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Festival of the Latin-American song of California turns 37 years old

by the El Reportero’s news services

Already began the inscriptions for the Edition 37th Anniversary 2017 of the Festival of the Latin-American Song of California.

The festival celebrates annually four National Finals in the city of San Francisco, California, exclusive for composers, singers and poets who reside in the USA. Also, it is provided with an International Final by Internet, only for candidates outside of the US. In the International End 2016 there competed Spain, Finland, Japan, Mexico, Israel, Argentina, Colombia, Canada, Chile, Venezuela, Ecuador, Italy, France and Sweden.

This year, in the 37th Festival will compete four independent categories:

1. Original songs romantic/pop
2. Original songs folklóricas
3. Interpreters of known songs
4. Poems and song lyrics
Those interested in competing in this one 37th edition, poems and song lyrics may ask for the Official Form of Participation visiting http://www.festivaldelacancion.com/www.festivaldelacancion.com or calling 415-412-1923.

Last four years mark development of Mexican Cinema

There has been an important transformation and development in Mexican cinema in the last four years, with historic numbers in film production and people going to movie theaters, the Culture Secretary’s Office said today.

In a communique, the institution highlighted that the progress in the use of new distribution tools, which means the digital platforms as FilmLatino, Cinema Mexico, which have managed to attract thousands of users.

Jorge Sánchez, director of the Mexican Institute of Cinematography, recalled that there were great results in the first half of the current year, with more than 12.5 million cinema-goers in theaters and the premieres of 37 films.

It was the largest figure recorded so far, exceeding the year 2015, when it reached 9.5 million spectators and 28 films premiered, he remarked.

The achievements in these years also include the 500 Mexican films with international presence in 118 festivals and cinematographic meetings, Sanchez said. He specified that in recent years, culture represents 2.8 percent of the national Gross Domestic Product.

Last year, Mexico was among the 20 countries with the largest film production in the world and was one of the main producers in Ibero-America, he said. (Prensa Latina).

Dudamel to Conduct Orchestra for New Year’s Eve Concert in Vienna

Musician Gustavo Dudamel confirmed that he would conduct the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for the traditional New Year’’s Concert and dedicated this great moment to the Americas, the Latin American countries and especially Venezuela, his country.

For decades, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is used to celebrating the arrival of the new year, each Jan. 1, with a great show, usually inviting figures from the symphony conduction circles.

In that reference, Dudamel regarded as an honor to be part of a list, in which historic figures in his profession appear, such as Herbert von Karajan, Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Zubin Mehta, Seiji Ozawa and Daniel Barenboim, among others.
Besides, the Venezuelan 35-year-old musician will become the youngest orchestra conductor that has conducted so far the famous concert in Austria, compared the opportunity to a dream come true and said that after this achievement, he could “enter heaven in peace.”

Confronting the Feds: Armed ranchers and peaceful water protectors

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump debates Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton during the third presidential debate at UNLV in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016. (Mark Ralston/Pool via AP)

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

Dear readers, this an enlightening article about a part of the history of the United States land after it was taken from Native Americans during the Indian Wars, put on a government trust, and granted rights to use it to private corporations, such as the transcontinental railroad. Written by Steve Russell, of the Indian County publication, it will show you the real history of injustices committed against the real settlers of America. PART 1 of a series of two.

Confronting the Feds: Armed ranchers and peaceful native water protectors

by Steve Russell
Indian Country

Settlement of the western U.S. was a government project, subsidized every step of the way, starting with the military part of the Indian Wars. In addition to suppressing Indian opposition, the government funded the transcontinental railroad, and the Homestead Act of 1862 promised “free” land (only lightly used by the Indians recently evicted) to settlers who lived on it for five years and produced crops.

It is more than ironic, then, when beneficiaries of those settlement policies now see the very same government as intrusive and tyrannical. An interactive map published by High Country News, shows how dangerous it is these days to work for one of the government agencies managing public land. The contrast between how ornery, misguided white guys with guns are treated as opposed to Indians peaceably protecting their ancestral land from degradation is also nicely laid out by the Marxist publication, The Jacobin.

