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Immigrant Rights
Organizing for the Rights of Filipino Women
Tina Shauf is a community organizer and youth worker. She was born in the Philippines and raised in Los Angeles county. She is currently the Chair of Babae (meaning "woman" in Tagalog), a grassroots volunteer-based organization of Filipina women in San Francisco dedicated to supporting and empowering Pinays through critical education, leadership development, and community building. Shauf is also an active member and representative of the General Assembly Binding Women for Reforms, Integrity, Education, Leadership and Action (GABRIELA-USA), a grassroots-based alliance of more than 200 organizations, institutions, and programs of women all over the Philippines seeking to wage a struggle for the liberation of all oppressed Filipino women and Filipino people in general. GABRIELA-USA is the first overseas chapter of the Philippine-based organization, extending the Filipino women's mass movement to the United States.
Christine Joy Ferrer: What issues are Babae and GABRIELA-USA currently prioritizing? And how do they impact low-income and communities of color where you live—especially Filipina women?
Tina Shauf: We're taking on issues in the Filipino community, for women particularly, through the Voices of Women versus Violence Against Women (iVOW) campaign. Under the GABRIELA framework, Violence Against Women is defined as seven different things, including economic exploitation, political repression, sexual abuse, and domestic violence. So it's multifaceted.
Also, Babae is co-sponsoring the Care Project at the Filipino Community Center in San Francisco where a group of caregivers comes together to understand better the conditions under which caregivers work. All of them are immigrants; they've left the Philippines because they had to support their families.
Four thousand people a day leave the Philippines— 70 percent are women. A lot of the jobs they take on are domestic work, caregiving. In a room full of Filipinos, if you ask, "How many of you know a caregiver or are related to a caregiver?" most would probably raise their hand. So we see a need to take this on.
We Can Labor With Love
Immigrant Women Inspire New Forms for Organizing
The United States remains a prevalent destination for 52 percent of the world's migrants.[1] A majority of these migrants are women[2] from Mexico, India, China, and the Philippines[3] and many bring with them valuable knowledge gained from popular movements in their home countries. In the United States, they soon confront a dilemma that has challenged leftist organizers doing mass-based organizing who have built membership bases within tax-exempt nonprofit corporations whose political scope is limited by law. Migrant women have been pointing toward new solutions to the challenge and laying the groundwork we need to seriously confront the global economic interests preventing us from building a society that meets all of our needs.
One such woman is domestic worker and organizer Bernadette Herrera, who is on a mission to build a grassroots, all volunteer, membership organization of Filipino domestic workers and caregivers in San Francisco.
Favianna Rodriguez
Women of Color in the Movement
Excerpt from an interview with Favianna Rodriguez
Favianna Rodriguez (favianna.com) is a celebrated printmaker and digital artist based in Oakland, California. Her composites, created using high-contrast colors and vivid figures reflect literal and imaginative migration, global community, and interdependence.
As a young Latina I felt invisible. I am the daughter of immigrants and grew up in communities of color most of my life. I felt that my immigrant family, our communities were invisible. Yet, we all carried the brunt of what was happening to the economy in the country and even throughout the world. We were experiencing the effects of injustices in our own community. The injustices I saw as a child, the racism that I experienced via the media or the school curriculum, the xenophobia directed at my parents... angered me in a way that I didn't have words for. Art became a way for me to talk about those experiences, reframe them, and do something positive. Making art was a way to have a voice and an empowering way to fight back, instead of acting out on my internalized oppression.
Reflections of Activistas
We Are the Ones We've Been Waiting For
Activistas from the New Majority
At the Empowering Women of Color conference in March this year, I was moved to hear Grace Lee Boggs, in an open dialogue with Angela Davis, say that we must re-imagine everything; change how we think, what we do, to re-invent our society and institutions in order for revolution to happen. And as I listened to female MC and rapper Rocky Rivera give short glimpses into the revolutionary lives of three iconic women activists—Gabriela Silang, Dolores Huerta, and Angela Davis—in the 16 bars of "Heart," I wondered who would be our next movement builders.
Viridiana Martinez
North Carolina Dream Team
By Christine Joy Ferrer
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Viridiana Martinez, 25—undocumented, unafraid and unashamed. Martinez is co-founder of the North Carolina Dream Team and a young community organizer and activist for immigrant rights. She only discovered her illegal status after graduating from high school. Born in Mexico and raised in a little town in North Carolina called Sanford, she has lived in the United States since the age of seven, when her parents immigrated. The NC DREAM Team is an organization composed of undocumented immigrant youth and allies, dedicated to the creation of a sustainable, community-led immigrant rights movement in North Carolina and to helping undocumented youth recognize their individual and collective power to activate their communities.
