ms_noemi)Do you have Monday off work/school? Why not take the time to research colonialism? The indigenous peoples slaughter ? Decolonization of the mind. Research slave trading in the Americas.
The unlearning starts now, as I try to "unlearn" what the school is teaching my 6 yr old about the "holiday."
breezie)Collapsing from pesticide poisoning is not a 'personal problem.'
Imagine being a woman poisoned by pesticides to the point of getting dizzy and weak and even passing out. Then imagine the company doctor telling you and another woman who also became ill from the spraying that what you have is a "personal problem"—a vaginal infection. What if he said that you are free to see your own doctor, but only at your own expense?
This is what happened at Giumarra vineyards--America's largest table grape company--when workers were hit by pesticides sprayed from 50 feet away. It is another reason why it is so important for these grape workers to be protected by a United Farm Workers contract. Please donate to help us put an end to blatant bullying by this giant table grape company.
This is Celia Roque’s story. She is a seven-year employee of Giumarra vineyards. On June 14, Celia was working with a crew of 18 vineyard workers.
"It was a windy day. The company was spraying pesticides in the vineyards about fifty feet away from us workers. I started to feel dizzy and weak. I got a cough attack. After that I passed out. My son, Ruben Celio, was calling me asking me if I was OK, but I couldn’t answer as I was too weak. I was taken by an ambulance to the hospital. At the hospital they did a blood test, gave me an injection and put on a respirator mask to help me with me breathing. After a few hours I went home. At around 8:00 pm, I begin to feel sick again so my family took me to the Kern Memorial Hospital. There all they did was take x-rays of my chest and send me home.
The following day, a representative of the company named Mario came over my home to take me to the company doctor so that I could get a check up. When I got there, the doctor took a blood sample and said that I had a vaginal infection. That it was a personal problem.
My family was disappointed that the company doctor was trying to make it seem like it was a personal problem and so was I because I knew that whatever they were spraying had an effect on my health.
I know that I need help, and I’m glad that the UFW is helping me. They found a workers compensation lawyer to take care of my case. The lawyer also had to send me to see a doctor, where he determined that I had something wrong with lungs and that it had something to do with the fumes of the pesticides. I am so thankful that I have the representation of the UFW."
We invite you to give these farm workers the chance to work with respect and dignity through a UFW contract. Please help us raise funds to fight Giumarra vineyards and give these workers the protection and security they deserve.
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ms_noemi)Emma Tenayuca
In 1937 she protested the beatings of migrants by border patrol. 70 years later, we still protest.
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Legislative Score Card on Anti-Immigrant Bills
April 21, 2006
Box Score for 42 Anti-immigrant Bills Introduced this Legislative Session
ALIVE: (9) Bill is still active having at minimum passed the body in which it was introduced and having had recent hearings in the other body.
HELD: (26) Lack of action indicates that the Leadership has decided not to move the bill at this time.
KILLED: (7) Before a Committee or on the floor, the bill was defeated, or the Governor vetoed the bill.
PASSED AND SIGNED: None
Worst Bills That Are Still Alive:
HB2582 Now: immigration enforcement mission; security council (Pearce) Authorizes peace officers to investigate, detain, and remove aliens in the U.S.; creates an 11-member Border Security Council that makes grants from a newly-created Border Security Fund to political subdivisions to deal with immigration issues; appropriates $50 million from the general fund. (Passed House, Passed Senate Judiciary on 3/27/06, Passed Senate Appropriations on 4/18/06.)
HB2577 Now: immigration policy, forgery; employment, licensing (Pearce) Requires employers to verify the status of all employees through the federal SAVE program; appropriates $100,000; allows for a bounty if one reports an undocumented person; requires employers to fire any undocumented person before U.S. citizens; revokes business licenses on the third offense; requires employers to check status of contracted employees; prohibits businesses from deducting compensation paid to undocumented.
(Passed House,Passed Senate Commerce on 3/29/06, Passed Senate Appropriations on 4/19/06 with a strike everything amendment, Passed Senate Rules on 4/19/06.)
SCR1030 verifiable and secure identification (Martin)
Places on the November ballot the question of prohibiting cities and towns from accepting the Matricula Consular as a valid form of identification.
(Passed Senate, Withdrawn from House Commerce, Passed House Appropriations P on 3/29/06)
SCR1031 public programs; citizens (Martin)
Places on the November ballot: prohibiting undocumented persons from taking adult education classes and receiving child care assistance. Denies in-state student status to many undocumented students.
(Passed Senate, Passed House Education and Appropriations P on 3/29/06)
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Mexican Official Calls Fence Plan 'Stupid' By WILL WEISSERT, Associated Press Writer
Mon Dec 19, 9:08 PM ET
MEXICO CITY - Mexico's foreign secretary Monday leveled his country's sharpest criticism yet at U.S. proposal for a fence along parts of its southern border, condemning it as "stupid" and "underhanded."