Federal intrusion, real or imagined, is a bit of a modern Rorschach test for the half-informed modern mind. A review is in order.
While the Civil War was still going on and before the shooting part of the Indian wars ended in 1890, it became federal policy to encourage and subsidize settlement in the west. Between 1850 and 1871, the government granted railroads 1.31 million acres of land for rights of way, some of which bisected Indian treaty land. Federal loans to railroads to fund construction totaled almost $65 million.
Under the Pacific Railway Act of 1862, in addition to the rights of way and the loans, the railroads got a grant of up to 20 sections of land for every mile of track laid. A section is a square mile or 640 acres, and the grants were made in a checkerboard pattern for 40 miles on each side of the right of way.

When some of the western lands proved too dry for farming, settlers began to agitate for federal irrigation projects. The railroads supported the idea with enthusiasm because water would increase the value of the land they had been granted to encourage construction. Federal involvement began in 1902, and in 1923 irrigation and flood control were centered in the Bureau of Reclamation, which sold water to farmers at a fraction of fair market value.

Irrigation was a boon for farmers like the railroads were for ranchers.  The great cattle drives of the 19th century were undertaken by rounding up a herd from the open range and driving it to a railhead for shipment to the eastern cities where the consumers of the beef waited. No rail—no sale.

In 1850, the U.S. had about 9,000 miles of railroads. By 1885, there were 87,000 miles. Ranching in the west was made possible by the federal government forcing the Plains Indians to reservations, allowing free grazing on the open range, and funding the railroads to get the cattle to market.

The Homestead Act was amended many times, and the last state to encourage settlement with “free land” was Alaska, where the Supreme Court refused to recognize aboriginal land titles in the Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States in 1955. The last homestead deed was issued for land in Alaska in 1988.

Another law that was a people magnet was the General Mining Act of 1872 that allowed mining on public land, first come-first served, without having to split the income from public lands with the government (or dispossessed former inhabitants).

Ranching, like farming and mining and clearing the land of its rightful inhabitants, was subsidized by the government. Until 1934, when the Taylor Grazing Act changed the rules, federal land was available to graze livestock without charge. Since then, ranchers are supposed to get permits from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and pay a fee that is typically under fair market value. A similar law allows for grazing permits on land controlled by the Forest Service.

The ranchers, like the miners to a lesser degree, were born with government largess they take for not only a birthright but also a constitutional principle. Their constitutional ideas proceed on two fronts.

First, they embrace the Tenth Amendment principle that the federal government is one of enumerated powers. Since there is no enumerated power to maintain and manage an inventory of public lands, they maintain those lands are subject to state sovereignty. They are correct about only one state, Texas, which retained title to public lands in its annexation treaty.

Second, they take the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms to be not primarily for hunting or home defense, but for armed insurrection against federal tyranny, the outcome of the Civil War notwithstanding. This is radical American exceptionalism when most of the world considers imprisonment without charges or government control of the media to be tyranny—yet some ranchers in the American west find tyranny in grazing fees.

Failure to pay grazing fees is not a crime, so the government relies on the common legal rule that one who provides necessary food for an animal has a lien on the animal. To deal with deadbeat ranchers, the BLM hires cowboys to round up the livestock being grazed on public lands and sells the animals to cover the grazing fees.

Luther Wallace “Wally” Klump, an Arizona rancher, got put in jail for contempt of court during a BLM action to collect grazing fees. Klump’s 2004 statement to The New York Times put together the issues in a manner as clear as it is frightening:

The Second Amendment is my ace, and they know it’s my ace. The founding fathers gave the individual a gun to fight the tyranny of the government. What’s that mean? The bearer can kill someone in government if the reason is justified. But it’s never been tested. I told them, you take those cows, I’ll kill you as mandated by the Second Amendment.

If your child is addicted to the internet, here’s what to do

by Dr Justin Coulson
Parenting

“Help, my child’s a social media addict.”

I received a phone call recently from a sobbing mother – Amber. She had called in desperation after a night from hell that involved her teenage daughter, Chloe, and her social media addiction.

The issue had been brewing for a while. The teenager was never off the phone: always messaging, texting, checking, re-checking. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Ask.fm, tumblr. Addiction.

Things completely blew up when Amber picked up Chloe’s phone, left unlocked on the kitchen bench. Amber discovered explicit questions being asked on Chloe’s Ask.fm profile. She showed her husband and they confronted Chloe.

