Peta:
Title: Zero-One
@Network-Aztlan News Blog/links
Thanks bro.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Research: October 31, 2007 - Search Our Archives
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Gracias for the information and links. I will pass it on to others online.
Feel free to get involved with the whole NetworkAztlan.com website and Join up with NetworkAztlan_News and check out our related Yahoo Groups.
We know that many of our gente ~La Raza Cosmica de Aztlan~ are without Internet Access on a regular basis. We can change this one home at a time by helping to enable people get computer, get online and then encourage them to get involved with progressive websites and positive online groups. We must raise our education levels in concert with basic community literacy programs on the local level.
I myself believe in general amnesty for all immigrants and the tearing down of all borders between working people worldwide. The immigrant rights movement inherently involves international relations and global international law. The U.S.A. must resolve its 'immigrant problem' in unity and cooperation with Mexico and Canada as neighboring nation-states.
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Gracias for the information and links. I will pass it on to others online.
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We know that many of our gente ~La Raza Cosmica de Aztlan~ are without Internet Access on a regular basis. We can change this one home at a time by helping to enable people get computer, get online and then encourage them to get involved with progressive websites and positive online groups. We must raise our education levels in concert with basic community literacy programs on the local level.
The power of the Internet has changed civilization and is constantly transforming the way we share information, communicate among ourselves and spread human knowledge. We must strive to be in the vanguard of the learning curve, be bold in expressing our viewpoints and learn from each other all along the way in order to raise our general level of consciousness.
Our inability to unite online from the safety and comfort of our homes is a sign of our general division among us Latinos and all people who are indigenous to these lands I call Aztlan. It is a reflection of the division in the immigrant rights struggle inside the continental United States. Think about it!
I myself believe in general amnesty for all immigrants and the tearing down of all borders between working people worldwide. The immigrant rights movement inherently involves international relations and global international law. The U.S.A. must resolve its 'immigrant problem' in unity and cooperation with Mexico and Canada as neighboring nation-states.
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Ultimately the immigrant rights struggle involves property relations, labor relations worldwide and it points out the urgent need for world socialism in order to help expand the global economy and help meet the basic survival needs of global people as a whole. All social issues are interconnected in connected realiity.
We must think outside the box ~borders in this context~ look at the existing economic realities in the real world and though we may have differences of opinions we should come together on the common denominator of immigrant rights being humane rights!
Come Together & Create!
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October 31, 2007
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More H-1B Numbers? by Gary Endelman
(b) Bloggings: October 31, 2007 by Joel Stewart
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(a) DOS Publishes Final Rule On Intercountry Adoptions
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(c) Credential Evaluation And Translation
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(a) What Happens To A DREAM Denied: Is There A Way To Get More
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Gary Endelman writes "What, if anything, does the downfall of
DREAM have to do with employment-based immigration. Stated
simply, where do we go from here to get more H-1B numbers?"
http://www.ilw.com/articles/2007,1031-endelman.shtm
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(b) Bloggings: October 31, 2007
Joel Stewart shares the latest entries from his blog.
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(a) DOS Publishes Final Rule On Intercountry Adoptions
The Department of State published notice in the Federal Register
amending Department of State regulations to provide
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Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect
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(a) Dear Editor:
I trust this reference, in regards to the DREAM Act split, was
meant light-heartedly. The North-South split in this instance may
have more to do with Blue-Red, than Blue-Gray. Demographics
rather than states' rights, if you will. So the Senate has failed
to pass even the DREAM Act. Unfortunately, in the wake of the
defeat of the DREAM Act, our junior Republican senator here in
South Carolina, Jim DeMint, seems to have been carried away by,
shall we say, partisan euphoria. I don't dispute that the
consensus within Congress, and probably in the nation as a whole,
is to put priority on securing the borders and enforce our laws.
I am troubled by Senator DeMint's bald partisanship, however, and
his use of scare tactics. As for the aspiration to "create a
legal immigration system that works": while in principle we all
support efforts to do so, I fear that in this instance it is
little more than a catch-phrase. Senator DeMint is well aware
that the words "No to amnesty!" among the GOP of this state has
stifled, and will stifle, reasonable discussion of a sensible
immigration benefits system. This was the rallying cry, by the
GOP powers-that-be, to displace our moderate senior Senator,
Lindsey Graham, a co-sponsor of the recent immigration reform
legislation that met an untimely end earlier this year. So, a
call for a "legal ... immigration system ... that works" in this
context only bodes well for enforcement, but poorly for fairness.
And so it will be, as long as opponents of comprehensive
immigration reform have the microphone. We as immigration lawyers must become intimately involved in raising the public's awareness of these issues. We should, we must, have a coherent plan to bring this information to the American public.
