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centers"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"ecuadorean man killed"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hate crime"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hate speech"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hate speech in media"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"ice"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"immigracion"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"nazi"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"shock jocks"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Hate Speech Has Consequences - It happened again, another Hispanic \/ Latino Murdered, , Lynched?"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EWe, at the HLADC-SF, firmly believe that  'Hate Speech In the Media\", is directly responsible for the hate, intolerance  and violence toward Hispanic \/ Latinos \/ Immigrants and other minorities such as  the LGBTI community, which fosters acts of violence against their  members.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EWe also see similarities to the  beginning of Germany's Nazi horror of the 30s, then, as today, entire groups  were demonized, hence dehumanized; thus creating a climate of hate and  intolerance which permitted the enacting of harsh and inhuman legislation  against the targeted groups that, as  history tells us, had horrific  consequences.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EFor the ones who say that no ovens have  been constructed and that millions have not been killed, we say: One dead is too  many, one family separated is one too many, one child or a parent terrorized or  separated from each other, is one too many.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EIt is true, ovens have not been built,  but how far are from the Nazi Concentration Camps, the ICE Detention Centers?   Detainees have and are dying due to mistreatment and lack of medical attention,  children are being incarcerated and many dropped at the border without  caregivers, left to fend for themselves and usually falling pray to exploiters \/  abusers - Isn't this harsh enough?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EIn Nazi's Germany, it started with a  propaganda of hate, we see the same thing happening in the USA - it was all  legal then, as it is legal now - It was the Democratically elected German  Government committing these crimes against humanity, now it is the  Democratically elected US Government committing atrocities, sanctioned by a  misinformed and whipped into an anti-immigrant-frenzy electorate, who wraps  itself in Patriotism and Religious fervor, aided, abeted and incited into hate  and intolerance by media entities and personalities.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EIt should come as no surprise to anyone  that people raised under the traditional climate of racism, xenophobia,  nationalism, nativism, dominionism, et al, existing in this country, feel  inclined to take matters into their own hands.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003ESo, another 'Mexican' who was actually  an Ecuadorean, was murdered in a New York suburb by 7 teenagers, 6 white and,  sadly, 1 hispanic and according to \u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ea Suffolk prosecutor Monday said the group was  \"determined\" to find a victim of Hispanic descent\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003Cem\u003E\" \u003C\/em\u003EIn their own  words\u003Cem\u003E, 'Let's go find some Mexicans to -- -- up,' \",\u003C\/em\u003E --  \u003Cem\u003E\"Prosecutors described a planned attack in which the group drove around in  an attempt to go \"Beaner jumping,\" as the suspects called it under police  questioning. They were seeking out a Hispanic victim after one or more of the  suspects days earlier knocked another man down, only to have him escape,  prosecutors said.\"\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EFrom whence comes this hate?  This  desire to 'hunt' a Hispanic to attack?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EWe know the answer, don't  we?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EAurora Grajeda\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EHLADC-SF\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:85%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 100%; font-family: Arial;\"\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 130%;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(102, 119, 136);\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/hladc-sf.blogspot.com\/\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:180%;\"\u003EHispanic \/ Latino  Anti-Defamation Coalition SF\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E  \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); margin-right: 0px;\" align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(102, 119, 136);\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:#ff8040;\"\u003E\"HATE SPEECH AND MISINFORMATION IN THE MEDIA – A THREAT TO  NATIONAL SECURITY\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cblockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\"\u003E \u003Cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\" align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(102, 119, 136);\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/hladc-sf.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/prosecutor-teens-targeted-hispanics-7.html\"\u003EProsecutor:  Teens targeted Hispanics - 7 arraigned in fatal 'hate  crime'\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\"\u003E\"The county executive,  \u003Cu\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESteve Levy\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E, quickly issued a news release \u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\"\u003Edenouncing this latest apparent hate crime in Suffolk  County\u003C\/span\u003E. That should be the first and least of the actions he and other  leaders take.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EA possible lynching in a New York suburb should  be more than enough to force this country to acknowledge the bitter chill that  has overcome Latinos in these days of rage against illegal immigration.  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EThe atmosphere began to darken when Republican  politicians decided a few years ago to exploit immigration as a wedge issue.  They drafted harsh legislation to criminalize the undocumented. They cheered as  vigilantes streamed to the border to confront the concocted crisis of  Spanish-speaking workers sneaking in to steal jobs and spread diseases. Cable  personalities and radio talk-show hosts latched on to the issue. Years of effort  in Congress to assemble a responsible overhaul of the immigration system failed  repeatedly. Its opponents wanted only to demonize and punish the Latino workers  on which the country had come to depend.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\"\u003EA campaign of raids and  deportations, led by federal agents with help from state and local posses, has  become so pervasive that nearly 1 in 10 Latinos, including citizens and legal  immigrants, have told of being stopped and asked about their immigration status,  according to the Pew Hispanic Center.\u003C\/span\u003E Now that the economy is in free  fall, the possibility of scapegoating is deepening Hispanic  anxiety.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003EIt is not yet clear how closely connected  Mr. Lucero’s murder is to this broad wave of xenophobia. \u003Cstrong\u003EBut there is  both a message and opportunity here for\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\"\u003Eofficials  like\u003Cu\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EMr. Levy\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u003C\/u\u003E an immigration hard-liner\u003C\/span\u003E  \u003Cstrong\u003Ewhose relations with his rapidly growing Latino immigrant constituency  have been strained by past crises and confrontations.\u003C\/strong\u003E  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EDeadly violence represents the worst fear that  immigrants deal with every day, but it is not the only one. It must be every  leader’s task to move beyond easy outrage and take on the difficult job of  understanding and defending a community so vulnerable to sudden outbreaks of  hostility and terror.\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003Ch3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/hladc-sf.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/prosecutor-teens-targeted-hispanics-7.html\"\u003EProsecutor:  Teens targeted Hispanics - 7 arraigned in fatal 'hate crime'\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/h3\u003E  \u003Cdiv class=\"post-body entry-content\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/local\/suffolk\/ny-lihate1111,0,5263635.story?\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/images\/branding\/masthead_subpages.gif\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"story-byline\"\u003EBY ANDREW STRICKLER AND JOHN VALENTI  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E|\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"story-titleline\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"mailto:andrew.strickler@newsday.com?subject=Newsday.com%20Article\"\u003Eandrew.strickler@newsday.com\u003C\/a\u003E  \u003Ca href=\"mailto:john.valenti@newsday.com?subject=Newsday.com%20Article\"\u003Ejohn.valenti@newsday.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"story-dateline\"\u003E  \u003Cdd\u003E12:11 PM EST, November 10, 2008\u003C\/dd\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn front of a courtroom at times crowded with family members of seven  teens accused in a fatal hate crime stabbing, a Suffolk prosecutor Monday said  the group was \"determined\" to find a victim of Hispanic descent.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"In  their own words, 'Let's go find some Mexicans to -- -- up,' \" said Assistant  District Attorney Nancy Clifford at First District Court in Central Islip.\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E \u003Ch3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/hladc-sf.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/paterson-decries-killing-of-ecuadorean.html\"\u003EPaterson  decries killing of Ecuadorean man in Patchogue\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/h3\u003E  \u003Cdiv class=\"post-body entry-content\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/local\/crime\/ny-pohate115922290nov11,0,7399867.story\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/images\/branding\/masthead_subpages.gif\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdl class=\"byline\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"story-byline\"\u003EBY REID J. EPSTEIN  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E|\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"story-titleline\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"mailto:reid.epstein@newsday.com;%20%20Staff%20writer%20Dave%20Marcus%20contributed%20to%20this%20report.\u0026amp;subject=Paterson%20decries%20killing%20of%20Ecuadorean%20man%20in%20Patchogue\"\u003Ereid.epstein@newsday.com;  Staff writer\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"mailto:reid.epstein@newsday.com;%20%20Staff%20writer%20Dave%20Marcus%20contributed%20to%20this%20report.\u0026amp;subject=Paterson%20decries%20killing%20of%20Ecuadorean%20man%20in%20Patchogue\"\u003E  \u003Cspan class=\"story-dateline\"\u003E \u003Cdd\u003ENovember 11, 2008\u003C\/dd\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/dl\u003E\u003Ca href=\"mailto:reid.epstein@newsday.com;%20%20Staff%20writer%20Dave%20Marcus%20contributed%20to%20this%20report.\u0026amp;subject=Paterson%20decries%20killing%20of%20Ecuadorean%20man%20in%20Patchogue\"\u003EGov.  \u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca class=\"taxInlineTagLink\" id=\"PEPLT005080\" title=\"David A. Paterson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/topic\/politics\/david-a.-paterson-PEPLT005080.topic\"\u003EDavid  A. Paterson\u003C\/a\u003E yesterday decried the killing of a Patchogue man from Ecuador as  a disgraceful act that \"should serve as a source of outrage for all of us,\" and  directed state law enforcement agencies to assist Suffolk Police in its  investigation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We must remain vigilant and continue our fight to  eradicate prejudice in our words and in our actions,\" the governor  said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHis statements came in the wake of a killing that again has put  Suffolk at the center of the national spotlight in the debate over immigration  reform.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe head of a national Hispanic organization said anti-immigrant  rhetoric incites incidents such as Saturday night's fatal stabbing of \u003Ca class=\"taxInlineTagLink\" id=\"PECLB004384\" title=\"Marcello Lucero\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/topic\/crime-law-justice\/crimes\/marcello-lucero-PECLB004384.topic\"\u003EMarcello  Lucero\u003C\/a\u003E, 38.\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"post-body entry-content\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"post-body entry-content\"\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"post hentry uncustomized-post-template\"\u003E\u003Ca name=\"1085300831309084832\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ch3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/hladc-sf.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/death-in-patchogue.html\"\u003EA Death in  Patchogue\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/h3\u003E  \u003Cdiv class=\"post-body entry-content\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/11\/opinion\/11tue3.html?_r=2\u0026amp;th\u0026amp;emc=th\u0026amp;oref=slogin\u0026amp;oref=slogin\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/misc\/nytlogo153x23.gif\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOPINION\u003Cbr \/\u003EEditorial\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"timestamp\"\u003EPublished: November 10, 2008 \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cnyt_text\u003E\u003C\/nyt_text\u003E \u003Cp\u003EMarcello Lucero was killed late Saturday night near the commuter railroad  station in Patchogue, N.Y., a middle-class village in central Long Island. He  was beaten and stabbed. The friend who crouched beside him in a parking lot as  he lay dying, soaked in blood, said Mr. Lucero, who was 37, had come to the  United States 16 years ago from Ecuador.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe police arrested seven teenage boys, who they said had driven into the  village from out of town looking for Latinos to beat up. The police said the mob  cornered Mr. Lucero and another man, who escaped and later identified the  suspects to the police. A prosecutor at the arraignment on Monday quoted the  young men as having said: “Let’s go find some Mexicans.” They have pleaded not  guilty.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EThe county executive, Steve Levy, quickly issued a news release denouncing  this latest apparent hate crime in Suffolk County. That should be the first and  least of the actions he and other leaders take.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EA possible lynching in a New York suburb should be more than enough to force  this country to acknowledge the bitter chill that has overcome Latinos in these  days of rage against illegal immigration. \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EThe atmosphere began to darken when Republican politicians decided a few  years ago to exploit immigration as a wedge issue. They drafted harsh  legislation to criminalize the undocumented. They cheered as vigilantes streamed  to the border to confront the concocted crisis of Spanish-speaking workers  sneaking in to steal jobs and spread diseases. Cable personalities and radio  talk-show hosts latched on to the issue. Years of effort in Congress to assemble  a responsible overhaul of the immigration system failed repeatedly. Its  opponents wanted only to demonize and punish the Latino workers on which the  country had come to depend.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EA campaign of raids and deportations, led by federal agents with help from  state and local posses, has become so pervasive that nearly 1 in 10 Latinos,  including citizens and legal immigrants, have told of being stopped and asked  about their immigration status, according to the Pew Hispanic Center. Now that  the economy is in free fall, the possibility of scapegoating is deepening  Hispanic anxiety.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EIt is not yet clear how closely connected Mr. Lucero’s murder is to this  broad wave of xenophobia. But there is both a message and opportunity here for  officials like Mr. Levy, an immigration hard-liner whose relations with his  rapidly growing Latino immigrant constituency have been strained by past crises  and confrontations. \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EDeadly violence represents the worst fear that immigrants deal with every  day, but it is not the only one. It must be every leader’s task to move beyond  easy outrage and take on the difficult job of understanding and defending a  community so vulnerable to sudden outbreaks of hostility and  terror.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E \u003Cblockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\"\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\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.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian  regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe voice of  the majority is no proof of justice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E-- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn\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\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003EIn matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.\u003Cbr \/\u003EMahatma  Gandhi\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003EIt is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by  a majority.\u003Cbr \/\u003ELord Acton\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/hladc-sf.blogspot.com\/\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHISPANIC \/ LATINO  ANTI-DEFAMATION COALITION SF\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\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\/3356843983331560287\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/hate-speech-has-consequences-it.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/3356843983331560287"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/3356843983331560287"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/hate-speech-has-consequences-it.html","title":"Hate Speech Has Consequences - It happened again, another Hispanic \/ Latino Murdered, , Lynched?"}],"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-5183691338115117534"},"published":{"$t":"2008-11-05T11:27:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-11-06T14:20:37.375-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"a new paradigm"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"barack obama president"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"first family"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"obama won"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"presidential elections 2008"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Barack Obama's Acceptance Speech in Chicago, Ill."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv align=\"middle\"\u003E\u003Cimg width=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/graphics\/jpgs\/obama_thankyou_banner.jpg\" align=\"middle\"\/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA New Earth and a New Paradigm\u003Cbr \/\u003EGratitude for Divine Guidance \u003Cbr \/\u003EWE WON\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/graphics\/jpgs\/obama_first_family.jpg\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"10\"\u003ECQ Transcripts Wire\u003Cbr \/\u003EWednesday, November 5, 2008; 12:02 AM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the very first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different; that their voice could be that difference.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled ¿ Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been a collection of Red States and Blue States: we are, and always will be, the United States of America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt's the answer that led those who have been told for so long by so many to be cynical, and fearful, and doubtful of what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI just received a very gracious call from Senator McCain. He fought long and hard in this campaign, and he's fought even longer and harder for the country he loves. He has endured sacrifices for America that most of us cannot begin to imagine, and we are better off for the service rendered by this brave and selfless leader. I congratulate him and Governor Palin for all they have achieved, and I look forward to working with them to renew this nation's promise in the months ahead.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI want to thank my partner in this journey, a man who campaigned from his heart and spoke for the men and women he grew up with on the streets of Scranton and rode with on that train home to Delaware, the Vice President-elect of the United States, Joe Biden.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI would not be standing here tonight without the unyielding support of my best friend for the last sixteen years, the rock of our family and the love of my life, our nation's next First Lady, Michelle Obama. Sasha and Malia, I love you both so much, and you have earned the new puppy that's coming with us to the White House. And while she's no longer with us, I know my grandmother is watching, along with the family that made me who I am. I miss them tonight, and know that my debt to them is beyond measure.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo my campaign manager David Plouffe, my chief strategist David Axelrod, and the best campaign team ever assembled in the history of politics ¿ you made this happen, and I am forever grateful for what you've sacrificed to get it done.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut above all, I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to ¿ it belongs to you.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn't start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington ¿ it began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give five dollars and ten dollars and twenty dollars to this cause. It grew strength from the young people who rejected the myth of their generation's apathy; who left their homes and their families for jobs that offered little pay and less sleep; from the not-so-young people who braved the bitter cold and scorching heat to knock on the doors of perfect strangers; from the millions of Americans who volunteered, and organized, and proved that more than two centuries later, a government of the people, by the people and for the people has not perished from this Earth. This is your victory.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI know you didn't do this just to win an election and I know you didn't do it for me. You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime ¿ two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century. Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us. There are mothers and fathers who will be awake after their children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage, or pay their doctor's bills, or save enough for college. There is new energy to harness and new jobs to be created; new schools to build and threats to meet and alliances to repair.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even one term, but America ¿ I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you ¿ we as a people will get there.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as President, and we know that government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And above all, I will ask you join in the work of remaking this nation the only way it's been done in America for two-hundred and twenty-one years ¿ block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat began twenty-one months ago in the depths of winter must not end on this autumn night. This victory alone is not the change we seek ¿ it is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were. It cannot happen without you.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo let us summon a new spirit of patriotism; of service and responsibility where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves, but each other. Let us remember that if this financial crisis taught us anything, it's that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers ¿ in this country, we rise or fall as one nation; as one people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELet us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long. Let us remember that it was a man from this state who first carried the banner of the Republican Party to the White House ¿ a party founded on the values of self-reliance, individual liberty, and national unity. Those are values we all share, and while the Democratic Party has won a great victory tonight, we do so with a measure of humility and determination to heal the divides that have held back our progress. As Lincoln said to a nation far more divided than ours, \"We are not enemies, but friends¿though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection.\" And to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn ¿ I may not have won your vote, but I hear your voices, I need your help, and I will be your President too.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd to all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of our world ¿ our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand. To those who would tear this world down ¿ we will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security ¿ we support you. And to all those who have wondered if America's beacon still burns as bright ¿ tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from our the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity, and unyielding hope.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor that is the true genius of America ¿ that America can change. Our union can be perfected. And what we have already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis election had many firsts and many stories that will be told for generations. But one that's on my mind tonight is about a woman who cast her ballot in Atlanta. She's a lot like the millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in this election except for one thing ¿ Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe was born just a generation past slavery; a time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky; when someone like her couldn't vote for two reasons ¿ because she was a woman and because of the color of her skin.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd tonight, I think about all that she's seen throughout her century in America ¿ the heartache and the hope; the struggle and the progress; the times we were told that we can't, and the people who pressed on with that American creed: Yes we can.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt a time when women's voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach for the ballot. Yes we can.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs and a new sense of common purpose. Yes we can.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the bombs fell on our harbor and tyranny threatened the world, she was there to witness a generation rise to greatness and a democracy was saved. Yes we can.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe was there for the buses in Montgomery, the hoses in Birmingham, a bridge in Selma, and a preacher from Atlanta who told a people that \"We Shall Overcome.\" Yes we can.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA man touched down on the moon, a wall came down in Berlin, a world was connected by our own science and imagination.. And this year, in this election, she touched her finger to a screen, and cast her vote, because after 106 years in America, through the best of times and the darkest of hours, she knows how America can change. Yes we can.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do. So tonight, let us ask ourselves ¿ if our children should live to see the next century; if my daughters should be so lucky to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change will they see? What progress will we have made?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is our chance to answer that call. This is our moment. This is our time ¿ to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American Dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth ¿ that out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope, and where we are met with cynicism, and doubt, and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYes We Can. Thank you, God bless you, and may God Bless the United States of America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E************ ********* ********* ********* ********* *******\u003Cbr \/\u003EForwarded by Ezili's Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network\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\/5183691338115117534\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/barack-obamas-acceptance-speech-in.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/5183691338115117534"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/5183691338115117534"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/barack-obamas-acceptance-speech-in.html","title":"Barack Obama's Acceptance Speech in Chicago, Ill."}],"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-8140656595957088152"},"published":{"$t":"2008-11-03T21:04:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-11-04T12:34:51.159-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"betita martinez"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"bobbi lopez"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Halloween Protest to Stop ICE"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"immigracion"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"renee saucedo"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"stop the raids"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"student"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"youth"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Youth are not the Future, they are the Present"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/uploads\/2008\/10\/31\/640_stop_the_raids__061.jpg\" width=\"300\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"10\"\u003EI did post coverage on the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/student-youth-ice-protest-oct-31st-2008.html\"\u003EStudents' Protest against Raids by Ice\u003C\/a\u003E, but I was left with recordings of speeches by our revered elder sister, Elizabeth \"Betita\" Martínez, and, albeit young, already veteran activist and lawyer, Renee Saucedo and a young community activist running for the SF School Board, Barbara \"Bobbi\" Lopez, I decided to share these recordings with the people who couldn't make it to this awesome Youth \/ Student organized and led march.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CDIV\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003EIn addition, there were so many wonderful pictures taken by very talented people like \u003Ca href=\"mailto:bradley@riseup.net\"\u003E~Bradley\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\"mailto:kevin@barnardgraphics.com\"\u003EKevin Barnard\u003C\/a\u003E at IndyMedia, that I have placed them for display below.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CDIV\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI felt both privileged and not surprised at the respect and deference our young ones exhibited for their elders, at 61, I was so gratified to see that the Torch of Freedom in this gargantuan struggle, was not passed on to the next generation of Activists \/ Leaders, rather, it was claimed and taken by our children so that \"La Lucha\" For our Gente ontinues.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CDIV\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe picture above-left says it all - The Youth are not the Future, they are the Present, indeed they are - Amen!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CDIV\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAurora\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CDIV\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/uploads\/2008\/10\/31\/betita-martinez_10-31-08.jpg\" align=\"right\" width=\"150\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"10\"\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elizabeth_Martinez\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EElizabeth \"Betita\" Martínez\u003C\/a\u003E is a widely known Chicana writer, activist, and lecturer. Now director of the Institute for Multiracial Justice in San Franciso, she has published several books, most recently - De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century (1998)\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E500 years of Chicano History in Pictures (1976) --  The Youngest Revolution: A Personal Report on Cuba (1969) -- Letters from Mississippi (1964) -- Table of Contents from El Grito del Norte (1966-1972) -- Martinez, Elizabeth \"Betita\" What is White Supremacy? (1998) -- Martinez, Elizabeth \"Betita\" A view from New Mexico: recollections of the movimiento left Monthly Review (2002) -- Martinez, Elizabeth \"Betita\" Raza Protest A Day of Lies and Hate, (1998) \u003Cbr\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EListen to Betita's comments: \u003Cobject type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~aurora-grajeda\/javascripts\/player.swf\" id=\"audioplayer2\" height=\"24\" width=\"290\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~aurora-grajeda\/javascripts\/player.swf\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"playerID=2\u0026amp;bg=0xFFFF99\u0026amp;leftbg=0xFFCC66\u0026amp;lefticon=0xCCFF33\u0026amp;rightbg=0x00FF99\u0026amp;rightbghover=0x66FFFF\u0026amp;righticon=0xFF3300\u0026amp;righticonhover=0xFFFF00\u0026amp;text=0xFF3300\u0026amp;slider=0xFFFF00\u0026amp;track=0xffffff\u0026amp;border=0x666666\u0026amp;loader=0x9FFFB8\u0026amp;soundFile=http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/audio\/mp3s\/speeches\/betita103108.mp3\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"menu\" value=\"false\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CDIV\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C!-- http:\/\/ebar.com\/images\/articles\/06_08_School_Board_42_LOPEZ_MED.jpg --\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/uploads\/2008\/10\/31\/barbara-lopez_10-31-08.jpg\" align=\"left\" width=\"150\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"10\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.barbaralopez.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EBarbara Lopez\u003C\/a\u003E: For the last eight years, Barbara Lopez has been an advocate for immigrant and working families, representing families in special education and discipline hearings. She started at La Raza Centro Legal, where she was the coordinator of the Youth Law Project providing assistance to families in educational matters, spear-heading efforts with to give workshops to parents in youth in schools across the district.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECurrently, she works with immigrant parents at La Voz Latina,an organization she founded several years ago within the Tenderloin Housing Clinic to give parent empowerment workshops, support parent engagement at school sites and work on parent-led community campaigns\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Listen to Bobbi's comments: \u003Cobject type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~aurora-grajeda\/javascripts\/player.swf\" id=\"audioplayer3\" height=\"24\" width=\"290\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~aurora-grajeda\/javascripts\/player.swf\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"playerID=3\u0026amp;bg=0xFFFF99\u0026amp;leftbg=0xFFCC66\u0026amp;lefticon=0xCCFF33\u0026amp;rightbg=0x00FF99\u0026amp;rightbghover=0x66FFFF\u0026amp;righticon=0xFF3300\u0026amp;righticonhover=0xFFFF00\u0026amp;text=0xFF3300\u0026amp;slider=0xFFFF00\u0026amp;track=0xffffff\u0026amp;border=0x666666\u0026amp;loader=0x9FFFB8\u0026amp;soundFile=http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/audio\/mp3s\/speeches\/bobby103108.mp3\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"menu\" value=\"false\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CDIV\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/uploads\/2008\/10\/31\/zapata-vive_10-31-08.jpg\" align=\"right\" width=\"150\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"10\"\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.unimondo.org\/article\/view\/144382\/1\/9509\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ERenee Saucedo\u003C\/a\u003E is an organizer, an activist and a lawyer who has played a prominent role in this country's immigrant rights movement at all levels. She has led various immigrant rights organizations and has participated in numerous community campaigns related to the rights of undocumented immigrants, immigrant workers and poor people, generally. She founded INS WATCH, a grassroots organization that resists INS enforcement, facilitated immigrant organizing around Welfare Reform, and helped push for San Francisco being declared an \"INS Raid-Free Zone.\"\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERENEE SAUCEDO is an attorney and organizer with La Raza Centro Legal and the San Francisco Day Labor Program who believes that --We must continue to fight for legalization as the solution, not guest-worker programs. Temporary-worker programs are inherently exploitative, and they weaken the labor and workers' rights movements. They only benefit the bosses who want a constant source of cheap, exploitable labor.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstead, we should support immigration proposals that strengthen family unification, protect workers' rights and make residency easy to obtain.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EListen to Renee's comments: \u003Cobject type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~aurora-grajeda\/javascripts\/player.swf\" id=\"audioplayer4\" height=\"24\" width=\"290\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~aurora-grajeda\/javascripts\/player.swf\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"playerID=4\u0026amp;bg=0xFFFF99\u0026amp;leftbg=0xFFCC66\u0026amp;lefticon=0xCCFF33\u0026amp;rightbg=0x00FF99\u0026amp;rightbghover=0x66FFFF\u0026amp;righticon=0xFF3300\u0026amp;righticonhover=0xFFFF00\u0026amp;text=0xFF3300\u0026amp;slider=0xFFFF00\u0026amp;track=0xffffff\u0026amp;border=0x666666\u0026amp;loader=0x9FFFB8\u0026amp;soundFile=http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/audio\/mp3s\/speeches\/renee103108.mp3\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"menu\" value=\"false\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CDIV\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"middle\"\u003E\"Bay Area Youth Protest ICE Oct. 31st, 2008 in SF; Call for an Immediate End to All Raids\" At \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2008\/10\/31\/18547686.php\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EIndyMedia\u003C\/a\u003E by \u003Ca href=\"mailto:bradley@riseup.net\"\u003E~Bradley\u003C\/a\u003E and,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"ICE PROTEST in San Francisco on Halloween 2008\" At \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2008\/11\/01\/18547851.php\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EIndyMedia\u003C\/a\u003E by - \u003Ca href=\"mailto:kevin@barnardgraphics.com\"\u003EKevin Barnard\u003C\/a\u003E from \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/barnardgraphics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/barnardgraphics.com\u003C\/a\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cobject type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowNetworking=\"internal\" height=\"390\" width=\"520\" align=\"middle\" data=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/javascripts\/imagerotator\/imagerotator.swf\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/javascripts\/imagerotator\/imagerotator.swf\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"flashvars\" value=\"\u0026displayheight=0\u0026file=http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/javascripts\/imagerotator\/playlists\/oct301iceprotest.xml\u0026height=390\u0026width=520\u0026shuffle=false\u0026autostart=true\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"menu\" value=\"false\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"quality\" value=\"best\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"Transition Duration\" value=\"20\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/object\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\/8140656595957088152\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/youth-are-not-future-they-are-present.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/8140656595957088152"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/8140656595957088152"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/youth-are-not-future-they-are-present.html","title":"The Youth are not the Future, they are the Present"}],"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-7273217354903648043"},"published":{"$t":"2008-11-02T20:23:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-11-04T01:22:26.363-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Coliseum"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Friutvale"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Halloween"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Halloween Protest to Stop ICE"},{"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":"immigration reform"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"oakland"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"raids"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"redadas"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Richmond"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"shut down bart"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"student"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"youth"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Student \/ Youth Halloween Protest to Stop ICE - Oct. 31st 2008 San Francisco"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"IndyBay Coverage:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"story\"\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"hed\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"headline-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2008\/10\/19\/18545509.php\"\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EHalloween Protest to Stop ICE\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"feature-blurb-background\"\u003E  \u003Cdiv class=\"feature-blurb-subhead\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"feature-blurb-date\"\u003E Thu Oct 30 2008 \u003Csmall\u003E(Updated 11\/02\/08)\u003C\/small\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E Bay Area Youth Demand an End to Raids\u003C\/div\u003E  \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"blurb\"\u003E \u003Ca class=\"headline-image\" title=\"Halloween Protest to Stop ICE\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2008\/10\/19\/18545509.php\"\u003E \u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/uploads\/admin_uploads\/2008\/10\/31\/stoptheraids%21061_1_1_1.JPG\" alt=\"Halloween Protest to Stop ICE\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E This Halloween, \u003Cstrong\u003EFriday, Oct. 31\u003C\/strong\u003E, hundreds of youth from throughout the Bay Area gathered with community members and families to denounce the atrocities committed against immigrant communities by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Youth demanded an immediate end to all ICE raids, the shutdown of all detention centers, and the creation of real sanctuary cities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe protest started at 10 am in San Francisco’s Ferry Park (Washington between Davis and Drumm) with blessings from Danza Azteca and community organizer and author Betita Martinez, skull face painting, and other festivities. At 11:30 am, a funeral march made its way to the ICE office at 630 Sansome, followed by a mass rally in front of ICE.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe protest was a response to ICE attacks on immigrant communities, attacks that have taken place even in so-called “sanctuary cities” like San Francisco. The protest also brought attention to the repression and violence faced by immigrant communities during a presidential election season that has seen neither major candidate address the issues facing immigrant families.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBreaking News From 10\/31:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E2:15pm:\u003C\/b\u003E In Oakland, 400 people were reportedly prevented from attending the protest because of BART's closure of the Fruitvale station.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E2pm:\u003C\/b\u003E Protesters have surrounded the ICE building on Sansome. Several people have locked down with 55-gallon drums on both ends of the building's driveway, where vans normally load and unload detainees.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E11am:\u003C\/b\u003E BART police have shut down at least three stations - Richmond, Fruitvale, and Coliseum - from which groups of protesters were gathering to commute to the protest in downtown San Francisco. At least three protesters were arrested in Richmond. Some trains were delayed, and others were bypassing Fruitvale and Coliseum stations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/im\/imc_photo.gif\" alt=\"imc_photo.gif\" \/\u003E Photos: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2008\/10\/31\/18547603.php\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E1\u003C\/a\u003E | \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2008\/10\/31\/18547686.php\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E2\u003C\/a\u003E | \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2008\/11\/01\/18547851.php\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E3\u003C\/a\u003E | \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2008\/11\/01\/18547839.php\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E4\u003C\/a\u003E |\u003Cbr \/\u003EAudio From FlashPoints \u003Cobject type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~aurora-grajeda\/javascripts\/player.swf\" id=\"audioplayer1\" height=\"24\" width=\"290\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~aurora-grajeda\/javascripts\/player.swf\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"playerID=1\u0026amp;bg=0xFFFF99\u0026amp;leftbg=0xFFCC66\u0026amp;lefticon=0xCCFF33\u0026amp;rightbg=0x00FF99\u0026amp;rightbghover=0x66FFFF\u0026amp;righticon=0xFF3300\u0026amp;righticonhover=0xFFFF00\u0026amp;text=0xFF3300\u0026amp;slider=0xFFFF00\u0026amp;track=0xffffff\u0026amp;border=0x666666\u0026amp;loader=0x9FFFB8\u0026amp;soundFile=http:\/\/aud1.kpfa.org\/data\/20081031-Fri1700.mp3\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"menu\" value=\"false\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E| \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2008\/10\/19\/18545509.php\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ERead More\u003C\/a\u003E |  \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2008\/10\/25\/18546675.php\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EEvent Announcement\u003C\/a\u003E |  \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2008\/10\/22\/18545949.php\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ECalifornia Youth Skip Halloween to Protest Scary Anti-Immigrant Policies\u003C\/a\u003E | \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2008\/10\/31\/18547603.php\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EStop ICE!\u003C\/a\u003E | \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.homeysf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EH.O.M.E.Y.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERecent ICE Coverage:  \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2008\/10\/26\/18546765.php\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EICE Raids More Than a Dozen Bay Area Homes\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESFGate (SF Chonicle) Coverage:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2008\/10\/31\/BA5513RV7C.DTL\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EProtesting teens shut 3 BART stations\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECarolyn Jones, Matthew B. Stannard, Jill Tucker,Rachel Gordon, Chronicle Staff Writers\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESaturday, November 1, 2008\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cembed quality=\"high\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" flashvars=\"CBS_configPath=http:\/\/llnw.static.cbslocal.com\/cbs\/partners\/videosyn\/sfgate.com\/config.xml\u0026amp;CBS_categoryTitle=Video\u0026amp;CBS_adsTileId=1\u0026amp;CBS_storyIDs=41220@kpix.dayport.com\u0026amp;CBS_adsCustomValues=mod=video;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/llnw.static.cbslocal.com\/Themes\/CBS\/_resources\/swf\/minivplayer.swf\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" style=\"\" wmode=\"opaque\" name=\"cbsplayer\" align=\"left\" height=\"267\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"220\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E(10-31) 16:16 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Hundreds of youths heading to a political protest jumped BART fare gates Friday morning, catching transit officials off-guard and forcing shutdowns at three East Bay stations that stranded some passengers for more than an hour.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Fruitvale and Coliseum stations in Oakland and the Richmond station were all closed starting about 9:15 a.m. as young people heading for a rally in San Francisco against enforcement of federal immigration laws evaded fares. All three stations reopened by 10:30 a.m., but BART closed the Fruitvale station a second time for nearly an hour starting at 11 a.m. as more youths jumped the gates.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2008\/10\/31\/BA5513RV7C.DTL\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ERead More....\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECobertura en Alianza Metropolitan News\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.alianzanews.com\/\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.alianzanews.com\/logo.jpg\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.alianzanews.com\/noticiafull.asp?id=323\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAUDIOVISUAL: NO MÁS REDADAS\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPor Manuel Ortiz\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E31 de octubre de 2008\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESAN FRANCISCO, CA. Jóvenes del norte de California, y organizaciones comunitarias, se \"saltaron el Halloween\" para protestar contra las aterradoras políticas anti inmigrantes del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEn menos de un año, el ICE ha efectuado 1, 172 redadas en todo el país. En 11 meses, del 1 de octubre de 2007 al 31 de agosto de 2008, ICE arrestó a 4,959 personas en estos operativos; sólo 1\/5 parte de estas personas eran buscadas por haber cometido un crimen o por tener orden de deportación.\u003Cbr \/\u003EPara mayor información o unirse a la organización contra las redadas: \u003Ca href=\"mailto:stoptheraidsnow@gmail.com\"\u003Estoptheraidsnow@gmail.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.alianzanews.com\/noticiafull.asp?id=323\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESlideshow from I.C.E. 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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=\"'Father, forgive them, for they know not what they are doing' - Jesus of Nazareth\" \/\u003E\u003Cmeta name=\"description\" content=\"Cal Prop 8: '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.'\" \/\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\u003Cblockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\"\u003E   \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003EThe great Roman Lawyer and Orator, Marcus Tullius    Cicero once wrote,\" \u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJust as a builder must have a plan on his    paper to build wisely and well, so must a people have a Constitution in order    to guide them. But we have abandoned our plan and our map so painfully wrought    by our fathers. Hence, we have dictators, men who lust for centralized power    in order to oppress us\u003C\/strong\u003E.\"\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E  From \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Ca style=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/soulmentor.dailykos.com\/\"\u003ESoulmentor's\u003C\/a\u003E Diary\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\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\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\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003EI also give you these quotes to ponder:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\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\u003Cblockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\"\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\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\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\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\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\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\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\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\"Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish    a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain    democratic.\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\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\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\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\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe voice of the majority is no proof of    justice.\u003C\/em\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E-- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\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\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E   \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAny law which violates the indefeasible rights    of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at    all.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EMaximilien Robespierre\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIn matters of    conscience, the law of majority has no place.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EMahatma    Gandhi\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIt is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is    worse to be oppressed by a majority.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003ELord    Acton\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\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\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\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\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003EAnother thing to ponder and wonder at is: How will  pro-immigrant advocates who already voted for, or are voting in favor of  Cal's Prop 8, be able to protest anti-immigrant legislation already passed or  being proposed in some states and not be hypocritical, or be credible on their  stand for human rights and equality for all?  Worse yet, how will they be  able to keep their self-respect?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\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\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\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\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003ESome of what, until now I've called my friends and allies,  have or are voting in favor of Cal's Prop 8 - It is very sad to hear their  assertions that they are not trying to hurt the LGBT community, or that they are  not discriminating, uh?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\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\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\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\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003EEarlier today (Thursday Oct. 30) I exchanged emails with a  dear friend on this issue, all I could hear are the words of the virulent  anti-immigrant forces' spokepersons saying they are not anti-immigrant and that  I should be their friend, for the life of me, I can't be that, how can I be  a friend with somebody that says something and does something else against my  community?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\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\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\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\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003EMy friend said:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\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\u003Cblockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\"\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\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAurora \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca onclick=\"return doCompose(this);\" href=\"http:\/\/mailcenter3.comcast.net\/wmc\/v\/wm\/490AB72C000568CE00003B0F22155863940E0B0A060E9D09D30E9D019D9A0E?cmd=ComposeTo\u0026amp;adr=let%21s\u0026amp;sid=c0\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003Elet!s\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E not be so hard    headed , no one is against gay or lesbians , in the  first place we are    no body to judge you we have to love one to another, the only thing and    reazon that I! do\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca onclick=\"return doCompose(this);\" href=\"http:\/\/mailcenter3.comcast.net\/wmc\/v\/wm\/490AB72C000568CE00003B0F22155863940E0B0A060E9D09D30E9D019D9A0E?cmd=ComposeTo\u0026amp;adr=n%21t\u0026amp;sid=c0\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003En!t\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E agree is to get marry    . take it as you liked\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\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\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003EMy reply:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\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\u003Cblockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\"\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\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E \u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003EI did, because this is a civil matter where    the constitution says all are equal and yet people say, no, we are not and to    prove it we will change the constitution so we can deny citizens something    that everybody else is entitled to, as you know, there are also many monetary    benefits to marriage and those will be denied to a group. \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\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\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\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\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETo say I believe all of us are equal and I don't    discriminate and then go ahead and do something concrete to discriminate is    super hypocritical. \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\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\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\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\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWait and see when other states change their    constitutions to discriminate against immigrants, will you be able to say \"I    don't believe people should be discriminated against\" and keep your    self-respect? \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\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\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\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\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWho is being hard headed? The one who is willing to    stand for justice and equality for all, or the one who makes exceptions    because of religious beliefs or prejudice? \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\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\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\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\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003ELove one another? I believe Jesus believed in    unconditional love and His alleged followers do not, 'love one another' coming    from the modern fariseos, AKA christians, that are anything but, reminds me of    His words, 'they are like sepulchers, white on the outside but empty inside',    and you know what he had to say about hypocrites, he didn't despise others as    He did those. \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\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\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\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\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWhen I hear the christians talk, my stomach turns up    and when He comes back, he will ask you about loving one another except when    they were different, to keep on saying I love everybody and then turn around to    punish a group, in my book, amounts to the epitome of hypocrisy and super    hollow. \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\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\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\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\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003EI'm taking it really bad and I'm learning the true    core of some people.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\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 dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003EYes, my friend calls herself a  Christian.\u003C\/span\u003E\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 \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\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\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003EPlagiarized from Kossak \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/soulmentor.dailykos.com\/\"\u003ESoulmentor\u003C\/a\u003E in his DailyKos Diary  \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2008\/10\/31\/15040\/431\/192\/647631Californians\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECalifornians:  Don't corrupt your Consititution\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cblockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E   \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E   \u003Cdiv id=\"extended\"\u003E   \u003Cp\u003ECicero was speaking of something that had already happened to the Roman    Republic. The last two sentences have not yet happened to Californians, but    two years ago it happened to my state of Wisconsin and many others and while    there are no resulting dictatorships, the process of corruption of the rule of    law has begun. One would hope that Americans of all social and political    persuasions \u003Cstrong\u003Ewould be hesitant to mess with the integrity of our state    Constitutions by placing in them, for the first time, amendments that    discriminate against a social class as opposed to laws that protect a class or    minority\u003C\/strong\u003E.  \u003C\/p\u003E   \u003Cp\u003EFrom whence comes this movement to discriminate against gays and lesbians?    Harbor no illusions. Hedge no words. It comes from Religion. Take off the    gloves, queer brethren and allies and call it like it is. Religious    fundamentalists, under the hypocritical guise of cleaving to a higher law but    in actuality seeking to retain their power and influence, have no scruples    about corrupting the integrity of the most revered laws of our land, our    Consitutions. \u003Cstrong\u003EThat they will spend millions to do this, clueless to    the fact that they are undermining their own right of religious freedom, is    testament to their irrationality.\u003C\/strong\u003EThey forget or ignore or never    learned the lessons of Germany's Hitler years when cleverly designed creeping    corruption of that nation's social\/legal fabric was unraveled one populist    thread at a time until the only law remaining was Hitler's, the ultimate    result of which was world war, the deaths of millions and the utter    destruction of Germany.\u003C\/p\u003E   \u003Cp\u003EA more frightening thought is that they know exactly what they are about;    an attempt at theocratic rule, and what more populist avenue for that is now    available to them than oppression of gays and lesbians using the marriage    issue as a political wedge. The sincere belief held by sincerely religious    people that \"marriage\" should be between a man and a woman can and should be    respected but messing with a state Consititution to resolve what should be a    purely civil dispute is a grave mistake. There are other solutions such as    separating the religious aspects of what are essentially sexual\/love unions    from the civil aspects. That can be done legislatively.\u003C\/p\u003E   \u003Cp\u003EBe mindful of and be warned by Sinclair Lewis who wrote, \u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\"When    fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross.\"    \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003ECitizens of California and America, \u003Cstrong\u003Ethis is more than a    marriage and religion issue. This is a Constitutional issue.\u003C\/strong\u003E     Yes on Prop 8 is a first step toward the piecemeal destruction of your    Consititutional protections. \u003Cstrong\u003EIf the rights of one social class can be    pre-empted by Consititutional fiat, who then remains protected? \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E   \u003Cp\u003EAnd anyway, what's the fuss? Think about it. Really. How does a gay    marriage threaten your str8 marriage? Prop 8 supporters tell you it does, most    of them unthinkingly, but never tell you HOW it does because, of course, it    doesn't. Until they can show how it does, you should leave your Constitution    alone and vote no on Prop 8.\u003C\/p\u003E   \u003Cp\u003EDo not abandon the wisely wrought and dearly paid for plan. The Prop 8    amendment would damage the spirit of civility that is the glue of any society.    It would enshrine a blatantly discriminatory nastiness, a literal sense of    foul play into a cornerstone of the American way of life; the Rule of Law. Is    that what you really want for California?  \u003C\/p\u003E   \u003Cp\u003EAnyway, is there any doubt it would not be the last word on the issue? What    obligation, for example, would gays and lesbians have to militarily or    politically \"protect and defend\" a Constitution that does not protect and    defend them? Both my sons are military officers who respect my sexuality.    Could they be expected to \"protect and defend\" a Consititution that would not    defend the rights of their own father if that similar federal Constitution    marriage amendment had passed?  \u003C\/p\u003E   \u003Cp\u003EThe legal complexities would be exhaustive, the \u003Cstrong\u003Epotential\u003C\/strong\u003E    for abuse toward an entire social class frightening, and its impact on the    civil psyche tragically divisive. A Constitution and the society from which is    springs, should be better than  that.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E \u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\"Tolerance is the presumption of  superiority, acceptance is a manifestation of love\"\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;\"\u003EAurora\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\/8189899160093507604\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/father-forgive-them-for-they-know-not.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/8189899160093507604"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/8189899160093507604"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/father-forgive-them-for-they-know-not.html","title":"\"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they are doing\" - Jesus of Nazareth"}],"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-8206598291003724832"},"published":{"$t":"2008-10-26T22:45:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-10-26T22:50:46.447-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Democratic Election Protection Strategy's Missing Link: Electronic Vote Counts"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003CDIV\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003EAs Democrats sense victory in November, they are betting a record turnout  will overcome partisan interference with the vote count.\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003EFrom: \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/democracy\/101823\/democratic_election_protection_strategy's_missing_link:_electronic_vote_counts\/?page=entire\"\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003E\u003CFONT  size=5\u003EAlterNet\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003E\u0026nbsp;By \u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003CA title=\"View all stories by Steven Rosenfeld\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/authors\/4682\/\"\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003ESteven  Rosenfeld\u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003E, \u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\"\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003EAlterNet\u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003E. Posted  \u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003CA title=\"View all stories published on October 7, 2008\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/ts\/archives\/?date%5BF%5D=10\u0026amp;date%5BY%5D=2008\u0026amp;date%5Bd%5D=07\u0026amp;act=Go\/\"\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003EOctober  7, 2008\u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003E.\u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E \u003CP\u003EThere is a new feeling in Democrat Party circles that Barack Obama will win  and win big in November. The latest \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/\"\u003Epolls\u003C\/A\u003E show Obama moving ahead in  swing states, edging John McCain by more points than polling margins of error.  More importantly, as voter registration starts to close on Monday in half the  states, the number of new voters who are likely to support Obama and Democrats  in November \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/10\/05\/AR2008100502524.html?sid=ST2008100502674\u0026amp;s_pos\"\u003Esignificantly  outpaces\u003C\/A\u003E registration by new likely Republican voters.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EThe Republican response to Obama's rising fortunes has been to go negative  and attack his character, history and judgment. But while Sarah Palin and John  McCain, and their campaign's television ads, are leading this front, the GOP has  launched another, less-seen attack: targeting the credentials of likely Obama  voters.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EIn just the past two weeks, Republican officeholders, party officials or  their allies in swing states such as \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/blogs\/democracy\/#100780\"\u003EOhio\u003C\/A\u003E, \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/democracy\/99087\/obama_campaign_sues_michigan_gop_over_voter_challenges\/\"\u003EMichigan\u003C\/A\u003E,  \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/blogs\/democracy\/98702\/gop_voter_suppression_comes_to_wisconsin\/\"\u003EWisconsin\u003C\/A\u003E,  \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/uselectionroadtrip\/2008\/sep\/30\/uselections2008\"\u003EColorado\u003C\/A\u003E,  \u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/blogs\/democracy\/#101681\"\u003EIndiana\u003C\/A\u003E and \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/democracy\/101347\/republicans_challenge_6,000_voter_registrations_in_montana\/\"\u003EMontana\u003C\/A\u003E  have sought to present hurdles to likely new Democratic voters in the form of  barriers to early voting in Ohio and Indiana, legal challenges to new  registrants in Colorado, Wisconsin and Montana, and threats to voters who may  have lost their homes in foreclosures in Michigan who would be ineligible to  vote if they did not update their registrations with their latest address.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EMoreover, the Republican National Committee has launched a national media  offensive against ACORN, a low-income advocacy group that registered 1.2 million  new voters this summer, calling it a \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/democracy\/100214\/gop_issues_absurd_attack_on_voter_registration_group\/\"\u003E\"quasi-criminal\"\u003C\/A\u003E  group after its partisans found two problematic registration forms in a Florida  County out of more than 130,000 new voters registered by ACORN in that state.  Another GOP disinformation campaign was seen in \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/hp\/news_update\/20081002_Vote-scam_fliers_target_black_neighborhoods.html\"\u003EPhiladelphia\u003C\/A\u003E,  where flyers appeared telling voters in minority neighborhoods they might be  arrested for outstanding traffic offense while voting in November.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EThese tactics not new and are anticipated by Democrats. Moreover, they only  represent the most visible \"election protection\" issues facing the Obama  campaign and party. Less visible, but perhaps more pernicious, are \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/democracy\/100914\/partisan_contractors_to_count_votes_in_illinois,_colorado_and_kentucky\/\"\u003Eprivate  contractors with partisan ties\u003C\/A\u003E who have been hired by state and county  election officials to program the software used in computers that count the vote  on Election night. It is one thing for Democrats to come out of the starting  gate with a lead in voter registration and momentum in the polls; it is another  to hold that lead at the finish line, when the votes are counted.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EThe question one month before Election Day is whether the Obama campaign and  Democratic National Committee have an election protection strategy that not only  deals with more overt forms of voter suppression, but also with ensuring the  accuracy of the vote count. The answer is not yet on electronic vote counts,  according to dozens of background conversations with Democratic Party lawyers,  donors, state party staffers and others working with the DNC since the  Democratic Convention in Denver. \u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003ECompared to 2004, the DNC -- which is spearheading the election protection  effort while the Obama campaign takes the lead on voter registration -- has made  incredible progress. Unlike 2004, the DNC has surveyed election systems and  procedures in every county in America. It has created and recruited a new  national network of attorneys willing to march into court on its behalf. It has  drawn up state legal manuals, descriptions of the voting machinery and has a  campaign with a fabulous communications network that enables party leaders to  reach its ground forces. This is unprecedented for Democrats, laudable and  necessary. \u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EBut as Republicans turn to ever more negative campaigning and tactics, the  DNC -- which does not comment publicly on this subject -- has yet to finalize  its plan to safeguard the finish line in this election: the vote count in swing  counties in the swing states. As one person involved in this process said  Monday, \"If only they had this missing piece, it would all work so much better.\"  \u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EThe thinking in top DNC election protection circles seems to be the belief  that a tidal wave of new voters will swamp any of the injustices, slights and  insults to voters caused by the GOP's traditional voter suppression tactics or  breakdowns in the voting machinery. What the party and campaign has not yet  committed its resources to doing, according to people involved in this planning,  is to independently audit or monitor the electronic vote count to guard against  GOP loyalists padding returns -- to boost the numbers in areas John McCain will  likely win, but not by the margins that may be cited as unofficial returns on  Election Night.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EThe DNC is realistic and knows it has no way to stop GOP insiders from  stealing votes by shifting the percentages awarded to each candidate in a given  county. For example, in 2004 in southwestern Ohio, analyses by activists,  academics and \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Went-Wrong-Ohio-Presidential\/dp\/089733535X\"\u003Ethe  Democratic staff\u003C\/A\u003E of the House Judiciary Committee after that election saw  two things: what appeared to be inflated voter turnout, with some localities  hovering just below 100 percent; and much higher percentages for George Bush  than for John Kerry compared to rest of the state. The countywide tabulators in  these counties were programmed by a private firm with a spin off that boasted of  its support for Republicans by selling \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.xeniashopper.com\/PsephosFLkit.htm\"\u003Ea commemorative edition\u003C\/A\u003E  of the infamous butterfly ballot from the 2000 election in Florida. That poorly  designed paper ballot confused elderly Democratic voters who mistakenly voted  for Pat Buchanan instead of Al Gore.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EThe DNC's current plan appears to rely on campaign volunteers to call random  precincts in red counties in swing states to collect the reported results. In  contrast, the Ohio Green Party will be \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/blogs\/democracy\/#99242\"\u003Estationing observers\u003C\/A\u003E  at polling places and in the county Board of Election office to conduct an  independent vote count by comparing the number of people who sign into vote with  the reported totals. The Green Party response will not reveal if GOP loyalists  with access to the vote-counting machinery have programmed software to  reallocate the percentage of the vote awarded to McCain and Obama. But it will  guard against stuffing ballot boxes if it can deploy enough election observers  in Ohio's reddest counties.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003ECompared to 2004, unprecedented numbers of election protection efforts are  underway inside and independent of political parties. One group, led by \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.electionintegrity.org\/blogengine\/post\/2008\/10\/Announcing-the-Election-Verification-Exit-Poll.aspx\"\u003Edistinguished  academics\u003C\/A\u003E, plans to conduct an independent exit poll in Ohio, Missouri and  Pennsylvania. This poll is a check and balance for accuracy against official  results and the broadcast media's national exit poll (which will not release raw  data but adjusts its percentages once the official returns come in). Moreover,  the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/democracy\/100859\/nation's_largest_election_protection_coalition_launches_hotline,_website\/\"\u003Eis  leading\u003C\/A\u003E a mammoth voter hotline effort. Its partners include most civil  rights organizations in the country, including groups representing Latino  voters.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EBut none of these efforts has the organizational reach and resources of the  DNC. As of Monday, October 6th, when voter registration is closing in half the  states, the DNC's election protection team is still reviewing what to do about  electronic voting machines that tabulate the vote. Of course, it still has time  to craft a response. But as the smell of an Obama victory wafts through  Washington, there is another powerful factor that may undermine even the best  intentions of those working inside the DNC to ensure an accurate count.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EThere is a long-standing belief in DNC circles -- and Washington more broadly  -- that publicizing voter suppression or vote counting problems will discourage  new voters from turning out. Moreover, many Democrats do not want to draw  attention to any details from the nuts and bolts of vote counts that could call  into question the landslide they expect. This happened in November 2006, where  election integrity activists saw several races with vote count problems that  could have elected even more Democrats to the House. However, the party -- and  many outside groups with liberal leanings -- said nothing that might have  sullied the new Democratic majorities in Congress.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EIt does appear the DNC has not yet finalized its strategy concerning  electronic vote counts. But as Obama's fortunes rise in the polls and with voter  registration trends favoring the party, there is a rising resistance to going  the extra mile to ensure the vote counting machinery will not be tampered with  by GOP loyalists -- as the last stand in an increasingly attack-driven negative  campaign.\u003C\/P\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E\u003CBR\u003E\"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared  than a thousand bayonets. \"\u003CBR\u003ENapoleon Bonaparte \u003CBR\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003CBR\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/hladc-sf.blogspot.com\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/hladc-sf.blogspot.com\u003C\/A\u003E\u003CBR\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/\u003C\/A\u003E\u003CBR\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan class='st_sharethis_hcount' displayText='ShareThis'\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan 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630 Sansome St., San Francisco - Photo: Aurora Grajeda\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESegún los reportes preliminares, los agentes de ICE actuaron de una forma brutal, destruyendo objetos en por lo menos una vivienda y decomisando aparatos electrónicos, en la familia que radica en esta dirección, vari@s son ciudadan@s de los Estados Unidos.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EExisten muchas preguntas que deben tener respuestas, como mencionó el Sr. Pérez, los detalles hasta el momento, aún no están claros.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMiguel también habla de como esta clase de operativos, dan paso a cobertura en los medios, especialmente las personas que tienen una agenda preconcebida y que parece que se les pegó la aguja, como es \u003Ca href=\"mailto:jvanderbeken@sfchronicle.com\"\u003EJaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writer,\u003C\/a\u003E este 'señor', parece que se quiere especializar en cubrir noticias que de una forma ú otra tienen que ver con imigrantes y los encabezados de sus reportes siempre tienden a ser políticamente inflamatorios, como este último \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2008\/10\/23\/BAS113MCDM.DTL\"\u003EMS-13 gang suspects arrested in Bay Area raids\u003C\/a\u003E\", en el mismo artículo, reporta que también hubo redadas en  Richmond y  South San Francisco, además de que Oficiales de la Policía de Richmond asistieron a los agentes de ICE, la policía de South San Francisco confirmaron que también hicieron lo mismo y de acuerdo con el vocero del Alcalde Gavin Newson de SF, Nate Ballard, dijo que  el SFPD a trabajado con las autoridades Federales por años en el caso y que \"Están orgullosos del trabajo investigativo en el que nuestro departamento de policía ha estado envuelto\" (Mi única fuente sobre las redadas en Richmond y SSF es este artículo - Espero confirmación)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECabe mencionar, que este 'señor', no hace mencion alguna de los métodos abusivos usados por Agentes de ICE, que se han descrito como brutales.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEstaremos pendientes de los pormenores de este caso, reportandolos en cuanto sean de nuestro conocimiento, es de nuestra incumbencia y responsabilidad, el reportar 'el otro lado de la moneda'\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAurora Grajeda\u003Cbr \/\u003ESFCA 102408\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\/294630061288742018\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/ice-raids-en-sf.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/294630061288742018"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/294630061288742018"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/ice-raids-en-sf.html","title":"La Política en las redadas de ICE"}],"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-8454650809325906544"},"published":{"$t":"2008-10-17T11:14:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-10-17T11:23:06.372-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"angelina jolie"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"corporate legal departments"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"family separation"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"immigrant children"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"immigration"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"kids in need of defense"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"kind"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"law firms"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"legal representation"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"legal-defense program"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"microsoft"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Microsoft, Angeline Jolie, Law Firms \u0026 Corp. Legal Depts. set to help the littlest immigrants"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"With some of the biggest legal heavy hitters in the country and Angelina Jolie as a spokesperson, Microsoft today launched a new initiative to provide free legal services to illegal-immigrant children facing possible deportation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/nationworld\/2008276992_detainedkids17m0.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/art\/ui\/1024\/logo_news.gif\" align=\"bottom\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp class=\"byline\"\u003EBy \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.nwsource.com\/search?sort=date\u0026amp;from=ST\u0026amp;byline=Lornet%20Turnbull\"\u003ELornet Turnbull\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E       \u003Cp class=\"source\"\u003ESeattle Times staff reporter\u003C\/p\u003E                                                                                    \u003Cp\u003EPartnered with some of the nation's legal powerhouses — and with actress Angelina Jolie as a spokesperson — Microsoft today launched an initiative to provide free legal help to hundreds of illegal-immigrant children who are on their own and facing deportation.