The night had culminated with her husband smashing the 14-year-old’s phone. Chloe had been screaming at her dad in a rage, with tears streaming down her face. Amber was at a total loss.

There are two issues here:

First, how in the world do we determine what is an acceptable amount of social media use? And second, how do we deal with the challenge of all the filth, bullying and junk our kids are dealing with on sites like Ask.fm, tumblr, Twitter, and so on?
Let’s deal with the question of acceptable social media use first.

We’ve lost the war against media

Depending on which report you read, Australian children (aged 8-18) are spending upwards of around five hours every day consuming media. And as they get older, the proportion of that time is increasingly devoted to social media use. Given that guidelines suggest no more than one to two hours per day of screen time for our kids (from age 5 up), we are WAY beyond what is considered acceptable use. I believe that, on a global scale we’ve lost the war on screens.

Why does it matter?

Screen time is associated with a range of negative outcomes for children including (but not limited to) poorer speech and language skills in young children, poorer social skills in older children, poorer academic outcomes, lack of sleep, poorer health, and increased risk of depression and anxiety. Not a nice list.

How do we deal with it?

I reject the idea that we are powerless. At a global level, we may have lost the war. But at the family level, I still believe this is a battle we must fight.

In the past year netizens have been pleading and advocating for social media outlets to take more responsibility for the content they allow, and for abuse to be reported. While this is a reasonable position, it ignores the real issue.

It is not the responsibility of Facebook, Ask.fm, tumblr or any other platform to raise your children, to monitor their behaviour, and to hold them accountable should they do or say something inappropriate.

The responsibility is ours – as parents.

Far too many parents tell me they don’t have any idea what social media platforms their children are using, who they’re online with or what they’re doing on ‘those stupid sites’. While this is common, it’s also a failure on the part of those parents to appropriately parent their kids.

We would be reluctant to let our kids walk out the front door unless we knew where they were going, who they would be with, and what they were planning on doing. And yet in spite of the far greater dangers of the online environment (bullying, pornography, other predatory behaviour), too many of us have no idea what’s going on – and we trust that the websites our kids visit are being watched and monitored by someone else.

The solutions are not rocket science. They involve simple, positive parenting practices.

1. We must be involved in our children’s online world.

2. We must be having ongoing, regular conversations about what’s going on in their online world. We can respect privacy but still maintain communication about the issues. (Hint – it pays to have conversations when we’re not too emotional about things.)

3. We must establish rules about media and phone use and monitor adherence to those rules, with clear consequences if the rules are not kept.

4. We must be available for our children to come to us if things go badly in their media spaces.
Our social media challenges aren’t going away. 67 percent of Australian teens (eight to 12 years) are now on social media, and increasing numbers of them are reporting bullying and other problem behaviors. Over 50 percent of teens say they’ve witnessed or experienced online bullying. I suspect the numbers will only go up over time.

The issue is emotive. Talking about it with our children can often lead to significant conflict. But it doesn’t have to.

Getting mad at Facebook and Ask.fm, and smashing kids’ phones won’t make our children any safer online. Safe social media use is based on communication, boundaries and being involved with our kids.

ALERT: CDC giving itself unconstitutional powers to round up and detain people

by Natural News Editors
Analysis

(Article by Catherine J. Frompovich, republished from www.activistpost.com)

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention literally has overstepped its authority in proposing to grant itself powers that obviously negate any rights U.S. citizens thought they had by issuing the Proposed Rule “Control of Communicable Diseases” on Aug. 15, 2016 wherein CDC will self-invest itself with the power to apprehend healthy people en masse and detain them indefinitely with NO process of appeal!

That mammoth proposed rule is published in the Federal Register [Federal Register Number: 2016-18103] online. Before you read it, I suggest taking a very stiff shot of vodka or scotch, because you won’t believe what you read that is being proposed for what is supposed to be a non-communist country and its people, the USA!

But, the CDC (wanted) to hear your comments about the proposed rule, as if it really cares. Citizens were supposed file your comments at this website before Oct. 14, 2016! Officially, it’s Comment No. CDC-2016-0068-0001.