Christine Joy Ferrer: What was it like growing up as a young, undocumented Latina in the South and how has your identity influenced your work?
Immigration and Mass Incarceration
In July 2011, Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) was arrested during a demonstration in Washington, DC, to protest President Obama's refusal to use his executive powers to halt deportations of the undocumented. Gutierrez' arrest came only two days after Obama had addressed a conference of the National Council of La Raza, reminding attendees that he was bound to "uphold the laws on the books," conveniently forgetting the history of the civil rights struggle that had made his presidency possible.
With over 392,000 deportations in 2010, more than in any of the Bush years, many activists fear a repeat of the notorious "Repatriation" campaign of the 1930s and the infamous Operation Wetback of 1954, both of which resulted in the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Latinos. But a few things are different this time around.
Redistricting 2011: Latinos Want Stronger Voice Based on Numbers
Latinos throughout the nation eagerly anticipated the 2011 redistricting cycle. Aware that their numbers had increased dramatically during the last decade, they hoped that redistricting would provide a crucial opportunity to ensure fairer representation for them and give them a stronger voice in the nation's democracy.
The release of 2010 Census data not only confirmed the increase in Latino population since 2000, it also revealed that Latinos had fueled overall population growth in many states. Gains in Congressional seats owing to reapportionment could be directly linked to gains in the Latino population. Even among states that did not gain seats, the Latino explosion either helped retain existing seats or prevented greater losses. (See Table 1).
Voter Rights Act Invoked to Ensure Fairness
The Latino community approached the 2011 redistricting fully aware that they may need to enforce compliance with one of the nation's most powerful protections against discriminatory electoral practices, i.e. the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), enacted by Congress during the civil rights era. Initially, the Act primarily protected African Americans from discrimination in voting, forbidding such practices as literacy requirements and poll taxes. Section 2 of the VRA, however, protects underrepresented populations from discriminatory voting and election practices nationwide. And Section 5 mandates that states with a history of discrimination against underrepresented groups submit their redistricting plans to either the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) or a federal district court for "preclearance." The DOJ or the courts can block the redistricting if it diminishes electoral opportunities for underrepresented voters
Undocumented Immigrants Stand up to Chipotle
In December 2010, 600 workers at the Chipotle fast food chain in Minnesota were fired. Their crime? Working. In the past two years, thousands of others have been fired for the same offense: 2000 women at a sewing factory in Los Angeles, 500 apple pickers in eastern Washington, and several hundred janitors in Minnesota and California, to name just a few instances. Every one of them is a victim of the Obama administration's "softer" immigration enforcement strategy.
The logic is brutal: Make it impossible for the 12 million undocumented U.S. residents to earn a living and send money to their families, and they will deport themselves. What's more, their families will not be tempted to join them in the U.S. because they will not get jobs.
Federal Raids Against Immigrants on the Rise
While the criminalization of undocumented people in Arizona continues to draw headlines, the actual punishment of workers because of their immigration status has become an increasingly bitter fact of life across the country. The number of workplace raids carried out by the Obama administration is staggering. Tens, maybe even hundreds of thousands of workers have been fired for not having papers. According to public records obtained by Syracuse University, the latest available data from the Justice Department show that criminal immigration enforcement by the two largest investigative agencies within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has increased to levels comparable to the highest seen during the Bush Administration.[1]
In a recent action the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) pressured one of San Francisco's major building service companies, ABM, into firing hundreds of its own workers. Some 475 janitors have been told that unless they can show legal immigration status, they will lose their jobs in the near future.
Rinku Sen: Organizing for Racial Justice
Rinku Sen is the president and executive director of the Applied Research Center (ARC) and publisher of ColorLines magazine. A leading figure in the racial justice movement, Rinku has positioned ARC as the home for media and activism on racial justice. She has extensive practical experience on the ground, with expertise in race, feminism, immigration, and economic justice. Over the course of her career, Rinku has woven together journalism and organizing to further social change. She also has significant experience in philanthropy, as vice chair of the Schott Foundation for Public Education, and Advisory Committee member of the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity. Previously, she was the co-director of the Center for Third World Organizing.


