Red Cross accused Israel of failing in its international obligations after its staff were met with \"shocking\" scenes. \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003Ctable align=\"right\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"231\"\u003E \u003Ctbody\u003E \u003Ctr\u003E \u003Ctd width=\"5\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/shared\/img\/o.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" hspace=\"0\" width=\"5\" \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E \u003Ctd class=\"sibtbg\"\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"sih\"\u003EGAZA CRISIS BACKGROUND \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"o\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Smoke rises over Gaza (06\/01\/2009)\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/45351000\/jpg\/_45351991_006682879-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"0\" width=\"226\" \/\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"o\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/nol\/shared\/img\/v3\/inline_dashed_line.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"2\" width=\"226\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"miiib\"\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"arr\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/5122404.stm\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EProfile: Gaza Strip\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"arr\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/1654510.stm\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EWho are Hamas?\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"arr\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/in_pictures\/7815415.stm\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EIn pictures: Tunnel smugglers\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"arr\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/7380642.stm\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EMiddle East conflict: History in maps\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003EOne medical team found 12 bodies in a shelled house, and alongside them four very young children, too weak to stand, waiting by their dead mothers, the ICRC said. \u003Cdiv\u003EAid workers had been denied access to the site for days, it added.  \u003Cdiv\u003E\"This is a shocking incident,\" Pierre Wettach, ICRC head for Israel and the Palestinian territories said in a statement.  \u003Cdiv\u003E\"The Israeli military must have been aware of the situation but did not assist the wounded. Neither did they make it possible for us or the Palestinian Red Crescent to assist the wounded.\" \u003Cdiv\u003ECorrespondents say the criticism is unusually strong, coming from an agency considered to be neutral.  \u003Cdiv\u003EThe Israeli army told Reuters news agency that any serious allegations would be properly investigated once a formal complaint was received. \u003Cdiv\u003EMeanwhile, Amnesty International accused both sides of using civilians as human shields.   \u003Cdiv class=\"videoInStoryB\"\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"emp\" id=\"emp_7817247\"\u003E \u003Cwmfiltered id=\"embeddedPlayer_7817247\" height=\"287\" width=\"448\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"_cx\" value=\"11853\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"_cy\" value=\"7594\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"Movie\" value=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/player\/emp\/2_8_6928_7030\/9player.swf\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"Src\" value=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/player\/emp\/2_8_6928_7030\/9player.swf\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"WMode\" value=\"Window\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"Play\" value=\"0\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"Loop\" value=\"-1\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"Quality\" value=\"High\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"SAlign\" value=\"LT\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"Menu\" value=\"-1\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"Base\" value=\"\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"AllowScriptAccess\" value=\"\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"Scale\" value=\"NoScale\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"DeviceFont\" value=\"0\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"EmbedMovie\" value=\"0\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"BGColor\" value=\"000000\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"SWRemote\" value=\"\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"MovieData\" value=\"\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"SeamlessTabbing\" value=\"1\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"Profile\" value=\"0\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"ProfileAddress\" value=\"\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"ProfilePort\" value=\"0\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"AllowNetworking\" value=\"all\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"AllowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\u003E\u003C\/wmfiltered\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"bbccom_visibility_hidden\" id=\"bbccom_companion_7817247\"\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"bbccom_companion_text\"\u003EAdvertisement\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cp class=\"caption\"\u003EAftermath of rocket strike from Lebanon into northern Israel \u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003EAt least three Katyusha rockets were fired from southern Lebanon into the northern Israeli area of Nahariya early on Thursday.  \u003Cdiv\u003EOne hit a nursing home, leaving at least two people slightly wounded and a number of others suffering from shock, Israeli officials said. \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003Ctable align=\"right\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"231\"\u003E \u003Ctbody\u003E \u003Ctr\u003E \u003Ctd width=\"5\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/shared\/img\/o.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" hspace=\"0\" width=\"5\" \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E \u003Ctd class=\"sibtbg\"\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"o\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Map\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/45350000\/gif\/_45350941_gaza_gedera_map226.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"310\" hspace=\"0\" width=\"226\" \/\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"o\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/nol\/shared\/img\/v3\/inline_dashed_line.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"2\" width=\"226\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"miiib\"\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"arr\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/7815630.stm\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ELanguage of Hamas\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"arr\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/7812136.stm\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EGaza offensive - in maps\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"arr\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/in_pictures\/7817426.stm\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EIn pictures: Conflict continues\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003EIsrael immediately responded with five artillery shells into Lebanon, calling it a \"pinpoint response at the source of fire\".  \u003Cdiv\u003EThe rocket fire was condemned by Lebanon's prime minister.  \u003Cdiv\u003EThe rocket attacks from Lebanon have raised concerns about a wider war in the region, says the BBC's Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen. \u003Cdiv\u003EIn Gaza, Israel continued its offensive overnight with 60 air strikes targeting police sites, 10 Hamas tunnels, weapons storage facilities, launching pads \"and a number of armed gunmen\", the Israeli army said. \u003Cdiv\u003ECasualty claims in Gaza have been difficult to verify independently.  \u003Cdiv\u003EWhile the BBC has had Palestinian producers reporting from Gaza, Israel only allowed Western TV crews to enter on Wednesday, embedded with its army.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/7817926.stm\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/7817926.stm\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/235225380987619586\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/israel-accused-over-gaza-wounded.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/235225380987619586"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/235225380987619586"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/israel-accused-over-gaza-wounded.html","title":"Israel accused over Gaza wounded"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-9106089483435017506"},"published":{"$t":"2009-01-06T13:25:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-01-06T15:04:49.973-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"children of gaza"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"gaza"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"israel invasion"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"palestine"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"queen rania"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"united nations declaration of human rights"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Statement:  HRM Queen Rania on the children of Gaza"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cstrong\u003EHer Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah UNICEF Eminent Advocate for Children\u003Cbr \/\u003EStatement to the Press on Gaza - In Amman, Jordan\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOur Humanity is Incomplete \u003C\/strong\u003E  \u003Cp\u003E “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights” ... Article one, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E“Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person” … Article three, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EOver the past 41 years, the people of Gaza have been living under occupation. Over the past 18 months, they have been living under siege. And for the past 10 days, the people of Gaza have been subject to a cruel and continuous military attack. \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EEither the declaration is not so universal, or the people of Gaza are not human beings, worthy of the same “universal” rights. This is the message the world is sending out today. \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EToday, I am here with representative members of the UN family, to share with you the extent of the humanitarian crisis that is Gaza. \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EBut not only is there a humanitarian crisis in Gaza... there is a crisis in our global humanity. Nelson Mandela once said that “our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.” Today, I tell you, our humanity is incomplete without theirs. It is incomplete. It is not universal. \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EThis is the message I am sending world leaders: Our humanity is incomplete when children, irrespective of nationality, are victims of military operations. \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EMore than seventy dead children. Close to six hundred injured. What does the world tell to their mothers? To the Palestinian mother who lost five daughters in one day? To the mothers watching their children cry in pain, huddle in fear, and deal with more trauma than any of us will experience in an entire lifetime?\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EThat they are collateral damage?\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat their lives don’t matter?\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat their deaths don’t count?\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat the children of Gaza do not have “the right to life, liberty and security”?\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EWhat do we tell them?!\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E It is imperative that every nation acts to end the fighting, and open all crossings, especially Karni, to permit the uninterrupted passage of wheat, fuel, medicine, and other vital supplies.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EAt the very least, we must push for a ceasefire, a humanitarian ceasefire, a ceasefire for children, to help the wounded, to look for those buried under the rubble, to tend to the sick and elderly trapped in their homes, and to bring in vital medical supplies, equipment and staff. \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E At the very least, governments should… governments must contribute to UNRWA’s emergency appeal for $34 million to meet the immediate needs of Gaza’s innocent civilians. \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EThe children of Gaza, the dead and the barely living... their mothers... their fathers are not acceptable collateral damage; their lives do matter, their loss does count. They are not divisible from our universal humanity – no child is, no civilian is.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EDEMOCRACY NOW RELATED ARTICLES IN ENGLISH:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\"recent_shows\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/shows\/2009\/1\/5\"\u003EMonday, January 05, 2009\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E    \u003Cul class=\"recent_shows\"\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2009\/1\/5\/headlines\"\u003EHeadlines\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2009\/1\/5\/a_debate_on_israels_invasion_of\"\u003EA Debate on Israel’s Invasion of Gaza: UNRWA’s Christopher Gunness v. Israel Project’s Meagan Buren\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2009\/1\/5\/israeli_professor_neve_gordon_condemns_israeli\"\u003EIsraeli Professor Under Hamas Rocket Fire, Neve Gordon Condemns Israeli Invasion of Gaza\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2009\/1\/5\/report_from_gaza_city_palestinian_journalist\"\u003EReport from Gaza City: Palestinian Journalist Sameh Habeeb on Gaza Under Siege\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2009\/1\/5\/us_blocks_un_security_council_vote\"\u003EUS Blocks UN Security Council Vote Calling for Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EDEMOCRACY NOW RELATED ARTICLES IN SPANISH:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbig\u003E\u003C\/big\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbig\u003ELas radios que quieren emitir el audio pueden descargarlo desde un link exclusivo para emisoras. 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Por favor, contáctenos para recibir esta información.\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/big\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul class=\"headlines\"\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/es\/2009\/1\/5\/titulares#1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ETropas israelíes invaden Gaza; más de 530 muertos\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/es\/2009\/1\/5\/titulares#2\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EEstados Unidos bloquea pedido de Naciones Unidas de cese del fuego en Gaza\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/es\/2009\/1\/5\/titulares#3\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EHospitales de Gaza en apuros sin energía eléctrica ni suministros\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/es\/2009\/1\/5\/titulares#4\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EIsrael asesina a dirigente de Hamas y su familia\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/es\/2009\/1\/5\/titulares#5\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EContinúan protestas internacionales contra Israel\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E                            \u003C!-- OLD CODE START                            OLD CODE END --\u003E       \u003Cspan class=\"sectiondivider\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/9106089483435017506\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/statement-hrm-queen-rania-on-children.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/9106089483435017506"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/9106089483435017506"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/statement-hrm-queen-rania-on-children.html","title":"Statement:  HRM Queen Rania on the children of Gaza"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-6311393381577244443"},"published":{"$t":"2009-01-04T23:48:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-01-05T00:47:39.606-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"criminalizing poor people"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"ice"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"ice violence"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"immigration"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"institutional terror"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"international day of the migrant"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"marlon crump"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"pnn"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"poor news network"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rally"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"san francisco"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"sfpd"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"stop the raids"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Coalition of Migrant Grupos celebrate the United Nations International Day of the Migrant"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EPERMISSION TO REPRINT BY:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:180%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0); 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If you would like to participate; email \u003C\/b\u003E\u003Ca href=\"mailto:%20deeandtiny@poormagazine.org\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:blue;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Edeeandtiny@poormagazine.org\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E          \u003C!-- \u003Cp class=\"ALERT\"\u003E --\u003E        \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003EPOOR needs your help. \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www153.ssldomain.com\/poormagazine\/index.cfm?L1=poorsub\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Esubscription\/donation\u003C\/a\u003E    \u003Cbr \/\u003E    Read how to \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.savedeeandtiny.net\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ESave Co-editors Dee and Tiny \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E          \u003Ctable border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"650\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"25\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/images\/pixel.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E  \u003Ctd style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\" class=\"Slogan\" align=\"center\" width=\"100%\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:180%;\"\u003E\"Published Weekly.... Experienced Daily.\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Logo\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/news\/2171\/photo_1_feature.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"600\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"\u003E\u003Ctable border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"600\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr valign=\"top\"\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"Narrow10\"\u003E\u003Ctable border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"4\" cellspacing=\"4\" width=\"600\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr valign=\"top\"\u003E\u003Ctd width=\"600\"\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Title\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;story=2171\u0026amp;pg=1\" target=\"_blank\" name=\"Title\"\u003Eel Dia del Migrante Internacional\/International Day of the Migrant\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp class=\"SubHead\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;story=2171\u0026amp;pg=1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ECoalition of Migrant Grupos celebrate the United Nations International Day of the Migrant\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EBy: Marlon Crump\/PNN\u003Cbr \/\u003ESunday, December 28, 2008; \u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003E\"S.F.P.D, don't conspire with I.C.E!\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E(Immigration and Customs Enforcement.)  \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\"No Human Being is ILLEGAL!\"  \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\"Stop Illegal Raids!\"  \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\"Municipal I.Ds NOW!\"  \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\"Free Trade is not Fair Trade!\"  \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\"Newsom, meet with us your constituents!\u003Cbr \/\u003E40% of all San Franciscans are Immigrants!\"   \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe sounds of these protest signs by numerous Immigrant Rights protesters and supporters couldn't have spoken louder than the outcries of the protesters, themselves. These signs, carried by protesters and supporters took their siege on the steps of San Francisco City Hall on a nippy, dew-dropped sunshine-shifting, Thursday afternoon, in response to the sieges\/ raids (deportation) that were unrelenting against migrant workers, at the hands of I.C.E (Immigration and Customs Enforcement). \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe lack of intervention(s) by the City of San Francisco itself, vs the immediate intervention and outrage for numerous San Franciscans, shows everyone that once again the real power comes from the voice and actions of the People...........not the politicians. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis day of December 18th, 2008 marked the day of the International Migrants Day as proclaimed by the UN General Assembly. This was also a landmark, in sink with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which celebrated its 60th anniversary a week ago. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs \"proclaimed\" by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:  \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights and that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth therein, without distinction of any kind, in particular as race, color, or national origin.