This proposed CDC rule, in my opinion, has become a nightmare situation in the USA regarding Big Pharma’s ‘sacred cows’—vaccines and vaccinations—which many more healthcare consumers are waking up to being what they actually are: neurotoxic injections damaging children, adults and pets!

In essence, the CDC is creating a police healthcare state, something that was tried in the 1980s when Representative Claude Pepper introduced three infamous bills that got me involved in organizing the country to defeat them, which we did, only now to be facing another round of excessive medical and federal agency over-reach, in my opinion.

What the CDC proposes defies the U.S. Constitution and states Constitutional rights with absolutely NO appeal process. Where is the U.S. Congress, who has oversight of the CDC? However, what should we expect from a do-nothing Congress? Why doesn’t Congress investigate the CDC whistleblower William Thompson, PhD epidemiologist, confession of fraud, deceit and collusion he participated in? Good question?
If this oppressive totalitarian-like proposed rule giving CDC police powers becomes law, kiss your kids goodbye; kiss what you thought you had in life goodbye—your body, which will not belong to you any longer but to the USA via CDC ‘edict’; and expect to be interred in U.S. FEMA camps—something the shadow government and others apparently have been planning for some time.

Folks, wake up; it’s later than you think!
This proposed rule by the CDC is the ‘icing on the cake’ they apparently have planned, in my opinion, from all the ‘political correctness’ memes they have generated along with all the false flag ‘pandemics’ that really never panned out EXCEPT the apparent current one – Zika, which may become ‘successful’ because of the fearmongering built into it, including poison aerial sprays.

Now, in my opinion and from what I’ve researched, they’ve been able to genetically monkey around with both mosquitoes and a virus to make the ‘perfect storm’ health crisis and the need for a medical police state—all created on purpose, since many of the communicable diseases they are so damn scared of have been around for ages [and the human race survived them], plus I contracted most of them as a child—as did others—and we lived through them. More importantly, our immune systems gained lifelong immunities. That’s how the immune system is ‘exercised’ into becoming a well-functioning biological process, especially when healthful, natural nutrition – not GMO ‘phood’ – is provided.

Here are some quotes from the CDC proposed rule:

“When an apprehension occurs, the individual is not free to leave or discontinue his/her discussion with an HHS/CDC public health or quarantine officer.”

“…the proposed practice to issue Federal orders before a medical examination has taken place.”

“CDC defines precommunicable stage to mean the stage beginning upon an individual’s earliest opportunity for exposure to an infectious agent.”

And this apparent totalitarian ‘gem’ of an agency’s self-proclaimed ‘rite’:

“…(holding that a passenger consents to an airport security search by presenting himself/herself for boarding and that such consent may not be revoked by simply walking away). Thus, in order to protect interstate travel from communicable disease threats, HHS/CDC intends for this section to apply broadly to all circumstances where individuals may queue with other travelers.”

[How about your being nabbed at a local Starbucks, McDonald’s, baseball-basketball-football game, or supermarket? Folks, it’s getting to be more than Orwell ever could have imagined! What are you going to do?]

And here’s what this, in my opinion, is all about: Forced Vaccinations! They have to be forcing these vaccines for some other reason than ‘immunity’ since the toxins in vaccines damage the immune system!

“CDC may enter into an agreement with an individual, upon such terms as the CDC considers to be reasonably necessary, indicating that the individual consents to any of the public health measures authorized under this part, including quarantine, isolation, conditional release, medical examination, hospitalization, vaccination, and treatment: provided that the individual’s consent shall not be considered as a prerequisite to any exercise of any authority under this part.” [CJF emphasis added]

There you have it, folks! Their ‘wet dream’ come true: Taking away informed consent, one of the valid legal bugaboos regarding their illegal and unconstitutional enforcement of vaccinations to attend school or work!

They, for all intents and purposes, are trashing the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights!

And finally, for now, as this is really too much to absorb or take in, especially if you think you are a free citizen of the USA:
“…individuals who violate the terms of the agreement or the terms of the Federal order for quarantine, isolation, or conditional release (even if no agreement is in place between the individual and the government), he or she may be subject to criminal penalties.”

