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7th Cine+SF Latino Film Festival

Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff

This year we have nearly 50 fiction and documentary feature length and short films. Films from the US, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Colombia, Spain and several other countries. Lots of drama, docs, and a slew of shorts by talented emerging talent. Family fair this year includes an award-winning animation film – all music and visuals – good for all ages.
BrownPaperTickets.Passes include multi-film passes, buddy passes, all film & party passes.  You can also purchase by phone: 1-800-838-3006.
September 18 – Opening Night will feature A Separate Wind, by invited guest Mexican writer/director Alejandro Gerber Bicecci. At 7:30 p.m. at the  Brava Theater.
Visit our website to see details about films, tickets and passeshttp://www.brownpapertickets.com/browse.html?keywords=producer:cinemassf, or call 1-800-838-3006.
Note: The Festival needs volunteers to help with all events, screenings and collateral distribution. Email us at volunteers@SFLatinoFilmFestival.com.

Culture and Arts Festival at the Oracle Arena
Come see Latin history through culture and arts at the Bay Area Latino Festival’s which mission is to showcase and highlight Latino artists and their contributions while stimulating, educating and nurturing the cultural life in the Bay Area primarily through the three areas of the arts: Visual Arts, Performing Arts and Literary Arts. This event provides exhibitions, educational demos, performances that support the arts and engage the diverse community that we live in.
Some of the organizations that will be part are The Mexican Museum, Latin American Media, MCCLA, UC Berkeley Latino Alumni Association, Chican@Latin@ Legacy Celebration, CandleLight Global America among many more. There will be activities for children.
Featuring Artists: Richard Bean & SAPO, Martha Soledad, Alma Latina, Ballet Tonalli de San Jose, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, Mariachi, Visual Artist, Literary Artist and Hands on Art and more!
At the Oracle Arena East Side Club, on Sept. 12, 2015, from noon to 5 p.m.

Live in concert in the Mission Catalina Claro    
Catalina Claro & Friends: Award winning pianist, composer, and singer, Catalina Claro returns to San Francisco for One Night Only!
Catalina Claro is a Chilean composer, arranger, pianist, guitarist, and singer. She is influenced by a diverse range of genres, from classical to boleros, from pop to flamenco.
At the Make Out Room, 3225 22nd St. @ Mission St, San Francisco, on Saturday, Sept. 19. Doors 6:30 p.m. Showtime 7 p.m.

A Poet’s Love – combining song, aerial dance and theatre
Zaccho Dance Theatre (ZDT) will premiere A Poet’s Love, a new work created by Zaccho’s Artistic Director Joanna Haigood and Brooklyn-based singer/actor José Joaquín García.
A Poet’s Love is a new creation based on the Dichterliebe song cycle from classical German composer Robert Schumann. A Poet’s Love takes the form of sixteen discrete vignettes, each one responsive to and deeply immersed in the musical and poetic context of a song in Dichterliebe.
The complete work – combining song, aerial dance and theatre – will be performed at Zaccho Studio in San Francisco and will feature members of ZDT’s performance ensemble as well as José Joaquín García, who will perform the songs accompanied by well-known Bay Area pianist Frederick Harris.
On Friday Oct. 2, 2015. Additional performances will occur Saturday, Oct. 3 at 8 p.m. and Sunday Oct. 4 at 7 p.m.
Tickets are $20 at the door, but seating is limited. To guarantee and pre-order tickets please visit http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2182219. Feel free to call us at 415.822.6744 or send an email to christopher@zaccho.org for more information.

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Latin music at the top of Spanish hit lists

Singer Marc Anthony, center, performs with the Cuban duo Gente de Zona, during the Latin Billboard Awards, Thursday, April 30, 2015 in Coral Gables, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

by the El Reportero’s news services

La Gozadera by the Cuban duo Gente de Zona with Puerto Rican Marc Anthony was confirmed today as the most played song in Spain for the 9th week, according to the Association of Music Producers (Promusicae).
El Perdon by the singer Nicky Jam with Enrique Iglesias, remained second, unable to overthrow the Cuban-Puerto Rican La Gozadera, which already reached the 18 weeks in the Spanish charts.
The third was occupied by Ginza by Colombian reggaeton singer J Balvin. At the fourth place is Canadian Justin Bieber and his song What do you mean?