\"\u003C\/i\u003E  \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe ongoing battle\/movement for the Rights of Undocumented migrant Families, Youth, Workers, and people in general in the face of City, State, and ultimately the U.S Government continues. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis year's Migrants Day occurred at a time when S.F's Immigrant Community is facing unbearable budget cuts to critical public services. Today's Migrants Day also occurs at a time where the Human Rights of all Undocumented Immigrants are constantly under attack, alongside of the budget cuts. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\"My basic concern is that they (I.C.E) are deporting the Youth, 12 and up.\" Ray from H.O.M.E.Y (Homies Organizing the Mission and Empowering Youth) explained to me as I kept my other ear to the rally. \"They're deporting these kids to unfamiliar countries with no money, no clothes, and no families to go to once they get to that country that they are deported to.\" \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EH.O.M.E.Y was just one of the estimated 30 organizations that saturated the steps of S.F City Hall to voice their total opposition to the rampant attacks against Undocumented Immigrants. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETeresa Molina of POOR Magazine's Voces de Inmigrantes en resistencia program which teaches POOR Magazine’s brand of revolutionary – change journalism to migrant workers was there with me re-porting and sup-porting on the important action for PNN. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\"Young Latino people are being picked up (racially profiled) by the S.F.P.D for small offenses.\" Abigail Trillin from the San Francisco Immigrants Legal Services explained to me. She further explained that minor offenses often turn into felonies, which then are reported to I.C.E by the S.F.P.D. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EConstant questionable traffic stops of people of presumed Latino ethnicity have not gone unnoticed as well. Elizabeth Alexander of the Central City Collaborative (also in attendance) brought awareness of this issue to me, a few weeks ago as I strolled through the Tenderloin District on my way to a meeting. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\"We've had multiple cases of young looking Latino men being stopped and accused of running red lights and having expired tags.\" said Barbara Lopez, of La Voz Latina Project of Tenderloin Housing Clinic. \"They (S.F.P.D) are pretexts to uncover unlicensed drivers and tow their cars.\" \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe San Francisco Immigrants Rights Defense Committee has revealed a platform of proposals to make Dignity a matter of Equality, and Due Process of law a reality for all San Franciscans, including Immigrants. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn recent months, the administration of S.F Mayor Gavin Newsom has taken a number of measures that have had a wounding impact on Immigrant Families and threaten to undermine the fundamental Human Rights principles in San Francisco . \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Committee calls on the City of San Francisco to do the following:  \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E* Uphold the 1989 Sanctuary City Ordinance, including ending Racially Biased Policing and all law enforcement's harassment.  \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E* Revise San Francisco 's new Juvenile Justice policy, implemented this past July, because it denies due process to Immigrant Youth by requiring that probation officers refer these youths to I.C.E.........before a hearing. (Undocumented Immigrant Youth breaking the law must be routinely processed through Family Court, not the Adult Criminal Justice System, as it now stands). \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E* Announce a specific date for the implementation of the Municipal ID program.  \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E* Advocate to stop Federal Immigration raids, and any S.F.P.D collaboration with I.C.E. that tears Immigrant Families apart.  \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E* Preserve funding for essential services for all, including Immigrant Youth and Families.  \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs I continued the painstaking process of reporting and supporting, the chants tremendously increased solidarity for the Rights of Undocumented Immigrants, deafening my eardrums: \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\"Who's City?\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\" Sanctuary City !\"  \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\"Who's City?\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\" Sanctuary City !\"   \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\"As proud San Franciscans, we're just asking for the right to be accepted.\" Adoubou Traore, executive director of the African Immigrant and Refugee Center said to me, amidst the crowd's chants. \"If our rights are violated, there is NO due process. Africans are the most recent group of immigrants to San Francisco . We intend to fully participate in its community.\" \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESe ve, Se siente\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"El Pueblo presente esta\"   \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\"We are greatly alarmed by what is a growing climate of fear and repression that is taking over our communities.\" Lamoin Werlein-Jaen from the Unite Here Local 2 Restaurant Hotel Worker's Union stated to me. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe expressed his growing concern to the crowd regarding the I.C.E raids, and the rapid, subsequent retaliation ramifications , retaliations that are often aimed at the Undocumented Immigrant Community, should they so much as demand their right to their very own Rights. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\"¡Si, Se Puede!\"  \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\"¡Si, Se Puede!\"   \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\"For me, it is very significant that today's event really showed all of the suffering and struggles that the Youth, Families, and people who are affected by the raids are going through.\" Teresa Molina of POOR Magazine De Voces Immigrantes said, with a bit of hope towards the end to the I.C.E. raids. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\"As a Christian Minister and follower of Jesus Christ, I believe that when we welcome the stranger in our midst, we are welcoming God among us.\" Reverend Brenda Vaca of Nueva Vida Ministries said to me \"In the Christmas Season, we remember a young family wandering in the cold night looking for a warm place to rest. Jesus and his family were migrants.\" \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere were numerous members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, themselves that were apparently in support of Migrants Day and the end to the criminalization of the Undocumented Immigrant Community: \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESupervisors Chris Daly, Jake McGoldrick, Ross Mirkarimi, David Chiu, the recently elected Eric Mar, John Avalos, and David Campos were in attendance. All of them voiced their concerns, and support for Undocumented Immigrants' Rights. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESupervisor-elect David Campos for District 9 gave assurance to everyone in attendance that he would exhort his fellow board members to push towards ending the attacks on the Undocumented Immigrant Community, speaking as a former Undocumented Immigrant himself, from the country of Guatemala . \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\"We will NOT accept second class status!\" Campos ' voice splashed into the crowd. Campos informed everyone that on January 15th, 2009, the issue of \"Municipal I.Ds\" and the Public Safety Committee will be presented on the Board of Supervisors' Item Agenda list for review.(On public television broadcast.) \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnother S.F Supervisor Elect, Eric Mar of District ended his support speech: \"Keep holding us supervisors accountable!\"   \u003C\/p\u003E    \u003C\/td\u003E  \u003C\/tr\u003E  \u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E            \u003Ctable border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"5\" width=\"100%\"\u003E    \u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr valign=\"top\"\u003E    \u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/images\/pixel.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"10\" \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E                            \u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/images\/pixel.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"10\" \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E    \u003C\/tr\u003E                \u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E                              \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Chr \/\u003E   \u003Ch2\u003EMORE STORIES:\u003C\/h2\u003E                \u003Ch3\u003Eel Dia del Migrante Internacional\/International Day of the Migrant\u003C\/h3\u003E                     \u003Cul class=\"Byline\"\u003E                  el Dia del Migrante Internacional\/International Day of the Migrant\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E                       \u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=88\u0026amp;story=2164\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EEs pura basura\/Its Pure rubbish!\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E                     \u003Cul class=\"Byline\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=-1\u0026amp;story=2164\u0026amp;pg=1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EEs pura basura\/Its Pure rubbish!\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E                       \u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=88\u0026amp;story=2166\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFue la noche, una noche muy oscura\/It was night, a very dark night\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E                     \u003Cul class=\"Byline\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=-1\u0026amp;story=2166\u0026amp;pg=1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFue la noche, una noche muy oscura\/It was night, a very dark night\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E                       \u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=88\u0026amp;story=2165\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EMUERTE  LIMITE PARA TRASCENDER\/DEATH To Transcend\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E                     \u003Cul class=\"Byline\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=-1\u0026amp;story=2165\u0026amp;pg=1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EMUERTE  LIMITE PARA TRASCENDER\/DEATH To Transcend\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E                       \u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=88\u0026amp;story=2146\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EAhora todo lo que tenemos es nuestra memoria de el.\/Now all we have is his memory...\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E                     \u003Cul class=\"Byline\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=-1\u0026amp;story=2146\u0026amp;pg=1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EAhora todo lo que tenemos es nuestra\/Now all we have is his memory...\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E                       \u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=88\u0026amp;story=2145\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EWhat NAFTA did to the Campesinos...\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E                     \u003Cul class=\"Byline\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=-1\u0026amp;story=2145\u0026amp;pg=1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EWhat NAFTA did to the Campesinos...\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E                       \u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=88\u0026amp;story=2131\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EWe Move\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E                     \u003Cul class=\"Byline\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=-1\u0026amp;story=2131\u0026amp;pg=1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EMigrant Movement\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E                       \u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=88\u0026amp;story=2127\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EMelt the ICE\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E                     \u003Cul class=\"Byline\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=-1\u0026amp;story=2127\u0026amp;pg=1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDerretiendo el ICE \/Melt the ICE\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E                       \u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=88\u0026amp;story=2115\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EAmores Sin Fronteras\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E                     \u003Cul class=\"Byline\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=-1\u0026amp;story=2115\u0026amp;pg=1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EAmores Sin Fronteras\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E                       \u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=88\u0026amp;story=2090\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ECriminalizing Poor People means criminalizing all people \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E                     \u003Cul class=\"Byline\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=-1\u0026amp;story=2090\u0026amp;pg=1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ECriminalizing Poor People means criminalizing all people \u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E                       \u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=88\u0026amp;story=2079\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E21st Century Slavecatchers\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E                     \u003Cul class=\"Byline\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=-1\u0026amp;story=2079\u0026amp;pg=1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E21st Century Slavecatchers\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E                       \u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=88\u0026amp;story=2068\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EThe Violence of ICE\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E                     \u003Cul class=\"Byline\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=-1\u0026amp;story=2068\u0026amp;pg=1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EThe Violence of ICE\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E                       \u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=88\u0026amp;story=2058\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EThe Son of a Filipino Immigrant\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E                     \u003Cul class=\"Byline\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=-1\u0026amp;story=2058\u0026amp;pg=1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EThe Son of a Filipino Immigrant\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E                       \u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=88\u0026amp;story=2027\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EThey appeared out of nowhere and pointed their guns at us\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E                     \u003Cul class=\"Byline\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=-1\u0026amp;story=2027\u0026amp;pg=1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EAparecieron derepente y nos apuntaron sus armas\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E                       \u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=88\u0026amp;story=2007\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDon't Run\/No Corran-Una campana educativa de emergencia\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E                     \u003Cul class=\"Byline\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=-1\u0026amp;story=2007\u0026amp;pg=1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDon't Run\/No Corra-Una campana educativa de emergencia\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E                       \u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=88\u0026amp;story=1982\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EPalabras de Resistencia de Medios\/Words of Media Resistance \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E                     \u003Cul class=\"Byline\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=-1\u0026amp;story=1982\u0026amp;pg=1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EPalabras de Resistencia de Medios\/Words of Media Resistance \u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E                       \u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=88\u0026amp;story=1962\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDerramando mas sangre inocente\/Shedding More Innocent Blood\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E                     \u003Cul class=\"Byline\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=-1\u0026amp;story=1962\u0026amp;pg=1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDerramando mas sangre inocente\/Shedding More Innocent Blood\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E                       \u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=88\u0026amp;story=1958\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EImaginese si ese era usted\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E                     \u003Cul class=\"Byline\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=-1\u0026amp;story=1958\u0026amp;pg=1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EImaginese Si Ese Era Usted\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E                       \u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=88\u0026amp;story=1833\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ELas Gallinas De Ingrid-La Verdadera Historia! (Ingrids Chickens- The True Story!)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E                     \u003Cul class=\"Byline\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=-1\u0026amp;story=1833\u0026amp;pg=1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ELas Gallinas De Ingrid La Verdadera Historia!  (Ingrids Chickens- The True Story!)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E                       \u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=88\u0026amp;story=1661\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFrom Guatemala.. From East Oakland... The Journey of two poor mothers\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E                     \u003Cul class=\"Byline\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poormagazine.org\/index.cfm?L1=news\u0026amp;category=-1\u0026amp;story=1661\u0026amp;pg=1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDe Guatemala...al Este Oakland....El Viaje de dos pobres madres (From Guatemala..From East Oakland .. 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'Creative Non-Conformity'"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003EA great, beautiful post by my dear friend\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(102, 255, 153); font-weight: bold;\"\u003Einsurgelicious\u003C\/span\u003E in hiers Blog.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/fugitivedesire.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_hm1tnoR6iRg\/SSTRKod8qaI\/AAAAAAAAACQ\/QBKI-aMS0GM\/S220\/rt2-hi.0168.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:180%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold;\" align=\"center\"\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(102, 255, 153);font-size:180%;\" \u003E\"Fugitive Desire\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(204, 102, 204);\"\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E  \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E\"Your nobility shall not gaze backwards, but outwards! You shall be fugitives from all fatherlands and fore-fatherlands! You shall love your children's land: let this love be your new nobility - the undiscovered land in the furthest sea! I bid your sails seek it and seek it!\" - Friedrich Nietzsche \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ch2 style=\"color: rgb(102, 255, 153);\" class=\"date-header\"\u003EWednesday, December 17, 2008\u003C\/h2\u003E  \u003Ca name=\"8257631353396194433\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ch3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/fugitivedesire.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/creative-non-conformity.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ECreative Non-Conformity\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/h3\u003E   \u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_kfEbNr4tlRw\/SU76goORhSI\/AAAAAAAAAAo\/erLTwLilWeM\/s1600-h\/CIMG3108.JPG\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_kfEbNr4tlRw\/SU76goORhSI\/AAAAAAAAAAo\/erLTwLilWeM\/s320\/CIMG3108.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282434851412215074\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EI came across this beautiful message just the other day. It was scrawled on the wall of a shed at a permaculture garden I go to occasionally to source organic produce. Resisting \"normalisation\" is surely one of the most important acts of resistance we can perform in our everyday lives.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo police \"normality\" is tantamount to epistemic violence. Men will police hegemonic masculinity by marginalising homosexuals as aberrant and \"abnormal\". Authorities will label \"mad\" people as \"abnormal\" too - outliers from the supposed \"mainstream\" of sane people. The epistemic violence of normalisation happens everywhere. It's as if society is one giant \"line of best fit\" (to use a mathematical term - see example \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.niassembly.gov.uk\/images\/pics\/calrep5.gif\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E), and the \"outliers\" are written off as just that: mere outliers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo hell with being \"normal\". We need to embrace diversity instead of demanding that people conform - And I'm not talking about mere \"tolerance\" (which implies that there's something to be tolerant of), but rather, of a genuine love for the other - \"xenophilia\" we might say. The \"other\" is, after all, a part of ourselves. Our diversity never trumps our commonality.