If you value your health, your life, your supposed freedom and that of your children, family and friends, don’t you think you ought to write your comments about the proposed CDC’s “Hitler-Stalin-Mao-like” authoritarian rule making “Rules for the Control of Communicable Diseases”? Read it first; don’t take my words for granted, please.

Furthermore, more than anything, I’d like to know the names of the brains behind this totalitarian proposed rule. I’d like to know which corporate interests had input and what they said. I think if we are to have a transparent discussion about this proposed CDC rule, then citizens should know some of those details. What do you think?

God BLESS America! Is it too late yet? Please get off your duffs and do something!

Seven ways President Trump could impact your wallet

by Ari Cetron

Shocking the polling industry — but not surprising his supporters one bit — Donald Trump has been elected the next president of the United States. He made a lot of promises during the campaign, a number of which could affect your wallet.

Trump should be able to get some things done. His party will control both houses of Congress. Although Republicans won’t have the 60-vote filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, the new president and his party should have a relatively free hand when it comes to making promises reality.

However, several of Trump’s ideas are not in line with traditional Republican policies. Only time will tell if he’s able to find sufficient votes to pass them. Here are seven issues Trump might address that could impact on your bottom line.

1. Health insurance costs
Republican lawmakers have said they wanted to repeal and replace Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act signed in 2010) pretty much from the start. Now, they have their chance. Some aspects of the legislation have been popular. These include the ban on denying coverage for pre-existing conditions, allowing people up to age 26 to stay on their parents’ plans, and the ban on insurers setting lifetime maximum coverage limits.

In addition, roughly 20 million uninsured people have purchased insurance through the state exchanges set up by Obamacare. However, rising premiums from insurers have cast long shadows over any prospect of keeping the program in its current state. It remains to be seen which changes will be made.

2. Consumer prices, manufacturing jobs
Trump wants to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement — or NAFTA — and has said he won’t sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership multinational trade agreement. These deals have become four-letter words in factory towns across the country, as free trade is blamed for making it attractive for companies to move plants to other countries with low labor costs. Undoing NAFTA may require Senate approval (though it’s unclear), but the TPP could be scuttled by the new president.

What this means is a mixed bag. These deals have given Americans access to low-cost goods from overseas. Abandoning these pacts would drive up prices on many consumer goods. If the Trump administration and Congress could engineer it so that abandoning the trade deals would prompt manufacturers to reinvest in U.S. plants and employ U.S. workers (instead of robots), it could be good news for blue-collar families.

Trump also called for steep tariffs — essentially taxes on imports. In some cases he’s specifically called out the Ford Motor Co. for making goods outside of the country. In others, he’s made general comments about imposing high tariffs on a broad swath of imported goods. This would, obviously, increase the costs of those goods to the consumer. According to Trump, these moves would also lead to more domestic jobs by making goods produced in this country more competitive.

Trade deals negotiated over the past several decades have allowed huge growth in imports, but they have also made it easier for U.S. companies to sell to foreign markets. Reinstating tariffs and quotas could lead to a trade war — prompting other countries to impose similar tariffs on exported American goods, presumably reducing sales of these goods overseas.

3. Tax cuts

Trump’s proposals call for cutting taxes on businesses — reducing income taxes to three brackets — 12 percent, 25 percent and 33 percent. Whether you would benefit from this change depends on how much you earn. Under this plan, the wealthiest people will get the biggest cut. What happens to lower-income people isn’t likely to be as nice, since the lowest tax-rate bracket will go up from 10 percent to 12 percent.

While the standard deduction would also go up, a basket of other tax code provisions would go away, likely meaning a net increase in taxes paid by working families with children and single-parent households, according to a recent report from the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. The report estimates the changes to the tax code would increase the national debt by $20 trillion over the next 20 years.

Trump disputes these findings. He expects that by reducing taxes on business (while eliminating many tax loopholes and incentives) and reducing regulations (without specifying which ones), renegotiating trade deals and increasing domestic energy production, the economy will see tremendous growth.

He’s also said that under his plan, individuals making less than $25,000 per year, or couples making $50,000 per year would no longer pay income tax.

4. Child-care costs

Trump has said he wants to change the way parents deduct child-care costs — allowing deductions up to the average for their state — instead of a maximum deduction of $3,000 for one child or up to $6,000 for two or more. People who live in higher cost-of-living areas would be hurt by this. The deduction would be available to individuals making up to $250,000 per year, or $500,000 for married couples.