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EThrough Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), the Redmond company and a group of law firms in nine cities will spend about $14.5 million over the next three years on an immigration legal-defense program for children, similar to a partnership Microsoft has had with local attorneys for years.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003E\"While there are many worthy causes and cases, we wanted to focus on children who have been separated from their families and are in particular needy circumstances,\" said Brad Smith, senior vice president and general counsel for Microsoft.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003E\"For children who have no one to speak on their behalf, a lawyer is a lifeline to protection.\"\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003ELast year, about 8,000 illegal-immigrant children with no official adult supervision were processed in immigration court. They came from all over the world — the majority from Central America — some fleeing untold horror and abuse.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003ECrossing illegally into the U.S., some were separated from parents or guardians. Others were smuggled in alone by coyotes, people who help immigrants cross the border illegally for a fee.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EOnce here, some turned to the Department of Homeland Security seeking asylum. But most were picked up by immigration authorities at U.S. borders and airports or came to the attention of immigration authorities after running afoul of the law.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EAbout 215 of these children were in Washington state.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EUnlike adults, they are not placed in U.S. detention centers but in juvenile shelters scattered across the country. The youngest — sometimes just 3 or 4 years old — are placed in foster care.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EAltogether in Washington state, there are 84 beds in foster homes and shelters set aside for the detained minors.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EIn the end, some are reunited with family members here in the U.S., but many are deported back to their home countries. ICE spokeswoman Lorie Dankers said that when a minor is returned home, officials work with the consulate of that country to locate a family member there. If one can't be contacted, she said, ICE works with the foreign government to take custody of the child.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EMicrosoft already helps to fund a program called Volunteer Advocates for Immigrant Justice, which screens adults and children to determine their eligibility for asylum or other legal status, and trains attorneys to represent them as they work through the system.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBecause of it, Washington is the only state in the country where every immigrant child is represented by an attorney in immigration court, Microsoft's Smith said. KIND would immediately expand that to eight other large U.S. cities: Los Angeles, Houston, Boston, New York, Newark, N.J., Baltimore, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EOf the 8,000 unaccompanied illegal-immigrant kids who come into contact with immigration authorities last year, 3,100 were in these nine cities, and two-thirds of them had no legal representation.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EThose children are the focus of KIND.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003ESmith talked of a 15-year-old boy who fled North Korea with his father but became separated from him in Canada. He crossed into the U.S. and was apprehended.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003ELydia Tamez, associate general counsel for Microsoft, told of two brothers, ages 3 and 5, who crossed the border with their mother but became separated from her after she was detained. The boys were found wandering the freeway, naked and begging for food.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EAnother local case involved a 3-year-old who became separated from her aunts in California. When she appeared before an immigration judge and was asked how old she was, she raised three tiny fingers.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003E\"Some of them are the innocent,\" Tamez said.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003ETypically, once such children come to the attention of immigration officials here, they are turned over to the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement, which contracts with various community groups to arrange housing for them.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EBetsy Ellington, manager of international foster care at Catholic Community Services, said most of the children it places in foster care are preteens.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003ESome are running away from abuse and torture in their home countries, she said. Many know how to reach relatives; the youngest ones might have names and phone numbers on a piece of paper in their shoes.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EWhile many may end up with relatives here, she said, \"some of them just want to go back home.\"\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\/8454650809325906544\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/microsoft-set-to-help-littlest.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/8454650809325906544"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/8454650809325906544"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/microsoft-set-to-help-littlest.html","title":"Microsoft, Angeline Jolie, Law Firms \u0026 Corp. 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This will not be the last time.\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/rights\/101958?page=entire\"\u003E\u003CFONT  size=5\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003EAlterNet\u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003E\u0026nbsp;By \u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003CA title=\"View all stories by Naomi Wolf\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/authors\/8324\/\"\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003ENaomi  Wolf\u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003E, \u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\"\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003EAlterNet\u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003E. Posted  \u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003CA title=\"View all stories published on October 8, 2008\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/ts\/archives\/?date%5BF%5D=10\u0026amp;date%5BY%5D=2008\u0026amp;date%5Bd%5D=08\u0026amp;act=Go\/\"\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003EOctober  8, 2008\u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003E.\u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CBLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\"\u003E   \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003ERELATED ARTICLE BY AMY GOODMAN:\u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E   \u003CDIV\u003E   \u003CP class=storyheadline\u003E\u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/rights\/102220\/is_posse_comitatus_dead\/\"\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003E\u003CFONT    size=5\u003EIs Posse Comitatus Dead?\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/P\u003E   \u003CP class=storyheadline\u003E\u003CEM\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003E\u0026nbsp;Why are there active duty soldiers    stationed on U.S. streets?\u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003C\/EM\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E\u003C!-- end: headline --\u003E\u003C!-- start: byline --\u003E   \u003CP class=storybyline\u003E\u003CB\u003EBy \u003CA title=\"View all stories by Amy Goodman\"    href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/authors\/5721\/\"\u003EAmy Goodman\u003C\/A\u003E, \u003CA    href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/\"\u003EDemocracy Now!\u003C\/A\u003E. Posted \u003CA    title=\"View all stories published on October 8, 2008\"    href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/ts\/archives\/?date%5BF%5D=10\u0026amp;date%5BY%5D=2008\u0026amp;date%5Bd%5D=08\u0026amp;act=Go\/\"\u003EOctober    8, 2008\u003C\/A\u003E.\u003C\/B\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E\u003C\/BLOCKQUOTE\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT size=4\u003E \u003CP\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/rights\/101958\/thousands_of_troops_are_deployed_on_u.s._streets_ready_to_carry_out_%22crowd_control%22\/\"\u003EThousands  of Troops Are Deployed on U.S. Streets Ready to Carry Out \"Crowd  Control\"\u003C\/A\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/P\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E \u003CP\u003EBackground: the First Brigade of the Third Infantry Division, three to four  thousand soldiers, has been deployed in the United States as of October 1. Their  stated mission is the form of crowd control they practiced in Iraq, subduing  \"unruly individuals,\" and the management of a national emergency. I am in  Seattle and heard from the brother of one of the soldiers that they are engaged  in exercises now. Amy Goodman \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/2\/amy_goodmans_latest_column_invasion_of_the_sea_smurfs\"\u003Ereported\u003C\/A\u003E  that an Army spokesperson confirmed that they will have access to lethal and non  lethal crowd control technologies and tanks.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EGeorge Bush struck down \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/rights\/”http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Posse_Comitatus_Act”\"\u003EPosse  Comitatus\u003C\/A\u003E, thus making it legal for military to patrol the U.S. He has also  legally established that in the \"War on Terror,\" the U.S. is at war around the  globe and thus the whole world is a battlefield. Thus the U.S. is also a  battlefield.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EHe also led change to the 1807 Insurrection Act to give him far broader  powers in the event of a loosely defined \"insurrection\" or many other  \"conditions\" he has the power to identify. The Constitution allows the  suspension of habeas corpus -- habeas corpus prevents us from being seized by  the state and held without trial -- in the event of an \"insurrection.\" With his  own army force now, his power to call a group of protesters or angry voters  \"insurgents\" staging an \"insurrection\" is strengthened.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EU.S. Rep. Brad Sherman of California said to Congress, captured on C-Span and  \u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HaG9d_4zij8\"\u003Eviewable\u003C\/A\u003E on YouTube,  that individual members of the House were threatened with martial law within a  week if they did not pass the bailout bill:\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CBLOCKQUOTE\u003E\"The only way they can pass this bill is by creating and    sustaining a panic atmosphere. … Many of us were told in private conversations    that if we voted against this bill on Monday that the sky would fall, the    market would drop two or three thousand points the first day and a couple of    thousand on the second day, and a few members were even told that there would    be martial law in America if we voted no.\"\u003C\/BLOCKQUOTE\u003E \u003CP\u003EIf this is true and Rep. Sherman is not delusional, I ask you to consider  that if they are willing to threaten martial law now, it is foolish to assume  they will never use that threat again. It is also foolish to trust in an orderly  election process to resolve this threat. And why deploy the First Brigade? One  thing the deployment accomplishes is to put teeth into such a threat.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EI interviewed Vietnam veteran, retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and patriot  David Antoon for clarification:\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"If the President directed the First Brigade to arrest Congress, what could  stop him?\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"Nothing. Their only recourse is to cut off funding. The Congress would be at  the mercy of military leaders to go to them and ask them not to obey illegal  orders.\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"But these orders are now legal?'\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"Correct.\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"If the President directs the First Brigade to arrest a bunch of voters, what  would stop him?\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"Nothing. It would end up in courts but the action would have been  taken.\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"If the President directs the First Brigade to kill civilians, what would  stop him?\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"Nothing.\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"What would prevent him from sending the First Brigade to arrest the editor  of the \u003CI\u003EWashington Post?\u003C\/I\u003E\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"Nothing. He could do what he did in Iraq -- send a tank down a street in  Washington and fire a shell into the Washington Post as they did into Al  Jazeera, and claim they were firing at something else.\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"What happens to members of the First Brigade who refuse to take up arms  against U.S. citizens?\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"They'd probably be treated as deserters as in Iraq: arrested, detained and  facing five years in prison. In Iraq a study by Ann Wright shows that deserters  -- reservists who refused to go back to Iraq -- got longer sentences than war  criminals.\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"Does Congress have any military of their own?\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"No. Congress has no direct control of any military units. The Governors have  the National Guard but they report to the President in an emergency that he  declares.\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"Who can arrest the President?\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"The Attorney General can arrest the President after he leaves or after  impeachment.\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E[Note: Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi has asserted it is possible for District  Attorneys around the country to charge President Bush with murder if they  represent districts where one or more military members who have been killed in  Iraq formerly resided.]\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"Given the danger do you advocate impeachment?\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"Yes. President Bush struck down Posse Comitatus -- which has prevented, with  a penalty of two years in prison, U.S. leaders since after the Civil War from  sending military forces into our streets -- with a 'signing statement.' He  should be impeached immediately in a bipartisan process to prevent the use of  military forces and mercenary forces against U.S. citizens\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"Should Americans call on senior leaders in the Military to break publicly  with this action and call on their own men and women to disobey these  orders?\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"Every senior military officer's loyalty should ultimately be to the  Constitution. Every officer should publicly break with any illegal order, even  from the President.\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"But if these are now legal. If they say, 'Don't obey the Commander in  Chief,' what happens to the military?\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"Perhaps they would be arrested and prosecuted as those who refuse to  participate in the current illegal war. 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the era that Italian, French, and Spanish LandWanters came sailing onto shores where other people lived; the time that yet provides the template still acted upon in many ways, wherein those who Know Better visit violence upon others to better distribute their resources.\u003C\/p\u003E  \u003Cspan class=\"clearer\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E     \u003Cdiv class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 540px;\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/theunapologeticmexican.org\/img\/el1\/Aztec-Chimalli-Dia-de-la-Raza.jpg\" alt=\"\" height=\"184\" width=\"540\" align=\"middle\" \/\u003E\u003Cp class=\"wp-caption-text\"\u003EArte by Nezua, using arte from the Codex Tepetlaoztoc as well as bg image by T. Mursell\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cp\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cblockquote\u003E \u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;\"  \u003EAlthough Christopher Columbus was perhaps not the first to discover America, as has so often been claimed, he was the one to bring about the first real contact and interaction between Renaissance Europe and the American continent with its various civilizations; and that has shaped and changed world history in countless ways. Over 500 years later, this date is still celebrated, lamented, and debated.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;\"  \u003EOne of the main consequences of this contact, was the imminent conquest of the new world by the old. In writing of his discovery, Columbus noted how he and his men were greeted with gifts and said: \u003Cstrong\u003E“As soon as I arrived in the Indies, on the first Island which I found, I took some of the natives by force in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts”.\u003C\/strong\u003E And, generally speaking, this was to characterize relations between the old world and the new: Europeans sought wealth and to impart (or impose) their culture. The indigenous people befriended them and were dominated by armies from abroad.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E—\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/zedillo.presidencia.gob.mx\/welcome\/PAGES\/culture\/note_12oct.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDía de la Raza\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003C\/blockquote\u003E \u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003EAND NOW FOR THE PURA MEZCLA ANGLE, which I am always happy to give you here at \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" title=\"UMX\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theunapologeticmexican.org\/\"\u003EUMX\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003EToday marks the day we recognize the European GoldThirsters coming upon humans they never met before; the era that Italian, French, and Spanish LandWanters came sailing onto shores where other people lived; the time that yet provides the template \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mamitamala.com\/?p=665\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Estill acted upon\u003C\/a\u003E in many ways. Wherein those who Know Better visit violence upon others to better distribute the resources of the weaker, wherein those who Talk Louder and with many mouths pave the alleys that lead to their own coffers with many a smooth fabrication or rationalization, wherein those who center their own immoral culture and so declare another unworthy and aid in the destruction of that other culture. \u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003EHere’s the mezcla part. Just as I am a living example of indigenous blood meeting European blood and contain this meeting within every cell of my spiritual and physical being, so do we all have this ideological potential within us. We all harbor the ability to act on our greed, on our Empire’s ethnocentrism, on our selfcentrism, on our Right to decide for others. We are all conquistadores, given the right opportunity and weakness. And yet, we are also always able to act otherwise. 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alt=\"\" hspace=0  src=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/img\/2.0\/global\/nav\/header\/header_cnn_com_logo.gif\"  align=baseline vspace=10 border=0\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E\u003CFONT size=7\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial\u003E\/\u003CFONT  color=#ff0000 size=6\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003EWorld\u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003Eupdated 8:12 p.m. EDT, Fri October 10, 2008\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003EBy Frederik Pleitgen\u003CBR\u003ECNN\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E \u003CP\u003E\u003CB\u003EBERLIN, Germany (CNN)\u003C\/B\u003E -- His phone number was published in a German  phone directory -- Rafid Alwan, whose claims that Saddam Hussein was producing  biological agents helped launch the Iraq war. \u003C\/P\u003E\u003C!--startclickprintexclude--\u003E \u003CDIV class=cnnStoryPhotoBox\u003E \u003CDIV class=cnnImgChngr  id=cnnImgChngr\u003E\u003C!----\u003E\u003C!--===========IMAGE============--\u003E\u003CIMG height=219  alt=\"Rafid Alwan says he wants to return to Iraq to work for his people and his country.\"  src=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/2008\/WORLD\/meast\/10\/10\/iraq.curveball\/art.alwan.cnn.jpg\"  width=292 align=left border=0\u003E\u003C!--===========\/IMAGE===========--\u003E  \u003CDIV class=cnnStoryPhotoCaptionBox\u003E \u003CDIV class=cnn3pxTB9pxLRPad\u003E \u003CP\u003E\u003C!--===========CAPTION==========--\u003ERafid Alwan says he wants to return to  Iraq to work for his people and his country.\u003CIMG height=4 alt=\"\"  src=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/img\/2.0\/mosaic\/base_skins\/baseplate\/corner_wire_BL.gif\"  width=4\u003E \u003C\/P\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E\u003C!--endclickprintexclude--\u003E \u003CP\u003EHe was reluctant to speak on the record, initially denying he was Iraqi or  that he was the defector dubbed \"Curveball\" by the CIA. But eight months after  we first contacted him, Alwan agreed to an interview, and we met in an anonymous  hotel room in a southern German town. \u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003ETrying to get details from him was difficult -- he spoke at length, often  launching into a flowery history of Iraq or a description of Hussein's crimes,  and in Arabic, which meant we had to wait after each answer for a  translation.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EWe spoke for more than three hours, Alwan sitting across the room from me,  wearing a stylish black suit. But in the end, he hadn't said very much at  all.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EIn the run-up to the U.S. invasion of \u003CA class=cnnInlineTopic  href=\"http:\/\/topics.cnn.com\/topics\/Iraq_War\"\u003EIraq\u003C\/A\u003E in 2003, Secretary of  State Colin Powell delivered a dramatic presentation to the U.N. Security  Council. The United States had first-hand accounts, he said, detailing how \u003CA  class=cnnInlineTopic  href=\"http:\/\/topics.cnn.com\/topics\/Saddam_Hussein\"\u003EHussein\u003C\/A\u003E was secretly  creating biological agents using mobile laboratories in \"road-trailer units and  rail cars.\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EAs slides depicting drawings of the supposed germ labs flashed on a big  screen in the Security Council's chamber, Powell drove his point home:\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"The source is an eyewitness, an Iraqi chemical engineer, who supervised one  of these facilities.\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EJust days after Powell's presentation, U.N. weapons inspectors presented  evidence they said disproved those claims. But six weeks later, on March 20,  2003, the United States launched its invasion, toppling Hussein's government in  three weeks but locking itself in a war against an insurgency that has cost more  than 4,000 American lives.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003ENo biological weapons, no germ labs, no weapons of mass destruction of any  kind were found in Iraq after the invasion. Curveball -- Rafid Alwan -- remained  in hiding in Germany, where he had been interviewed by the German intelligence  service, the BND.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003ESubsequent U.S. investigations into the intelligence failure around the  claims found that German intelligence considered the defector \"crazy\" and \"out  of control,\" while friends said he was a \"liar.\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EAnd, it turned out, the CIA not only never spoke with him, it never even saw  transcripts of the German interviews, only the Germans' analysis of the  interviews.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EAlwan brought with him to our meeting documents to prove his identity,  certificates saying he has a degree in chemical engineering from Technical  University in Baghdad and a student ID card from a German college. Multiple  intelligence sources told CNN that the man we spoke with was, indeed,  Curveball.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EBut Alwan told us he never told the BND that Iraq was producing weapons of  mass destruction, and he said many other things said about him were false.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"There are many wrong statements made about me, and I want to declare it one  by one. I have documents proving that everything said about me is false,\" he  said.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"No,\" he said, \"I never told anyone Saddam Hussein was producing weapons of  mass destruction.\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EWhen I pressed him about Powell's use of his information, Alwan said in  German with an Arabic accent, \"That is Colin Powell's problem.\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EHe said that as long as he is living in Germany, he will never tell the full  story of what information he passed on to the BND.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"It is not true that I am the only person who said things about Iraq,\" he  said. \"There are so many other people who gave information as well. Right now I  am trying to protect my children. They have been through hard times with  me.\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EAnd then Alwan got nervous. He wiped his face often and lit a new cigarette  after almost every question. He seemed uncomfortable in front of the camera.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EAlwan had brought with him a second man, introduced only as \"Mr. Ali.\" Mr.  Ali was also wearing a flashy suit with a peach-colored shirt, and he seemed to  be coaching Alwan, making strange signals behind my back.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EAs I talked to Alwan, I could feel the wind from Mr. Ali frantically waving  his arms. Whenever Alwan began to offer details, Mr. Ali made a time out signal  with his hands, and Alwan stopped talking.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EWhen he wasn't prevented from talking by Mr. Ali, Alwan answered questions in  a roundabout manner, sometimes backtracking and correcting himself, sometimes  telling completely different stories in the same sentence.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EAlwan came to Germany in 1999 seeking asylum and was picked up by the German  intelligence service, which questioned him. According to intelligence sources,  Alwan told the BND that Hussein had a secret biological weapons program, and  that the cover was a seed purification plant in Djerf al Nadaf, a site just  north of Baghdad, where mobile weapons labs in truck trailers would pick up the  biological agents.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EIt begs the question: How could the BND and CIA trust Alwan's information  with the stakes so high?\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EWhile he provided little detail during our interview, Alwan insisted that  Hussein was producing weapons of mass destruction, and that he had worked on one  of the weapons projects.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003ENorbert Juretzko, a former BND officer who is familiar with the Curveball  case, now criticizes the German intelligence service for its handling of the  matter. The BND wanted so badly to believe Alwan, Juretzko said, that the case  officers didn't notice inconsistencies in his story.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"He was put under pressure by the BND: 'Tell us something,'\" Juretzko said.  \"They were desperate for something. They gave him money, privileges, a visa and  the like. And so this man used his imagination to get all these things.\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EAlwan, however, claims he was never \"an agent or spy for any intelligence  agencies in the world. And I never got paid by anyone.\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003ETyler Drumheller, the CIA's station chief in Europe at the time, said he  tried to warn his superiors at the agency about using Curveball's information.  Drumheller said he thinks the Curveball case is one of the lowest points in the  history of the CIA, but he does not believe Alwan was at fault.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"He was driven by his own self-preservation, and then he got caught up in the  story he was telling, and then he just had to keep going,\" Drumheller said.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EBob Drogin, who wrote about the case in \"Curveball: Lies, Spies, and a Con  Man Who Caused a War,\" called the episode \"arguably the biggest intelligence  failure in history.\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"Never before have we gone to war on the basis of such an utter and complete  fraud,\" Drogin said. \"After 9\/11, what we heard from the authorities was that  they had failed to connect the dots that led to that scandal. In this case, they  made up the dots.\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EBut Alwan made clear in our meeting that he does not feel remorse. He said he  wants to return to Iraq to work for his people and his country. And, he said, he  feels the Iraq war was justified.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP class=cnnInline\u003E\"I feel that America offered to Iraq what no other country  can offer to Iraq,\" he said near the end of the interview. \"America sacrificed  its people and its money and its position to free a dictatorial  country.\"\u003C\/P\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\u003CBR\u003E\"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared  than a thousand bayonets. \"\u003CBR\u003ENapoleon Bonaparte \u003CBR\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003CBR\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/hladc-sf.blogspot.com\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/hladc-sf.blogspot.com\u003C\/A\u003E\u003CBR\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/\u003C\/A\u003E\u003CBR\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003E\u003Cspan 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Street,"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\"\u003EWhile the Bush regime was rewarding 700 billion  dollars to the thieves responsible for the financial pillage, we completed  another week of daily protests against the border wall.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/graphics\/jpgs\/contra_el_muro1.jpg\" align=\"bottom\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr 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Kiewit is not only one of the  largest recipients of juicy government contracts, but the CEO of Kiewit was also  one of the most generous contributors to the Bush\/Cheney electoral  campaigns.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\"\u003EWe continue to protest every day, mornings and  afternoons, the same way we have been doing since September 12 as a group of  \u003Cst1:city st=\"on\"\u003E\u003Cst1:place st=\"on\"\u003EEl Paso\u003C\/st1:place\u003E\u003C\/st1:city\u003E citizens  opposed to the wall. The protests at this site were initiated by one individual  on August 18. On that day Justo Rivera, a 63 year-old El Paso native and proud  Vietnam veteran, just made a simple sign with big letters that read \"Honk Honk  for No Wall!\" and staged a one person protest at the construction site. We  gather at the entrance of the construction site located at \u003Cst1:street st=\"on\"\u003E\u003Cst1:address st=\"on\"\u003ECesar Chávez Highway\u003C\/st1:address\u003E\u003C\/st1:street\u003E  (also known as \u003Cst1:street st=\"on\"\u003E\u003Cst1:address st=\"on\"\u003EBorder  Highway\u003C\/st1:address\u003E\u003C\/st1:street\u003E) and Yarbrough, with signs and leaflets. At  times there are only three people  protesting. Other times our group is  composed of ten or more protesters. The number of people is increasing every  day. Since this a heavy traffic intersection, hundreds of people see our  signs and as well as the construction in progress. The majority of people  express their opposition to the wall by honking to the Kiewit workers and the  Border Patrol officers.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\"\u003EThis week we also held two activities. The first was  held on Wednesday October 1 which was a Vigil Against the Wall to begin our  campaign: \"¡YA BASTA! ¡TOD@S CONTRA EL MURO!\" (ENOUGH! EVERYBODY AGAINST THE  WALL!)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/graphics\/jpgs\/contra_el_muro2.jpg\" align=\"bottom\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\"\u003EThe vigil was held in the evening and attracted more than 60  participants mainly from different religious communities as well as families  residing in the vicinity of the construction site. The participants of the vigil  carried candles and signs denouncing the immorality of the wall. The protesters  converged at 6:30 p.m. at the park near the construction site to listen to  presentations from a Catholic priest and representatives of other religions.  Then following a group of matachines from St Pius X, the procession walked  towards the site of the wall. A group of nervous Border patrol officers were at  the entrance of the construction site. When the procession approached the wall,  the officers parked their vehicles to block the entrance and rushed outside the  entrance to stop the peaceful protesters. Two of the officers pushed the persons  yelling at them,\"This is federal property!\" But the protesters were not  intimidated and continued their march chanting,\"No Wall! No Wall!\" More Border  Patrol officers arrived at the site to form a barrier at the entrance of the  site although it was very clear that the protesters never had the intention to  enter the construction site or to even get close to the entrance. Minutes later  some officers from the El Paso Police Department (EPPD) also arrived to assist  the Border Patrol agents in protecting the wall. Despite their attempts to  intimidate the protesters, the vigil continued until very late into the evening.  Many people passed by the intersection and saw the vigil. Most of the drivers  were honking their horns in support of the protest against the  wall.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\"\u003EThen on Friday, October 3, almost 40 students from  UTEP and \u003Cst1:place st=\"on\"\u003E\u003Cst1:placename st=\"on\"\u003EEl Paso\u003C\/st1:placename\u003E  \u003Cst1:placetype st=\"on\"\u003ECommunity College\u003C\/st1:placetype\u003E\u003C\/st1:place\u003E arrived  to the site to join the protest. They brought signs and musical instruments.  Most of the students were from UTEP's Students for Reform. Many people and  families from the vicinity arrived to participate. The group grew to about 70.  The protest was cheerful, with much enthusiasm and lasted several hours. The  group also walked along the construction of the wall.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\"\u003EThis time the law enforcement officers and Kiewit  Corporation were prepared for our protest.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\"\u003ETo begin, they released the workers earlier than on  other previous days, so by the time we arrived they had stopped working in the  area. Then they closed the main gate with chains and locks and put up two big  \"No Trespassing\" signs on each side of the entrance.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/graphics\/jpgs\/contra_el_muro3.jpg\" align=\"bottom\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\"\u003EAlso, this time the presence of EPPD and Border Patrol  officers was very ostentatious. There were cops all over the construction site  and in the surrounding areas. Somebody counted about 30 patrols in the area.  There were also many plain clothes officers in unmarked vehicles taking pictures  and videos of the protest. The officers of the EPPD did not allow people to park  on the edge of the road the way we had been doing  for many weeks of  protests. When one of the protesters attempted to explain to the police that he  was parked in a right of way, he was given a ticket and was warned to move or  his car would be towed away. Then a deputy with the El Paso County Sheriff's  Office  also arrived at the area to harass the demonstrator who had been  given the ticket. The deputy was so out of control that one of the police  officers intervened to calm him down.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnyway, the protest took place and hundreds of people  passing by the area saw us and expressed their support to the struggle to stop  the construction of the wall. Every day more and more people are realizing the  infamy of the federal government against the people of the border community. We  also expect more people to join our daily protests and to participate in the  different actions being planned to stop the construction of the  wall.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EThe protests at the construction site will continue  during weekdays, mornings, and afternoons. The next action will be held on  Sunday October 12, 2008 at the construction site. 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Oct 2 - 2:01 PM \u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CP\u003E \u003CTABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=200 align=left\u003E   \u003CTBODY\u003E   \u003CTR\u003E     \u003CTD\u003E       \u003CTABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=10 width=\"100%\" bgColor=#ffffff\u003E         \u003CTBODY\u003E         \u003CTR\u003E           \u003CTD vAlign=top bgColor=#f0f0f0\u003E\u003CA              href=\"javascript:viewfullsize('tk100108audit1_RGB_10-02-08.jpg')\"\u003E\u003CIMG              title=\"Nova Scotia auditor general Jacques Lapointe studies some notes Wednesday at the release of his report on the province's failed immigration nominee program.(Tim Krochak \/ Staff)\u003C\/p\u003E\"              src=\"http:\/\/thechronicleherald.ca\/photos\/large\/tk100108audit1_RGB_10-02-08.jpg\"              border=0\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E\u003CBR\u003E\u003CFONT class=caption\u003E             \u003CP\u003ENova Scotia auditor general Jacques Lapointe studies some notes              Wednesday at the release of his report on the province's failed              immigration nominee program.(Tim Krochak \/ Staff)\u003C\/P\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E             \u003CP\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E\u003C\/TD\u003E\u003C\/TR\u003E\u003C\/TBODY\u003E\u003C\/TABLE\u003E\u003C\/TD\u003E     \u003CTD\u003E\u003CIMG height=5 src=\"http:\/\/thechronicleherald.ca\/images\/spacer.gif\"        width=10\u003E\u003C\/TD\u003E\u003C\/TR\u003E\u003C\/TBODY\u003E\u003C\/TABLE\u003E\u003CFONT class=story_text\u003E \u003CP\u003EThe RCMP is reviewing five files from an ill-fated provincial immigration  program, including payments to a lawyer who apparently didn't do any work on  behalf of some immigrants, and how the program operator seems to have used  immigration fees to buy into a business.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EThe revelations were in auditor general Jacques Lapointe's second report on  the economic stream of the provincial nominee program, released Wednesday. Mr.  Lapointe said his office investigated some matters as far as possible, then sent  the five to the RCMP last month.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EOther concerns were the use of \"phantom agents\" who worked on the immigrants'  files, a businessman with two companies who collected money even though  immigrants who were supposed to work there did not, and the transfer of $190,000  from a trust account holding immigrants' fees.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EMr. Lapointe said the audit turned up many problems.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"Our audit into this area discovered a significant number of irregularities,  inappropriate payments and other flaws,\" Mr. Lapointe told a news  conference.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EThe province established the economic stream in 2002 when it signed an  untendered contract with Cornwallis Financial Corp. to administer it.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EImmigrants paid $130,500 in fees to be fast-tracked into Canada. The biggest  chunk, $100,000, was for a six-month mentorship in a middle-management position  at a Nova Scotia business. The immigrant was to receive at least $20,000.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EAnother $20,000 fee was to pay an agent, though Mr. Lapointe said many  immigrants weren't aware of that.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EThe report notes that a Halifax-area lawyer was listed as an agent for at  least a handful of nominees. Of seven interviewed, two weren't aware of the  lawyer's name, and the other five thought his name appeared as a technical  requirement.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EBut in each case, they said the lawyer didn't do any work on their behalf,  and they didn't know he received an agent commission of $18,000 to $20,000 a  person.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EMr. Lapointe found the lawyer received $116,000 in payments between May 2,  2003, and March 20 of this year. But in January and April, $79,935 was returned  to immigrants. Mr. Lapointe said the lawyer refused to speak with him, so he  couldn't explain why the lawyer received the fees and returned a portion of  them.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003ESources said the lawyer is Brian MacLellan of the firm Wickwire Holm. Mr.  MacLellan said he had no comment.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"Any involvement that I have ever had with the program is one where I would  have been a lawyer for various parties and I can't comment on anything due to  solicitor-client privilege,\" he said in a telephone interview.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EMr. Lapointe's office also examined a contract Cornwallis had with an unnamed  Moncton firm that would give Cornwallis a \"master franchise\" that would allow  Cornwallis, with the co-operation of the Moncton firm, to sell franchises  throughout Atlantic Canada.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EThe contract said Cornwallis was to forward $100,000 to the company via the  nominee program.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003ECornwallis president Stephen Lockyer said on the telephone that he couldn't  comment on the report but he e-mailed a short statement later in the  afternoon.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EHe said Mr. Lapointe had accepted the province's assumptions and ignored the  terms of the deal between Cornwallis and the province, as well as industry  norms.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"The auditor general's report is full of misstatements of fact and  misunderstanding of the circumstances,\" Mr. Lockyer said. \"This matter is before  the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia and Cornwallis will present its case before the  court.\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003ECornwallis sued the province in 2006, after the province ended the contract  with Cornwallis in June that year.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EMr. Lapointe also had concerns with the use of \"phantom agents\" — people who  weren't lawyers or members of the Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants  but did work on an immigrant's file. He said he wasn't sure if the arrangements  between phantom agents and lawyers met the spirit of federal immigration  rules.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003ERCMP spokesman Sgt. Mark Gallagher said Mounties are reviewing the  information Mr. Lapointe provided and it would take a couple of months or more  to respond.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003ENew Democrat MLA Graham Steele, a member of the public accounts committee  that examined the report Wednesday morning, said he's never seen a more poorly  managed program.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"The deficiencies listed in your report are stunning,\" he said during the  meeting. \"And the best analogy I can use for what happened here is like a  feeding frenzy, where a bunch of people smelled money and took shameless  advantage of immigrants to this province, and it's a shame of our government  they allowed it to happen by setting up a program with weak controls and poor  oversight.\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EThe report said there were brokers who charged companies $3,000 to $20,000  for lining up an immigrant, while some immigrants paid extra fees on top of  their $130,500.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003ELiberal MLA Diana Whalen said the least the government could do to start  rebuilding the province's reputation as a welcoming place is to apologize for  the program's problems.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EPremier Rodney MacDonald did that later in a media scrum, saying he was sorry  for the immigrants who had a bad experience with the program, which he said was  \"obviously flawed.\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"Of course we apologize to individuals,\" he said. \"When government does  something wrong in a program or has issues in a program, then we have to accept  responsibility. And as premier, in any program that we have in government, it is  important to recognize if there is an issue with a program, then you deal with  it.\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EMr. MacDonald said his government did not renew the Cornwallis contract,  cancelled that stream of the program and supported the idea of an auditor  general's review. He also pointed out the report did not point blame at  government staff.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EImmigration Minister Len Goucher dismissed suggestions the program failed and  noted there have been successes in its goal of attracting immigrants.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EOf 829 people the province recommended to Ottawa for fast-tracking, 633 were  in the country as of Aug. 31. Of those, more than 400 are in Nova Scotia, Mr.  Goucher told reporters in the afternoon.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"Whether the program was an ultimate success or whether it was a dog, you can  call it what you want. I personally believe that this program has served its  function.\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EMs. Whalen wasn't buying it.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"This government is clearly out of touch,\" she said. \"I'm telling you a child  could develop a better program and would have attracted more immigrants to this  province than we've seen.\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003ENew Democrat immigration critic Leonard Preyra said the government seems to  be in a serious state of denial about the program.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"The fact is the government created this cesspool of incompetence and some  corruption,\" he said.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"I think it's reprehensible that the government is now saying that the  program achieved its purposes.\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EWith Amy Smith, provincial reporter\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E( \u003CA href=\"mailto:djackson@herald.ca\"\u003Edjackson@herald.ca\u003C\/A\u003E)\u003C\/P\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E \u003CP\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003CFONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=3\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E \u003CTABLE cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=8 width=\"100%\" bgColor=#ffffff\u003E   \u003CTBODY\u003E   \u003CTR\u003E     \u003CTD bgColor=#ffffff\u003E       \u003CTABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0\u003E         \u003CTBODY\u003E         \u003CTR\u003E           \u003CTD class=comment-titles id=comments\u003ECOMMENTS\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/TD\u003E           \u003CTD\u003E\u003CIMG src=\"http:\/\/thechronicleherald.ca\/images\/cmts.png\"              border=0\u003E\u003CBR\u003E\u003C\/TD\u003E           \u003CTD class=comment-titles    vAlign=top\u003E\u0026nbsp;(14)\u003C\/TD\u003E\u003C\/TR\u003E\u003C\/TBODY\u003E\u003C\/TABLE\u003E\u003C\/TD\u003E\u003C\/TR\u003E\u003C\/TBODY\u003E\u003C\/TABLE\u003E\u003CIMG  height=10 alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/thechronicleherald.ca\/images\/bn_btm.gif\"  width=574\u003E\u003CBR\u003E \u003CTABLE cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=8 width=\"100%\"\u003E   \u003CTBODY\u003E   \u003CTR\u003E     \u003CTD\u003E\u003CA class=comment-links-sm        href=\"http:\/\/thechronicleherald.ca\/forum\/posting\/19\/reply\/61059\"\u003EPOST YOUR        COMMENT\u003C\/A\u003E\u003C\/TD\u003E\u003C\/TR\u003E\u003C\/TBODY\u003E\u003C\/TABLE\u003E \u003CTABLE cellSpacing=5 cellPadding=13 width=\"100%\" bgColor=#f0f0f0\u003E   \u003CTBODY\u003E   \u003CTR\u003E     \u003CTD class=comment-txt-md bgColor=#ffffff\u003E\u003CFONT        class=comment-author\u003EWalther PPK wrote:\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003CBR\u003EAnother case of case of        cronyism between business people and corporate business parties in Canada        like the Conservatives and the Liberals – who claim to understand the        economy the best – is for a few days in the media. But not much has        happened since the last time: \"Cornwallis Financial Corp. and its        president, Stephen Lockyer were among the largest donors to Nova Scotia's        Progressive Conservative party in the years it ran the province's        immigration program. From 2001 to 2006, Lockyer and his company donated a        total of $15,057.49 to the governing party, which handed it an exclusive,        untendered contract to administer the key file.\" (Nova Scotia Business        Journal, 25\/10\/07). Just follow the money and you will find out who has        benefited. The program started back in 2002 through the NS Office of        Economic Development and the minister at the time was Cecil Clarke, now        Minister of Justice and Attourney General. He should step down from public        office, because he has been the one to stamp the contract with Cornwallis        and continued to be the minister responsible for the program for at least        another year. In a democracy there cannot be room for nepotism; else one        has to call it plutocracy or even kleptocracy. \u003C\/TD\u003E\u003C\/TR\u003E\u003C\/TBODY\u003E\u003C\/TABLE\u003E \u003CP\u003E \u003CTABLE cellSpacing=5 cellPadding=13 width=\"100%\" bgColor=#f0f0f0\u003E   \u003CTBODY\u003E   \u003CTR\u003E     \u003CTD class=comment-txt-md bgColor=#ffffff\u003E\u003CFONT class=comment-author\u003Ephilv        wrote:\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003CBR\u003EThis should cost Rodney and a couple of his minister's        their jobs - at the very least!! \u003C\/TD\u003E\u003C\/TR\u003E\u003C\/TBODY\u003E\u003C\/TABLE\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E \u003CTABLE cellSpacing=5 cellPadding=13 width=\"100%\" bgColor=#f0f0f0\u003E   \u003CTBODY\u003E   \u003CTR\u003E     \u003CTD class=comment-txt-md bgColor=#ffffff\u003E\u003CFONT        class=comment-author\u003Emexicowilkie wrote:\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003CBR\u003EThe government, eager        to show they are facilitating immigration to Nova Scotia, buys into a        scheme that is ripe for taxpayer pocket pickers to take advantage of. The        with minimum effort it is taken full advantage of. Surprised?    \u003C\/TD\u003E\u003C\/TR\u003E\u003C\/TBODY\u003E\u003C\/TABLE\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E \u003CTABLE cellSpacing=5 cellPadding=13 width=\"100%\" bgColor=#f0f0f0\u003E   \u003CTBODY\u003E   \u003CTR\u003E     \u003CTD class=comment-txt-md bgColor=#ffffff\u003E\u003CFONT        class=comment-author\u003EHeatherdee wrote:\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003CBR\u003EI completely agree with        Mr Preyra's assessment. I am not one to blame government for everything,        but I know my patience is running pretty thin witnessing yet more        unaccountability from this government, and I know I am not alone. I have        nothing but high regards for Mr. Clarke, but this Nova Scotian will not be        satifisfied with a few senior unnamed bureacrats being wrist-slapped and I        applaud the opposition members for keeping at it. This is twenty times        worse than any scandal any provincial government has had their hand into        and probably the most damaging. This program has not been successful.If I        were Mr. Clarke, I'd be very concerned over being told only two days ago        that as the minister responsible for the contract at the time that my        cabinet colleagues went over my head to tell senior officials in my        department that contract was to be tendered. (When it ought to have been        anyway as per procurement rules). And now he's Attorney General\/Min of        Justice, and the province is involved in a lawsuit. Does anyone not see        the conflict of interest here or have I got this all wrong? If this is how        the Province works with the private sector, heaven help those P3 projects        they boast about. More lawsuits for Nova Scotians on the way.    \u003C\/TD\u003E\u003C\/TR\u003E\u003C\/TBODY\u003E\u003C\/TABLE\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E \u003CTABLE cellSpacing=5 cellPadding=13 width=\"100%\" bgColor=#f0f0f0\u003E   \u003CTBODY\u003E   \u003CTR\u003E     \u003CTD class=comment-txt-md bgColor=#ffffff\u003E\u003CFONT        class=comment-author\u003Ezippo2468 wrote:\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003CBR\u003EI am quite sure no one        will go to jail for ripping of the new people coming to our country. They        should be ashamed, nice way to treat people who want to be canadians. It        is no wonder they all want to go out west. \u003C\/TD\u003E\u003C\/TR\u003E\u003C\/TBODY\u003E\u003C\/TABLE\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E \u003CTABLE cellSpacing=5 cellPadding=13 width=\"100%\" bgColor=#f0f0f0\u003E   \u003CTBODY\u003E   \u003CTR\u003E     \u003CTD class=comment-txt-md bgColor=#ffffff\u003E\u003CFONT        class=comment-author\u003Eannmarie wrote:\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003CBR\u003EHopefully, the RCMP will        get to the bottom of this. Immigrants did get one very important thing        that they wanted and that was to come to Canada to start over. Also,        there's an old saying, as a matter of fact, a couple of them, Buyer Beware        is one of them. I hope that the immigrants involved in this are not trying        to put the taxpayer on the hook for this. \u003C\/TD\u003E\u003C\/TR\u003E\u003C\/TBODY\u003E\u003C\/TABLE\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E \u003CTABLE cellSpacing=5 cellPadding=13 width=\"100%\" bgColor=#f0f0f0\u003E   \u003CTBODY\u003E   \u003CTR\u003E     \u003CTD class=comment-txt-md bgColor=#ffffff\u003E\u003CFONT class=comment-author\u003EWake        Up Canada wrote:\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003CBR\u003EAll Mr.MacDonald will do is find a weak link        (pay them off),so that everyday business continues.Why are we \"the        tax-payers\",aren't seeing these(Minister's),being charged for their        crimes????? Just because you hold the title \"CROWN\",means ---- in todays        world.It's time that Canada adopts it's own Law \u0026amp; Order,and send these        animals to prison with no parole! \u003C\/TD\u003E\u003C\/TR\u003E\u003C\/TBODY\u003E\u003C\/TABLE\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E \u003CTABLE cellSpacing=5 cellPadding=13 width=\"100%\" bgColor=#f0f0f0\u003E   \u003CTBODY\u003E   \u003CTR\u003E     \u003CTD class=comment-txt-md bgColor=#ffffff\u003E\u003CFONT class=comment-author\u003EJT        from Redneck County wrote:\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003CBR\u003EThe corrupt investigating the        corrupt, Hmnnnnn \u003C\/TD\u003E\u003C\/TR\u003E\u003C\/TBODY\u003E\u003C\/TABLE\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E \u003CTABLE cellSpacing=5 cellPadding=13 width=\"100%\" bgColor=#f0f0f0\u003E   \u003CTBODY\u003E   \u003CTR\u003E     \u003CTD class=comment-txt-md bgColor=#ffffff\u003E\u003CFONT class=comment-author\u003EFrank        wrote:\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003CBR\u003EUntendered contracts and little or no oversight, is        anyone surprised that the money disappeared. Governments should not be in        the business of handing out taxpayers money to special interest groups,        community groups, businesses or whatever, it is just a given the money        will be squandered. Isn't this the second time in the last few days that        it has been found that money given to a special interest group        disappeared. The best way for government to help the economy and all        taxpayers is to simply lower taxes. Evidently that should not be a        problem, there seems to be plenty of money to throw around.  \u003C\/TD\u003E\u003C\/TR\u003E\u003C\/TBODY\u003E\u003C\/TABLE\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E \u003CTABLE cellSpacing=5 cellPadding=13 width=\"100%\" bgColor=#f0f0f0\u003E   \u003CTBODY\u003E   \u003CTR\u003E     \u003CTD class=comment-txt-md bgColor=#ffffff\u003E\u003CFONT        class=comment-author\u003EWingman wrote:\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003CBR\u003EMake sure the company and        any individuals who profited from this are charged and the money        recovered. Why should I as a taxpayer be on the hook for this.    \u003C\/TD\u003E\u003C\/TR\u003E\u003C\/TBODY\u003E\u003C\/TABLE\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E \u003CTABLE cellSpacing=5 cellPadding=13 width=\"100%\" bgColor=#f0f0f0\u003E   \u003CTBODY\u003E   \u003CTR\u003E     \u003CTD class=comment-txt-md bgColor=#ffffff\u003E\u003CFONT        class=comment-author\u003Ercraigfader wrote:\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003CBR\u003Esuch a disgrace to the        province. such a disgrace to good people who want to live in NS. what will        we learn? probably nothing. hillbillies run the show. vote for the bigger        moron next time \u003C\/TD\u003E\u003C\/TR\u003E\u003C\/TBODY\u003E\u003C\/TABLE\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E \u003CTABLE cellSpacing=5 cellPadding=13 width=\"100%\" bgColor=#f0f0f0\u003E   \u003CTBODY\u003E   \u003CTR\u003E     \u003CTD class=comment-txt-md bgColor=#ffffff\u003E\u003CFONT class=comment-author\u003EReal        Luke wrote:\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003CBR\u003EI am keen to know why the lawyer        repaid\/refund\/returned the funds he had in his possession. I don't know        why he is hiding behind the priviledge doctrine. Was it surplus funds or        damage control?\u003C\/TD\u003E\u003C\/TR\u003E\u003C\/TBODY\u003E\u003C\/TABLE\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E \u003CTABLE cellSpacing=5 cellPadding=13 width=\"100%\" bgColor=#f0f0f0\u003E   \u003CTBODY\u003E   \u003CTR\u003E     \u003CTD class=comment-txt-md bgColor=#ffffff\u003E\u003CFONT        class=comment-author\u003Eworldly wrote:\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003CBR\u003ELet's be clear, there was no        taxpayer money squandered here. The money was the immigrants money. They        entered into an arrangement; pay $130,000 and get an opportunity to move        to Canada, and get a passport. Period. No one was ripped off. They knew,        the government knew and Cornwallis knew. This was a transaction between        the parties. The government increased its immigrant population, the        immigrants got into Canada, and Cornwallis made a profit by facilitating        the transaction. And the money was paid by the immigrants. Not the        government. As far as 3rd party agencies, if they helped in the process        they should be compensated. This was a win, win, win scenario. Lastly, if        my recollection serves me from earlier stories; Cabinet directed officials        to send this out for a competitive bid. That direction was either ignored        or overlooked. No government payola for a supporter in that scenario. And        that is a verified fact. \u003C\/TD\u003E\u003C\/TR\u003E\u003C\/TBODY\u003E\u003C\/TABLE\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E \u003CTABLE cellSpacing=5 cellPadding=13 width=\"100%\" bgColor=#f0f0f0\u003E   \u003CTBODY\u003E   \u003CTR\u003E     \u003CTD class=comment-txt-md bgColor=#ffffff\u003E\u003CFONT        class=comment-author\u003EHeatherdee wrote:\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003CBR\u003EWell worldly, taxpayer's        money is certainly being used to sort out the mess not to mention gov't        time. That directive was apparently news to Cecil Clarke, Minister        responsibley at the time. He told reporters he just found that out two        (now three) days ago. Cabinet went over his head to give his officials        direction? Really? That sounds a little cuckoo to me, especially how this        revelation is just being \"discovered\" after how long? Also one would think        the use of agents in an already \"fast track\" program was completely        unecessary for a process that had Dept of Immigration on board. Agents are        not a requirement anyway even for regular streams. This is not a        win-win-win situation. 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There were 25 students coming from  countries like the UK, Nigeria, Mexico, Columbia, Ghana, Venezuela, Pakistan -  and of course the United States.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen we discussed immigration all except  the student from the UK told me that there really was no line. That it was  almost impossible to immigrate legally to the United States.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow after  the immigration panic started at the end of 2004, it is even harder. While  everyone (who is not an immigrant) seems to be saying that immigration is great  if it is \"legal\" - that people would only have to wait in line (like previous  \"legal\" immigrants)---This is far from our present reality - U.S. immigration  policy has basically strangled \"legal\" immigration.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese same decisions  have trapped undocumented immigrants - they are stuck in the U.S. - previously  to December 2004 they would often go back and forth to Mexico - sometimes  staying in their countries of origin. This has changed. They are stuck here, if  they would like to go home for a few months, or a year, they can't- because they  might not be able to get back into the U.S.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E--  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\";font-family:'trebuchet ms';font-size:130%;\"  \u003EOctober 3,  2008\u003Cbr \/\u003EEditorial\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E \u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\";font-family:'trebuchet ms';font-size:130%;\"  \u003ENew York Times\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/03\/opinion\/03fri2.html?_r=1\u0026amp;ref=opinion\u0026amp;oref=slogin\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"\u003ELegal Immigration?    Anybody?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne of the false pieties uttered by    anti-immigration politicians is that they love immigrants. If that were true,    Congress would not be having so much trouble passing a simple law to smooth    out a serious kink in the legal immigration pipeline.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEvery year    Congress authorizes a certain number of permanent-resident visas, or green    cards, for immigrants to come to work in the United States or to rejoin their    families. And every year bureaucratic delays prevent a certain portion of    those visas from being claimed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe result? Every year thousands of    potential green cards vanish, like unused cellphone minutes. The huge backlogs    in legal immigration, which span years or even decades for applicants from    some countries, continue to fester. The myth of Ellis Island becomes more    mythical.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETeachers, nurses, engineers, researchers and other aspiring    immigrants who follow the rules, file their paperwork, pay their fees and wait    — and wait — get the chilly message that they are not wanted. Some of them    feel great pressure to go illegally around the immigration system, instead of    through it, as their wait to rejoin their loved ones becomes    intolerable.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA House bill that could recapture an estimated 550,000    lost visas, sponsored by Representative Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat,    has been moving slowly through the committee process despite the best efforts    of members like Representative Steve King, Republican of Iowa, to sabotage it    with ridiculously restrictive amendments. One would have granted green cards    only to people younger than 40 with college degrees. Another would have    eliminated an entire category of family visas, for siblings of    citizens.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the Senate, Robert Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey, is    insisting that a visa-recapturing amendment be added to a bill reauthorizing    E-Verify, the federal database program to prevent the hiring of illegal    immigrants. For this, he has endured an onslaught of criticism from nativist    groups and colleagues, like Jeff Sessions of Alabama. They all have been    raising an outcry about a coming flood of new foreigners.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat's a    false alarm. Congress has already authorized these green cards, and many would    go to highly skilled workers who have already lived here for years on    temporary visas. The bill is as much about keeping workers as gaining    them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt seems unlikely that a visa-recapture bill would make it    through this year. But don't blame Congress's focus on the economic mess for    that. Recapturing visas is a modest fix that should have been made a long time    ago. The country needs to build a smoother path to legal entry and    citizenship. The blame for its failure to do that lies squarely with the    hard-liners who rage against illegal immigrants, but are strangely    uninterested in helping people who \"play by the rules\" and \"wait in    line.\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\";font-family:'trebuchet ms';font-size:130%;\"  \u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/03\/opinion\/03fri2.html?_r=1\u0026amp;ref=opinion\u0026amp;oref=slogin\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/03\/opinion\/03fri2.html?_r=1\u0026amp;ref=opinion\u0026amp;oref=slogin\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E--   \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"post-footer\"\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"post-footer-line post-footer-line-1\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"post-author vcard\"  style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003EPosted by \u003Cspan class=\"fn\"\u003EMarie-Theresa  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\u003CBLOCKQUOTE\u003E\u003CSPAN class=Apple-style-span    style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'trebuchet ms'\"\u003EFor Immediate Release Contact: Douglas    Rivlin (rivlin@immigrationforum.org)\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003EOctober 3, 2008 (202) 383-5987 or    (202) 641-5198 (mobile)\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003EGood Money After Bad: The DHS Budget and    Immigration\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003EWashington, DC – A Continuing Resolution passed by Congress    kept the Government in business past midnight on Tuesday, the end of the    fiscal year. Most parts of the government are funded only through March, 6,    2009, but the Department of Homeland Security's budget for the whole year was    approved. DHS will receive $39.98 billion. The following is a statement from    Ali Noorani, Executive Director of the National Immigration    Forum.\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003EHappy Fiscal New Year, at least if you are in the DHS budget    office. In the midst of an unprecedented economic crisis Congress still found    time to approve the 2009 DHS budget in full. Rather than allocate funds to pay    for integration of immigrants, backlog reduction, and improved services for    immigration applicants, Congress has chosen to invest in dead end    deportation-only programs that make no investment in America's    future.\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003ECongress continues the exponential growth of personnel (4,361    new hires) at Customs and Border Protection (CBP), shovels another $775    million into controversial border fencing, increases the budget for    Immigration and Customs Enforcement to nearly $5 billion, $254 million more    than in 2008, and adds even more detention beds (1400) for ICE to fill with    people rounded up at workplace raids.\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003EFully $1 billion of ICE's budget    will go to targeting criminal aliens, which would be great if that was what    was actually happening. So called \"fugitive\" teams have been striking in    immigrant neighborhoods, disrupting families, and arresting, without warrant,    any people who happen to be around. Combined with massive workplace raids    targeting workers, but not employers, immigrant communities already feel under    siege.\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003EOther enforcement-only programs are also included. For example,    states preparing to change their driver's licenses to implement the REAL ID    Act get $50 million; $5.4 million will go to a program to enlist state and    local cops in enforcement under the 287(g) program; $2.4 billion goes the    Office of Detention and Removal; and $100 million will go to the flawed    E-Verify program, which was reauthorized by Congress only to early March of    next year.\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003EOf course, this all misses the point when it comes to    immigration. This budget is almost exclusively about enforcing broken laws,    rather than fixing those laws and modernizing our immigration system. With the    backing of hardliners inside and outside of government, real immigration    reform has been derailed, and this budget ensures that we will spend another    year sending good money after bad.\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003EAmong the only bright spots is that    there will be more accountability by DHS when it comes to immigrants in    detention. The spending bill stipulates that contractors who fail to abide by    the Department's detention standards will have their contracts canceled, that    independent experts will evaluate the state of medical care for detainees, and    that the budget for alternatives to detention has been increased by $9.1    million to $63 million.\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003EThese dollops of sense on the big steaming pile    of enforcement spending will help, but Congress and the new President must    address the myriad problems with legal immigration, detention, due process    rights, and the unresolved legal status of 12 million or so people who are    already living here illegally.\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003E# # #\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003EDouglas G. 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Conservatives Tell to Avoid Blaming Wall Street for the Financial Crisis"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ch3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:85%;\"\u003EConservatives are twisting the  facts beyond the breaking point to support their revisionist history. But don't  be fooled.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ch3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/hladc-sf.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/11-racist-lies-conservatives-tell-to.html\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E11 Racist Lies Conservatives Tell to Avoid Blaming Wall Street for the  Financial Crisis\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"post-body entry-content\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/workplace\/101127\/11_racist_lies_conservatives_tell_to_avoid_blaming_wall_street_for_the_financial_crisis_\/\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:180%;\"\u003EAlterNet\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EBy \u003Ca title=\"View all stories by Sara Robinson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/authors\/8994\/\"\u003ESara Robinson\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/ourfuture.org\/\"\u003ECampaign for America's Future\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003EPosted \u003Ca title=\"View all stories published on October 2, 2008\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/ts\/archives\/?date%5BF%5D=10\u0026amp;date%5BY%5D=2008\u0026amp;date%5Bd%5D=02\u0026amp;act=Go\/\"\u003EOctober  2, 2008\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C!--a1--\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/donate\/08KIHSP02\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/images\/home\/lies.gif\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;\" \u003EConservative pundits and politicians have piled onto the excuse like  shipwreck victims clinging to a passing log: The real blame for the current  economic crisis, conservatives would have you believe, lies not with anything  they did, but rather with the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act -- a successful  Carter-era program designed to get banks to stop covert discrimination, and  encourage them to invest their money in low-income neighborhoods.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;\" \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;\" \u003EIt's always easy to tell when the cons are completely lost at sea. The lies  get more absurdly preposterous -- and also more transparently self-serving. But  when they go so far as to openly and unapologetically latch onto race and class  as an excuse for their woes (which this is, at its heart), you know they're  taking on water fast -- and scared of going under entirely.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;\" \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;\" \u003EYou can hear the conservative commentators burbling this CRA fable from the  Wall Street Journal to the National Review; from Rush to YouTube. Neil Cavuto  put the essence of the argument right out there on Fox News: \"Loaning to  minorities and risky folks is a disaster.\" See! It's all the liberals' fault for  insisting on social justice!\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;\" \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;\" \u003EConservatives are twisting the facts beyond the breaking point to support  their revisionist history. But don't be fooled: the financial crisis was caused  by conservative financial follies and bankers run amok and nothing more. Here  are the basic myths they're trying to push about the CRA -- and the facts that  will enable you to fire back.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;\" \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;\" \u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E1. The CRA was a liberal boondoggle designed to con banks into  funding housing for undeserving, unqualified minorities.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;\" \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;\" \u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFalse.\u003C\/strong\u003E The Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 was the result  of decades of disinvestment in poor and working-class neighborhoods. It was  designed to put an end to \"red-lining\" -- a widespread practice in which banks  refused to write mortgages for houses in certain neighborhoods, no matter who  was applying or how creditworthy they were.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;\" \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;\" \u003EThe Fair Housing Act of 1968 had made it illegal for real estate agents and  banks to discriminate against homeowners on the basis of race. Red-lining soon  emerged as a not-so-subtle way to continue this discrimination, by declaring,  ahem, certain neighborhoods as unfit to invest in. By 1977, the results of this  practice were becoming all too obvious, so Congress stepped and gave lenders a  choice: if you want the FDIC to insure your deposits, you need to knock off the  redlining.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;\" \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;\" \u003EThe CRA didn't force lenders to make riskier loans than they would have  otherwise. It simply required that they take each applicant on his or her own  merits, and give people in poorer neighborhoods the same fair chance at a  mortgage that everybody else in town was getting. It wasn't about preferential  treatment. It was just about basic equality.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;\" \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;\" \u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2. The CRA forced banks to lower their standards and make loans to  all low-income families and people with poor credit -- and find banks that  refused to comply.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;\" \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;\" \u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENo.\u003C\/strong\u003E The CRA has encouraged banks to lend fairly and  responsibly for over 30 years. It does not impose fines. It does periodically  examine FDIC-backed banks, and issues them a CRA compliance rating. A  highly-rated bank must meet the financing needs of as many community members as  possible, and must not discriminate against racial and ethnic groups or certain  neighborhoods. However, a bank will not receive a high rating unless it is also  maintains \"safe and sound banking practices.\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;\" \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;\" \u003EIn other words, the CRA requires banks to lend to working-class families and  people of color -- but only when those people have been deemed as creditworthy  as anyone else.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;\" \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;\" \u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E3. The housing bubble burst when too many people with home loans  mandated by the Community Reinvestment Act failed to make their mortgage  payments. \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;\" \u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;\" \u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFalse.\u003C\/strong\u003E The CRA only applies to FDIC member banks and  thrifts. Back in the 1970s, these institutions were responsible for most of the  country's mortgage lending. But starting in the 80s and on up to the present, we  saw a huge boom in lending businesses-- such as finance companies like  Countrywide -- that weren't banks, and didn't take deposits that required FDIC  insurance. Thus, they didn't have any obligation to the CRA. 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Frank  \"should be in the gallows for this\"\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E \u003C\/H3\u003E \u003CDIV class=post-header-line-1\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV class=\"post-body entry-content\"\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200809300018\"\u003EMEDIA MATTERS FOR  AMERICA\u003C\/A\u003E\u003CBR\u003ETue, Sep 30, 2008 4:24pm ET\u003CBR\u003E \u003CBLOCKQUOTE\u003E   \u003CH4\u003E\u003CFONT size=2\u003ESummary: Michael Savage said of Rep. Barney Frank's role in    proposed federal financial bailout legislation: \"Barney Frank should be in the    gallows for this. Barney Frank should be in jail for doing this.\"\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/H4\u003E   \u003CDIV\u003ESAVAGE: Sure, maybe we need a bailout, but not this one, where they put    in money for La Raza and ACORN. More money for illegal aliens. Are you    crazy?\u003C\/DIV\u003E\u003C\/BLOCKQUOTE\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E \u003CH3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/hladc-sf.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/savage-linked-san-francisco-event-to.html\"\u003E\u003CFONT  size=2\u003ESavage linked San Francisco event to the \"artistes\" and \"leather  fetishists\" of Weimar-era Germany, whom he blamed for Hitler's rise\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E  \u003C\/H3\u003E \u003CDIV class=post-header-line-1\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV class=\"post-body entry-content\"\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200809300015\"\u003EMEDIA MATTERS FOR  AMERICA\u003C\/A\u003E\u003CBR\u003ETuesday, September 30, 2008\u003CBR\u003E \u003CBLOCKQUOTE\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003ESummary: Discussing the Folsom Street Fair, a    leather-themed adult-entertainment event in San Francisco, Michael Savage    declared: \"This country today is far beyond the excesses of the Weimar    Republic that led to Adolf Hitler. God forbid that should ever happen here.    But the German people, who were not all Nazis prior to Hitler's arrival on the    scene, were shocked by the degenerates of Berlin. They were sickened by the    perverts, sickened by the artistes, they were sickened by the leather    fetishists, they were sickened by the degeneracy, and they couldn't handle    it.\"\u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003C\/BLOCKQUOTE\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E \u003CH3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/hladc-sf.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/savage-on-liberal-social-activism-they.html\"\u003E\u003CFONT  size=2\u003ESavage on \"liberal social activism\": \"They imposed affirmative action on  me and stole my very birthright simply because I was white\"\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E \u003C\/H3\u003E \u003CDIV class=post-header-line-1\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV class=\"post-body entry-content\"\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200809290012\"\u003EMEDIA MATTERS FOR  AMERICA\u003C\/A\u003E\u003CBR\u003EMonday, September 29, 2008\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003E \u003CBLOCKQUOTE\u003E   \u003CH4\u003E\u003CFONT size=2\u003ESummary: On his radio show, Michael Savage said, \"I grew up    with parents who went through the Depression. And I went through a sort of    depression in my own life as a result of liberal social activism. They imposed    affirmative action on me and stole my very birthright simply because I was    white.\"\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/H4\u003E\u003C\/BLOCKQUOTE\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E\u003CBR\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E\"Four  hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. \"\u003CBR\u003ENapoleon  Bonaparte \u003CBR\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003CBR\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/hladc-sf.blogspot.com\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/hladc-sf.blogspot.com\u003C\/A\u003E\u003CBR\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/\u003C\/A\u003E\u003CBR\u003E\u003C\/FONT\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 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136);\"\u003Ewww.WeCanStopTheHate.org\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E       \u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"line-height: 115%;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"line-height: 115%;\"\u003E\"The National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy group in the country, launched the Wave of Hope campaign in January 2008 to take the hate out of the national debate on immigration.\u003Cspan\u003E           \u003C\/span\u003EThis robust effort includes the website \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/capwiz.com\/stopthehate\/utr\/1\/KZAJJGMMQO\/JJWUJGMMZR\/2441643386\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(128, 0, 128);\"\u003EWeCanStopTheHate.org\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, which          educates around hate speech and its consequences.\u003Cspan\u003E  \u003C\/span\u003EThe campaign also engages media networks and political candidates to separate themselves from hate groups and hate speech.\u003Cspan\u003E           \u003C\/span\u003ENCLR argues that media celebrities and the growth of talk radio have contributed significantly to the unprecedented use of hate speech on the airwaves.\u003Cspan\u003E  \u003C\/span\u003EThe group maintains that unchecked hate speech has a dangerous effect on the daily lives of communities of color, on immigration policy, and on the fairness of the current immigration debate.\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E       \u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"line-height: 115%;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"line-height: 115%;\"\u003EShock Jocks:\u003Cspan\u003E           \u003C\/span\u003EHate Speech and Talk Radio\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"line-height: 115%;\"\u003E by Rory O'Connor with Aaron          Culter\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"line-height: 115%;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan 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MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px\"\u003EPhonix New Times Blogs\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV style=\"MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px\"\u003EBy Stephen Lemons\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV style=\"MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px\"\u003EMon Sep 22, 2008 at 08:40:20  AM \u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV class=entry id=entry-137572\u003E \u003CDIV class=entry-content\u003E \u003CDIV class=entry-body\u003E \u003CP\u003E\u003CIMG height=211 alt=sanfranwells.jpg  src=\"http:\/\/blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com\/bastard\/sanfranwells.jpg\"  width=400\u003E\u003CBR\u003E\u003CEM\u003EA photo from the anti-Arpaio protest at Wells Fargo last week.  See more from pics of the demo by photographer Bill Carpenter, \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2008\/09\/21\/18540539.php\"  target=_blank\u003Ehere.