Allen C. Ladd, Esq. Greenville, SC
(b) Dear Editor:
My thanks to Robert Yang's latest letter (10/30/07 ID) for taking
my letter's comments (10/29/07 ID) about the racial double
standard relating to green card lotteries and "amnesty"
seriously. The early 1990's "AA-1" lottery was intended to
benefit mainly European illegal immigrants, and especially those
from Ireland. Unlike the current version of the lottery, which is
open to immigrants from many different parts of the world, the
AA-1 lottery provided for automatic waivers of both the
deportation and visa fraud grounds for inadmissibility The
current more racially diverse lottery, of course, has no such
provisions. Nor, at the time of the AA-1 lottery, was there any
such thing as a 3 or 10 year bar for "unlawful presence". An AA-1
winner, therefore, could in many cases, and to my own personal
knowledge, still get a green card no matter how many years he or
she had been in the US illegally, or even if he or she had
previously made false statements to enter the country or had been deported for that reason. But even though the current DV lottery is far less generous to today's mainly Asian, African and Latin American winners, both the Republican-backed HR 4437 immigration bill last year, and the failed bipartisan CIR "compromise" this year, would have eliminated this program completely. Double standard, anyone?
Roger Algase, Esq. New York, NY
(c) Dear Editor:
I want to publicly praise New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer for his
leadership and political courage in forging a difficult deal that
allows many illegal immigrants living in New York the opportunity
to drive with a legal license. He has been, and continues to be
vilified and mischaracterized by both sides of the debate on this
polarizing issue. I say that Mr. Spitzer should be held up as a
shining example to the rest of our nation. He set out to make a
positive contribution and forge a deal, and he did just that. Did
anyone think that on this hotly contested issue one side would
prevail with their entire agenda intact? That untenable ideal has
been an unmovable impediment toward progress on the immigration issues facing our country to date. People see these issues in white or black, and nobody until now has been willing to settle for a shade of grey, which ultimately must be the only lasting answer. Even Chung-Wha Hong of the New York Immigration coalition has derided this achievement as a "lose-lose political decision that betrays his most ardent supporters and emboldens the anti-immigrant opposition." I say Hong couldn't be more wrong. This is a first baby step towards the type of compromise that will ultimately be needed to prevail on the long a difficult road to the passage of comprehensive immigration reform. Really, it's a win-win. I don't know why Chung-Wha Hong is determined to clutch a defeat from the jaws of victory. Both sides on these debates always think that they are taking the high road, while the other side is taking the low road? It speaks volumes about the political process when the obvious choice, the road right down the middle, is all too often the road least traveled.
Robert Gittelson
(d) Dear Editor:
Responding to ID's comment (10/29/07), this is very disturbing.
Maybe this comment will inspire some of us to take on VDare and
their anti-immigration advocates in their blogosphere and the
media. Kudos to Immigration Daily in reporting VDare's gross
misrepresentation of Hispanics.
Ben Lubbon
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Thursday, October 18, 2007
Response from Peta: Rep. Pete Stark's Unbelievable Comments ?!? ( Chicano Forums )
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Gracias Hermano ~ I heard / saw the Video via the Link Above and IT IS believable to me by Democratic Rep. Pete Stark, 13th District, Fremont Alameda. Did he use the 'f' word and did it stand for fascist?!?!?!?
Bush is an evil mad man in the White House but it was all those racist reactionary people that voted for him and all those who did NOT vote in the year 2000 that first got him elected whether by a legal coup-d-etat or not. It really does not now matter anymore. Chads notwithstanding.
The Amerikan people put up with it, the new Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore did a weak standdown when he should of fought claw and fang for a complete vote recount. Gore should of marched into the White House and claimed his seat! The United States was and is already divided!!!
The 2000 Presidential Election should of been declared null and void!
Millions of people should of protested, stormed the White House and put an end to the whole corrupt government of the United States. Gore did not have the guts to claim his seat and the Amerkan people did not have the guts to stand up as one! American Fascism is scientific and works with the mirage of government reforms at the top and down there at the bottom endure the masses still living in the Dark Ages!
Intelligent people should know that both major parties constitute one two-headed monster in Amerikan electoral politics. Eventually, it will all be decided by the masses of the Third World of Latin America, Africa and Asia in harmony with the people's Vanguard Elements inside the USA who have stopped playing Sleeping Beauty. Of course, this is IF humanekind does not self-destruct because of its own fear, cowardice and indecision.