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI'm reminded here of a song by \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Franti_\u0026amp;_Spearhead\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EMichael Franti\u003C\/a\u003E called \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/au.youtube.com\/watch?v=1CoC3HEcRQk\u0026amp;feature=related\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EStay Human\u003C\/a\u003E\" which contains the wonderful lyric: \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E\"All the freaky people make the beauty of the world\"\u003C\/span\u003E. That pretty much sums it up!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd then there's \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jack_Kerouac\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EJack Kerouac\u003C\/a\u003E who writes: \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E\"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.\" \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe mad in Kerouac's eyes, then, are those who refuse \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003Egeneric\u003C\/span\u003E existence; those who refuse the formulaic prescriptions of hegemonic forces in society that constantly tell us who we should be, what we should do with our lives, how we should behave...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere's actually a great organisation in the UK called \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mad-chicks.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EMad Chicks\u003C\/a\u003E who organise around the concept of \"Mad Pride\". In their own words: \u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E\"Somewhere in the dislocations of madness, the manic highs or the stunning lucid moments of social disconnection, there might be prototypical versions of other lives to be led. Mad Pride deemed that people are deemed 'mad' simply because they stick out in a crowd, because they refuse conformist lives. People experience pain as their pleasures and freedoms conflict with repressive forces in society.\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBeautiful stuff! Thank fuck for mad people! We are the conscience of society. We are the ones who make it interesting. We are the ones who change the world.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\"Tolerance is the presumption of superiority, acceptance is a manifestation of love\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E-- Aurora\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8858648087927015221\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/creative-non-conformity.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/8858648087927015221"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/8858648087927015221"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/creative-non-conformity.html","title":"Why be normal when you can be yourself? 'Creative Non-Conformity'"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_hm1tnoR6iRg\/SSTRKod8qaI\/AAAAAAAAACQ\/QBKI-aMS0GM\/s72-c\/rt2-hi.0168.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-6978970811059806705"},"published":{"$t":"2008-12-28T16:00:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-12-29T00:04:37.049-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"adultery"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"bible"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"christian fundamentalism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"divorce"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Dr. Laura Schlessinger"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"gay"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hate"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"homosexuality"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hypocrisy"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"john hagee"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"leviticus"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"religious intelerance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"same-sex marriage"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"transgender"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Dr. Laura Schlessinger and Leviticus Revisited"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I Just added a \"Table of Contents Function\" To my Blogs, it is easier to browse the posts' titles and dates, well, I was checking out how the TOC worked at \"TUYA\", viewing it I saw a post which reminded me of the Same-Sex Marriage... I don't even know how to call it, 'brouhaha?' or 'much ado about nothing?', the one I like the best for being the most descriptive is: 'the supreme exercise in christian hypocrisy', but whatever I call it, when I think about it, I get a wicked fascination and gratefulness at their showing to all the world, the best example of what I have been saying for years.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnyway, I saw the post titled \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/tu-ya.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/dr-laura-schlessinger-and-leviticus.html\" target=\"blank\"\u003E\"Dr. Laura Schlessinger and Leviticus\"\u003C\/a\u003E published Monday, February 25, 2008, I thought that 10 months later was still current and timely so I decided to dust it up and share it again.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis piece came to me via email, it is from a man who identified himself as 'Jim', this message really made the internet rounds at the time, so I never did determined if this was his real name or anything else about the author, the piece was so well written and, albeit it dealt with very serious matters, I found it as hilarious then as I do now.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFunny as it is, this is a very serious matter, indeed, when we just endured the sad spectacle of three States changing their Constitution to ban 'same-sex marriage' on the basis that it goes contrary to 'God's Law'.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDr. Laura Schlessinger is a radio personality who dispenses advice to people who call in to her radio show. Recently, she said that, as an observant Orthodox Jew, homosexuality is an abomination according to Leviticus 18:22 and cannot be condoned under any circumstance. The following is an open letter to Dr. Laura penned by an east coast resident, which was posted on the Internet. It's funny, as well as informative and thought-provoking:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDear Dr. Laura:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's Law. I have learned a great deal from your show, and try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can. When someone tries to defend the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I simply remind them that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination. End of debate. I do need some advice from you, however, regarding some of the other specific laws and how to follow them:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord - Lev.1:9. The problem is my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanness - Lev.15:19- 24. The problem is, how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELev. 25:44 states that I may indeed possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you clarify? Why can't I own Canadians?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination - Lev. 11:10, it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELev. 21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20\/20, or is there some wiggle room here?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMost of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by Lev. 19:27. How should they die?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI know from Lev. 11:6-8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMy uncle has a farm. He violates Lev. 19:19 by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton\/polyester blend). He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them? - Lev.24:10-16. Couldn't we just burn them to death at a private family affair like we do with people who sleep with their in-laws? (Lev. 20:14)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI know you have studied these things extensively, so I am confident you can help. Thank you again for reminding us that God's word is eternal and unchanging.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYour devoted fan,\u003Cbr \/\u003EJim\u003Cbr \/\u003EPosted by Aurora at 3:55 PM \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMany, many christians are what Jesus of Nazareth despised the most; Hypocrites.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI always get a kick out of witnessing these ignorant zealots, please forgive the oxymoron, perform what I call 'contortions in logic', 'intellectual acrobatics' and 'spiritual masturbation', oooooh, I love to say these terms which so aptly describe what these christians are doing in this and other religious issues, I love to say them, they are so accurately descriptive and kind of poetic, c'mon, say it with me, slowly, 'contortions in logic, intellectual acrobatics and spiritual masturbation', ooooooooooh.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere is another expression that I run into while researching another huge example of christian hypocrisy, DIVORCE!!! THE BIGGEST KILLER OF HETEROSEXUAL MARRIAGE, THE REAL THREAT TO THE 'SANCTITY OF CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE' (I need to make a pause here to have a few guffaws'\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs I was saying... I found a post with a very long title of which I selected the first few words and an excerpt of it (immediately below), it was posted on a Blog Titled: \u003Cem\u003E\"Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian\"\u003C\/em\u003E who, as is the case with most of us, has at least a tinge of what we accuse others of, here is a quote he?, she?, has in this post \u003Cem\u003E\"Those of us who still believe the Bible is the rule book for marriage, sexuality, moral character and church discipline must confront this craziness.\"\"\u003C\/em\u003E, the post's title starts with \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/bsimmons.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/01\/the-fuzzy-wuzzy-world-of-charismatic-morality-christian-leaders-who-flippantly-divorce-without-adequate-explanation-are-confusing-young-believers-and-mocking-biblical-standards\/\" target=\"blank\"\u003E\"The Fuzzy-Wuzzy World of Charismatic Morality –Christian leaders who flippantly divorce...\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThen we have Bishop Thomas Weeks III, the estranged husband of celebrity preacher Juanita Bynum. Their marriage crashed and burned last August when she accused him of beating her in an Atlanta hotel parking lot. Weeks and Bynum have continued preaching since they announced plans to divorce, and Weeks told Gospel Today magazine last month that he’s looking forward to finding wife No. 3 while he continues to oversee several churches. When asked what he needed to change, the bow-tied preacher replied: \"I have to take vacations.\"\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn my research on divorce, I found out that a lot of criticism on it is coming from fundamentalist christians which focus not in divorce itself, but in divorce among christian leaders (Classic christan selectiveness), here is a post which still focuses and makes the point that some denominations, i. e., 'liberal', have a higher divorce rate than others, including the baptists with a very high rate of it, the post goes on to absolve sinners but stops short of agreeing that leaders who divorce should continue in their ministry, but I believe that what he is saying is that for members of the congregation it is ok to divorce and marry again, shouldn't the prescription they suggest for gays apply to them? they say that Homosexuality itself is not a sin, but homosexual acts are, so, be celibate and spend a lifetime without a special person in your life - when a divorcee remarries, isn't he\/she committing adultery? Here is a comment on this post \u003Cem\u003E\"'voice crying in the wilderness' Says: August 23, 2007 at 6:35 pm I wonder how my fellow christians can get a divorce and remarry and not think they’re committing adultery\"\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHere is the title to the post I just mentioned \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/Divorce%20Is%20Rampant%20Among%20Christian%20Leaders\" target=\"blank\"\u003EDivorce Is Rampant Among Christian Leaders\u003C\/a\u003E, see what I mean?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPost after christian post, they focus on divorce by preachers and ministers and very little in divorce per se, here is another one on \"The Baptist\" - \"BIBLE TRUMPET For Fundamentalism In South Caroline\" \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.baptistbibletrumpet.com\/trumpet\/octtrumpet\/divorced.html\" target=\"blank\"\u003EWhat About Divorced Preachers?\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow about Evangelical leader John Hagee, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=john+hagee\u0026amp;ie=utf-8\u0026amp;oe=utf-8\u0026amp;aq=t\u0026amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official\u0026amp;client=firefox-a\" target=\"blank\"\u003Eremember him?\u003C\/a\u003E He was the one whose endorsement John McCain sought and got during the Presidential Primaries of this year and later denounced him to separate his campaign from the horrible wackiness of this preacher.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe also weighed in by 'taking action' on this, hmmmm... 'divorce is bad only for preachers' issue, he, he, he.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/MYSA031308_01B_ChristianMinisters_36fe864_html2033.html\" target=\"blank\"\u003EHagee, divorced preachers are distant\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cem\u003EA pair of divorces among prominent preachers in Florida and San Antonio has prompted evangelical leader John Hagee to cool ties with the two, who are linked through a San Antonio church called the Epicenter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERick Hawkins, who founded the Epicenter (until recently called the Family Praise Center), divorced his wife last year. Several months later, TV evangelist Paula White divorced her husband; she later joined the board of directors at Hawkins' church. \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut he is not being a hypocrite, is he? Check this out\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\"Hagee, 67, considered an esteemed veteran in Pentecostal and charismatic circles, divorced his first wife when he was a young pastor and remarried.\"\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHas anybody actually confronted him on this blatant contradiction? (One of many)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELet's just close this post with a few afterthoughts and reminders on divorce, period! While divorce itself it is not adultery (Remember abstinence) remarriage is. (The Patriarchal Bible gives a pass on many things to men, but not on this one) \u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003E-\u003Cem\u003EJesus describes divorce and remarriage as an act of adultery. ... Adultery with a married woman (Leviticus 20:10-11; Deuteronomy 22:22-24)\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E- \u003Cem\u003EWhoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her. And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery. (Mark 10:11-12)\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E- \u003Cem\u003EWhoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced from her husband commits adultery. (Luke 16:18)\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cli\u003E- \u003Cem\u003EMarriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge. (Hebrews 13:4; see also 1 Corinthians 6:9-10; Revelation 21:8)\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ol\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow about number 4? This is a good one, according to it, \u003Cem\u003E\"Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled;\"\u003C\/em\u003E, I don't see any exceptions for homosexuals listed, so, why are christians opposed to same-sex marriage so same-sex couples can be as honorable as they are?\u003Cbr \/\u003EI may be wrong on the second part of it \u003Cem\u003E\"but fornicators and adulterers God will judge\"\u003C\/em\u003E,  shouldn't christians, the self-proclaimed \"Guardians of Society's Morals\", be at the forefront in pro of same-sex marriage to stop single homosexuals from fornicating?  Just a thought.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf anybody ever feels the need to be utterly confused and amused by the logical contortions, intellectual acrobatics and spiritual masturbation of the christians, just check out Leviticus on this and other issues and you will find a plethora of christian examples in hypocrisy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAurora Grajeda\u003Cbr \/\u003ESFCA 122808\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6978970811059806705\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/dr-laura-schlessinger-and-leviticus.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/6978970811059806705"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/6978970811059806705"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/dr-laura-schlessinger-and-leviticus.html","title":"Dr. Laura Schlessinger and Leviticus Revisited"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-6830680513481750019"},"published":{"$t":"2008-12-27T02:01:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-12-27T15:50:11.986-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"fundamentalism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"gay"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hate"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"holy inquisition"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"homosexuality"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"intolerance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"pope benedict"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"ratzinger"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"religion"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"same-sex marriage"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"spiritual"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"transgender"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"violence"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"warfare"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Ratzinger's Unholy Inquisition, is there any other kind?"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDid he learned some lessons and is applying  them?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EHe claims that he had to join the Hitler Youth  because it was compulsory and that he didn't agree with Nazy ideals, the details  are murky but there is enough to glimpse that he has been less than  candid.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cblockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\"\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cem\u003EJoseph Ratzinger joined the Hitler Youth in 1941 when, according to him  and his supporters, it became compulsory for all German boys. Millions of  Germans were in a position similar to that of Joseph Ratzinger and his family,  so why spend so much time focusing on him? Because he is no longer merely Joseph  Ratzinger, or even a Catholic Cardinal — he is now Pope Benedict XVI.  \u003Cstrong\u003ENone of the other Germans who joined the Hitler Youth, were part of the  military in Nazi Germany, lived near a concentration camp, and watched Jews  being rounded up for death camps has ever become pope.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cem\u003ERatzinger’s recollections of his youth in Nazi Germany makes it seem as  though all the problems, violence, and hatred existed outside his local  community. There is no recognition that resistance to the Nazis existed — or was  needed — just outside his door\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe pope is supposed to be the successor of Peter, leader of the  Christian Church, and symbol of unity for all Christendom. The past actions — or  inactions — of such a person matter a great deal if anyone is going to treat him  as any sort of moral authority. \u003Cstrong\u003ERatzinger’s recollections of his youth  in Nazi Germany makes it seem as though all the problems, violence, and hatred  existed outside his local community. There is no recognition that resistance to  the Nazis existed — or was needed — just outside his door.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHitler Jugend\u003C\/strong\u003E: \u003Cem\u003EJoseph Ratzinger’s claims about the  Hitler Youth are not true. Compulsory membership was first defined in 1936 and  reinforced in 1939, not in 1941 as he says. Ratzinger also says that he was  “still too young” at the time, but he was 14 in 1941 and not too young at all:  between the ages of 10 and 14, membership in the Deutsche Jungvolk (a group for  younger children) was mandatory. Yet there is no mention of Raztinger belonging.  If he had managed to avoid the required membership in the Deutsche Jungvolk, why  did he suddenly join the Hitler Youth in 1941?\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E -- \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/atheism.about.com\/od\/benedictxvi\/i\/RatzingerNazi.htm\"\u003EAbout.Com\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EOne of the things that I find difficult to come to  grips with RE his campaign against Queer Folk, is the fact that he witnessed the  Anti-Jew Nazi propaganda, the effect it had in zealots and it's consequences, he  is the Pope, a learned man and author, it is quite a stretch of the imagination  to conclude that he doesn't understand the dangers that this hypocritical  intolerance poses in his truly unholy Jihad, at a time when the anti-homosexual  hate crimes are on the rise, doesn't he understand that this is akin to throwing  fuel into the fire? Or maybe, that's the whole idea.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EThis are the options for the most simplistic way to  define him, the Pope is either dumb or evil, and for the apologists, I offer an  alternate option, he is being irresponsible, let's not forget that he saw what  happened in Germany to the Jews, Unionists, Communists and other groups that the  Nazis found unacceptable, and now, he is doing the same.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EA lesson well learned?  He saw how successful the  Nazi Propaganda machine was in consolidating power by galvanizing the fears,  phobias, biases, etc., of the populace living in a era on uncertainty, economic  and bellicose climate and blaming somebody for the problems, \u003Cstrong\u003EIT IS THE  JEWS' FAULT! GET THEM!