\u003C\/A\u003E\u003C\/EM\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EThe clang and ring of the trolley in this video informs you that you're not  in Sand Land any more. Indeed, the setting for this demonstration documented by  videographer, photographer and activist Bill Carpenter is enlightened and tres  lefty San Francisco, specifically, the steps of Wells Fargo's national  headquarters in the city. On September 18, protesters rallied there in support  of \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com\/bastard\/2008\/09\/sal_reza_and_his_army_of_antia.php\"  target=_blank\u003Ethe effort to oust Sheriff Joe Arpaio from the Wells Fargo bank  building\u003C\/A\u003E in downtown Phoenix, where protests have been happening every  weekday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. since the beginning of the month.\u003C\/P\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"middle\"\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/js\/flowplayer\/FlowPlayer.swf?config=%7Bembedded%3Atrue%2CbaseURL%3A%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eindybay%2Eorg%2Fjs%2Fflowplayer%27%2CinitialScale%3A%27fit%27%2CbufferLength%3A5%2CautoBuffering%3Afalse%2CautoPlay%3Afalse%2Cloop%3Afalse%2CsplashImageFile%3A%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eindybay%2Eorg%2Fim%2Fplay%2Dbutton%2D328x240%2Ejpg%27%2CvideoFile%3A%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eindybay%2Eorg%2Fuploads%2F2008%2F09%2F21%2F080918wellsfargoarizsherifflenoir%2Emov%5Fpreview%5F%2Eflv%27%7D\" width=\"400\" height=\"322\" scale=\"noscale\" bgcolor=\"111111\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowNetworking=\"all\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003CP\u003E\u003CBR\u003E\u003CEM\u003EBill Carpenter's video of last week's demo at Wells Fargo HQ in San  Fran.\u003C\/EM\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EThis San Francisco demo was organized in sympathy with Arizona activist Sal  Reza of \u003CA href=\"http:\/\/puenteaz.org\/\" target=_blank\u003EPUENTE\u003C\/A\u003E and members of  the \u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.ndlon.org\/\" target=_blank\u003ENational Day Labor Organizing  Network\u003C\/A\u003E, who are carrying out the Phoenix action. It is the second protest  in solidarity with PUENTE's protest. The first took place on September 10 at a  Wells Fargo in Chicago.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CDIV class=entry-more id=more\u003E \u003CP\u003EMore are coming. Last week, forty young organizers joined Reza at the Wells  Fargo bank building at 100 W. Washington Street, the site of Sheriff Joe's  \"Pentagon,\" where the sheriff's office keeps two floors of executive offices at  a price tag of well over $600K per annum, paid for by county taxpayers. Those 40  organizers were from 40 different cities. This week, they fan out across the  country to their hometowns to organize similar actions.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EThe first to speak at the San Francisco demo was lawyer\/organizer \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.lrcl.org\/\" target=_blank\u003ERenee Saucedo\u003C\/A\u003E of La Raza Centro  Legal, which provides legal and other services to over 12,000 citizens of the  greater Bay Area.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"What is our demand?\" asked Saucedo. \"It's very simple: We want Wells Fargo  to stop leasing space to this racist Sheriff Arpaio and stop benefiting and  profiting from his racist law enforcement tactics.\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EGerald Lenoir of the \u003CA href=\"http:\/\/blackalliance.org\/main\/\"  target=_blank\u003EBlack Alliance for Just Immigration\u003C\/A\u003E also took to the bullhorn  with some tough words for Maricopa County's corrupt top constable, whom Lenoir  called \"the Bull Connor of our age,\" referring to the infamous, racist head of  the police in Birmingham, Alabama during the '60s.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\"Sheriff Arpaio has the nerve to call immigrants who come here undocumented  illegal,\" said Lenoir. \"We say his tactics of racial profiling...[are] illegal.  And \u003CEM\u003Ehe\u003C\/EM\u003E is the one that is breaking the law.\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EAs these new protests blossom in cities and towns across America, it's  certain to bring more unwelcome press for Wells Fargo. Bankers don't like losing  one red cent in deposits, and Sal Reza has threatened that the next step will be  divestment. That is, asking people to stop banking with Wells Fargo altogether.  If Reza can get this thing to go national, it raises the stakes and the pressure  for the bank, which undoubtedly does not want to lose any business in these  harsh economic times.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EFor more on the politics behind the protests, check out the item \"\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.phoenixnewtimes.com\/2008-09-11\/news\/joins-the-anti-arpaio-siege-at-wells-fargo-postmortems-the-pearce-gibbons-race-and-knocks-napolitano-for-defending-sarah-palin\/\"  target=_blank\u003EFortress Arpaio\u003C\/A\u003E,\" from my Bird column of September 11.  Additional coverage is listed below.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com\/bastard\/2008\/09\/week_three_of_the_seige_of_wel.php\"  target=_blank\u003EWeek Three of the Siege of Wells Fargo...\u003C\/A\u003E\u003CBR\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com\/bastard\/2008\/09\/the_antarpaio_protests_at_well.php\"  target=_blank\u003E\u003CBR\u003EThe anti-Arpaio protests at Wells Fargo...\u003C\/A\u003E\u003CBR\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com\/bastard\/2008\/08\/the_mystery_of_the_missing_mcs.php\"  target=_blank\u003E\u003CBR\u003EMCSO's missing press release, and the siege of the Wells Fargo  bank building.\u003C\/A\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\u003CBR\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E\u003C\/FONT\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\/565005455295516303\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/anti-joe-arpaio-wells-fargo-protests.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/565005455295516303"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/565005455295516303"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/anti-joe-arpaio-wells-fargo-protests.html","title":"The Anti-Joe Arpaio Wells Fargo Protests Spread to 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":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-518131851512442429"},"published":{"$t":"2008-09-18T01:19:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-09-18T01:22:55.208-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"AGAIN!!! Another attack in Shenandoah follows beating death of Mexican immigrant"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E\u003CFONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=3\u003ESOURCE: Cynthia  I\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E \u003CHR\u003E \u003C\/DIV\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E\u003CFONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=3\u003ESOURCE  \u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/philly.com\" target=_blank\u003E\u003CFONT face=\"Times New Roman\"  size=3\u003Ephilly.com\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E\u003CFONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=3\u003E :\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/hp\/news_update\/28495034.html\"  target=_blank\u003E\u003CFONT face=\"Times New Roman\"  size=3\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/hp\/news_update\/28495034.html\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003E \u003CDIV  class=gmail_quote\u003E------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV class=gmail_quote\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV class=gmail_quote\u003ESOURCE:\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV class=gmail_quote\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV class=gmail_quote\u003E---------- Forwarded message ----------\u003CBR\u003EFrom: \u003CB  class=gmail_sendername\u003ELa Voz de Aztlan\u003C\/B\u003E \u003CSPAN dir=ltr\u003E\u0026lt;\u003CA  href=\"mailto:News.Subscribers@aztlan.net\"  target=_blank\u003ENews.Subscribers@aztlan.net\u003C\/A\u003E\u0026gt;\u003C\/SPAN\u003E\u003CBR\u003EDate: Wed, Sep 17,  2008 at 11:18 AM\u003CBR\u003ESubject: Another attack in Shenandoah follows beating death  of Mexican immigrant\u003CBR\u003ETo: La Voz de Aztlan Subscribers \u0026lt;\u003CA  href=\"mailto:News.Subscribers@aztlan.net\"  target=_blank\u003ENews.Subscribers@aztlan.net\u003C\/A\u003E\u0026gt;\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003ELA VOZ DE  AZTLAN\u003CBR\u003ELos Angeles, Alta California\u003CBR\u003ESeptember 17. 2008\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003EAnother  attack in Shenandoah follows\u003CBR\u003Ebeating death of Mexican immigrant\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003EA  vicious assault in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania of a 21 year old Mexican man\u003CBR\u003Eby  the name of Javier Alcala Jr. on Friday comes just two months after  the\u003CBR\u003Ebrutal racially motivated murder of Mexican immigrant Luis  Ramirez.\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003EBoth MALDEF and LULAC have requested the FBI and the US  Department of\u003CBR\u003EJustice to investigate the case to determine if this new  assault is a racially\u003CBR\u003Emotivated hate crime.\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003EJavier Alcala Jr., claims  that three skinheads beat him on the head with a\u003CBR\u003Emetal object, bound and  blindfolded him with duct tape and then proceeded\u003CBR\u003Eto torture him. He says  that they used a \"drill\" and a \"torch\" to terrorize him.\u003CBR\u003EAlcala adds that he  was then beaten to unconsciousness and dumped\u003CBR\u003Ein a street. He was taken to  Saint Catherine Medical Center and the police\u003CBR\u003Enotified.\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003EJavier Alcala  suffered a head injury, damaged teeth, bruises and an arm\u003CBR\u003Einjury. According  to Shenandoah Mayor Tom O'Neill, police have interviewed\u003CBR\u003Ethe victim twice,  including once at a hospital. The immigration status of Alcala\u003CBR\u003Eis unknown but  the mayor said the police had difficulty interviewing the victim\u003CBR\u003Ebecause he  was extremely frightened.\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003EAttorney Gladys Limon of MALDEF said the  organization was made aware\u003CBR\u003Eof the assault on Javier Alcala after a community  member called Saturday.\u003CBR\u003EAfter speaking with the person who called MALDEF, Ms.  Limon said she\u003CBR\u003Ecalled the Department of Justice and the FBI. Ms. Limon said  she also\u003CBR\u003Espoke with the victim by telephone on Saturday.\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003EDepartment of  Justice spokeswoman Jamie Hais said Tuesday that the\u003CBR\u003ECriminal Section of the  Justice Department's Civil Rights Division is opening\u003CBR\u003Ean investigation into  the Friday incident. FBI spokeswoman Jerri Williams\u003CBR\u003Esaid that an FBI agent  from the Allentown Resident Agency is also reviewing\u003CBR\u003Ethe attack.\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003EMs.  Limon said, \"We have not received any information as of yet that  indicates\u003CBR\u003Ethat this was racially motivated.\" Ms. Limon added, \"What we do  know is that\u003CBR\u003Ethis was a serious crime against a young Mexican man in  Shenandoah and\u003CBR\u003Eit requires an immediate and full investigation.\"\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003ELULAC  National Executive Director Brent Wilkes said the group is also looking\u003CBR\u003Eat  the incident because of the rising number of hate crimes against  immigrants\u003CBR\u003Ein the U.S. \"Our concern is that the anti-immigrant rhetoric  that's been pretty\u003CBR\u003Evisible in media and in policy discussions is starting to  embolden people to\u003CBR\u003Etake the next step in terms of getting violent with  immigrants, or people who 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The group, Hispanic \/ Latino Anti-Defamation Coalition SF and        allied Community Organizations, plan to rally in front of the building        which houses radio station KNEW-AM where Savage transmits his        nationally-syndicated program.\u003C\/P\u003E       \u003CP\u003EOn his program, Savage call for troops on the street \"to protect us        from the scourge of illegal immigrants who are running rampant across        America, killing our police for sport, raping, murdering like a scythe        across America while the liberal psychos are telling us they come here to        work.\" Or that autism is a \"fraud, a racket, that in 99 percent of cases        is a brat who hasn't been told to cut their act out\" and to stop being        'morons', he also tells fasting immigrant students \"to starve to death,        then we won't have a problem.\"\u003C\/P\u003E       \u003CP\u003EThese kind of statements incite people who are already angry and        resentful, as when Jim David Adkisson entered the Tennessee Valley        Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, opened fire with a 12-gauge        shotgun, killed two people and wounded six during the presentation of a        children's musical. In his car, police found a four-page letter where he        expressed his hatred of the \"liberal movement', and wrote he targeted the        church \"because of its liberal teachings\" and his belief that \"all        liberals should be killed\" because they were \"ruining the country.\" Inside        Adkisson's home, officers found \"Liberalism is a Mental Disorder\" by radio        talk show host Michael Savage.\u003C\/P\u003E       \u003CP\u003EShock jocks insist their rants are not hurting anyone and that they are        not inciting hate attacks. Meanwhile disenfranchised groups continue to be        targeted. Another instance was the senseless savage beating that resulted        in the death of Luis Eduardo Ramirez Zavala by a group of four young white        males in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania on July 12, 2008. Luis E. Ramirez was a        hard-working father of small children and a decent member of the        community. His killers ranted racial comments against Mexicans while        cowardly beating him; as reported by eyewitnesses.\u003C\/P\u003E       \u003CP\u003EFor too long the Hispanic\/Latino, and other minority communities in the        Bay Area have suffered Clear Channel\/the Savage Nation\/Michael Savage and        his attacks. His insulting, degrading, sophomoric tirades are racist and        divisive to a dangerous level. His rhetoric, has resulted in erroneous        definitions of whom we are as Hispanic\/ Latinos and he contributes to        stereotypes which we have for a long time tried to defuse.\u003C\/P\u003E       \u003CP\u003EWe, the Hispanic\/Latino community in the Bay Area hold CLEAR        CHANNEL\/The Savage Nation\/Michael Savage and other shock-jocks like him        and their Media Channel Broadcasters directly responsible for the increase        in crimes against Hispanic US Citizens, Latinos, Immigrants, other groups        and individuals; and for destroying and terrorizing our communities        through their hateful ON-AIR XENOPHOBIC, HENCE, UN-AMERICAN PROPAGANDA! \"        .\u003C\/P\u003E\u003CI\u003E       \u003CP\u003EAs in Last year's Protest, the Peninsula Contingent will be boarding        CalTrain's \"Hispanic Dignity Train\" From San Jose to San Francisco as it        stops in each local station to join us in front of 340 Townsend  St.\u003C\/P\u003E\u003C\/I\u003E       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SPEECH"}],"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":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-5935727241375913017"},"published":{"$t":"2008-09-15T14:26:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-09-15T14:29:15.710-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"McCain Ad Lies About Immigration Reform in Spanish Ad"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003CDIV\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/immigration\/98893\/mccain_ad_lies_about_immigration_reform\/\"\u003E\u003CFONT  size=4\u003EThe hit-piece distorts the record of what happened in DC during the past  few years\u003C\/FONT\u003E.\u003C\/A\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003E\u0026nbsp;By \u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003CA title=\"View all stories by Henry Fernandez\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/authors\/9863\/\"\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003EHenry  Fernandez\u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003E, \u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.newamericamedia.org\"\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003ENew America  Media\u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003E. Posted \u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003CA  title=\"View all stories published on September 15, 2008\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/ts\/archives\/?date%5BF%5D=09\u0026amp;date%5BY%5D=2008\u0026amp;date%5Bd%5D=15\u0026amp;act=Go\/\"\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003ESeptember  15, 2008\u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003E.\u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CSTRONG\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/\"\u003EPosted also at  AlterNet.Org\u003C\/A\u003E\u003C\/STRONG\u003E\u003C\/DIV\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E \u003CP\u003E\u003CI\u003EEditor's Note: Senator John McCain is now running a Spanish language ad  which apparently lies about Senator Barack Obama's support for comprehensive  immigration reform, reports NAM Contributor Henry Fernandez.\u003C\/I\u003E\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EWASHINGTON -- Senator John McCain is now running a \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QyKGHvRL2_U\" linkindex=\"162\"\u003ESpanish  language ad\u003C\/A\u003E which apparently lies about Senator Barack Obama's support for  comprehensive immigration reform. McCain's ad argues that Obama tried to kill  reform. Why might we believe this is a lie? Because just two years ago, McCain  thanked Obama for his support of comprehensive immigration reform.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/media.newamericamedia.org\/files\/Obama_Immigration_Credit.pdf\"\u003ECongressional  Record, May 25, 2006\u003C\/A\u003E, Senator McCain: \"I also thank Senators Brownback and  Lieberman, Graham and Salazar, Martinez, Obama, and DeWine for their shared  commitment to this issue, in working to ensure this [comprehensive immigration]  bill moves successfully intact through the legislative process.\"\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EClose McCain ally Senator Mel Martinez, R-Fla., also praised Obama in a  letter dated June 28, 2007: \u003C\/P\u003E \u003CBLOCKQUOTE\u003E\"Thank you for your support of the Immigration Reform Bill. While    it failed, your backing of this important legislation meant a lot to me    personally. I know that standing firm in the face of extreme pressure has not    been easy, and again, I thank you.\"\u003C\/BLOCKQUOTE\u003E \u003CP\u003EYet just two years later, Senator McCain appears to have forgotten his praise  for Senator Obama's steadfast support of immigration reform.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003ESeptember 12 2008, McCain Spanish language ad \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.standardnewswire.com\/news\/455133336.html\" linkindex=\"163\"  set=\"yes\"\u003E(translated by McCain-Palin 2008)\u003C\/A\u003E:\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003E[Announcer:] Obama and his Congressional allies say they are on the side of  immigrants. But are they? The press reports that their efforts were 'poison  pills' that made immigration reform fail.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EThe result: No guest worker program. No path to citizenship. No secure  borders. No reform.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EIs that being on our side? Obama and his Congressional allies ready to block  immigration reform, but not ready to lead.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003EJOHN MCCAIN: I'm John McCain and I approve this message.\u003C\/P\u003E \u003CP\u003ESo why the memory lapse? 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PETITION"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E \u003CDIV\u003E\u003CFONT face=Arial size=2\u003E \u003CH2\u003E\u003CFONT size=4\u003E\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026gt; Please Distribute Widely\u0026lt;\u0026lt;\u0026lt;\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/H2\u003E \u003CH2\u003E\u003CFONT size=2\u003ESource: \u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003CFONT size=2\u003E\"dorinda moreno\" \u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003CA  href=\"mailto:fuerzamundial@gmail.com\"\u003E\u003CFONT  size=2\u003Efuerzamundial@gmail.com\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E\u003C\/H2\u003E\u003CSPAN class=name\u003E\u003C\/SPAN\u003E \u003CH2\u003E\u003CFONT size=2\u003E\u003CFONT size=4\u003EPlease sign the online petition  below.\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003CBR\u003E\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/www.petitiononline.com\/2college\/petition.html?\" target=_blank\u003E\u003CFONT  size=2\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.petitiononline.com\/2college\/petition.html?\u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/BlackBrownUnityCommunity\/message\/6135;_ylc=X3oDMTJyNjZxZmdoBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE1BGdycElkAzE3ODYzNDE3BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA2NDM4NgRtc2dJZAM2MTM1BHNlYwNkbXNnBHNsawN2bXNnBHN0aW1lAzEyMjEyNDYzMjU-\"  target=_blank name=11c57f41e60a408e_11\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E\u003C\/H2\u003E \u003CH3\u003E\u003CFONT size=2\u003EPosted by: \"Ron Gochez\"\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/profiles.yahoo.com\/indio_rebelde\" target=_blank\u003E\u003CFONT  size=2\u003Eindio_rebelde \u003C\/FONT\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E\u003C\/H3\u003E \u003CH4\u003E\u003CFONT size=2\u003EFri Sep\u0026nbsp;12,\u0026nbsp;2008 8:28\u0026nbsp;am (PDT)\u003C\/FONT\u003E \u003C\/H4\u003E \u003CDIV\u003EI hope all of us can take 1 minute to sign this petition and tell the  Hispanic Scholarship Fund that they should also make their scholarships  availiable to AB540\/Undocumented students! \u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003EThanks for your support!  \u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003ERon Gochez\u003CBR\u003ESocial Justice Educator\/Community  Organizer\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003EAssocation of Raza Educators- Los Angeles\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003E-----Original  Message-----\u003CBR\u003EFrom: ARE Los Angeles \u003CBR\u003ETo: \u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/grassroots4obama\/post?postID=UXa6DaeRoNdQaPyliPv7UgVKPSCozZESfcDIUCGs78YDWAN1gVuqw3vUXl3EpuhVCAJtac3rLudpHF_u815AJrxieIe_L8BB\"  target=_blank\u003Erazaeducators@yahoogroups.com\u003C\/A\u003E\u003CBR\u003ESent: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 8:17  pm\u003CBR\u003ESubject: [razaeducators] Open Scholarships for Undocumneted  Students\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003E\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026gt; Please Distribute  Widely\u0026lt;\u0026lt;\u0026lt;\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003EDearTeachers and Community Members,\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003EThe  Association of Raza Educators believes that all students should have the right  to attend college regardless of their citizenship status. Unfortunately, the  Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) does not feel the same way.\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003EFact--In  2008, HSF gave more money to Hispanic students than any other  organization.\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003EFact--HSF refuses to allow undocumented students to apply  to their scholarship even though it is lawful for them to do so.?\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003EOver  the past two years, the?Association of Raza Educators has raised $30,000?in  scholarships for undocumented students, but we understand that this is just  a?small fraction of the financial?support that?undocumented students?really  need. 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PETITION"}],"author":[{"name":{"$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":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-4428915501983409251"},"published":{"$t":"2008-09-04T20:47:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-09-05T03:25:22.639-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Adkisson"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"autism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"beck"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"boortz"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"channel"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"church"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"David"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"demonstration"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hate"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Knoxville"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Luis"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"mexicans"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Mexinol"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"michael"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"protest"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Ramirez"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"savage"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"shooting"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"speech"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Tennessee"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Hate speech in the media A threat to the internal security of the U.S."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Published in the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/news.eltecolote.org\/news\/view_custom.html?custom_page_id=27\"\u003EPrinted  Edition\u003C\/a\u003E of September 4-17, 2008 of the bilingual newspaper \u003Cem\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/news.eltecolote.org\/news\/\"\u003EEl Tecolote\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E - \u003Cem\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/article.php?story=20080904220457888\"\u003E(Versión en Español)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs hate  speech spirals, a local group of community activists are organizing a  demonstration in San Francisco against shock jock Michael Savage. The group,  Hispanic \/ Latino Anti-Defamation Coalition SF, plans to rally in front of the  building which houses radio station KNEW-AM where Savage transmits his  nationally-syndicated program.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003EOn his program, people hear Savage call for troops on the street \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200808050009\"\u003E\"to  protect us from the scourge of illegal immigrants who are running rampant across  America, killing our police for sport, raping, murdering like a scythe across  America while the liberal psychos are telling us they come here to work.\"\u003C\/a\u003E Or  that autism is a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200807170005\"\u003E\"fraud, a racket, that in 99 percent of cases is a brat who  hasn’t been told to cut their act out\" and to stop being ‘morons‘, a way where  minority children get welfare and extra help in school\u003C\/a\u003E, and who also tells  fasting immigrant students \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200707060009\"\u003E\"to starve to death, then we won’t have a problem.\" \u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003EThese kind of statements act as fuel for people who are already  angry, resentful and violent. Take, for instance, Jim David Adkisson, who  entered the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, opened  fire with a 12-gauge shotgun, killed two people and wounded six others during  the presentation of a children's musical. In his car, police found a four-page  letter in which he expressed his hatred of the \"liberal movement’, and wrote he  targeted the church \"because of its liberal teachings\" and his belief that \"all  liberals should be killed\" because they were \"ruining the country.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003EInside Adkisson’s home, officers found \"Liberalism is a Mental  Health Disorder\" by radio talk show host Michael Savage; \"Let Freedom Ring\" by  talk show host Sean Hannity; and the book, \"The O'Reilly Factor,\" by television  talk show host Bill O'Reilly. These three continuously demonize liberals,  immigrants and others.  \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003EOn Glenn Beck’s nationally syndicated radio show, The Glenn Beck  Program, he read an \"ad\" produced and posted by subscribers to his website, for  \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200706290010\"\u003Ea refinery that turns Mexicans into fuel (Mexinol).\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003ENeil Boortz suggests \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200706220005\"\u003Egiving nuclear waste to illegal Mexican  immigrants\u003C\/a\u003E to take back to Mexico and tell them \"it’ll warm tortillas\", plus  they will be easy to spot because of the \"glow\" if they try to return.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003ESavage warns politicians about \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200604110005\"\u003Eillegal immigrant \"vermin.\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003EShock jocks insist their rants are not hurting anyone and that they  are not inciting hate attacks. Meanwhile disenfranchised groups continue to be  targeted. Take, for instance, the savage beating of Luis Eduardo Ramirez Zavala  by a group of four young white males in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania on July 12.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003EAn eyewitness to the beating who happens to be a retired police  officer, heard the youths telling Ramirez’s friends to \"get out of Shenandoah or the same thing would happen\" to them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We saw a bunch of kids walking away  and screaming things like \"‘Go back to Mexico.’ We called the police,\" said  Arielle Garcia, 17, a friend of Ramirez who was at the scene; Luis Eduardo died  about 30 hours later.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003ELegislation and programs designed to provide basic human rights and  services regardless of legal status are being curtailed or dismantled, while  punitive anti-immigrant legislation is being enacted in localities in all the  states and a number of hate groups and the violence leveled against minorities  is on the rise. Human rights organizations are under attack, demonized for  allegedly helping ‘criminals’\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003EAll of the above, plus immensely more, is made possible by the  poisoning of the minds of millions of Americans, who are bombarded daily with  outrageously false and inflammatory claims, designed to prejudice public opinion  against groups and entire communities without allowing the opportunity to  present opposing views and facts, which would refute the propaganda full of  lies, misinformation and disinformation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAurora Grajeda is a community activist, member of the ‘Hispanic  \/ Latino Anti-Defamation Coalition SF\" currently organizing a demonstration in  front the broadcasting booth of KNEW on Sept. 23, 4 to 6 pm, at 340 Townsend ST  in San Francisco, whence Michael Savage transmits his program, to focus on the  consequences of Hate Speech. and to demand that a more balanced view on the  issues is presented in the Media so a much needed comprehensive debate in the  public opinion arena takes place.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\u003Cbr \/\u003EFirst they came for the  Communists,\u003Cbr \/\u003Eand I didn’t speak up,\u003Cbr \/\u003Ebecause I wasn’t a Communist.\u003Cbr \/\u003EThen  they came for the Jews,\u003Cbr \/\u003Eand I didn’t speak up,\u003Cbr \/\u003Ebecause I wasn’t a  Jew.\u003Cbr \/\u003EThen they came for the Catholics,\u003Cbr \/\u003Eand I didn’t speak up,\u003Cbr \/\u003Ebecause I  was a Protestant.\u003Cbr \/\u003EThen they came for me,\u003Cbr \/\u003Eand by that time there was no  one\u003Cbr \/\u003Eleft to speak up for me.  \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBy Reverend Martin Niemüller. For his opposition to the Nazis,  Niemüller was arrested in 1937, convicted of treason, and spent eight years in  Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/docs_pub\/hladc-sf\/FireSavageEnglish.pdf\"\u003EAnti-Hate  Speech Demonstration Flyer \"Hispanic Dignity Train\" SJ to SF\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/docs_pub\/hladc-sf\/FireSavageEspanol.pdf\"\u003EDemonstracion  contra El Lenguage de Odio Volante \"Tren de La Dignidad Hispana\" SJ to  SF\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/docs_pub\/hladc-sf\/savage_protest3a.pdf\"\u003EAnti-Hate  Speech Demonstration Flyer, San Francisco \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cobject 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Savage, B. O'Reilly and S. Hannity Guilty of Accessory to Murder?"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cstrong\u003EAccessory\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ci\u003ELaw.\u003C\/i\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Col type=\"a\"\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOne who incites, aids, or abets a lawbreaker in the commission of a  crime but is not present at the time of the crime. Also called \u003Ci\u003Eaccessory  before the fact\u003C\/i\u003E.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ol\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cblockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\"\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E When police searched the car of the gunman who opened fire in a Unitarian  Church in Tennessee, they found a 4-page letter expressing his hatred of the  \"liberal movement.\" A regular consumer of Bill O'Reilly, Michael Savage and Sean  Hannity, Jim David Adkisson was only following the arguments they make day in  and day out, to their logical conclusions.\u003Cbr \/\u003EFrom the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/news\/2008\/jul\/28\/church-shooting-police-find-manifesto-suspects-car\/\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EKnoxville  News Sentinel\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E:  \u003Cblockquote\u003EPolice found right-wing political books, brass knuckles, empty  shotgun shell boxes and a handgun in the Powell home of a man who said he  attacked a church in order to kill liberals \"who are ruining the country,\" court  records show.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E  \u003Cblockquote\u003EKnoxville police Sunday evening searched the Levy Drive home of Jim  David Adkisson after he allegedly entered the Tennessee Valley Unitarian  Universalist Church and killed two people and wounded six others during the  presentation of a children's musical.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E  \u003Cblockquote\u003EAdkisson targeted the church ... \"because of its liberal teachings  and his belief that all liberals should be killed because they were ruining the  country, and that he felt that the Democrats had tied his country's hands in the  war on terror and they had ruined every institution in America with the aid of  media outlets.\"\u003C\/blockquote\u003E  \u003Cblockquote\u003EAdkisson [said] that \"he could not get to the leaders of the liberal  movement that he would then target those that had voted them in to  office.\"\u003C\/blockquote\u003E  \u003Cblockquote\u003EInside the house, officers found \"Liberalism is a Mental Health  Disorder\" by radio talk show host Michael Savage, \"Let Freedom Ring\" by talk  show host Sean Hannity, and \"The O'Reilly Factor,\" by television talk show host  Bill O'Reilly.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ECan they be charged with \"Accessory to Murder\"? Are  they culpable?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the strict sense of the Law, this seems to be the case, yet, I have not  seen, not heard anyone raise this question specifically uttering the word  \"Accessory\"; I have heard questions on whether or not they incited the actions  of Jim D. Adkisson at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, where  two were killed and six wounded.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EOne person posing\u003C\/span\u003E the question is \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, \u003C\/strong\u003Eat \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/blogs\/peek\/93126\/tennessee_church_shooting_an_inevitable_consequence_of_shock-jocks%E2%80%99_hateful_rhetoric\/\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlterNet,\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E who  asks\u003Cstrong\u003E:\u003C\/strong\u003E \"Did Right-Wing Shock Jocks Motivate Knoxville Killer?\",  another one is The Rev. Chris Buice, The pastor of Tennessee Valley Unitarian  Universalist Church, who  has given a lot of thought to the subject of hate  lately, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/news\/2008\/aug\/07\/pastor-full-of-curiosity-doubt\/\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ethe  Pastor is full of curiosity, doubt\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E .\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003Cp\u003EHe is curious to know whether any clues might be gleaned from the words of  right-wing radio talk-show host Michael Savage and Fox News personalities Bill  O'Reilly and Sean Hannity, whose books later were seized as evidence from  Adkisson's Powell residence by police.\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cblockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\"\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHe is curious whether the authors prayerfully consider their  words.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\"The words you choose may be the difference between war and peace,\"  Buice said. \"Every diplomat knows that.\"\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHe noted that, in the run-up to the Rawandan genocide of 1994, during  which hundreds of thousands of ethnic minority Tutsis and political moderates  died, the country's Hutu majority-controlled radio broadcast hate-fueled  propaganda encouraging listeners to exterminate the \"cockroaches.\"\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\"I believe in rigorous debate,\" Buice said, speaking to his belief in  the danger of dehumanizing language that can label and categorize one person  from another. \"but what's the difference between a political opponent and a  cockroach? You stomp a cockroach. You debate a political opponent. I believe, if  you truly listen to your opponent, it will make you  better.\"\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003EWho can forget how the propaganda machine of Germany's Nazi Regime  demonized Jews by blaming them of all the maladies affecting the population? Dehumanizing them so as to inflame the populace's attitudes, while desensitizing  them, so they would go along, or at least turn a blind eye to the unimaginable  acts that were to follow,  we know the horrendous results that these words had,  millions were killed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003EAnd the difference between what the Nazis did and what the Savages, the  O'Reillys and the Hannitys are doing,  is?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003EI don't think that we need to wait until millions are exterminated, do we?   The fact of the matter is that people are being killed because of what they are,  as was Luis Ramirez in Shennandoah PA, or because of what they believe in, as was the case  in the Tennessee's Church killings.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003EMillions are being terrorized by what ICE's officers have become, institutionalized  terrorists, who routinely break the law and who walk all over the constitutional  guarantees and the human rights of people who have been demonized, and degraded, to  the level of coachroaches and \"Vermin\", as Savage has said undocumented  immigrants are.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll of this while many people turn a blind eye, at the same time that others actually cheer and urge that these practices be accelerated.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor the latter, it may be too late for redemption, as for the former, The Rev. Martin Luther King said it best:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"body\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"body\"\u003EHistory will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"bodybold\"\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.brainyquote.com\/quotes\/quotes\/m\/martinluth133707.html\"\u003EMartin Luther King, Jr.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"bodybold\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.brainyquote.com\/quotes\/quotes\/m\/martinluth133707.html\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003EFamilies are being separated, people are arrested and treated inhumanely,  as was the case with Juana Villegas:\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cblockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\"\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cem\u003EJuana Villegas gave birth to a baby on July 5. She had been arrested by  Davidson County Sheriffs on the 3rd. At the hospital she was shackled until the  very final stages of labor. The situation was so brutal that \u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003Ethe labor and delivery nurses were crying\u003C\/span\u003E.  Later, when she was taken back to the jail she developed infections in both  breasts because the officers at the Davidson County Jail (in Nashville) would  not allow her to have a breast pump. She was separated from her newborn for 2  days. The baby developed jaundice.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/dreamacttexas.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/nurses-cried-for-juana-villegas-part-i.html\"\u003EThe Nurses Cried for Juana Villegas, Part I\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/dreamacttexas.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/juana-villegas-part-ii.html\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJuana Villegas part II\u003C\/a\u003E Time line of the Juana Villegas story.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/tinycatpants.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/23\/one-last-things-about-juana-villegas-delapaz\/\"\u003EOne Last Thing about Juana Villegas DeLaPaz\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhere is the outrage?  This news had scant coverage, even in the Spanish  Media, as far as I know, today is the first day that Univision covered it, any  search turns up some blog entries lamenting or deploring this outrage, while  others are actually taking the position that she had it coming, as if she  deserved it for violating immigration laws, the comments are truly beyond the  pale in the hate that oozes from them, these words reflect the language that the  hatemongers spew through the airwaves and that are then implanted in the heads of  what used to be people, but that have become zombie-like creatures, incapable of  feeling their humanity when it comes to the people they have been incited, or  maybe it can be rightfully said, were programmed to hate.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003EFor years, these hatemongers, plus the countless others engaged in the  profitable business of creating division, intolerance, hate and violence, have  been warned by outraged people of good faith and citizens concerned at the  damage to the internal security of the United States that these present day  monsters, and their listeners, pose to minorities, to people who do not fit the  'accepted' norm, and to the population at large, they have been told time and  time again, about the dangers that their words represent, in addition, they have been  presented with concrete cases of the results and consequences of their hateful,  and of their also full of hate words, hoping without hope, to appeal to the better part of  themselves, appealing to their humanity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003ESo far, it has been an exercise in utter futility.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003ESo now we have clear evidence of a direct connection between the hate they  preach and the actions of one of their listeners.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003EWhat are they responsible for?  That is why I asked the question: \u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAre M. Savage, B. O'Reilly and S. Hannity \u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EGuitly of Accessory to Murder?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;\"  \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\/2423091732093209057\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/are-m-savage-b-oreilly-and-s-hannity.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/2423091732093209057"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/2423091732093209057"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/are-m-savage-b-oreilly-and-s-hannity.html","title":"Are M. 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Amazing how so many can ask this question  with a straight face, as if this is really a valid  argument.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003ELet's  consider this for just a few minutes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EMcCain has  been touted as a war hero who has always supported the troops and veterans, he  has solid foreign affairs and security credentials they say, he has an alleged  long track record of accomplishments as a Senator, he is a Maverick, we are  told, he has a history of bi-partisanship, he is a 'true gentleman', we have  been bombarded for years by the MSM's lavish praise on him while at the same  time minimizing his negatives, which are many, explaining and many a time  excusing his horrendous gaffes which point to his inadequacy to hold the highest  office in the land where people have known him for  years.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EWith so much  support from the public opinion makers in this country, why isn't the MSM asking  the obvious question of why he is not ahead in the polls? While it may seem that  I answered my own question already, IMHO the question remains, while prompting a  new question, why isn't he ahead in the polls? Gives me a second question, why  isn't the MSM asking this question instead of pondering why Obama doesn't have a  larger lead?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EWhy should  he? Long held political wisdom in this country would clearly point out that  Obama is in reality the most unlikely candidate to be in the lead, but he is, he  shouldn't be the Democratic Nominee, but he is, we are told that race plays a  part, yet, in spite of this long held view, he is leading, why? On a daily basis  we keep hearing question about whether or not Obama is fit to be Commander in  Chief, if he has what it takes to govern this country, he has been the target of  fallacious claims, echoed by the MSM talking heads to the point that there is  still people out there who believe he is a Muslim, any little thing that is put  out there, baseless or frivolous as it may be, it is parroted ad infinitum et ad  nauseam by the same MSM talking heads, he has been at the end of a very nasty  'swiftboating' hence nasty and spurious for months now, yet he is still leading  on the polls.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003ESo, why is  the MSM talking heads still asking the question: Why doesn't he has a larger  lead in the polls?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EThe answer  becomes obvious if we focus on how the conversation directs the attention on the  results from how you phrase the question, by questioning Obama's, the focus  automatically takes the talking heads to examine in detail Obama's shortcomings,  previously defined by these same talking heads, whereas if the question was  reversed, the focus would be on why this highly unlikely scenario, it is  actually taking place.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EIn other  words, we'd be discussing the real issues which would easily explain why Obama  continues to lead on the polls and McCain isn't.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003ECute  isn't?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EFor those who  may say: But some of the talking heads have asked the question I'm asking of why  isn't McCain ahead in the polls, yes, it is true, the very few more honest  talking heads have already made the points I'm attempting to make, but this  brings me to the 'crux of the matter' as to why am I asking a question already  asked.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EIt has to do  with emphasis and repetition, the latter being the heaviest factor on why the  focus continues on Obama's shortcomings and not McCain's, IT IS THEIR  AGENDA.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EHeaven forbid  that more 'low information' people would have a chance to ponder on why McCain,  with all of his alleged positives, is not ahead, I can see their eyebrows in  deep furrow ask themselves (Picture a dumb troll, uh?), yeaaah,  why?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EHe is not a  moderate, he doesn't support the troops nor the veterans, his foreign affairs  knowledge is deplorable, his understanding of economic policies is pitiful, his  record on helping the people is dismal, his lauded 'straight talk' turned out to  be totally false, he changes positions faster and more often than he changes  socks, he put to rest for good his maverick legend for what it was, a myth, and  I can keep going on. and on in pointing very obvious contradictions and lies,  and I will as I hope you all will do as the campaign  continues.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EMy friend  Juanita, in our last night's conversation, repeated for me one of her favorite  sayings while we were discussing the points I just made above, she said:  \"Aurora, all things fall down by their own weight\" I went kind of like, yeah...  but... Hmmm.... I went to remind her of flagrant misrepresentations, scare  tactics, falsehoods, double speak, swiftboating, etc. in previous campaigns, how  about McGovern's? Carter's? Gore's? Kerry's? And yes, McCain's in 2000? Just  when we think the people will be capable of independent thinking and really look  at how public opinions is, and has been manipulated, a lot of us say amongst  ourselves, this time will be different... Will it this  time?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EWill the  people of the United States of America will finally put to rest the long held  belief mistakenly credited to P. T. Barnum but that it actually was first  articulated by H. L. Mencken: \"\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003ENobody ever went broke  underestimating the intelligence of the American people\"\u003C\/span\u003E Or this other quote also mistakenly attributed to P. T. Barnum: \"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EThere is a  sucker born every minute\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;\" \u003EAnd will the American people also reaffirm this misattributed famous quote?  \"You can fool some of the people all of the time; you can fool all of the people  some of the time, but you can never fool all of the people all of the  time\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EThe good news  and the answer as to why Obama is still ahead in the polls and not McCain is  that many people are not being fooled by their attempts to re-direct the focus,  their tactics are not working because many people know who the real McCain  is.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EI'm always  suspicious of groups who specialize in exposing, or attacking, or whatever one  issue or one candidate, but do the claims of \"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com\/\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EVietnam  Veterans Against John McCain\" Are valid?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E For the sake of  listening to all sides, it is worth your time to check out what they are saying,  to sift through their points and to research  further.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EAlso looking  at \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vFM1xqqTX_g\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003Evideos on McCain\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E gives a glimpse of who this man  really is, here you can \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/bravenewfilms\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003Efind more  videos\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E of and about  him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EAs we say,  for a sample and just to expose a bold face lie of McCain and his campaign, a  button suffices: On the oh! So untrue claim that he supports the troops and the  veterans, does this looks moderate to you?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EIf you want to explore a little more on what this prevaricator's  positions really are, you can go to \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.votesmart.org\/bio.php?can_id=53270\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\"Project Vote  Smart\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003Eand select an issue of your  interest and find out how he voted, also you can check what \u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.veteransforcommonsense.org\/articleid\/9559\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\"Veterans for Common Sense\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E Have to say on this  subject.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"hed_large\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.votesmart.org\/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=S0061103\"\u003ESenator  John Sidney McCain III (AZ) \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EOn Veterans Affairs\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"hed\"\u003ECurrent Office:\u003C\/span\u003E U.S. Senate\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"hed\"\u003ECurrent  District:\u003C\/span\u003E Senior Seat\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"hed\"\u003EOffice Seeking:\u003C\/span\u003E  President\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"hed\"\u003EFirst Elected:\u003C\/span\u003E 11\/04\/1986\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"hed\"\u003ELast Elected:\u003C\/span\u003E 11\/02\/2004\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"hed\"\u003ENext  Election:\u003C\/span\u003E 2010\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"hed\"\u003EParty:\u003C\/span\u003E Republican\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"mhtml:mid:\/\/00000003\/%21http:\/\/www.votesmart.org\/img\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" \/\u003E  \u003Cimg src=\"mhtml:mid:\/\/00000003\/%21http:\/\/www.votesmart.org\/img\/spacer.gif\" width=\"1\" \/\u003E \u003Cimg src=\"mhtml:mid:\/\/00000003\/%21http:\/\/www.votesmart.org\/img\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" \/\u003E \u003Ca title=\"Senator John Sidney McCain III Bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.votesmart.org\/bio.php?can_id=53270\"\u003EBiographical\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca title=\"Senator John Sidney McCain III Voting Record\" href=\"http:\/\/www.votesmart.org\/voting_category.php?can_id=53270\"\u003EVoting  Record\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca title=\"Senator John Sidney McCain III Issue Positions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.votesmart.org\/npat.php?can_id=53270\"\u003EIssue Positions (Political  Courage Test)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca title=\"Senator John Sidney McCain III Interest Group Ratings\" href=\"http:\/\/www.votesmart.org\/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=53270\"\u003EInterest  Group Ratings\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca title=\"Senator John Sidney McCain III Speeches and Public Statements\" href=\"http:\/\/www.votesmart.org\/speech.php?can_id=53270\"\u003ESpeeches and Public  Statements\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca title=\"Senator John Sidney McCain III Endorsements\" href=\"http:\/\/www.votesmart.org\/endorsements.php?can_id=53270\"\u003EEndorsements\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca title=\"Senator John Sidney McCain III Extended Bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.votesmart.org\/extended_bio.php?can_id=53270\"\u003EAdditional  Biographical Information\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca title=\"Senator John Sidney McCain III Campaign Finances\" href=\"http:\/\/www.votesmart.org\/finance.php?can_id=53270\"\u003ECampaign  Finances\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"text\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.votesmart.org\/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=S0061103#How\"\u003EHow  to Interpret these Evaluations\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDisclaimer:\u003C\/b\u003E Descriptions  of organizations are derived from the mission statement or description produced  by each organization. Project Vote Smart does not evaluate or edit these  descriptions.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EVeterans  Issues\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"hed\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E2006\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E \u003Cspan class=\"text\"\u003ESenator McCain supported the  interests of the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.votesmart.org\/issue_rating_detail.php?r_id=3483\"\u003EDisabled  American Veterans\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Cb\u003E20\u003C\/b\u003E percent in 2006.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"hed\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E2006\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E \u003Cspan class=\"text\"\u003EIn 2006 \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.votesmart.org\/issue_rating_detail.php?r_id=3439\"\u003EIraq and  Afghanistan Veterans of America\u003C\/a\u003E gave Senator McCain a grade of  \u003Cb\u003ED\u003C\/b\u003E.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"hed\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E2006\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E \u003Cspan class=\"text\"\u003ESenator McCain sponsored or  co-sponsored \u003Cb\u003E18\u003C\/b\u003E percent of the legislation favored by the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.votesmart.org\/issue_rating_detail.php?r_id=3425\"\u003EThe Retired  Enlisted Association\u003C\/a\u003E in 2006.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"hed\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E2005\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E \u003Cspan class=\"text\"\u003ESenator McCain supported the  interests of the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.votesmart.org\/issue_rating_detail.php?r_id=1898\"\u003EDisabled  American Veterans\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Cb\u003E25\u003C\/b\u003E percent in 2005.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"hed\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E2004\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E \u003Cspan class=\"text\"\u003ESenator McCain supported the  interests of the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.votesmart.org\/issue_rating_detail.php?r_id=2992\"\u003EDisabled  American Veterans\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Cb\u003E50\u003C\/b\u003E percent in 2004.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"hed\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E2004\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E \u003Cspan class=\"text\"\u003ESenator McCain supported the  interests of the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.votesmart.org\/issue_rating_detail.php?r_id=1838\"\u003EThe Retired  Enlisted Association\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Cb\u003E0\u003C\/b\u003E percent in 2004.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"hed\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E2003-2004\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E \u003Cspan class=\"text\"\u003ESenator McCain supported  the interests of the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.votesmart.org\/issue_rating_detail.php?r_id=2933\"\u003EVietnam  Veterans of America\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Cb\u003E100\u003C\/b\u003E percent in 2003-2004.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"hed\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E2003\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E \u003Cspan class=\"text\"\u003ESenator McCain supported the  interests of the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.votesmart.org\/issue_rating_detail.php?r_id=2546\"\u003EThe American  Legion\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Cb\u003E50\u003C\/b\u003E percent in 2003.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"hed\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E2001\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E \u003Cspan class=\"text\"\u003ESenator McCain supported the  interests of the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.votesmart.org\/issue_rating_detail.php?r_id=1614\"\u003EVietnam  Veterans of America\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Cb\u003E46\u003C\/b\u003E percent in 2001.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"hed\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E1999\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E \u003Cspan class=\"text\"\u003ESenator McCain supported the  interests of the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.votesmart.org\/issue_rating_detail.php?r_id=277\"\u003EDisabled  American Veterans\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Cb\u003E66\u003C\/b\u003E percent in 1999.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"hed\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E1997-1998\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E \u003Cspan class=\"text\"\u003ESenator McCain supported  the interests of the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.votesmart.org\/issue_rating_detail.php?r_id=161\"\u003EVietnam  Veterans of America\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Cb\u003E0\u003C\/b\u003E percent in 1997-1998.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"hed\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E1989-1990\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E \u003Cspan class=\"text\"\u003EOn the votes that the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.votesmart.org\/issue_rating_detail.php?r_id=14\"\u003EVietnam Veterans  of America\u003C\/a\u003E considered to be the most important in 1989-1990 , Senator McCain  voted their preferred position \u003Cb\u003E50\u003C\/b\u003E percent of the  time.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\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' 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Polls?"}],"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-5914122617199096515"},"published":{"$t":"2008-07-27T14:06:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-08-03T13:23:37.524-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Arpaio"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"coalicion"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"county"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"derechos"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"garcia"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hate"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"humanos"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"immigration"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Isabel"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Joe"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Jon"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Justice"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"maricopa"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"pima"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"racism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"radio"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"shereff"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"speech"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"tucson"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"xenophobia"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"End Hate Radio in Tucson"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Coalición de Derechos Humanos\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJoin the Derechos Humanos campaign to end hate radio here in Tucson, Arizona! \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the few days since beginning this campaign, many have stepped up to join this struggle, and we know that Journal Broadcast Group, which owns 104.1 FM, is paying attention!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe have updated the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/rs6.net\/tn.jsp?e=001IUNinNWxi6F_Ro45kUFmdLLldrsY5JxJiSqjSm_2RyVDXx2Lw5Xlq_w7npZ5EWECDCNEZ0lFHJHTBoMUEXzoZEqudv-H8XKbyLVngHIePBQofYmeiVKTeq1V6n3vNekDDvOJj57L5-r1jvP9thYqb4kmE_gjiQ0GiVZkqARaZbyXliQQ2AWPxw==\"\u003Elist of sponsors to 104.1 FMM\u003C\/a\u003E -specifically those who have ads featured on the Jon Justice show.  We invite you to contact these businesses to let them know that you are concerned about their support of hate radio, and encourage them to promote their businesses with media outlets that stand behind the principles of dignity and respect. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo far, the following previously listed sponsors have informed us of their intention to immediately withdraw their support of 104.1 FM:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   \u003Cli\u003E* Main Gate Square\u003Cbr \/\u003E   \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E* Patio Pools \u0026amp; Spa\u003Cbr \/\u003E   \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E* The Auto Body Shop\u003Cbr \/\u003E   \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E* Advanced Recon\u003Cbr \/\u003E   \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E* Aung Foot HealthClinics\u003Cbr \/\u003E   \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E* Sol Cars\u003Cbr \/\u003E   \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E* The Wildcat House\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMany businesses were not aware that their \"package\" deal with Journal Broadcasting Group meant advertising on 104.1 FM, and most were not aware of what they were supporting, and would not choose to support intolerance. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe following companies have expressed concern about this issue, and have assured us that they will be looking into the matter immediately:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E* Allstate Insurance\u003Cbr \/\u003E   \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E* State Farm Insurance\u003Cbr \/\u003E   \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E* Maloney's Tavern\u003Cbr \/\u003E   \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E* Axiom Drafting and Design\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThus far, 104.1 FM has removed the listing of their sponsors from their website, and the YouTube Webisodes of the Jon Justice show were removed, particularly the offensive one that some of the sample letters below refer to.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese have been reposted at the following links:  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWebisode #4\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/videos.caught-on-video.com\/vidiac.swf\" flashvars=\"video=56bb4001-24a9-4baf-a277-9ae300501783\" quality=\"high\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" name=\"ePlayer\" allowscriptaccess=\"sameDomain\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" align=\"middle\" height=\"352\" width=\"428\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/rs6.net\/tn.jsp?e=001IUNinNWxi6Hwi6Vew6kmyzM7kmvXlLMabf7FyOPma7gHyPUKIJ13myu8pDhbRpZ7a9k6zK1phCpgKfD429fzpyw0Hk0LRPJx63uGR_UKGGdetA7s3pGPf4VadxNtOaC2H7oCUX2eRYGWuhd6GgKedEvN9dU-AAs1-a7p_D49JOIm0UCsHBDk9ABLFXKoyZo1\"\u003ETranscript of Webisode #4\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWebisode #5\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/videos.caught-on-video.com\/vidiac.swf\" flashvars=\"video=774c6629-571e-486e-8a95-9ae3001cea96\" quality=\"high\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" name=\"ePlayer\" allowscriptaccess=\"sameDomain\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" align=\"middle\" height=\"352\" width=\"428\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/rs6.net\/tn.jsp?e=001IUNinNWxi6Hv4dF1n3K1-gZBspFJvVqYUKlQ67eOn2ccSrbj0xeqTVvP0ETtnmn-0Tzzg6XopUp_uVzW2wyTeO6wFhJA34ecP9pC9nuB89I3xy2bWdR8PdLtMEF4Vc2jluwUnIMjYK5P-twL6VM9sMkBYTRe2H2KIiyKrIXfV2QJ1Bn4uUzzLKRJBwqvuzeTOLKA4Ajsg30=\"\u003ETranscript of Webisode #5\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe invite you to judge the content for yourself, but we find them to be sexist, racist, and offensive to the spirit and diversity that is Tucson. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJoin us in this effort to rid the Tucson community of the intolerance and xenophobia that is promoted on 104.1 FM! \u003Cbr \/\u003EPlease contact businesses listed as supporters of 104.1 FM and encourage them to withdraw their support of hate radio.  Samples letters are provided help you draft your letters to sponsors.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJournal Broadcast Group also owns the following media stations.\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe are considering taking this issue to the sponsors of these outlets next, so feel free to let express your concern to them as well, particularly if you are a current sponsor or patron.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKGUN 9 TV\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.kgun9.com\/\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.kgun9.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E94.9 MixFM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mixfm.com\/\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.mixfm.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMEGA Oldies 106.3 \/ 104.9\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mega1063.com\/\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.mega1063.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EESPN Radio 1490 The Fan\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca 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radio wing nut \"Jon Justice\" gets panties in twist over Joe Arpaio pinata."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Published on \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com\/bastard\/2008\/07\/tucson_radio_wing_nut_jon_justice.php\"\u003EPhoenix New Times Blog\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWed Jul 16, 2008 at 05:24:50 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cobject width=\"425\" height=\"344\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/N6VCHrUlxpU\u0026hl=en\u0026fs=1\"\u003E\u003C\/param\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\u003E\u003C\/param\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\u003E\u003C\/param\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/N6VCHrUlxpU\u0026hl=en\u0026fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003EVideo of the Tucson protest of Arpaio, from Jon Justice's \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/1041TheTruth\"\u003E1041TheTruth\u003C\/a\u003E, showing a Sheriff Joe piñata being beaten and Isabel Garcia scooping up its head.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike you need more proof that times are way-way-slow down in the \"Old Pueblo,\" Tucson \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.1041thetruth.com\/TheTruthLineup\/TheMorningTruth\/tabid\/2553\/Default.aspx\"\u003Eradio wing nut \"Jon Justice\"\u003C\/a\u003E is hunting the head of local pro-immigrant firebrand Isabel Garcia after Garcia toted the decapitated noggin of a Sheriff Joe Arpaio piñata at an anti-Joe protest.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESeems Nickel Bag Joe was down in Tucson recently for yet another book signing for his prevarication-friendly work of fiction \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.phoenixnewtimes.com\/2008-06-26\/news\/sheriff-joe-buffaloes-readers-with-bogus-yarns-in-his-book-joe-s-law\/\"\u003EJoe's Law\u003C\/a\u003E. You know, the one where he claims to have been behind the crippling of the French Connection drug ring, and where he maintains that the Mexican mafia, the Minutemen and immigrant rights activist Elias Bermudez are conspiring against his life. Anyway, Joe was at a Tucson Barnes and Noble to pimp the tome, and there was a lawful protest at the B\u0026N that included scores of demonstrators, and featured, at one point, a Sheriff Joe piñata that two teens beat to a pulp.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUm, like, so what? After all, Phoenicians may recall, if they strain really hard, that the local activist group \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.puebloaz.org\/\"\u003EPUEBLO\u003C\/a\u003E caught a little heck from the media on Cinco de Mayo, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com\/bastard\/2008\/05\/pueblo_pops_sheriff_joe_arpaio.php\"\u003Ewhen their inaugural shindig included several Sheriff Joe piñatas that were creamed by party-goers\u003C\/a\u003E until Joe's candied innards rained from the sky like stripper dollars. PUEBLO was pilloried for the day, unfairly from my point of view, but even Joe didn't make that big of a stink over the matter. He got his mug on the telly that eve, and it wasn't even a media event his highly-paid army of PR flacks had orchestrated. Christ, the old fart was practically giddy\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELess than 48 hours later, the PUEBLO piñatas were forgotten, like last month's celebrity meltdown. And why shouldn't they be? We're just talking about some papier-mâché dolls stuffed with Tootsie Rolls and affixed with Joe's dyspeptic mug. Plus, whacking political piñatas ain't nothing new, much less eyebrow-raising, unless you're a complete ass-backwards moron with the cultural I.Q. of a Lincoln Log. Down in Latin America, it’s practically de rigueur for a pol to get bopped in this fashion, but you don’t have to go so far afield. Just check out \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.pinatas.com\/Political_Pinatas_s\/529.htm\"\u003Epiñatas.com\u003C\/a\u003E, where you can find piñatas to abuse of all political stripes – whether it’s Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney or Fidel Castro.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut it seems some rubes in Arizona's Second City think Joe Arpaio should belong to a protected class. Meat-headed lip-flapper Jon Justice, who spews loony venom for Tucson news talk station 104.1 FM \"The Truth\" (yeah, right), has organized a campaign to get Isabel Garcia fired from her post as the Pima County Legal Defender, because she was present when the piñata-smacking went down, and afterward lifted up the severed toy head and carried it forth through the crowd of protesters. He also wants her disbarred, and because Garcia has long been a lightning rod for nativist hate groups, he’s motivated other drooling imbeciles to call Garcia’s boss at the county and complain.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInterestingly, Jon Just-An-Ass recently added a full-size Garcia piñata to his shtick, and fondled it for a YouTube video, thereby removing all doubt as to his status as a blithering idiot. I guess if we were to take seriously his claim that Garcia threatened Joe with violence by picking up the piñata head, we'd have to assume, by the same wack logic, that he was threatening Garcia with sexual assault by molesting her effigy?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EConsidering the political slant of this Jon Justice clown, his anti-Garcia campaign would pretty much be par for the reactionary course were it not for a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.tucsoncitizen.com\/\"\u003ETucson Citizen\u003C\/a\u003E opinion piece published yesterday, penned by Anne Denogean, titled \"Protesters as offensive as Sheriff Joe,” wherein she took Garcia to task for her actions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Ci\u003E“While the beating of Arpaio in effigy proceeded, Isabel Garcia, head of Humanos Derechos, a group that purports to stand for the dignity of all human beings, stood by and laughed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“The spectacle reminded me of the antics of an extremist on the other side of the issue, a Tucson man who does his best to incite riots by burning Mexican flags in public places. I wondered how Garcia would react if the virulent anti-illegal immigrant hard-liners were to burn her in effigy or hang a papier-mâché figure meant to represent an Mexican illegal immigrant.\"\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERemember, Arpaio is the Sheriff of Maricopa County, not Pima County. And our corrupt top constable has recently made it the priority of his office to racially profile and arrest undocumented residents on the flimsiest of pretexts, his deputies holding them in custody and leaning on them to sign voluntary removals back to their countries of origin, usually Mexico. In doing so, he tears mothers and fathers from their children and sometimes vice versa, all for minor offenses like a cracked windshield or a non-working tail light.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOf course, there are more reasons to loathe Nickel Bag Joe than just his sweeps of immigrant communities and the intimidation and fear-mongering that comes with them. There are the wrongful deaths in his jails and the horrendous conditions therein, which have cost Maricopa County taxpayers over $43 million in lawsuit payouts to date. There’s also Joe’s political corruption, his retaliation against critics and opponents, and his endless show-boating for the cameras.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll reasons enough to thump a piñata to me, and for Tucson’s residents to tell Arpaio to get lost. But Denogean takes offense. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Ci\u003E“The protesters did their best to run Arpaio out of town, with signs urging him to go home.Frankly, as an American, Arpaio has the right to go wherever he pleases.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“But more important, the demand that Arpaio get out of our town is as bad as the suggestion by those on the other side of the immigration debate that anyone who dares utter the words \"comprehensive immigration reform\" should hitch a ride on the next donkey to Mexico.” \u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUh, no. It’s not as bad, Anne. When a tyrant sashays into town, people have every right, and dare I say, moral obligation to tell that tyrant where to go in no uncertain terms. If Robert Mugabe, Fidel Castro or the late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet were doing a book signing in your burg, wouldn’t you expect folks to vociferously protest such human rights abusers? Perhaps even by bashing a piñata, burning an effigy or telling these authoritarian a-holes to head home?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EArpaio’s jails have been condemned by Amnesty International, and his anti-Hispanic dragnets are being investigated by the Feds. He deserves every symbolic lick he gets. Plus, I’ll let you in on a little secret Denogean, Joe feeds off the hate. He loves this sort of stuff, and it allows him to play to his base. A Joe-critic like you coming to his defense would only seem comical to him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs for this radio chucklehead’s suggestion that Garcia should be fired, censured or disbarred, Justice is basically filling his own smelly little news hole and garnering attention for himself. It would be a real mistake for anyone in a position of responsibility either at the Arizona State Bar or Pima County government to take this goofball Sean Hannity wannabe (and never-gonnabe) seriously. For her part, Garcia is unapologetic, writing in a statement on the Web site of the advocacy group she co-chairs, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.derechoshumanosaz.net\/\"\u003EDerechos Humanos\u003C\/a\u003E, that,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I am proud to have been part of the community's response to [Arpaio’s] arrival in Tucson…As an attorney I find it is not only my right, but my responsibility to stand up when the power of the state is used to crush people. I will continue to do so.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow, that’s a lady with stones. If Pima County doesn’t want her, she should head north. We could use a ballsy babe like her here in the PHX.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003ENote to Roy Wackjob below: Go ahead, take your best shot, Oswald.\u003C\/i\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\/2381992711008217622\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/tucson-radio-wing-nut-jon-justice-gets.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/2381992711008217622"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/2381992711008217622"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/tucson-radio-wing-nut-jon-justice-gets.html","title":"Tucson radio wing nut \"Jon Justice\" gets panties in twist over Joe Arpaio pinata."}],"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":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-2253706599831855219"},"published":{"$t":"2008-07-16T13:20:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-07-16T19:53:13.319-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"dobbs"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"drug"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"fight"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"gilchrist"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"immigration"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Jimenez"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"lou"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"mexico"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"minutemen"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"righwingnuts"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"send"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"splc"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"troops"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"war"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Bizarre news: Minuteman Founder says: \"Send troops to Mexico to fight Drug War\"."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"By Aurora:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFrom the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/15\/minuteman-founder\/\"\u003ESPLC\u003C\/a\u003E I got this jewel of a news items. (\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/blog\/topics\/nativism-in-the-news\/\"\u003EMore Nativism in the news\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt seems that the Minuteman Founder, Jim Gilchrist, in a rightwingnut radio program, called for the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.columbiatribune.com\/2008\/Jul\/20080710Comm001.asp\"\u003EUnited States to send troops to Mexico\u003C\/a\u003E to fight a Drug War.(Published on columbiatribune.com Thursday, July 10, 2008)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"right\"\u003E\u003CIMG alt=\"Gilly the Clown was laughed at when he wore a\u003Cbr \/\u003Ebullet proof vest to a Long Beach college debate. (Photo at ALIPAC)\" hspace=10 src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3119\/2673092569_7fdfc4481e_o.jpg\" align=\"right\" vspace=10 border=0 \/ \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EJim Gilchrist, founder and president of the Minutemen, believes the way to control rising drug violence in Mexico is to send crack U.S. troops.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESpeaking on talk radio - where else? - he says the U.S. administration should give Mexico 12 months to clean out the cartels.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Either terminate the criminal empires that influence your nation and threaten to cripple the United States, or risk the incursion of U.S. soldiers to do the job for you.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd Gilchrist is not talking about a bunch of MPs on weekend maneuvers. \"I’m talking about heavyweight U.S. Army Airborne brigades.\"\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is truly a gift of a news and a real jewel which allows us a glimpse into the mind of this wacko, who calls himself Patriot, and gives room to ponder on the 'state of mind' of the people who follow him in the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.minutemanproject.com\/\"\u003EMinuteman Project.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe idea is so bizarre that even virulent anti-immigrant sites like \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.alipac.us\/modules.php?name=Forums\u0026amp;file=viewtopic\u0026amp;t=123630\"\u003EALIPAC\u003C\/a\u003E are balking at Gilchrist's suggestion and lamenting that sickos like Gilchrist makes them look bad, IMHO, they don't need any help on this; by themselves they have managed to do a good job on it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\"Most patriots would approve of the U.S. military guarding our borders and ports. This would cut off the drug traffickers supply lines and deter illegal immigration.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnfortunately, there’s this assbag named Jim Gilchrist that makes us all look bad with bizarre ideas like invading Mexico with airborne brigades. Sorry Jim, but Mexicans can take care of their own problems.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.alipac.us\/modules.php?name=Forums\u0026amp;file=viewtopic\u0026amp;t=123630\"\u003E-- ALIPAC website\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe man that ALIPAC is calling an 'assbag' now, was their darling Champion not too long ago and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.phxnews.com\/fullstory.php?article=25891\"\u003Ewhom they endorsed\u003C\/a\u003E in his bid to run for a Congressional seat to replace Congressman Chris Cox in California’s special election in District 48.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.phxnews.com\/fullstory.php?article=25891\"\u003EALIPAC ENDORSES \"Minuteman\" Jim Gilchrist for Congress in October 4 election\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPosted by Charlesoakisland on Thursday September 22, 2005 at 6:30 am MDT\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELink to story: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.alipac.us\/article-742--0-0.html\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.alipac.us\/article-742--0-0.