We need to just abolish all borders, burn all flags and comprehend that as long as the Amerikan Empire rules the roost there is no truly independent nation, thus, all nations are ultimately mirages. What armed nation can protect its borders and defend its' territorial integrity? Who will stop these evil fascist fools and their fanatics? Public opinion polls alone!!!??? Smell the Blackwater!!!
Amerikan Fascism does what the hell it wants and the Amerikan people are too racist and stupid to put an end to it as that would mean the world's wealth would have to be shared with all the people in a global socialist world government. Hear all the bitching about all those damn foreigners taking our jobs in AmeriKKKa!?!?!?!?
Some of us 'educated activists and advocates' online know these things, but it is not enough for any so-called educated elite to know. It may take longer, more words, more diagrams and more efforts to teach people on the community level how to build a bridge but it is bridges we must build!
We here now inside the United States must build bridges between us here in the continental Uniited States and the whole Third World where the majority of Earth's people live, work and endure.
Indeed, the people get the President they deserve. The central focus for us should be on voter education and voter registration as we prepare for the long dark night. These coming elections will still end up with us being where we are in terms of widespread hunger, poverty and ignorance. Nothing substantial will change come 2008, do the math, connect the dots, think outside the box {borders in our case} and observe the patterns of recent history.
Most Amerikan citizens who vote are racist gringos ~White Amerikans~ and that will not change by 2008. No way will gringos ever vote for a Black man or African-American for President and I strongly doubt if the average White man in Amerka ~ racist and sexist by decades of prior social conditioning ~ will vote for a WOMAN for President, esp. one with Hilary's baggage.
The so-called left-wing in Amerika and the Democratic Party should not ever assume the next President will be a Democrat. Constitutionally right now it cannot be Fuhrer Bush, though he has violated the U.S. Constitution and called it a god-damn piece of paper with complete impunity! The next President could very well be another right-wing reactionary Republican!
Recall: I thought Gore would win in 2000, voted for Nader as a Green Party Member and we know the results of that fiasco!
Is will still be the ballot of the bullet. Maybe both. To echo Brother Malcolm X:
"This is why I say it's the ballot or the bullet. It's liberty or it's death. It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody. America Hollywood
A revolution is bloody, but
We know here now that there has already been rivers of bloodshed. There can never ever be a truly bloodless revolution because so much blood has already been shed. We bleed in the fields, in the factoires, in the streets, in the pintas and continue to bleed. So ultimately it is not a question of violence or not, but rather how to comprehend the role of force in history and fit it with flawless exactitude into our general situation varying with very specific settings in terms of the balance of forces at a given historical juncture with shifting priorities and really realizing that SHIFT HAPPENS!
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Venceremos Unidos! We Will Only Win United!
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P.S. Forgive my apparent verbosity. Who will read all this stuff anyway?
Maybe I myself will be called a man man, but I am not afraid of what to me is the inevitable and I will go down fighting!!!
P.S.S.S. Concentration on the coordination of communications, mano!
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Cuba and Venezuela Deepen Alliance with More Accords
Cuba and Venezuela Deepen Alliance with More Accords
Mérida, October 16, 2007 (venezuelanalysis.com)- Cuba and Venezuela announced an increased economic and political alliance yesterday after signing several bilateral economic agreements. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Cuban leader Raul Castro met in Havana on Monday to discuss a number of joint projects as a part of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), and President Chavez proposed a future joining of the two countries into a confederation.
Just as Cuba and Venezuela were the first two countries in the formation of ALBA, the new regional alliance that Nicaragua and Bolivia later joined, the Venezuelan president suggested that Cuba and Venezuela be the first in forming a confederation of nations.
"Now we should be looking ahead, Cuba and Venezuela could perfectly form a confederation of nations in the near future, two countries in one," he proposed.
The proposal comes as the two nations continue to forge a tighter relationship, both economically and politically. President Chavez spent the weekend in Cuba where he paid tribute to the 40th anniversary of the death of Che Guevara, and broadcast his Sunday TV and Radio show Aló Presidente from the island. Chavez said on the show that the two countries are governed by "just one government."
"We are going towards a confederation of Bolivarian nations," he said in reference to the South American independence leader Simon Bolivar who proposed the unification of the region in the 19th century.
"We are going to transform this group of ALBA countries, and more countries, into a confederation, the unification of our people. We are going to transform it into a regional power," he said.
Cuba and Venezuela signed a total of 14 economic agreements yesterday, including a joint oil refinery, the exploration for oil in Cuba and in the Gulf of Mexico, an underwater fiber optic cable connecting the two countries, and several joint companies to undertake other ventures. They also made agreements to study many other prospects for "a growing process of union and integration."