African and Caribbean art vs. slavery in Paris
Great figures of African and Caribbean contemporary art exhibit some of their works in this capital to stand up against manifestations of slavery, still evident today in the world.
Sensitive to this problem because of the imprint left by the slave trade in their respective countries, artists from Benin, Dominican Republic and Cuba introduce us deeply into the issue of contemporary expressions of slavery, organizers of the exhibition declared.
They also remembered that the trafficking and exploitation of human beings continue to be taking place throughout the world.
They explained that despite the diversity of their approaches, a startling stylistic coherence results from this proposition.
Either Caribbean or African these 15 artists nourish their works with everyday materials: plastics, iron and wood transformed into powerful symbols of domination and exploitation of man by man.

Film Steve Jobs: favorite for the Oscars
The film Steve Jobs, about the life of the creator of the successful computer company Apple, receives today positive forecasts from critics, placing it among the favorites for the 2016 Oscars.
The film showcases real good actors and is an entertaining ride, Fassbender is one of the clear contenders for the Best Actor Award, published Variety.com.
The Hollywood Reporter, one of the most respected media brands, said the film is “clearly positioned as one of the prestigious titles and will be a high priority for the audience worldwide.”
Finally, the New York Times published that the audience ‘responded warmly’ to the film when it was screened at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado last Saturday, as a prelude to its official international premiere, scheduled for Oct. 9.
Steve Jobs was considered after his death ‘the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison’ according to the filmmaker Steven Spielberg, who felt that Jobs put the world into our hands with creations like the iPhone, iPad or iMac computers.

Argentina, guest of honor at Mexico International Film Festival  
The Mexico International Film Festival, taking place in Tamaulipas, will have Argentina as guest of honor, it was informed today.
The cultural event, scheduled for September 24 to October 4, also has the Mexican state of Chiapas in equal status. In addition, there will be a tour of the 43 municipalities of Tamaulipas in order to achieve a dialogue with the world, also including music, theater, literature and visual arts.
Egidio Torre, Governor of that state, said the festival has become a key force for the promotion of the artistic expressions of various countries and regions, according to a press release from the National Council for Culture and Arts (CONACULTA).

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Migration of population vs. the individual