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Aaron Rose' Zine
January 18, 2009 by james oliver , Posted in Culture, Tagged
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Aaron Rose is currently working on a zine that will review the last year, and by the looks of it not only is there some interesting subjects but the quality of imagery is exceptional. Here is the first look, and you can be sure to hear a lot more before the zine makes its way into production.
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BLOG: NHS Heroes and staff awards (From Wandsworth Guardian)
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3:30pm Monday 20th August 2012 in News
NHS Heroes is a new national award scheme that recognises the efforts of staff whose expertise, passion for care, concern and everyday kindness touches the lives of patients and their families in hospital and community services.
People whose day-to-day work has changed, enhanced or even saved a life dear to them.
There are a vast number of amazing people at St George's Healthcare who are doing great things every single day. These awards are a great opportunity to recognise those people.
The awards are open to all staff working in the NHS, whether they are clinical or not, and nominations can be submitted until mid-September on the NHS Heroes website www.nhsheroes.com.
At St George's we have a set of values that set out the standards of behaviour we expect from all our staff - excellent, kind, responsible, respectful.
Staff nominate their colleagues who they feel best embody these behaviours and deserve recognition for a Living Our Values Award, with a team and individual award for each value.
Over the last year awards have been given to staff in a diverse range of services, including the sewing room, mortuary and central booking service.
These winners were amongst the lucky few who got a sneak preview of the Olympic games opening ceremony.
Every NHS trust in London was given tickets for the dress rehearsal, and there were no more deserving recipients than our Living Our Values Award winners.
Last week Sue Lowndes, advanced nurse practitioner at St George's, was voted 'Breast Care Nurse of the Year 2011' by patients and customers of a specialist women's clothing company.
International Nurses' Day was celebrated at St George's Healthcare on Friday 11th May with the trust's annual Nurse of the Year awards.
Awards presented include Nurse of the Year, Midwife of the Year, Healthcare Assistant of the Year and Mentor of the Year. All award nominations were put forward by trust colleagues for their outstanding contribution over the last year.
The 'Auntie Lucy' award, a nursing education award of up to £1,000 in memory of former St George's Healthcare employee Lucy Kpobie, was also presented at this ceremony.
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1. | Conservative Hate Culture | ||
A faction within the American Conservatism that listens to rigt wing Radio and television pundints. Unlike most right wing tv/radio listeners these conservatives are motivated by political radio to epxpress hate and intolernace against those who disagree with them.
The Right wing Television/radio pundents that advocated this culture of hate use God's and Jesus's names to justify oppression, ignorance, and spread falsehoods as if they were facts. After Bob started listening to radio/tv shows that promoted the Conservative Hate Culture, he started to be less tolerant of other peoples point of views.


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Will asks what happened to Ken Tanaka. Instead of admitting that his dramatic possibilities had been exhausted once his romance with Emma was well and truly over, Figgins just tells Will that he had a nervous breakdown. Figgins tells them that if the football team starts drawing in alumni donations, he'll be able to restore money to Glee Club and the Cheerios. And since Ms. Beiste has just won five consecutive All-Missouri Conference titles, she stands a good chance of turning our Lima losers around. Sue gets into Beiste's face, starts by telling her that a female football coach, like a male nurse, is a sin against nature, and then tells her that nobody comes into Sue's house and steals from her. And that's when Beiste gets, um, beastly. She refers to herself in the third-person as "the Panther," and tells Sue to back on up out of her grill. Beiste: "You're all coffee and no omelet." Sue, with a twitch in one eye: "That doesn't make any sense." Will, in his offensively non-offensive way, asks the Panther to sympathize with them, since their budgets are being cut. He agrees with her that it's ridiculous that the Cheerios have a bigger budget than the football team they're supposed to be cheering for, but thinks she should show some pity for his tiny little band of misfit toys. But the Panther has no sympathy for losers, telling him that a losing club that wants more money "is a steer with six teats and no oink." And then she oinks in Sue's face. I think I just fell in love.
Glee Club. Will starts to read some of the negative comments from Jewfro's blog [dailyjewfro.com?], but the kids stop him. They don't care if everyone hates them, because they're now a family. But Will points out that since Matt Rutherford left, they need to recruit at least one new member to be able to compete. Wait, Matt who? Oh, he means Butt Munch! Come on, show, you can't just start making up new names for characters like that. But sure enough, now that I look I see that we're missing one black face. Will tells the kids, "We have to go from a small rebel force to a giant wall of sound." Rachel agrees, reminding them that she was the only one to see Vocal Adrenaline perform at Regionals (since everyone else went to the hospital for the fastest delivery in history), and that New Directions is going to need more voices to beat them. Finn stands up next to Rachel, telling everyone, "Yeah, I'm with Rachel on this one." Brittany: "Gross." Hee. Will tells the kids that they need to show the school how cool New Directions can be with a song that was actually written and/or recorded sometime in the last five years.