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EHe may no have agreed with the Nazis, his family  didn't, \u003Cstrong\u003Ebut today, he has a cause and culprits to blame it on, IT IS THE  HOMOSEXUALS' FAULT! GET THEM!\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\"Homosexuality is Destroying Human Race,  says Pope\"\u003C\/strong\u003E  \u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.gather.com\/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977543326\u0026amp;grpId=3659174697239112\u0026amp;nav=Groupspace\"\u003EScream  the headlines\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E.\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cblockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\"\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"articleText\"\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:'Verdana','sans-serif';font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cem\u003EIn his  end-of-the-year address, \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/7796663.stm\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPope Benedict XVI\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E said that  \"saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behaviour is just as important  as saving the rainforest from destruction.\"\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp style=\"line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:'Verdana','sans-serif';\"\u003EHe added  that\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"font-family:'Verdana','sans-serif';\"\u003E\"defending God's  creation was not limited to saving the environment, but also about protecting  man from self-destruction.\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp style=\"line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:'Verdana','sans-serif';font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/news\/articles\/2005-10053.html\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003ERev Sharon Ferguson\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E from  the\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"font-family:'Verdana','sans-serif';\"\u003EBritish Lesbian and  Gay Christian Movement said\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"font-family:'Verdana','sans-serif';\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Estatements  like this one fuel violence against homosexuals: \"When you have religious  leaders like that making that sort of statement then followers feel they are  justified in behaving in an aggressive and violent way because they feel that  they are doing God's work in ridding the world of these  people.\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp style=\"line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:'Verdana','sans-serif';\"\u003EA representative of  the British\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"font-family:'Verdana','sans-serif';\"\u003EPink Triangle  Trust\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"font-family:'Verdana','sans-serif';\"\u003Esaid\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"font-family:'Verdana','sans-serif';\"\u003E\"this must be the  most outrageous and bizarre claim yet made by the Pope who has already got a  well-deserved reputation as one the most viciously homophobic world leaders on a  par with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and Robert Mugabe of  Zimbabwe.\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"line-height: 115%;font-family:'Verdana','sans-serif';font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cem\u003EWell,  what else to expect from a former member of the \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pope_Benedict_XVI\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003EHitler  Youth\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E?!\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003EWOW, that is power, my community is destroying the human race, what is the  difference between him and the religious wacko leaders in the US blaming  homosexuality for 911, Katrina, Hurricanes, etc.?  He has joined the ranks  of the likes of Michael Savage who blames sex-change operations for 911  \u003Cstrong style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E'that was God speaking'\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E \u003C\/span\u003Ehe pontificated.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003EI may be a lot dumber that I thought, for the life of me I can't see the  connection and no details are ever given on the particulars of how we accomplish  what we are being blamed for.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003ESo now he is an enviromentalist and wants to save the rainforest, but he is  against science, pluralism, Liberation Theology, preventing AIDs by using  condoms, oh dear God, the list is so long of what is wrong with this Pope.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EI'll never forget how in the US 2004 Presidential Election, he didn't say  anything when his Bishops were waging a campaign against Kerry for his stance on  Reproductive Rights, they supported Bush even after 4 years of learning of the  lies for the invasion in Irak, the crimes against humanity, the war crimes, with  all that being public knowledge, he didn't reign in his zealots in positions of  power, I hold him responsible for helping give Bush four more years of  criminality, he is an accomplice after the facts for thousands of deaths.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003EIt is not because he is a Nazi, I don't think he is, his behavior follows  the ultra conservative religious beliefs, for the ones who don't know and the  ones who feel it is not important, I'd like to remind you that at the time of  his election as Pope, Benedict had been \u003Ca title=\"Prefect\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prefect\"\u003EPrefect\u003C\/a\u003E of the \u003Ca title=\"Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Congregation_for_the_Doctrine_of_the_Faith\"\u003ECongregation  for the Doctrine of the Faith\u003C\/a\u003E, least be left unsaid, this is the  historically malignant \"Holy Inquisition\" of our times, yeah, these were the  zealot goons who killed so many people in the name of Christ.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\"The Blessed\", the arrogance of this man in selecting this name, blessed by  whom? And for what?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003EThis \"Holy War\" He is waging is not new, back of Sep 19, 2005, I wrote a  Daily Kos Diary after the sentencing of the young men who killed my young  Transgender sister Gwen Araujo titled \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2005\/9\/19\/54013\/6107\"\u003E\"Gay Panic  Defense? My Ass!\u003C\/a\u003E - This Pope was busy conducting a 'witch-hunt' for  homosexuals in the seminaries.\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cblockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\"\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EYes, two were convicted, Silvia (Gwen's Mother), says that a murder  conviction is a murder conviction, mandatory 15 yrs. to life (Hate crime would  add only 4 yrs. to sentence)  But the issue of Hate Crimes needs to be included,  even as a symbolic conviction so at least it becomes part of the narrative.  We  need to highlight the circumstances.  I fully agree and I'd be  satisfied.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESo, why am I so angry? I am full of righteous indignation because the  instigators, the ones that perpetuate a climate of exclusion, discrimination and  hate, the ones that commit Spiritual Violence, the ones that in my book have the  tears and blood of my sisters and brothers on their hands, are free.  And they  are just as guilty, if not more.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EYes, I'm talking about the blobs of wasted human DNA such as the  hatemongering preachers in the US  and abroad, Repugnicans, specially \"If I  can't dazzle you with my brilliance, I'll baffle you with my bullshit Bush\"  Yes  all of them, \u003Cstrong\u003EMAY THEY BE DAMMED TO THE HOTTEST PLACE IN  HELL!\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOh! We are also responsible for 9\/11 and Katrina among other  disasters.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Vatican is going \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.americanchronicle.com\/articles\/viewArticle.asp?articleID=2446\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\"Faggot  hunting\"\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E Apparently we're guilty of pedophilia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Things do not  look very promising under the leadership of Pope Benedict XVI: the Catholic  Church has instigated a witch-hunt against homosexual seminarians. The Vatican  has launched an inspection of Roman Catholic seminaries in the United States to  search for \"evidence of homosexuality.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe inspections of hundreds of  seminaries and theological schools was authorized as a response to the church's  child molestation scandal.\"\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EI haven't the foggiest idea as to how they'll identify seminarians'  homosexual \"tendencies\"  Really, how are they going to conduct this witch hunt?   I don't think the \"Throw them in the water and if....\"  Method will work this  time.  Hey! Wait a cotton-picking-minute, it never did and as a result some of  your predecessors shed the blood of, no, no, I'm wrong, the \"Holy\" Inquisition  was not supposed to spill blood, it was verboten, so they devised the more  \"Moral\" method of burning so no blood would be spilled. Neat feat of  intellectual acrobatics and spiritual masturbation.  Cooool, you guys are some  piece of work.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAs a Catholic I have some choice words for Ratzinger, him that controls  the Holy Inquisition version 2.0.0.5.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ERatzinger, you charlatan, calling yourself the Vicar Of Christ, you claim  to represent Jesus of Nazareth, I have news for you, you DENIGRATE HIM!  Were he  to come back, there'd be a replay of throwing the merchants out of the temple  with a whip, he'd do it himself, just as he did so long ago.  You and the  priests of your ilk have helped make My Fathers' House in a rathole of  corruption, when are you going to clean up the corruption in the Vatican Bank?   When will you pay decent wages to lay workers?  You exploiter - When will you  get a divorce from the Murderer of so many?  Yes, I'm talking about Bush, you  well know that the Catholic Church is fiercely opposed to unjust wars and the  death penalty, when will you denounce him?  You hypocritical coward and  self-serving misleader, you helped him with the '04 election, your bishops were  condemning Kerry and anybody who voted for him and as a result many Catholics  voted for Bush, do you have any concept of your guilt at the deaths that  occurred since then? Do you realize that you are an accomplice to murder and  crimes against humanity?\u003Cbr \/\u003EDo you ever consider the pain and suffering that  your policies against birth control cause throughout the world? Specially in  poor countries, if you don't, pity you, if you do, you sanctimonious bastard!  \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ENo, Jesus is not here  to throw you out, but I'm here, I DO believe in  Jesus of Nazareth and as a follower and in HIS name I'm ordering you out of our  house  of Prayer, I'm doing it in the finest tradition of a true Catholic, With  the respect that I have, not for you, but to the Holly office that you occupy,  I'm kneeling in front of you, I kiss your ring, I stand up and shaking my  stretched index finger two inches from your nose, I say unto you: \"The stench of  corruption and sin surrounds you, you are hurting God's creation, clean up your  act or leave!\"\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003EIf you want to control the masses, control their sexuality, this is the  reason this Pope is doing this, no question about it, for thousands of years,  religion has made something ugly of one of the most beautiful gifts of creation  and one of the most powerful natural instincts, be it for procreation or  recreation, it is a most powerful drive and the urge to harness it appeared in  early religion, propagated for centuries with lies and misinformation for one  purpuse and one purpose only, CONTROL.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETHESE ARE THE BASIS FOR RATZINGER'S 21ST  CENTURY CRUSADE\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003EThis is a little piece that I wrote for a dear friend of mine's  Newsletter, it was supposed to be around 200 words, came up with 231:\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cblockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\"\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESAME-SEX MARRIAGE\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cem\u003EAlbeit this issue pales in comparison to the  momentous impact to the US Population that the Economy, Education, Employment,  Health Insurance and War have, nevertheless, it is the hottest item in the  political landscape.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe three basic problems that makes this  possible are: Ignorance, Hypocrisy and plain Bigotry.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cem\u003E1. \u003Cstrong\u003EIgnorance:\u003C\/strong\u003E Homosexuality  goes against Nature, it does not conform to creation's rule of a male and  a female (For Obvious reasons the procreation argument mostly has been  dropped)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EThere have been countless field studies RE  'Homosexuality in nature' to list them all, but scientifically it is no  longer in question that it does exist, \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Ca title=\"Biography of Bruce Bagemihl, Ph.D.\" href=\"http:\/\/borngay.procon.org\/viewsource.asp?ID=81\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EBruce  Bagemihl, PhD\u003C\/a\u003E wrote in his 1999 book \"\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EBiological Exuberance, Animal Homosexuality and  Natural Diversity\" that homosexual and\/or transgender activity has been  observed in \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/borngay.procon.org\/viewadditionalresource.asp?resourceID=162\"\u003Eover  450 species\u003C\/a\u003E\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E2.\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EHypocrisy:\u003C\/strong\u003E While Leviticus clearly  states that homosexuality is an abomination, similarly classifies eating pork  and shellfish in addition to clearly condemn divorce as adultery, the penalty  for this infraction is death by stoning, in the town's main square no  less.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cem\u003EReligious leaders and their followers are blatantly selecting which  precepts are applied, hence, they are being hypocritical.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E3. Bigotry:\u003C\/strong\u003E Not much to say here other than research  on the subject has shown that it is mostly cultural, rooted in traditional  religious beliefs handed down for generations and also that, in it's most  virulent expression, it is reflection manifested  in projection.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E \u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EThe reason for this \"Holy War\" Is that we Queers pose a real  threat, not to humankind, but to the power that these Ultra Conservative  Fundamentalists and Greedy Violence Mongers wield and they don't want to lose  it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EThere is a new book by an ex-Jesuit Priest that I believe I had the  chance to meet at Dignity San Francisco, where I attend functions occasionally,  it is about sexuality, sex, the Bible, religion, etc., I need to read it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EIn his review, Steve Rothaus says of the book - \u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECiting  the generally overlooked Biblical book The Songs of Songs, McNeill argues that  human sexual activity represents a form of \"play\" that provides a source of  pleasure, joy and love. From the beginning, he says, this is what God intended  sex to be, not a cause of judgment, oppression, and  resentment.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cblockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\"\u003E \u003Ch2 class=\"date-header\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cem\u003EFriday, December 26,  2008\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"post hentry uncustomized-post-template\"\u003E\u003Ca name=\"5162690522669768756\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ch3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/tu-ya.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/new-book-from-john-j-mcneill-sex-as-god.html\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cem\u003ENew book from John J. McNeill: 'Sex as God  Intended'\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"post-header-line-1\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"post-body entry-content\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003ESOURCE:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Ch1\u003E\u003Ca accesskey=\"1\" href=\"http:\/\/miamiherald.typepad.com\/gaysouthflorida\/\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cem\u003ESteve Rothaus' Gay South Florida\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/gay\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cem\u003Ewww.MiamiHerald.com\/gay\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cem\u003E -  For and about gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people throughout Miami and  Fort Lauderdale.\u003Cbr \/\u003EDecember 25, 2008\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/miamiherald.typepad.com\/gaysouthflorida\/2008\/12\/new-book-from-j.html\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:120;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cem\u003EMiami Herald Blog\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"entry-body\"\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EA new book from John J. McNeill: \u003Cstrong\u003ESex as God Intended\u003C\/strong\u003E.  McNeill will be signing books Jan. 11 at \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sunshinecathedral.org\/sunburst\/index.htm#bookmark02\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESunshine  Cathedral in Fort Lauderdale.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E Here's the news release:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELethe Press is proud to release the latest work from the  acclaimed Biblical scholar John J. McNeill.\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cem\u003EYou can order at \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.queerbooks.com\/NASApp\/store\/Product?s=showproduct\u0026amp;isbn=9781590210420\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EQueerbooks.com\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E  or at \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.tlavideo.com\/product\/2-1120-272722_sex-as-god-intended.html?sn=1\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETLABooks\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E  or through \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sex-God-Intended-John-McNeill\/dp\/1590210425\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAmazon\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003Eor  ask your local bookseller to carry John's latest book\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E 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about Obama's pick  of Rick Warren to give the invocation at his Inauguration, some of you have been  witnesses to what seems like anger in me and have pointed it out, I have also   been trying very hard to deny it, to say that I'm upset, that I'm  disappointed of people whom I have believed to be for equality, but are not, or  rather, they make exceptions for people like me or others.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EChristie is right when she says that there are so  many issues and struggles, yes, she is right there is so much that I'm involved  in where there are many allies and much more to do, I don't want to jeopardize  that\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EAnd yet....\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EI hope you read the Diary and join me in  spirit this Christmas, another one in which I'll be pondering and wondering  about so many christians having a jolly good time and doing 'good works' during  these days, such as wishing everyone to have a merry Christmas, or feeding some  hungry people, or giving some present to poor children, so as to quiet what has  been in their hearts and for their deeds of the past year and to justify what  they will do, or not, in the next.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EWhile the above are worthy causes and I celebrate their doing them, It is the hypocrisy that gets me, their  selectiveness (sic) on what the Bible says and how they apply it.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EYou may read the Diary, or not, it really doesn't  matter - these few words are not really for all of you and should be taken as  they apply, or as the saying goes 'if the shoe fits', and they are also for me,  as a reminder that I need to do one of the things Jesus of Nazareth did the  most, which was to criticize the hypocrites, because he didn't have more  contempt for others as he did for those, he also had a very apt description for  them \"Like Sepulchers, white on the inside and empty inside\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EYes, I am hurt and angry but in any event, may your heart be  filled with kindness throughout the year and I also wish for you and your loved  ones, health, love, happiness and prosperity.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003ELastly,  while I can forgive, forget I can't.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAurora\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESOURCE: \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/news.lavenderliberal.com\/\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELavender  Newswire\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003EPosted by: Sapphocrat\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EDecember 23, 2008\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003Ch2 class=\"storytitle\" id=\"post-2102\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Ca title=\"Permanent link to What Christie Said (Must Read)\" href=\"http:\/\/news.lavenderliberal.com\/2008\/12\/23\/what-christie-said-must-read\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EWhat Christie Said (Must  Read)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003Cp\u003EThis is one of the best Kos diaries I have ever read. Excerpting won’t do it  justice, so I’ll give you just enough to compel you to read the whole  thing:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cblockquote\u003E \u003Ccenter\u003E\u003Ca class=\"bigga\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2008\/12\/21\/174451\/88\/444\/675879\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIt’s not Obama I’m mad at;\u003Cbr \/\u003Eit’s way too  many of you\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/center\u003E \u003Cp\u003E. . .