Under his proposal, new mothers would be able to collect unemployment for six weeks of maternity leave from their jobs. He’d also allow people to create special child-care accounts where money could grow tax-free. There’s a grab bag of different deductions and allowances depending on income level. Low-income families who managed to put in $1,000 per year would get a $500 match from the government. Some advocates note that this would help wealthier families by providing a tax shelter for them, while many poor families would be unlikely to have an extra $1,000 per year to set aside.

5. Retirement benefits
Trump has said he wants to leave Social Security as is, and he has opposed an increase in the retirement age. However, many experts expect the program to face financial difficulties in the coming decades unless there are substantial changes to it, and Republican leaders have expressed support for an increased retirement age.

6. Infrastructure jobs?
Trump has promised to rebuild bridges, highways and airports, and to do it for one-third of what the country currently pays for such projects. Even at that discount, the money for the projects would need to come from somewhere — and it’s unclear how much Congress will allocate. On the up side, it could potentially create a large number of construction jobs.

7. Wall Street changes
Trump has vowed to scrap the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (usually referred to as Dodd-Frank), a package of financial regulations that was passed under President Barack Obama after the 2007-2009 recession. One element was creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The impact of such changes are difficult to foresee, but they’re more likely to benefit high fliers on Wall Street than small investors or non-investors on Main Street. He also wants to end the “carried interest deduction,” a loophole that many Wall Street insiders use to reduce their effective tax burden.

Central peasant to boost campaign against fuel prices in Mexico

by the El Reportero’s wire services

The Central of Peasant and Popular Organizations (Cocyp) of Mexico will promote a campaign for the annulment of free trade agreements and against the increase of fuel prices, met here today.

José Jacobo Femat, Cocyp President, said that during 2017, some landowners will be mobilized during 2017 to seek the annulment of the North American Free Trade Agreement, wich includes Mexico, the United States and Canada.

Also to reverse the government’s decision that fuel and diesel increased price since Jan. 1, which will impact inflation rates and the pockets of the neediest, he said.

He said that the environment that announces 2017 represents another twist to further dismantle the impoverished family economy and social ownership of landowners and community.

He described the increase in fuel prices as irresponsible, due to the increase to the minimum wage that will be 80.04 pesos per day (just over four dollars) is pulverized by the rise of food in December 2016.

Puerto Rico implements medical cannabis dispensaries

Puerto Rican President Alejandro García Padilla implemented today a regulation he passed a year and a half ago with the opening of two private medical cannabis clinics in Puerto Rico.

“I am proud to say that this new program, which took a lot of courage, after being subjected to social stigmas and opposition, will provide a better quality of life for our citizens,” stated the president, who issued a decree in July 2015 to authorize the Ministry of Health to reclassify cannabis for the use of certain certified patients.

With the opening of both dispensaries, Puerto Rico is joining in record time to other Latin American countries that have adopted reforms on medical cannabis and its discrimination, such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.

In addition, it joins more than 25 states in the United States that have opened up in some way to allow access to cannabis for therapeutic purposes.

Police purges more than 2,000 officers in Honduras

More than 2,000 officers were expelled from the National Police in Honduras this year after purging that force, said today the commission responsible for the process.

Omar Rivera, member of the committee for the review, said that out of the total amount of officers assessed in eight months of work, 2,091 ones were excluded from the force as part of the restructuring, by dismissal on fair grounds or by their voluntary retirement.

The police officers assessed have different hierarchical levels, nine are generals, 47 are commissioners, 262 sub-commissioners, 108 commissioners, 241 inspectors, 497 sub-inspectors, 215 non-commissioned officers, 1,407 basic officers and 218 assistants.

According to Rivera, “the process of purge and restructuring to which different police institutions are being subjected is historical and unprecedented.”

However, he also said that the process would be unfinished if criminal processes were not launched against all officers who committed illegal actions while in their posts.