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmericans for Legal Immigration PAC ENDORSES \"Minuteman\" Jim Gilchrist for Congress in October 4 Special Election\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Americans for Legal Immigration PAC WilliamG@alipac.us Toll Free: (866) 329-3999\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EALIPAC, Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, is pleased to endorse Jim Gilchrist and his campaign for Congress in California’s District 48.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn October 4, CA District 48, Orange County, has a special election to replace Congressman Chris Cox, who resigned to join the Bush administration. Jim Gilchrist is known nationally as a founder of the highly successful citizen border watch movement, the Minuteman Project.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETopics: Campaigns, Congress, laws, security, illegal immigration, Minuteman Project, ALIPAC\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmericans for Legal Immigration PAC is endorsing Jim Gilchrist because of his selfless dedication and successful activism addressing our national crisis of border security and illegal immigration. The Minuteman Project drew international attention in April when civilian volunteers brought illegal alien and drug smuggling traffic to a halt on the Arizona border.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We need to elect Jim Gilchrist to Congress because he is a real leader -- the perfect messenger to send to Washington to get these problems solved. Voters across America are making the control of illegal immigration a top priority in their support of candidates, with good reason! An unprecedented number of illegal migrants are crossing our open borders each year. This flood of unknown persons directly, negatively affects public policies of top concern to the voters. Our nation’s capacity to prevent terrorist attacks, grow a strong economy, improve jobs and wages for American workers, and provide quality education and affordable healthcare are all undermined by the economic and societal burden of our dysfunctional immigration system.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cobject width=\"200\" height=\"135\" align=\"right\"\u003E \u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0_YC7Nh24pU\u0026amp;color1=0xFFFF66\u0026amp;color2=0xFFFF00\u0026amp;hl=en\"\u003E\u003C\/param\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\u003E\u003C\/param\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0_YC7Nh24pU\u0026amp;color1=0xFFFF66\u0026amp;color2=0xFFFF00\u0026amp;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"200\" height=\"135\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003EBut one of the saddest aspects of demagogues like Gilchrist, is that his rightwingnut beliefs' putrid vomit infect the minds of what we usually call 'our people' such as Raymond Herrera who on Thursday, July 03, 2008 posted this video where he talks about making alliances with the MinuteMen\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.minutemanproject.com\/newsmanager\/templates\/mmp.asp?articleid=369\u0026amp;zoneid=1\"\u003EThe Mexican Revolution Starts Here!\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot difficult to imagine the effect the propaganda of people like Gilchrist has on people who start from their \u003Ca href=\"#\" onclick=\"Openme2('http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~aurora-grajeda\/html\/pildora\/nativism.html')\"\u003Enativist\u003C\/a\u003E, racist, xenophobic leanings or outright beliefs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe rightwingnuts in the anti-immigration media (hello Low Dobbs et al) are not picking up on this story and who can blame them? They are afraid of being associated to this certifiable nut, but they are!  LOL!!!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI wonder what will they do if this 'out-there' idea gets any play in the media, I'll venture a guess that they will be backtracking and backpedaling so fast from being associated with \"The Minutemen\" Founder, Jim Gilchrist, that their movements would provide enough power to provide some relief for our current 'energy crisis'.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETell others about what Jim Gilchrist is proposing, will you?\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\/2253706599831855219\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/bizarre-news-minuteman-founder-send.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/2253706599831855219"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/2253706599831855219"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/bizarre-news-minuteman-founder-send.html","title":"Bizarre news: Minuteman Founder says: \"Send troops to Mexico to fight Drug War\"."}],"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":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-4739106357778654318"},"published":{"$t":"2008-07-08T23:34:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-07-09T23:11:53.363-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"americans"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"bush"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"constitution"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"corporations"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"felony"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"fisa"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"immunity"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"senate"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"spying"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"telecomunication"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Is it Requiem time for the 4th Ammendment yet?"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"It is being eviscerated, can it survive? Well, what's left of it will not be of much use anymore.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey can come surreptitiously into your home and you will never find out, but they can use their findings to declare you an enemy combatant, charge you in secret courts and deny you Habeas Corpus, even if you are innocent, they can lock you up and \u003Cspan\u003Ehypothetically\u003C\/span\u003E, 'throw away the keys', no matter what the Supreme Court rules, surprisingly so, considering how right wing it has become.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey did listen to domestic phone conversations and it was a violation of Federal Law, as a matter of fact, Bushco did it more than 30 times with the assistance of giant Telecommunication Corporations, and on July 9, 2008, the Senate will make it OK to do so, the House will eagerly do likewise, further, it gives retroactive immunity to Bush Administration Officials and the Tel. Corporations, in addition to throwing a blanket over the whole affair, thus preventing any investigation to determine who did what to whom (In general, we know the answer: THEY, DID IT, TO US)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBeautiful isn't?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.law.indiana.edu\/uslawdocs\/declaration.html\"\u003ENo One Above the Law\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --\u003Cu\u003EThat to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.\u003C\/u\u003E Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. —Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain [George III] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYeah! Right!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot in Bush's America and a two Political Party system where one Party fools a segment of the population and the other one, \u003Cem\u003E(except for a growing minority working to end the two party system by building the base for others)\u003C\/em\u003E fools the rest, getting screwed by both, where the only difference appears to be that one party uses lubricant, so the screwees (sic) we, don't hurt as much.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome 40 lawsuits have been filed against suspected participating telecoms for alleged violations of federal privacy law. Proponents of immunity say the companies were simply acting in good faith for five years and that the Administration showed them paperwork certifying the government thought its own conduct was legal. Opponents say the telecoms knew they were violating the clear dictates of federal privacy law and that no one should be above the law -- especially since this wasn't a one-off request just days after 9\/11.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/greenwald\/\"\u003EGlenn Greenwald\u003C\/a\u003E who also has done extensive research on this issue, writes:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe votes in the Senate on various amendments to the FISA \"compromise\" bill and to the underlying bill itself were originally scheduled for today, but have been postponed until tomorrow (Wednesday, July 9) to enable Senators to attend the funeral of Jesse Helms. Rejection of the amendments -- including the Dodd-Feingold-Leahy amendment to strip telecom immunity from the bill -- is all but certain, and final passage of the bill (with the support of both presidential candidates) is guaranteed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOnce passed by the Senate, the FISA bill will then immediately be sent by the Democratic Congress to an eagerly awaiting and immensely pleased President Bush, who will sign it into law, thereby putting a permanent and happy end to the scandal that began when -- in December, 2005 -- he was caught spying on the communications of American citizens in violation of the law. The only real remaining questions are (a) whether Bush will host Steny Hoyer and Jay Rockefeller at a festive, bipartisan White House signing ceremony to celebrate the evisceration of the Fourth Amendment and the rule of law, and (b) whether Bush, when he signs the bill into law, will append a signing statement decreeing that even its minimal restraints on presidential spying are invalid.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs part of the campaign to target those responsible for the ongoing destruction of core civil liberties and the endless expansion of America's lawless surveillance state, we have a full-page ad in the \"A\" Section of this morning's Washington Post, the purpose of which is to serve as a final argument directed to the Beltway class, a clear statement of exactly what it is that they are really about to do this week (click on both parts below to read the ad with large print or click \u003Ca\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E for the highly readable .pdf version):\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf nothing else, as the Democratic-led Senate follows in the footsteps of the Democratic-led House this week by passing a bill demanded by George Bush and Dick Cheney to cover up and retroactively legalize their surveillance crimes and protect the lawbreakers, there will be a clear record -- delivered to their front doors -- of what they're really doing, along with an accounting of the deceitful propaganda they are disseminating to mask and justify it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENothing less than fear is the tactic they are using, the amazing thing is that nobody really believes it, much less the Senators voting in favor of the Bill, go figure and draw your own conclusions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGreenwald continues:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe rationale behind the amendment is clear and simple: namely, members of Congress, the vast majority of whom know virtually nothing about what the telecoms did, shouldn't grant immunity unless they know what this illegal spying program entailed. If the IG Report reveals that the program (even though illegal) was devoted to a benign and proper purpose, then Congress (if it is so inclined) can grant immunity then. But if the IG Report reveals the spying program to be something other than what the President and the telecoms claim it to be -- if it entails far more invasive surveillance of Americans or was abused for improper purposes -- then immunity would obviously be wildly inappropriate. Even the ACLU and EFF, the lead organizations behind the telecom lawsuits, favor the Bingaman Amendment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat amendment is a true compromise. It rests on what should be the completely uncontroversial proposition that Congress shouldn't immunize the lawbreakers until they at least know what was done. In the meantime, the lawsuits are frozen so that telecoms are spared the tragic burdens of having to account for their behavior in a court of law like everyone else does.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERevealing what telecom immunity is really about -- ensuring a permanent cover-up of Bush surveillance crimes -- Bush DNI Mike McConnell (who previously worked on behalf of the telecom industry to increase their government surveillance contracts) and Attorney General Michael Mukasey sent a joint letter to the Senate yesterday vowing that the President would veto the entire FISA bill if the Bingaman amendment were included, and issued this standard fear-mongering decree:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo not only does our Safety require that telecoms be immunized from lawsuits over their lawbreaking, but we can't even wait until we know what was done before immunizing them. Even waiting to immunize telecoms will gravely imperil \"national security.\" Frightening. Immunize telecoms -- now, not later -- or prepare to be slaughtered by the Terrorists. And that's all Congress needs to know. McConnell and Mukasey end the letter by advising that they \"strongly support the prompt passage\" of the House FISA bill. I bet they do.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EManipulative appeals to \"national security\" are, of course, exactly what has enabled the Bush administration to bully Congress into giving them everything they want for years -- \"give us the powers we want and immunize our lawbreaking or be killed by Terrorists.\" That's how our country has been \"governed\" in the Bush era -- with heavy-handed, authoritarian decrees that we must comply with our Leader's secretly-formed judgments if we want to survive -- and it's likely how it will continue to be governed. And that is the mentality -- in an even more absurd formulation than is typical -- that is likely to lead the Congress yet again to comply this week with the President's orders in full.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EConstitutional Law Proffesor at George Washington Universitey, Jonathan Turley, was asked by COUNTDOWN'S Host Rachel Maddow, sitting in for Keith Olbermann, in the number 4 story of the Program \"UNWARRANTED CAPITULATION\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe breaks down the story to the nitty gritty as he always does, here is the video.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E[ NOTE: I'm at a loss at to what happened since yesterday at MSNBC Video, I tried to figure out why it only shows the left 1 \/3  of the scene on the right side of the screen, but it seems it is not my blog only, other Blogs are having the same problem, here is another one \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/toofrank.com\/2008\/07\/09\/rachel-maddow-and-jonathan-turley-on-fisa\/\"\u003EToo Frank?\u003C\/a\u003E - Sorry if you were here earlier and couldn't see it, but here is the YouTUBE copy -- Aurora ]\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"middle\"\u003E\u003Cobject width=\"425\" height=\"344\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FEjklgQeVtc\u0026hl=en\u0026fs=1\"\u003E\u003C\/param\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\u003E\u003C\/param\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FEjklgQeVtc\u0026hl=en\u0026fs=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\/4739106357778654318\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/is-it-requiem-time-for-4th-ammendment.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/4739106357778654318"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/4739106357778654318"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/is-it-requiem-time-for-4th-ammendment.html","title":"Is it Requiem time for the 4th Ammendment yet?"}],"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":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-7659965506084849840"},"published":{"$t":"2008-07-05T01:35:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-07-05T01:55:07.493-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"arizona"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"bush"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"catholic"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"church"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"comercio"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"free"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"guadalupe"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hatemongers"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"immigrants"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"lady"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"legislation"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"libre"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"lieberman"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"mccain"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"mexico"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"nafta"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"tepeyac"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"tonatzing"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"trade"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Desecrating a Sacred Shrine: McCain, J. Bush \u0026 Lieberman at the Tepeyac."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Maybe I'm the only one who feels offended that Sen. McCain and entourage visited the place where indigenous people have venerated Tonantzin and have danced to her for more than 2000 years.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis man has no shame whatsoever, is there any doubt that he wants to ingratiate himself to Mexicans in particular and Latinamericans in general?  He is desperate and is willing to do anything, even use the belief of millions for political points, without even the slightest understanding of, or total disregard for, whichever is the case, what she has historically represented and what she represents today to so many of us?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMcCain, Jebb Bush and Joe Lieberman represent and stand against what our symbol represents and what it means to millions, which is totally contrary to what these......... people support and advocate for; to continue the 'Manifest Destiny' agenda, McCain was and is totally in favor of the Iraq invasion (More people of color slaughtered) and wants to continue the US War Policies, preferably against people of color, mainly Brown, for a 100 years more, maybe a thousand.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor, how can anybody believe that McCain did honor Tonantzin when he dishonors, allows vicious attacks to, and persecution of the people who believe in her and have her color? Yeah, I'm talking about Immigrant workers whom he is willing to harm even more by destroying the economies and industries of their country by advocating and working in earnest to implement more 'free trade agreements' and thus force more of them into the 21st century's version of slave labor?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter all, I have not heard him advocating to stop the raids and the separation of families until Immigration Reform is enacted, have you? At best he has paid lip service to this issue, in his theatrical ways, he introduced legislation for immigration reform to then flip-flop again, all for political points, from where I stand, in a true and tried Republican tradition, he lights up both sides of the candle, or as the Native Americans say: \"He speaks with forked tongue\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe is the Senator from Arizona, isn't he? I have not heard a blip from him about how Arizona treats the immigrant and Latino communities, hasn't he heard of the abuses of Law Enforcement Officials, namely Sheriff Joe Arpaio? He, who proclaimed not only to be proud, but that it is an honor that his name is associated with the Ku Klux Klan and also proud to collaborate with vigilantes who have stated their desire to start shooting Mexicans (Illegals?  Is John McCain's racism so deep that he is willing to let this brutally abusive sheriff waste taxpayers funds in pursuing undocumented immigrants while at the same time neglects his duty of going after real criminals?  Has anybody heard McCain say anything against what this sheriff has been doing?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow can one believe that he is sincere in his 'honoring' Tonantzin when, as the Senator from Arizona, doesn't even acknowledge the abuses being committed against the Mexican\/Latino community in his home state?  Hasn't he heard about the racial profiling going on there? And what about the super oppressive legislation being enacted there as well?  Hasn't he heard the words that the Media Hatemongers, whom he calls 'my friends', spew daily against people of color?  What the hell! Let's call it for what it is, Racism, Xenophobia and Nativism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI'm so upset at this ignominy and that not many more are clamoring in protest of this slap in the face by this man, his entourage and the  greedy Prostitute that is the Catholic Church Hierarchy, what? Prostitute it is too strong a word for the Catholic Church? Well, my fear is that I'll be offending sex workers with the use of it, after all, they work and risk life and limb (The Sex Workers) for the money they receive, as far as I'm concerned, the members of the Catholic Church Supreme Hierarchy are not worthy to even kiss the ground the sex workers thread.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor the ones who are offended by my calling the Catholic Church Hierarchy, a prostitute, allow me to remind you that for more than 200 years after the claim of her apparition to Juan Diego (Nahuatl name Cuauhtlatoatzin (\"La venerable águila que habla\" (\"The Venerable Eagle that talks\/speaks\"))), their predecessors attacked the belief for Tonantzin and her believers, it was not until they saw the profits that embracing her followers would bring that they jumped into the pile of gold that the Cult of Tonantzing was and is today, and that is only one instance, the Catholic Church Hierarchy is and has been so corrupt, in so many areas, and at so many levels, that entire volumes have been written which validate my claims, for space's sake, I'll not go into the many crimes committed by them throughout history and I also must leave out for the same reason, the ones committed by omission.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs for my credentials for speaking as I have, I only need one but I'll give you three, I'm a Catholic, a Danzante Mexica and Gudalupana and I consider it my sacred duty, in the most forgotten, but that should be the most revered, Catholic tradition and by also emulating Jesus of Nazareth of denouncing what the hypocrites have been doing, how they have sold the poor and most oppressed to Mammon, is there anybody who would like to argue with me against what I'm saying? That their demigod, which is not my concept of God, eats at the rich man's table and does his bidding?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd they have the gall to take McCain, J. Bush and Lieberman to El Tepeyac, to allegedly honor Tonantzin, WHAT A PILE OF BS.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd just to finish and not let it be unsaid, a few words about the RATzinger at the Vatican, who has for years dismantling any and all tenets of Jesus' Liberation Theology, they have been pushing aside bit by bit what the Second Vatican Council, which opened on October 11th 1962, was trying to accomplish, he (RATzinger) is stepping all over the Populorum Progressio by supporting regressive politicians such as joined-at-the-hip G.W. Bush and McCain, the representative of Jesus on Earth?  Ha! He denigrates the Man.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDo I have a reason to be upset and to believe that McCain's visit to Tonatzing desecrated a shrine and was a slap on the face? I think I do.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWith all due respect to your also valid opinion, this is mine.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAurora\u003Cbr \/\u003ESFCA 070408\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\/7659965506084849840\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/desecrating-sacred-shrine-mccain-j-bush.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/7659965506084849840"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/7659965506084849840"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/desecrating-sacred-shrine-mccain-j-bush.html","title":"Desecrating a Sacred Shrine: McCain, J. Bush \u0026 Lieberman at the Tepeyac."}],"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":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-4174932225165752712"},"published":{"$t":"2008-06-27T02:40:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-02-18T01:43:22.725-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"1010am"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"alberto"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"american"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"buscando"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"california"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"carlos"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"cia"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"corporatist"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"coup"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"d'état"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"empire"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"fascism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"guatemala"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hecho"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"immigration"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"latin"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"media"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"neoliberalism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"ordonez"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"verdad"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\"Pushing against the Imperialistic Beast\""},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\"Buscando La Verdad\" (\"Seeking the Truth\") Is a radio program in Spanish Format that focus in setting the record straight on the onslaught of disinformation and misinformation that the Corporatist Media (MSM) Has been dishing out for decades as It's daily fare.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EListeners to this station and fans of this new program, impatiently wait for Thursday, because it doesn't matter what the topic is, be it, neoliberalism, imperialism, geopolitics, etc., it will be highly informative, interesting and presented in as much dept as time permits. If you have not heard it, or missed the last one, below are audio clips of the main segments of it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe program has a space \u003Cstrike\u003EThursday's from 10:30 to 11:00 am\u003C\/strike\u003E (New slot on Saturdays 1:00 - 1:30 p.m.) in \"La Grande 1010AM's\" Programming of \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/post-edit.g?blogID=1794095320758100201\u0026amp;postID=4174932225165752712#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/www.marcosgutierrez.com\/espa_ol')\"\u003E\"Hecho en Californa\"\u003C\/a\u003E, it is broadcasted Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 11:00 am and on Saturdays 12:00 noon to 2:00 pm and can also be heard on the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/post-edit.g?blogID=1794095320758100201\u0026amp;postID=4174932225165752712#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/www.marcosgutierrez.com\/espa_ol')\"\u003EInternet\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn the June 26, 2008 Edition of \"Buscando La Verdad\", the main theme was \"The 1954 CIA Coup in Guatemala\", it seems like a long time ago since this criminal act took place, but it's effects continue to be felt to this day, one of the consequences is the persistent and pervasive poverty in that country which the United States Government successfully and firmly established by overthrowing President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, thus preventing the social programs he (Arbenz) had begun to implement which would hurt Chiquita Banana right where it hurts the most, their profits and control of a country they considered their own.\u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cobject classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/fpdownload.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0\" id=\"xspf_player\" align=\"middle\" height=\"180\" width=\"550\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"sameDomain\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~aurora-grajeda\/javascripts\/xspf_player.swf?playlist_url=http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~wearetheones\/audio\/xspf_playlist\/buscando062608.xspf\u0026amp;info_button_text=Cronicas de Guerra\u0026amp;info_button_text=More Informacion\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#e6e6e6\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/%7Eaurora-grajeda\/javascripts\/xspf_player.swf?playlist_url=http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/%7Ewearetheones\/audio\/xspf_playlist\/buscando062608.xspf\u0026amp;info_button_text=Cronicas%20de%20Guerra\u0026amp;info_button_text=More%20Informacion\" quality=\"high\" bgcolor=\"#e6e6e6\" name=\"xspf_player\" allowscriptaccess=\"sameDomain\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" align=\"middle\" height=\"180\" width=\"550\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWith this perfidy, the USS's CIA set off in an aggressively imperialistic pattern of deception, corruption and manipulation of propping up puppet local figures to squelch any protest or rebellion against oppressive US controlled local right wing governments, as we have seen ever since throughout Latin America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the process is still going on, even if you are not paying too much attention to the news, Guatemala, Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua, etc., are bad, but Colombia, Mexico, Peru, El Salvador etc., are good. You keep hearing about conflict in South America and trouble in Mexico, no matter where in Latin America, if there is trouble brewing, highly likely the United States of America is either behind it or in the middle of it.\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll of the \"Bad\" Countries have one common thread, there is at least an effort to remedy or minimize the economic hardships of the people.\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd all the \"Good\" Countries also have a common thread, only in the opposite, these governments are pro Corporations and the Elite.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd when the people have no choice but to seek means for their survival and emigrate to the US, the majority find discrimination, exclusion, abuse, exploitation, incarceration, deportation, separation from their families and death, all of these ignominies are made easy by a cadre of  'water carriers' working in the MSM for the benefit of the corporations and the elite, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/michael-savage-is-not-sickness-he-is.html\"\u003Ethey are legion\u003C\/a\u003E and they call us immigrant workers, criminals, vermin, 'illegals' and many more despicable, humiliating and hurtful words that has come to be known as: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/is-it-hate-speech-or-is-it-free-speech.html\"\u003E'HATE SPEECH IN THE MEDIA\".\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe US Economic-Empire-Building takes many forms, but you can bet that deception and corruption are found in whichever tactic they use, as the revelations of John Perkins makes in his book.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/post-edit.g?blogID=1794095320758100201\u0026amp;postID=4174932225165752712#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2004\/11\/9\/confessions_of_an_economic_hit_man')\"\u003EConfessions of an Economic Hit Man: How the U.S. Uses Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInterview with Perkins in Democracy Now: \u003Cobject type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~aurora-grajeda\/javascripts\/player.swf\" id=\"audioplayer1\" height=\"24\" width=\"290\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~aurora-grajeda\/javascripts\/player.swf\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"playerID=1\u0026amp;bg=0xFFFF99\u0026amp;leftbg=0xFFCC66\u0026amp;lefticon=0xCCFF33\u0026amp;rightbg=0x00FF99\u0026amp;rightbghover=0x66FFFF\u0026amp;righticon=0xFF3300\u0026amp;righticonhover=0xFFFF00\u0026amp;text=0xFF3300\u0026amp;slider=0xFFFF00\u0026amp;track=0xffffff\u0026amp;border=0x666666\u0026amp;loader=0x9FFFB8\u0026amp;soundFile=http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/dn2004-1109\/dn2004-1109-1_64kb.mp3\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"menu\" value=\"false\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne of the most abject and egregious misdeeds perpetrated in the Corporatist Media operating under an also \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/post-edit.g?blogID=1794095320758100201\u0026amp;postID=4174932225165752712#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fascism')\"\u003Efascist nation\u003C\/a\u003E intent on acquiring economic power, is to perpetuate this form of oppressive and regressive government. (You don't agree that the US is a nation under Fascism? Check out \"The 14 characteristics of Fascism\" \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/post-edit.g?blogID=1794095320758100201\u0026amp;postID=4174932225165752712#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/www.favreau.info\/misc\/14-points-fascism.php')\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/post-edit.g?blogID=1794095320758100201\u0026amp;postID=4174932225165752712#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/www.oldamericancentury.org\/14pts.htm')\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E and in the video below narrated by Mike Malloy.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cobject height=\"192\" width=\"256\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VVVa1IvHdKc\u0026amp;hl=en\"\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VVVa1IvHdKc\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;color1=0x006699\u0026amp;color2=0x54abd6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" align=\"rigt\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E1954 Guatemalan coup d'état\u003C\/a\u003E --\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/post-edit.g?blogID=1794095320758100201\u0026amp;postID=4174932225165752712#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/www.newspoetry.com\/1999\/991226.html')\"\u003EEND OF THE INNOCENCE: The 1954 CIA Coup in Guatemala\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECountry: Guatemala\u003Cbr \/\u003EOverthrown: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/post-edit.g?blogID=1794095320758100201\u0026amp;postID=4174932225165752712#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jacobo_Arbenz_Guzm%C3%A1n')\"\u003EJacobo Arbenz Guzmán\u003C\/a\u003E - Elected in 1951\u003Cbr \/\u003EDate: June 27th 1954\u003Cbr \/\u003EPut in Charge: Often changing members of the Military Juntas.\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn the Web \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/post-edit.g?blogID=1794095320758100201\u0026amp;postID=4174932225165752712#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/www.foia.cia.gov\/guatemala.asp')\"\u003ECIA.gov - Documents related to the 1954 Coup.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/post-edit.g?blogID=1794095320758100201\u0026amp;postID=4174932225165752712#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_PBSUCCESS')\"\u003EWikipedia - Guatemala Coup\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/post-edit.g?blogID=1794095320758100201\u0026amp;postID=4174932225165752712#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/www.consortiumnews.com\/archive\/story38.html')\"\u003EThe Consortium\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENational Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 4\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/post-edit.g?blogID=1794095320758100201\u0026amp;postID=4174932225165752712#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/www.gwu.edu\/~nsarchiv\/NSAEBB\/NSAEBB4\/')\"\u003ECIA and Assassinations:\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Guatemala 1954 Documents\u003Cbr \/\u003Eby Kate Doyle and Peter Kornbluh\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E1. Journey to Banana Land, Engineering Consent \/w Adam Curtis - 2. Engineering of Consent: guatemala coup 1954\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cobject height=\"192\" width=\"256\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5CJSCKWqZZc\u0026amp;hl=en\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5CJSCKWqZZc\u0026amp;color1=0x006699\u0026amp;color2=0x54abd6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" align=\"\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cobject height=\"192\" width=\"256\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jnYZVNVqBgU\u0026amp;hl=en\"\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jnYZVNVqBgU\u0026amp;color1=0x006699\u0026amp;color2=0x54abd6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" align=\"rigt\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv 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wave"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\"Michael Savage is not the sickness, he is a God-Awful symptom\""},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Of Media Ownership's Rules and Regulations.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere's a claim that Michael Savage is not racist, xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic, misogynist, etc. and that the language and the characterizations he uses daily in his show \"The Savage Nation\" Are merely the words of a Patriot who is defending his country, as the mantle he put on implies by the creation of his \u003Ca href=\"#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/www.savagestupidity.com\/prs-sitewatch.html')\"\u003E\"Paul Revere Society\"\u003C\/a\u003E with him riding his horse yelling: \"The Latino immigrants are coming to invade us!\", \"The Latino immigrants are coming to invade us!\"\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow, there's a debate that needs to take place but, alas!, the so called \"Mainstream Media\", in general, does not allow for opposing views to be heard, as to why this is so would take at least a full volume to do justice to the issue, but in short, these media people on the fringes of the political dialog such as: \u003Ca href=\"#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/issues_topics\/people\/nealboortz')\"\u003ENeal Boortz\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/issues_topics\/people\/billoreilly')\"\u003EBill O'Reilly\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/issues_topics\/people\/glennbeck')\"\u003EGlen Beck\u003C\/a\u003E, , \u003Ca href=\"#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/issues_topics\/people\/anncoulter')\"\u003EAnn Coulter\u003C\/a\u003E and many others, have nationally syndicated shows and\/or are invited to Network Channels and allowed to make outrageous and regularly baseless comments without challenge from the hosts and with the exception of a few guests with mildly opposing views, there's practically no guests with real opposing views or opinions, or these \u003Ca href=\"#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shock_jock')\"\u003Eshock-jock\u003C\/a\u003E hosts are just simply dismissed or ignored thus keeping the stream of hateful words to continue unabated.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E \r\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhether or not people like Michael Savage are prejudiced or hold phobias against segments of the population who are attacked as groups, it is not the main issue, at stake is the poisoning of the minds of millions of people who then make decisions based on what they hear on such shock-jock shows to support exclusionary or punitive legislation in accordance with the message received, it also creates and sustains a social atmosphere that adversely hurts the targeted groups without the benefit of hearing the other side of the narrative.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003ECase in point: On August 14 2007 there was a press conference to announce a demonstration on August 15 2007 in front of M. Savage's broadcasting booth to protest his statements RE immigrant students fasting to raise awareness and support for the passage of the DREAM ACT.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E \r\u003Cbr \/\u003EIs it Hate Speech what Savage and people also holding his positions do?, or is it Free Speech   as his supporters claim?\u003Cdiv align=\"middle\"\u003E\u003Cobject data=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~aurora-grajeda\/audio\/xspf_player.swf\" flashvars=\"playlist_url=http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~aurora-grajeda\/audio\/playlists\/playlist4.xspf\u0026amp;placeholder_url=http%3A%2F%2Felrinconcitodeaurora.net%2Fgraphics%2Fjpgs%2Fdawntxt.jpg\u0026amp;xn_app_url=http:\/\/hideout.ning.com\u0026amp;display_add_links=off\u0026amp;display_contributor=off\u0026amp;display_logo=true\u0026amp;xn_app_name=El Rinconcito De Aurora\u0026amp;logo_link=http%3A%2F%2Felrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com%2F\" width=\"550\" height=\"283\" wmode=\"transparent\" bgcolor=\"#eeeeee; scale=\"noscale\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~aurora-grajeda\/audio\/xspf_player.swf\" \u003E\u003C\/param\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"playlist_url=http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~aurora-grajeda\/audio\/playlists\/playlist4.xspf\u0026amp;placeholder_url=http%3A%2F%2Felrinconcitodeaurora.net%2Fgraphics%2Fjpgs%2Fdawntxt.jpg\u0026amp;xn_app_url=http:\/\/hideout.ning.com\u0026amp;display_add_links=off\u0026amp;display_contributor=off\u0026amp;display_logo=true\u0026amp;xn_app_name=El Rinconcito De Aurora\u0026amp;logo_link=http%3A%2F%2Felrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com%2F\" \u003E\u003C\/param\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \u003E\u003C\/param\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"eeeeee\" \u003E\u003C\/param\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe, the protesters feel that what Michael Savage does, creates an atmosphere of warrantless intolerance that incites hate and violence and needs to be publicized\/debated\/discussed in public forums, but with the exception of Spanish speaking Media's limited coverage of the action, the Mainstream Media silence on it,  was deafening,  besides a C.W. Nevius balanced  article in the San Francisco Chronicle: \u003Ca href=\"#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2007\/08\/15\/BA08RIFSU.DTL')\"\u003EDespite Latino protest, silencing Savage seems unlikely\"\u003C\/a\u003E Wednesday, August 15, 2007, and some bloggers reporting on Michael Savage's words and what people are saying, as you can find on the  Huffington Post Bloggers:,  you have to go to Spanish speaking reporters such as Erika Cebreros', writing for El Mensajero and La Opinion Digital -  Discriminación ‘salvaje’ - Rechazan  ‘palabras de odio’ - Protesta comunidad latina contra el locutor  \u003Ca href=\"#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/www.laopinion.com\/archivo\/index.html?START=2\u0026RESULTSTART=1\u0026DISPLAYTYPE=single\u0026FREETEXT=protesta+michael+savage\u0026FDATEd12=\u0026FDATEd13=\u0026SORT_MODE=SORT_MODE')\"\u003E Michael Savage, arrollado por el ‘Tren de la dignidad humana’\u003C\/a\u003E Lunes, 20 de agosto de 2007 , the few seconds on the 6 and 11 pm news shows on Univision, Telemundo, local English TV outlets in SF on that day, progressive websites and 'leftist' local publications, what you normally find on the Mainstream National Media and on the internet, are misleading articles, the rest for the most part, is intolerance and hate coverage.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EThanks to some local Spanish AM radio stations in San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento, Seattle and Phoenix, that I know of, who gave us air time to carry our message locality to locality, we will get there if we keep the eyes on the prize.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn addition, I wrote a report on the action to our supporters (\u003Ca href=\"#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~aurora-grajeda\/html\/myreport_081507.html')\"\u003EText\u003C\/a\u003E) \r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince last year, new developments have taken place, more organizations are getting more involved and have joined in the struggle to stop the verbal, legal and physical attacks against the Hispanic \/ Latino community in general and against immigrants in particular, such as \u003Ca href=\"#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/www.nhmc.org\/')\"\u003ENHMC's\u003C\/a\u003E Campaign \u003Ca href=\"#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/www.latinosagainsthatespeech.org\/')\"\u003E\"Latinos Against Hate Speech\"\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\"#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/www.nclr.org\/')\"\u003ENCLR's \"WAVE OF HOPE\"\u003C\/a\u003E  With their \u003Ca href=\"#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/www.wecanstopthehate.org\/')\"\u003E\"We Can Stop The Hate\"\u003C\/a\u003E Campaign.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor a more humane and civilized society,\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EAurora\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EMore Documentation and info below in the event you are interested.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003ESAN FRANCISCO: \u003Ca href=\"#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/video\/13902807\/index.html')\"\u003ERob Roth Reports On Group Protesting Comments By Radio Host Michael Savage\u003C\/a\u003E On KTVU TV (Local FOX Affiliate hence NOT, repeat, NOT \"fair and balanced\" Where Dr. Marcos Gutierrez, Producer and Host of \u003Ca href=\"#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/www.marcosgutierrez.com\/espa_ol')\"\u003E\"Hecho en California\"\u003C\/a\u003E (\u003Ca href=\"#\" onclick=\"Openme2('http:\/\/www.marcosgutierrez.com\/english')\"\u003E\"Made in California\"\u003C\/a\u003E) Called in to demand time for an opposing opinion (There was none in the original format of the segment))\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemonstration on August 15, KNEW's broadcasting booth and local Clear Channel Communications' executive offices - See \u003Ca href=\"#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/www.savage-productions.com\/savage_protest_at_KNEW.html')\"\u003EPictures\u003C\/a\u003E - See \u003Ca href=\"#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wqOigFSIfZ4')\"\u003Evideo\u003C\/a\u003E(From: SFCollegeRepublicans)\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Savage Debate\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EPress Conference: Stop Hate Messages on Local Radio August 14, 2007 on SF City Hall steps \u003Ca href=\"#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nmfBWbBznkI')\"\u003E(Video)\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/www.sfgov.org\/site\/bdsupvrs_page.asp?id=65897')\"\u003EPhoto Gallery.\u003C\/a\u003E \r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"#\" onclick=\"Openme('Know Your Right-Wing Speakers: Michael Savage')\"\u003EKnow Your Right-Wing Speakers: Michael Savage\u003C\/a\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EFrom Campus Progress\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EBorn Michael Weiner in the Bronx in 1942, the future Savage graduated from Queens College with a degree in biology, after which he attended the University of Hawaii for master’s degrees in anthropology and botany. He spent the rest of the late 1960s and early 1970s traveling the South Seas. Weiner received his doctorate from the University of California in epidemiology and nutrition science. He became an expert on herbal remedies, penning more than 15 books while still known as Michael Weiner, including such classics as Earth Medicine, Earth Food, Getting off Cocaine: 30 Days to Freedom, and The Complete Book of Homeopathy. While his knowledge base in herbal medicine was vast, he was more of a snake oil salesman than anything else. In Getting off Cocaine, he gave addicts “an alternative plan for getting ‘high’” that consisted of a daily dose of Sudafed, vitamins C and E, amino acids, and the occasional coffee enema. No word on the effectiveness of this treatment. His turn to the far right coincided with the rise of gay activism, as he linked homosexuality to the spread of not only AIDS, but the general spread of disease.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003ESavage is a prime purveyor of the slanderous liberal-bashing that passes for “humor” on talk radio. He describes his style as a mix of “Plato, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Moses, Jesus, and Frankenstein,” although a comparison to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde would also be appropriate, given his frequent mood swings. Savage is juvenile and defensive in his insults, resorting to lazy and trite grasps at “humor” as well as frequent comparisons of prominent progressives to Nazi leaders. In reference to Jimmy Carter’s criticism of Israel’s West Bank policy, Savage called him an “anti-Semitic bastard,” “Jew-hater,” and “war criminal” who is “like Hitler.” Yes, Michael Savage compares a celebrated humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize winner to the man responsible for one of the worst genocides in history. He has referred to Brokeback Mountain as Bareback Mounting, making him as original as the guy who comes up with puns for pornographic movie titles.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003ESavage is also convinced that affirmative action is a conspiracy to hold back all white males. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EFrom Salon.com By David Gilson\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EPage 1: \u003Ca href=\"#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/dir.salon.com\/story\/news\/feature\/2003\/03\/05\/savage\/index1.html?pn=1')\"\u003EMichael Savage's long, strange trip\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow a Jewish kid from the Bronx went from swimming naked with Allen Ginsberg to spewing the ugliest bile on talk radio.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EEveryone who has ever known Michael Weiner seems to agree that he has always been a big talker. One of his classmates from Jamaica High School in Queens, which Weiner graduated from in 1959, recalls him as a garrulous character: \"He was on the short side, and he was intense -- a fast talker, and always hatching some scheme or other.\" \"The fellow I knew was a natural comic and as reliable as a clock,\" remembers another classmate, who says the teenage Weiner was \"non-political.\" His yearbook page notes his participation in the Chemistry Lab Squad, school government, and the Rifle Squad, presaging his interest in science, politics and firearms.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EPage 2: \u003Ca href=\"#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/dir.salon.com\/story\/news\/feature\/2003\/03\/05\/savage\/index1.html?pn=2')\"\u003EThe therapeutic benefits of a coffee enema\u003C\/a\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn \"The Way of the Skeptical Nutritionist,\" he ventured that a person's ideal diet should be determined by his or her ethnicity. \"Getting Off Cocaine: 30 Days to Freedom\" promised blow addicts \"an alternative plan for getting 'high' -- legally and naturally!\" The treatment involved ingesting a daily cocktail of Sudafed, vitamins C and E, and amino acids, as well as self-administering the occasional coffee enema. \"Use a good quality coffee,\" Weiner advised. \"Not decaffeinated or instant.\"\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EPage 3: \u003Ca href=\"#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/dir.salon.com\/story\/news\/feature\/2003\/03\/05\/savage\/index.html?pn=3')\"\u003E \"Inner voice screaming at me ... first rational, then crazy\"\u003C\/a\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EMar 5, 2003 | At first glance, Michael Alan Weiner seems like an improbable candidate to be America's angriest, most vicious conservative radio host. Born 60 years ago in the Bronx, Weiner has lived in Northern California for most of his adult life, making a living as an herbalist and nutritionist. He communed with Fijian traditional healers, got married in a rain forest and studied ethno-medicine at the University of California at Berkeley. He swam naked with Allen Ginsberg, dreamed of being the next Lenny Bruce and wrote a rambling novel about a half-mad alter ego. His son's middle name is Goldencloud.\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EPage 4: \u003Ca href=\"#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/dir.salon.com\/story\/news\/feature\/2003\/03\/05\/savage\/index.html?pn=4')\"\u003EA deepening love affair with the sound of his own voice\u003C\/a\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese days, Weiner's more interested in purging the body politic. Using the pseudonym Michael Savage, he's launched a one-man mission to save America from its enemies at home and abroad, which on any given day includes liberals, gays, academics, the homeless, the Clintons, immigrants, feminists, CNN, the American Civil Liberties Union, Muslims and other minorities. Broadcasting three hours a day, five afternoons a week, from a rented studio in downtown San Francisco, he gives voice to the right wing's darkest fantasies. He muses about launching preemptive nuclear strikes on the Middle East (\"I wish to God the hatches were open and the missiles were flying!\"), suggests gunning down illegal immigrants (\"If we had a government, we'd blow them out of the desert with airplanes!\"), dreams of dispatching with \"commies, pinkos and perverts\" and other undesirables (\"I say round them up and hang 'em high!\") and even paraphrases a remark attributed to Nazi leader Hermann Goering (\"When I hear someone's in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-15!\")\r\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\/4145701901816027837\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/michael-savage-is-not-sickness-he-is.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/4145701901816027837"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/4145701901816027837"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/michael-savage-is-not-sickness-he-is.html","title":"\"Michael Savage is not the sickness, he is a God-Awful symptom\""}],"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":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-2279663581978828828"},"published":{"$t":"2008-06-23T03:43:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-06-23T04:58:19.292-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"california"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Chávez"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"doroteo"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"farm"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"fired"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"gold"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Isabel"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Jiménez"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Juan"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"labor"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"law"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"María"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"merced"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"state"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"termination"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"ufw"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"uncle"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Vázquez"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Punishment after Injury? RE: María Isabel Vázquez Jiménez family."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Short as her life was, so were the news that his uncle was fired from the contractor who replaced Merced Farm Labor, the contractors who are directly responsible for her death and that I hope anyone amongst them found responsible for the inhumane conditions which prompted María Isabel Vázquez Jiménez death, gets charged at least with criminal negligence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.recordnet.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080621\/A_NEWS\/806210317\"\u003E\"Uncle of girl who died from heatstroke is fired\"\u003C\/a\u003E reads the headline of \u003Ca href=\"mailto:jRodr%C3%ADguez@recordnet.com\"\u003EJenny Rodríguez\u003C\/a\u003E article, the report is also brief, Jenny tells us that it \u003Cem\u003E\"was the same day his sister, María's mother, filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the vineyard company and the contractor in charge when María Jiménez became ill\"\u003C\/em\u003E and also tells us that \u003Cem\u003E\"Juan Chávez, the new contractor, fired Jiménez for missing a safety meeting that took place Wednesday\"\u003C\/em\u003E, the same day  that he accompanied lawyers to file the lawsuit and also spoke at a news conference.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccording to el Sr. Doroteo Jiménez, Juan Chávez, the owner of \u003Cem\u003E\"California Gold\"\u003C\/em\u003E, the new farm labor contractor that replaced \u003Cem\u003E\"Merced Farm Labor\"\u003C\/em\u003E, he had asked for and had been given permission to take the day off. He was never informed there would be a mandatory safety training that day.\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe returned to work afterwards and was fired at the end of the shift.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMs. Rodríguez ends her report with this:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDean Fryer, a spokesman for the state Labor Commission, said the firing could be illegal if proven to be retaliation. California labor code states an employee has a right to disclose and file a complaint about working conditions to labor officials.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFryer said if that can be proved, regardless of the worker's U.S. residency status, state officials may take action.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We would have to conduct our own investigation,\" Fryer said. \"The employee has to come forward to us and tell us he wants (an) investigation.\"\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow, why does the SLC's spokesman mentions 'retaliation' as the possible cause? How does Mr. Jiménez prove it was retaliation? The standard of proof has to be a bit high in these cases, isn't?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ufw.org\/_board.php?mode=view\u0026amp;b_code=news_press\u0026amp;b_no=4412\u0026amp;page=1\u0026amp;field=\u0026amp;key=\u0026amp;n=532\"\u003EUFW Condemns Firing of Doroteo Jiménez\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\"The United Farm Workers is condemning the action by farm labor contractor California Gold, its owner Juan Chávez and West Coast Grape Farming Inc. in the firing Thursday evening of Doroteo Jiménez.\"\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBravo UFW, I'm sure the Labor Contractors must be shrinking in fear and it will teach then not to do it again. WOW!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot only that, the UFW also informs us that \u003Cem\u003E\"Upon being terminated Jiménez was not given his final pay check – as required by law. As of today, he still had not been paid.\"\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey are absolutely right on this, furthermore I can add, a termination is not effective until all the \u003Cem\u003Emoneys due\u003C\/em\u003E are paid in full.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince I don't know if UFW has legal representation on Mr. Jiménez, I'll assume they don't, they can't do much more than make pronouncements, or, can they? I also ignore if he was working under what is called \u003Cem\u003E\"employment at will\"\u003C\/em\u003E conditions, albeit the latter is besides the matter at hand, in my opinion of course!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFirst of all, I do know that an employer needs to have, and inform the employees, of it's \u003Cem\u003E\"diciplinary guidelines\"\u003C\/em\u003E, do they have them?  Were the employees informed of it?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI understand that any rule needs three qualifiers for it to be valid:  \u003Cem\u003E1. needs to be  known, 2. be fair and 3. be equally applied\"\u003C\/em\u003E, were these three conditions met in the firing?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESecondly, Mr. Jiménez asked for and got permission to be absent, why wasn't he told there would be a safety meeting? Why wasn't he told that missing it would be a cause for termination?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAny modicum of decency would mandate in all fairness, to not discipline an employee if what I see happened, did in fact happen, or if after the event, the true facts were known, but then... to expect decency in the field of Labor Contractors who according to reports, have a dismal record on working conditions, would be tantamount to be living in Pollyanna.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESee?  That's why I question why Mr. Dean Fryer, the spokesman for the State Labor Commission zeroed in immediately on retaliation as the cause of the dismissal, and also why I take exception on the tepid response by the UFW's leadership who have more important matters to tend to, such as negotiating contracts to import braceros from Mexico.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd by the way, the real reason Mr. Doroteo Jiménez was diciplined was not for retaliation, but so he couldn't be an example to other workers, or as paradoxically as the case may be, as an example to other workers, as intimidation so nobody messes with their profits.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMaría Isabel Vázquez Jiménez life was short and her death cruel, unjust and totally preventable, I think that she would want us to help her family, still in mourning, do what is just... and right, for her, for her family, for the Farm Workers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr the abuses will continue.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"De Colores\" == \u003E  \u003Cobject type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~aurora-grajeda\/javascripts\/player.swf\" id=\"audioplayer1\" height=\"24\" width=\"290\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~aurora-grajeda\/javascripts\/player.swf\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"playerID=1\u0026amp;bg=0xFFFF99\u0026amp;leftbg=0xFFCC66\u0026amp;lefticon=0xCCFF33\u0026amp;rightbg=0x00FF99\u0026amp;rightbghover=0x66FFFF\u0026amp;righticon=0xFF3300\u0026amp;righticonhover=0xFFFF00\u0026amp;text=0xFF3300\u0026amp;slider=0xFFFF00\u0026amp;track=0xffffff\u0026amp;border=0x666666\u0026amp;loader=0x9FFFB8\u0026amp;soundFile=http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~erdaaudio\/\/audio\/sisepuede\/de_colores.mp3\" \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"menu\" value=\"false\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAurora Grajeda\u003Cbr \/\u003ESFCA 06.22.08\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\/2279663581978828828\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/punishment-after-injury-re-mara-isabel.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/2279663581978828828"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/2279663581978828828"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/punishment-after-injury-re-mara-isabel.html","title":"Punishment after Injury? RE: María Isabel Vázquez Jiménez family."}],"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":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-5967272821549931293"},"published":{"$t":"2008-06-21T01:47:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2015-12-10T23:57:26.746-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"blood"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"california"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"corrido"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"deaths"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"ensangrentado"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"exhaustion"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"farm"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"gutierrez"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"heat"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Isabel"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Jimenez"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"lodi"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"marcos"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Maria"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"osha"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"sangriento"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"shade"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"vazquez"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"vino"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"wine"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\"Blood Wine\" Corrido de Maria Isabel Jiménez  Vázquez  by Dr. Marcos Gutiérrez."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cimg align=\"left\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/pics\/maria-isabel-vasquez-jimenez_girl_w_pic.jpg\" height=\"325\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"215\" \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe stories of the people are told by the people, in poems, ballads and  specifically in Mexico, with Corridos.\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nMaria Isabel Jiménez  Vázquez with  her Prometido, left her pueblo and family in Oaxaca, up on the Sierra Madre  Occidental for California, hoping to earn some money with which to support the  family they hoped to have, she was two months pregnant.\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThey call it \"The  American Dream\", for some, I'm told, it becomes a reality, but for the  overwhelming majority, there is the rude awakening to the \"American Nightmare\",  in a land which values machines more than human beings, all in the pursuit of  the \"All-Mighty Dollar\" Which will make their own \"American Dream\" A reality,  leaving in their wake, pain, misery and often death.\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAs it was with María  Isabel, on her third day of work, she collapsed of heat exhaustion in a farm  that didn't provide human working conditions for workers laboring under a  head-splitting sun in the fields of Lodi California. where the summer  temperatures raise above 100 degrees, just like in the fateful day of her  preventable and premature death.\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\n\"Jiménez was working  in vineyards owned by West Coast Grape Farming, which is owned in part by Fred  Franzia of California's Bronco Wine Co – the producer of the Charles Shaw brand,  also known as Two Buck Chuck.\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHer fiancée told officials that the  supervisors did not call for medical help after Jimenez collapsed, didn't offer  her water or shade, and later told him to lie to hospital staff about his  fiancee's age and whom she was working for.\" \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nHer  bosses didn't care and she didn't get a sendoff as big as the one that Tim  Russert got, whom they say was a great man, but her compañeros Farm Workers  remembered her on a march from Lodi to Sacramento where they demonstrated their  outrage at the neglect to enforce Labor Laws in the fields by authorities (Cal  OSHA), we learned that the same employer had been previously cited and fined for  similar violations.\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nElsewhere, many of us who also heard about her story,  became sad, outraged, angry...\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nDr. Marcos Gutiérrez and his audience talked  about it in his \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.marcosgutierrez.com\/espa_ol\"\u003Eprogram\u003C\/a\u003E, he made  the trip to Sacramento where he joined the marchers, made interviews, recorded  them to share with us, but he wanted to do more so her story is passed on, so we  don't forget that we must not let these crimes happen anymore.\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nHe wrote a  Corrido that he sings and where he includes some of the interviews he conducted  during the march.\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nHere it is. (Bilingual, Spa \u0026amp; Eng)\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nEn Memoria De Maria Isabel Jimenez Vázquez\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nCorrido de, y, por Dr. Marcos Gutiérrez \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-left; auto; margin-right:auto; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\"Blood Wine\" (\"Vino Ensangrentado\") ==\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: 8px; align: middle;\"\u003E\u003Cobject data=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/javascripts\/player_mp3_maxi.swf\" width=\"250\" height=\"30\" 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=\"#000000\" name=\"bgcolor\" \/\u003E\u003Cparam value=\"mp3=http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/audio\/blood_wine.mp3\u0026amp;showvolume=1\u0026amp;volume=75\u0026amp;buttoncolor=000000\u0026amp;buttonovercolor=33FF33\u0026amp;slidercolor1=000000\u0026amp;slidercolor2=CCCCCC\u0026amp;volumeheight=15\u0026amp;bgcolor1=FFCC33\u0026amp;bgcolor2=FF9933\u0026amp;autoplay=0\" name=\"FlashVars\" \/\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/audio\/download.php?f=http:\/\/www.elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/audio\/mp3s\/blood_wine.mp3\" hint=\"So, you would like to keep this corrido? Then steal it, click to download\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/audio\/arrow.gif\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EBlood Wine Corrido\u003C\/a\u003E by \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.hechoencalifornia1010.com\/\" hint=\"This corrido was composed, performed y recorded by Dr. Marcos Gutierrez.\"\u003EDr. Marcos Gutierrez\u003C\/a\u003E of \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/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.\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\"\u003E\"La Grande\"\u003C\/a\u003E KIQI 1010AM SF and KATD 990AM SAC, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/hechoencalifornia1010.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" 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\", free MP3 Download!\u003C\/div\u003E \n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003EOur gente always sings our struggles and our victories, the Farm Workers left us 'canciones de lucha'\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"No Nos Moveran\"   == \u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: 8px; align: middle;\"\u003E\u003Cobject data=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/javascripts\/player_mp3_maxi.swf\" width=\"250\" height=\"30\" 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=\"#000000\" name=\"bgcolor\" \/\u003E\u003Cparam value=\"mp3=http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.net\/audio\/mp3s\/no_nos_moveran.mp3\u0026amp;showvolume=1\u0026amp;volume=75\u0026amp;buttoncolor=000000\u0026amp;buttonovercolor=33FF33\u0026amp;slidercolor1=000000\u0026amp;slidercolor2=CCCCCC\u0026amp;volumeheight=15\u0026amp;bgcolor1=FFCC33\u0026amp;bgcolor2=FF9933\u0026amp;autoplay=0\" name=\"FlashVars\" \/\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E  \n\n\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nI Second Dr. Marcos Gutiérrez and add: \"Mejor morir luchando que vivir arrollidad@s\"  \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nVideo: María's fiance Florentino Bautista talks about what happened on May 14.\/Video: El Prometido de Maria, Florentino Bautista, habla sobre lo que pasó el 14 de mayo\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cobject height=\"344\" width=\"425\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xEqhUv7hED4\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xEqhUv7hED4\u0026amp;color1=0x00CC33\u0026amp;color2=0x00FF66\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"344\" width=\"425\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThere is an investigation on her death and the abuses to the Farm Workers, her mother has \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.kcra.com\/video\/16645269\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Efiled a civil suit\u003C\/a\u003E for wrongful death.\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/101\/story\/973298.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ETeen farmworker's death, probed as heat-related, stirs outcry\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWhen Vasquez Jimenez collapsed, she had been on the job three days, pruning vines for $8 an hour in a vineyard owned by West Coast Grape Farming.\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDuring eight hours of work beginning at 6 a.m. in heat that topped 95 degrees, Bautista said that workers were given only one water break, at 10:30 a.m. And the water was a 10-minute walk away – too far, he said, to keep up with the crew and avoid being scolded.\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nVasquez Jimenez collapsed at 3:30 p.m., Bautista said, and for at least five minutes, the foreman did nothing but stare at the couple while Bautista cradled her.\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBautista said the foreman told him to place the teenager in the back seat of a van, which was hot inside, and put a wet cloth on her.\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLater, Bautista said, the foreman told a driver to take the pair to a store to buy rubbing alcohol and apply it to see if it would revive Maria Isabel Jiménez  Vázquez. When that failed, the driver took the couple to a clinic in Lodi, Bautista said, where her body temperature had reached more than 108 degrees.\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\"The foreman told me to say that she wasn't working for a contractor, that she got sick while exercising,\" Bautista said in Spanish. \"He said she was underage, and it would cause a lot of problems.\"\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBautista and family members said that clinic staff rushed the girl to a hospital, where she was revived several times before finally succumbing two days later without ever regaining consciousness. Doctors later discovered she was two months pregnant.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003C\/div\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":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5967272821549931293\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/blood-wine-corrido-de-maria-isabel.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/5967272821549931293"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/5967272821549931293"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/blood-wine-corrido-de-maria-isabel.html","title":"\"Blood Wine\" Corrido de Maria Isabel Jiménez  Vázquez  by Dr. Marcos Gutiérrez."}],"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":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-6098496759181195555"},"published":{"$t":"2008-06-18T21:18:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-06-18T21:40:07.687-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"1000"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"conditions"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"conversations"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"cruel"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"detention"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Guantanamization"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"guantanamo"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"ice"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"immigrant"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"immigration"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"inhuman"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"lovato"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"militarized"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"night"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"pentagon"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"practices"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"roberto"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"torture"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Guantanamization of Immigrant Detention"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"By: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/post-edit.g?blogID=1794095320758100201\u0026amp;postID=6098496759181195555#\" class=\"hintanchor\" onmouseover=\"showhint('(robvato@gmail.com), contributing Associate Editor with New America Media. He is also a frequent contributor to The Nation and the Huffington Post and his work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, Der Spiegel, Utne Magazine, La Opinion, and other national and international media outlets. Prior to becoming a writer, Roberto was the Executive Director of the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN), then the country’s largest immigrant rights organization.', this, event, '300px')\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/ofamerica.wordpress.com\/about\/')\"\u003ERoberto Lovato\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/post-edit.g?blogID=1794095320758100201\u0026amp;postID=6098496759181195555#\" class=\"hintanchor\" onmouseover=\"showhint('Of América is born of belonging. Like barbarians in our own land, many of us are daily bombarded with the message of multiple Lords: “You”re on the wrong side of the Walls of Civilization. You don”t belong”. If you”re tired hungry feeling overly huddled or simply yearning to breathe free of this video game of a “civilization” please consider this your camp a place to think \u0026 share, plot \u0026 play as we celebrate that we are indeed barbarians, those bearing the mark of Original Borderlessness. As we discuss and debate current events and issues like immigration, race, national security and culture, together we will dream atop the rubble \u0026 ruins of the City on a Hill a mythical City that the fearful and feeble-minded believe is not part Of América, land of loving barbarians who belong. That said, the time has come for you to decide: either go back behind the withering Walls of “civilization” and wait for us at the gates or press here and be born again by dancing to a barbarian war chant, sung in barbarian languages to the barbarian beats of late truly great barbaro, Ray Barreto. Welcome and enjoy! Of América is brought to you by Roberto Lovato', this, event, '400px')\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/ofamerica.wordpress.com')\"\u003E\"Of América\"\u003C\/a\u003E  on \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/ofamerica.wordpress.com\/2008\/06\/18\/the-guantanamization-of-immigrant-detention\/\"\u003EDreaming Beyond the Walls of “Civilization”\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJune 18, 2008\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/post-edit.g?blogID=1794095320758100201\u0026amp;postID=6098496759181195555#\" class=\"hintanchor\" onmouseover=\"showhint('On June 19 thousands of people from across the country will gather in homes offices, coffee shops and places of worship to discuss how the overreach of the Department of Homeland Security DHS is undermining the civil liberties and human rights of people living in America. And, as he prepares to take part in the Night of 1000 Conversations, former detainee Ahmad says he will raise his voice to educate people about what he sees as the primary cause of the abuses he saw while in detention, “Creating guilty people and detention are all about war. I will tell people about how all those arrests, all that abuse are all about war, a war on immigrants.”', this, event, '300px')\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/nightof1000conversations.org\/')\"\u003E\"The Night of 1000 Conversations\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EImran Ahmad (a pseudonym), a 29 year-old Pakistani computer scientist who can see the Statue of Liberty from his studio apartment in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood, says he no longer believes in the symbol of freedom cast in copper. “Freedom is relative. It depends on things like where you’re from and what you look like” says Ahmad. He reached this conclusion, he says, because of what happened to him as a orange-uniformed detainee held for more than 3 years in numerous federal detention facilities: the denial of habeas corpus (his constitutional right to plead his case before a judge), facing growling dogs, watching friends languish and die while in custody, the “subtle torture” of living for months in a tiny, windowless white room while a nearby TV set blared American Idol or “24.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter a fellow detainee died under mysterious circumstances, which were covered up by detention facility authorities, Ahmad says he was threatened with lines like “We don’t want you to tell or speak to anyone about this” and “We have cameras and people [detainees] who are watching you, monitoring you.” Though Ahmad was released, he is still in deportation proceedings.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAhmad’s story will not shock anyone familiar with stories of death, violence and other abuse coming out of Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and other offshore military detention facilities holding men in orange prison uniforms. But what makes his story noteworthy is that it reflects how many of these same offshore practices are now being perpetrated against detainees held within the borders of the United States: the hundreds of thousands of immigrants held in one of the growing number of detention facilities run by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), the most militarized branch of the U.S. government besides the Pentagon.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo protest what they consider the increasingly cruel and inhuman conditions and practices in the ICE detention facilities, Ahmad and thousands of activists are organizing \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/post-edit.g?blogID=1794095320758100201\u0026amp;postID=6098496759181195555#\" class=\"hintanchor\" onmouseover=\"showhint('On June 19 thousands of people from across the country will gather in homes offices, coffee shops and places of worship to discuss how the overreach of the Department of Homeland Security DHS is undermining the civil liberties and human rights of people living in America. And, as he prepares to take part in the Night of 1000 Conversations, former detainee Ahmad says he will raise his voice to educate people about what he sees as the primary cause of the abuses he saw while in detention, “Creating guilty people and detention are all about war. I will tell people about how all those arrests, all that abuse are all about war, a war on immigrants.”', this, event, '300px')\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/nightof1000conversations.org\/')\"\u003E\"The Night of 1000 Conversations\"\u003C\/a\u003E, a series of vigils, town halls, house meetings and other events which will take place in over 250 towns and cities across the country on June 19th .\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmong the principal concerns to be discussed during the nationwide events are what critics say, is nothing less than a “Guantanamization” of migrant detention within the borders of the United States: death, abuse and neglect at the hands of detention facility guards (many of whom are former military personnel who served in Iraq and Afghanistan); the prolonged and indefinite detention of thousands including children and families denied due process and other fundamental rights as they languish in filthy, overcrowded and extremely unhealthy facilities; orange-uniformed detainees sedated with psychotropic drugs, attacked by growling dogs and physically and sexually abused by guards; multi-million government contracts for prison construction and management given to high-powered, military industrial and prison industrial giants like Halliburton and the Utah-based Management and Training Corporation, whose former director set up the infamous Abu Ghraib detention facility.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJamil Dakwar, director of the Human Rights Division of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), is currently at Guantanamo, outside one of the notorious Military Commission hearings created as a result of the recently rescinded (but still being implemented) law that denied the right to habeas corpus to both military and immigrant facility detainees. Dakwar sees clearly how detention practices on the island have now crept onto detention facilities on the mainland. “The general lack of accountability and oversight, the secrecy, the lack of respect for human dignity for persons held in military and immigration facilities, the lack of legally binding standards regulating treatment of persons in both (military and immigrant) facilities—all of this leads to the abuses we’re now seeing in both” said Dakwar, adding, “In cases of people who die while in custody, for example, the government makes it extremely difficult to impossible to find out who is responsible for conditions that lead to the killing or other loss of life.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor her part, Dakwar’s ALCU colleague, Amrit Singh, a staff attorney who has worked on different cases involving people detained by the Pentagon in Guantanamo and people held in ICE detention facilities believes that “Noncitizen detainees at home and abroad are part of the same continuum of mistreatment. The dogs used on detainees in the New Jersey [immigrant] detention facilities look very similar to the dogs used on detainees in Abu Ghraib and Iraq.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the case of both the military and immigrant detention facilities, says Singh, the Bush Administration has used national security imperatives to deny many of the Freedom of Information Act requests she and her colleagues have filed in their efforts to find out things like how people are being treated in detention, under what conditions did detainees die and what kind of medical treatment they are receiving. Asked about progress towards answering these and other questions, Singh responded, “The answer to these questions are still not being made available to us.