\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EI have not been one of the “OMG Obama is betraying us” crowd. …\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EBut when I heard Warren had been invited to pray at Obama’s inauguration, I  felt sick to my stomach. I cried. It wasn’t a judgment; it wasn’t an  intellectual assessment; it wasn’t a political strategy. It was just genuine  pain.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EBut it was nothing — NOTHING — compared to what I felt when I started reading  diaries here on Daily Kos, full of smug, ignorant pontification on how we need  to not be SO ANGRY or SO HURT, and lumping us in with the “What Obama is doing  wrong” crowd, and ignoring that our response to the Warren invitation is a  completely separate phenomenon.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003ELet me explain something very carefully, for those who don’t know: none of  what’s going on in the fight for LGBT rights is part of a strategy, as should be  apparent by our lack of a cohesive movement and any viable leaders. It’s a true  grassroots uprising among people who got a taste of freedom and decided we  wanted more. We were no longer willing to settle for a long, slow, state by  state battle, for death by a thousand cuts, for an extended period of second  class citizenship.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EI’ve lived through a lot of watershed moments in this movement, including the  assassination of Harvey Milk and the beginning of the AIDS epidemic and the rise  of ACT-UP. I know like I know my name that this is another one.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EWhether it’s “strategic” or not, whether it’s what our “leaders” think we  should do or not, it’s pretty clear that real actual LGBT people are done with  the closet. We’re seeing things in a new way. We’re no longer willing to settle  for simply not getting beaten to death, for being able to live in our  constricted safe zones without fear of baseball bats to the head and getting  fired.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EIt’s not okay anymore to have to decode when and where we can be out, who can  and can’t be trusted to really know us. We’re done with glancing around the  restaurant or the street before taking our partner’s hand if we’re not in a gay  bar or walking down Castro St. Done with paying for living fearlessly with  broken bones or even death.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EBut to people outside of this struggle, I think that sea-change is invisible.  Many of you really have no idea what just happened or what it’s done to us, both  good and bad. It’s outside your circle of perception.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003ESo I can understand that our anger must be kind of scary to some of you. It  looks like it’s way out of proportion to what you think happened. And it’s not  like us, really, even if our movement was born at a riot.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003ESo in the interest of building bridges, which apparently many of you are  really big on, I’ll share a secret: my anger is scaring me, too. I haven’t  summoned it, cultivated it, or even welcomed it. It’s just there, like the  bricks and bottles thrown at Stonewall. It’s real like that.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EAt first I thought the fact that many of you had no idea what’s going on for  us was our fault. We must not have been telling you our stories. …\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003ESo we wrote diary after diary explaining what it’s really like to grow up  queer in America — to often find no safe harbor even in our own families, who  throw us out, or in our churches, which call us sinners, or in our schools,  which fail to keep us safe or even alive, or in the army, which uses Don’t Ask,  Don’t Tell as a license to rape female soldiers and cleanse the ranks.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EWe told you about how many of us are haunted by things that happened to us —  like when I had my head smashed into a car windshield for being so utterly  uppity as to use the ATM while lesbian — or to others — like Jennifer Gale, who  last week died of the cold on the streets of Austin because the only shelter in  town, run by the Salvation Army, wouldn’t let a transgendered woman stay under  its roof.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EWe thought you knew, but in case you didn’t, we told you how our youth are  being tortured, isolated, and abused in religious centers that claim to be able  to change them into straight people — places people like Warren advocate and  even run.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EBut I saw that to far too many of you, knowing our stories made no difference  at all. There's just something about the fight of LGBT people for our civil  rights that makes a whole lot of you here feel uncomfortable.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EYou keep saying things like, \"Just because someone is against gay marriage  doesn't mean they're a homophobe or a bigot,\" even though there are no  non-bigoted, non-homophobic reasons to oppose marriage equality.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EYou say that equality for LGBT citizens is an \"issue\" that needs to take its  place on the list of progressive causes, and not a fundamental civil right that  is the very foundation and bedrock of our entire constitutional system: equality  under the law.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EYou say we're too angry and it's not an effective strategy, completely  missing that we're not strategizing; we're really this angry -- even me, a 49  year old lesbian who lives in San Francisco and has a good job. I'm so furious I  often can't sleep, can't eat, and sometimes I shake with rage.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EYou keep telling us we need to reach out and build bridges to the religious  right. Do you really think there is any point at all in telling us we need to  reach out to homophobes and bigots, to the people who run the churches that  abuse our youth and shove us out the doors, that have brainwashed our parents  into rejecting us, that tell us they \"love\" us while they knife us in the hearts  with their laws?\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EWhy don't you tell \u003Cem\u003Ethem\u003C\/em\u003E to reach out to \u003Cem\u003Eus\u003C\/em\u003E? We're the ones  who have been wronged and harmed, disenfranchised, electro-shocked, had our kids  taken away in ugly custody battles, lost our homes when our partner died, been  thrown out of the hospital rooms of our lovers, had wills overturned and  benefits denied. We're the ones who had our equality thrown up for a popular  vote, and whose rights are denied us in the constitutions of 29 states. Telling  us to reach out to them is like saying battered women need to reach out to their  abusers, or children to the priest who molested them.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EYou lecture us not to hold this against Obama, but newsflash: at least for  me, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/hotlist\/add\/2008\/12\/21\/174451\/88\/displaystory\/\/\"\u003EMORE....\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2008\/12\/21\/174451\/88\/444\/675879\"\u003EPermalink\u003C\/a\u003E  | \u003Cspan class=\"cct\"\u003E1745\u003C\/span\u003E comments | \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIf you read no other essay this week, read the rest of this one.  Trust me — it is more than worth it\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cblockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\"\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E\"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no  right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is  precisely to protect minorities from oppression by  majorities.\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E\"Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian  regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EThe voice of  the majority is no proof of justice.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E-- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;\"  \u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAny law which violates the indefeasible rights of man is essentially  unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.\u003Cbr \/\u003EMaximilien Robespierre\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;\"  \u003EIn matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.\u003Cbr \/\u003EMahatma  Gandhi\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;\"  \u003EIt is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by  a majority.\u003Cbr \/\u003ELord Acton\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6146753811468616151\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/what-christie-said-must-read.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/6146753811468616151"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/6146753811468616151"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/what-christie-said-must-read.html","title":"What Christie Said (A Must Read)"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-6944568361439336240"},"published":{"$t":"2008-12-21T22:55:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-12-21T23:30:53.544-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"commercial"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"corporatist"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"dominionism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"dominionist agenda"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"eternal forces"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Left Behind"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"religious militarism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rick warren"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Talk To Action"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"video game"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"violence"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Purpose Driven Life Takers (Part 1)"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv style=\"background: rgb(255, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;\" width=\"500\" height=\"70\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.talk2action.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i28.photobucket.com\/albums\/c219\/talk2action\/title4b.gif\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" width=\"570\" height=\"70\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"author\"\u003EBy \u003Ca class=\"light\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talk2action.org\/user\/jhutson\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ejhutson\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"time2\"\u003E                 Mon May 29, 2006 at 07:58:55 PM EST\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"story_summary\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"float: left;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"imagel\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.tlpj.org\/images\/j_hutson.jpg\" width=\"60\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.newstrust.net\/submit?ref=talk2action.com\u0026amp;url=http:\/\/www.talk2action.org\/story\/2006\/5\/29\/195855\/959\u0026amp;title=The%20Purpose%20Driven%20Life%20Takers%20%28Part%201%29\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzflash.net\/submit.php?url=http:\/\/www.talk2action.org\/story\/2006\/5\/29\/195855\/959\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E  \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cb\u003ELeft Behind: Eternal Forces\u003C\/b\u003E: Installments of Jonathan Hutson's Talk To Action \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.talk2action.org\/story\/2006\/5\/29\/195855\/959\"\u003Eexpose series\u003C\/a\u003E on the \"Left Behind: Eternal Forces\" video game have been viewed by over a quarter of a million people and the controversy over the game the series provoked has lately erupted into mass consumer protest. Talk To Action features a dedicated site section featuring our \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.talk2action.org\/section\/religious_war\"\u003Emore than 35 original articles\u003C\/a\u003E covering the controversial \"Left Behind: Eternal Forces\" video game that has provoked a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.democracyinaction.org\/dia\/organizationsORG\/cwa\/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=6083\"\u003Eboycott\u003C\/a\u003E by a coalition of religious groups and a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.politicalcortex.com\/story\/2006\/12\/7\/15735\/8330\"\u003Eletter writing campaign\u003C\/a\u003E urging Walmart to stop selling the game.\u003Cp\u003E    For inquiries on Talk To Action member media appearances about the game : talk2action_media_contact@earthlink.net  \u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003C!-- \u003Cimg alt=\"A new Christian video game evokes 911.\" src=\"http:\/\/i46.photobucket.com\/albums\/f135\/jhutson64\/left_behind_911_03.gif\" \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E --\u003E \u003Cp\u003EImagine: you are a foot soldier in a paramilitary group whose purpose is to remake America as a Christian theocracy, and establish its worldly vision of the dominion of Christ over all aspects of life. You are issued high-tech military weaponry, and instructed to engage the infidel on the streets of New York City. You are on a mission - both a religious mission and a military mission -- to convert or kill Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, gays, and anyone who advocates the separation of church and state - especially moderate, mainstream Christians. Your mission is \"to conduct physical and spiritual warfare\"; all who resist must be taken out with extreme prejudice. You have never felt so powerful, so driven by a purpose: you are 13 years old. You are playing a real-time strategy video game whose creators are linked to the empire of mega-church pastor Rick Warren, best selling author of \u003Ci\u003EThe Purpose Driven Life\u003C\/i\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E The game, slated for release by October 2006 in advance of the Christmas shopping rush, has been previewed at video game exhibitions, and reviewed by major newspapers and magazines. But until now, no fan or critic has pointed out the controversial game's connection to Mr. Warren or his dominionist agenda.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E    \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Ctable bgcolor=\"#000000\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"stats\" valign=\"top\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"stats\" align=\"right\"\u003Etopic: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.talk2action.org\/?op=search\u0026amp;topic=militant_christian\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EReligious Militarism\u003C\/a\u003E                      \u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003Ctd align=\"right\" valign=\"top\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E \u003Ci\u003ETime\u003C\/i\u003E magazine has described Mr. Warren as one of the nation's \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/covers\/1101050207\/photoessay\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Emost influential Evangelical Christian leaders\u003C\/a\u003E. He describes himself as a \"stealth evangelist\" and describes his training programs as \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.moriel.org\/discernment\/purpose_driven_church.htm\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ea stealth movement, that's flying beneath the radar\u003C\/a\u003E, that's changing literally hundreds, even thousands of churches around the world.\" He claims that he has sold tens of millions of copies of \u003Ci\u003EThe Purpose Driven Life\u003C\/i\u003E by developing a worldwide network of pastors.\u003Cp\u003EThe international director of Mr. Warren's Purpose Driven Church, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.com\/en-US\/AboutUs\/Media\/Media.htm\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EMark Carver\u003C\/a\u003E, is a former investment banker who \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.leftbehindgames.com\/pages\/advisory_board.htm\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eserves on the Advisory Board of the corporation\u003C\/a\u003E created in October 2001 to develop and market this game. The creators plan to market their game using the same network marketing techniques that Mr. Warren used to turn \u003Ci\u003EThe Purpose Driven Life\u003C\/i\u003E into a commercial success. For example, they plan to \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/11567350\/site\/newsweek\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Edistribute their merchandise through pastoral networks\u003C\/a\u003E, especially mega-churches.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E[Update: Mark Carver, a top aide to Mr. Warren, resigned as an adviser to Left Behind Games on June 5, 2006, and asked that the game developer remove the Purpose Driven Ministries name brand from its web site. These abrupt moves came in response to pressure from \u003Ci\u003ETalk to Action\u003C\/i\u003E, as reported in the third essay in this series, \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.talk2action.org\/story\/2006\/6\/7\/41835\/37829\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ERevelation and Resignation (Part 3)\u003C\/a\u003E\". Here is a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/i28.photobucket.com\/albums\/c219\/talk2action\/lbg_board_old.gif\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Escreen shot from the Left Behind Games site\u003C\/a\u003E taken before June 5, showing Mr. Carver's name and invoking the name brand of Purpose Driven Church, which the site describes in some detail. -- JH]\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E This game immerses children in present-day New York City -- 500 square blocks, stretching from Wall Street to Chinatown, Greenwich Village, the United Nations headquarters, and Harlem. The game rewards children for how effectively they role play the killing of those who resist becoming a born again Christian. The game also offers players the opportunity to switch sides and fight for the army of the AntiChrist, releasing cloven-hoofed demons who feast on conservative Christians and their panicked proselytes (who taste a lot like Christian).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E Is this paramilitary mission simulator for children anything other than prejudice and bigotry using religion as an organizing tool to get people in a violent frame of mind? The dialogue includes people saying, \"Praise the Lord,\" as they blow infidels away.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe designers intend this game to become the first dominionist warrior game to break through in the popular culture due to its violent scenarios and realistic graphics, lighting, and sound effects. Its creators expect it to earn a rating of T for Teen. How violent is that? That's the rating shared by \u003Ci\u003ETom Clancy's Splinter Cell - Chaos Theory\u003C\/i\u003E, a top selling game in which high-tech gadgets and high-powered weapons - frag grenades, shotguns, assault rifles, and submachine guns -- are used to terminate enemies with extreme prejudice. [\u003Ci\u003ENota bene\u003C\/i\u003E: While  some versions of \u003Ci\u003ESplinter Cell: Chaos Theory\u003C\/i\u003E have been rated M for Mature, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0009PQ0GY\/104-6074410-3258321?v=glance\u0026amp;n=468642\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EAmazon.com offers a version rated T for Teen\u003C\/a\u003E, which invites players to \"Go into battle with futuristic weapons and high-tech gadgets used by real-life spies,\" and \"Strike without mercy.\" -- JH]\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E Could such a violent, dominionist Christian video game really break through to the popular culture? Well, it is based on a series of books that have already set sales records - the blockbuster \u003Ci\u003ELeft Behind\u003C\/i\u003E series of 14 novels by writer Jerry B. Jenkins and his visionary collaborator, retired Southern Baptist minister Tim LaHaye. \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-godgames10may10,0,1260114.story?coll=la-home-business\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EWe hope teenagers like the game\u003C\/a\u003E,\" Mr. LaHaye told the \u003Ci\u003ELos Angeles Times\u003C\/i\u003E. \"Our real goal is to have no one left behind.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E \u003C!-- \u003Cimg alt=\"The Left Behind video game lets children create carnage on the streets of New York.\" src=\"http:\/\/i46.photobucket.com\/albums\/f135\/jhutson64\/left_behind_carnage.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E--\u003E The game, \u003Ci\u003ELeft Behind: Eternal Forces\u003C\/i\u003E, is based on scenes from the first four novels in the series. The game was developed by a publicly-traded company called \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/13055\/000107878206000247\/bonanzadef14a032106.htm\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ELeft Behind Games\u003C\/a\u003E, according to SEC records. The developers obtained the license from Tyndale House, the Christian publisher of \u003Ci\u003ELeft Behind\u003C\/i\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETyndale also publishes \u003Ci\u003EBringing Up Boys\u003C\/i\u003E and \u003Ci\u003EThe Complete Marriage and Family Home Reference Guide\u003C\/i\u003E by Focus on the Family founder  James Dobson, PhD. Mr. Dobson has advised parents to monitor the amount of time children spend playing video games and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.uexpress.com\/focusonthefamily\/index.html?uc_full_date=20041010\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\"avoid the violent ones altogether.\"\u003C\/a\u003E But he has not yet stated his views on whether there should be an exception for video games that role play gunplay in the name of Christ, or of the AntiChrist.