by Jon Rappoport

We are seeing a flood of population-migration in various parts of the world. The Globalist strategy is obvious:
Make the only solution a global solution.
Instigate the chaos that causes the migrations, and then come in behind that with the answer: “better planning, better organization, international agreements”—in short, a planned society for the borderless world.
Of course, “global solution” means the individual is cut out of the equation, he doesn’t count, he doesn’t mean anything in the larger scheme of things, he is just another pawn and cipher to move around on the board.
And as more duped and deluded people sign on to this agenda, the whole concept of the individual shrinks and becomes irrelevant.
This is purposeful.
This is the script for the future: in many ways create problems whose only solution appears to be collective.
Psychologically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually divert the individual’s attention from his own vision, his own profound desires, his own consciousness, his own imagination—and place it within The Group (“all of humanity”).
Propagandize the idea that, if the individual concerns himself with anything other than The Group, he is selfish, greedy, inhumane. He is a criminal.
More and more, this is how the young are being trained these days.
The grand “we” is being sold to them like a cheap street drug. They buy in. They believe this “we” is real, instead of a hollow con designed to drag them into a Globalist framework owned and operated by mega-corporations, banks, foundations, governments, and ubiquitous Rockefeller interests.
And what of the individual, his mind, his unique perception, his independent ideas, his originality, his life-force?
Swept away in the rush toward “a better world.”
I have breaking news. Earth is not a spaceship and we are not crewmembers. If Earth is a spaceship, it has serious design flaws, because it keeps making the same trip around the same sun every year.
Each one of us does not have a specified function, as a crewmember would.
Going back as far as you want to in history, every shortage and scarcity in the world that engendered a crisis was either created by some elite or maintained by them, for the purpose of eradicating dissent and fomenting a collectivist solution. Meaning a solution that came from the top. Meaning a solution that reduced individual freedom.
In recent human history, a different idea emerged: establish severely hamstrung government, in order to protect the individual against it.
This idea existed in its pristine form for about an hour after the ink dried on the founding documents.
Elites emerged with the realization that they would need to build great wealth for certain men, who would then turn around and use their power to expand government and corporate and banking control, in order to sink the population back into the swamp from which they had just been liberated.
On and on it goes. But regardless of circumstances, the individual can author his own freedom and what it implies. He can discover, within himself, extraordinary possibilities and extraordinary consciousness. He can contemplate what it means to create reality that expresses his most profound desires.
And then he can begin a voyage that no one and no group can stop.
Civilizations come and go, rise and fall, but the individual remains.
Behind and below and above all the false prescriptions of the State and its allies, he remains. He is at the core.
But why wait until some distant day to wake up?
The word “imagination,” when properly understood, indicates that the individual can envision and then create futures that never were, and never would be, unless he invented them.
Imagination is the opposite of “provincial,” “restricted,” “well-known,” “familiar,” “accepted.”
That is its danger to the status quo.
That is the true threat the individual poses to all predictive systems.
The modern State works from the assumption that you are renting your life and your self. It sees itself as the landlord, whose beneficent concern, expressed through “programs,” should direct your behavior and thought.
It is softening 1984 into the effects of Brave New World. Pain is the stick and pleasure is the carrot.
Soon you will see official calculations of “pleasure quotients” for citizens. You will even see promises to “expand” those quotients.
“The greater good of all” will be highlighted.
That is the primary selling point.
Its success depends on the individual ceasing to exist in his own mind. He is The Group.
On the horizon: researchers studying the myriad activities of the brain in real time will claim there is no chemical/biological/electrical basis in the brain for the concept of the individual. The whole notion is an aberration, resulting from an imbalance that can be corrected.
Sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists and other charlatans will chime in, pointing to indisputable evidence that, throughout history, it has been the individual who has caused all the trouble. (This propaganda op has been actively underway for a hundred years).
Yes, the hard scientists, will agree. “But to be more precise, it is the disordered brain that has caused the trouble.”
Yes, my friends, you can be free of the imbalance, and the suffering and turmoil it causes. You can be liberated, and thus discover a new world of pleasure.
“Take the carrot.”
Against all this stands: the individual.
(Jon Rappoport is the author of three explosive collections, The Matrix Revealed, Exit From The Matrix, and Power Outside The Matrix).

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Says investigator: Obama’s Climate Task Force is a treaty trap

FROM TE EDITOR:
In searching for the best to publish and share with our readers, I found this enlightening article about the federal government climate task force, and what is behind it. For those who blindly believe in the current environmental hysteria and propaganda, this is a great article to read, compare and bring together opposing opinions. The article is written by Cassandra Anderson – Marvin Ramírez