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe connections between abuse and death in military and immigration facilities has also caught the eye of the international community. Singh, Darwit and some of the groups and individuals participating in the Night of 1000 Conversations, will be submitting testimony to a United Nations Special Rapporteur who, in the next two weeks, will visit several U.S. cities as he investigates deaths in both overseas detention facilities and in U.S. prisons and immigration detention facilities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd, as he prepares to take part in the Night of 1000 Conversations, former detainee Ahmad says he will raise his voice to educate people about what he sees as the primary cause of the abuses he saw while in detention, “Creating guilty people and detention are all about war. I will tell people about how all those arrests, all that abuse are all about war, a war on immigrants.”\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\/6098496759181195555\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/guantanamization-of-immigrant-detention.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/6098496759181195555"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/6098496759181195555"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/guantanamization-of-immigrant-detention.html","title":"The Guantanamization of Immigrant Detention"}],"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":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-3116970372560882851"},"published":{"$t":"2008-06-17T13:45:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2015-11-10T22:33:57.916-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"are"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"discrimination"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"electric"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"employment"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"gas"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"gay"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hate"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"homophobia"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"intolerance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"loss"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"pacific"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"transgender"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"transphobia"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"transsexual"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"you"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Are you gay?"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"[This piece which is an extremely abbreviated version of why and how I lost my 65K per annum job was presented for the Mission SRO Collaborative’s writing project for it’s first issue of “Hotel Voices\", published in the spring\/summer of 2006, it was also published in Poor Magazine online the summer of that year.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe themes were about the experiences of SRO Hotel’s residents and\/or how we came to be living in SRO Hotels, which is a step short of homelessness.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIt was subsequently posted on 03\/05\/07 at the Coalicion Primero de Mayo Blog and I'm posting yet again as a reminder that phobias and prejudices have consequences for people who are different than oneselves and in relation to the California Supreme Court's Ruling on \"Same-sex marriage\", the regressive movement to change the Constitution so same sex couples can't marry.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAlso at the Daily Kos From this Author [\u003Ca class=\"hintanchor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/blogger.g?blogID=1794095320758100201#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/tranny.dailykos.com\/user\/tranny\/')\" onmouseover=\"showhint('My Screen Name at the Daily Kos Blog', this, event, '100px')\"\u003E\"Tranny\"\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca class=\"hintanchor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/post-edit.g?blogID=1794095320758100201\u0026amp;postID=3116970372560882851#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2006\/2\/13\/191658\/964\/279\/186851')\" onmouseover=\"showhint('Posted on Mon Feb 13, 2006 from an email sent to my friends on Thursday, February 15 2001 after I was spited upon on the side of my head Valentine”s Day by a young latino man on Mission St, between 23rd and 24 St. Valentine”s Day, 11:42 pm. - “It”s almost over, 18 more minutes. It is not important to receive flowers, or a hug, or a kiss on Valentine”s day, those are extras.  The least I expected was to enjoy this sunny day in the Mission with an afternoon stroll.”', this, event, '300px')\"\u003E\"My 2001 Valentine's day story.\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca class=\"hintanchor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/blogger.g?blogID=1794095320758100201#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2005\/9\/19\/54013\/6107')\" onmouseover=\"showhint('Written a year after Teenager Transgender Girl Gwen Araujo was assasinated and after the trial of the killers, she dreamed of becoming a Hollywood make up artist. She has been described as a beautiful person both inside and out and always smiling. She always thought of herself as a girl, preferred the name Gwen, and always wanted a sex change. She lived in Newark, CA, a small town 30 miles from San Francisco, the supposed gay capital of the United States', this, event, '300px')\"\u003E“Gay Panic” Defense? My Ass!\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca class=\"hintanchor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/post-edit.g?blogID=1794095320758100201\u0026amp;postID=3116970372560882851#\" onclick=\"Openme('http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2006\/2\/12\/2370\/76853\/697\/186441')\" onmouseover=\"showhint('Posted on Sat Feb 11, 2006 at 11:37:00 PM PDT - Some years ago, my tg sister Mayra, also a friend and  mentor, was screaming at me at the top of her lungs: YOU ARE STUPID!  YOU DON”T GET IT!  THESE PEOPLE WILL NEVER ACCEPT US! NEVER!... NEVER!...NEVER! I started crying and she soon joined me.  I hope she is wrong, but if she is right, a lot more fighting has to be done.  I decided then and there that I”d not settle for crumbs, not even the meatless bones that the “Gay movement” Throws at us Transgender (I not only feel excluded from it, but I really am)', this, event, '300px')\"\u003E\"Beyond He and She: A Transgender News Update\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #ff66ff; font-size: 14;\"\u003EAre you gay?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n- By Aurora Grajeda:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSilvia asked lifting her gaze away from my shining pearly-white nails, professionally manicured in the style known as French, the baby pink flesh showing through the neutral-colored nail polish, we were confirming our upcoming first lunch date in 2 plus years of working together.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI tried to think how many times she had asked during the 2 1\/2 years of us working together. Today, I didn’t answer with the usual question: Why do you say that?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nToday I firmly said, “no“\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n“Mmmm… Are you sure? Silvia asked, lifting her eyes to mine, pondered, “mmm… I don’t know…” Looking again at my nails… “Are you really sure you’re not gay?”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTired of her regular queries about my sexuality, this time I said “No, I’m something else”, “What are you then?” She inquired, “I think I’m a girl” I answered.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAfter a couple of under-the-breath “uhms” And “aahs”, she asked if we could reschedule our lunch date.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n“Sure”, I answered walking away.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWhy did I tell her? As my boss’ Executive Assistant, she was the Office Politician par excellence who loved the taste of power, was very good at how to keep it and increase it; whereas I, all I wanted was to keep doing the work that I enjoyed, was good at it, was getting paid very well for doing it and having just started hormonal reassignment treatment, was looking at a future with hefty gender transition related expenses.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nA superfluous question knowing that a) I resented being thought of as a gay man; it is a question of gender and not sexual orientation, b) the charade was over, I had removed the facade and now I was living my life in a rigorously brutal honesty, and c) I wanted to give her the opportunity to show me her acceptance, tolerance or rejection.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nShe outed me.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI witnessed and experienced my co-workers reactions, from the utter fixation with the restroom’s ceiling that some men had recently developed - as soon as they noticed my presence in the room - coupled with the not quite whistling but rather an in-between-the-lips and barely audible soft hissing of the latest “Music Brain Worm” In their heads, to the ones that acknowledged me with a curtly nod, or the ones that actually said hi and conducted business with me with a hardly noticeable discomfort, and last but not least, there was a group that never changed a iota, either because of acceptance, tolerance or conscious non-interference in other people’s business. And then, there were the others.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThese were the most vicious and cowardly ones, the invisible closeted transphobes that had their own sub-division, passive-aggressive and active-aggressive.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe former chose to live with their misery and only passively projected it on me, among the latter, there was a small delegation of women who approached David, my Director, and shared with him their potential future feelings of violation were I to come into the ladies’ room, the most aggressive ones were David’s superiors who pressured him to cancel my contract, he didn’t yield because my pay came out of his Dept.’s budget, he refused until he was presented with an ultimatum whose dictates were never disclosed to me in neither one of the two official meetings I had with him RE: My “Outing”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOn the first, we talked, he was happy with my work, he pledged his support and wished me well on my journey, told me about his superior’s pressure.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI was reassured and calmer for the next few weeks until he called me again for our second meeting, he looked tired as he told me how fortunate he was because of my hiring, the satisfaction of getting more than what he expected and was paying for, deploring the bad news, he informed me of a directive to cancel my contract because of a job consolidation move, implemented over his objections, or so he told me .\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nA bucket full of icy water couldn’t have frozen me as much and his voice became a muffled distant murmur as realizations of the travails coming my way started materializing in countless foreboding thoughts which brought fear and anger.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDavid’s voice brought me back, “Do you want to say anything?”, the breath I drew felt like the first one in some time, with tense body and through clenched teeth I replied, “I’m trying very hard to put aside the thought that this is one of these ‘let’s get rid of that thing type of thing’ “.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHis blanching face made his hair look whiter, he said that wasn’t the case.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n“Whatever!” I thought, “Effective when?”, I asked, “One month” he answered. We had some shop talk on how best to maintain the continuity of my projects, tie loose ends etc.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAnd so it came to pass, August 11, 1999 was the last day worked at PG\u0026E by this Transgender Woman beginning to face a hostile world that had no place for her.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n“ Aaand no, I’m not gay, I'm a Transsexual Woman.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ccenter\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"You must be the change you wish to see in the world.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003EMohandas Karamachand Gandhi\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/we-are-ones-poem-by-june-jordan.html\"\u003E\"We are the ones we have been been waiting for\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA Poem for South African Women by \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/June_Jordan\"\u003EJune Jordan\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Commemoration of the 40,000 women and children who, August 9, 1956, presented themselves in bodily protest against the \"dompass\" in the capital of apartheid. 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Office: (408) 272.9394 - Fax: (408) 272.9395\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.alianzanews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.alianzanews.com\/logo.jpg\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" height=\"65\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"273\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CBR\u003E\u003CBR\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.alianzanews.com\/noticiafull.asp?id=91\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E...  \"Unidad Hispana\": nuevo programa radial\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECarlos Baires y Ramón Cardona. Junio 12, 2008.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEl pasado 17 de mayo dio inicio un nuevo programa radial llamado \"Unidad Hispana\", con el fin de examinar el débil nivel de unidad en nuestra comunidad, las instituciones y especialmente, en el movimiento por los derechos de los migrantes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEl objetivo primordial es motivar a la acción a los individuos y a las fuerzas progresistas y humanitarias comprometidas con esta causa y movimiento para crear los mecanismos de unidad y alianzas que fortalecerían la estrategia y plan de acción regional y así, también incidir en el movimiento a nivel nacional.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEsta necesidad es imperante dado que en el 2009 se presentará nuevamente la oportunidad legislativa de una reforma inmigratoria integral en el Congreso de los Estados Unidos, con una mayor unidad, podemos dar una lucha con mas fuerza para que tal reforma sea lo más beneficiosa posible.\u003Cbr \/\u003EEl programa \"Unidad Hispana\" necesita de su colaboración para sostenerse en el aire como programa no-comercial. Por hoy pagamos $300 por 25 minutos y nuestro objetivo es aumentarlo a una hora para lo cual necesitaremos $550.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EComo organización le solicitamos una colaboración de $100 mensuales. Su organización será mencionada en el programa como patrocinadora y se dará el nombre, su misión y número telefónico. Y a los individuos que apoyan este llamado les solicitamos una colaboración de $25. Los negocios pueden patrocinarse colaborando con $50 para una mención de hasta 30 segundos.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEl programa es dinámico, educativo e interactivo. En su formato incluirá temas candentes y provocadores como: ¿Qué es la unidad? y qué significa la afirmación: \"¡la unión hace la fuerza!\"; lo último en el tema de inmigración; noticias de América Latina; entrevistas con los representantes comunitarios; línea abierta a la audiencia; y reporte de las actividades del movimiento y las acciones y reuniones planeadas en el área de la Bahía.\u003Cbr \/\u003EHágase miembro de \"Unidad Hispana\" y haga historia.\u003Cbr \/\u003EPara mayor información puede llamar al (650) 771-2338\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPor: Carlos Baires y Ramón Cardona\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\"You must be the change you wish to see in the world.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMohandas Karamachand Gandhi\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/we-are-ones-poem-by-june-jordan.html\"\u003E\"We are the ones we have been been waiting for\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA Poem for South African Women\u003Cbr \/\u003E(by \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/June_Jordan\"\u003EJune Jordan\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Commemoration of the 40,000 women and children who, August 9, 1956, presented themselves in bodily protest against the \"dompass\" in the capital of apartheid. Presented at The United Nations, August 9, 1978\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/%7Eaurora-grajeda\/\"\u003E\"Viva Obama \/ Aurora Song \/ Aurora Video\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"mailto:grassroots4obama-subscribe@yahoogroups.com\"\u003EEmail and subscribe to GrassRoots4Obama: \"Yes We Can, Si Se Puede!\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.womenofcolorday.com\/\"\u003E\"March 1st, Int'l Women of Color Day\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECourtesy of Alianza Metropolitan News\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.alianzanews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.alianzanews.com\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"mailto:manuel@alianzanews.com\"\u003EManuel Ortiz\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\/6942057151630655399\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/unidad-hispana-nuevo-programa-radial.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/6942057151630655399"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/6942057151630655399"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/unidad-hispana-nuevo-programa-radial.html","title":"\"Unidad Hispana\": 'nuevo programa radial', reporta Alianza Metropolitan News"}],"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":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-4462901861660879467"},"published":{"$t":"2008-06-14T09:23:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-06-14T09:59:48.526-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"anchor"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"answers"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"babies"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"board"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"dialog"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"discussion"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"francisco"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hate"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"immigration"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"michael"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"muslim"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"questions"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"resolution"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"san"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"savage"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"speech"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"supervisors"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"IS IT HATE SPEECH? or is it FREE SPEECH?"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"And what's race has to do with it?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBesides being a good question, it is one that needs to be answered pronto, isn't?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile it is true that most of us have an answer, or at least we think we do, the fact of the matter is that whatever our position on the question is, it directly conflicts at a visceral level with camps holding different opinions and positions on the matter, so the solution clearly lays in agreeing to a compromise on where Free Speech ends and Hate Speech begins, or if there is a start and an end for that matter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe answer is so obvious that it appears simple, or so we think... or may be lead to believe, whichever the case may be.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn my opinion, it is the wrong question, as a matter of fact, it is not ven a question, it should be a conclusion; some of the real questions to be answered and agreed upon are, what is free speech? are there or should there be any limits to free speech? what is hate speech? what are the qualifiers for either term? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA quick overview of the dialog on the issue, clearly shows that there are two basic points of view, a) there should not be any limitations to voicing your opinion in words and, b) when opinions in words incite violence, discrimination, aggravate phobias which harm human beings and\/or curtail Constitutional Guarantees, it ceases to be free speech and turns into \"Hate Speech\" - Or puting it in another way, the freedom of one ends where the freedom of others begin.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAgain, even so, the task of carrying a civil debate seems overwhelming due to the antagonistic tone of the discussion because it is always the other side the one engaging in Hate Speech, the solution appears simple; let's talk, let's have a dialog for the good of society, for the well-being of this country and it's relations with others.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot so fast! We still have to address and deal with the racism that colors the opinions of some and drives the actions of others, in addition, let's include in the dialog the interests of those who benefit from the division of races and classes... do I need to continue?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd now I come full circle, the answer to thebasic question is simple, \u003Cbr \/\u003EQ. What to do? \u003Cbr \/\u003EA. We need to talk \u003Cbr \/\u003E- the second part of the question is where the crux of the matter lays, \u003Cbr \/\u003EQ. How to go about it? ...... \u003Cbr \/\u003EA. ???\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAurora Grajeda\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.latinosagainsthatespeech.org\/comm_spotlight.html\"\u003ELatinos Against Hate Speech, SFBA\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECampaign Against Hate Speech volunteer.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CEM\u003EThe following item from Dorinda\u003C\/EM\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.9news.com\/news\/top-article.aspx?storyid=76418\"\u003E'White power' chanted during immigration discussion at school\u003C\/A\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003Ewritten by: \u003CA href=\"mailto:jeff.wolf@9news.com?subject=RE:%27White%20power%27%20chanted%20during%20immigration%20discussion%20at%20school\" target=_blank\u003EJeffrey Wolf\u003C\/A\u003E, Web Producer  \u003Cbr \/\u003Eand \u003CA href=\"mailto:nelson.garcia@9news.com?subject=RE:%27White%20power%27%20chanted%20during%20immigration%20discussion%20at%20school\" target=_blank\u003ENelson Garcia\u003C\/A\u003E, Reporter  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBROOMFIELD – It started with a simple question and ended with at least one student chanting \"white power\" in a classroom.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt happened Tuesday in a classroom at Holy Family High School, the Catholic school that sits at the corner of 144th Avenue and Sheridan Boulevard in Broomfield. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe classroom discussion started with the question: Why do students need to learn Spanish? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccording to the Archdiocese of Denver, the conversation soon became about immigration and it turned ugly. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"It became a heated discussion and some rhetoric was used that was inappropriate for the classroom,\" said Jeanette DeMelo, spokesperson for the Archdiocese of Denver. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CEM\u003EMore coments on the incident:\u003C\/EM\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/discuss\/duboard.php?az=view_all\u0026amp;address=102x2973004\"\u003EDemocratic Underground\u003C\/A\u003E, \u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/focus\/f-news\/1889214\/posts\"\u003EFree Republic\u003C\/A\u003E, \u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.sloopo.com\/index.php\/2007\/08\/30\/white-power-chanted-during-immigration-discussion-at-a-colorado-catholic-high-school\/\"\u003ESloopo.com\u003C\/A\u003E, \u003CA href=\"http:\/\/forumctx.topix.net\/forum\/denver\/TSIT42F6IM7QVCVGL\"\u003ETopix\u003C\/A\u003E, \u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.lucianne.com\/threads22.asp?artnum=357688\"\u003ELucianne.com\u003C\/A\u003E, \u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?ie=UTF-8\u0026amp;oe=UTF-8\u0026amp;sourceid=navclient\u0026amp;gfns=1\u0026amp;q=%27White+power%27+chanted+during+immigration+discussion+at+school\"\u003EAnd on, and on, and.... \u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CEM\u003E(The following two colums from Mesha)\u003C\/EM\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CCENTER\u003E \u003Cfont size=4\u003ERacism rides again \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/CENTER\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2007\/03\/23\/opinion\/brett\/20_08_543_22_07.txt\"\u003EWhat we do as individuals, families, communities and societies: It Matters\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy: \u003CA href=\"mailto:brigidbrett@aol.com\"\u003EBRIGID BRETT\u003C\/A\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E- For the North County Times\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/opinion\/brett\"\u003EIT MATTERS\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(Recommend visiting for more of her columns) \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt's been four months since a chorus of San Diego Minutemen shouted at Olga Diaz to \"go back to Mexico\" at an Escondido City Council meeting, yet Diaz still hears their jeers as clearly as if they were shouted at her last night. It would have been bad enough if Diaz actually was from Mexico, but she was born and raised in the United States and is therefore as American as President Bush himself. I was at City Hall that night and I remember literally feeling my skin crawl when Diaz had those words flung at her, followed by a rowdy burst of applause that echoed through the chambers. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt crawled in much the same way when I read about the family of legal immigrants from El Salvador who moved into a house in Kentucky and received, instead of a welcome basket, a burning cross on their lawn and a note that read: \u003Cbr \/\u003E\"My country, maybe. My neighborhood ---- no way.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/opinion\/brett\"\u003EMore...\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ccenter\u003E \u003Cfont size=4\u003EInternet opens new window for hate\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/CENTER\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2007\/08\/24\/opinion\/brett\/19_35_598_23_07.txt\"\u003EWhat we do as individuals, families, communities and societies: It Matters\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy: \u003CA href=\"mailto:brigidbrett@aol.com\"\u003EBRIGID BRETT\u003C\/A\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E- For the North County Times\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/opinion\/brett\"\u003EIT MATTERS\u003C\/A\u003E\u003CBR\u003E(Recommend visiting for more of her columns) \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThanks to satellite radio, cable TV and video-sharing Web sites like YouTube, it has never been easier to dehumanize people ---- in the name of comedy and entertainment. What was once considered shocking and degrading is now not only acceptable but considered worthy of emulation. One of the most extreme examples of hate disguised as entertainment was seen on a recent YouTube video posted by \"The Cockroach Hunter,\" better known as Robert Crooks, founder of the Mountain Minutemen. The video, shot through a night scope and accompanied by a running commentary of ethnic slurs and profanity, shows the tracking and \u003Cbr \/\u003Eapparent shooting of an undocumented immigrant on the border. It was removed from YouTube a few days ago, but not before it was viewed by thousands of people, giving rise to a free-for-all of hate in the ensuing comments and blog\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CEM\u003EBelow you'll find a list of pieces written since 08\/22\/07 to date that meet the following  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cfont color=#ff0000\u003E\u003CU\u003Every, very narrow criteria\u003C\/U\u003E\u003C\/font\u003E: 'Immigration', 'hate', 'speech' - No attempt was made to select which entries to include, pro, con and in the middle, you'll find them allfor your perusal.\u003C\/EM\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAurora\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgov.org\/site\/bdsupvrs_index.asp?id=65727\" target=_blank\u003ESF Board of Supervisors: Resolution\u003C\/A\u003E\u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E regardless of \u003CB\u003Eimmigration\u003C\/B\u003E status, and makes every affirmative effort to \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E FURTHER RESOLVED, That this \u003CB\u003Espeech\u003C\/B\u003E is deemed by the Board as symbolic of \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/frontpagemagazine.com\/Articles\/Read.aspx?GUID=D3CEED43-6A35-48D5-A393-97AEDDE670FF\" target=_blank\u003EThree Strikes for the Open Borders Lobby\u003C\/A\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EFrontPage magazine.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELast week, a move to get the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to condemn the \"hate speech\" of conservative talk-show host Michael Savage was stopped by a ...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThree young people died in Newark, the latest casualties in illegal aliens' war on America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut don't expect even this bloody outrage to end the complacency of the political elite - or the mainstream media - as the alien invasion turns our streets into a slaughter house.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CDIV style=\"BORDER-RIGHT: #ff9933 2px solid; BORDER-TOP: #ff9933 2px solid; OVERFLOW: auto; BORDER-LEFT: #ff9933 2px solid; WIDTH: 565px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ff9933 2px solid; HEIGHT: 350px\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.indystar.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070831\/ENTERTAINMENT03\/708310313\/1005\/ENTERTAINMENT\" target=_blank\u003E'80s memoir shows struggle for skinheads' souls\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndianapolis Star - United States\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Combo delivers the \u003CB\u003Ehate speech\u003C\/B\u003E that gives this movie its title -- the miniature St. George's Cross tattooed into his forehead all but pulsates on its...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/news\/show\/36906.html\" target=_blank\u003E\u003CB\u003EImmigration\u003C\/B\u003E Now, \u003CB\u003EImmigration\u003C\/B\u003E Tomorrow, \u003CB\u003EImmigration\u003C\/B\u003E Forever\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EReason Online - Los Angeles,CA,USA \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/astuteblogger.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/muslim-hate-speech-ok-again.html\" target=_blank\u003E size=3\u003EMuslim \u003CB\u003EHate Speech\u003C\/B\u003E OK (Again)\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy JR(Reliapundit) \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe BBC and the rest of the Left are ALWAYS ready to excuse Muslim \u003CB\u003Ehate speech\u003C\/B\u003E on free \u003CB\u003Espeech\u003C\/B\u003E grounds. Just say something adverse about homosexuals (for instance) though and see what happens. Note this, \"The BBC is required to explore a \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/astuteblogger.blogspot.com\/\" target=_blank\u003ETHE ASTUTE BLOGGERS - http:\/\/astuteblogger.blogspot.com\/ \u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/yafwatch.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/yaf-against-freedom-for-muslims.html\" target=_blank\u003EYAF against freedom for Muslims\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy Philip Rodney Moon(Mike Ramsey) \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"'Conservative' Traitors Whine About \u003CB\u003EImmigration\u003C\/B\u003E Reform\"- criticizes activist Grover Norquist for being married to an Islamic woman and suggests he may have converted. This is used in attempt to discredit him and \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/yafwatch.blogspot.com\/\" target=_blank\u003EYAF Watch - http:\/\/yafwatch.blogspot.com\/ \u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/olegqta.fictioneer.org\/2007\/08\/31\/politically-biased-prosecutionslewis-libby-has-n\/\"  target=_blank\u003EPOLITICALLY BIASED PROSECUTIONS Lewis Libby has n...\u003C\/A\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EBy olegqta \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EIf there is another, it is an end to the double standard that loudly condemns \u003CB\u003Ehate speech\u003C\/B\u003E when it comes from the right, while barely noticing when it spews from the left. Coulter and Maher may win cheap laughs, but some kinds of \"humor\" \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/olegqta.fictioneer.org\" target=_blank\u003EOleg Ilana Posts - http:\/\/olegqta.fictioneer.org \u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.nwherald.com\/articles\/2007\/08\/30\/news\/columnists\/doc46d15029e31a6250720337.txt\" target=_blank\u003ESlupski: Minutemen's fate was not fault of police\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENorthwest Herald - Crystal Lake,IL,USA\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt is fine to mock and insult immigrants but it is offensive to call the minuteklan a \u003CB\u003Ehate\u003C\/B\u003E group. My legally confused friends take pride on directing \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/na\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9724135\" target=_blank\u003EThe Fred factor\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEconomist - UK\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESitting in a leather armchair and sucking on an unlit Cuban cigar, he lambasted Mr Moore, a conservative \u003CB\u003Ehate\u003C\/B\u003E-figure if ever there was one, for his naive \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.enewscourier.com\/local\/local_story_241223442.html\" target=_blank\u003ECounty joins city, denies Klan\u003C\/A\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003ENews Courier - Athens,AL,USA\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe also called the Klan \"a \u003CB\u003Ehate\u003C\/B\u003E group\" and said, \"We don't want them here. They are not invited here and we don't need help with \u003CB\u003Eimmigration\u003C\/B\u003E.\u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/ravenmuhammadysn.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/30\/politically-biased-prosecutionslewis-libby-has-n\/\"  target=_blank\u003EPOLITICALLY BIASED PROSECUTIONS Lewis Libby has n...\u003C\/A\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EBy ravenmuhammadysn \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf there is another, it is an end to the double standard that loudly condemns \u003CB\u003Ehate speech\u003C\/B\u003E when it comes from the right, while barely noticing when it spews from the left. Coulter and Maher may win cheap laughs, but some kinds of \"humor\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/stlcofcc.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/30\/it-was-only-a-matter-of-time-before-the-vultures-started-squaking\/\" target=_blank\u003EIt Was Only a Matter of Time Before the Vultures Started Squaking\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy Webmaster \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECops and other authorities make arrests and solve really dangerous and menacing criminal acts, like sawing off a shotgun a millimeter too much (which carries the death penalty for your wife, baby daughter and dog), and \u003CB\u003Ehate speech\u003C\/B\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/stoptheaclu.com\/archives\/2007\/08\/30\/conservative-sites-blocked-in-nc-airport\/\" target=_blank\u003EConservative sites Blocked in NC Airport\u003C\/A\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EBy JonJayRay \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe usual Leftist \"\u003CB\u003EHate speech\u003C\/B\u003E\" accusation against critics of Islam:. \"This morning, as I sit in Charlotte\/Douglas Airport, I discover that the following web sites are banned at the Airport by their SonicWall firewall: \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/focus\/f-news\/1888436\/posts\" target=_blank\u003E\u003CB\u003EHate Speech\u003C\/B\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003Eat The Washington Post\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003ESkip to comments. \u003CB\u003EHate Speech\u003C\/B\u003E at The Washington Post \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E County attempted to enforce U.S. laws against illegal \u003CB\u003Eimmigration\u003C\/B\u003E the Washington Post denounced it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/globalpolitician.com\/articledes.asp?ID=3356\u0026amp;cid=12\u0026amp;sid=51\" target=_blank\u003E size=3\u003EThoughts From Fjordman\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGlobal Politician - \u003Cbr \/\u003EBrooklyn,NY,USA\u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Efor a nation's right to decide how much \u003CB\u003Eimmigration\u003C\/B\u003E it wants to accept, if any, and the fight against the imposition of quotas, \u003CB\u003Ehate speech\u003C\/B\u003E laws, \u003CB\u003Ehate\u003C\/B\u003E\u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.michiganliberal.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=9850\" target=_blank\u003EWednesday Coffee Talk\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy Powers155 \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CB\u003EHate\u003C\/B\u003E crimes do happen, even in your neighborhood. \u003Cbr \/\u003EMediaMouse: Republican Task Force Holds Hearing on \"Illegal \u003CB\u003EImmigration\u003C\/B\u003E\" in West Michigan. Unfortunately, the Republicans only let those who equate immigrants with terrorists speak. \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/b\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/rightwingchick1.livejournal.com\/3823.html\" target=_blank\u003ELiberals and attack on Conservatives' Freedom of \u003CB\u003ESpeech\u003C\/B\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EBy rightwingchick1(rightwingchick1)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"There is no basis in American Law for such a suit but the larger point is the astonishing \u003CB\u003Ehate speech\u003C\/B\u003E he is engaging in. To stop opinion by threatening legal action is akin to using the power of the State to control thought and\u003CB\u003Espeech\u003C\/B\u003E. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/rightwingchick1.livejournal.com\/\" target=_blank\u003EWarning: Does Not Play Well With... - http:\/\/rightwingchick1.livejournal.com\/ \u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/gto7.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/28\/excuse-me-israel-has-been-there-for-3400-years-get-over-it-2\/\"  target=_blank\u003EExcuse me! Israel has been there for 3400 years! Get over it!\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy No Compromises \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBranding Israel as racist portrays her as a country that harms civilian populations, oppresses minorities, and establishes restrictive \u003CB\u003Eimmigration\u003C\/B\u003E laws and religious statutes as part of its ideological raison d'etre. \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/gto7.wordpress.com\" target=_blank\u003ENo compromise when it comes to... - http:\/\/gto7.wordpress.com\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.alipac.us\/modules.php?name=Forums\u0026amp;file=viewtopic\u0026amp;t=79293\" target=_blank\u003EIllegal \u003CB\u003EImmigration\u003C\/B\u003E - Americans for Legal \u003CB\u003EImmigration\u003C\/B\u003E PAC Forums \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media should voluntarily ban today's \u003CB\u003Ehate speech\u003C\/B\u003E (\"anchor babies\") against \u003CB\u003E....\u003C\/B\u003E So, if your opposed to illegal \u003CB\u003Eimmigration\u003C\/B\u003E (and their little anchor \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2007\/08\/24\/opinion\/commentary\/19_38_298_23_07.txt\" target=_blank\u003E'Anchor babies' is \u003CB\u003Ehate speech\u003C\/B\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E- North County Times \/ The \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E\u003CBR\u003EThe media should voluntarily ban today's \u003CB\u003Ehate speech\u003C\/B\u003E (\"anchor babies\") against \u003CB\u003E.....\u003C\/B\u003E However you feel about illegal \u003CB\u003Eimmigration\u003C\/B\u003E, dehumanizing kids is merely \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"https:\/\/www.immigration.ca\/discussion\/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=28291\" target=_blank\u003ECanada \u003CB\u003EImmigration\u003C\/B\u003E Discussion Forum - WARNING..... P34, SMILELADY ETC\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe line between \u003CB\u003Ehate speech\u003C\/B\u003E and free \u003CB\u003Espeech\u003C\/B\u003E is a thin one, and countries \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E The \u003CB\u003EImmigration\u003C\/B\u003E Act. Under the \u003CB\u003EImmigration\u003C\/B\u003E Act, customs officials have the \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/pcwatch.blogspot.com\/2007_08_01_archive.html#6268349812683223955\" target=_blank\u003EBRITISH CHARITY'S HANDBOOK OF \u003CB\u003EHATE\u003C\/B\u003E MPs and Jewish leaders have \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy jonjayray(Tomalak) \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHis portrayal of Lewis' Zionism as the mother of all evils was apparently triggered by a \u003CB\u003Espeech\u003C\/B\u003E delivered at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in March of 2007, in which Lewis pitted Europe and Islam against each other,\u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/pcwatch.blogspot.com\/\" target=_blank\u003EPolitical Correctness Watch - http:\/\/pcwatch.blogspot.com\/ \u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/darkdaughta.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/take-two-poor-bashingthe-sexualization.html\" target=_blank\u003ETake Two - Poor Bashing...the sexualization of poor wimmin is \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy Dark Daughta(Dark Daughta)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChristian camouflaged claptrap designed to mislead youth, miring them in confusion, shame and self \u003CB\u003Ehate\u003C\/B\u003E. I think about all the wimmin I've encountered over the past few years...of course I'm talking about Black wimmin, since that who I \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/darkdaughta.blogspot.com\/\" target=_blank\u003EOne Tenacious Baby Mama - http:\/\/darkdaughta.blogspot.com\/ \u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.stormfront.org\/forum\/showthread.php?t=415416\" target=_blank\u003EFormer Soviet Dissident Warns Of EU Dictatorship\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy PROUDAUSSIE \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFrance passed the same law of \u003CB\u003Ehate speech\u003C\/B\u003E concerning gays. Britain is passing \u003CB\u003Ehate speech\u003C\/B\u003E laws concerning race relations and now religious \u003CB\u003Espeech\u003C\/B\u003E, and so on and so forth. What you observe, taken into perspective, is a systematic \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.stormfront.org\/forum\" target=_blank\u003EStormfront White Nationalist... - http:\/\/www.stormfront.org\/forum\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/astuteblogger.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/truth-about-islam-is-offensive.html\" target=_blank\u003ETruth about Islam is Offensive\u003C\/A\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EBy JR(Reliapundit)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut according to Arab American News it is \"hate speech\". Let me coin a slogan here: \"Truthful speech is not hate speech\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/therealthing.blogs.com\/there_is_no_second_place\/2007\/08\/education-refor.html\" target=_blank\u003EEducation reform - Vouchers\u003C\/A\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EBy andy padon\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt's the reason that \"hate speech\" codes are instituted to insure that only the most leftist, approved things are thought and spoken. Under the Constitution, even so-called hate speech is protected. ...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/therealthing.blogs.com\/there_is_no_second_place\/\" target=_blank\u003E THERE IS NO SECOND PLACE - http:\/\/therealthing.blogs.com\/there_is_no_second_place\/\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.immigrationwatchdog.com\/?p=4550\" target=_blank\u003E'Anchor Babies' Is \u003CB\u003EHate Speech\u003C\/B\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPolice Kidnapped Them; \u003Cbr \/\u003EMatthew on 'Anchor Babies' Is \u003CB\u003EHate Speech\u003C\/B\u003E; the marlboro man on Cat Fight In Virginia Over Opposing Illegal \u003CB\u003EImmigration\u003C\/B\u003EPolicies \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EToday’s North County Times readers can’t find an article that uses the infamous N-word, the Q-word (queer) or words like “homo” for homosexual.\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat they find is the use of the words “anchor babies” in letters or Opinion pieces.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Anchor babies” are words used by extremists to define babies born of illegal alien parents in the United States.\u003Cbr \/\u003EMost of these children are born to Mexican parents illegally in the United States. Shamefully, the anti-illegal alien cohort also applies the term to any Mexican-American regardless of the legality of one or both parents, grandparents or great-grandparents.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.saveourstate.org\/vforums\/showthread.php?t=30938\" target=_blank\u003E?Anchor Babies? Is \u003CB\u003EHate Speech\u003C\/B\u003E - Save Our State Forums\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnchor Babies? Is \u003CB\u003EHate Speech Immigration\u003C\/B\u003E Watchdog. \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E \u003CB\u003EHate speech\u003C\/B\u003E is protected free \u003CB\u003Espeech\u003C\/B\u003E. It's not illegal to \u003CB\u003Ehate\u003C\/B\u003E. It's not against the law to say \"I \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EVincent, fire up your engine. This guys argument is so weak, you’ve got plenty of room to drive your truck through!\u003Cbr \/\u003ENT Times\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EToday’s North County Times readers can’t find an article that uses the infamous N-word, the Q-word (queer) or words like “homo” for homosexual.\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat they find is the use of the words “anchor babies” [...]\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.immigrationwatchdog.com\/?p=4550\" target=_blank\u003EMore...\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.birthrightpetition.com\/phpPETITION\/index.php\" target=_blank\u003ESign the PETITON to end birthright citizenship\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.ImmigrationWatchdog.com\" target=_blank\u003EImmigrationWatchdog.com\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CB\u003E\u003CA href=\"https:\/\/www.ronpaul2008.com\/donate\/\"target=_blank\u003EDonate to RON PAUL 2008\u003C\/A\u003E\u003C\/B\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/desmoinesregister.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070826\/OPINION01\/708260331\/-1\/SPORTS12\" target=_blank\u003EWashburn: Why the negative campaigns? Look in a mirror for the cause\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmericans say they \u003CB\u003Ehate\u003C\/B\u003E negative campaigning. In a Gallup poll during the 2000 campaign, Americans said they had little tolerance for negative ads, \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.nwherald.com\/articles\/2007\/08\/26\/news\/local\/doc46cff63c5d0bc682241695.txt\" target=_blank\u003ENew: \u003CB\u003EImmigration\u003C\/B\u003E sides conduct peaceful protests\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENorthwest Herald - Crystal Lake,IL,USA\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo the north, the Minutemen gathered holding signs stating, \"This is not \u003CB\u003Ehate\u003C\/B\u003E, it's just our laws\" and \"The money is already there, build the fence. \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECRYSTAL LAKE – Two sides of the immigration debate came together peacefully Saturday as about 60 people from several groups conducted demonstrations at McCormick Park.\u003Cbr \/\u003EMembers of Minutemen Midwest and the Chicago Minuteman Project, which oppose illegal immigration, conducted a protest in response to a vigil planned by the McHenry County Peace Group, McHenry County Latino Coalition and the Carpentersville \u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunity Alliance.\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe groups were separated by yellow police tape and did not meet in the middle. To the north, the Minutemen gathered holding signs stating, “This is not hate, it’s just our laws” and “The money is already there, build the fence.”\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo the southeast, vigil supporters’ signs said: “Diversity is good for America” and “Justice and unity for all.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/migration.foreignpolicyblogs.com\/2007\/08\/26\/weekly-news-roundup-21\/\" target=_blank\u003EWeekly news roundup\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy Cathryn Cluver \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThose of you lucky enough to subscribe to the Financial Times will be privvy to a full article on European \u003CB\u003Eimmigration\u003C\/B\u003E flows, published early last week. The article refers to recent Goldman Sachs research on population mobility to \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/migration.foreignpolicyblogs.com\" target=_blank\u003EMigration - http:\/\/migration.foreignpolicyblogs.com \u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/mcbridesmediamatters.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/those-scary-illegal-immigrant-opponents.html\" target=_blank\u003EThose scary illegal immigrant opponents\u003C\/A\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EBy Jessica McBride(Jessica McBride)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt's a common tactic. When some liberals don't like the arguments conservatives make, they label those arguments \"\u003CB\u003Ehate speech\u003C\/B\u003E\" to silence them. And so it goes with illegal \u003CB\u003Eimmigration\u003C\/B\u003E. I thought this article on the \"illegal \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CB\u003Eimmigration\u003C\/B\u003E \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/mcbridesmediamatters.blogspot.com\/\" target=_blank\u003EMcBride's Media Matters - http:\/\/mcbridesmediamatters.blogspot.com\/ \u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/age-of-treason.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/hate-speech-pinheads-really-hate-speech.html\" target=_blank\u003E\u003CB\u003EHate Speech\u003C\/B\u003E Pinheads Really \u003CB\u003EHate Speech\u003C\/B\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E By Tanstaafl(Tanstaafl)\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E \"Anchor babies\" is \u003CB\u003Ehate speech\u003C\/B\u003E? How about your word \"extremists\" Raoul, you hypocrite? How about the racist, fascist, bigot, xenophobe, and nativist slurs so effortlessly tossed around by your colleagues in the media Raoul? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/age-of-treason.blogspot.com\/\" target=_blank\u003EAge of Treason - http:\/\/age-of-treason.blogspot.com\/\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.iipr.com\/?p=3713\" target=_blank\u003E size=3\u003EAn Open Letter to Sean Hannity -\"Ron Paul Is a Great American\" by \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E By editor\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETony Blair - a good American - gave a \u003CB\u003Espeech\u003C\/B\u003E about values to a joint session of Congress three months after Baghdad fell. He said that our values are not Western values, they are values shared by ordinary people everywhere. False. \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.iipr.com\/\" target=_blank\u003EThe Institute For Immigration... - http:\/\/www.iipr.com\/ \u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.app.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070824\/OPINION\/708240374\/1030\" target=_blank\u003E size=3\u003EAnti-immigrant rally prompts debate about rights\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAsbury Park Press - Asbury Park,NJ,USA\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJust don't get involved with any \u003CB\u003Ehate\u003C\/B\u003E groups. There are a lot of Americans who are plain tired of illegals, crime, \u003Cbr \/\u003Ecorruption, etc. \u003CB\u003E.\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/dissectleft.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/russia-at-least-its-patriotic-year-2007.html\" target=_blank\u003ERussia: \"At least it's patriotic\" The year 2007 may well be best \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E\u003C\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy JR(JR) \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPatriotism may even be legally suppressed as \"\u003CB\u003Ehate speech\u003C\/B\u003E\" on occasions. \"\u003CB\u003EHate\u003C\/B\u003E\" is so broadly defined by the Left that any belief in the superiority of Western civilization can qualify as \"\u003CB\u003Ehate\u003C\/B\u003E\". \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/dissectleft.blogspot.com\/\" target=_blank\u003EDissecting Leftism - http:\/\/dissectleft.blogspot.com\/ \u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA  href=\"http:\/\/astuteblogger.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/hooray-for-chinese-jew.html\" target=_blank\u003EHooray for the Chinese Jew!\u003C\/A\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EBy JR(Reliapundit)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"A single vote by a San Francisco Board of Supervisors member whose grandfather emigrated from China seven decades ago has halted in its tracks a proposal to condemn as \"\u003CB\u003Ehate speech\u003C\/B\u003E\" radio personality Michael Savage's criticism of \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/astuteblogger.blogspot.com\/\" target=_blank\u003ETHE ASTUTE BLOGGERS - http:\/\/astuteblogger.blogspot.com\/ \u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com\/?p=2094\" target=_blank\u003EFeed, August 23, 2007\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy alex\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EToday White girls are groomed for prostitution by Muslim invaders, admitted by the jews controlling \u003CB\u003Eimmigration\u003C\/B\u003E policy, the same jews who forbid, by law, Whites from criticizing the 'minorities' that make up 92% of the world's \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com\" target=_blank\u003EVanguard News Network - http:\/\/www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com \u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/pcwatch.blogspot.com\/2007_08_01_archive.html#1938803742165593354\" target=_blank\u003ECAIR Thugs on Islamophobia Patrol: Coming Soon to Your \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy jonjayray(Tomalak) \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHaving decided that they could not or would not prosecute the purveyors of Wahhabite \u003CB\u003Ehate speech\u003C\/B\u003E portrayed in the film - mostly from the Green Lane mosque in Birmingham - they instead turned round on the documentary-makers and \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/pcwatch.blogspot.com\/\" target=_blank\u003EPolitical Correctness Watch - http:\/\/pcwatch.blogspot.com\/ \u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.immigration.ca\/discussion\/post.asp?method=Reply\u0026amp;TOPIC_ID=28291\u0026amp;FORUM_ID=4\" target=_blank\u003E face=\"Times New Roman\" size=3\u003ECanada \u003CB\u003EImmigration\u003C\/B\u003E Discussion Forum\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe line between \u003CB\u003Ehate speech\u003C\/B\u003E and free \u003CB\u003Espeech\u003C\/B\u003E is a thin one, \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E Act. Under the \u003CB\u003EImmigration\u003C\/B\u003E Act, customs officials have the authority to stop \u003CB\u003Ehate\u003C\/B\u003E material \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.napavalleyregister.com\/articles\/2007\/08\/22\/news\/local\/doc46c5fadf17ea3945837517.txt\" target=_blank\u003ESTAR test results for Napa County schools\u003C\/A\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003ENapa Valley Register - Napa,CA,USA\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003ERather than send him on to what would amount to torture for him and the end result of that would be that he learned to \u003CB\u003EHATE\u003C\/B\u003E school forever, he is being held \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/national_news\/story\/206894.html\" target=_blank\u003EDivisive debate echoes across US\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors \u003CB\u003Ehate\u003C\/B\u003E groups, said the number of \"nativist extremist\" organizations fighting illegal \u003CB\u003Eimmigration\u003C\/B\u003E has gone \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.scrippsnews.com\/node\/26165\" target=_blank\u003EDeath threats and dithering\u003C\/A\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EScripps News - Washington,DC,USA\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat matters here is that a permissive climate is being fostered without a public outcry that could help counter the \u003CB\u003Ehate speech\u003C\/B\u003E like rain on a forest fire. \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.canadafreepress.com\/2007\/deweese082207.htm\" target=_blank\u003EThe Principles of Freedom vs. Public\/Private Partnerships:\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECanada Free Press - Canada\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne thing is consistent on the other side - they are cowards - cockroaches who \u003CB\u003Ehate\u003C\/B\u003E the light of day. Bright lights and roach spray are what we need. \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.axcessnews.com\/index.php\/articles\/show\/id\/12047\" target=_blank\u003ECongress is Destroying America's Schools\u003C\/A\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EAXcess News - Georgetown,KY,USA\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt's the reason that \"\u003CB\u003Ehate speech\u003C\/B\u003E\" codes are instituted to insure that only the \u003Cbr \/\u003Emost leftist, approved things are thought and spoken. \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.nwherald.com\/articles\/2007\/08\/22\/opinion\/editorials\/doc46cabf793f6d6470559972.txt\"  target=_blank\u003EDeportation was deserved\u003C\/A\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003ENorthwest Herald - Crystal Lake,IL,USA\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnger leads to \u003CB\u003Ehate\u003C\/B\u003E. \u003CB\u003EHate\u003C\/B\u003E leads to suffering. I sense much fear in you. Love thy neighbor. Go in peace brothers and sisters, you have much to heal. \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/conservablogs.com\/publiusforum\/2007\/08\/22\/race-baiting-politician-attacks-michael-savage\/\"  target=_blank\u003ERace-baiting Politician Attacks Michael Savage\u003C\/A\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E By Publius\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003ECrazy or not, he is a foot soldier in a burgeoning effort to stifle politically incorrect dissent through social pressure, ostracism, reputation and career destruction, the threat of legal action and, ultimately, \u003CB\u003Ehate\u003C\/B\u003E-\u003CB\u003Espeech\u003C\/B\u003E laws. \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/conservablogs.com\/publiusforum\" target=_blank\u003EPublius' Forum - http:\/\/conservablogs.com\/publiusforum\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/bobmccarty.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/22\/border-security-terrorism-among-todays-must-reads\/\" target=_blank\u003EBorder Security, Terrorism Among Today's 'Must-Reads'\u003C\/A\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EBy hotoffthepress\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYesterday's batch of \"must-reads\" from Family Security Matters brought such a positive response, I've \u003Cbr \/\u003Edecided to run some -- not all -- of today's leads. Included among them are pieces on \u003CB\u003Eimmigration\u003C\/B\u003E, terrorism and teens, just to name a \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003CBR\u003E \u003CA title=http:\/\/bobmccarty.wordpress.com \u003Cbr \/\u003Estyle=\"COLOR: green\" href=\"http:\/\/bobmccarty.wordpress.com\" target=_blank\u003EBob McCarty Writes - http:\/\/bobmccarty.wordpress.com \u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/gto7.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/22\/was-a-hate-crime-perpetrated-against-a-poor-white-boy\/\" target=_blank\u003EWas a \u003CB\u003Ehate\u003C\/B\u003E crime perpetrated against a \"poor white boy\"?\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy No Compromises\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe isn't buying it. Kirchenwitz believes he was fired because his presence as a clerk at the store could be bad for business. He is an outspoken critic of illegal \u003CB\u003Eimmigration\u003C\/B\u003E. \"Freedom of \u003CB\u003Espeech\u003C\/B\u003E takes a back seat to profits,\" he said. \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/gto7.wordpress.com\" target=_blank\u003ENo compromise when it comes to... - http:\/\/gto7.wordpress.com \u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/csadispatch.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/congress-is-destroying-americas-schools.html\" target=_blank\u003ECongress is Destroying America's Schools... by Alan Caruba\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy Longstreet(Longstreet) \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt's the reason that \"\u003CB\u003Ehate speech\u003C\/B\u003E\" codes are instituted to insure that only the most leftist, approved things are thought and spoken. Under the Constitution, even so-called \u003CB\u003Ehate speech\u003C\/B\u003E is protected. \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/csadispatch.blogspot.com\/\" target=_blank\u003EINSIGHT on Freedom - http:\/\/csadispatch.blogspot.com\/\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/infidelsarecool.com\/2007\/08\/21\/guide-to-islamic-invasion-of-america-by-2020\/\" target=_blank\u003EGuide to Islamic Invasion of America by 2020\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy Infidelesto\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETerminate America's freedom of \u003CB\u003Espeech\u003C\/B\u003E by replacing it with \u003CB\u003Ehate\u003C\/B\u003E crime bills state-wide and nation-wide. 2. Wage a war of words using black leaders like Louis Farrakhan, Rev. Jesse Jackson and other visible religious personalities to \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/infidelsarecool.com\" target=_blank\u003EInfidels Are Cool - http:\/\/infidelsarecool.com \u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CA href=\"http:\/\/www.topix.com\/forum\/news\/immigration\/TTSB5QJNV2HRT424A\" target=_blank\u003EGovernor's Appointee Resigns Amid '\u003CB\u003EHate Speech\u003C\/B\u003E' Accusation - Topix\u003C\/A\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere's no place for people who indulge in that level of \u003CB\u003Ehate speech\u003C\/B\u003E.\" A low-level appointee of Gov. \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\u003E Other Recent \u003CB\u003EImmigration\u003C\/B\u003E Reform Discussions \u003CB\u003E...\u003C\/B\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\/4462901861660879467\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/is-it-hate-speech-or-is-it-free-speech.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/4462901861660879467"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/4462901861660879467"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/is-it-hate-speech-or-is-it-free-speech.html","title":"IS IT HATE SPEECH? or is it FREE SPEECH?"}],"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":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-3115311003418501915"},"published":{"$t":"2008-06-09T02:47:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-06-12T03:33:59.710-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"2008"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"6"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"8"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"aim"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"conference"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"conservative"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"corporatist"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"freepress"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"internet"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"june"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"leftist"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"liberal"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"media"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Minneapolis"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"msm"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"national"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"reform"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"right"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"wing"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"worldnetdaily"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The \"Leftist Media\" And the NCMR June 6 - 8, 2008"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"What am I missing that I can't  understand why the \"Liberal\/Leftist MSM\" it is not covering the \"National  Conference for Media Reform\" Being held in Minneapolis June 6 - 8, 2008? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/%7Eaurora-grajeda\/video\/ncmr_2008.html\" class=\"hintanchor\" onMouseover=\"showhint('You can view them in separate window in a JLV player with a video playlist, in addition to Links and Resources on Media Reform from the Media Reform Information Center', this, event, '250px')\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ESome videos from conference\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI  have not seen this conference extensively covered, have you? The contradictions  of the \"Liberal\/Leftist MSM\" Myth just jump at you and yet, it is alive and  kicking.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow more Liberal can an issue be, according to the conservatives(?),  than a conference to reform what it is considered in reality a Corporatist  (Fascist) MSM? If I were less informed, I'd really be puzzled at how the  \"Liberal\/Leftist\" MSM has continuously given a pass to conservative figures or  their misdeeds, lies and disinformation, who can forget how \"Liberal\"  Journalists and Democratic figures were savagely hammered and their righ wing  counterparts were not?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf I knew that the Bush Administration's claims on Iraq's  WMDs were fabricated by the \"Office of Special Operations\" Under former  Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, how come the MSM characters did  not?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOpposition to an invasion of Iraq is as leftist as one can get, according  to the rightwingnuts, how come the \"Liberal\/Leftist\" MSM did not expose the lies  of the ultra conservative Neocons?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEntries in the bastion of RightWingNut  dribble, WorldNetDaily have been pointed to and quoted by AIM, about a Jan. 2007  report and an article, among other items, by \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t\u0026amp;ct=res\u0026amp;cd=1\u0026amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmediamatters.org%2Fitems%2F200512100001\u0026amp;ei=bORMSPjYL42uoQShq8zPBA\u0026amp;usg=AFQjCNFrCWk26PxzP134T2rM3bL0yiE6og\u0026amp;sig2=YoH03zDJu1aBzwaFxHnr4g\"\u003ECliff  Kincaid\u003C\/a\u003E about last year's NCMR: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.aim.org\/aim-column\/the-communist-influenced-media-reform-movement\/\"\u003E\"The  Communist-influenced Media Reform Movement\"\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.aim.org\/special-report\/the-plan-to-silence-conservatives\/\"\u003EThe  Plan To Silence Conservatives\"\u003C\/a\u003E  \u003Cblockquote\u003EThe Kincaid column is a follow-up to his exclusive report on the  \"National Conference on Media Reform,\" held in Memphis, Tennessee. The column,  \"The Communist-influenced 'Media Reform' Movement,\" and his January 15 special  report, \"The Plan to Silence Conservatives,\" are available at www.aim.org.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe  \"media reform\" movement wants Congress to resurrect the so-called \"fairness  doctrine\" so that it can force conservative media to incorporate \"progressive\"  views into shows like the O'Reilly Factor on cable news and the Rush Limbaugh  program on radio. \"Having previously reported on the participation of  Revolutionary Communist Party members at the 'National Conference on Media  Reform,'\" Kincaid says, \"I can now confirm that members of the old Soviet-line  Communist Party USA were there, too.\"\u003C\/blockquote\u003EForbes picked the AP NCMR 2008  report and the entry actually agrees with \"Liberal?Leftists\", the MSM is  Corporatist and that \"The National Conference for Media Reform is being  organized by Free Press, a nonprofit organization that promotes diverse and  independent media ownership and public media.\"  \u003Cblockquote\u003EMINNEAPOLIS - Critics of the corporate media are \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/feeds\/ap\/2008\/06\/06\/ap5090400.html\"\u003Egathering in  Minneapolis this weekend to discuss reform.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAssociated Press 06.06.08,  2:02 PM ET ,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe conference opened Friday with several speakers,  including Democratic U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison of Minneapolis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA few big  names will participate in the conference, including former CBS (nyse: CBS - news  - people ) newsman Dan Rather, Bill Moyers of PBS and Arianna Huffington of  HuffingtonPost.com.\u003C\/blockquote\u003EWhat a lineup of \"Liberals\", and \"Liberal\"  issues, how come the \"Liberal MSM\" Is not extensively reporting it? CNNMoney.com  also picked up the story (Other of the few outlets which covered it)  \u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/news\/newsfeeds\/articles\/apwire\/b8e65d0a4d98d904f93f7eab24ced549.htm\"\u003ECorporate  reform top issue at media conference\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECritics of corporate media gather in  Minneapolis to discuss reform\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJune 06, 2008: 05:27 PM EST\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENEW YORK (Associated  Press) - Protecting Internet news sources from being controlled by a small  number of powerful corporations is one of the \"most profound fights of our  lives,\" the head of a media reform group said Friday. \"We can organize truth  against power. We can use the Internet to save the Internet,\" said Josh Silver,  co-founder and executive director of the nonprofit group Free  Press.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESilver made the remarks as journalists and activists gathered here  for the National Conference for Media Reform. The conference this weekend is  meant to encourage efforts for a more diverse and open media.\u003C\/blockquote\u003EWe  witnessed how the \"Liberal\/Leftist MSM\" Have magnified issues negative to  \"Liberal\" Barack Obama and has not done the same for conservative John  McCain?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnyway, the NCMR 2008 took place and the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=national+conference+media+reform+movement\u0026amp;ie=utf-8\u0026amp;oe=utf-8\u0026amp;aq=t\u0026amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official\u0026amp;client=firefox-a\"\u003ENatinal  Media Reform Movement\u003C\/a\u003E is getting stronger\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAurora Grajeda\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESFCA 060808\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\/3115311003418501915\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/leftist-media-and-ncmr-june-6-8-2008.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/3115311003418501915"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/3115311003418501915"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/leftist-media-and-ncmr-june-6-8-2008.html","title":"The \"Leftist Media\" And the NCMR June 6 - 8, 2008"}],"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":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-5781252134634646749"},"published":{"$t":"2008-06-07T11:20:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-06-07T15:15:37.244-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"barack"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"can"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"clinton"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"endorses"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hillary"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"obama"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"we"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"yes"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"1600 Pennsylvania, HERE WE COME!!!!"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"But only if we bury the political hatchet, in the right place of course! (Metaphorically speaking)  In The Regressive.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EIt is time to embrace our progressive values and aspirations and yes, it can be done, if we work hard because, ultimately, as Barack Obama keeps reminding us, it is up to us, WE ARE THE ONES WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR - Soooo, lets not keep ourselves waiting, let's show up and be counted, in other words, as all of us wonderful members of these groups have been doing all along, but harder, if that's possible.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EHeartfelt thanks to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, she was up in full speed for the moment, this is our time, a time to heal, a time to struggle, a time to fight for ours and our children's future.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EShe is right, as is Senator Obama, the stakes are too high to diddle in our differences or nitpick in our missteps or poor choice of language.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EYes we can! 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When she did not come to on her own, he ordered her daubed with rubbing alcohol to cool her down. When that did not work, he had her loaded into a van and driven to a local clinic, rather than to a hospital equipped to treat heat-related illnesses and with orders that the clinic be told that she had collapsed while exercising so that the company would not be blamed for employing an underage worker.', this, event, '250px')\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EMaria Isabel Jiménez  Vázquez\u003C\/a\u003E, she was 17-year-old and pregnant and died because her employer did not give her proper access to shade and water as she pruned grape vines in 100-degree heat.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInvestigators said they found multiple violations including the illegal use of child labor, multiple workers using one timecard and employees forced to purchase their own tools and equipment to harvest crops.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInspectors visited about 50 farms Tuesday.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe death of \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.changetowin.org\/connect\/2008\/06\/the_short_life_and_preventable.html\" class=\"hintanchor\" onMouseover=\"showhint('The death of Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez should have been prevented. California law states that outdoor workers must be provided with -     1. SHADE for workers during rest breaks who are trying to prevent heat illness or recover from it:\u003Cbr \/\u003E    2. PAID RECOVERY PERIODS: Workers feeling the effect of heat must have access to a shaded area for no less than five minutes (and as long as they need) as many times in the day as they need it. If the worker is unable to work because of the heat, the employer can send the worker home for care.\u003Cbr \/\u003E    3. DRINKING WATER: One quart per employee per hour for the entire work shift.\u003Cbr \/\u003E    4. TRAINING: For supervisors and workers. Must include symptoms of heat illness, how to evaluate and control them, the importance of drinking water, and procedures for providing emergency medical services.', this, event, '350px')\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EMaria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez\u003C\/a\u003E is now under investigation by Cal OSHA following allegations she was denied water, shade and other basic human rights while pruning grape vines in near triple-digit heat.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHundreds of farm workers have been holding a march to the state capitol with the Jimenez family for the past few days.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnited Farm Worker official \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc11.com\/topic\/Arturo+Rodriguez\"\u003EArturo Rodriguez\u003C\/a\u003E said Jimenez's death was the 10th from heat exhaustion in the past four years.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Maria Isabel was the youngest of the farmworkers,\" said Rodriguez. \"She was the first woman that died as a result of this...and she was the first person who died being pregnant at the time.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003ESteven J. Ybarra, JD from the California Progress Report in his editorial  \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.californiaprogressreport.com\/2008\/06\/in_memory_of_ma.html\"\u003E\"In Memory of Maria Isabel Jiménez  Vázquez....\"\u003C\/a\u003E writes:\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:#66ccff;\"\u003E\"Here is the question of the day - why is it that the Mexican worker is suddenly the devil incarnate in the United States?\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMany Americans today are buying the right “wingnut” lie that Mexican workers are destroying the economy. They buy off on the xenophobia put out by the wingnuts who blame the war, gas shortages, and deaths in Iraq on workers who come here to pick fruit and clean toilets at your friendly neighborhood motel.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESteven is right in both, in the question and in the answer, the minds of many people have been poisoned with a daily barrage of anti-immigrant hate speech by a large number of RightWingNuts with access to microphones and tv cameras who continuously spew hate and blame toward 'undocumented immigrants (They call them 'illegals'), prominent amongst them are, Lou Dobbs, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, et al - \u003Cspan style=\"color:#66ccff;\"\u003EOne of the most vicious and whose tirades of hate reflect his name, is Michael Savage, who warned U.S. politicians not to \"take to the streets\" to support illegal immigrant \"vermin\" and routinely calls these immigrant workers, criminals.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EListen to Savage's Comments\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cscript language=\"JavaScript\" src=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/%7Eaurora-grajeda\/javascripts\/audio-player.js\"\u003E\u003C\/script\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cobject type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~aurora-grajeda\/javascripts\/player.swf\" id=\"audioplayer1\" height=\"24\" width=\"290\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~aurora-grajeda\/javascripts\/player.swf\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"playerID=1\u0026amp;soundFile=http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/static\/audio\/savage-20060410-immig.mp3\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"menu\" value=\"false\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EVermin?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo what extent the RightWingNut onslaught of hate and demeaning speech against immigrants contributes to the way these humans are viewed and treated?, or in this case, mistreated, yes, they are humans beings just like you and me, in spite of what these hatemongers say and despite how employers abuse and exploit these workers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDr. Marcos Gutierrez in his weekdays radio program \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.marcosgutierrez.com\/english\"\u003E\"Made in California\"\u003C\/a\u003E Regularly points out, that much as in Hitler's Germany of the 1930s, with it's dehumanizing speech against the Jews, made possible the atrocities that were to follow, so it is in these United States, that the anti-immigrant sentiment sowed in the minds of people by the media hatemongers, makes it also possible to view immigrants as less than human and thus fertilize the political ground, so draconian legislative measures can be implemented and barbaric raids conducted in a brutal manner be carried out, destroying lives, separating families, incarcerating children with their mothers, and on, and on, and on... ad infinitum.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut who was  this criminal? Who was this 'lawbreaker illegal immigrant named \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.knbc.com\/topic\/Maria+Isabel+Vasquez+Jimenez\"\u003EMaria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez\u003C\/a\u003E?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color:#66ccff;\"\u003ELODI, Calif. — They fell for one another in junior high school, in a village deep in Mexico's Sierra Madre range.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWithin a few years, the young couple had crossed the border and found jobs pruning grapes in a California vineyard.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMaria and her friend, Florentino, had made plans: To work in this country for perhaps three years, save some money and then return to Oaxaca, get married and make a home and family there.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt wasn't long after that, that Florentino Bautista, 19, lost his pregnant fiancée when she fainted in his arms following hours of work in 100-degree heat. This week, Bautista is leading a poignant march to Sacramento to call for safer labor conditions on farms.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETwo teenagers in love who traveled thousands of miles, surviving the deadly journey from the impoverished village to the fields in California in search of a better future, for them and for their families, in the case of Maria Isabel, to also help her widowed mother.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECriminals?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENo, quite the contrary, Juan Hernandez makes a case that today's immigrants exhibit the traits and character which Americans admire in his book \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/New-American-Pioneers-Mexican-Immigrants\/dp\/1562290525\"\u003E\"New American Pioneers: Why Are We Afraid of Mexican Immigrants?\"\u003C\/a\u003E, yes indeed, why?\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeraldo Rivera, in his book  \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/reader\/0451224140\/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link\"\u003E\"His Panic: Why Americans Fear Hispanics in the U.S.\"\u003C\/a\u003E and in his tv appearances  on the subject, makes a connection between the demonizing of immigrants and the RightWingNuts in the media's antagonistic and hateful demeaning pronunciations against these workers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENo, not criminals, just workers with families to take care of.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/995\/story\/972815.html\"\u003EAudio slideshow from Wednesday's funeral\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/995\/story\/990233.html\"\u003EUnited Farm Workers march to the Capitol - photo slide show\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EVideo:  Maria's fiance Florentino Bautista talks about what happened on May 14.\u003Cbr \/\u003EVideo:  El prometido de Maria, Florentino Bautista, habla sobre lo que paso el 14 de  mayo\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cobject height=\"344\" width=\"425\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xEqhUv7hED4\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xEqhUv7hED4\u0026amp;color1=0x00CC33\u0026amp;color2=0x00FF66\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"344\" width=\"425\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EARTICLES\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.californiaprogressreport.com\/2008\/06\/in_memory_of_ma.html\"\u003EIn Memory of Maria Isabel Jiménez  Vázquez and Her Unborn Child and All Farm Workers Who Have Died to Make our American Life Easier\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.changetowin.org\/connect\/2008\/06\/the_short_life_and_preventable.html\"\u003EThe Short Life and Preventable Death of Maria Isabel Vasquez\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/agriculture\/story\/976244.html\"\u003EEmployer of farmworker who died had been fined for violations in 2006\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc11.com\/news\/16477741\/detail.html\"\u003EFarm Worker Death Sparks March To Capitol\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESource: NBC 11 Bay Area, CA (KNTV)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.knbc.com\/news\/16457090\/detail.html\"\u003EUFW March Honors Pregnant Farmworker Who Died In Vineyard\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESource: NBC 4 Los Angeles (KNBC)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.modbee.com\/opinion\/story\/315855.html\"\u003EFarmers must share in keeping workers safe\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESource: Modesto Bee\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/news\/ci_9449149\"\u003EMarch begins to honor fallen farmworker\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESource: San Jose Mercury News\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/editorials\/story\/977923.html\"\u003EEditorial: A tragedy in the farm fields is all too familiar\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESource: Sacramento Bee\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/news\/ci_9477977\"\u003EAfter worker death, state may revoke contractor's license\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESource: San Jose Mercury News\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca 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Impossible Dream, Barack Obama and us"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cobject height=\"344\" width=\"425\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/g45Zj8HGEls\u0026amp;hl=en\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/g45Zj8HGEls\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;color1=0x006699\u0026amp;color2=0x006699\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"344\" width=\"425\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/Vote2008\/story?id=4988344\u0026page=1\"\u003E06.03.08 St. Paul Minnesota Speech Full Transcript\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt seems like eons ago we made the decision to support the Presidential Candidacy of Barack Obama, it was the moment when we allowed ourselves the luxury to dream again, to set aside our well founded cynicism and consider that perhaps... that maybe it is possible to elect a President in the USA notwithstanding race or the myriad of other superficial and artificial classifications assigned to human beings, along has come a person with the words we yearned to hear for so long and that, paradoxically, we have heard for so long, repeated over and over by other candidates.