Boxing schedule – The Gentlemen’s Sport

Estrella TV
Friday, December 2 2016
Belasco Theater, Los Angeles, California
Abraham Lopez vs. Sergio Lopez
Oscar Negrete vs. Raul Hidalgo
Edgar Valerio vs. Guadalupe De Leon
Niko Valdes vs. Will Williams
Jousce Gonzalez vs. Jordan Alvarado

UniMas
Friday, December 2 2016
Save Mart Arena, Fresno, California
Jose Carlos Ramirez vs. Issouf Kinda
Danny Valdivia vs. Aaron Garcia
Esquiva Falcao vs. Gerardo Ibarra
Joe Louie Lopez vs. Qulisto Madera
Saul Lomas vs. Pablo Sanchez

Friday, December 2 2016
Sam’s Town Live, Las Vegas
Sharif Bogere vs. Hylon Williams
Ashley Theophane vs. TBA

Friday, December 2 2016
Tough Fight Gym, Moscow
Richard Commey vs. Denis Shafikov

Friday, December 2 2016
Twin River Event Center, Lincoln, Rhode Island
Toka Kahn Clary vs. Mario Macias
Shelly Vincent vs. Marquita Lee
Ray Oliveira Jr. vs. Matt Probin
Anthony Marsella Jr. vs. Devante Seay

Friday, December 2 2016
2300 Arena, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tevin Farmer vs. Dardan Zenunaj

Boxing schedule – The Gentlemen’s Sport

Estrella TV
Friday, December 2 2016
Belasco Theater, Los Angeles, California
Abraham Lopez vs. Sergio Lopez
Oscar Negrete vs. Raul Hidalgo
Edgar Valerio vs. Guadalupe De Leon
Niko Valdes vs. Will Williams
Jousce Gonzalez vs. Jordan Alvarado

UniMas
Friday, December 2 2016
Save Mart Arena, Fresno, California
Jose Carlos Ramirez vs. Issouf Kinda
Danny Valdivia vs. Aaron Garcia
Esquiva Falcao vs. Gerardo Ibarra
Joe Louie Lopez vs. Qulisto Madera
Saul Lomas vs. Pablo Sanchez

Friday, December 2 2016
Sam’s Town Live, Las Vegas
Sharif Bogere vs. Hylon Williams
Ashley Theophane vs. TBA

Friday, December 2 2016
Tough Fight Gym, Moscow
Richard Commey vs. Denis Shafikov

Friday, December 2 2016
Twin River Event Center, Lincoln, Rhode Island
Toka Kahn Clary vs. Mario Macias
Shelly Vincent vs. Marquita Lee
Ray Oliveira Jr. vs. Matt Probin
Anthony Marsella Jr. vs. Devante Seay

Friday, December 2 2016
2300 Arena, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tevin Farmer vs. Dardan Zenunaj

Bring back the disappeared

Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff

These photographs document the disappearance of political activists, migrants and ordinary people in Mexico, in the context of political repression, economic exploition, migration and drug violence.

This is photo exhibition by photographers David Bacon, Antonio Nava, Emely Pederson and Leopoldo Peña. Now through Dec. 2016, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, from 1-5 pm. At Eastside Cultural Center, 2277 International Blvd, Oakland.

For more info eastsideart@yahoo.com, or visit eastsideartalliance.com, or 510-533-6629.

New SFMOMA contemporary art exhibitions

A Slow Succession with Many Interruptions: William Kentridge: The Refusal of Time, Runa Islam: Verso.

William Kentridge: The Refusal of Time: Making its West Coast debut at SFMOMA, artist William Kentridge’s The Refusal of Time (2012) is an immersive installation combining synchronized video projections featuring live action, animation and dance, with audio feeds that incorporate music and sound and a central kinetic sculpture called “the elephant,” which breathes a steady rhythm from the center of the gallery.

Runa Islam: Verso: This solo presentation of the Bangladesh-born British artist Runa Islam features the U.S. premiere of Cabinet of Prototypes (2009–10), a 16mm film installation from SFMOMA’s collection that serves as the exhibition’s point of departure for exploring the threshold between film and sculpture. Originally commissioned for the Kivik Art Centre in Österlen, Sweden, as a projected film for an architect’s pavilion set in the sculpture park’s grounds, the work was later reconfigured into a cinematic sculpture by enclosing both the projector and screen within a glass vitrine.