by Cassandra Anderson

Obama’s new executive order (EO) that creates a global warming task force, The Council on Climate Preparedness and Resilience, is a tool to implement Agenda 21, which is the blueprint for totalitarian control through the United Nations.  The new task force utilizes corrupt science that comes directly from the the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that is the source of countless scandals.  Obama’s strategy is designed to bypass Congress in order to lockdown land use and control water resources. And there are hidden UN and World Trade Organization treaties lurking in the background.
The threat of global warming is used as an excuse to force unnecessary, costly and tyrannical regulations on the public.  Man-made global warming is a hoax and the Earth has been in a cooling phase over the last 15 years.  For documented evidence of the hoax, click here https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-282-the-ipcc-exposed/ for James Corbett’s analysis of the United Nations’ IPCC.
Obama uses executive orders to circumvent Congress in addition to bestowing unconstitutional powers on executive agencies under his control.
A current example of agency overreach is playing out right now as the EPA is trying to extend its jurisdiction over all bodies of water by changing the definition of ‘water’ in the Clean Water Act.  The EPA does have jurisdiction over ‘navigable waters’ and is trying to expand its control by claiming that all bodies of water fit into that category because water has a common source under the Earth’s surface.
Obama is including state and local governments in his task force because the the feds must get agreement from the states to implement federal regulations that fall outside the scope of federal powers listed in the Constitution.  Obama’s task force targets the states’ natural resources  and local governments’ control over land use through planning and building permits.
According to Obama’s EO, the task force will “create incentives” in order to implement their schemes; this is a code phrase that means that the federal government will bribe state and local governments for control over them or, conversely, the feds will withhold funds when opposed to bring state and local governments back in line.
The President’s Climate Action Plan
The President’s Climate Action Plan  that was published in June 2013 is a playbook for the new task force.
The action plan calls for more ‘free trade’ treaties and agreements through the World Trade Organization (WTO) that forces governments and businesses to comply with legally binding regulations, which is the opposite of free trade.  WTO treaties often bolster monopolies that favor large multinational corporations.

The President’s action plan also calls for a UN treaty agreement that will have full legal force.  Following the UN climate summit deal in Durban in 2011, the US and China agreed to set legally binding emission targets by 2015 through a Kyoto-like treaty.
Some of Obama’s international goals are disturbing, for example, his action plan intends to push “drought resistant seeds”.  Using this phrase is a covert way to promote seeds that are specifically engineered to be resistant to droughts, without identifying them as genetically modified organisms (GMO) because there is so much opposition to GMOs.  The US has a vested interest in spreading GMO seeds across the globe as they are business partners with Monsanto and co-owners of a patent.
Obama is promoting worldwide expansion of nuclear power because the carbon emissions are low.  However, nuclear power is exceptionally dangerous, the risk of another Chernobyl or Fukushima-type accident is high, and radioactive contamination lasts for thousands of years.
Obama’s international goals push natural gas energy, which is touted as being cleaner than coal because it has lower carbon emissions, but there is no mention of how frack-drilling with chemicals for the gas causes groundwater pollution.  Obama has his eye on expanding US frack-drilled natural gas exports.
The Senate has the power to ratify or reject any proposed WTO and UN treaties and many would vote in favor of unconstitutional treaties, therefore, it is time to throw them out of office in favor of Constitutional candidates.

COMMENTS:
“UN AGENDA 21 thrives on West Coast and has already been implemented for decades
from grass root small towns all the way up to the State/Federal gov’t. If you dont believe it, go to your City Council meeting sometime and listen to the ‘operative words’ “sustainable development”, Smart growth, Smart Meters, Smart grids, supported by Green movements who are unaware of it’s full ramifications. Big step in the right direction for ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT.”

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Eating more spicy foods decreases your risk of early death by 14 percent

