Advise Obama No Policy of Escalation in Afghanistan! ~ Rosalio Urias Munoz

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Advise Obama No Policy of Escalation in Afghanistan!

To members of Latinos For Peace

Rosalio Urias Munoz October 25 at 1:36pm Reply

President Obama is reviewing our policy in Afghanistan, Gen MacChrystal wants to excalate policy to one of "counter insurgency" meaning towards long term occupation and nation building, targetting and Taliban as much or more than defeating Al Queda. Republicans are pushing to send troops in now with the cry to support our troops with more troops. MacChrystal wants a change from where Obama campaigned last year. Latinos for Peace is telling Obama we do not want more troops in Afghanistan.

We need to strongly counter the right wing push for escalation. Obama needs to hear our peace message loud and clear. Last week Rep Nydia Velazquez, chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus became a cosponsor of HR3699 not to send more troops to Afghanistan. This weekend at a townhall in his District Rep. Xavier Becerra, vice chair of the Democratic caucus spoke out against any rush to send more troops, raising concerns about the Afghanistan governments stability, the level of international support, the budgetary costs, and more.

We have a peace majority in our country, especially in lower income communities of color whose youth are heavily at risk, and who want and need much greater domestic funding priorities. We cannot be a silent majority. We need, to speak out and raise our concerns in concerted ways. Latinos for Peace helps make a differnce. We have 218 members on Facebook, lets continue to build. We can make a difference. Here is our latest list of facebook members.

Latinos For Peace
Latinos For Peace today calls for no escalation of the war in Afghanistan and for expedited withdrawal of US troops from Iraq and Afghanistan as well as an end to the coup government in Honduras.

Latinos For Peace was started in 2005 by Latino Peace Activists to mobilize Latinos to call for an end to the war and occupation of Iraq, oppose the Bush preemptive war policies, and call for reducing funds for militarism for human needs at home and abroad.

It is dedicated to raising consciousness in our communities about peace issues and taking demonstrative, legislative and electoral action in our communities and in coalition with peace, civil right, labor, environmental and other peoples groups to these ends

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Or contact: chalio.Munoz@yahoo.com

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Editorial: Knowing when to leave in Latin America VIA LA Times

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Editorial: Knowing when to leave in Latin America

Leaders who circumvent term limits undermine the region's democratic progress.

October 26, 2009

As Latin America's military dictatorships fell one by one in the late 20th century, incipient democracies across the region sought to stamp out caudillo caudillo culture with constitutions that limited their newly elected leaders to one term in office. No more strongmen ruling in perpetuity. So powerful was the no-reelection sentiment that the Honduran Constitution even included a clause saying that its single, four-year presidential term limit could not be amended in the future.

But as democracies took root and civilian governments tried to implement ambitious economic and political reforms, they began to feel constrained by term limits. Soon,elected leaders from right to left sought to extend their mandates. Driven by ego and arrogance as well as ideology, some pursued the changes legitimately through the legislature. At least that was the case when the leaders of Peru, Argentina and Brazil sought second terms in the 1990s.

Problems arose, however, when Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori and Argentine President Carlos Menem still weren't satisfied and, despite charges of corruption, sought third terms. Other leaders went even further, using and abusing the tools of democracy to eliminate term limits altogether. That would include Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who lost one referendum to extend his term before winning passage of a second in February, and Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, whose allies on the Supreme Court lifted a ban on reelection last week, raising fears that Nicaragua might return to the kind of entrenched power that Ortega took up arms to defeat in 1979.

Just how long is too long for a president to serve? It's up to each nation to decide for itself, of course, and the answers vary widely across Latin America. Mexico, which fought a bloody revolution to end the 35-year dictatorship of President Porfirio Diaz, has since limited its leader to a single six-year term. El Salvador has a five-year term without reelection; Chile has one four-year term. Like Brazil and Argentina, Bolivia and Ecuador changed their constitutions to allow for two four-year terms. Whether four years or eight, all of these options seem reasonable.

But while we don't believe in one-size-fits-all democracy, we do believe in alternating governments. The longer a single party stays in power, the more likely it is to take control of the courts, electoral institutions and the national purse strings, making it harder for opposition parties to compete. This is why the move to lift term limits has been so emotional in the region, leading to everything from a fistfight among legislators in Argentina when Menem sought to change the law in 1993 to a civilian-military coup against Honduran President Manuel Zelaya over the issue in June.

Even the most popular leaders make mistakes, run out of ideas and curb appeal, and eventually lose fair elections. But those who manage to remain popular longer than usual also should leave office on time, or they risk undermining the political system.