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announces the complete reinstallation of its seventh floor with three new contemporary exhibitions—A Slow Succession with Many Interruptions; William Kentridge: The Refusal of Time; and Runa Islam: Verso—on view from December 10, 2016 through April 2, 2017. Underscoring its deep commitment to engaging with living artists, SFMOMA presents in these exhibitions a thought-provoking selection of the art for our time.

On View from Dec. 10, 2016 through April 2, 2017, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 151 Third Street, San Francisco.

SFMOMA Presents: Tomás Saraceno: Stillness in Motion—Cloud Cities

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present the exhibition Tomás Saraceno: Stillness in Motion — Cloud Cities, by artist Tomás Saraceno, on view at the museum December 17, 2016 through May 21, 2017. Organized by the SFMOMA Architecture and Design department, the exhibition includes an immersive site-specific cloudscape installation of suspended tension structures and floating sculptures, as well as explorations of the intricate constructions of spider webs.

“Visually provocative and conceptually rigorous, Saraceno’s practice merges art, architecture and science in a compelling, pragmatic and poetic way,” said Joseph Becker, associate curator of architecture and design at SFMOMA.

Stillness in Motion — Cloud Cities is part of Saraceno’s larger, long-term project titled Aerocene, the artist’s vision for a future era in which humanity minimizes the impact on the planet’s fossil-fuel resources, and instead resides in collective airborne cities.

Dec. 17, 2016–May 21, 2017.

Demian Bichir to star as “El Pachuco” in Zoot Suit at the Taper

by BWW News Desk

International stage and screen star Demián Bichir (Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, FX’s The Bridge, Showtime’s Weeds and Soderbergh’s Che) is set to play the indelible role of El Pachuco in Center Theatre Group’s production of Zoot Suit at the Mark Taper Forum, with previews beginning Jan. 31, opening set for Feb. 12 and performances continuing through March 12, 2017. Written and directed by Luis Valdez, Zoot Suit is presented in association with El Teatro Campesino.

“It’s a tremendous honor to be able to portray such an iconic character of Modern American Theatre. I grew up dreaming of playing El Pachuco when I was a young member of the National Theatre Company in Mexico City. Having the opportunity to work with legendary director Luis Valdez represents my biggest challenge in the theatre to date. These times couldn’t be more perfect to present this play to a whole new generation of theatre lovers,” said Bichir.

Zoot Suit was originally commissioned and developed by Center Theatre Group, playing for nearly a year in Los Angeles first at the Taper from Aug. 6 to Oct. 1, 1978, then from Oct. 10, 1978, through July 1, 1979, at the Aquarius in Hollywood. It went on to become Broadway’s first Chicano play, was made into a major motion picture and became a cultural phenomenon.

Nearly 40 years after its world premiere, original creator Valdez will once again fill the Taper’s stage with a company of 25 actors, singers and dancers weaving fact and fiction together as they portray the events surrounding the infamous 1942 Sleepy Lagoon murder in Los Angeles. Filled with heart, sly wit and the infectious songs of Lalo Guerrero, Zoot Suit remains an urgent portrayal of the clash between generations in a Chicano family, the rifts between cultures in America and how racism and injustice can haunt a city and a society.

Demián Bichir was born in Mexico City in a family dedicated to the theatre. He first took to the stage at the age of three at the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City. A member of the National Theatre Company for seven years, he starred in a dozen plays there, including works by Valle-Inclán, Shakespeare and Eugene O’Neill. He has appeared in over 20 films shot in Mexico, Spain, Ireland, Argentina, Colombia, Bolivia, New Zealand and Australia.

In the United States, Bichir is best known for his roles in Showtime’s Weeds and FX’s The Bridge, as well as Steven Soderbergh’s Che, Oliver Stone’s Savages, and Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight. He will next be seen in Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant. Bichir was recognized for his acclaimed performance as Carlos Galindo in the 2011 drama, A Better Life, for which he earned nominations for the Independent Spirit Award.

Tickets to Zoot Suit go on sale Friday, Nov. 18 and will be available by calling (213) 628-2772 or online at www.CenterTheatreGroup.org. Tickets range from $25 – $95 (ticket prices are subject to change). The Mark Taper Forum is located at the Music Center, 135 N. Grand Avenue in Downtown L.A. 90012.

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