by Jennifer Lea Reynolds

You may want to spice things up in your life, and no, we’re not talking about whispering sweet nothings between the sheets. According to an international team of researchers led by the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, eating spicy foods may be the key to longevity. They found that eating such foods on a regular basis can help prevent people from dying prematurely by 14 percent. While a variety of spicy foods are excellent, one in particular caught their attention.
It was noted that consumption of fresh chili pepper, compared to other spicy foods, was most effective in providing people with a lower risk of dying from cancer, ischemic heart disease and diabetes. It’s explained that fresh chili pepper’s combination of powerful ingredients are responsible for such health-boosting benefits.
Study: fresh chili pepper best spicy food to help reduce risk of early death
“Compared with non-fresh spicy foods such as dried chilli pepper, chilli sauce or chilli oil,” says Lu Qi, associate professor at Harvard School of Public Health, “fresh chilli pepper is richer in bioactive ingredients, including capsaicin, vitamin C, and other nutrients such as vitamin A, K, and B6 and potassium.”(1)
To conduct the study, the experts from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences assessed nearly 490,000 participants from the China Kadoorie Biobank. All individuals responded to a questionnaire in which they answered questions pertaining to physical measurements, general health and consumption of red meats, spicy foods, vegetables and alcohol. For example, once such question went as follows: “During the past month, about how often did you eat hot spicy foods?” Respondents selected from these options: never or almost never, only occasionally, 1 or 2 days a week, 3 to 5 days a week, or 6 or 7 days a week. Those who chose from the last three options were then directed to answer questions about the kinds of spices used, and involved choices such as fresh chilli pepper, dried chilli pepper and chilli oil.(2,3)
Regular consumption of spicy foods essential
After a follow-up that averaged approximately seven years, 20,224 deaths were noted. Analysis of these people led to the finding that compared to those who ingested spicy foods less than once weekly, people who ate such foods one or two days per week had a 10 percent reduced risk of death. More impressive however, was the discovery that those who enjoyed spicy foods nearly every other day were at a 14 percent lowered risk of death compared to those who ate them less than once a week.
The findings were published in BMJ in an article titled, “Consumption of spicy foods and total and cause specific mortality: population based cohort study.” It begins by detailing use of spices throughout history as a way to enhance flavor, preserve food and change coloring. It then delves into the demographic and health information of the participants as well as methods of analysis, ultimately concluding the following:
In this large prospective study, we observed an inverse association between consumption of spicy foods and total mortality, after adjusting for potential confounders. Compared with those who ate spicy foods less than once a week, those who consumed spicy foods almost every day had a 14 perccent lower risk of death. Inverse associations were also observed for deaths due to cancer, ischemic heart diseases, and respiratory diseases.

The associations were consistent in men and women.
It’s also noted that this “…study is the first to analyze the association between daily consumption of spicy foods and mortality in a prospective cohort.”
Consider adding more spicy foods to your meals on a regular basis. They intensify flavors of other foods, making dishes even more enjoyable. Add to this the finding that such foods play a role in preventing an early death, and it’s a food addition well worth exploring.
There are so many ways to eat for your health. Eating spicy food is just one of them. To find other natural cures to eat your way to a healthy heart and body, go to NaturalCures.news.

Natural News.

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History professor denies Native genocide