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It was "Murder Most Fowl," an interactive murder mystery on Saturday night, Feb. 23 at the Rebeca Sosa Theater in the Miami Springs Community Center.
Organized as a fundraiser by the Pelican Playhouse, Miami Springs' resident theatre group, 80 people paid $35 each for dinner and a show, and 15 volunteered to play parts as the mystery unfolded. Two were assigned parts as detectives and others played, friends, suspects and informers.
The program was presented by Barbara Fox, who moderated the program as Chrystal Ellington, a newspaper reporter.
"I write, produce, direct and act in murder mystery plays," Fox said. "As I read the play, audience members read their parts in character from scripts. Then we take a 15-minute break to let everyone consult with each other and try to figure out who was the killer. No one knows until the very end."
Fox has been presenting murder mysteries since 1986, mostly in Miami Beach and Hollywood. Her e-mail is email@example.com. Phone: 786-683-6078.
Ralph Wakefield, artistic director and president of Pelican Playhouse, said, "We went to see Barbara Fox do one of these presentations and decided to bring it to the theatre. This is a fundraiser for the playhouse and the Mu Alpha Theta math club. They provide refreshments for the playhouse and also provided the homemade food for tonight's dinner."
Wakefield said some of the Pelicans (Pelican players) might be chosen to play parts, and some were. He credited his wife Nancy Jones for driving the bus, meaning she arranged and organized everything.
Christopher Robbie, of Miami Springs, described himself as a thespian and said, "My last role was that of a troll. It was quite a stretch," added the stout, 6-foot man.
While mulling over clues for the whodunit, Gail Perron said, "We have a lot of clues, but I think it's Robin and Claudia. They did it for the money. We'll see."
Nancy Russo said, "He said she was too old for him, so I think Tammy killed him."
"I'm stuck between two suspects, Tammy and Robin," said Melissa Capote. "I'm related to Truman. Tammy had three motives: love, ambition and money."
Laura Jimenez, who also played a part, said, "Robin did it. I think he was having an affair with April."
As it turned out, the murderer was Reisa Isaac, 17, a.k.a., April Dove.
Phyllis Usher of Virginia Gardens said she thoroughly enjoyed the dinner and program. Her friend Elsa Ponton said, "We really liked the show. I'm so glad we came."


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Is it an all-new Land Rover Defender? Not quite; that would be a daunting task. But Land Rover is looking to breathe new life back into famed nameplate and is taking its time, testing the waters with the DC100 concept.
Debate about the vehicle's looks has been raging since before the show started, but this is the first chance for people to see the concept in the flesh. Can it really replace the Defender? The jury is still out.
More coverage from the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show
2011 Land Rover DC100
Land Rover DC100 Sport Concept
Land Rover DC100 Sport Concept
Land Rover DC100 Sport Concept
What is it? The first step on a four-year process of designing a 21st-century Land Rover Defender, the DC100 is intended to "inspire people to dream about the Defenders of the future" and open up debate on the direction Land Rover should take.
What's hot? You can see Land Rover has gone for a utilitarian-chic look. It maintains a boxy, spacious design but appears to borrow from the Evoque's styling bag.
What's not? With the celebrity chic of the Evoque, there's a concern that Land Rover could be getting a bit Lotus and forgetting its roots. Will the new Defender still be an honest, utilitarian 4x4 for farmers or simply another urban style accessory?
How much and when? An evolution of this design will be with us in 2015. However, this one is pure concept; we can't buy anything quite like this one yet.
MSN Autos' verdict: Lovers of the current Defender need to call Land Rover and make their voices heard.
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There seems to be some controversy raging over the use of so-called 'presentation software' such as Microsoft's PowerPoint and others. In 2003, National Public Radio estimated that there were approximately 10 million computers in primary and secondary schools equipped with Microsoft's PowerPoint software. With the advent of competing software and open source products such as Open Office project from Sun Microsystems, that offer presentation software for free to anyone who wants to use it, the number of students with access to such tools has exploded. Such tools are available to almost anyone who wants them, but are they good for our kids?
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