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In a radio interview, Luis Ernesto Derbez said U.S. legislators who approved the bill were turning a blind eye to the contributions millions of migrants from Mexico and elsewhere make to America's economy and culture.
"It's a law that looks underhanded to everybody ... stupid," Derbez said.
On Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 239-182 in favor of an immigration enforcement bill, which includes a proposal to build 700 miles of border fencing along parts of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
Under the measure, soldiers and police would help stop people sneaking across, and employers would have to check the legal status of their workers.
Derbez said he was confident the bill would not make it past the U.S. Senate, which he said was not as easily swayed as the House.
Reacting Sunday to the bill's approval, Mexican President Vicente Fox said "this wall is shameful," and called the plan hypocritical for a country made up of immigrants.
Fox has for years called for an immigration agreement with Washington granting some form of legal status to Mexicans who sneak into U.S. territory in search of work.
President Bush proposed a new guest worker program with three-year work visas, but lawmakers refused to include the initiative in the immigration bill passed Friday.
Authorities estimate there are about 11 million undocumented migrants in the United States, about half of them Mexican.
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November 02, 2005
New Immigration Reform Bills
Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) introduced an immigration reform package on October 25th that addresses the various shortcomings of the current immigration system. The package includes four bills that deal with different areas of immigration, including enforcement and national security, verification of employment authorization, future guest workers, and earned legalization plus backlog reduction.
Over the past few months, we have seen several bills introduced by senators, some of them bi-partisan as in the case of the McCain/Kennedy bill, or partisan as in the case of the Cornyn-Kyl bill and the Tancredo bill. All the bills make suggestions on how to deal with the guest worker program, family reunification, immigration enforcement, and other aspects of immigration and national security, roughly following the guidelines for immigration reform established by the Bush administration.
With all these bills on the table, immigration issues will most likely be a regular subject in the media, and according to immigration professionals, the next few months promise to be among the most significant in U.S. immigration history.
Congress:
S.1823 'A bill to empower States and local governments to prosecute illegal aliens and to authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a pilot Volunteer Border Marshal Program.'
S.1823 A bill to empower States and local governments to prosecute illegal aliens and to authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a pilot Volunteer Border Marshal Program
S.1438 'A bill to provide for immigration reform.'
S.359 'A bill to provide for the adjustment of status of certain foreign agricultural workers, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reform the H-2A worker program under that Act, to provide a stable, legal agricultural workforce, to extend basic legal protections and better working conditions to more workers, and for other purposes.'
H.R.4038 'To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to improve enforcement of restrictions on employment in the United States of unauthorized aliens.'
H.R.4032 'To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to remove the discretion of the Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to expedited removal under section 235(b)(1)(A)(iii)(I) of such Act and to amend the Truth in Lending Act to prohibit issuance of residential mortgages to illegal aliens.'
H.R.4032 'To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to remove the discretion of the Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to expedited removal under section 235(b)(1)(A)(iii)(I) of such Act and to amend the Truth in Lending Act to prohibit issuance of residential mortgages to illegal aliens.'
H.R.3938 'To provide for comprehensive immigration reform.'
H.R.3776 'To improve sharing of immigration information among Federal, State, and local law enforcement officials, to improve State and local enforcement of immigration laws, and for other purposes.'
H.R.3700 'To reform immigration to serve the national interest.'
H.R.3333 'To enhance border enforcement, improve homeland security, remove incentives for illegal immigration, and establish a guest worker program.'
H.R.3262 'To modify the civil money penalties incurred for unlawful employment of aliens.'
H.R.2330 Amnesty For Illegal Aliens
H.R.1986 'To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Defense to assign members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, under certain circumstances and subject to certain conditions, to assist the Department of Homeland Security in the performance of border protection functions.'
H.R.1438 'To amend title II of the Social Security Act to exclude from creditable wages and self-employment income wages earned for services by aliens illegally performed in the United States and self-employment income derived from a trade or business illegally conducted in the United States.'
H.R.1219 'To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the diversity immigrant program.'
H.R.925 'To prohibit a Federal agency from accepting a form of individual identification issued by a foreign government, except a passport that is accepted on the date of enactment.'
H.R.884 'To provide for the adjustment of status of certain foreign agricultural workers, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reform the H-2A worker program under that Act, to provide a stable, legal agricultural workforce, to extend basic legal protections and better working conditions to more workers, and for other purposes.'
H.R.698 'To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to deny citizenship at birth to children born in the United States of parents who are not citizens or permanent resident aliens.'
H.R.688 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to bar the admission, and facilitate the removal, of alien terrorists and their supporters and fundraisers, to secure our borders against... (Introduced in House)
H.R.245 'To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to the record of admission for permanent residence in the case of certain aliens.'
