Aurora (Matutina): "The Pinkish-Golden Glow that precedes immediately the raising of the Sun"
"Charity is commendable, everyone should be charitable. But Justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don't go hungry, unschooled or sick without care. Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth, justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table; faith-based justice offers a place at the table" ~Bill Moyers
Summary: 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."
SAVAGE: 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?
Summary: 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."
Summary: 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."
"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. " Napoleon Bonaparte
"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.This robust effort includes the website WeCanStopTheHate.org, which educates around hate speech and its consequences.The campaign also engages media networks and political candidates to separate themselves from hate groups and hate speech.NCLR argues that media celebrities and the growth of talk radio have contributed significantly to the unprecedented use of hate speech on the airwaves.The 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."
Shock Jocks:Hate Speech and Talk Radio by Rory O'Connor with Aaron Culter
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A photo from the anti-Arpaio protest at Wells Fargo last week. See more from pics of the demo by photographer Bill Carpenter, here.
The 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 the effort to oust Sheriff Joe Arpaio from the Wells Fargo bank building in downtown Phoenix, where protests have been happening every weekday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. since the beginning of the month.
Bill Carpenter's video of last week's demo at Wells Fargo HQ in San Fran.
This San Francisco demo was organized in sympathy with Arizona activist Sal Reza of PUENTE and members of the National Day Labor Organizing Network, 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.
More 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.
The first to speak at the San Francisco demo was lawyer/organizer Renee Saucedo of La Raza Centro Legal, which provides legal and other services to over 12,000 citizens of the greater Bay Area.
"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."
Gerald Lenoir of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration 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.
"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 he is the one that is breaking the law."
As 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.
For more on the politics behind the protests, check out the item "Fortress Arpaio," from my Bird column of September 11. Additional coverage is listed below.
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LA VOZ DE AZTLAN Los Angeles, Alta California September 17. 2008
Another attack in Shenandoah follows beating death of Mexican immigrant
A vicious assault in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania of a 21 year old Mexican man by the name of Javier Alcala Jr. on Friday comes just two months after the brutal racially motivated murder of Mexican immigrant Luis Ramirez.
Both MALDEF and LULAC have requested the FBI and the US Department of Justice to investigate the case to determine if this new assault is a racially motivated hate crime.
Javier Alcala Jr., claims that three skinheads beat him on the head with a metal object, bound and blindfolded him with duct tape and then proceeded to torture him. He says that they used a "drill" and a "torch" to terrorize him. Alcala adds that he was then beaten to unconsciousness and dumped in a street. He was taken to Saint Catherine Medical Center and the police notified.
Javier Alcala suffered a head injury, damaged teeth, bruises and an arm injury. According to Shenandoah Mayor Tom O'Neill, police have interviewed the victim twice, including once at a hospital. The immigration status of Alcala is unknown but the mayor said the police had difficulty interviewing the victim because he was extremely frightened.
Attorney Gladys Limon of MALDEF said the organization was made aware of the assault on Javier Alcala after a community member called Saturday. After speaking with the person who called MALDEF, Ms. Limon said she called the Department of Justice and the FBI. Ms. Limon said she also spoke with the victim by telephone on Saturday.
Department of Justice spokeswoman Jamie Hais said Tuesday that the Criminal Section of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division is opening an investigation into the Friday incident. FBI spokeswoman Jerri Williams said that an FBI agent from the Allentown Resident Agency is also reviewing the attack.
Ms. Limon said, "We have not received any information as of yet that indicates that this was racially motivated." Ms. Limon added, "What we do know is that this was a serious crime against a young Mexican man in Shenandoah and it requires an immediate and full investigation."
LULAC National Executive Director Brent Wilkes said the group is also looking at the incident because of the rising number of hate crimes against immigrants in the U.S. "Our concern is that the anti-immigrant rhetoric that's been pretty visible in media and in policy discussions is starting to embolden people to take the next step in terms of getting violent with immigrants, or people who they perceive to be immigrants, which primarily means Latinos and their communities, " Wilkes said.
SAN FRANCISCO CA.(between 4th&5th St. next to Caltrain Station)
As 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 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.
On 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."
These 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.
Shock 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.
For 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.
We, 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! " .
As 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.
Editor'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.
WASHINGTON -- Senator John McCain is now running a Spanish language ad 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.
Congressional Record, May 25, 2006, 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."
Close McCain ally Senator Mel Martinez, R-Fla., also praised Obama in a letter dated June 28, 2007:
"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."
Yet just two years later, Senator McCain appears to have forgotten his praise for Senator Obama's steadfast support of immigration reform.
[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.
The result: No guest worker program. No path to citizenship. No secure borders. No reform.
Is that being on our side? Obama and his Congressional allies ready to block immigration reform, but not ready to lead.
JOHN MCCAIN: I'm John McCain and I approve this message.
So why the memory lapse? And why only in Spanish language ads?
I 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!
Thanks for your support!
Ron Gochez Social Justice Educator/Community Organizer
Assocation of Raza Educators- Los Angeles
-----Original Message----- From: ARE Los Angeles To: razaeducators@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 8:17 pm Subject: [razaeducators] Open Scholarships for Undocumneted Students
>>> Please Distribute Widely<<<
DearTeachers and Community Members,
The 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.
Fact--In 2008, HSF gave more money to Hispanic students than any other organization.
Fact--HSF refuses to allow undocumented students to apply to their scholarship even though it is lawful for them to do so.?
Over 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. Please support?ARE in our campaign to ensure that all students receive an equal opportunity to attend college.
Signing the online petition below, will send a clear message to HSF that it is wrong to discriminate against undocumented students.
As 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.
These 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."
Inside 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.
Neil Boortz suggests giving nuclear waste to illegal Mexican immigrants 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.
Shock 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.
An 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. "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.
Legislation 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’
All 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.
Aurora 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.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.
By 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.