In Colombia, President Alvaro Uribe has been toying with a national referendum that would permit him to seek a third term in 2010, an election he would likely win. Most Colombians believe the conservative leader has successfully fought back against leftist guerrillas and drug traffickers, but 12 years is still too long for the good of democracy. He would do better to leave while he is still a hero to his supporters, and give others a chance.

The same is true for Chavez, Venezuela's leftist leader, who has vowed to stay in office for years to come to complete what he calls his Bolivarian Revolution on behalf of the poor. Besides holding the presidency, he controls the legislature and courts, wields influence over the media and doesn't tolerate dissent.

This is exactly what the political elites in Honduras feared. Zelaya ignored the will of Congress and the Supreme Court in pursuing a referendum on whether Hondurans favored a special assembly to rewrite the country's constitution. He hadn't specifically raised the question of term limits, and likely couldn't have made a change before the end of his own presidency, although many speculated that this was what he intended to do. But Zelaya was close to Chavez, and his opponents took the preemptive step of ousting him, a move deemed illegal by the international community.

Ortega took a new approach to extending his rule in Nicaragua last week. He circumvented the National Assembly, which his Sandinista party does not control, and a national vote, which he might have lost. Instead, he took his petition to lift a ban on consecutive terms to six pro-Sandinista judges who make up the constitutional branch of the Nicaraguan Supreme Court. They agreed with his argument that the prohibition on a second term violated his rights. His critics accuse him of using the levers of government to perpetuate his own power.

A president should lead the government, not use it to his own ends. Latin America suffered long and fought hard to throw off its repressive regimes. Too much power should not be concentrated in the hands of one leader, regardless of ideology, or any leader who overstays his welcome. Latin Americans have wonderful role models in Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, who are sticking to their term limits despite their popularity. The others should look admiringly at this example and follow suit.

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VIA YouTube: We are Mayas no Latinos nor Hispanos: teacher talks to Janet Murguia of NCLR

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We are Mayas no Latinos nor Hispanos: teacher talks to Janet Murguia of NCLR

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Immigrant Rights Groups Blast Census Plan + Comment

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Immigrant Rights Groups Blast Census Plan

Activists say it's unconstitutional, but some say it's needed

By JACQUES SPITZER

Updated 8:45 AM PDT, Sat, Oct 24, 2009

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A plan that would require the U.S. Census to ask people whether they are in the country illegally has sparked protest from local Latino rights activists.

The North County Times reports that the plan is contained in an amendment to a funding bill for the 2010 census. It was proposed by Senators David Vitter, R-La., and Bob Bennett, R-Utah, and could be taken up by the Senate as soon as next week.

Civil and immigrant rights groups said the amendment violates the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which requires that all people be counted for the purpose of reapportionment.

Rep. Brian Bilbray, R-Solana Beach, said he supports the proposal.

"Historically, we've asked about citizenship on the long form of the census questionnaire," Bilbray told the paper. "There's no reason we can't be asking in the short form."

The census is taken every 10 years and counts every person living in the country, but it has never asked whether a person is in the country legally or not.

Vitter has said that undocumented immigrants living in the country distort political districts in favor of states with large immigrant populations, such as California, according to the paper.

Immigrant and civil rights advocates say the measure is a ploy to scare immigrants from participating in the census and some immigrant rights groups might call on Latinos to boycott the 2010 census.

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First Published: Oct 24, 2009 8:39 AM PDT

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Comment: In the last analysis, a democratic socialist revolution is the ultimate solution! Do not be afraid of the 's' word!!!!!

We should continue to strive and struggle for relevant reforms within the context of the present U.S. Power Structure, but let us not be deceived by any illusions. Mere reforms will never ever suffice, not if it excludes a real transformation of property relations between the 'haves' and the 'have-nots'.

Recall John F.Kennedy statement, (American 35th US President (1961-63), 1917-1963)

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable."

All of us here now inside the United States should actively participate in the upcoming U.S. Census, including Chicanos, Latinos and all of La Raza inside Aztlan. It is the fascist-imperialist corporate state that creates its own gravediggers, manufactures outlaws, turns hard-working law-biding human beings into so-called illegal aliens.

Latinos are now the largest so-called minority inside the United States with an estimated an odd fifty-one (51) million people, 

Peta51 VIA U.S. Census Bureau=Hispanic Population in the United States in Millions!1970-2050~ http://tinyurl.com/c4y95d

We need to come together, create disciplined, directed and determined cadres of warriors to provide vanguard leadership based upon our common survival needs and social dreams. We must mobilize millions upon millions of people with a multi-social approach: all peoples, all cultures, all languages, all ethnic groups! We are all human beings!

Sheds any remnants of racism, sexism, nationalism and all forms of reactionary divisions that blind us to the urgent need for our common unity! Join survival group! Be prepared! Wake up the sleepy ones!

Education for Liberation! Venceremos Unidos!

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