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E Tyndale's licensing of the project infuriated one of its authors, Jack Thompson, a conservative Christian attorney and outspoken critic of video game violence, who told the \u003Ci\u003ELos Angeles Times\u003C\/i\u003E that he severed ties with his publisher in a dispute over \"Left Behind: Eternal Forces.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E \"It's absurd,\" said the video critic. \"You can be the Christians blowing away the infidels, and if that doesn't hit your hot button, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-godgames10may10,0,1260114.story?page=2\u0026amp;coll=la-home-business\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eyou can be the Antichrist blowing away all the Christians\u003C\/a\u003E.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E The firm's CEO is relying on network marketing through pastoral networks as a key part of his business plan, according to a report in the March 6, 2006, issue of \u003Ci\u003ENewsweek\u003C\/i\u003E Magazine:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003ELeft Behind Games CEO Troy Lyndon, whose company went public in February, says the game's Christian themes will grab the audience that didn't mind gore in \"The Passion of the Christ.\" \"We've thought through how the Christian right and the liberal left will slam us,\" says Lyndon. \"But megachurches are very likely to embrace this game.\" Though it will be marketed directly to congregations, Forces will also have a secular ad campaign in gaming magazines.\u003C\/blockquote\u003EAs part of its marketing pitch, Left Behind Games hypes the realism with which it portrays the neighborhoods of New York City. There is, for the most part, a remarkable verisimilitude except for one detail - all of the ambulances have 911 painted on their roofs. In the reality-based world, most ambulances have a red cross on top. Yet the game designers make prominent use of these 911 ambulances to evoke the tragic events of September 11, 2001. The historical context of 911 is invoked as if to say, We are living in the End Times, and Muslims are among the kinds of infidels whom you should fear, whom you should be prepared to kill for your cause.\u003Cp\u003EFor game enthusiasts, there is also a multi-player mode, in which you can go online and battle to take territory from other players. If you happen to blow away a neutral party - and collateral damage is inevitable in the End of Days - then you will lose \"Spirit Points\". But you can power back up with merely a brief timeout for prayer, or by converting one of New York's terror-stricken citizens.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E \u003C!-- \u003Cimg alt=\"God Gameth, God Bloweth Away: The creators of a violent video game are linked to dominionist pastor Rick Warren. Graphic by Jonathan Hutson\" src=\"http:\/\/i46.photobucket.com\/albums\/f135\/jhutson64\/god_gameth.gif\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E--\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this way, the game resembles a send-up of Christian-themed video games by \"The Simpsons.\" \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thesimpsons.com\/characters\/home.htm\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EBilly Graham's Bible Blaster\u003C\/a\u003E,\" is a first-person shooter game in which you fire Bibles at club-carrying heathens to convert them into card-carrying Republicans. (Hint: after you finish reading this blog piece - and eating all your vegetables -- visit the Simpson's official web site and open file drawer F-H, then click on the character of Evangelical Christian kid Rod Flanders to play the game.)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E \u003Ci\u003ETime\u003C\/i\u003E has dubbed Mr. Warren \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/covers\/1101050207\/photoessay\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\"America's minister.\"\u003C\/a\u003E But Mr. Warren says that his agenda stretches far beyond America, and far beyond traditional ministry. He sees himself as the CEO of a global marketing enterprise, and as the Commander in Chief of a stealth army of one billion Christian foot soldiers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E On the 25th Anniversary of his Saddleback Church on April 17, 2005, Mr. Warren filled the Angels baseball stadium in Anaheim, California, with tens of thousands of his flock. Mr. Warren signaled his belief that we are now approaching the End of Days by opening with a rock band, which played the Jimi Hendrix drug anthem \u003Ci\u003EPurple Haze\u003C\/i\u003E. As the band jammed, Mr. Warren sang the lyrics:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EPurple haze all in my eyes\u003Cbr \/\u003EDon't know if it's day or night\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou got me blowin', blowin' my mind\u003Cbr \/\u003EIs it tomorrow, or just the end of time?\u003C\/blockquote\u003EThe Director of the Peace Corps, Gaddi Vasquez, read a message of support from President George W. Bush. Then Mr. Warren called on his flock to support a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/ocr\/2005\/04\/19\/sections\/news\/news\/article_485645.php\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E $40 million capital campaign\u003C\/a\u003E to expand missionary training facilities at Saddleback's 120-acre campus in Lake Forest, California. He pledged participants to achieve a purpose-driven ministry overseas. His dominionist theology is apparent in this ministry. A key aspect of dominionist thought is a conviction that the Scripture gives the church a mandate to take dominion over this world socially and culturally before the return of Jesus Christ. Mr. Warren's global plan is a strategy to realize a dominionist vision of churches, states, and corporations forming partnerships to bring about a new world order to make way for Christ's return by establishing a literal, physical kingdom of God on earth. In order to build this earthly kingdom, Mr. Warren plans marketplace ministries - business ventures with a veneer of missionary compassion that slip into a country in order to transform it systematically through the governmental, corporate, and social sectors. And that is why Mr. Warren calls himself a \"stealth evangelist\" - because he wishes to cloak his dominionist agenda, which is the establishment of an earthly kingdom that reflects his skewed vision of Christianity.\u003Cp\u003E According to Mr. Warren, the establishment of this earthly kingdom requires \"foot soldiers.\" As part of his plan, Mr. Warren said he would encourage laypeople to \"adopt\" needy villages overseas in order to plant churches, expand business opportunities, educate children, influence governments, and overthrow corrupt political leaders, whom he described as \"little Saddams.\" Mr. Warren said his purpose is to enlist \"one billion foot soldiers for the Kingdom of God\" in the developing world. And the stadium crowd roared its approval.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E Celebrants included Paul Kagame, the president of Rwanda, a tiny east African country that lost hundreds of thousands of people when it suffered genocide in 1994. Catholic and Protestant clergy have been convicted in connection with that genocide. Yet Mr. Kagame announced that he would allow Mr. Warren to turn his country into the first purpose driven nation. The following month, 16 Rwandan religious leaders arrived in Orange County to begin religious training at Saddleback Church. Mr. Warren has said that his global initiative was \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/story\/177\/story_17718_4.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Edeveloped \"underground\" and in \"stealth\"\u003C\/a\u003E. Presumably, this was done with the assistance of Mr. Carver, who directs the Purpose Driven Church in all its activities outside North America.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYet through an unexpected turn of events in Georgia, the spotlight was turned on Mr. Warren's stealthy strategy in March 2005, when Ashley Smith read a passage from \u003Ci\u003EThe Purpose Driven Life\u003C\/i\u003E to the Atlanta courthouse killing suspect, Brian Nichols. Shortly thereafter, Mr. Nichols freed his hostage and surrendered to police. The entire world suddenly wanted to hear from Mr. Warren, who was busy planting the seeds of a Christian theocracy with his \"foot soldiers\" in Rwanda.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn March 22, 2005, CNN's \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/0503\/22\/lkl.01.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ELarry King interviewed Mr. Warren\u003C\/a\u003E about the Atlanta courthouse shooting and hostage taking. A caller asked, \"Can you explain the sudden thirst or craving that people seem to have for religion?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMr. Warren replied:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\"[T]here are really two stories going on in our culture right now. There is the story of things are getting more worse [\u003Ci\u003Esic\u003C\/i\u003E] in some ways. We're seeing the increase in violence. We're seeing terrorism. We've seen these recent shootings. We're seeing the coarsening of our society, that has disgusted a lot of people. And there is people [\u003Ci\u003Esic\u003C\/i\u003E] -- some people are more materialistic than ever.\u003Cp\u003EBut at the same time, there's another story going on in America, that I think is a spiritual awakening that is brewing. And that is a desire and hunger to know God. I don't always think it's always a desire and hunger for church. But there is a desire and hunger to know God.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003ESo according to Mr. Warren, the worst of American culture is reflected in examples of violence, terrorism, shootings, and the coarsening of our society, that turn people away in disgust. And in addition, \"some people are more materialistic than ever.\"\u003Cp\u003EIf violence, coarseness, and materialism are serious social problems, then what purpose is served by exploiting a global pastoral network to mass market a game about mass killing, whether in the name of Christ or the AntiChrist?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn the one hand, this video game is anti-American, because it endorses roving death squads engaged in faith-based violence without any regard for Constitutional law.  On the other hand, the video game is anti-Christian, because it argues that the Kingdom of God can be advanced by using the methods and tools of the kingdoms of this world, namely guns and bombs. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Scriptures say, \"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.\" (\u003Ci\u003EProverbs 22:6\u003C\/i\u003E) The Scriptures do not say, \"Train up a child in the way he should blow away the people of God as well as infidels: and when he is old enough, he will go out and do some killing.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs Jesus said, \"My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight that I might not be handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom is not from here\" (\u003Ci\u003EGospel According to John 18:36\u003C\/i\u003E).  As Paul said, \"Though we walk in flesh, we do not make war in accordance with the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly.\" (\u003Ci\u003E2 Corinthians 10:3-4a\u003C\/i\u003E). \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe dominionist Christians pushing this violent video game are modeling neither Christian charity nor patriotism. Both Christians and patriots should oppose them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.talk2action.org\/story\/2006\/5\/29\/195855\/959\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EMORE...\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E  \u003Cb\u003EUPDATE\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E  \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.talk2action.org\/story\/2006\/5\/29\/195855\/959\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EEndorsement by Association\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003ELINKS TO MORE POSTS\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.talk2action.org\/story\/2006\/5\/29\/195855\/959\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.talk2action.org\/story\/2006\/5\/29\/195855\/959\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EThe Purpose Driven Life Takers (Part 1)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.talk2action.org\/story\/2006\/6\/1\/82458\/92817\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EViolent Video Marketed Through Mega-Churches (Part 2)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.talk2action.org\/story\/2006\/6\/7\/41835\/37829\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ERevelation and Resignation (Part 3)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.talk2action.org\/story\/2006\/6\/9\/32014\/83270\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EChristian Cadre's Layman: 'A Whopper of Being Wrong' (Part 4)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.talk2action.org\/story\/2006\/6\/12\/31011\/1474\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EApocalypse, Now a Lawsuit (Part 5)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.talk2action.org\/story\/2006\/6\/21\/23153\/9497\"\u003EWho's Watching the Boys? (Part 6)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.talk2action.org\/story\/2006\/6\/27\/234014\/762\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EConservative Christian Culture Warriors Cut and Run (Part 7)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.talk2action.org\/story\/2006\/8\/21\/21544\/0474\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EBible Publisher Tyndale House Faces Boycott Over Anti-Christian Game (Part 8)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E  \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' 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'que no se debe mirar los dientes a un caballo regalado'\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENo es eso lo que pretendo, pero se necesita decirlo 'porqué se tardó tanto?'\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatinoamericanos en general, hemos estado bajo la mira de pistolas, rifles y cañones verbales por años, continuamente acribillados con los proyectiles llenos de un lenguage de odio que sale de las lenguas viperinas de los que comúnmente se denominan 'shock jocks' en la radio y televisión en inglés, los exponentes actuales de tal arma letal son, entre la legión que los conforma, Michael Savage, Lou Dobbs, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Neil Boorts, Michele Malkin, et al, como dije son legión y desafortunadamente el espacio disponible es insuficiente para enumerarlos a todos.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMe estoy refiriendo, por supuesto, al lenguage de odio (Hate-Speech) en los Medios de Comunicación que han azusado tanto odio, intolerancia y violencia contra las comunidades tradicionalmente marginadas y excluídas, como lo han sido, entre otras, las de los Imigrantes, Mexicanos, Hispanos y LatinoAmericanos en general.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEspero que se haya deducido al mencionar los 'exponentes \u003Cb\u003E\u003Cu\u003Eactuales\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E del lenguage de odio', de que este problema y las tragedias que causan, no es nada nuevo, espero que todos estemos de acuerdo de que esta es una situación cíclicamente recurrente, basta recordar brevemente los  programas 'Bracero', 'Wetback', 'Mexican Repatriation', 'Return to Sender', 'Endgame', las luchas sostenidas contra la exclusión, opresión y la violencia que se desató contra la comunidad México-Americana durante los llamados 'Zoot Suit Riots', 'The Chicano Movement' y la legendaria lucha, aún en vigencia, de los Trabajadores del Campo, iniciada por muchos valientes entre los que cabe mencionar Cesar Chávez, Dolores Huerta y educadores artísticos como Luis Valdez, con el afamado 'Teatro Campesino', levantando la conciencia de nuestro pueblo y otras etnias.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELas luchas, los tiempos, las caras y las voces cambian, pero la temática no, por ende, la pregunta, 'porqué se tardó tanto?', es imperativa.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EY una respuesta, en mi opinión, es mandatoria.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMi atrevimiento al hacer la demanda, está basado en la realidad de que hasta ahora, nuestros esfuerzos para atraer la atención de nuestras comunidades hacia el problema y las consequentes tragedias, en el mejor de los casos, han recivido una cobertura en los medios en español que refleja a la que hemos recibido de los medios Anglo Sajones, los cuales reportan la noticia sin adentrarse en las causas y su conectión a las consequencias, ó en el peor de los casos, pasan desapersividas por falta de qué? Interés en cubrirlas?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUna notable excepción, fué la extraordinaria reacción a la propuesta para reforma migratoria de Sensenbrenner en el 2006, y vimos los resultados, el público informado, tomó cartas en el asunto como correspondía a la precaria situación en que se pretendía poner a nuestra comunidad.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEn respuesta a las protestas, demostraciones y marchas del 2006, el lenguage de odio, la intolerancia y violencia contra nosotros, se incrementó y nuestros medios en español se replegaron y se especula que dócilmente se doblegaron ante la presión, de quién ó por donde vino esa presión, se lo dejo a su criterio, ó si lo prefieren, a su especulación.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPorque, si no hubo presión, como tal vez se declare por parte de los presentadores, entonces cabe preguntar, fué ignorancia de la agravante situation?  Ó, Fué simple desinterés y falta de preocupación en nuestro dilema?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECuando uno de de los mas virulentos mercaderes de odio, Michael Savage, en respuesta a la huelga de hambre de unos valientes estudiantes que trataba de llamar la atención a la necesidad de pasar el DREAM ACT, en su programa del \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200707060009\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E5 de Julio del 2007\u003C\/a\u003E, Savage sugerió que sería mejor 'dejarlos morir de hambre, asi se acabaría el problema', con notables excepciones, esta ignominia fué ignorada por nuestros medios de comunicación, la respuesta de un grupo de la indignada comunidad Hispano \/ Latino del Área de la Bahía, que tomó forma en una protesta el 15 de Agosto del 2007 contra este tipo de lenguage, contra el locutor Michael Savage, contra la estación KNEW, que es desde donde transmite y contra Clear Channel, la Corporación Propietaria, también, en su mayor parte, fué ignorada por los medios en general, incluídos los que supuestamente deben informar a la comunidad hispano-parlante.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELos ataques verbales de este locutor y los demás, continuaron, el odio, la intolerancia y los asaltos físicos, no solamente continuaron, sino que hubo en incremento de ellos, la organización surgida durante la acción contra Savage en el 2007, \u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/hladc-sf.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ELa Hispano \/ Latino Anti-Defamation Coalition SF\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E, se mobilizó de nuevo para una vez más, llamar la atención al creciente problema, aunque no fué inesperada, la ignorancia que aún existía sobre este individuo y sus dañinas actividades, aún en nuestros medios de comunicación, la encontramos tanto indignante, como significativa de una falla al cumplimiento del deber de los medios de comunicación, con énfasis en los Hispano Parlantes. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUna protesta \/ demostración planeada para el 23 de Septiembre del 2008, recibió la promesa de María Celeste, del programa \"Al Rojo Vivo\", de cubrirla, aparentemente ella despertó a la realidad del gran problema del discurso del odio, a consequencia de un ataque que hizo Michael Savage contra los niños autistas, siendo María Celeste miembro de la Mesa Directiva que aboga por el bienestar de los niños que padecen de autismo, su indignación y respuesta no se hicieron esperar y presentó un segmento sobre lo que Savage dijo, después de acceder a cubrir la action del 23 de Septiembre, se descubrió que había conflicto con la fecha a consequencia de sus vacaciones con anterioridad planeadas, se nos informó que no la podía cubrir en persona, pero que miembros de su equipo lo harían, nadie de su programa se presentó y pues no fué cubierta por ellos.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETambién Jorge Ramos nos falló, en una entrevista con el Dr. Marcos Gutierrez del Programa 'Hecho en California', en \u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.marcosgutierrez.com\/espa_ol\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ELa Grande 1010AM\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E tanto Marcos como Juanita Villegas, que como Marcos es también miembro del \u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/hladc-sf.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EHLADC-SF\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E y que llamó al programa, le preguntaron a Jorge si podía de alguna forma cubrir la acción, Jorge dijo que sí lo iba a hacer; el decir que aun estamos esperando su presencia es incorrecto, porque desde el principio hubo dudas de que cumpliera lo prometido, aunque resulta superfluo, lo voy a decir, nunco lo hizo.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EY ahora, después de dos casos con las más extremas consequencias del 'lenguage de odio', finalmente Jorge tiene un segmento sobre estas horrorosos ejemplos de lo pervasivo que es este tipo de discurso en los medios, aunque veo lo positivo del segmento, el mayor enfoque fué sobre los acontecimientos criminales y casi nada sobre los 'shock jocks' que, a mi entender, tienen una relación muy directa de causa y efecto sobre estos incidentes, y la pregunta final que Jorge hizo a sus dos invitadas, sobre lo que se podría hacer para contrarrestar esto, a mi me pareció de lo mas disengenua por parte de Jorge, por la sencilla razón de que aunque se puede trazar la retórica de odio a los grupos anti-imigrantes, no se abordó la indoctrinación y el reclutamiento a las filas de los grupos de odio y a la validación de sus representantes que se hace a travez de los medios de comunicación en Inglés y que presentadores como Jorge Ramos, están en una posición super óptima para contrarrestarlos al simplemente cubrirlos en forma regular y consistente.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cem\u003EJorge Ramos es considerado uno de \"los 25 hispanos más influyentes de Estados Unidos\" (revista Time). La revista Latino Leaders dice que es uno de \"los 10 Latinos más admirados en Estados Unidos\" y \"uno de los 100 más poderosos de América Latina\". People en Español lo incluyó en su lista de los 100 latinos de mayor influencia en norteamérica.