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut this time is different, it is not about the candidate, it is about us and yet... it is about the candidate too, it is about all of us, it is up to us, we are the ones we have been waiting for and we will not keep us waiting for the road yet to travel in this historic human journey we were asked to join in, and for which we signed up for the duration.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt the start it seemed such an 'impossible dream' and while the undertaking is not completely materialized, we are more convinced that it is possible, because it can be done and we are doing it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt has been frustrating at times, heartbreaking at others, arduous at every step of the way, but above all, it has been not only uplifting, but exhilarating to work with so many wonderful people in bringing about a shared dream, a vision of what can be.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYes, it is a dream, but as I wrote back in February:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(102, 204, 255);\"\u003EMaybe it is dreaming awake, who can really know what's ahead, but Barack Obama is talking to me, to us, he is saying that change is possible, but that it will only come about IF WE MAKE IT HAPPEN, it goes parallel to my belief that IT IS UP TO US, which goes right along with what a group of activists (Sisters\/Brothers), of which I'm part, are saying: \"WE ARE THE ONES WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt has been a grueling and bruising Democratic Primary Campaing, but the worst is yet to come, because the powers that be will not release their hold to power and their  claim to privilege, they will fight us every inch of the way and at times it will get ugly and our candidate has already gone on record tonight, that our campaign or this party will not engage in divisive or demeaning politics, I will follow his lead in spite of the righteous indignation sure to surface at the dirty political tactics that the Republicans are accustomed to and are famous for, if I forget my pledge and fall in the 'politics as usual' again, I ask you of my sisters and brothers to remind me by calling me on it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt is a time to unite, to work in unision for a goal common to all our communities, we have a society to heal, a country to rebuild and a world to save, we need to put aside our differences and find our similarities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt is change that I can believe in because it can be done, Yes we can!  Si se puede!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAurora Grajeda\u003Cbr \/\u003ESFCA 06.03.08\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ccenter\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/donate.barackobama.com\/page\/contribute\/dt2std?source=mainnav\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bumpertalk.com\/bt\/images\/thumb\/BD059A.jpg\" width=\"111\" height=\"24\" align=\"bottom\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"15\" vspace=\"5\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/donate.barackobama.com\/page\/contribute\/dt2std?source=mainnav\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Donate Now\" src=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/%7Eaurora-grajeda\/imgs\/jpgs\/donatenow.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"You must be the change you wish to see in the world.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMohandas Karamachand Gandhi\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/we-are-ones-poem-by-june-jordan.html\"\u003E\"We are the ones we have been been waiting for\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA Poem for South African Women\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/June_Jordan\"\u003EJune Jordan\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Commemoration of the 40,000 women and children who, August 9, 1956, presented themselves in bodily protest against the \"dompass\" in the capital of apartheid. Presented at The United Nations, August 9, 1978\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/%7Eaurora-grajeda\/\"\u003E\"Viva Obama \/ Aurora Song \/ Aurora Video\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"mailto:grassroots4obama-subscribe@yahoogroups.com\"\u003EEmail and subscribe to\u003Cbr \/\u003EGrassRoots4Obama: \"Yes We Can, Si Se Puede!\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.womenofcolorday.com\/\"\u003E\"March 1st, Int'l Women of Color Day\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/\"\u003E\"El Rinconcito de Aurora\"\u003C\/a\u003E  \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.feedburner.com\/fb\/a\/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1685837\u0026amp;loc=en_US\"\u003ESubscribe by Email\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\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\/2764382230908837073\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/impossible-dream-barack-obama-and-us.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/2764382230908837073"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/2764382230908837073"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/impossible-dream-barack-obama-and-us.html","title":"The Impossible Dream, Barack Obama and us"}],"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-5862770407015762026"},"published":{"$t":"2008-05-27T02:18:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-05-02T18:43:01.669-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"bush"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"centers"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"cia"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"commutes"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"destruction"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"insidious"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"intelligence"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"joseph"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"leak"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"libby"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"mass"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"outed"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"plame"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"sentence"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"traitors"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"valerie"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"weapons"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"wilson"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"wmds"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"... With Lliberty and Equal Justice for All"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"By Aurora Grajeda\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E(Originally posted at Coalicion Primero De Mayo Blogs on 07\/03\/07  12:28:11 am, Categories: Noticias, Español)\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/209.85.141.104\/search?q=cache:R5JXGBJnrzUJ:coalicionprimerodemayo.org\/foro\/index.php\/all%3Fs%3Dredadas+aurora+grajeda+inmigrantes+foro+redwood+city\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;ct=clnk\u0026amp;cd=6\u0026amp;gl=us\u0026amp;client=firefox-a\"\u003EExcellence in hypocrisy\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome are more equal than Others.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo follow the Rule of the Law - “The Other”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the darkness at night or at the break of daylight, terrorists with federal police badges, issued by the office of ICE, arrest undocumented immigrants inflicting terror in their relatives, especially to the children living in those houses, separating them from their parents and close relatives, some of which actually are American Citizens and among them are many who have been deported without concern  to the violation of their constitutional and human rights.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERaids and Deportations are the punishment to “Violations” of the laws (?) of Immigration, or at least that is what the individuals say that, in great part, are guided by xenophobia and racism, they attack the Immigrants accusing us of being criminals, carriers of diseases like leprosy and tuberculosis, members of gangs, etc., and for these reasons, deserving of the consequences as it is the separation of families, the destruction of the labor of  5, 10, 15, 20 years in the so called `land of opportunity' where not even ours children have the same educational opportunities that other young people\/have, with the consequent waste of their minds, and therefore, of a better individual and community future.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo follow the Rule of the Law - “The Some”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs the latest example of the historical hypocrisy of the governing class of the United States of America and the also inherently hypocritical corruption of the administration of President G.W. Bush, who shamelessly commuted a section of the sentence to jail for Lewis “Scooter” Libby, proclaiming respect for the citizen's jury:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Ci\u003E”Respect for the jury's verdict” Bush said in a declaration. ” But I have concluded that the prison sentence given to Mr. Libby is excessive. Therefore, I am exchanging the portion of the sentence of Mr. Libby which would require him to spend thirty months in prison.”\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003EExcessive? To lie under oath to a Grand Jury in a case of leaking the clandestine identity of an agent of the CIA who was investigating the proliferation of arms of mass destruction (Nuclear), “Scooter” Libby committed perjury in order to conceal his participation and that of other members of the Administration in the crime committed against the Agent Valerie Plame, who was under the category of NOC (Not Official Cover (Without Official Protection)) Putting in danger her life, that of her family and the network of contacts accumulated in the years she worked under that identity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Scooter” Achieved his objective, he could not be condemned for his participation in the leak of the clandestine identity of Mrs Plame, but it could not avoid to be found guilty of perjury in a maneuver, that in the words of the Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, “Is equivalent to the comparison of a Baseball Umpire to whom the player throws dirt in his face to cover his vision of the play\" , Scooter being the player and the Public Prosecutor, Fitzgerald, the Umpire in the analogy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the play? Well, according to the speech of Ex-President George H.W. Bush, father of the present President who said:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Ci\u003E” I have nothing but contempt and anger for the ones who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/George_H_W_Bush_19990426_Leaks_Traitors\"\u003EThey are, in my opinion, the most insidious of traitors.” \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E- George H.W. Bush, 1999-04-26, in the dedication ceremony for the George Bush Center for Intelligence.\u003C\/blockquote\u003EBut according to his son, G.W. Bush, 30 months of jail is a “excessive punishment” for the following charges:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere were five charges. Two charges were for the crime of lying to the FBI; two charges for lying to the Grand Jury, charges of perjury; and another charge, the most serious of all, was the obstruction of justice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe jury found Mr. Libby guilty in all of the charges except in one. Where they found him innocent was the one in which the jury had struggled with the point for the last five days, many back and forth questions. It was the charge that claimed that Mr. Libby had lied to the FBI on the  conversations that he had, about Valerie Plame the agent of the CIA who was at the center of this investigation of the leak, with Matt Cooper of Time Magazine.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy is it that President G.W. Bush does not have the sense of Justice to discern that the raids, deportations, separation of families and many other manifestations of this war against the immigrants, are brutally excessive as punishment for crossing the border and to work without legal documents, which are not crimes, as the enemies of the immigrants paint it, but that in fact have been administrative violations?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy doesn't he declare a stop to the raids and deportations? Lack of sense of Justice? Perhaps, or... maybe is nothing less than lack of testicular fortitude? Is it hypocrisy? After all, he demonstrated his hypocritical cowardice by not going to Vietnam while proclaiming his support for this invasion and declaring it as Just.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E... With Liberty and Equal Justice for All\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EExcellence in hypocrisy\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBecause Some are more equal than Others, isn't?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/07\/02\/breaking-bush-commutes-libby-sentence\/\"\u003EBush commutes Libby’s sentence\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EVIDEO: Bush I Calls Leakers\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/George_H_W_Bush_19990426_Leaks_Traitors\"\u003E “The Most Insidious of Traitors” \u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cobject type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" id=\"FlowPlayer\" data=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/flv\/FlowPlayerWhite.swf\" height=\"263\" width=\"320\"\u003E   \u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/flv\/FlowPlayerWhite.swf\"\u003E   \u003Cparam name=\"scale\" value=\"noScale\"\u003E   \u003Cparam name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\u003E   \u003Cparam name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"sameDomain\"\u003E   \u003Cparam name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\u003E   \u003Cparam name=\"flashvars\" value=\"config={     loop: false,     autoPlay:false,     autoBuffering:false,     initialScale: 'fit',     videoFile: 'http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/George_H_W_Bush_19990426_Leaks_Traitors\/George_H_W_Bush_19990426_Leaks_Traitors.flv',     splashImageFile: 'http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/George_H_W_Bush_19990426_Leaks_Traitors\/George_H_W_Bush_19990426_Leaks_Traitors.thumbs\/George_H_W_Bush_19990426_Leaks_Traitors_00000002.jpg',   }\"\u003E \u003C\/object\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca herf=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/article\/bush-center-intelligence-leak\"\u003EBush at Center of Intelligence Leak\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBush “Commutes” Scooter Libby’s Sentence: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/07\/02\/AR2007070200825.html\"\u003EWelcome to the Monarchy \u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\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\/5862770407015762026\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/with-lliberty-and-equal-justice-for-all.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/5862770407015762026"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/5862770407015762026"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/with-lliberty-and-equal-justice-for-all.html","title":"... With Lliberty and Equal Justice for All"}],"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-2441426886139906686"},"published":{"$t":"2008-05-26T15:08:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-05-26T15:16:28.254-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"bush"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"centers"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"cia"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"commuta"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"insidiosos"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"insidious"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"intelligence"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"joseph"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"leak"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"libby"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"outed"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"plame"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"sentencia"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"traidores"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"traitors"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"valerie"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"wilson"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"wmds"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"...Con Libertad y Justicia Igual Para Todos"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Por Aurora Grajeda \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E(Originally posted at Coalicion Primero De Mayo Blogs on 07\/03\/07  12:28:11 am, Categories: Noticias, Español   \u003Cbr \/\u003E)\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/209.85.141.104\/search?q=cache:R5JXGBJnrzUJ:coalicionprimerodemayo.org\/foro\/index.php\/all%3Fs%3Dredadas+aurora+grajeda+inmigrantes+foro+redwood+city\u0026hl=en\u0026ct=clnk\u0026cd=6\u0026gl=us\u0026client=firefox-a\"\u003EExcelencia en Hipocrecía\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cfont color=\"#ffffff\" size=\"3\"\u003EUnos más iguales que otros.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESeguir la Regla de La Ley - “Los Otros”\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEn la obscuridad de la noche ó al romper el día, terroristas con placas de policía federal, ejercidas por la oficina de ICE, arrestan a immigrantes indocumentados inflingiendo terror en sus familiares, especialmente a los niños pertenecientes a esas viviendas, separándolos de sus padres y familia allegada, algunos de los cuales son actualmente ciudadanos estadounidences y entre ellos se encuentran muchos que hasta han sido deportados sin importar la violación a sus derechos constitucionales y humanos.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERedadas y Deportaciones son el castigo a “Violaciones” de las leyes(?) de Immigración, o al menos es lo que dicen los individuos que, en gran porcentage, son guiados por xenofobia y racismo, atacan a los Immigrantes acusándonos de criminales, malvivientes, portadores de enfermedades como la lepra y tuberculosis, miembros de pandillas, etc., etc. y por estos motivos, merecedores de las consequencias como es la separación de familias, la destruccion de la labor de 5, 10, 15, 20 anos en la llamada ‘tierra de la oportunidad’ en la que ni siquiera nuestros hij@s tienen las mismas oportunidades educacionales que otros jóvenes\/niños tienen, con el consequente desperdicio de sus mentes, y por ende, de un mejor futuro individual y comunitario.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cfont color=\"#ffffff\" size=\"3\"\u003ESeguir la Regla de La Ley - “Los Unos”\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EComo el último ejemplo de la hipocrecía histórica de la clase gobernante de Los Estados Unidos de América y la corrupción inherentemente hipócrita de la administración del Presidente G.W. Bush, quien tuvo la desverguenza de commutar la sección de la sentencia de cárcel para Lewis “Scooter” Libby, proclamando respeto por el jurado ciudadano:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E” Respeto el veredicto del jurado, ” Bush dijo en una declaración. ” Pero he concluido que la pena de prisión dada al Sr. Libby es excesiva. Por lo tanto, estoy conmutando la porción de la sentencia del Sr. Libby que lo requiria pasar treinta meses en prision.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EExcesiva? Mentir bajo juramento a un Gran Jurado en un caso de divulgamiento de la identidad clandestina de un agente de la CIA que estaba investigando la proliferación de armas de destrucción masiva (Nucleares), “Scooter” Libby cometió perjurio para encubrir su participación y la de otros miembros de la Administración en el crimen cometido contra la Agente Valerie Plame quien estaba bajo la categoría de NOC (Not Official Cover (Sin Protección Oficial)) Poniendo en peligro su vida, la de su familia y la red de contactos que había acumulado en los años que trabajó bajo esa identidad.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Scooter” Logró su objetivo, no se le pudo condenar por su participación en el divulgamiento de la identidad clandestina de la Sra. Plame, pero no pudo evitar ser encontrado culpable de perjurio en una maniobra, que en las palabras del Fiscal Especial Patrick Fitzgerald, “Es equivalente a la comparación de un Umpire de Base-Ball al cual el jugador le tira tierra en la cara para cubrirle la visión de la jugada\", Scooter siendo el jugador y el Fiscal Fitzgeral el Umpire en la analogía.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EY la jugada? Bueno, de acuerdo con el discurso del Ex-Presidente George H.W. Bush, padre del presente Presidente que dijo:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cfont color=\"#ffffff\" size=\"3\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E” No tengo nada sino desprecio y cólera para los que traicionen la confianza exponiendo el nombre de nuestras fuentes. Son, en mi opinión, los más insidiosos, de los traidores.” - George H.W. Bush, 1999-04-26, ceremonia de la dedicacion del centro de George Bush para la inteligencia.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPero de acuerdo con su hijo, G.W. Bush, 30 meses de cárcel es un “castigo excesivo” por los siguientes cargos:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHabía cinco cargos. Dos cargos eran del crimen de mentir al FBI; dos cargos de mentir al gran jurado, cargos de perjurio; y otro cargo, el más serio de todos, que era obstrucción a la justicia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEl jurado encontró al Sr. Libby culpable en todos menos en uno de esos cargos. En el que lo encontraron inocente era uno en que el jurado había luchado con el punto por los ultimos cinco días, muchas preguntas hacia adelante y hacia atrás. Era el cargo que sugería que Sr. Libby había mentido al FBI sobre conversaciones que él tuvo sobre Valerie Plame, el oficial de la CIA, que está en el centro de esta investigacion de divulgamiento, las conversaciones que él tuvo con Matt Cooper, de Time Magazine, sobre ella.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPorqué es que el Presidente G.W. Bush no tiene el sentido de Justicia para discernir que las redadas, deportaciones, separación de familias y muchas otras manifestaciones de esta guerra contra los inmigrantes, son brutalmente excesivas como castigo por cruzar la frontera y trabajar sin documentos legales que no son crímenes como los enemigos de los inmigrantes lo pintan, sino que en realidad han sido faltas administrativas? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPorqué no declara un alto a las redadas y deportaciones? Falta del sentido de Justicia? Ó, tal vez nada más es falta de fortitud testicular? Es hipocrecía? Despues de todo, demonstró su cobardía hipócrita al no ir a Vietnam mientras que proclamaba su apoyo a esa invasión y la declaraba como justa.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E…Con Libertad y Justicia Igual Para Todos\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EExcelencia en Hipocrecía \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPorque unos son más iguales que otros, nos es cierto?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/07\/02\/breaking-bush-commutes-libby-sentence\/\"\u003EBush commutes Libby’s sentence\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EVIDEO: Bush I Calls Leakers\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/George_H_W_Bush_19990426_Leaks_Traitors\"\u003E “Most Insidious of Traitors” \u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003CDIV\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/DIV\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cobject type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"320\" height=\"263\" id=\"FlowPlayer\" 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terror llega por la mañana... Y eso es solamente el principio."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/terror-arrives-in-morning-and-that-is.html\"\u003EEnglish Version\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EImmigración es un fenómeno mundial cuyos efectos son más notorios al nivel local, vemos y oímos de la pérdida de empleos y la separación de familias, acompañadas del consequente terror de nuestr@s hermanas y hermanos indocumentados, atemorizad@s en la incertidumbre de que si el día de hoy, agentes del ICE tocarán su puerta, el terror es mayor en los niños que se preguntan sí hoy, ó mañana, ó el día siguiente, se llevarán a sus padres y herman@s que se encuentran sin documentos que garantizen su estadía legal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EL@s arrestad@s son llevados a centros de detención en donde son víctimas de ultrajes y crímenes, reciben vejaciones, descuidos y abuso sexual, en por lo menos 30 de 83 muertes desde 2003, la muerte fué a consequencia de la falta de cuidados médicos y prácticas administrativas carentes de consideración a la condición humana y a los derechos civiles y legales.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEs de notar que mientras se habla mucho de las redadas, se habla poco de lo que está pasando en los centros de detención, donde en cualquier día, es fácil contar 33,000 detenidos, entre ellos mujeres y niños, muchos de ellos ciudadanos de este pais, hay casos de familias enteras en detención.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELos immigrantes somos de todos los colores y nacionalidades que se refleja en los muertos, Yusif Osman de Ghana, La mujer transgénero Victoria Arellano de México, Arturo Suarez-Almenares de Cuba, Edmar Alves Araujo de Brazil, Young Sook Kim de Korea, Ms. Kenley de Barbados, César Gonzales-Baeza de México, de otros ni siquiera se tiene información sobre lugares de origen como Reinaldo Prado-Arencilia, Yvel Fils-Aim,  Abdoulai Sall, ó Enríquez-Betancourt, del que se tiene nadamás apellidos.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEntre las muertes, 13 se citan como suicidios, 14 como resultado de enfermedades cardíacas y 9 relacionadas con V.I.H y S.I.D.A, las listas contienen otras definiciones crípticas de las causas de muertes como 'no responsivas' é 'indeterminadas', en demasiados casos estas listas no mencionan las nacionalidades ó donde vivían en los Estados Unidos. Algunos nombres y fechas de nacimiento son illegibles.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EViolación sexual a una mujer transsexual Mexicana en el centro de detencion de Miami, en donde  algunas mujeres reportaron que los guardias les prometían liberarlas a cambio de sexo ó deportarlas si se negaban, del centro Pearsall en Tejas, se reporta abuso sexual extenso y sistemático de parte de los guardias, en el presente hay quejas y demandas legales además de pedirse investigaciones exhaustivas sobre irregularidades, abusos y crímenes en esos campos de concentración eufemísticamente llamados centros de detención, los cuales son administrados por corporaciones contratistas privadas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELa comunidad immigrante se enfrenta a una crisis de magnitudes catastróficas en donde los esfuerzos para remediarla, topan con una gran segmento de la población que ignora, no le importa ó está de acuerdo con la política del gobierno estadounidense.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EL@s que luchamos para remediar, ó por lo menos aliviar la situacion, nos encontramos poseyendo diferentes opiniones sobre como debemos actuar ó lo que es más conveniente hacer para combatir los embates, se debate de que si las marchas inflaman los sentimientos anti immigrantes ó alertan al resto de la población de las tragedias, las opiniones sobre el curso a seguir varían en todos los aspectos y aparentemente el debate llega al punto de elegir entre este ó aquel método como el más adecuado ó efectivo.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOtras dificultades se derivan de la consideración sobre la causas y efectos del fenómeno artificial que es la mobilización forzada y masiva de trabajadores y familias a nivel global, en estos puntos no hay desacuerdo de que son los resultados de acuerdos económicos llevados a cabo en un nivel de geopolítica, pero sí hay un debate sobre las esferas de juridicción ó influencia en las que actividades de medidas correctivas deberían ser aplicadas y sobre cuales de ellas deberían tener prioridad, tomando en cuenta de que la realidad desnuda es que el problema es causado tanto por los paises recipientes de immigrantes, como en los originadores, y de que hay un contubernio entre las dos entidades, que en la mayoría de los casos, si no en todos, están controladas por intereses corporatistas, siendo este el denominador común de los victimarios, y siendo los trabajadores, agricultores, pequenos empresarios y sus familias, las víctimas de estos acuerdos económicos transnacionales.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EY de esta manera, los debates continúan mientras las tragedias aumentan, las crisis se multiplican, el terror perdura y se institucionaliza de manera perniciosa, especialmente en nuestros hijos, hasta llegar a la situación en que nos encontramos, sobre la cual no hay desacuerdo de que es insostenible é intolerable, todos estamos de acuerdo de que se debe hacer algo y la preguntas comunes son, qué y como.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERespetuosamente presentado en Solidaridad a La Unidad Hispana\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EAurora Grajeda\u003Cbr \/\u003ESFCA 052108\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\/8786008598543760418\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/el-terror-llega-por-la-maana-y-eso-es.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/8786008598543760418"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/8786008598543760418"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/el-terror-llega-por-la-maana-y-eso-es.html","title":"El terror llega por la mañana... Y eso es solamente el principio."}],"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":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-5836279530055104240"},"published":{"$t":"2008-05-21T22:58:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-05-22T01:31:46.790-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"abuse"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"centers"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"children"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"deaths"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"detention"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"families"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"immigration"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"raids"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"sexual"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The terror arrives in the morning… And that is only the beginning."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Immigration is a world-wide phenomenon whose effects are more noticeable at the local level, we see and heard of the loss of jobs and the separation of families, accompanied by the consequent terror of our undocumented sisters and brothers, fearful in the uncertainty that if today, agents of I.C.E. will knock on their door, the terror is greater in the children. than they ask themselves if today, or tomorrow, or the following day, their parents, brothers and sisters without documents that guarantee their legal stay will be taken away.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThose arrested are taken to detention centers where they are victims of insults and crimes, they suffer humiliations, negligence and sexual abuse, in at least 30 of 83 deaths from 2003, the death was due to lack of medical care and administrative practices devoid  of consideration to the human condition, civil and legal rights.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EImportant to note, that while much is spoken of the raids, very little is said of what is happening in the detention centers, where in any given day, it is easy to count 33,000 prisoners, among them women and children, many are citizens of this country, there are cases of whole families in detention.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe immigrants are of all colors and nationalities that are reflected in the dead, Yusif Osman of Ghana, the transgender woman Victoria Arellano of Mexico, Arthur Suarez-Almenares of Cuba, Edmar Alves Araujo of Brazil, Young Sook Kim of Korea, Ms. Kenley of Barbados, Caesar Gonza'les-Baeza of Mexico, for others there is not even information on their places of origin like Reinaldo Prado-Arencilia, Yvel Fils-Aim, Abdoulai Sall, or Enríquez-Betancourt, of whom there is only last names.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmong the deaths, 13 are listed as suicides, 14 as a result of cardiac diseases and 9 related to H.I.V and A.I.D.S, the lists contain other cryptic definitions of the causes as “undetermined” or “unresponsive” , in too many cases these lists do not mention their nationalities or where they lived in the United States. Some names and date of birth are ineligibles.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESexual violation to a Mexican transsexual woman in the detention center of Miami, where some women reported that the guards promised to release them in exchange for sex or to deport them if they refused, of the Pearsall center in Texas. there are reports of extensive and systematic sexual abuse from the guards, in the present, there are legal complaints, lawsuits and demands for exhaustive investigations on irregularities, abuses and crimes in those concentration camps, euphemistically called detention centers, which are managed by contractors working for private corporations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe immigrant community faces a crisis of catastrophic magnitude where the efforts to remedy it run into a great segment of the population that ignores the reality, do not care or are in agreement with the policy of the US government.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThose of us who struggle to remedy, or at least to alleviate the situation, have different opinions on what to do to fight off the attacks or how to go about it, we debate weather our immigrant marches inflame the anti immigrant sentiments or alert the rest of the population on the tragedies, the opinions on the course to follow vary in all aspects and apparently the debate arrives to the point of choosing between this or that option as the most suitable or effective method.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOther difficulties derive from the consideration of the causes and effects of the artificial phenomenon that is the  forced and massive mobilization of workers and families at a global level, on these points there is no disagreement that they are the result of economic agreements at an geopolitical level, but there is indeed a debate on the  spheres of influences or jurisdiction where activities on corrective measures would have to be applied or which of them must have priority, taking into account the stark reality that the problem is caused as much by the countries receiving the immigrants as is their country of origin, since both entities are controlled by corporatist interests, they share the blame for the victims of their economic policies and transnational agreements which are the workers, farmers, small entrepreneurs and their families.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd this way, the debates continue while the tragedies increase, the crises multiply, the terror remains and it is institutionalized in a pernicious way, especially in our children, thus we arrive at the situation were we find ourselves in, where we agree that it is untenable and intolerable and that something has to be done, the only remaining questions are: What, where, and how.\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 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the people, in order to form a more perfect union.\""},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Tuesday, March 18th, 2008\/ 10:17:53 ET\u003Cbr \/\u003EPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cobject width=\"425\" height=\"373\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pWe7wTVbLUU\u0026amp;rel=0\u0026amp;border=1\u0026amp;hl=en\"\u003E\u003C\/param\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\u003E\u003C\/param\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pWe7wTVbLUU\u0026amp;color1=0x006699\u0026amp;color2=0x54abd6\u0026amp;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"373\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETwo hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America's improbable experiment in democracy. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through the spring of 1787.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe document they produced was eventually signed but ultimately unfinished. It was stained by this nation's original sin of slavery, a question that divided the colonies and brought the convention to a stalemate until the founders chose to allow the slave trade to continue for at least twenty more years, and to leave any final resolution to future generations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOf course, the answer to the slavery question was already embedded within our Constitution – a Constitution that had at is very core the ideal of equal citizenship under the law; a Constitution that promised its people liberty, and justice, and a union that could be and should be perfected over time.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd yet words on a parchment would not be enough to deliver slaves from bondage, or provide men and women of every color and creed their full rights and obligations as citizens of the United States. What would be needed were Americans in successive generations who were willing to do their part – through protests and struggle, on the streets and in the courts, through a civil war and civil disobedience and always at great risk - to narrow that gap between the promise of our ideals and the reality of their time.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis was one of the tasks we set forth at the beginning of this campaign – to continue the long march of those who came before us, a march for a more just, more equal, more free, more caring and more prosperous America. I chose to run for the presidency at this moment in history because I believe deeply that we cannot solve the\u003Cbr \/\u003Echallenges of our time unless we solve them together – unless we perfect our union by understanding that we may have different stories, but we hold common hopes; that we may not look the same and we may not have come from the same place, but we all want to move in the same direction – towards a better future for of children and our grandchildren.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis belief comes from my unyielding faith in the decency and generosity of the American people. But it also comes from my own American story.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas.\u003Cbr \/\u003EI was raised with the help of a white grandfather who survived a Depression to serve in Patton's Army during World War II and a white grandmother who worked on a bomber assembly line at Fort Leavenworth while he was overseas. I've gone to some of the best schools in America and lived in one of the world's poorest nations. I am married to a black American who carries within her the blood of slaves and slaveowners – an inheritance we pass on to our two precious daughters.\u003Cbr \/\u003EI have brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, uncles and cousins, of every race and every hue, scattered across three continents, and for as long as I live, I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt's a story that hasn't made me the most conventional candidate. But it is a story that has seared into my genetic makeup the idea that this nation is more than the sum of its parts – that out of many, we are truly one.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThroughout the first year of this campaign, against all predictions to the contrary, we saw how hungry the American people were for this message of unity. Despite the temptation to view my candidacy through a purely racial lens, we won commanding victories in states with some of the whitest populations in the country. In South Carolina, where the Confederate Flag still flies, we built a powerful coalition of African Americans and white Americans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is not to say that race has not been an issue in the campaign. At various stages in the campaign, some commentators have deemed me either \"too black\" or \"not black enough.\" We saw racial tensions bubble to the surface during the week before the South Carolina primary. The press has scoured every exit poll for the latest  evidence of racial polarization, not just in terms of white and black, but black and brown as well.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd yet, it has only been in the last couple of weeks that the discussion of race in this campaign has taken a particularly divisive turn.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn one end of the spectrum, we've heard the implication that my candidacy is somehow an exercise in affirmative action; that it's based solely on the desire of wide-eyed liberals to purchase racial reconciliation on the cheap. On the other end, we've heard my former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, use incendiary language to express views that have the potential not only to widen the racial divide, but views that denigrate both the greatness and the goodness of our nation; that rightly offend white and black alike.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI have already condemned, in unequivocal terms, the statements of Reverend Wright that have caused such controversy. For some, nagging questions remain. Did I know him to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course. Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes. Did I strongly disagree with many of his political views? Absolutely – just as I'm sure many of you have heard remarks from your\u003Cbr \/\u003Epastors, priests, or rabbis with which you strongly disagreed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the remarks that have caused this recent firestorm weren't simply controversial. They weren't simply a religious leader's effort to speak out against perceived injustice. Instead, they expressed a profoundly distorted view of this country – a view that sees white racism as endemic, and that elevates what is wrong with America above all that we know is right with America; a view that sees the conflicts in the Middle East as rooted primarily in the actions of stalwart allies like Israel, instead of emanating from the perverse and hateful ideologies of radical Islam.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs such, Reverend Wright's comments were not only wrong but divisive, divisive at a time when we need unity; racially charged at a time when we need to come together to solve a set of monumental problems – two wars, a terrorist threat, a falling economy, a chronic health care crisis and potentially devastating climate change; problems  that are neither black or white or Latino or Asian, but rather problems that confront us all.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGiven my background, my politics, and my professed values and ideals, there will no doubt be those for whom my statements of condemnation are not enough. Why associate myself with Reverend Wright in the first place, they may ask? Why not join another church? And I confess that if all that I knew of Reverend Wright were the snippets of those sermons that have run in an endless loop on the television and You Tube, or if Trinity United Church of Christ conformed to the caricatures being peddled by some commentators, there is no doubt that I would react in much the same way\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the truth is, that isn't all that I know of the man. The man I met more than twenty years ago is a man who helped introduce me to my Christian faith, a man who spoke to me about our obligations to love one another; to care for the sick and lift up the poor. He is a man who served his country as a U.S. Marine; who has studied and lectured at some of the finest universities and seminaries in the country, and who for over thirty years led a church that serves the community by doing God's work here on Earth – by housing the homeless, ministering to the needy, providing day care services and scholarships and prison ministries, and reaching out to those suffering from HIV\/AIDS.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn my first book, Dreams From My Father, I described the experience of my first service at Trinity:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"People began to shout, to rise from their seats and clap and cry out, a forceful wind carrying the reverend's voice up into the rafters….And in that single note – hope! – I heard something else; at the foot of that cross, inside the thousands of churches across the city, I imagined the stories of ordinary black people merging with the stories\u003Cbr \/\u003Eof David and Goliath, Moses and Pharaoh, the Christians in the lion's den, Ezekiel's field of dry bones. Those stories – of survival, and freedom, and hope – became our story, my story; the blood that had spilled was our blood, the tears our tears; until this black church, on this bright day, seemed once more a vessel carrying the story of a people into future generations and into a larger world. Our trials and triumphs became at once unique and universal, black and more than black; in chronicling our journey, the stories and songs gave us a means to reclaim memories that we didn't need to feel shame about…memories that all people might study and cherish – and with which we could start to rebuild.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat has been my experience at Trinity. Like other predominantly black churches across the country, Trinity embodies the black community in its entirety – the doctor and the welfare mom, the model student and the former gang-banger. Like other black churches, Trinity's services are full of raucous laughter and sometimes bawdy  humor. They are full of dancing, clapping, screaming and shouting that may seem jarring to the untrained ear. The church contains in full the kindness and cruelty, the fierce intelligence and the shocking ignorance, the struggles and successes, the love and yes, the bitterness and bias that make up the black experience in America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd this helps explain, perhaps, my relationship with Reverend Wright. As imperfect as he may be, he has been like family to me. He strengthened my faith, officiated my wedding, and baptized my children. Not once in my conversations with him have I heard him talk about any ethnic group in derogatory terms, or treat whites with whom he interacted with anything but courtesy and respect. He contains within him the contradictions – the good and the bad – of the community that he has served diligently for so many years.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this country that I love.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome will see this as an attempt to justify or excuse comments that are simply inexcusable. I can assure you it is not. I suppose the politically safe thing would be to move on from this episode and just hope that it fades into the woodwork. We can dismiss Reverend Wright as a crank or a demagogue, just as some have dismissed Geraldine Ferraro, in the aftermath of her recent statements, as harboring some deep-seated racial bias.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. We would be making the same mistake that Reverend Wright made in his offending sermons about America – to simplify and stereotype and amplify the negative to the point that it distorts reality.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe fact is that the comments that have been made and the issues that have surfaced over the last few weeks reflect the complexities of race in this country that we've never really worked through – a part of our union that we have yet to perfect. And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care, or education, or the need to find good jobs for every American.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnderstanding this reality requires a reminder of how we arrived at this point. As William Faulkner once wrote, \"The past isn't dead and buried. In fact, it isn't even past.\" We do not need to recite here the history of racial injustice in this country. But we do need to remind ourselves that so many of the disparities that exist in the\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfrican-American community today can be directly traced to inequalities passed on from an earlier generation that suffered under the brutal legacy of slavery and Jim Crow.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESegregated schools were, and are, inferior schools; we still haven't fixed them, fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, and the inferior education they provided, then and now, helps explain the pervasive achievement gap between today's black and white students.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELegalized discrimination - where blacks were prevented, often through violence, from owning property, or loans were not granted to African-American business owners, or black homeowners could not access FHA mortgages, or blacks were excluded from unions, or the police force, or fire departments – meant that black families could not amass any meaningful wealth to bequeath to future generations. That history helps explain the wealth and income gap between black and white, and the concentrated pockets of poverty that persists in so many of today's urban and rural communities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA lack of economic opportunity among black men, and the shame and frustration that came from not being able to provide for one's family, contributed to the erosion of black families – a problem that welfare policies for many years may have worsened. And the lack of basic services in so many urban black neighborhoods – parks for kids to play in, police walking the beat, regular garbage pick-up and building code enforcement – all helped create a cycle of violence, blight and neglect that continue to haunt us.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is the reality in which Reverend Wright and other African-Americans of his generation grew up. They came of age in the late fifties and early sixties, a time when segregation was still the law of the land and opportunity was systematically constricted. What's remarkable is not how many failed in the face of discrimination, but\u003Cbr \/\u003Erather how many men and women overcame the odds; how many were able to make a way out of no way for those like me who would come after them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut for all those who scratched and clawed their way to get a piece of the American Dream, there were many who didn't make it – those who were ultimately defeated, in one way or another, by discrimination. That legacy of defeat was passed on to future generations – those young men and increasingly young women who we see standing on street corners or languishing in our prisons, without hope or prospects for the future. Even for those blacks who did make it, questions of race, and racism, continue to define their worldview in fundamental ways. For the men and women of Reverend Wright's generation, the memories of humiliation and doubt and fear have not gone away; nor has the anger and the bitterness of those years. That anger may not get expressed in public, in front of white co-workers or white friends. But it does\u003Cbr \/\u003Efind voice in the barbershop or around the kitchen table. At times, that anger is exploited by politicians, to gin up votes along racial lines, or to make up for a politician's own failings.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd occasionally it finds voice in the church on Sunday morning, in the pulpit and in the pews. The fact that so many people are surprised to hear that anger in some of Reverend Wright's sermons simply reminds us of the old truism that the most segregated hour in American life occurs on Sunday morning. That anger is not always productive; indeed, all too often it distracts attention from solving real problems; it keeps us from squarely facing our own complicity in our condition, and prevents the African-American community from forging the alliances it needs to bring about real change. But the anger is real; it is powerful; and to simply wish it away, to condemn it without understanding its roots, only serves to widen the chasm of misunderstanding that exists between the races.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn fact, a similar anger exists within segments of the white community. Most working- and middle-class white Americans don't feel that they have been particularly privileged by their race. Their experience is the immigrant experience – as far as they're concerned, no one's handed them anything, they've built it from scratch. They've\u003Cbr \/\u003Eworked hard all their lives, many times only to see their jobs shipped overseas or their pension dumped after a lifetime of labor. They are anxious about their futures, and feel their dreams slipping away; in an era of stagnant wages and global competition, opportunity comes to be seen as a zero sum game, in which your dreams come at my expense. So when they are told to bus their children to a school across town; when they hear that an African American is getting an advantage in landing a good job or a spot in a good college because of an injustice that they themselves never committed; when they're told that their fears about crime in urban neighborhoods are somehow prejudiced, resentment builds over time.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike the anger within the black community, these resentments aren't always expressed in polite company. But they have helped shape the political landscape for at least a generation. Anger over welfare and affirmative action helped forge the Reagan Coalition. Politicians routinely exploited fears of crime for their own electoral ends. Talk show hosts and conservative commentators built entire careers unmasking bogus claims of racism while dismissing legitimate discussions of racial injustice and inequality as mere political correctness or reverse racism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJust as black anger often proved counterproductive, so have these white resentments distracted attention from the real culprits of the middle class squeeze – a corporate culture rife with inside dealing, questionable accounting practices, and short-term greed; a Washington dominated by lobbyists and special interests; economic policies that favor the few over the many. And yet, to wish away the resentments of white Americans, to label them as misguided or even racist, without recognizing they are grounded in legitimate concerns – this too widens the racial divide, and blocks the path to understanding.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is where we are right now. It's a racial stalemate we've been stuck in for years. Contrary to the claims of some of my critics, black and white, I have never been so naïve as to believe that we can get beyond our racial divisions in a single election cycle, or with a single candidacy – particularly a candidacy as imperfect as my own.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut I have asserted a firm conviction – a conviction rooted in my faith in God and my faith in the American people – that working together we can move beyond some of our old racial wounds, and that in fact we have no choice is we are to continue on the path of a more perfect union.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor the African-American community, that path means embracing the burdens of our past without becoming victims of our past. It means continuing to insist on a full measure of justice in every aspect of American life. But it also means binding our particular grievances – for better health care, and better schools, and better jobs - to the larger aspirations of all Americans -- the white woman struggling to break the glass ceiling, the white man whose been laid off, the immigrant trying to feed his family. And it means taking full responsibility for own lives – by demanding more from our fathers, and spending more time with our children, and reading to them, and teaching them that while they may face challenges and discrimination in their own lives, they must never succumb to despair or cynicism; they must always believe that they can write their own destiny.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIronically, this quintessentially American – and yes, conservative – notion of self-help found frequent expression in Reverend Wright's sermons. But what my former pastor too often failed to understand is that embarking on a program of self-help also requires a belief that society can change.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country – a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black; Latino and Asian, rich and poor, young and old -- is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past. But what we know -- what we have seen – is that America can change. That is true genius of this nation. What we have already achieved gives us hope – the audacity to hope – for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed. Not just with\u003Cbr \/\u003Ewords, but with deeds – by investing in our schools and our communities; by enforcing our civil rights laws and ensuring fairness in our criminal justice system; by providing this generation with ladders of opportunity that were unavailable for previous generations. It requires all Americans to realize that your dreams do not have to\u003Cbr \/\u003Ecome at the expense of my dreams; that investing in the health, welfare, and education of black and brown and white children will ultimately help all of America prosper.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the end, then, what is called for is nothing more, and nothing less, than what all the world's great religions demand – that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us. Let us be our brother's keeper, Scripture tells us. Let us be our sister's keeper. Let us find that common stake we all have in one another, and let our politics\u003Cbr \/\u003Ereflect that spirit as well.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only as spectacle – as we did in the OJ trial – or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the aftermath of Katrina - or as fodder for the nightly news. We can play Reverend Wright's sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words. We can pounce on some gaffe by a Hillary supporter as evidence that she's playing the race card, or we can speculate on whether white men will all flock to John McCain in the general election regardless of his policies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe can do that.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut if we do, I can tell you that in the next election, we'll be talking about some other distraction. And then another one. And then another one. And nothing will change.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat is one option. Or, at this moment, in this election, we can come together and say, \"Not this time.\" This time we want to talk about the crumbling schools that are stealing the future of black children and white children and Asian children and Hispanic children and Native American children. This time we want to reject the cynicism that tells us that these kids can't learn; that those kids who don't look like us are somebody else's problem. The children of America are not those kids, they are our kids, and we will not let them fall behind in a 21st century economy. Not this time.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis time we want to talk about how the lines in the Emergency Room are filled with whites and blacks and Hispanics who do not have health care; who don't have the power on their own to overcome the special interests in Washington, but who can take them on if we do it together.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis time we want to talk about the shuttered mills that once provided a decent life for men and women of every race, and the homes for sale that once belonged to Americans from every religion, every region, every walk of life. This time we want to talk about the fact that the real problem is not that someone who doesn't look like you might take your job; it's that the corporation you work for will ship it overseas for nothing more than a profit.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis time we want to talk about the men and women of every color and creed who serve together, and fight together, and bleed together under the same proud flag. We want to talk about how to bring them home from a war that never should've been authorized and never should've been waged, and we want to talk about how we'll show our patriotism by caring for them, and their families, and giving them the benefits they have earned.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI would not be running for President if I didn't believe with all my heart that this is what the vast majority of Americans want for this country. This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected. And today, whenever I find myself feeling doubtful or cynical about this possibility, what gives me the most hope is the next generation – the young people whose attitudes and beliefs and openness to change have already made history in this election.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere is one story in particularly that I'd like to leave you with today – a story I told when I had the great honor of speaking on Dr. King's birthday at his home church, Ebenezer Baptist, in Atlanta.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere is a young, twenty-three year old white woman named Ashley Baia who organized for our campaign in Florence, South Carolina. She had been working to organize a mostly African-American community since the beginning of this campaign, and one day she was at a roundtable discussion where everyone went around telling their story and why they were there.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd Ashley said that when she was nine years old, her mother got cancer. And because she had to miss days of work, she was let go and lost her health care. They had to file for bankruptcy, and that's when Ashley decided that she had to do something to help her mom.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe knew that food was one of their most expensive costs, and so Ashley convinced her mother that what she really liked and really wanted to eat more than anything else was mustard and relish sandwiches. Because that was the cheapest way to eat.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe did this for a year until her mom got better, and she told everyone at the roundtable that the reason she joined our campaign was so that she could help the millions of other children in the country who want and need to help their parents too.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow Ashley might have made a different choice. Perhaps somebody told her along the way that the source of her mother's problems were blacks who were on welfare and too lazy to work, or Hispanics who were coming into the country illegally. But she didn't. She sought out allies in her fight against injustice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnyway, Ashley finishes her story and then goes around the room and asks everyone else why they're supporting the campaign. They all have different stories and reasons. Many bring up a specific issue. And finally they come to this elderly black man who's been sitting there quietly the entire time. And Ashley asks him why he's there. And he does not bring up a specific issue. He does not say health care or the economy. He does not say education or the war. He does not say that he was there because of Barack Obama. He simply says to everyone in the room, \"I am here because of Ashley.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I'm here because of Ashley.\" By itself, that single moment of recognition between that young white girl and that old black man is not enough. It is not enough to give health care to the sick, or jobs to the jobless, or education to our children.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut it is where we start. It is where our union grows stronger. And as so many generations have come to realize over the course of the two-hundred and twenty one years since a band of patriots signed that document in Philadelphia, that is where the perfection begins.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEND\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ccenter\u003E\"You must be the change you wish to see in the world.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003EMohandas Karamachand Gandhi\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/we-are-ones-poem-by-june-jordan.html\"\u003E\"We are the ones we have been been waiting for\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EA Poem for South African Women\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E(by \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/June_Jordan\"\u003EJune Jordan\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Commemoration of the 40,000 women and children who, August 9, 1956, presented themselves in bodily protest against the \"dompass\" in the capital of apartheid. Presented at The United Nations, August 9, 1978\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~aurora-grajeda\/\"\u003E\"Viva Obama \/ Aurora Song \/ Aurora Video\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"mailto:grassroots4obama@yahoogroups.com\"\u003E\"Yes We Can, Si Se Puede!\" - Email GrassRoots4Obama\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.womenofcolorday.com\"\u003E\"March 1st, Int'l Women of Color Day\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/\"\u003E\"El Rinconcito de Aurora\" \u003C\/a\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\/2475274117069556352\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/we-people-in-order-to-form-more-perfect.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/2475274117069556352"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/2475274117069556352"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/we-people-in-order-to-form-more-perfect.html","title":"\"We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.\""}],"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-4202301968451072769"},"published":{"$t":"2008-03-08T01:52:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-05-29T23:12:38.512-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"clinton"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"experience"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hillary"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"immigration"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"iraq"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"legislation"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"nafta"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"obama"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"reform"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"war"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"welfare"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"IT'S HER EXPERIENCE, STUPID!"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Whenever you talk to H. R. Clinton's supporters, they say she has been for the country, for the people, she has done soooo much, my question on the latter is: Much of what?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EReally, I'd like to ask, and I have urged her supporters to mention, not list mind you, just mention, what legislation with progressive outcomes has she sponsored, supported or voted for? Just mention a few, It should not be too difficult to find a couple of them in her 35 five years of experience, this is not too much to ask, is it?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDear reader, yes, you who is reading this words right now, can you think of any? If you do, please let me know (Be specific please)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn the other hand, can you think of any legislation she sponsored, supported or voted on, that did have adverse consequences to the majority of the people in this country and to perhaps millions around the world? I'm sure you already have thought of at least three, easy to remember, most of them have euphemistic or, as some have said, orwellian titles.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI'll make it easy on everyone to pick the positive from the negative from a few items I will list, was her vote on the Prescription bill? Bankruptcy? Oh yeah, she didn't get to vote on this one, Bill was having surgery at the time and she was with him, lucky for her, because she was for it, was it NAFTA or the other pro corporations legislation? Welfare reform? Immigration legislation of 1996? Please do tell me what was so good about it - was it the immigration reform of 2007? FYI, it was nicknamed the \"Sensenbrenner Junior\" and it was just as bad as it's parent, what about her vote for the war on Iraq and the subsequent support for Pres. Bush's desires, when she voted with the Republicans over and over? What about her votes on Supreme Court nominations? We all know how that turned out without counting the other numerous Federal Judges nominations - when looking at her \"Experience\"(?), was there any pro corporation legislation she didn't like and vote for?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile you think of any, let me just keep on going, since she is a Super Patriot, I'm sure she fought like hell to help returning wounded veterans, did she? Was she outraged at how returning veterans were mistreated or not treated at all? Was she besides herself when National Guardsmen didn't have the job they left to serve their country, a job which was supposed to be waiting for them by law upon their return? Did she anguish when she learned that many of them lost also their homes because a) they couldn't pay their mortgage with the military salary or, b) because they lost their job for doing their duty?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOh! I know, The Patriot Act, no? Anti Flag Burning Amendment?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow I know I got it! She renamed parks and Court Houses with the names of Illustrious People, well, it was bound to happen, with a little time, I did find positive legislation she voted for.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOh what a heck! Let me get to the point I've been aiming at:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince she is running on her record, why is it that the Obama staff is not doing more research on her record? Yes, I know, the 'pro transparency' delegate is anything but, and her records are sealed in her husband's library, but there is still enough background information on her 'experience' in the public domain to prepare Obama and his campaign spokespersons to challenge her to be more specific, as she pressures Sen. Obama to be. Be prepared, if she mentions any, it has to be followed up like in 'welfare reform' by asking her:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Are you talking about the welfare reform that increased the number of children and women below the poverty rate?\"\u003Cbr \/\u003EImmigration Reform - \"The one who placed untold more burdens and penalized children more than the one before your legislation was enacted?\"\u003Cbr \/\u003ELabor Issues - \"Like in the NAFTA agreements?\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd so on... Am I explaining myself?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen it comes to Hillary Rodham Clinton's \"Experience\", there is nothing there... There.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETaking a page from past Clinton's Campaigns:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:180%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIT'S HER EXPERIENCE, STUPID!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003EAurora\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E03.07.08\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"You must be the change you wish to see in the world.\"  \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMohandas Karamachand Gandhi\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/we-are-ones-poem-by-june-jordan.html\"\u003E\"We are the ones we have been been waiting for\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"style10\"\u003EA Poem for South African Women\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"style10\"\u003E(by \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/June_Jordan\"\u003EJune Jordan\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"style10\"\u003EIn Commemoration of the 40,000 women and children who, August 9, 1956, presented themselves in bodily protest against the \"dompass\" in the capital of apartheid. 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disturbing increase in Republican like-inism\""},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ctable\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr valign=\"top\"\u003E\u003Ctd align=\"top\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMcCain's Fear Ad which was plagiarized by Hilary Clinton\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cobject height=\"113\" width=\"127\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8nxCO8oecGQ\u0026amp;rel=0\u0026amp;border=0\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GPadP7eAO9Y\u0026amp;color1=0xFFFF66\u0026amp;color2=0xFFFF00\u0026amp;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" align=\"left\" height=\"113\" width=\"127\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Ad starts with a panoramic of Washington DC\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe caption reads:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWHITE HOUSE - 3 AM\u003Cbr \/\u003EJanuary 21, 2009\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDramatization\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Teletype writes:\u003Cbr \/\u003EXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX\u003Cbr \/\u003EXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX\u003Cbr \/\u003EXX FLASH XX FLASH XX FLASH\u003Cbr \/\u003ECLASSIFIED\u003Cbr \/\u003ESUBJ: SPECIAL WEAPON MISSING\u003Cbr \/\u003E1. FOREIGN STATION CHIEF\u003Cbr \/\u003EREPORTS SECURITY BREACH AND\u003Cbr \/\u003ETHEFT OF SPECIAL WEAPON BY\u003Cbr \/\u003EUNKNOWN TERRIOST GROUP (Misspelling in in AD)\u003Cbr \/\u003EDESTINATION UNKNOWN\u003Cbr \/\u003E2. NOTIFY THE  PRESIDENT\u003Cbr \/\u003EIMMEDIATELY\u003Cbr \/\u003EBREAK TRANSMITION\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhite House - Living Quarters\u003Cbr \/\u003E3:03 AM\u003Cbr \/\u003EJanuary 21, 2009\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWho do you want to answer\u003Cbr \/\u003Ethe phone?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJohn McCain\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESen. Hillary Clinton's New Ad\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cobject height=\"113\" width=\"127\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8nxCO8oecGQ\u0026amp;rel=0\u0026amp;border=0\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/M70emIFxETs\u0026amp;color1=0x6699FF\u0026amp;color2=0x99CCFF\u0026amp;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" align=\"left\" height=\"113\" width=\"127\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESen. Hillary Clinton has a new TV ad up which uses one of her main arguments against Sen. Barack Obama, her rival for the Democratic presidential nomination.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt boils down to she's ready, he's not, to be in the Oval Office when a national-security emergency occurs in the wee small hours of the morning.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe has repeatedly used this argument in her stump speech. It plays to the image of toughness she has with many Democratic voters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe ad shows a series of small children asleep in the middle of the night. It's clearly meant to appeal to women, the part of the Democratic electorate that had been among her strongest supporters but has been eroding as women have become more willing to support Obama.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E   It’s 3 am and your children are safe and asleep\u003Cbr \/\u003E   But there’s a phone in the White House and it’s ringing\u003Cbr \/\u003E   Something’s happening in the world\u003Cbr \/\u003E   Your vote will decide who answers that call.\u003Cbr \/\u003E   Whether it’s someone who already knows the world’s leaders, knows the military - someone tested and ready to lead in a dangerous world\u003Cbr \/\u003E   It’s 3 am and your children are safe and asleep\u003Cbr \/\u003E   Who do you want answering the phone?  \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt is very interesting that her husband, former President Bill Clinton gave a Democratic Response on fear and hope, I guess that more than interesting, it can be labeled \"Ironic\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cobject height=\"113\" width=\"127\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8nxCO8oecGQ\u0026amp;rel=0\u0026amp;border=0\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RGW38Zy4bJo\u0026amp;color1=0x6699FF\u0026amp;color2=0x99CCFF\u0026amp;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" align=\"left\" height=\"113\" width=\"127\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Now one of Clinton’s laws of politics is this: If one candidate’s trying to scare you and the other one’s trying to get you to think, if one candidate’s appealing to your fears and the other one’s appealing to your hopes, you better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope.\" \u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama's co-opts Clinton's Video\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cobject height=\"113\" width=\"127\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8nxCO8oecGQ\u0026amp;rel=0\u0026amp;border=0\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/879o1_pxO0c\u0026amp;color1=0x99FFFF\u0026amp;color2=0x66FFFF\u0026amp;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" align=\"left\" height=\"113\" width=\"127\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne of the impressive things of the Obama's campaign is the speed in which they respond.\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey use Hilary's Ad and really turn it against them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EIn a direct response to a Hillary Clinton television ad, Barack Obama's campaign Friday released its own 30 second spot raising the prospect of an early morning foreign policy crisis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"It’s 3 a.m. and your children are safe and asleep,\" the ad's narrator states in an obvious take off of the Clinton ad released earlier in the day. \"But there’s a phone ringing in the White House. Something’s happening in the world. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe brilliant part is that when people hear HRC's Ad, they immediately will think of Obama's - Inspired!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama's response to Clinton's Ad\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cobject height=\"113\" width=\"127\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8nxCO8oecGQ\u0026amp;rel=0\u0026amp;border=0\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SYfbf64gBXc\u0026amp;color1=0x99FFFF\u0026amp;color2=0x66CCFF\u0026amp;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" align=\"left\" height=\"113\" width=\"127\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I just want to take a moment to respond to an ad that Senator Clinton is apparently running today that asks, 'Who do you want answering the phone in the White House when it’s 3am and something has happened in the world?'\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E   \"We’ve seen these ads before. They’re the kind that play on peoples’ fears to scare up votes. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E  \u003Cblockquote\u003E  \"Well it won’t work this time. Because the question is not about picking up the phone. The question is – what kind of judgment will you make when you answer? We’ve had a red phone moment. It was the decision to invade Iraq. And Senator Clinton gave the wrong answer. George Bush gave the wrong answer. John McCain gave the wrong answer. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cblockquote\u003E   \"But I stood up and said that a war in Iraq would cost us thousands of lives and billions of dollars. I said that it would distract us from the real threat we face – and that we should take the fight to al Qaeda in Afghanistan. That’s the judgment I made on the most important foreign policy decision of our generation, and that’s the kind of judgment I’ll show when I answer that phone in the White House as President of the United States – the judgment to keep us safe, to go after our real enemies, and to provide the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States with the equipment they need when we do send them into battle, and the respect and care they have earned when they come home. And I’ll never see the threat of terrorism as a way to scare up votes, because it’s a threat that should rally this country around our common enemies. That’s the judgment we need at 3am. And that’s the judgment that I am running for President to provide.\" \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ccenter\u003EPoem for South African Women\u003Cbr \/\u003E(by \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/June_Jordan\"\u003EJune Jordan\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommemoration of the 40,000 women and children who, August 9, 1956, presented themselves in bodily protest against the \"dompass\" in the capital of apartheid. Presented at The United Nations, August 9, 1978\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/%7Eaurora-grajeda\/\"\u003E\"Viva Obama \/ Aurora Song \/ Aurora Video\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"mailto:grassroots4obama@yahoogroups.com\"\u003EEmail To GrassRoots4Obama: \"Yes\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe Can, Si Se Puede!\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.womenofcolorday.com\/\"\u003E\"March 1st, Int'l Women of Color Day\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/\"\u003E\"El Rinconcito de Aurora\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.feedburner.com\/fb\/a\/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1685837\u0026amp;loc=en_US\"\u003ESubscribe\u003Cbr \/\u003Eby Email\u003C\/a\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\/6574396925173846897\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/hilarys-disturbing-increase-in.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/6574396925173846897"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/6574396925173846897"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/hilarys-disturbing-increase-in.html","title":"\"Hilary's disturbing increase in Republican like-inism\""}],"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":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-2717001899736626184"},"published":{"$t":"2008-02-23T14:57:00.001-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-05-30T00:03:37.101-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"barack"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"change"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"euphoria"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hablando"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hope"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"madness"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"movement"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"obama"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"phenomenon"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"principles"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"talking"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Barack Obama = A Call to Action"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"When I probe into what Obama is saying and how it moves me to do something to help change the way this country, this world, is going.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen I look around and see the multitudes of people drawn to pitch in and help on the effort to elect a President we feel will help us bring about a much needed; hence wanted change.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis mass movement of people is being called many things, \"Euphoria\", \"Madness\", \"Obama phenomenon\", etc., I think it is obvious to all of us what's happening, we see it around us everyday, enthusiasm, people sending emails, calling friends and family, talking to them about Obama, sending money, blogging, creating videos in support, large crowds at his rallies, et al.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy is it happening? What does it mean?