H.R.98 'To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to enforce restrictions on employment in the United States of unauthorized aliens through the use of improved Social Security cards and an Employment Eligibility Database, and for other purposes.'
H.R.19 'To require employers to conduct employment eligibility verification.'
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2 from Arizona support limit on citizenship
Arizona Republic
Nov. 8, 2005 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON -Arizona Reps. John Shadegg and J.D. Hayworth, both Republicans, are among 49 members of the 435-seat House so far to sign on as co-sponsors of a House bill to deny automatic citizenship to children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants.
The bill, HR 698, was introduced Feb. 9 by Rep. Nathan Deal, R-Ga., and is being considered by a subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Claims, which recently held a hearing on the issue.
Hayworth has incorporated the same idea into his own comprehensive immigration reform bill, HR 3938, introduced on Sept. 29.
Such a move is depicted as a way to eliminate one of the incentives for illegal immigration. But the constitutionality of attempts to do so are under debate.
The 14th Amendment says, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States."
Rep. Jeff Flake, another Arizona Republican who says he supports ending so-called "birthright citizenship," has not signed on as a co- sponsor of Deal's bill.
"He's still studying the best way to move forward with this, and he may eventually get behind Mr. Deal's bill or may offer a bill of his own," according to a statement released by Flake's office on Monday.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Oct 26, 2005
STATEMENT OF JANET MURGUIA, NCLR PRESIDENT AND CEO, ON THE PASSING OF CONGRESSMAN EDWARD ROYBAL
Washington, DC – It is a profoundly sad day for civil rights advocates as we mourn the passing of two civil rights pioneers. Both Rosa Parks and Congressman Edward Roybal embodied the notion that a single courageous person can change the course of history.
Congressman Roybal began his career working to improve the health status of Hispanics, a concern and passion he sustained throughout his career. He served with distinction in World War II. Mirroring the experience of luminaries such as Dr. Hector P. Garcia who founded the American GI Forum in Texas, Roybal was deeply frustrated by what he saw when returned home from the war. Despite the heroism displayed by Mexican American soldiers, the community was still being subjected to widespread discrimination and that, for all too many, the American Dream was still out of reach.
It was this concern and commitment to a better life for his community that fueled his political career. At just 30, he ran for the Los Angeles City Council in 1947. Although he lost that campaign, the traits synonymous with his life and career emerged - his tenacity, doggedness, legendary work ethic, and extraordinary ability to organize people and communities - and propelled him, just two years later, to become the first Mexican American in the 20th Century to serve on the Los Angeles City Council.
Thirteen years later, he made history again, becoming the first Mexican American member of Congress from California since 1879. As only one of a handful of Hispanic members of Congress at the time, Roybal became a champion not only for the Hispanic community but also for the elderly, the poor, and the disabled. It is nearly impossible to overstate Congressman Roybal's record of service on behalf of Hispanics and the impact he had during his congressional career.
In 1967, he authored the first bilingual education bill. In 1968, he passed legislation to create a Cabinet-level office for Hispanic concerns. Also that year, he sponsored legislation to establish National Hispanic Heritage Week, which later became National Hispanic Heritage Month. In 1973, he introduced legislation to provide bilingual assistance to those in the court system, a major step toward improving the administration of justice for Latino defendants. He was a leading proponent of the language assistance provisions of the Voting Rights Act enacted in 1975. He helped make sure Hispanics were counted in the Census, and in other official government statistics. He was a founder of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) in 1976 and the founder of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) in 1981. And as CHC Chair in the early 1980s, he led the fight against the Simpson-Mazzoli immigration bill, a fight which ultimately shaped immigration reform for a generation.
During his 30 years in Congress, he rose to a level of power equaled by few of his colleagues. He was one of the thirteen "cardinals," Appropriations Subcommittee Chairs, who essentially controlled America's purse strings. As a member of the Appropriations Committee, he worked to enact age discrimination laws and strengthen fair housing statutes. He helped save programs such as Meals on Wheels and programs serving veterans when extensive budget cuts were being made in the 1980s.
Among his most extraordinary qualities was his willingness and ability to stand up for what he believed in, even if it meant standing alone. He was unimpressed by "popularity," unafraid of criticism, unyielding to threats, and unbowed by what appeared to be insurmountable obstacles. Had he not championed these causes, often at expense to his own career, the world would be a very different, and less hospitable, place for Hispanic Americans.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family, his wife Lucille, his daughter Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard, and his beloved children and grandchildren. We will miss him dearly and we will never forget.
Para restaurar el santidad de Vida... Nihilism, or a Castanedan removal of preconception, leads to cosmic idealism...naturalism, eugenesia, nationalism, and meritocracy. The core philosophy of Modern society -- materialist individualism/humanism -- is corrupt by the nature of human individual selfishness, thus the SMN is against all utilitarian, liberal, capitalist societies and overpopulation / environmental destruction.