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EJorge Ramos, Super Héroe en acción al rescate, finalmente?\u003C\/b\u003E Ya veremos, porque hasta ahora, Rick Sánchez de CNN y Geraldo Rivera de FOX News, FOX News? WOW!, hasta ahora han hecho un mejor trabajo que Jorge para desenmascarar y exponer al aire libre el racismo, nativismo y la xenofobia de los que nos odian y atacan en los medios de comunicación.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESi no vieron el programa 'Al Punto', en el video que incluyo immediatemente abajo, pueden ver el segmento al cual me he estado refiriendo, para que juzguen por ustedes mismos si creen que Jorge está en realidad luchando a nuestro lado. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYo creo que ha hecho muy poco y con lo poco que ha hecho hasta ahora, me instó a hacer la pregunta 'porqué se tardó tanto?'\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"middle\"\u003E \u003Ciframe frameborder=\"0\" height=\"380\" src=\"http:\/\/www.univision.com\/content\/flashvideo\/embed.jhtml?vars=videoCID%3D1768424\" width=\"400\" align=\"middle\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1537819584585429551\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/super-heroe-jorge-ramos-al-rescate.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/1537819584585429551"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/1537819584585429551"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/super-heroe-jorge-ramos-al-rescate.html","title":"Super Héroe de Univisión Jorge Ramos al rescate, finalmente... ?"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-4992566810778075433"},"published":{"$t":"2008-12-04T11:35:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2010-06-02T20:56:39.868-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"aurora grajeda"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"christina jorgensen"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"coccinelli"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"transgender"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"transgenderism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"transsexual"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"woman trapped in men's body"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"When did you know you were really a girl?"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"One of the most frequent questions people ask me is: 'When did you know you were really a girl?' I consider this one to be a valid one, as opposed to the others like 'when did you decided to \u003Cu\u003Ebecome\u003C\/u\u003E a woman?' with variations such as 'chose', 'wanted', etc.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMy answer is that it wasn't like that, when I was playing with my cousins and sisters, I somehow was made to realize that I was different, that I wasn't a girl like them, that I was actually a boy, a first-born son and a first-born grandson.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThen the lessons began, till the last time I saw my mother in the summer of 2000, she denied that I ever owned 'trastecitos' (Mexican version of miniature tea sets made of terra cota), but I distinctly remember playing with them alongside my cousins and sisters in a sort of game we used to call 'las comadritas' (The little co-Godmothers), it was my a bit older cousins who started to say that I was the 'compadrito' (Little co-Godfather), I remember that at some time I wasn't allowed to play with the girls anymore.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll of this happened when I was between 2 and 3 years old, I was a very fast learner, I was enrolled in a sort of pre-K when I was around 4 in a small school run by a wonderful retired teacher, she was very good at developing us, gave us attention and engaged us into thinking and conversations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy then, I knew that I was supposed to be a boy, but I knew that I was different to the other boys, I remember this older boy who used to scream names at me, at the time I didn't know what it was what he said I was, but I knew that it was 'bad' to be what he said I was, I think it roughly translates to 'faggot' (The actual words were 'puto' and 'joto') - I don't know why he called me that, because I didn't behave in any way, that I can remember, to make him think I was one, albeit I didn't know exactly what the words meant at that time, I had already seen how boys got very angry and sometimes fought for being called that, the ones who didn't fight, were ridiculed and excluded from games, whereas the ones who fought and came on top, got respect.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECheck! Lesson eventually learned and put into effect by the time I was 7 when I had my first fight and my first victory of the many that were to follow.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut I'm getting a little ahead of myself, while I was still enrolled in the pre-K class, in an afternoon after a school day, my mother busted me playing with my cousins and sister while wearing high heel shoes, I think they belonged to my still single aunt, my mother walked in on us and said something like: 'oh, how pretty you look, we should put on a dress on you too', I remember the temblor, shiver and wave of excitement that coursed through my entire body, she then went on to tell me that boys do not do that and started chastising me, I don't really remember all that she said, it was blurred by the shame and guilt that was being bestowed upon me and which became part of my life. (There were additional later incidents of this nature, of course)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the feeling that I was supposed to be girl never left me and wasn't exteriorized under penalty of shame, abuse and scorn if my many true feelings were allowed to surface, nobody knew until I was 51 years old, which is when I told my family and the world, the discrimination, abuse and scorn materialized almost immediately, in San Francisco of all places.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMy father was a bracero and every summer he would travel all the way to California to work on the fields, laboring in ranchos around San Jose, Stockton, Manteca and other areas, every fall on his return from 'El Norte', he would bring us toys, boy stuff for me and dolls for the girls, I remember one year he brought me two silver guns, you know, the ones with caps which detonate when struck by the hammer, they came with a brand new leather gun belt for them decorated with big diamond like plastic things, I remember having it in my hands while looking forlornly at my sisters' dolls, they were the kind that closed their eyes when you lay them down and could say like something like 'mmmmmmaaaaaa', I wanted so much to also get a doll, I only put on the gun belt in the occasions when I was pressured to do it and show them off, they just got old in the crate where mom put them, the last time I remember seeing them, the leather had gotten brownish and there was mold in it, I guess that eventually they were thrown out.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn retrospect I surmise that my father, uncles and grandfather, were advised to instruct me in doing 'boy stuff', regularly catching me when my hands moved in a 'certain way' by telling me that boys didn't move their hands that way, this impulse never left me but I learned to grab my left hand with my right when I caught myself unconsciously doing it, and when classmates were the ones catching me, well, I had learned the lesson on how the 'Law' must be upheld by teaching the offending boy, that it wasn't a good idea to mess with me.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI was attracted to some boys and terrified they could guess that I liked them as a girl likes boys, I knew how queer looking boys were treated, so it is easy to understand my terror of them finding out that I wasn't really a 'puto' or a 'joto', which was very scary in and by itself, but that I actually thought that I was a girl, in seeing how they mistreated boys who were different, it isn't really difficult to imagine the dread I felt were they to find out that I felt I was a girl, this feeling came together with shame, guilt and a tremendous confusion as to why I thought that, I thought that I was really crazy, for, how could it be otherwise?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI didn't know what I was and I always thought that I was the only one with this horrifying crazy feeling, it was not until I was close to 12, while visiting my maternal grandparents in a nearby town, that I came across a magazine, one of the many subscriptions that my uncle, the town's Catholic Priest, oh yeah, in my family there were priests and nuns, a very Catholic family, as I was saying, he had subscriptions to magazines in Spanish of Life, Reader's Digest, Popular Science and Popular Mechanics among others, I read them all, one of my early addictions was reading, it was around 1958 (I was born in 1947), well, this particular day, I think I was reading Life, when I came across the story of this French Woman who had transitioned from a man, oh God, she looked so beautiful, but most important, I was reading how she felt all along that she was really a woman, I was enthralled reading the story, for the very first time in my life, I learned that I was not the only one who felt that way, I think it was in the same article that it mentioned another one who had also transitioned and had surgery to change her sex.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo immersed was I in reading and re-reading about these girls - besides learning that I wasn't the only one, I learned what I was, I was a transsexual, I must be one, I could relate to everything of what they said how they felt all of their lives - that the voice of my grandfather startled me when he asked forcefully 'what are you reading?', I said, 'nothing' and tried to close the magazine and put it away, he took it from my hands and his next words were 'Coccinelli eh?' he then went on to say 'cochinadas'  while walking away with the magazine that I never saw again, the word was thrown out at me, or maybe it was at Coccinelli, with a tone of utter disgust.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYes, I was reading about Coccinelli and Christine Jorgensen, you have to understand why the play of words my grandfather used by saying 'cochinadas', had the impact it had on me, I felt my heart sink to the pit of my stomach and my true essence, what many years later I figured out it was my female soul, was pushed deep down in my consciousness where it stayed for many, many years.\u003Cbr \/\u003E(In some parts of Mexico, we refer to pigs as 'cochinos' (Swine), when somebody is really dirty, really filthy, people would say 'you are a cochino' - It didn't matter if he was referring to me, or to Coccinelli, it didn't make a difference, I was the same 'thing' that she was, una 'cochinada' (A filthy something))\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMaybe I had some mannerisms, countless times I was told 'boys don't talk like that', Referring to my hands gestures, to this day, I still use my hands a lot when I talk, but now I don't stop myself by holding my hands back, as I did growing up and as an adult, I was terrified of being 'discovered', also the reminders of 'boys don't walk like that' (I had a little hip sway) and the perennial 'boys don't cry', so I didn't cry for the next 40 or so years while a learned how to be a 'man'.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd learn to be a 'man' I did, I fulfilled my 'manly responsibilities' of first son and first grandson, I did marry and had children, it wasn't until I was 51, with a failed marriage, a divorce and a decision to end it all; I had come to the conclusion that it was better for all involved, specially me, if I were to be dead, so a choice was made. (Subsequently, a pro-life choice was made)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat was in the winter of 1997 and no, I didn't end my life as this words attest to, why not? Well, I don't think that part of my life belongs in this narrative, to tell you the truth, I didn't start with the idea or had the desire to write about myself today, but it just happens that I came across articles about Christina and Coccinelli and read them, something prompted me to reminisce about my past and write about it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E(On Dec. 1st, 1952, Christine's transition became National News, after reading the post about her, published Dec. 1st, 2008, I looked up Coccinelli and read about her again as well)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo there it is, if you didn't know who the two brave pioneering transgender women I talked about were, here is a little bit about them and see what I saw when I was not even 12 years old and when finally I learned what I really was.\u003Cbr \/\u003E(In the Magazine spread, there was a picture of Coccinelli, languidly half laying in a bed with white sheets and I think to remember there were also some pelts)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAurora Grajeda\u003Cbr \/\u003ESFCA 100408\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPS\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt another time, I'll tell you of reading somewhere about a British Fighter Pilot who fought in World War II and who also......\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.tglife.com\/Resources\/History\/article428_Coccinelle.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECoccinelle\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBorn Jacques Charles Dufresnoy in 1931 (Paris France), he went on to \u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.tglife.com\/files\/directorios\/Glosary\/imagenes\/image\/coccinelle.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" border=\"2\" height=\"250\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"199\" \/\u003Ereinvent himself as Coccinelle (means Ladybird in French) as a female impersonator appearing at the famous Travesti club Madam Arthurs. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe later became a regular at Le Carrousel de Paris, a cabaret that would feature other famous transsexuals like April Ashley and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.tglife.com\/Interactive\/Photo%20galleries\/?GalleID=7\u0026amp;gale=Amanda%20Lear\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EAmanda Lear \u003C\/a\u003Ethrough the years.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnfulfilled in simply dressing as a woman, Coccinelle under went sex reassignment surgery in 1958 in Casablanca, recieving a vaginoplasty by Dr. Georges Burou. She was later granted legal status as a woman in 1961. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe recorded \u003Cb\u003E\"Love Me Or Leave Me\"\u003C\/b\u003E in 1959, and appeared in six films, including the 1959 film \u003Cb\u003E\"Europa di notte\"\u003C\/b\u003E, the 1962 film \u003Cb\u003E\"Los Viciosos\"\u003C\/b\u003E and the 1968 film \u003Cb\u003E\"Días de Viejo Color\"\u003C\/b\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter her sex reassignment surgery Coccinelle was a media sensation. She was the first French transsexual woman to become a major star, when Bruno Coquatrix put her name in big red letter on the marquis of the Paris Olympia for her 1963 revue \"Cherchez la Femme.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was said that she loved to cook for her and her husband Francis, and host dinner parties for famous friends from the US or the French theater. And later in life she became an advocate for transgender people, founding Devenir Femme, an organization designed to provide emotional and practical support for those seeking sexual reassignment surgery. She also helped establish the Center for Aid, Research, and Information for Transsexuality and Gender Identity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven in marrage -- there were three -- she broke new ground: her first marriage was the first transsexual union to be officially acknowledged by the state of France, establishing transgendered persons' legal right in that country to marry.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHer biography Reverse Sex was published in 1962, and her 1987 autobiography Coccinelle was published by Daniel Filipach. Coccinelle died in October 2006, three months after sufferng a stroke. \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.tglife.com\/Interactive\/Photo%20Galleries\/?GalleID=4\u0026amp;gale=Coccinelle\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EVIEW THE PHOTO GALLERY\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/science\/discoveries\/news\/2008\/11\/dayintech_1201\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EDec. 1, 1952: Ex-GI Becomes Blonde Beauty\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy Tony Long \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/services\/feedback\/letterstoeditor\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/images\/icon_email.gif\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/images\/article\/full\/2008\/11\/christine_jorgensen_630px.jpg\" width=\"550\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis 1975 triptych shows Christine Jorgensen when she was known as George in 1943, in 1952 immediately after her historic sex change, and in 1975 when she was nearing age 50. The center photo is the one she sent her parents in 1952, in a letter explaining the transformation. Jorgensen died in 1989.\u003Cbr \/\u003EImage: Bettmann\/Corbis\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E1952: It's front-page news when George Jorgensen Jr. is reborn as Christine Jorgensen, gaining international celebrity and notoriety as the first widely known person to undergo a successful sex-change operation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJorgensen, who grew up in the Bronx, in her words, a \"frail, tow-headed, introverted little boy who ran from fistfights and rough-and-tumble games,\" was drafted into the Army just after World War II. Military service only reinforced Jorgensen's belief that she was, in fact, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christine_Jorgensen\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EA woman trapped in a man's body\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter receiving her discharge, Jorgensen returned home and first heard about \"sex-reassignment surgery,\" which was being performed only in Sweden. (It was illegal almost everywhere else, including the United States.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEncouraged, Jorgensen began taking female hormones on her own, then headed for Sweden. She never made it. Stopping in Denmark to visit relatives in Copenhagen, Jorgensen was introduced to Christian Hamburger, a Danish surgeon who specialized in the kind of surgery she was seeking. He agreed to take the case and put his patient on \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.transgenderzone.com\/research\/hrt.htm\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehormone-replacement therapy\u003C\/a\u003E as they prepared for surgery.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESeveral surgeries were required, the first one consisting of castration, which was only carried out after permission was obtained from the Danish minister of justice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt the time of Jorgensen's transformation, Hamburger did not give her an artificial vagina, so she remained \"anatomically incorrect\" for several years before undergoing a vaginoplasty in the United States.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe hormone therapy resulted in profound changes to Jorgensen's body. Fat was redistributed, and she began to take on the contours of a woman. Subsequent surgeries completed the process until she was ready to step into the spotlight.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJorgensen's sex change, which may have been leaked to the press by Jorgensen herself, hit the headlines Dec. 1, creating an international sensation. \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.christinejorgensen.org\/MainPages\/Home.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\"Ex-GI Becomes Blonde Beauty\"\u003C\/a\u003E screamed the banner of Jorgensen's hometown New York Daily News.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn fact, Jorgensen was not the first person to undergo sex-reassignment surgery. During the rollicking Weimar period, German doctors performed the surgery on at least two patients. The difference, in Jorgensen's case, was that she underwent hormone-replacement therapy in conjunction with the surgery. The earlier surgeries were strictly cut-and-paste.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlthough Jorgensen complained frequently about the jackals of the press, she did become something of a publicity hound and took most of the tasteless remarks with good grace, laughing off jokes such as, \"Christine Jorgensen went abroad and came back a broad.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe turned to acting and became a nightclub singer as well, performing, predictably, \"I Enjoy Being a Girl.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/community\/guide\/lihistory\/ny-history-hptjorg,0,5016969.story\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EChristine Jorgensen's world\u003C\/a\u003E was not an enlightened one, particularly when it came to transgenderism. She paid the cost for this lack of sophistication. A first announced engagement fell through, and a second one failed as well, when the state of New York refused to issue the couple a marriage license. Her intended husband also lost his job when the marriage plans became known.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe later traveled the lecture circuit, talking about her experiences and advocating for the nascent transgender cause.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJorgensen died of cancer in 1989, a few weeks short of age 63.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESource: Various\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christine_Jorgensen\"\u003Ea woman trapped inside a man's body\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4992566810778075433\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/when-did-you-know-you-were-really-girl.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/4992566810778075433"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/4992566810778075433"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/when-did-you-know-you-were-really-girl.html","title":"When did you know you were really a girl?"