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWE FEEL IT! It is a current of dynamic energy, it is contagious, it permeates through the most recondite ideals and long held democratic principles kept deep inside our inner sanctum where so many of us had retreated, some for a long time, Obama is talking to me, he is talking to us, telling us that a positive change is possible, but that it is up to us, that we are the ones who will make it happen, that's why it is happening, and it can be felt by those of us willing to open up and entertain a realistic dream about what possibilities may lay in our future, if we so desire and work for it\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat does it mean? An opportunity, a window in time and place where we can visualize what could be, what should be and what will be - if we make it happen that is, it is up to us.  That is what it means, nothing more, nothing less.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAurora Grajeda\u003Cbr \/\u003ESFCA 02\/23\/08\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ccenter\u003EOn 2\/22\/08, ghwelker3@comcast.net \u003Cghwelker3@comcast.net\u003E wrote:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/obama.3cdn.net\/a34e1ee2e966917261_bjm6bwuky.mp3\"\u003E\"Obama me esta hablando\" (\"Obama is talking to me\" MP3 in Spanish)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cembed src= \"http:\/\/www.odeo.com\/flash\/audio_player_standard_gray.swf\" quality=\"high\" width=\"200\" height=\"35\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" wmode=\"transparent\"  type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" flashvars= \"valid_sample_rate=true\u0026external_url=http:\/\/obama.3cdn.net\/a34e1ee2e966917261_bjm6bwuky.mp3\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/my.barackobama.com\/page\/content\/tx_como_ad\"\u003E\"Como Padre\" (\"As a parent\" Video in Spanish)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/services.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f8\/353515028\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" flashVars=\"videoId=1418511758\u0026playerId=353515028\u0026viewerSecureGatewayURL=https:\/\/services.brightcove.com\/services\/amfgateway\u0026servicesURL=http:\/\/services.brightcove.com\/services\u0026cdnURL=http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\u0026domain=embed\u0026autoStart=false\u0026\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" width=\"486\" height=\"412\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" swLiveConnect=\"true\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"You must be the change you wish to see in the world.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003EMohandas Karamachand Gandhi\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We are the ones we have been been waiting for\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~aurora-grajeda\/\"\u003E\"Viva Obama \/ Aurora Song \/ Aurora Video\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"mailto:grassroots4obama@yahoogroups.com\"\u003E\"Yes We Can, Si Se Puede!\" - Email GrassRoots4Obama\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.womenofcolorday.com\"\u003E\"March 1st, Int'l Women of Color Day\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/\"\u003E\"El Rinconcito de Aurora\" \u003C\/a\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\/2717001899736626184\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/barack-obama-call-to-action.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/2717001899736626184"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/2717001899736626184"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/barack-obama-call-to-action.html","title":"Barack Obama = A Call to 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":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-6284990470546619604"},"published":{"$t":"2008-02-22T21:10:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-06-06T02:22:48.957-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"act"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"americans"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"brave"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"citizens"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"corporations"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"domestic"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"fear"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"free"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"giant"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"illegal"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"immunity"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"land"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"nexus"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"prospective"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"protect"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"spionage"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"spy"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"telecomunication"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"terrorism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"unconstitutional"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Institutionalized Terrorism and domestic espionage"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"(Nexus of politics and terror - \"Protect the Americans Act\")\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBefore I emigrated to the US in Jan. 1969 and since then, I kept hearing that the guiding principle of the United States of America was that it is better to let 9 guilty people go free before unjustly condemning an innocent one.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven before I came here, I knew that it was pure BS because justice is not blind hence it is not dispensed equally, that your ethnic, economic, ideology or national background\/origin play a big role as to who gets convicted and what sentence is given; but as a guiding principle I thought it was a good one to strive for.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the ensuing 39 years, my views and opinions were reinforced continuously.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"The land of the Free and the Home of the Brave\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Give me liberty or give me death\" These words ring so hollow after witnessing the aftermath of 911, people were terrified to go out, to fly, afraid of their own shadow to the point of letting a corrupt government take away their, albeit not for all, precious liberties, by enacting legislation that would allow Government institutions to break the law while violating the Constitution.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI must clarify that not all Americans allowed themselves to be stampeded into capitulation, a good one third refused to go down quietly and have fought valiantly ever since to preserve their way of going about living, and it has come to pass that the numbers have been reversed to the point of leaving approximately only one third of the population still cowing at a fabricated boogey man crouching in every imaginable nook and crannies, I'll venture to say that there is no hope for these people, commonly referred as RightWingNuts who behave no different than sheep or the bobble heads people place on the dashboards of their cars, yep, yep, yep...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was incomprehensible to me how people were railroaded into submission by the use of fear, especially in this country allegedly populated by brave Patriots, where the phrase, uttered by a president considered to have been great, \"You have nothing to fear but fear itself\" Is considered a shinning path to bravery and victory.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlas, that was not the case this time or in any of the many other cases in the past.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor many of us, 911 was a case study on how people can be manipulated into accepting the normally unacceptable such a cruelty and injustice toward other human beings and more paradoxically yet, to themselves.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor the first time in my life, I was seeing and living the lessons of history which were until this point, at an intellectual level, I witnessed the development of a terror campaign such as the ones which made possible, the Native Americans Relocation, the Chinese Exclusionary Act, nazism, The Japanese internments, Operation Wetback, The Mexican Repatriation Program, The Zoot Riots, Braceros, McCarthyism, Operation Return to Sender, Operation Endgame, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and many others against African Americans and Pacifists in the 60s and 70s. - The list is so extensive.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd now, many American sheeple are doing it to themselves, again, with many programs of which I'll mention just one for now, The Patriot Act.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt is both sad and terrifying to see how many people are in support of letting the Government spy on them, how they still believe what their elected(?) (A puzzle here too) Officials tell them when it is in the record the countless times said Government has lied to them to date.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA current campaign of fear is the \"Protect America Act\", where The President and Republicans want a) to continue spying on the American People and, b) Give Retroactive and Prospective immunity to Giant Telecommunication Corporations who engaged on illegal domestic espionage and who will do the same in the future.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne of many Patriotic citizens, Keith Olbermann, who has been challenging the illegal, unconstitutional, corrupt, et al, actions of the current administration, had his staff put together an outstanding piece of chronological video reporting on this issue.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI'll let him tell it and you can see it in the video below.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAurora Grajeda\u003Cbr \/\u003ESFCA 02.22.08\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22425001\/vp\/23284917#23284917\"\u003ENexus of politics and terror - \"Protect the Americans Act\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECOUNTDOWN 02.21.08 - Keith Olbermann - MSNBC \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ccenter\u003E\u003Ciframe height=\"339\" width=\"425\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22425001\/vp\/23284917#23284917\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"You must be the change you wish to see in the world.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003EMohandas Karamachand Gandhi\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We are the ones we have been been waiting for\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~aurora-grajeda\/\"\u003E\"Viva Obama \/ Aurora Song \/ Aurora Video\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"mailto:grassroots4obama@yahoogroups.com\"\u003E\"Yes We Can, Si Se Puede!\" - Email GrassRoots4Obama\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.womenofcolorday.com\"\u003E\"March 1st, Int'l Women of Color Day\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/\"\u003E\"El Rinconcito de Aurora\" \u003C\/a\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\/6284990470546619604\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/institutionalized-terrorism-and.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/6284990470546619604"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/6284990470546619604"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/institutionalized-terrorism-and.html","title":"Institutionalized Terrorism and domestic espionage"}],"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":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-1526187959727993860"},"published":{"$t":"2008-02-20T20:07:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-05-30T00:10:28.855-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"american"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"creator"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"equal"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"happiness"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"liberty"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"life"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"men"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"michelle"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"obama"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"persuit"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rights"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"unalienable"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"A prelude of things to come? Bravo Michelle Obama! Huzzá!!!"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Michelle Obama opened her heart and told it like it is and now she is under attack from certain quarters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere's a segment in the population who holds a position which roughly translates to: \"America, right or wrong, love it or leave it\" Who also loudly voices this anathema to Democracy angrily at every opportunity, hurling it usually in a most savage way at whoever dares to criticize the USA or it's ruler elite.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis attitude is problematic at different levels, foremost is the, already mentioned above, contradiction to the continuously broadcast mantra that this is a democratic nation, where there is freedom and liberty, where it's citizen's are obligated, as shareholders of the franchise named The United States of America, to honestly speak up their minds, in a civilized manner of course, if and when they see that their country, who proclaims what are held as \"Truths\", has not lived up to it's obligations to insure that it's credo becomes a reality for all: \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness....\"\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYour Country, love it! And when wrong, fix it! This is what citizens are demanded to do.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOh, how I wish Dr. King was alive today to glimpse a small ray of hope, that his dream may be coming to fruition, that this Nation may yet 'live up to it's promise' to guarantee Freedom, Liberty and Justice for all, starting on the economic front with the rest soon to follow.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat he were here to see that we may be living at the time where the unjust and incomprehensible parading that a person of color, or a woman, can't be elected President, be put into a grave.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(Maybe some day we will see openly Atheists and others 'ists' running for office and having a realistic chance at being elected. - Hey! All equal, remember?)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELet's see to it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd this is a good reason to feel pride!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd Furthermore, IT WAS ABOUT TIME!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYes, Madame Michelle Obama would make a wonderful First Lady.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYes, me likes!\u003Cbr \/\u003E(sic)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAurora\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ccenter\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"You must be the change you wish to see in the world.\" Mohandas Karamachand Gandhi \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~aurora-grajeda\/\"\u003E\"Viva Obama \/ Aurora Song \/ Aurora Video\" \u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"mailto:grassroots4obama@yahoogroups.com\"\u003E\"Yes We Can, Si Se Puede!\" \u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.womenofcolorday.com\"\u003E\"March 1st, Int'l Women of Color Day\" \u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/\"\u003E\"El Rinconcito de Aurora\" \u003C\/a\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\/1526187959727993860\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/prelude-of-things-to-come-bravo.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/1526187959727993860"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/1526187959727993860"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/prelude-of-things-to-come-bravo.html","title":"A prelude of things to come? Bravo Michelle Obama! Huzzá!!!"}],"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":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-8285782159942221426"},"published":{"$t":"2008-02-18T13:19:00.001-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-07-08T23:59:49.785-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"1010"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"amor"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"california"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"chiapas"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"floods"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"francisco"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"grande"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"gutierrez"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hecho"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"love"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"made"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"marcos"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"radio"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"relief"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"san"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"spanish"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"tabasco"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\"With Love From California To Tabasco, Chiapas AndTuxtla Gutierrez\""},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"In November 2007, after a few weeks of the floods in October 2007 (\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/in_pictures\/7072725.stm\"\u003E BBC in Pictures\u003C\/a\u003E ) that affected hundreds of thousands of residents in the states of Chiapas, Tabasco and Tuxtla Gutierrez in the South of Mexico, residents of San Francisco and the SF Bay Area, started to voice concerns on the popular Spanish radio talk show, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.marcosgutierrez.com\/\"\u003E\"Hecho en California\"\u003C\/a\u003E with Dr. Marcos Gutierrez, at the news that the relief was not getting fast enough to the poorest of those affected.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe desire to help was fervent and a call to action took form from that program, it was decided to hold a mini fund raiser radiothon, questions were raised i.,e., 1. How do we get the help\/material\/resources directly to the people?, 2. How do we know that the help es really distributed?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFrom amongst the program's audience and sponsors, came the information that a religious group had been on the ground for several years providing basic services in the area and had the structure to deliver the services and resources as soon as they arrived.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIt was agreed by the audience to accept the proposal to partner with them, with the proviso that it was expected that reports be sent back to \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.marcosgutierrez.com\/\"\u003E\"Hecho en California\"\u003C\/a\u003E's Audience to document the disposition of the funds - It was also decided to send an emisary to deliver these funds, inspect the damage and report back to us. \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.marcosgutierrez.com\/\"\u003EDr. Marcos Gutierrez\u003C\/a\u003E was proposed as the person to make the trip, and that it had to be independently financed, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.marcosgutierrez.com\/\"\u003EDr. Gutierrez\u003C\/a\u003E accepted and the trip's cost was donated by one of the program's sponsors.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIt took awhile to receive all the documentation RE The Tabasco\/Chiapas\/Tuxtla Gutierrez Relief Fund for the victims of the floods, aptly named, \u003Cstrong\u003E\"Desde California a Tabasco\/Chiapas\/Tuxtla Gutierrez Con Amor\" (\"With Love From California To Tabasco\/Chiapas\/Tuxtla Gutierrez\"),\u003C\/strong\u003E but on February 17, a video was shown and a binder with copies of the pertinent checks (Front and Back) And the Original Receipts of purchases was presented to the people who showed up to the invitation made on radio to see view the documentation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis is the video and the docs' binder can be examined to whoever may question the transparency of the transactions by email to \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.marcosgutierrez.com\/\"\u003EDr. Gutierrez\u003C\/a\u003E from \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.marcosgutierrez.com\/\"\u003E\"Hecho en California\"\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nImmediately below the video, please find the text of the final report send on Nov. 30 to contributors to the relief effort.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ccenter\u003E\u003Ciframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r1gAOxIQlhA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003C\/center\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote\u003EThis is the final report on the funds raised for The Tabasco\/Chiapas\/Tuxtla Gutierrez Relief Fund for the victims of the floods\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAs of Thursday, November 29, 2007, the total amount deposited in the \"Hecho en California\/Tabasco Relief Fund\" was, $23,099.00\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAlbeit we had said that our choice was not to receive cash, in the Sunday Nov. 25 fundraising event, there were donations in cash, thanks to the foresight of one of our volunteers, Mrs. Isabel Gutierrez who brought receipts, each cash donor's name and amount received was logged in and was extended a receipt with the name, amount and date of the donation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAs of Saturday Nov. Nov. 24, we had received donations totaling $14,227.00 and on the Sunday, Nov. 25, 2007 event, we received in checks $4045.00 and in cash $3072.00, giving us a subtotal of $7117.00 raised on that day\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis gave us a pre-final total amount of $21,344.00\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn addition, there were pledges that we had not been received and when they arrived by Thursday, November 29, the amount was $1755.00 which gave us a final total of $23,099.00.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOn behalf of our sisters and brothers in need in the States of Tabasco, Chiapas and Tuxtla Gutierrez in Mexico, we thank you and are very grateful for your generosity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAs planned, Dr. Marcos Gutierrez departed on the night of Nov. 29 to deliver the funds, tour the devastated zone, document (Video, audio) the damage and ascertain that all parties involved are clear on how the funds will be used. Upon his return and on a date and place to be specified later, he'll give us a report of his trip and show the videos taken during that visit on an event to be announced later.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWe heard from Marcos via phone from Mexico City shortly after 9:00 AM today, Nov. 30, on his radio program, where he informed his audience that he was about to board another plane bound for Tabasco, once there, he'll be reporting to the \"Hecho en California\" Weekend programs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHecho en California thanks all of you who made this effort a success and wish for you the best for this Holiday Season and whatever is dear to your hearts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOn behalf of Dr. Marcos Gutierrez and all the volunteers who worked on this campaign,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAurora\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHonorary Public Relations Spokesperson\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHecho En California\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cdiv 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 Women of Color Day Celebration Events"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ccenter style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003EPRESS RELEASE \/ ANNOUNCEMENT\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInternational  Women of Color Day SF Bay Area\/Sacramento Celebration Events \u003C\/center\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"15\" cellspacing=\"5\" width=\"100%\"\u003E \u003Ctbody\u003E \u003Ctr padding=\"5\" valign=\"top\"\u003E \u003Ctd colspan=\"2\" align=\"center\"\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 148, 0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" \u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.womenofcolorday.com\/htdocs\/origins.htm\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.womenofcolorday.com\/images\/Ban1.gif\" align=\"absmiddle\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 148, 0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" \u003E\u003Cb\u003E\"Women of Color  Light Up the World\"\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;\"  \u003EThe International  Association for Women of Color Day was\u003Cbr \/\u003Eestablished to promote the  commemoration of\u003Cbr \/\u003EWomen of Color Day March 1st, annually and world  wide.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.womenofcolorday.com\/htdocs\/origins.htm\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.womenofcolorday.com\/images\/introanimation.gif\" align=\"absmiddle\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E \u003Ctr padding=\"5\" valign=\"top\"\u003E \u003Ctd width=\"50%\"\u003EPRESS RELEASE\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnnual Sacramento Community Diversity Event Becomes Northern California Women of Color Day\/Diversity Event\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECONTACT: Suzanne Brooks\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInternational Association for Women of Color Day\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E3325 Northrop Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95864\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(916) 483-9804   Email: IAWOCDAY@AOL.COM\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWebsite: http:\/\/www.womenofcolorday.com\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor immediate release: January February 15, 2008\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAwards to Outstanding Women of Color and Men, Women \u0026amp; Organizations (of any ethnic group) supporting diversity: Sunday, March 2, 2008 from 4pm to 8 pm,  Country Club Events Center, 2600 Watt Avenue, Sacramento,. Tickets: $15 in advance; $20 at door. $5 for children under 12.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E2008 is 22nd year since the founding of Women of Color Day.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis year's theme: Honoring Ancestors, Remebering Heritage\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E2008 Honorees include:\u003Cbr \/\u003E.Gilda Baeza Ortego, Silver City, NM; Sra. Marisa de Leon, Eugene, OR;  Summer Hill,  Clovis;  Mother Ruth Jones, Oakland, CA; Jennie M. Luna,  San Jose;  Dorinda Moreno, San Francisco Bay Area;  Martha A. Rodriguez, San Francisco;  Cordia Wade, Sacramento;  Dr. Pat Washington, San Diego;. Brenda Elenes, Las Vegas, NV; Gabrielle Wilson, KPFA 94.1 FM, Berkeley;  Dr. David Covin, Sacramento; Physicians For Social Responsibility, Sacramento;  John L. Sullivan Auto Group, Roseville.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe 2008 event is co-sponsored by the University of California Davis and Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission.  Supporters include Cosumnes River College, Women's Health Specialists, Dr. Glenn Middleton (dentist); California NOW; K.I.N.K.S., International; Television CBS13\/CW31; Sacramento Monarchs\/Maloof Organization.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe program includes a reception with live entertainment by The Jazz Generation, Sacramento based ensemble, which will present a promo video of its \"Great Women of Jazz\" show and a surprise--a new, young, exciting band from the Bay area releasing a brand new CD.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo advertise in Souvenir Program Booklet, and for Sponsorships, Vendor\/Exhibitor tables, and Tickets: Email: iawocday@aol.com or call (916) 483-9804. See website: http:\/\/www.womenofcolorday.com for ad rates and former honorees. Visa\/Mastercard accepted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWomen of Color Day has been celebrated in 20 states and 5 other countries\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E \u003Ctd width=\"50%\"\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003EANNOUNCEMENT\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDear CoMadres:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHoping everything is wonderful for you on that side of the bay,  I am sharing with you the menu of events planned for the Woman's Day week!   here in The Mission nuestro cuartel\/headquarters from which we emit these notions of transformation into the atmosphere!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWOMAN'S DAY WEEK CELEBRATION EVENTS\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDear community this March is going to be inspiring in the Mission as we start the month with a series of activities that celebrate Women's day in a very new and exciting way!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe begin on Sunday March 2 at Dance Mission Theater on 24th and Mission (across the st. from BART) wit INMANCENCIA  a performagic ceremony to awaken the sacred in our daily lives, this performance is a collaboration with dancers, improvisers, performance artists, astrologists, musicians and healers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe will bring our bodies into current astrological time and assess the challenges of this new time, dissolve the obstacles that obscure our vision and transmute energies into fertilizer for the earth.\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll these metaphors will be sang, performed, prayed, danced, we will create an altar of food which audience and performers together will feast on at the end of the show.  We ask all participants to continue to be in touch with the intentions of this evening by keeping a candle, a daily prayer, a sacred gesture that would allow the new seeds to be planted in the new moon.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMARCH 7TH  LIMPIAS DE LUNA NEGRA...from noon to 5 pm healers, drummers and performers get together in the corner of Mission and 16th Street for one of the sweetest community offerings we organize.  Everything that happens here is organic and very sacred.  Mixcoatl Mexika Dance will break ground, healers Luis vazquez Gomez, Denzal Santana, Jorge Molina and MamaCoAtl will offer blessings, healing, clearing, smudge, copal, fresh water, drums..to all who gravitate in this area.  This Limpia has been very successful in previous years and it is most auspicious astrologically.\u003Cbr \/\u003ETHAT NIGHT  MamaCoAtl and Pepa Quiroga will pay tribute to LA MUJERES EN SU LUNA,  this is a fun concert to play with all those concepts that have become politically incorrect like the act of \"parir\", \"cocinar\", \"parrandear\".  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Barack Obama (D-Ill.) as a lightweight, declaring:\u003Cblockquote\u003E “My opponent gives speeches, I offer solutions.”\u003C\/blockquote\u003EOh really, what she is saying it not correct and I offer a glimpse of what Sen. Obama has done in the past, it is not like what Sen. Clinton implies, Sen. Obama has a track record which suggest that Sen. Clinton, is playing fast and loose with the 'facts'\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou can see a list of  \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003ESen. Obama's 113 pieces of Legislation he has sponsored here\u003C\/a\u003E, and the link below will take you a post in which a brief view of how their records compare is presented, I also include below a comment entry by Janine, in which there is an encapsulated comparison between them\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:85%;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/topic.php?uid=6815841748\u0026amp;topic=4820\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHighlights of Obama's Strong Record of Accomplishment in the U.S.  and Illinois Senate \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"post_author\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJanine\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E  replied to \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/edittopic.php?uid=6815841748\u0026amp;topic=4820\u0026amp;post=27334#post27334\"\u003EWilliam's  post\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Cspan class=\"timestamp\"\u003Eon Feb 10, 2008 at 9:56 AM.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"post_message\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ESenator Clinton has based her campaign on an erroneous  claim to greater legislative and administrative experience. ..No one in the  press has had the diligence to lay out her record for the public to  assess.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESenator Clinton, who has served only one full term (6yrs.), and  another year campaigning, has managed to author and pass into law, (20) twenty  pieces of legislation in her first six years. These bills can be found on the  website of the Library of Congress (www.thomas.loc.gov), but to save you  trouble, I'll post them here for you.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E1. Establish the Kate Mullany  National Historic Site.\u003Cbr \/\u003E2. Support the goals and ideals of Better Hearing and  Speech Month.\u003Cbr \/\u003E3. Recognize the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.\u003Cbr \/\u003E4. Name  courthouse after Thurgood Marshall.\u003Cbr \/\u003E5. Name courthouse after James L.  Watson.\u003Cbr \/\u003E6. Name post office after Jonn A. O'Shea.\u003Cbr \/\u003E7. Designate Aug. 7,  2003, as National Purple Heart Recognition Day.\u003Cbr \/\u003E8. Support the goals and  ideals of National Purple Heart Recognition Day.\u003Cbr \/\u003E9. Honor the life and legacy  of Alexander Hamilton on the bicentennial of his death.\u003Cbr \/\u003E10. Congratulate the  Syracuse Univ. Orange Men's Lacrosse Team on winning the championship.\u003Cbr \/\u003E11.  Congratulate the Le Moyne College Dolphins Men's Lacrosse Team on winning the  championship.\u003Cbr \/\u003E12. Establish the 225th Anniversary of the American Revolution  Commemorative Program.\u003Cbr \/\u003E13. Name post office after Sergeant Riayan A.  Tejeda.\u003Cbr \/\u003E14. Honor Shirley Chisholm for her service to the nation and express  condolences on her death.\u003Cbr \/\u003E15. Honor John J. Downing, Brian Fahey, and Harry  Ford, firefighters who lost their lives on duty.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOnly five of Clinton's  bills are more substantive.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E16. Extend period of unemployment assistance  to victims of 9\/11.\u003Cbr \/\u003E17. Pay for city projects in response to 9\/11\u003Cbr \/\u003E18.  Assist landmine victims in other countries.\u003Cbr \/\u003E19. Assist family caregivers in  accessing affordable respite care.\u003Cbr \/\u003E20. Designate part of the National Forest  System in Puerto Rico as protected in the wilderness preservation  system.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere you have it, the facts straight from the Senate  Record.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow Barack Obama's record....\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow, I would post those of  Obama's, but the list is too substantive, so I'll mainly categorize. During the  first (8) eight years of his elected service he sponsored over 820 bills. He  introduced\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E233 regarding healthcare reform,\u003Cbr \/\u003E125 on poverty and public  assistance,\u003Cbr \/\u003E112 crime fighting bills,\u003Cbr \/\u003E97 economic bills,\u003Cbr \/\u003E60 human  rights and anti-discrimination bills,\u003Cbr \/\u003E21 ethics reform bills,\u003Cbr \/\u003E15 gun  control,\u003Cbr \/\u003E6 veterans affairs and many others.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHis first year in the  U.S. Senate, he authored 152 bills and co-sponsored another 427. These  included:\u003Cbr \/\u003E**the Coburn-Obama Government Transparency Act of 2006 (became  law),\u003Cbr \/\u003E**The Lugar-Obama Nuclear Non-proliferation and Conventional Weapons  Threat Reduction Act, (became law),\u003Cbr \/\u003E**The Comprehensive Immigration Reform  Act, passed the Senate,\u003Cbr \/\u003E**The 2007 Government Ethics Bill, (became  law),\u003Cbr \/\u003E**The Protection Against Excessive Executive Compensation Bill, (In  committee), and many more.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn all since enter the U.S. Senate, Senator  Obama has written 890 bills and co-sponsored another 1096. An impressive record  for someone who supposedly has no record according to the spin meisters and  mindless twits. I challenge Clinton supporters to name a single legislative  accomplishment that demonstrates her superior experience.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll  should research the following:\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocratic Republic of the Congo Relief,  Security, and Democracy Promotion Act of 2006\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: Sen Obama, Barack [IL]  (introduced 12\/16\/2005)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama is the real deal..\u003C\/span\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":"related","href":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/topic.php?uid=6815841748\u0026topic=4820","title":"Highlights of Obama's Strong Record of Accomplishment"},{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/feeds\/289274504748506014\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/i-broke-my-rinconcito-fixing-it.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/289274504748506014"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/289274504748506014"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/i-broke-my-rinconcito-fixing-it.html","title":"Highlights of Obama's Strong Record of Accomplishment"}],"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":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794095320758100201.post-5065862302555745858"},"published":{"$t":"2008-02-14T22:08:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-18T22:05:50.559-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"batanga"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"illinios"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"legislature"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"obama"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"reaggeton"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"senate"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"sponsored"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"volunteers"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Why Obama Continues to Surge,  Volunteers 4 Obama - \"The Real Deal\""},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family:\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EWe, Volunteers 4 Obama, continue to focus  our efforts to inform the electorate on what Sen. Obama stands for and what he  has actually done, and have been self-censoring on going full force negative on  Sen. R. H. Clinton albeit there's plenty of political ammunition. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family:\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family:\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EIt doesn't matter that their campaign  keeps going negative, the latest mantra is: \"Speeches vs. Solutions\", in my  opinion, this is a piece of classic Right Wing Projection, the facts do not  support their claims and a good case can be made\/proven, that the contrary is  true, what they are saying about Sen. Obama, fits them to the  teeth.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family:\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family:\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EIt doesn't matter what they do or say,  we'll continue to focus on the issues at hand because Senator Barack Obama is:  \"The Real Deal\" His record in the Senate proves it and going back to the  Illinois State Legislature, confirms it (Below).\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family:\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family:\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EHis campaign is truly supported and backed  by a wide diversity of volunteers, there are websites and blogs dedicated to the  \"Yes We Can, Si Se Puede\" Nation-Wide Grass Roots Effort.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family:\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family:\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EI include immediately below, what's on the  front page of  \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkonthesethings.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/13\/obamas-voting-record-in-the-illinois-state-senate\/\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E\"Think On These Things\"\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E Blog\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family:\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family:\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EWho said that Latinos are not supporting  Obama? Check out the \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.amigosdeobama.com\/\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EAmigos de Obama\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E and listen to it's Obama Reggaeton Song, Obams is also at  \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/my.batanga.com\/profileFamily.php?familyname=batanga\u0026amp;id=batanga\/barackobama\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EMyBatanga.Com\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E - \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family:\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family:\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EIf you think this post can be helpful to  the campaign, pass it on to you contacts and listservers you are  on.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family:\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family:\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/we-are-ones-poem-by-june-jordan.html\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E\"We are the Ones We Have Been Waiting  For\"\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family:\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family:\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EIn Solidarity,\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family:\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family:\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EAurora\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family:\" align=\"center\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family:\" align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E\"You must be the change you  wish to see in the world.\" Mohandas Karamachand Gandhi\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family:\" align=\"center\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family:\" align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/%7Eaurora-grajeda\/\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E\"Viva Obama \/ Aurora Song \/ Aurora  Video\"\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"mailto:grassroots4obama@yahoogroups.com\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E\"Yes We Can, Si Se Puede!\"\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.womenofcolorday.com\/\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E\"March  1st, Int'l Women of Color Day\"\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E\"El Rinconcito de Aurora\"\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family:\" align=\"center\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family:\" align=\"center\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family:\"\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"entry\"\u003E \u003Cdiv class=\"snap_preview\"\u003E \u003Ch2 align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Ca title=\"Permanent Link: Obama’s Voting Record in the Illinois State Senate\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkonthesethings.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/13\/obamas-voting-record-in-the-illinois-state-senate\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EObama’s Voting Record in the  Illinois State Senate\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EUPDATE: To see the chart about  the over 800 bills Barack Obama sponsored while in the Illinois State Senate  click \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/imagepages\/2007\/07\/29\/us\/politics\/20070730_OBAMA_GRAPHIC.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E—————\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EI just found a good article by CBS News that  summarizes much of the work done by Barack Obama in the Illinois Senate. Looks  pretty daggone good to me. Shows a concern for workers, civil rights, health  care, and other bread-and-butter issues.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EThe article \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2007\/01\/17\/politics\/main2369157.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Ereports\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EObama’s state senate votes on some key  issues:\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EBUDGET \u0026amp; TAXES\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cli\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EVoted to raise the minimum wage in Illinois  from $5.15 an hour to $6.50 an hour over two years. (2003) \u003C\/font\u003E \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EHelped pass a 5 percent earned-income tax  credit for low-income working families in 2000; made the credit permanent in  2003. \u003C\/font\u003E \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EVoted to end $300 million worth of tax  breaks for businesses. (2004) \u003C\/font\u003E \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EVoted against making permanent the repeal  of the state’s 5 percent sales tax on gasoline. (2000) \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EHEALTH CARE\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EVoted for having Illinois endorse embryonic  stem cell research. (2004) \u003C\/font\u003E \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESuccessfully sponsored the Health Care  Justice Act, a study of ways to implement a universal health care system  statewide. (2004) \u003C\/font\u003E \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EVoted against restrictions on public  funding of abortion. (2000) \u003C\/font\u003E \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESuccessfully co-sponsored a prescription  drug discount buying club program for seniors and the disabled. (2003) \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECRIME \u0026amp; GUN CONTROL\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EVoted against letting people argue  self-defense in court if charged with violating local weapons bans by using a  gun in their home. (2004) \u003C\/font\u003E \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EVoted to let retired police and military  police carry concealed weapons. (2004) \u003C\/font\u003E \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESuccessfully sponsored requirement that law  enforcement videotape interrogations of suspects in some serious crimes. (2003)  \u003C\/font\u003E \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESuccessfully sponsored law enforcement  study of the race of people pulled over for traffic tickets. (2003) \u003C\/font\u003E \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EHelped pass an overhaul of the state’s  troubled death penalty system. (2003) \u003C\/font\u003E \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EUnsuccessfully sponsored measure to expunge  some criminal records and create an employment grant program for ex-criminals.  (2002) \u003C\/font\u003E \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EUnsuccessfully sponsored limit of one  handgun purchase per month. (2000) \u003C\/font\u003E \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EVoted against making gang members eligible  for the death penalty if they kill someone to help their gang. (2001) \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EMISCELLANEOUS\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EUnsuccessfully co-sponsored ban on  discrimination based on sexual orientation. The measure became law after Obama  was elected to the U.S. Senate. (2003) \u003C\/font\u003E \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESuccessfully sponsored move to shield  Illinois workers from federal rules that threatened overtime pay for some  employees. \u003C\/font\u003E \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESuccessfully co-sponsored major ethics  reform called the Gift Ban Act. (1998) \u003C\/font\u003E \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EVoted against giving tax credits to parents  who send their children to private school. (1999) \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ERead \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2007\/01\/17\/politics\/main2369157.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Emore\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E———–\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EAlso See Related Articles:\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E“\u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkonthesethings.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/29\/when-the-cameras-are-off-barack-obamas-hurricane-katrina-record\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EWhen The Cameras Are Off: Barack  Obama’s Hurricane Katrina Record\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E“  \u003C\/font\u003E \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E“\u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkonthesethings.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/22\/washington-post-on-ethics-reform-obama-leads-the-pack\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EWashington Post: On Ethics  Reform, ‘Obama Leads The Pack’\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E“  \u003C\/font\u003E \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E“\u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkonthesethings.wordpress.com\/2007\/05\/19\/darfur-action-ratings-for-democratic-candidates\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EDarfur Action Ratings For  Presidential Candidates In Congress\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E“  \u003C\/font\u003E \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E“\u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkonthesethings.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/14\/evironmental-group-gives-obama-highest-score-of-all-presidential-candidates\/\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EEnvironmental Group Gives Obama Highest Score of All  Presidential Candidates\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E“\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cp class=\"postmetadata alt\"\u003E\u003Csmall\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EThis entry  was posted on June 13, 2007 at 4:34 pm and is filed under \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca title=\"View all posts in Abortion\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.com\/tag\/abortion\/\" rel=\"category tag\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EAbortion\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E, \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca title=\"View all posts in African American Voters\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.com\/tag\/african-american-voters\/\" rel=\"category tag\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EAfrican American  Voters\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E, \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca title=\"View all posts in Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.com\/tag\/barack-obama\/\" rel=\"category tag\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EBarack Obama\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E, \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca title=\"View all posts in Democrats\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.com\/tag\/democrats\/\" rel=\"category tag\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EDemocrats\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E, \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca title=\"View all posts in Economy\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.com\/tag\/economy\/\" rel=\"category tag\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EEconomy\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E,  \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca title=\"View all posts in Election 2008\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.com\/tag\/election-2008\/\" rel=\"category tag\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EElection 2008\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E, \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca title=\"View all posts in Gun Control\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.com\/tag\/gun-control\/\" rel=\"category tag\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EGun Control\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E, \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca title=\"View all posts in Health Care\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.com\/tag\/health-care\/\" rel=\"category tag\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EHealth Care\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E, \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca title=\"View all posts in Race\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.com\/tag\/race\/\" rel=\"category tag\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ERace\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E. You  can follow any responses to this entry through the \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkonthesethings.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/13\/obamas-voting-record-in-the-illinois-state-senate\/feed\/\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ERSS 2.0\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  feed. You can \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkonthesethings.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/13\/obamas-voting-record-in-the-illinois-state-senate\/#respond\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eleave a response\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E, or \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thinkonthesethings.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/13\/obamas-voting-record-in-the-illinois-state-senate\/trackback\/\" rel=\"trackback\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Etrackback\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E from your own site. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/small\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family:\" align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EBills Sponsored by  Senator Barack Obama in The US Senate\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family:\" align=\"center\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family:\" align=\"left\"\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EItems 1 through 100 of  113 \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E1. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:1:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.CON.RES.5 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E: A concurrent resolution honoring the life of Percy Lavon Julian, a  pioneer in the field of organic chemistry and the first and only  African-American chemist to be inducted into the National Academy of  Sciences.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 1\/31\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:1:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (5)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Judiciary\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major  Action: 1\/31\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Referred to the  Committee on the Judiciary.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E2. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:2:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.CON.RES.25 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E: A concurrent resolution condemning the recent violent actions of the  Government of Zimbabwe against peaceful opposition party activists and members  of civil society.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 3\/29\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:2:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (7)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Foreign Relations\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major  Action: 6\/26\/2007 Held at the desk.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E3. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:3:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.CON.RES.44 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E: A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that a  commemorative postage stamp should be issued honoring Rosa Louise McCauley  Parks.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 9\/12\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:3:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (22)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Homeland Security and Governmental  Affairs\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 10\/19\/2007 Referred to Senate  subcommittee. Status: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs  referred to Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government  Information, Federal Services, and International Security.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E4. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:4:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.CON.RES.46 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E: A concurrent resolution supporting the goals and ideals of Sickle Cell  Disease Awareness Month.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 9\/17\/2007)      Cosponsors (None)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 9\/17\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status:  Referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and  Pensions.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E5. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:5:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.RES.133 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E: A resolution celebrating the life of Bishop Gilbert Earl  Patterson.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 3\/28\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:5:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (4)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 3\/28\/2007 Passed\/agreed to in  Senate. Status: Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without  amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E6. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:6:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.RES.268 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E: A resolution designating July 12, 2007, as \"National Summer Learning  Day\".\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 7\/11\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:6:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (4)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Judiciary\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major  Action: 7\/13\/2007 Passed\/agreed to in Senate. Status: Resolution agreed to  in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous  Consent.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E7. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:7:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.RES.383 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E: A resolution honoring and recognizing the achievements of Carl Stokes,  the first African-American mayor of a major American city, in the 40th year  since his election as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 11\/15\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:7:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (2)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Judiciary\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major  Action: 11\/15\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Referred to the  Committee on the Judiciary.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E8. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:8:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.J.RES.23 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E: A joint resolution clarifying that the use of force against Iran is not  authorized by the Authorization for the Use of Military Force Against Iraq, any  resolution previously adopted, or any other provision of law.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor:  \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 11\/1\/2007)      Cosponsors (None)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Foreign Relations\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action:  11\/1\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the  Committee on Foreign Relations.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E9. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:9:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.114 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E: A  bill to authorize resources for a grant program for local educational agencies  to create innovation districts.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 1\/4\/2007)      Cosponsors (None)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 1\/4\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status:  Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and  Pensions.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E10. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:10:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.115 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E: A  bill to suspend royalty relief, to repeal certain provisions of the Energy  Policy Act of 2005, and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal  certain tax incentives for the oil and gas industry.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor:  \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 1\/4\/2007)      Cosponsors (None)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Finance\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 1\/4\/2007  Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee  on Finance.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E11. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:11:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.116 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E: A  bill to authorize resources to provide students with opportunities for summer  learning through summer learning grants.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 1\/4\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:11:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (3)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 1\/4\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status:  Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and  Pensions.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E12. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:12:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.117 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E: A  bill to amend titles 10 and 38, United States Code, to improve benefits and  services for members of the Armed Forces, veterans of the Global War on  Terrorism, and other veterans, to require reports on the effects of the Global  War on Terrorism, and for other purposes.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 1\/4\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:12:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (15)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Veterans' Affairs\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major  Action: 1\/4\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and  referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E13. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:13:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.133 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E: A  bill to promote the national security and stability of the economy of the United  States by reducing the dependence of the United States on oil through the use of  alternative fuels and new technology, and for other purposes.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor:  \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 1\/4\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:13:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (3)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Finance\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major  Action: 1\/4\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and  referred to the Committee on Finance.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E14. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:14:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.433 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E: A  bill to state United States policy for Iraq, and for other  purposes.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 1\/30\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:14:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (3)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Foreign Relations\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major  Action: 1\/30\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and  referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E15. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:15:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.453 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E: A  bill to prohibit deceptive practices in Federal elections.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor:  \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 1\/31\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:15:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (20)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Judiciary\u003Cbr \/\u003ESenate Reports:  \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/cpquery\/R?cp110:FLD010:@1%28sr191%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E110-191\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ELatest Major Action: 10\/4\/2007 Placed on Senate Legislative  Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 411.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E16. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:16:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.674 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E: A  bill to require accountability and enhanced congressional oversight for  personnel performing private security functions under Federal contracts, and for  other purposes.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 2\/16\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:16:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (4)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Armed Services\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major  Action: 2\/16\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and  referred to the Committee on Armed Services.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E17. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:17:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.692 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E: A  bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to establish a Hospital Quality  Report Card Initiative to report on health care quality in Veterans Affairs  hospitals.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 2\/27\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:17:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (1)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Veterans' Affairs\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major  Action: 2\/27\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and  referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E18. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:18:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.713 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E: A  bill to ensure dignity in care for members of the Armed Forces recovering from  injuries.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 2\/28\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:18:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (34)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Armed Services\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major  Action: 2\/28\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and  referred to the Committee on Armed Services.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E19. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:19:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.737 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E: A  bill to amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 in order to measure, compare,  and improve the quality of voter access to polls and voter services in the  administration of Federal elections in the States.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 3\/1\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:19:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (1)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Rules and Administration\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest  Major Action: 3\/1\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and  referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E20. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:20:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.767 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E: A  bill to increase fuel economy standards for automobiles and for other  purposes.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 3\/6\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:20:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (6)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 3\/6\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status:  Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and  Transportation.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E21. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:21:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.768 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E: A  bill to increase fuel economy standards for automobiles and for other  purposes.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 3\/6\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:21:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (6)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Finance\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major  Action: 3\/6\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and  referred to the Committee on Finance.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E22. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:22:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.795 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E: A  bill to assist aliens who have been lawfully admitted in becoming citizens of  the United States, and for other purposes.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 3\/7\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:22:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (5)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Judiciary\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major  Action: 3\/7\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and  referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E23. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:23:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.823 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E: A  bill to amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to facilitating the  development of microbicides for preventing transmission of HIV\/AIDS and other  diseases, and for other purposes.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 3\/8\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:23:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (18)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Health, Education, Labor, and  Pensions\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 3\/8\/2007 Referred to Senate committee.  Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor,  and Pensions.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E24. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:24:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.906 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E: A  bill to prohibit the sale, distribution, transfer, and export of elemental  mercury, and for other purposes.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 3\/15\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:24:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (3)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Environment and Public Works\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 3\/15\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status:  Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public  Works.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E25. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:25:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.976 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E: A  bill to secure the promise of personalized medicine for all Americans by  expanding and accelerating genomics research and initiatives to improve the  accuracy of disease diagnosis, increase the safety of drugs, and identify novel  treatments.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 3\/23\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:25:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (1)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 3\/23\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status:  Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and  Pensions.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E26. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:26:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.1067 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to require Federal agencies to support health impact assessments and take  other actions to improve health and the environmental quality of communities,  and for other purposes.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 3\/29\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:26:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (3)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 3\/29\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status:  Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and  Pensions.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E27. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:27:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.1068 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to promote healthy communities.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 3\/29\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:27:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (2)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 3\/29\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status:  Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and  Pensions.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E28. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:28:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.1084 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to provide housing assistance for very low-income  veterans.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 4\/10\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:28:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (10)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 4\/10\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status:  Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban  Affairs.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E29. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:29:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.1151 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to provide incentives to the auto industry to accelerate efforts to  develop more energy-efficient vehicles to lessen dependence on  oil.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 4\/18\/2007)      Cosponsors (None)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Finance\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 4\/18\/2007  Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee  on Finance.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E30. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:30:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.1181 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to provide shareholders with  an advisory vote on executive compensation.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 4\/20\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:30:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (6)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 4\/20\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status:  Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban  Affairs.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E31. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:31:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.1222 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to stop mortgage transactions which operate to promote fraud, risk,  abuse, and under-development, and for other purposes.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor:  \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 4\/25\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:31:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (1)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 4\/25\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status:  Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban  Affairs.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E32. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:32:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.1271 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to provide for a comprehensive national research effort on the physical  and mental health and other readjustment needs of the members of the Armed  Forces and veterans who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring  Freedom and their families.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 5\/2\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:32:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (4)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Armed Services\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major  Action: 5\/2\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and  referred to the Committee on Armed Services.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E33. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:33:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.1306 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to direct the Consumer Product Safety Commission to classify certain  children's products containing lead to be banned hazardous  substances.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 5\/3\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:33:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (9)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 5\/3\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status:  Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and  Transportation.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E34. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:34:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.1324 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from  transportation fuel sold in the United States.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 5\/7\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:34:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (2)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Environment and Public Works\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 5\/7\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status:  Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public  Works.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E35. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:35:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.1389 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to authorize the National Science Foundation to establish a Climate  Change Education Program.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 5\/14\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:35:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (3)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 5\/14\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status:  Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and  Pensions.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E36. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:36:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.1430 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to authorize State and local governments to direct divestiture from, and  prevent investment in, companies with investments of $20,000,000 or more in  Iran's energy sector, and for other purposes.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 5\/17\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:36:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (25)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 5\/17\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status:  Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban  Affairs.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E37. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:37:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.1513 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize grant programs to  enhance the access of low-income African-American students to higher  education.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 5\/24\/2007)      Cosponsors (None)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 5\/24\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status:  Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and  Pensions.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E38. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:38:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.1574 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to establish Teaching Residency Programs for preparation and induction of  teachers.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 6\/7\/2007)      Cosponsors (None)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 6\/7\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status:  Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and  Pensions.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E39. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:39:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.1713 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to provide for the issuance of a commemorative postage stamp in honor of  Rosa Parks.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 6\/27\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:39:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (27)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Homeland Security and Governmental  Affairs\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 7\/13\/2007 Referred to Senate  subcommittee. Status: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs  referred to Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government  Information, Federal Services, and International Security.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E40. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:40:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.1790 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to make grants to carry out activities to prevent the incidence of  unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections among teens in racial  or ethnic minority or immigrant communities, and for other  purposes.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 7\/16\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:40:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (2)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 7\/16\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status:  Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and  Pensions.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E41. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:41:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.1811 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to amend the Toxic Substances Control Act to assess and reduce the levels  of lead found in child-occupied facilities in the United States, and for other  purposes.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 7\/18\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:41:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (2)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Environment and Public Works\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 7\/18\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status:  Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public  Works.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E42. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:42:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.1817 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to ensure proper administration of the discharge of members of the Armed  Forces for personality disorder, and for other purposes.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor:  \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 7\/19\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:42:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (11)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Armed Services\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major  Action: 7\/19\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and  referred to the Committee on Armed Services.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E43. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:43:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.1818 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to amend the Toxic Substances Control Act to phase out the use of mercury  in the manufacture of chlorine and caustic soda, and for other  purposes.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 7\/19\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:43:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (4)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Environment and Public Works\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 7\/19\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status:  Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public  Works.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E44. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:44:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.1824 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish a Hospital  Quality Report Card Initiative under the Medicare program to assess and report  on health care quality in hospitals.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 7\/19\/2007)      Cosponsors (None)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Finance\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 7\/19\/2007  Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee  on Finance.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E45. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:45:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.1873 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to establish demonstration  programs on regionalized systems for emergency care, to support emergency  medicine research, and for other purposes.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 7\/25\/2007)      Cosponsors (None)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 7\/25\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status:  Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and  Pensions.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E46. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:46:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.1885 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to provide certain employment protections for family members who are  caring for members of the Armed Forces recovering from illnesses and injuries  incurred on active duty.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 7\/26\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:46:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (10)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Health, Education, Labor, and  Pensions\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 7\/26\/2007 Referred to Senate committee.  Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor,  and Pensions.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E47. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:47:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.1977 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to provide for sustained United States leadership in a cooperative global  effort to prevent nuclear terrorism, reduce global nuclear arsenals, stop the  spread of nuclear weapons and related material and technology, and support the  responsible and peaceful use of nuclear technology.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 8\/2\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:47:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (2)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Foreign Relations\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major  Action: 8\/2\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and  referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E48. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:48:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.1989 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to provide a mechanism for the determination on the merits of the claims  of claimants who met the class criteria in a civil action relating to racial  discrimination by the Department of Agriculture but who were denied that  determination.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 8\/3\/2007)      Cosponsors (None)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Judiciary\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 8\/3\/2007  Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee  on the Judiciary.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E49. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:49:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.2030 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require reporting  relating to bundled contributions made by persons other than registered  lobbyists.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 9\/6\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:49:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (1)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Rules and Administration\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest  Major Action: 9\/6\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and  referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E50. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:50:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.2044 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to provide procedures for the proper classification of employees and  independent contractors, and for other purposes.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 9\/12\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:50:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (6)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Finance\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major  Action: 9\/12\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and  referred to the Committee on Finance.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E51. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:51:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.2066 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to establish nutrition and physical education standards for  schools.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 9\/18\/2007)      Cosponsors (None)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest  Major Action: 9\/18\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and  referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and  Forestry.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E52. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:52:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.2111 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow  State educational agencies, local educational agencies, and schools to increase  implementation of early intervention services, particularly school-wide positive  behavior supports.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 9\/27\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:52:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (3)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 9\/27\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status:  Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and  Pensions.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E53. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:53:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.2132 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to prohibit the introduction or delivery for introduction into interstate  commerce of children's products that contain lead, and for other  purposes.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 10\/3\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:53:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (6)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 10\/3\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status:  Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and  Transportation.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E54. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:54:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.2147 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to require accountability for contractors and contract personnel under  Federal contracts, and for other purposes.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 10\/4\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:54:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (7)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Judiciary\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major  Action: 10\/4\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and  referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E55. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:55:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.2202 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to increase the renewable content of gasoline,  and for other purposes.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 10\/18\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:55:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (2)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Environment and Public Works\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 10\/18\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status:  Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public  Works.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E56. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:56:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.2224 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to require a licensee to notify the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and  the State and county in which a facility is located, whenever there is an  unplanned release of radioactive substances.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 10\/24\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:56:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (1)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Environment and Public Works\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 10\/24\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status:  Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public  Works.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E57. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:57:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.2227 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to provide grants to States to ensure that all students in the middle  grades are taught an academically rigorous curriculum with effective supports so  that students complete the middle grades prepared for success in high school and  postsecondary endeavors, to improve State and district policies and programs  relating to the academic achievement of students in the middle grades, to  develop and implement effective middle school models for struggling students,  and for other purposes.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 10\/24\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:57:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (2)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 10\/24\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status:  Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and  Pensions.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E58. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:58:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.2330 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to authorize a pilot program within the Departments of Veterans Affairs  and Housing and Urban Development with the goal of preventing at-risk veterans  and veteran families from falling into homelessness, and for other  purposes.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 11\/8\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:58:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (1)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 11\/8\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status:  Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban  Affairs.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E59. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:59:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.2347 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to restore and protect access to discount drug prices for  university-based and safety-net clinics.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 11\/13\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:59:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (31)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Finance\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major  Action: 11\/13\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and  referred to the Committee on Finance.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E60. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:60:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.2392 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to direct the Secretary of Education to establish and maintain a public  website through which individuals may find a complete database of available  scholarships, fellowships, and other programs of financial assistance in the  study of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor:  \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 11\/16\/2007)      Cosponsors (None)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 11\/16\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status:  Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and  Pensions.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E61. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:61:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.2428 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to direct the Secretary of Education to establish and maintain a public  website through which individuals may find a complete database of available  scholarships, fellowships, and other programs of financial assistance in the  study of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor:  \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 12\/6\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:61:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (6)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 12\/6\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status:  Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and  Pensions.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E62. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:62:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.2433 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to require the President to develop and implement a comprehensive  strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the  reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the  achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the  proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1  per day.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 12\/7\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:62:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (9)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Foreign Relations\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major  Action: 2\/13\/2008 Senate committee\/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee  on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with amendments  favorably.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E63. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:63:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.2519 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E:  A bill to prohibit the awarding of a contract or grant in excess of the  simplified acquisition threshold unless the prospective contractor or grantee  certifies in writing to the agency awarding the contract or grant that the  contractor or grantee has no seriously delinquent tax debts, and for other  purposes.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 12\/19\/2007)      Cosponsors (None)\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommittees: Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 12\/19\/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status:  Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental  Affairs.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E64. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:64:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.41 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:SN00001:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.1\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E To  require lobbyists to disclose the candidates, leadership PACs, or political  parties for whom they collect or arrange contributions, and the aggregate amount  of the contributions collected or arranged.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 1\/11\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:64:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (1)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 1\/18\/2007 Senate amendment agreed  to. Status: Amendment SA 41 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous  Consent.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E65. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:65:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.55 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:SN00001:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.1\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See  Congressional Record for text.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 1\/12\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:65:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (1)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 1\/12\/2007 Senate amendment  submitted\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E66. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:66:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.58 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:SN00001:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.1\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See  Congressional Record for text.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 1\/12\/2007)      Cosponsors (None)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest  Major Action: 1\/12\/2007 Senate amendment submitted\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E67. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:67:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.188 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:HR00002:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EH.R.2\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See  Congressional Record for text.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 1\/24\/2007)      Cosponsors (None)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest  Major Action: 1\/24\/2007 Senate amendment submitted\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E68. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:68:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.338 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:SN00004:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.4\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E To  require consideration of high-risk qualifying criteria in allocating funds under  the State Homeland Security Grant Program.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 3\/5\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:68:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (7)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 3\/6\/2007 Motion to table amendment  SA 338 agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 58 - 41. Record Vote Number:  62.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E69. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:69:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.524 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:SC00021:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.CON.RES.21\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E To provide $100 million for the Summer Term Education Program supporting  summer learning opportunities for low-income students in the early grades to  lessen summer learning losses that contribute to the achievement gaps separating  low-income students from their middle-class peers.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 3\/21\/2007)      Cosponsors (None)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest  Major Action: 3\/23\/2007 Senate amendment agreed to. Status: Amendment SA 524  agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E70. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:70:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.586 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:SC00021:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.CON.RES.21\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for  consideration. See Congressional Record for text.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 3\/22\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:70:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (6)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 3\/22\/2007 Senate amendment  submitted\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E71. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:71:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.599 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:SC00021:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.CON.RES.21\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E To add $200 million for Function 270 (Energy) for the demonstration and  monitoring of carbon capture and sequestration technology by the Department of  Energy.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 3\/22\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:71:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (4)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 3\/23\/2007 Senate amendment agreed  to. Status: Amendment SA 599 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous  Consent.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E72. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:72:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.664 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:HR01591:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EH.R.1591\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  To appropriate an additional $58,000,000 for Defense Health Program for  additional mental health and related personnel, an additional $10,000,000 for  operation and maintenance for each of the military departments for improved  physical disability evaluations of members of the Armed Forces, and an  additional $15,000,000 for Defense Health Program for women's mental health  services.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 3\/27\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:72:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (12)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 3\/29\/2007 Proposed amendment SA 664  withdrawn in Senate.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E73. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:73:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.684 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:HR01591:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EH.R.1591\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See  Congressional Record for text.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 3\/27\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:73:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (7)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 3\/27\/2007 Senate amendment  submitted\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E74. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:74:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.809 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:HR01591:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EH.R.1591\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See  Congressional Record for text.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 3\/28\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:74:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (1)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 3\/28\/2007 Senate amendment  submitted\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E75. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:75:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.810 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:HR01591:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EH.R.1591\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See  Congressional Record for text.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 3\/28\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:75:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (1)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 3\/28\/2007 Senate amendment  submitted\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E76. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:76:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.905 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:SN00761:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.761\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E To  require the Director of Mathematics, Science, and Engineering Education to  establish a program to recruit and provide mentors for women and  underrepresented minorities who are interested in careers in mathematics,  science, and engineering.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 4\/23\/2007)      Cosponsors (None)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest  Major Action: 4\/25\/2007 Senate amendment agreed to. Status: Amendment SA 905  as modified agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E77. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:77:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.907 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:SN00761:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.761\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See  Congressional Record for text.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 4\/23\/2007)      Cosponsors (None)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest  Major Action: 4\/23\/2007 Senate amendment submitted\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E78. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:78:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.923 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:SN00761:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.761\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E To  expand the pipeline of individuals entering the science, technology,  engineering, and mathematics fields to support United States innovation and  competitiveness.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 4\/24\/2007)      Cosponsors (None)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest  Major Action: 4\/25\/2007 Senate amendment agreed to. Status: Amendment SA 923  as modified agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E79. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:79:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.924 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:SN00761:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.761\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E To  establish summer term education programs.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 4\/24\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:79:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (1)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 4\/25\/2007 Senate amendment agreed  to. Status: Amendment SA 924 as modified agreed to in Senate by Unanimous  Consent.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E80. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:80:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.1041 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:SN01082:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.1082\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E To  improve the safety and efficacy of genetic tests.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 5\/3\/2007)      Cosponsors (None)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest  Major Action: 5\/8\/2007 Senate amendment agreed to. Status: Amendment SA 1041  as modified agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E81. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:81:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.1045 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:SN01082:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.1082\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See  Congressional Record for text.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 5\/7\/2007)      Cosponsors (None)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest  Major Action: 5\/7\/2007 Senate amendment submitted\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E82. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:82:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.1130 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:HR01495:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EH.R.1495\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See  Congressional Record for text.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 5\/15\/2007)      Cosponsors (None)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest  Major Action: 5\/15\/2007 Senate amendment submitted\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E83. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:83:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.1185 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:SN01348:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.1348\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See  Congressional Record for text.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 5\/23\/2007)      Cosponsors (None)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest  Major Action: 5\/23\/2007 Senate amendment submitted\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E84. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:84:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.1202 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:SN01348:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.1348\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E To  provide a date on which the authority of the section relating to the increasing  of American competitiveness through a merit-based evaluation system for  immigrants shall be terminated.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 5\/24\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:84:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (2)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 6\/6\/2007 Senate amendment not agreed  to. Status: Amendment SA 1202 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 42 - 55.  Record Vote Number: 200.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E85. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:85:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.1243 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:SN01348:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.1348\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See  Congressional Record for text.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 5\/24\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:85:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (1)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 5\/24\/2007 Senate amendment  submitted\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E86. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:86:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.1444 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:SN01348:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.1348\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See  Congressional Record for text.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 6\/6\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:86:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (1)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 6\/6\/2007 Senate amendment  submitted\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E87. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:87:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.1558 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:HR00006:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EH.R.6\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See  Congressional Record for text.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 6\/13\/2007)      Cosponsors (None)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest  Major Action: 6\/13\/2007 Senate amendment submitted\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E88. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:88:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.1579 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:HR00006:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EH.R.6\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See  Congressional Record for text.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 6\/14\/2007)      Cosponsors (None)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest  Major Action: 6\/14\/2007 Senate amendment submitted\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E89. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:89:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.1735 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:HR00006:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EH.R.6\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See  Congressional Record for text.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 6\/20\/2007)      Cosponsors (None)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest  Major Action: 6\/20\/2007 Senate amendment submitted\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E90. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:90:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.1840 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:HR00006:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EH.R.6\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See  Congressional Record for text.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 6\/21\/2007)      Cosponsors (None)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest  Major Action: 6\/21\/2007 Senate amendment submitted\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E91. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:91:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.2084 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:HR01585:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EH.R.1585\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See  Congressional Record for text.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 7\/11\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:91:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (1)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 7\/11\/2007 Senate amendment  submitted\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E92. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:92:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.2085 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:HR01585:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EH.R.1585\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See  Congressional Record for text.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 7\/11\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:92:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (1)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 7\/11\/2007 Senate amendment  submitted\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E93. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:93:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.2086 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:HR01585:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EH.R.1585\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See  Congressional Record for text.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 7\/11\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:93:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (12)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 7\/11\/2007 Senate amendment  submitted\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E94. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:94:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.2104 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:HR01585:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EH.R.1585\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See  Congressional Record for text.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 7\/11\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:94:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (3)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 7\/11\/2007 Senate amendment  submitted\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E95. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:95:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.2106 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:HR01585:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EH.R.1585\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See  Congressional Record for text.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 7\/11\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:95:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (2)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 7\/11\/2007 Senate amendment  submitted\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E96. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:96:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.2149 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:HR01585:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EH.R.1585\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See  Congressional Record for text.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 7\/12\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:96:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (1)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 7\/12\/2007 Senate amendment  submitted\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E97. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:97:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.2464 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:HR02638:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EH.R.2638\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See  Congressional Record for text.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 7\/25\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:97:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (1)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 7\/25\/2007 Senate amendment  submitted\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E98. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:98:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.2473 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:HR02638:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EH.R.2638\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See  Congressional Record for text.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 7\/25\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:98:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (3)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 7\/25\/2007 Senate amendment  submitted\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E99. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:99:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.2519 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:HR02638:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EH.R.2638\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  To provide that one of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by  this Act may be used to enter into a contract in an amount greater than $5  million or to award a grant in excess of such amount unless the prospective  contractor or grantee certifies in writing to the agency awarding the contract  or grant that the contractor or grantee owes no past due Federal tax liability.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 7\/26\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:99:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (3)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 7\/26\/2007 Senate amendment agreed  to. Status: Amendment SA 2519 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous  Consent.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E100. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:100:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.2588 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:HR00976:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EH.R.976\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  To provide certain employment protections for family members who are caring for  members of the Armed Forces recovering from illnesses and injuries incurred on  active duty.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 7\/31\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:100:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (8)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 8\/2\/2007 Senate amendment agreed to.  Status: Amendment SA 2588 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EItems 101 through 113 of  113\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E101. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:101:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.2658 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:HR02642:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EH.R.2642\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  To provide that none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by  this Act may be used to enter into a contract in an amount greater than  $5,000,000 or to award a grant in excess of such amount unless the prospective  contractor or grantee makes certain certifications regarding Federal tax  liability.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 9\/4\/2007)      Cosponsors (None)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest  Major Action: 9\/5\/2007 Senate amendment agreed to. Status: Amendment SA 2658  agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E102. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:102:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.2659 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:HR02642:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EH.R.2642\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See  Congressional Record for text.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 9\/4\/2007)      Cosponsors (None)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest  Major Action: 9\/4\/2007 Senate amendment submitted\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E103. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:103:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.2690 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:HR02764:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EH.R.2764\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See  Congressional Record for text.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 9\/6\/2007)      Cosponsors (None)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest  Major Action: 9\/6\/2007 Senate amendment submitted\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E104. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:104:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.2692 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:HR02764:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EH.R.2764\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  To require a comprehensive nuclear threat reduction and security plan.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 9\/6\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:104:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (2)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 9\/6\/2007 Senate amendment agreed to.  Status: Amendment SA 2692 as modified agreed to in Senate by Unanimous  Consent.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E105. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:105:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.2799 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:HR03074:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EH.R.3074\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  To provide that none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by  this Act may be used to enter into a contract in an amount greater than  $5,000,000 or to award a grant in excess of such amount unless the prospective  contractor or grantee makes certain certifications regarding Federal tax  liability.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 9\/10\/2007)      Cosponsors (None)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest  Major Action: 9\/11\/2007 Senate amendment agreed to. Status: Amendment SA  2799 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E106. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:106:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.3004 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:HR01585:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EH.R.1585\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See  Congressional Record for text.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 9\/20\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:106:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (2)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 9\/20\/2007 Senate amendment  submitted\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E107. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:107:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.3026 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:HR01585:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EH.R.1585\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See  Congressional Record for text.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 9\/24\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:107:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (1)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 9\/24\/2007 Senate amendment  submitted\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E108. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:108:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.3068 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:HR01585:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EH.R.1585\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See  Congressional Record for text.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 9\/26\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:108:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (4)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 9\/26\/2007 Senate amendment  submitted\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E109. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:109:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.3073 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:HR01585:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EH.R.1585\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  To provide for transparency and accountability in military and security  contracting.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 9\/26\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:109:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (4)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 9\/27\/2007 Senate amendment agreed  to. Status: Amendment SA 3073 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous  Consent.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E110. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:110:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.3078 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:HR01585:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EH.R.1585\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  Relating to administrative separations of members of the Armed Forces for  personality disorder.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 9\/27\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:110:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (7)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 9\/27\/2007 Senate amendment agreed  to. Status: Amendment SA 3078 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous  Consent.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E111. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:111:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.3137 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:HR03222:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EH.R.3222\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  To provide that none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by  this Act may be used to enter into a contract in an amount greater than  $5,000,000 or to award a grant in excess of such amount unless the prospective  contractor or grantee makes certain certifications regarding Federal tax  liability.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 10\/2\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:111:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (2)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 10\/3\/2007 Senate amendment agreed  to. Status: Amendment SA 3137 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous  Consent.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E112. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:112:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.3234 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:HR03093:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EH.R.3093\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  To provide that none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by  this Act may be used to enter into a contract in an amount greater than  $5,000,000 or to award a grant in excess of such amount unless the prospective  contractor or grantee makes certain certifications regarding Federal tax  liability.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 10\/4\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:112:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (2)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 10\/15\/2007 Senate amendment agreed  to. Status: Amendment SA 3234 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E \u003Chr \/\u003E \u003C\/font\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E113. \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:113:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD::%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ES.AMDT.3331 \u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003Eto \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:HR03043:%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003EH.R.3043\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E  To provide that none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by  this Act may be used to enter into a contract in an amount greater than  $5,000,000 or to award a grant in excess of such amount unless the prospective  contractor or grantee makes certain certifications regarding Federal tax  liability.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsor: \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/?\u0026amp;Db=d110\u0026amp;querybd=@FIELD%28FLD003+@4%28%28@1%28Sen+Obama++Barack%29%29+01763%29%29\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ESen Obama, Barack\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E [IL] (introduced 10\/17\/2007)      \u003C\/font\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/D?d110:113:.\/temp\/%7EbdRxXD:@@@P%7C\/bss\/d110query.html%7C\"\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003ECosponsors\u003C\/font\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfont size=\"2\"\u003E (1)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatest Major Action: 10\/22\/2007 Senate amendment agreed  to. 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Does he has an alternate option to suggest vis  a vis Barack Obama for President? (\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;\"  \u003EUS  Congresswoman Cynthia McKenney is no longer in the ballot)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003ENotwithstanding the fact that BO did in fact make  the comments on unilateral action against Iran, stated his position regarding  Palestine and Israel, made other comments or took positions that many of us  supporting him disagree with and will work our butts off to help him with a view  from the other side of the argument, also to help him see clearly how  detrimental his positions are to the peace and the good will among nations and  people's of the world and of the consequences thereof.\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%;\"  \u003EQ 2. In his lifetime experience, does he have  knowledge or has heard of any candidates running for office to adhere to all the  positions expressed or taken during campaigns? (Yes, I admit that it is a sword  of Damocles with a double edge to it)\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%;\"  \u003EQ 3. If I understand Mr. Pinkey correctly, is he  disparaging Obama's volunteer work and community activism because he didn't  endure the sacrifices or failed to put his 'life on the line' as many have done  in the struggles before his time?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003EI wonder how many community volunteer and activists  like me, are guilty of the same \"Crimes\" As Mr. Barack Obama, all of us are the  recipients of the fruit of the labor, struggles and the sacrifices of past or  fallen comrades; I daresay that they would want us to do just that; follow in  their footsteps and build upon the foundations laid with their sacrifices, that  for so many of them, was ultimate.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003EAs an Immigrant from Mexico, I have been the object  of racism, but I was never victimized or deported by the Immigration  authorities, yet, I support the human rights of illegal immigrants and  immigrants in general in their struggles, which, by choice, are mine as  well.\u003C\/span\u003E  \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003EI never was subjected to segregation or any of the  other ignominies that African Americans have endured, yet, not only do I support  the struggles of my black sisters and brothers, but I join to pitch in with my  efforts in their struggles, which, by choice, are mine as well.\u003C\/span\u003E  \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EI wasn't born a biological female, but I make common cause with women's  struggles, which, by choice, are mine as well.  \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAnd so on...\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003EQ 4. Is Mr. Pinkey suggesting that people who  choose to work on communities issues or community organizations shouldn't get  paid? or,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003EQ 5.if they do, they should be derided or their  contributions minimized, dismissed or even derided?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003EI agree with Mr. Pinkey that to support a candidate solely on the base of  race or gender is ill-advised because it'd be a racist or sexist act, however  and in any event, we are happy for the opportunity to vote either for a woman or  a person of color, yes, Barack Obama's skin is colored, it is black and albeit  an argument could be made, as Mr. Pinkey does, never mind that culturally he may  not fit the definition of what an African American man is, his father originally  came from Africa and he was born in US territory, by an wider standard, that  makes him an African-American, just as descendants of  the Americas or Asia or  Pacific Islands are so labeled, and by the way, since we are on the subject of  'labels', how come we are not calling white people Euro-Americans?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003EQ 6. So, he is not a real Black Man?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003EI know many people who disagree with him on that point and I'll concede  that others share his opinion, which are just that, opinions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003EIn closing, considering that I take issue on most of the points in his  piece, I'm on his side on the next to last paragraph which parallels our  position, but personally I take issue with him once again, as many other Obama  supporters will do as well, on his last paragraph, contrary to his statement, we  are being very critical thinkers because we, supporters and admirers of US  Congresswoman Cynthia McKenney and the Power To The People Coalition, have faced  reality and have chosen a plan for grassroots involvement\/action after weighing  all the options on the table.  Yes, we are building a movement and will work  very diligently toward helping whoever is elected President to understand that  there is a clear choice; to work with and for the interest of the people and for  the Country or for the Corporatist Interests, which are neither American nor  Patriotic.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003EThat will be their choice, our opinion is that in Barack Obama, we may have  a better chance than with the other candidates to achieve our goals, so we made  our choice, it will be up to the new President to make his, or hers, in either  case, there will be a political prize or a political price as a result.\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cblockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\"\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWe need to be about the business of thinking and acting  outside the box and building political parties that are outside the box, parties  that serve the economic, social, and political interests of the masses of  people. This is precisely why the candidacy of former US Congresswoman Cynthia  McKinney for President and the Power To The People Coalition is of such enormous  importance for the present and for the future. This coalition is all about  collectively laying the foundation for systemic change - which is the only way  that we can enjoy real change. \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp class=\"bc992\" align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBlind euphoria notwithstanding, those who ignore  reality and the lessons of history, do so at their own peril. Now, more than  ever, is the time to be critical thinkers, not blind  followers\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003EQ 7. What are the basis for his assertion that we  are blind followers?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003EQ 8. Is it a professional diagnosis that because we  support Barack Obama, we are suffering from an Euphoria \"Madness\" ?\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%;\"  \u003ERespectfully submitted,\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%;\"  \u003EAurora Grajeda\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%;\"  \u003E\"We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting  For\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\"You must be the change you wish to see in the world.\" Mohandas Karamachand  Gandhi\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca 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Security plan titled \"ENDGAME\""},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E \u003Ccenter\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"style14\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.coalicionprimerodemayo.org\/html\/pildora\/operationendgame.html\"\u003EHomeland  Security plan titled ENDGAME\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/center\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"style14\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.coalicionprimerodemayo.org\/html\/pildora\/mas_pildoras.html\"\u003EMás  Píldoras Educativas - More Eduational Pills\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"style16\"\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003EThe contract of the Halliburton subsidiary KBR to build immigrant  detention facilities is part of a ten-year Homeland Security plan titled  ENDGAME, which sets as its goal the removal of \"all removable aliens\" and  \"potential terrorists.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the 1980s Richard Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld  discussed similar emergency detention powers as part of a super-secret program  of planning for what was euphemistically called \"Continuity of Government\" (COG)  in the event of a nuclear disaster. At the time, Cheney was a Wyoming  congressman, while Rumsfeld, who had been defense secretary under President  Ford, was a businessman and CEO of the drug company G.D. Searle. [1]\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003EThese men planned for suspension of the Constitution, not just after  nuclear attack, but for any \"national security emergency,\" which they defined in  Executive Order 12656 of 1988 as: \"Any occurrence, including natural disaster,  military attack, technological or other emergency, that seriously degrades or  seriously threatens the national security of the United States.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EClearly 9\/11  would meet this definition, and did, for COG was instituted on that day. As the  Washington Post later explained, the order \"dispatched a shadow government of  about 100 senior civilian managers to live and work secretly outside Washington,  activating for the first time long-standing plans.\" [2]  \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat the managers in this shadow government worked on has never been  reported. But it is significant that the group that prepared ENDGAME was, as the  Homeland Security document puts it, \"chartered in September 2001.\" [3]\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor  ENDGAME's goal of a capacious detention capability is remarkably similar to  Oliver North's controversial Rex-84 \"readiness exercise\" for COG in 1984. This  called for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to round up and detain  400,000 imaginary \"refugees,\" in the context of \"uncontrolled population  movements\" over the Mexican border into the United States. [4]  \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E[1] James Bamford, A Pretext for War: 9\/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of  America's Intelligence Agencies (New York: Doubleday, 2004), 70-74.  \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E[2] \"Shadow Government Is at Work in Secret,\" Washington Post,  3\/1\/02.  \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E[3] U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), \"ENDGAME: Office  of Detention and Removal Strategic Plan, 2003 - 2012 -- Detention and Removal  Strategy for a Secure Homeland;\" http:\/\/www.ice.gov\/graphics\/dro\/endgame.pdf.  (As of this writing, the ENDGAME Strategic Plan is no longer posted on the  Internet.) Cf. Peter Dale Scott, \"10-Year U.S. Strategic Plan For Detention  Camps Revives Proposals \u003EFrom Oliver North,\" Pacific News Service, 2\/21\/06.  \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E[4] Alfonzo Chardy, Miami Herald, 7\/5\/87.  \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003Ehttp:\/\/socrates.berkeley.edu\/~pdscott\/kbrpref.html  \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mail-archive.com\/cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com\/msg05386.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Enorgesen - Fri, 01 Sep 2006 07:14:03 -0700\u003C\/a\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECensored 2006 : The Top 25 Censored Stories (Censored) (Paperback)  will appear from Project Censored in September. It will contain my article, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/news.pacificnews.org\/news\/view_article.html?article_id=eed74d9d44c30493706fe03f4c9b3a77\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\"Homeland Security Contracts for Vast New Detention Camps\"\u003C\/a\u003E  (2\/08\/06), together with this \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/socrates.berkeley.edu\/%7Epdscott\/kbrpref.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ebrief  Preface.\u003C\/a\u003E  \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/cryptogon.com\/docs\/endgame.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EOperation ENDGAME PDF FILE\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/div\u003ENOTE FROM CRYPTOGON \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;\"  \u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003EOk guys, it's clear, if you want to reference government documents, save local copies of them on your webserver. We're clearly into the memoryhole phase of the game now. They're disappearing stuff right in front of our eyes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/cryptogon.com\/2006_10_29_blogarchive.html\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/cryptogon.com\/2006_10_29_blogarchive.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECryptogon mirror of: \"DRO\" (Detention and Removal Strategy for a Secure Homeland)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/cryptogon.com\/docs\/endgame.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EU.S. Department of Homeland Security\u003Cbr \/\u003EBureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u003Cbr \/\u003EENDGAME\u003Cbr \/\u003EOffice of Detention and\u003Cbr \/\u003ERemoval Strategic Plan, 2003 - 2012\u003Cbr \/\u003EDetention and Removal Strategy for a Secure Homeland\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt's getting VERY frightening now. They're actively monitoring those of us who are exposing this stuff, and They're implementing countermeasures. 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Shifts Campaign Chief \u0026 WJC complains of Obama's attacks"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv  style=\"font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"news_story_title\"\u003EWhat is considered a  attack on a political campaign and  what are the specifics of Ex President Bill Clinton's  complaint?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv  style=\"font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv  style=\"font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"news_story_title\"\u003EIs it allowed to point out the opponents votes, if any,  and their positions?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv  style=\"font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv  style=\"font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"news_story_title\"\u003EIn my unqualified opinion, anything that a candidate has  said or done which would affect how that person will govern and  the consequences\/effects if elected, is fair game as long as it is accurate and  demonstrable; after all, the electorate will not make an informed decision if  candidates were to run on appearance or personality  alone.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv  style=\"font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv  style=\"font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"news_story_title\"\u003EIt can be surmised that WJC's charge is designed to paint  BO and his supporters on a negative light hoping to effect the voter's  perceptions and their choice.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv  style=\"font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cblockquote dir=\"ltr\"  style=\"margin-right: 0px; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;\"\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"news_story_title\"\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"color: rgb(255, 153, 255);\"\u003E \u003Ch1\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:85%;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/01\/14\/clinton.obama\/\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003EB\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003Eill Clinton  complains about Obama's attacks\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E(CNN)\u003C\/strong\u003E -- Former President Clinton on Monday complained  about attacks from Sen. Barack Obama on Sen. Hillary Clinton in the latest  back-and-forth bickering between the two rival Democratic presidential  campaigns.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\"I've got before me a list of 80 attacks on Hillary that are quite  personal by Sen. Obama and his campaign going back six months that I've had  pulled,\" he said, speaking to CNN contributor Roland Martin on WVON-AM's \"The  Roland S. Martin Show\" based in Chicago,  Illinois.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: trebuchet ms;\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: trebuchet ms;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"news_story_title\"\u003ESenator Obama is choosing to take the high road which in  rality it is the only one to take:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cblockquote dir=\"ltr\"  style=\"margin-right: 0px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:trebuchet ms;\"\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"news_story_title\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E... I don't want the campaign in this  stage to degenerate into so much tit-for-tat back-and-forth that we lose sight  of why all of us are doing this.\"\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003EObama also warned his supporters to play fair.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp align=\"left\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\"If I hear my own supporters engaging in talk that I think is  ungenerous or misleading or in some way is unfair then I will speak out  forcefully against them and I hope the other campaigns take the same approach,\"  he said.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: trebuchet ms;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"news_story_title\"\u003EI'll wait to read more on the nature of the 'personal  attacks', meanwhile, my mind tells me that there is desperation on the Clinton's  camp and that this is a maneuver to distract and handcuff the rival campaign.  There is ample evidence that many Obama's supporters are already actively  engaged in self-censorship of sorts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: trebuchet ms;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"news_story_title\"\u003EIn any event, what appears to be a reality, is that the  Obama Political Tsunami keeps coming in with no sign of stopping, causing havoc  on the opposition.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cblockquote dir=\"ltr\"  style=\"margin-right: 0px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:trebuchet ms;\"\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"news_story_title\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087\u0026amp;sid=a9FkKpges22w\u0026amp;refer=home\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003EClinton  Shifts Campaign Chief as Obama Sweeps Weekend  Contests\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBy Mark Drajem and Kristin  Jensen\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFeb. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton  replaced her campaign chief as rival Barack Obama won Maine's caucus vote,  sweeping the weekend contests. \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EObama won about 60 percent to 40 percent for Clinton in Maine yesterday,  where 24 pledged delegates will be split proportionally. Obama scored victories  in the Louisiana primary, caucuses in Washington and Nebraska, and the Virgin  Islands convention a day earlier. Voters in Maryland, Virginia and the District  of Columbia go to the polls tomorrow. \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E``The momentum has clearly shifted to Obama,'' said Stephen Wayne, a  government professor at Georgetown University in Washington.  \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E Clinton yesterday replaced campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle, who has  run the New York senator's campaign since she entered the presidential race in  January 2007, with longtime adviser Maggie Williams.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: trebuchet ms;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EAs political campaigns go, this one gives the  impression to be one of the cleanest run in a long time, let's hope it does not  degenerate further, there is no need for it, at least the latter is true for the  Obama '08 camp and it's supporters, while the same cannot be said of the other  side.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv face=\"trebuchet ms\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv face=\"trebuchet ms\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EThis brief analysis is my honest political amateur's view.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv face=\"trebuchet ms\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv face=\"trebuchet ms\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EAurora\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv face=\"trebuchet ms\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EFebruary 11, 2008\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv face=\"trebuchet ms\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E 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by Federico Garcia Lorca"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aTaajnhliHg\"\u003EAurora by Suzanne Brooks and Reggie Graham \u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:78%;\" \u003E(At end of page, Bar do Bulga's version of \"Aurora de Nueva York\")\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ccenter\u003E\u003Cobject height=\"340\" width=\"284\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/vaTaajnhliHg\u0026amp;rel=1\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/aTaajnhliHg\u0026amp;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"340\" width=\"284\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003C\/center\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EFragmento del espectáculo \"Poesía, Música y Duende: La generación del 27\". Federico García Lorca en el Teatro Cervantes de Linares.\u003Cbr \/\u003EBailarinas: Alba Peña y Marina Pérez\u003Cbr \/\u003ECoreografía: Leonor Martínez Gálvez\u003Cbr \/\u003ECantante: Enrique Alirangues\u003Cbr \/\u003EGuitarras: Pedro Gallardo, Adrián Gil\u003Cbr \/\u003ETrompeta: Juan Peralta\u003Cbr \/\u003EBatería: Marcelino J.Miguel\u003Cbr \/\u003EContrabajo: José Juan Muñoz\u003Cbr \/\u003EPiano: Pedro Martos\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDirección: Alfredo Márquez, José Gregorio Trujillo, Maite Herrera, Antonio Huertas\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\"Aurora de Nueva York\"\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003ELa aurora de Nova York tiene\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003Ecuatro columnas de cieno\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003Ey un huracán de negras palomas\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003Eque chapotean las aguas podridas\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003ELa aurora de Nova York gime\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003Epor las inmensas escaleras\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003Ebuscando entre las aristas\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003Enardos de angustia dibujada.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003ELa aurora llega y nadie la recibe en su boca\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003Eporque allí no hay mañana ni esperanza posible.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EA veces las monedas en enjambres 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los barrios hay gentes que vacilan insomnes\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E \u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003Ecomo recién salidas de un naufragio de sangre.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EFederico Garcia Lorca\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Chr color=\"#ff3300\" size=\"2\"\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E'Aurora' by Federico Garcia Lorca\u003Cbr \/\u003Eabout New York...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cobject height=\"340\" width=\"284\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wV3L9QHBOdQ\u0026amp;rel=1\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wV3L9QHBOdQ\u0026amp;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"340\" width=\"284\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy: Bar do Bulga\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr 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La Aurora llegue"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv  style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:trebuchet ms;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:85%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan id=\"ctl00_MainContentPlaceholder_ctl01_ctl00_lblEntry\"\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\"Cuando La Aurora Llegue\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);font-size:130%;\" \u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:100%;\" \u003EAutor Anonimo\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:85%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECuando la  aurora llegue y comience un nuevo día,\u003C\/strong\u003E  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ebusca un  momento de paz para escuchar tu alma.\u003C\/strong\u003E  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProfundiza en ti mismo hasta donde ella mora,\u003C\/strong\u003E  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ey  escúchala.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECapta su  vibración primera, la más bella melodía\u003C\/strong\u003E  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Eque  interpreta el alma.\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAllí en  lo profundo de ti mismo sólo existen\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan 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Sabiduría.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAllí sólo  encontrarás lo bueno y lo perfecto.\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EY eso es  lo que eres en tu esencia.\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);font-size:130%;\" \u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:100%;\" \u003EToma lo mejor de lo que allí palpita, \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Elo mejor  de ti mismo... y vuelve\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Epara  empezar con ello el nuevo día.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEntonces  serán tres veces buenos\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Elos  frutos que trae cada día,\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Epues  llevarán la savia pura de tu esencia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAsí,  busca cada día la esencia buena\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Eque  atesora tu espíritu, allí\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Een lo más  profundo de ti mismo,\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Esazona  con ella tus frutos.\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EY vive  este día como el mejor de tu vida.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EConcentra  tus energías en vivir intensamente\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Eestas  pocas horas que tienes por delante.\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDesde que  la aurora despierta\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ehasta que  el descanso reparador te llame.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOlvida el  ayer y deja el mañana para su momento.\u003C\/strong\u003E  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOlvida  tus errores pero recuerda la experiencia.\u003C\/strong\u003E  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EY si haz  de recordar, recuerda sólo cosas buenas\u003C\/strong\u003E  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Eque  iluminen este día.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPorque es  necio llevar hoy la carga del ayer.\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVive  plenamente este día,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);font-size:130%;\" \u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:100%;\" \u003Eporque hoy es el mas hermoso don que tienes.  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPorque...  la vida es un eterno presente.\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EY haz de  cada día tuyo una oración a la vida.\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:130%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAl amor,  a la alegría.\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(227, 108, 9);font-size:130%;\" \u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:100%;\" \u003EUn  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Are the Ones: Poem by June Jordan - Aurora Song \/ Video"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ccenter\u003E\"Aurora\" by Suzanne Brooks and Reggie Graham\u003Cbr \/\u003E                                                             \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cobject height=\"344\" width=\"425\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/aTaajnhliHg\u0026amp;hl=en\"\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/aTaajnhliHg\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;color1=0xFF33CC\u0026amp;color2=0xFF66FF\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" height=\"344\" width=\"425\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy: Suzanne Brooks and Reggie Graham\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/%7Eaurora-grajeda\/aurora_video.html\"\u003ELyrics and Story of \"Viva Obama \/ Aurora Song\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/center\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe Are the Ones:\u003Cbr \/\u003EA Celebration of International Women’s Day\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"style10\"\u003ECommemoration of the 40,000 women and children who, August 9, 1956, presented themselves in bodily protest against the \"dompass\" in the capital of apartheid. Presented at The United Nations, August 9, 1978\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"style10\"\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003Cspan class=\"style10\"\u003E  Poem for South African Women\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"style10\"\u003E(by \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/junejordan.com\/\"\u003EJune Jordan\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"style10\"\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E     Our own shadows disappear as the feet of thousands\u003Cbr \/\u003Eby the tens of thousands pound the fallow land\u003Cbr \/\u003Einto new dust that\u003Cbr \/\u003Erising like a marvelous pollen will be\u003Cbr \/\u003Efertile\u003Cbr \/\u003Eeven as the first woman whispering\u003Cbr \/\u003Eimagination to the trees around her\u003Cbr \/\u003Emade\u003Cbr \/\u003Efor righteous fruit\u003Cbr \/\u003Efrom such deliberate defense of life\u003Cbr \/\u003Eas no other still\u003Cbr \/\u003Ewill claim inferior to any other safety\u003Cbr \/\u003Ein the world\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E     The whispers too they\u003Cbr \/\u003Eintimate to the inmost ear of every spirit\u003Cbr \/\u003Enow aroused they\u003Cbr \/\u003Ecarousing in ferocious affirmation\u003Cbr \/\u003Eof all peaceable and loving amplitude\u003Cbr \/\u003Esound a certainly unbounded heat\u003Cbr \/\u003Efrom a baptismal smoke where yes\u003Cbr \/\u003Ethere will be fire\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E     And the babies cease alarm as mothers\u003Cbr \/\u003Eraising arms\u003Cbr \/\u003Eand heart high as the stars so far unseen\u003Cbr \/\u003Enevertheless hurl into the universe\u003Cbr \/\u003Ea moving force\u003Cbr \/\u003Eirreversible as light years\u003Cbr \/\u003Etraveling to the open\u003Cbr \/\u003Eeye\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E     And who will join this standing up\u003Cbr \/\u003Eand the ones who stood without sweet company\u003Cbr \/\u003Ewill sing and sing\u003Cbr \/\u003Eback into the mountains and\u003Cbr \/\u003Eif necessary\u003Cbr \/\u003Eeven under the sea\u003Cbr \/\u003Ewe are the ones we have been waiting for\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\/4489386645026869333\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/we-are-ones-poem-by-june-jordan.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/4489386645026869333"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/4489386645026869333"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/we-are-ones-poem-by-june-jordan.html","title":"We Are the Ones: Poem by June Jordan - 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Give up even before I try?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv  style=\"font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv  style=\"font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EMaybe it is dreaming awake, who can really know what's ahead, but Barack  Obama is talking to me, to us, he is saying that change is possible, but that it  will only come about\u003Cstrong\u003E IF\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EWE MAKE IT HAPPEN\u003C\/strong\u003E, it  goes parallel to my belief that \u003Cstrong\u003EIT IS UP TO US\u003C\/strong\u003E, which goes  right along with what a group of activists (Sisters\/Brothers), of which I'm  part, are saying: \u003Cstrong\u003E\"WE ARE THE ONES WE'VE BEEN WAITING  FOR\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EMaybe it is just words coming from him, but for me, it is a contract that  says: OK Mr. Obama, it is also up to you, it is your choice to be a shining star  in the US Political Firmament that'll shine for years to come, or, you will just  be a Falling Star of short-lived brilliance, that's for the future to determine  working together with your lead, demonstrating your side of our implicit  contract. My choice and duty will be to make it so, I'm taking your word for it,  your option is to be responsible for your actions in our bargain. My options  are: To continue supporting and helping you, or to hold you accountable.   Whichever it is, I'll know because you'll show me.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EYour Choice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv  style=\"font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003EThere you have it - Join us and dream once more, but let our dream  be anchored in the reality of our activism, of our involvement because \"Si se  puede!\", \"Yes, it can be done!\"  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv face=\"arial\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003ETo access  information by subscribing to the group:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"mailto:grassroots4obama@yahoogroups.com\"\u003E\"Yes We Can, Si Se Puede\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"mailto:\/\/grassroots4obama@yahoogroups.com\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"mailto:grassroots4obama@yahoogroups.com\"\u003Emailto:grassroots4obama@yahoogroups.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/\"\u003EBarack Obama\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv face=\"arial\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv face=\"arial\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E \u003Cdiv face=\"arial\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size:100%;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/%7Eaurora-grajeda\/\"\u003E\"Viva Obama \/ Aurora Song \/ Aurora Video\"  \u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.womenofcolorday.com\/\"\u003E\"March  1st, Int'l Women of Color Day\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\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\/1594100724448956421\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/so-why-obama.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/1594100724448956421"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1794095320758100201\/posts\/default\/1594100724448956421"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/elrinconcitodeaurora.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/so-why-obama.html","title":"So, why Obama?"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}}]}});