By the end of the year the two governments plan to inaugurate a refinery on the southern coast of Cuba that will initially process 65 thousands barrels of oil per day, and later up to 108 thousand barrels. An old Soviet plant that stopped functioning after the fall of the Soviet Union, the refinery will require an initial investment of 236 million dollars to modernize and expand.
The two countries' state oil companies signed joint contracts to explore oil in western Cuba, as well as in Cuban territory in the Gulf of Mexico. A joint company was created to exploit nickel and other mineral deposits in Cuba, and agreements were signed to study the construction of a petrochemical plant, the production of cement, and the creation of an industry to construct ships for fishing, among other proposals.
President Chavez also proposed the establishment of "aggressive" plans to increase agricultural production in both countries with the goal of making them self-sustaining in their food supply. He emphasized the need to break the countries' dependence on food imports and said that agriculture is the most important sector to develop.
"We should make this our highest priority and concentrate our best researchers, our best scientists on searching for the best land, and accelerate the production of materials, tools, machinery, and fertilizers," he said.
The Cuban leader Raul Castro expressed his satisfaction with the growing alliance between the two countries and applauded the new agreements.
"With the signing of these agreements we make a significant contribution to the growing process of unification and integration between Cuba and Venezuela that began with the Cooperative Agreement signed by both countries on October 30th of 2001," he said.
Raul Castro emphasized that commerce between the two countries has seen a continued increase with a tendency to increased diversification and cooperation. According to the Cuban leader, the two countries are now carrying out 352 joint projects in 28 different areas of economic and social development. He emphasized that these types of projects are now growing to other parts of the region as well with the entrance of Bolivia and Nicaragua to the ALBA block.
Just as Cuba and Venezuela were the first two countries in the formation of ALBA, the new regional alliance that Nicaragua and Bolivia later joined, the Venezuelan president suggested that Cuba and Venezuela be the first in forming a confederation of nations.
"Now we should be looking ahead, Cuba and Venezuela could perfectly form a confederation of nations in the near future, two countries in one," he proposed.
The proposal comes as the two nations continue to forge a tighter relationship, both economically and politically. President Chavez spent the weekend in Cuba where he paid tribute to the 40th anniversary of the death of Che Guevara, and broadcast his Sunday TV and Radio show Aló Presidente from the island. Chavez said on the show that the two countries are governed by "just one government."
"We are going towards a confederation of Bolivarian nations," he said in reference to the South American independence leader Simon Bolivar who proposed the unification of the region in the 19th century.
"We are going to transform this group of ALBA countries, and more countries, into a confederation, the unification of our people. We are going to transform it into a regional power," he said.
Cuba and Venezuela signed a total of 14 economic agreements yesterday, including a joint oil refinery, the exploration for oil in Cuba and in the Gulf of Mexico, an underwater fiber optic cable connecting the two countries, and several joint companies to undertake other ventures. They also made agreements to study many other prospects for "a growing process of union and integration."
By the end of the year the two governments plan to inaugurate a refinery on the southern coast of Cuba that will initially process 65 thousands barrels of oil per day, and later up to 108 thousand barrels. An old Soviet plant that stopped functioning after the fall of the Soviet Union, the refinery will require an initial investment of 236 million dollars to modernize and expand.
The two countries' state oil companies signed joint contracts to explore oil in western Cuba, as well as in Cuban territory in the Gulf of Mexico. A joint company was created to exploit nickel and other mineral deposits in Cuba, and agreements were signed to study the construction of a petrochemical plant, the production of cement, and the creation of an industry to construct ships for fishing, among other proposals.
President Chavez also proposed the establishment of "aggressive" plans to increase agricultural production in both countries with the goal of making them self-sustaining in their food supply. He emphasized the need to break the countries' dependence on food imports and said that agriculture is the most important sector to develop.
"We should make this our highest priority and concentrate our best researchers, our best scientists on searching for the best land, and accelerate the production of materials, tools, machinery, and fertilizers," he said.
The Cuban leader Raul Castro expressed his satisfaction with the growing alliance between the two countries and applauded the new agreements.
"With the signing of these agreements we make a significant contribution to the growing process of unification and integration between Cuba and Venezuela that began with the Cooperative Agreement signed by both countries on October 30th of 2001," he said.
Raul Castro emphasized that commerce between the two countries has seen a continued increase with a tendency to increased diversification and cooperation. According to the Cuban leader, the two countries are now carrying out 352 joint projects in 28 different areas of economic and social development. He emphasized that these types of projects are now growing to other parts of the region as well with the entrance of Bolivia and Nicaragua to the ALBA block.
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