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-2507095242358281247"},"published":{"$t":"2008-12-02T22:39:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-12-03T10:31:33.330-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"apc"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"cmsi"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"coloniajes idiomáticos"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"español"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"fgi"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Gobernanza de Internet"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"internet"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"multilinguismo"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"web"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"¿Por qué el  Foro de Gobernanza de Internet (FGI) no habla español?"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Source: Martha Wallner\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMorelis Gonzalo (mgonzalo@cantv.net)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“El idioma es nuestra patria”  A. Camus\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMe dirijo a este foro con el fin de hacerle una única pregunta; idéntica a la que encabeza este escrito ¿Por qué el  Foro de Gobernanza de Internet (FGI) no habla español?  Este idioma,  usado por más de 500 millones de personas  en 21 países de planeta, repartidos en diversos continentes, no es tomado en cuenta por los organizadores del evento, tal como se puede ver en la página Web  que publicita  y estimula la participación en el mismo.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E El Foro, que se llevará a cabo del 3 al 6 de diciembre en la India, es un mandato directo de la CMSI, cumbre a la que asistieron la mayoría de los países del mundo y refrendaron sus conclusiones y acciones a desarrollar. Por lo tanto, es un espacio de dimensiones mundiales, aunque desde el punto de vista lingüístico no lo es, puesto que su idioma oficial sólo está accesible para los angloparlantes. Esto coarta y condiciona el derecho a la libre expresión y el derecho a la Información. Garantías consagradas, explicita e implícitamente, en los  Derechos Universales.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEl FGI  fue convocado por el secretario general de Naciones Unidas para “promover la sustentabilidad, solidez, seguridad y desarrollo de Internet”. Organizaciones como APC consideran que el evento es un foro de políticas experimental e influyente en temas relacionados con su misión de garantizar un acceso abierto, universal y asequible a Internet para todo el mundo, lo cual abarca aspectos como la libertad de información y expresión, el acceso al conocimiento, la participación pública, los derechos humanos, el fortalecimiento de capacidades y una agenda de desarrollo para la gobernanza de la red, entre los cuales se cuenta el problema del multilinguismo.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESoy una periodista venezolana, profesora de Lenguaje y Comunicación de la Universidad del Zulia, Venezuela e investigo los usos sociales de las TIC.  Formo parte de la comunidad de ALC-CMSI, lista de discusión sobre la participación de la Sociedad Civil latinoamericana y me interesa de manera especial los temas relacionados con la gobernanza en la red.  Algunos de sus miembros estarán presentes allí. Me hubiese gustado acceder al pedido realizado por el Secretariado del FGI, de enviar  preguntas al mismo, pero esto sólo se puede hacer en inglés y yo no lo hablo. Por eso escribí estas líneas, a modos de protesta-reflexión, con la idea de que les lleguen a los participantes del foro así sea en… inglés, gracias a la gentil colaboración de Raúl Echeberría, director de LACNI en América Latina\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEl idioma  es la expresión más fiel de cada pueblo, por ello, nadie nos contiene mejor  que el idioma materno con el cual hemos crecido. No existe una Lengua mejor que otra. Ni tampoco países, por más poderío económico, político o militar que posean. En la red convergen las distintas manifestaciones de los habitantes del planeta, por ello, no podemos auspiciar ni mucho menos permitir que las desigualdades, desequilibrios y asimetrías que se dan en el mundo real se reproduzcan también en el virtual. El tiempo de los “coloniajes idiomáticos” como diría Borges debe quedar atrás. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMuchas son las peleas que ha tenido que dar el español en la red para lograr ser respetada como lengua. Así,  tuvo que enfrentar y demandar la fabricación de teclados con la Ñ  y los signos de acentuación y exclamación que los técnicos de Microsoft intentaron desaparecer por razones económicas y técnicas, pasando por las nefastas traducciones de los diccionarios que aludían a expresiones inexactas, además de discriminadoras y excluyentes, combatidas desde siempre por lingüistas y estudiosos de estos temas. Hoy la prosigue con la españolización de los dominios que muchas repúblicas latinoamericanas ya han  adoptado.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAhora, enfrentamos el reto de estar presentes en foros internacionales de carácter mundial como el FGI, expresándonos en español, la lengua que nos contiene y que dice mejor que ninguna otra lo que somos y lo que queremos ser. Sin imposiciones, ni titubeos.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EVivo en Venezuela, un país de 28 millones de habitantes, donde el idioma oficial es el español, aunque su Constitución también reconoce las lenguas originarias. A su vez, formo parte de la comunidad de más de 500 millones de hispanohablantes dispersos en 21 estados del mundo, como ya lo señalé al comienzo, pero que reitero por la cantidad y calidad de este conglomerado, que no puede ser obviado en nombre de un idioma universal que no existe. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Tal vez el esperanto pudiera abrogarse tal calificativo, pero tiene el defecto de que ningún pueblo lo ama, tal como lo destaca en su libro “Defensa apasionada del español”, Álex Grijelmo, periodista español, estudioso de la lengua, director de la Agencia de noticias EFE. Texto por demás recomendable a todos los hispanohablantes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Si bien la conectividad en Latinoamérica, donde vivo, no es una de las más altas del mundo, la misma estaba para comienzos de año 2007 en un 15 % (lo cual significa más 85 millones de usuarios)  porcentaje ubicado en el promedio mundial y con una tasa de crecimiento de más de 400% interanual, de  acuerdo a la empresa venezolana Datanalisis. Por ello, los problemas de la gobernanza también nos afectan, de allí que el tema, en sus diferentes expresiones, ya comienzan a formar parte de las agendas tanto regionales como de cada uno de los países.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EExplica Daniel Pimienta de Funredes   un estudioso del tema del multilinguismo en la red, que “El español es la cuarta lengua más hablada en el planeta, después del chino, el inglés y el conjunto de lenguas derivadas del hindú. Además de esto, tiene la ventaja de ser la lengua común a la mayoría de los países de un continente y de ser la segunda lengua de los Estados Unidos, con un crecimiento acelerado” \u003Cbr \/\u003EAgrega  que “dentro de las lenguas dominantes, una tiene una estatura muy particular en el mundo virtual, el inglés, que trae consigo un historial de predominio absoluto y una tendencia por parte de los medios de comunicación y de sus agentes que consiste en tomar este hecho como algo irreversible, a pesar de las evoluciones recientes que muestran una difusión cada vez más amplia de Internet en todas las comunidades lingüísticas” entre ellas, el español.\u003Cbr \/\u003EPara el año 2001 de acuerdo a Pimienta, las páginas Web en español apenas llegaban a un 5 % contra un 80% del inglés. Eran los tiempos donde la conectividad los hispanohablantes no superaba el 5 %. Podemos afirmar que esa cifra ha aumentado, como consecuencia del incremento de la conectividad. Por lo tanto,  este vigor debe verse reflejado no sólo en las estadísticas de acceso y producción de contenidos, sino también  como presencia en los espacios donde se toman decisiones que afectan a todos los hablantes por igual.\u003Cbr \/\u003EPor ello, Daniel recomienda “Una línea estratégica evidente para la consolidación del espacio hispanófono en el mundo virtual es la alianza con los dos espacios latinos vecinos: el francófono y el lusófono” con lo cual estamos plenamente de  acuerdo.\u003Cbr \/\u003EFinalmente una reflexión: sí de verdad el FGI quiere convertirse en un espacio  para promover el desarrollo de Internet, no puede obviar el problema de multilinguismo, en especial de idiomas como el español que es hablada por millones de personas y con una presencia cada vez mayor en la red. Aclaro: no tengo nada contra el inglés ni con otra lengua, las considero necesarias e importantes, pero ellas no son … ni mejores ni peores que el español. Tampoco hablo desde la ramplonería de un nacionalismo lingüístico. Hablo desde la necesidad más primaria de expresarme en mi lengua materna.\u003Cbr \/\u003EMás allá de lo cuantitativo, de lo que dicen los fríos números, la lengua de Cervantes, de García Márquez, de Borges, de Rómulo Gallegos, de Neruda,  de Gabriela Mistral, de Gardel,  de Benedetti, entre otros tantos que han enriquecido no sólo el mundo hispanohablante sino universal, no puede continuar siendo obviada en foros tan importantes cono el FGI, puesto que la mejor manera de reconocer al Otro es reconocerme a mi primero, en mi esencia y en potencia y eso sólo se logra a través del idioma.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMaracaibo- Venezuela- Noviembre 2008\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2507095242358281247\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/por-qu-el-foro-de-gobernanza-de.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/2507095242358281247"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/2507095242358281247"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/por-qu-el-foro-de-gobernanza-de.html","title":"¿Por qué el  Foro de Gobernanza de Internet (FGI) no habla español?"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-4010138675914309311"},"published":{"$t":"2008-11-26T00:31:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-11-26T00:40:38.441-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"barack obama. ideas for change in america"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"change.org"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"generation 1.5"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"vote for dream act"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"CHANGE.ORG: VOTE FOR DREAM ACT"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/generationonepointfive.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/changeorg-vote-for-dream-act.html\"\u003E\u003CFONT  face=Arial size=5\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003EGeneration 1.5\u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial  color=#ff0000\u003E \u003C\/FONT\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E  \u003CP class=description\u003E\u003CSPAN\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=3\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003EFleeting Dreams -  Spreading the truth about the DREAM Act\u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/SPAN\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E\u003CSPAN\u003E \u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003ETuesday, November  25, 2008\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/SPAN\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT color=#ff0000\u003E \u003CBLOCKQUOTE\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial\u003EWhat is Ideas for Change in    America?\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003EIdeas for Change in America is a citizen-driven effort to    identify and create momentum around the best ideas for how the Obama    Administration and Congress can turn the broad call for \"change\" across the    country into specific policies. You can help by submitting an idea for how you    would change America, discussing ideas with others, and\/or voting for your    favorites\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/BLOCKQUOTE\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial\u003EThere's a page  on change.org to pass the DREAM Act. You must register with valid e-mail address  before the vote can be counted (registration is painless and easy). DREAM Act  idea is currently in first place under Immigration on the site, so let's keep it  that way by adding more votes. 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Then they fired Taser electrical stun guns —  more than a dozen times, by one guard's account — into Farias. Next came \"the  Devastator,\" a fire extinguisher-like mace sprayer, then an electronic  crowd-control \"stun\" shield and more Tasers.  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"ContentSidebar\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E   \u003Cli\u003E   courtesy of the Maricopa County Office of the Medical Examiner\u003Ca title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.phoenixnewtimes.com\/photoGallery\/?gallery=957734\" alt=\"\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"An autopsy photo of Juan Mendoza Farias\" src=\"http:\/\/media.phoenixnewtimes.com\/sheriff-joe-arpaio-s-own-records-raise-serious-questions-about-inmate-juan-mendoza-farias-violent-death.2759162.51.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/\u003E \u003C\/a\u003E   An autopsy photo of Juan Mendoza Farias   \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E   courtesy of the Maricopa County Office of the Medical Examiner\u003Ca title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.phoenixnewtimes.com\/photoGallery\/?gallery=957734\u0026amp;position=1\" alt=\"\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"An autopsy photo of Juan Mendoza Farias\" src=\"http:\/\/media.phoenixnewtimes.com\/sheriff-joe-arpaio-s-own-records-raise-serious-questions-about-inmate-juan-mendoza-farias-violent-death.2759163.51.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/\u003E \u003C\/a\u003E   An autopsy photo of Juan Mendoza Farias\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003ESubject(s):\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.phoenixnewtimes.com\/search\/?keywords=Juan%20Mendoza%20Farias\"\u003EJuan  Mendoza Farias\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.phoenixnewtimes.com\/search\/?keywords=Lower%20Buckeye%20Jail\"\u003ELower  Buckeye Jail\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.phoenixnewtimes.com\/search\/?keywords=jail%20deaths%20under%20Sheriff%20Joe%20Arpaio\"\u003Ejail  deaths under Sheriff Joe Arpaio\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003ETwo hours later, during a separate altercation with 11 other guards, Farias  stopped breathing and then died.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003EThose details come from Maricopa County Sheriff's detectives' investigation  of the incident. On November 14, the Sheriff's Office released nearly 5,000  pages of jail records — four months after \u003Ci\u003ENew Times\u003C\/i\u003E requested them, wrote  a story about the sheriff's stonewalling, and filed a lawsuit to secure  them.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003EThe lawsuit was filed in October. Without a court order or ruling, sheriff's  attorney Michelle Iafrate volunteered to release most of the records — about one  week after Arpaio won re-election.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003Ci\u003ENew Times\u003C\/i\u003E first reported on Farias' death in September (\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.phoenixnewtimes.com\/2008-09-11\/news\/was-juan-mendoza-farias-beaten-to-death-by-sheriff-joe-arpaio-s-guards\/\"\u003E\"Dead  Again,\" September 11\u003C\/a\u003E). At that time, the sheriff refused to hand over a  single public record regarding Farias. \u003Ci\u003ENew Times\u003C\/i\u003E based its story on  photos of Farias' beaten body, as well as an autopsy and jail guard reports,  secured through a public-records request made to the Maricopa County Office of  the Medical Examiner.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003EThe limited records secured in September revealed that Farias stopped  breathing on December 5, 2007, when 11 guards pinned him face-down on a concrete  \"bed\" in the Lower Buckeye Jail. When the guards pulled a \"spit mask\" off  Farias' face, they noticed blood coming from his mouth.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003EThe release of additional records reveals a fuller and even more disturbing  scene. According to eyewitness reports from guards and inmates inside the jail,  guards violently subdued Farias three different times. Jail guards say that  Farias was violent, but testimony from inmates contradicts that. It's difficult  to even see what Farias is doing in \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com\/valleyfever\/2008\/11\/sheriff_surrenders_more_jail_v.php\"\u003Evideo  footage\u003C\/a\u003E because so many guards piled on him and the video has no sound. The  altercations included two different groups of guards on different shifts.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003EThe altercations lasted from approximately 8:30 p.m. to 11:10 p.m., when  Farias urinated, stopped breathing, and began bleeding from his mouth and nose.  By that time, Farias — naked, with his legs shackled — had been moved through  three different isolation cells. Doctors at St. Joseph's Hospital pronounced him  dead early the next morning.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003EThe new records contain a sheriff's \"criminal investigation\" into Farias'  death, including detective interviews of more than 50 jail guards and inmates.  The detectives produced an investigation summary for the county attorney. The  records stop short of naming which guards the investigators thought played a  role in Farias' death. The county attorney also issued a grand jury subpoena,  the records indicate.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003EThe records do not reveal the ultimate outcome of the criminal investigation  or the grand jury proceedings.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003EIn the sheriff's interviews, inmates say that guards \"high-fived\" and  congratulated each other after the first of three brawls with Farias.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003EThe guards repeatedly told detectives that they didn't use excessive force,  nor did they see other guards doing so. The second-shift guards also say that  they weren't aware how harshly Farias had been handled when they came on  shift.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003EThe records also include video, which offers 29 different camera angles of  Farias in the jail. The videos are in color and show Farias in focus. That is,  until the time when guard reports say that Farias stopped breathing under their  weight. At that time — and for the next 40 minutes of CPR — the sheriff's  attorney claims no camera angle captured what happened.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003EThe biggest holes in the records are the missing camera footage — of the  first Taser and pepper-ball attack and the final dog pile, when Farias stopped  breathing. The reports also fail to give a clear conclusion of the detectives'  findings.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Chr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003EWhat follows here is an overview of new information about Farias and the  guards who handled him, revealed in the 4,978 pages of documentation compiled by  the sheriff's homicide detectives.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003EFarias, 40, was a legal U.S. resident with a legitimate Social Security  number. He spoke Spanish only and was a self-professed alcoholic. Glendale  Police arrested him on December 2, 2007 — on an outstanding warrant for  violating probation from a DUI.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003EAbout 15 minutes before doctors declared Farias dead, the MCSO ordered an  immigration specialist to triple-check his immigration status, the records  show.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\"On 12\/06\/07 . . . at 7 a.m. I was assigned the task of verifying the  immigration status of Juan Mendoza. Even though Mendoza's booking record for  this incident states he had been interviewed and no ICE holds were required . .  . I was told that Mendoza was legally in the United States, with Legal Permanent  Resident status,\" investigator T. Sullivan wrote.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003EFarias had been in Arpaio's jail for only two days when he died. But it was  evident that Farias needed medical attention from the time he was booked.  According to the sheriff's reports, Farias experienced a number of seizures when  he first entered the jail and was taken to the jail infirmary.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003EAt least two of the guards told detectives that Farias should not have been  released back into the general population.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Pagination\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"PaginationSelected\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E   \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.phoenixnewtimes.com\/2008-11-20\/news\/sheriff-joe-arpaio-s-own-records-raise-serious-questions-about-inmate-juan-mendoza-farias-violent-death\/\"\u003E1\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E   \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.phoenixnewtimes.com\/2008-11-20\/news\/sheriff-joe-arpaio-s-own-records-raise-serious-questions-about-inmate-juan-mendoza-farias-violent-death\/2\"\u003E2\u003C\/a\u003E   \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.phoenixnewtimes.com\/2008-11-20\/news\/sheriff-joe-arpaio-s-own-records-raise-serious-questions-about-inmate-juan-mendoza-farias-violent-death\/3\"\u003E3\u003C\/a\u003E   \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.phoenixnewtimes.com\/2008-11-20\/news\/sheriff-joe-arpaio-s-own-records-raise-serious-questions-about-inmate-juan-mendoza-farias-violent-death\/4\"\u003E4\u003C\/a\u003E  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_email_hcount' displayText='Email'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_digg_hcount' displayText='Digg'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='st_blogger_hcount' displayText='Blogger'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8486361832997871612\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/sheriff-joe-arpaios-own-records-raise.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/8486361832997871612"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/8486361832997871612"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/sheriff-joe-arpaios-own-records-raise.html","title":"Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Own Records Raise Serious Questions About Inmate Juan Mendoza Farias' Violent Death"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}}]}});