Native student disagreed, then says professor expelled her from course

by Vincent Schilling
ICTMN

A Cal State Sacramento University professor who allegedly told his United States History class he did not like the term ‘genocide’ in relation to Native Americans in history, told a Native American student who disagreed with him that she was disenrolled and expelled from his course.
UPDATE: The Sacramento State History Department has issued a tweet stating Johnson was not expelled from the course. You can read the article update here: Sac State History Dept Tweets – “Student Not Disenrolled.”
The account is according to Native university student, Chiitaanibah Johnson (Navajo/Maidu) a 19-year-old sophomore student at Cal State Sacramento University.
Johnson says when she told her U.S. History Professor Maury Wiseman that she disagreed with his assessment that Native Americans did not face genocide, the professor said she was hijacking his class, and that she was accusing him of bigotry and racism.
The professor then dismissed the class early, apologized for Johnson’s disruptions and told her she was disenrolled at the end of the class on Friday.
“The whole thing started on Wednesday,” Johnson told ICTMN. “He was talking about Native America and he said the word genocide. He paused and said ‘I don’t like to use that word because I think it is too strong for what happened’ and ‘genocide implies that it was on purpose and most native people were wiped out by European diseases.’”
Johnson, who was offended, did not at first respond to the professor’s comments.
“I wrote it down. I was enraged for what I felt were obvious reasons. I didn’t say anything [on Wednesday] because I knew that if I didn’t have anything specific to back it up in terms of tangible or solid evidence that he would not take my comments into consideration,” she said.
On Friday, Johnson presented her research to the professor after his discussion on the Iroquois Confederacy and the Portuguese expeditions.
“He made it a point to say indigenous people were not peaceful. I was upset for obvious reasons. He’d mentioned how the French and the Dutch were allies and made it a point to say native people were killing each other before white settlers arrived.”
Johnson says that she understands that there were native conflicts before settlers arrived, but when the professor talked about the bravery of Portuguese expeditions without emphasis on the slave trade she again grew upset.
“On Friday, I raised my hand and I said, ‘I understand why we’re talking about the Portuguese people because it explains how they got to America. But I do not think it is fair to talk about Portuguese people as if they were only poor and brave.  They became rich by raping and enslaving the indigenous lands and people that they “discovered,’” says Johnson.
Johnson says that when she asked why the professor did not talk about any sort of Iroquoian technological advances or spirituality and then asked about her professor’s stance on genocide, the professor grew volatile and rolled his eyes several times.
“I told him, ‘You said genocide implies the purposeful extermination of people and that they were mostly wiped out by European diseases.’ I said, ‘That is not a true statement.’
“He said, ‘Genocide is not what happened.’ I stood up and started reading from an article by the United Nations that said: ‘Genocide is the deliberate killing of another people, a sterilization of people and/or a kidnapping of their children,’ and he said, ‘That is enough.’
“I said, ‘No. You have to tell the truth.’
“He said, ‘If you want to come talk to me after class, now is not the time, you are hijacking my class.’”
After a bit more discussion which Johnson says became heated, the professor dismissed the class. Additionally, other students defended the professor.
“He said, ‘You know what class? I am so sorry to everybody that this is happening. Please everyone come back on Wednesday have a good weekend.’”
After the class was dismissed, Johnson said she was expelled from the course by her professor.
“He said, ‘I do not appreciate this in my classroom.’ He began shaking his finger at me and said, ‘I don’t appreciate you making me sound like a racist and a bigot in my classroom. You have hijacked my lesson, taken everything out of context and I don’t care what kind of scholarship you have, or what kind of affiliation you have with the university, you will be disenrolled and expelled from this classroom.’”
“Within 10 minutes of me asking these questions and trying to read pieces from the article, he shut me down. He wasn’t listening. He excused everyone out of the room and told me I was expelled from the class,” says Johnson.
Since being told she was expelled from the course on Friday, Johnson says she feels overwhelmed by the close-mindedness and injustice of her situation. She also was disappointed that no students came to her defense.
“I had zero support from anybody in the classroom,” says Johnson. “All of the research I had done was very traumatizing – to read about babies being slammed into rocks being held from their ankles, to hear of people being lit on fire while they were still alive, to hear of them being disemboweled, and having their arms and hands chopped off .”
“I know these things are true. I have been told about them personally from my great-grand parents and grandparents and my mother who was in boarding school.”
“To be kicked out of the classroom so quickly, I was floored and I thought, ‘Are you kidding me? This was the third day of class, and already you’re going to completely expel me?’ I didn’t call him names, I did not say he was racist, I did not use foul language – yes, I raised my voice because he raised his voice at me and was talking over me and wouldn’t let me say anything. I felt like I had my feet completely kicked out from under me. I felt like I approached the situation in a way that a student of the university level is supposed to approach a disagreement with the professor.”
“I have been dealing with this kind of racism since I was a little girl,” says Johnson.
The Johnson family has told ICTMN that their next step in this matter is for their daughter to write a respectful letter to the university History Department chair as well as to the head of the University in an attempt to reach an amicable resolution.
Since Friday, ICTMN has reached out to the University of Sacramento about the incident, their Provost of the University has responded and expressed they will be investigating this matter. The professor has not responded to our phone or email requests for comment.

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How the Federal government is deterring California from reforming civil asset forfeiture laws

by Melissa Quinn
The Daily Signal

The federal government is trying to deter California from reforming its laws governing how police can seize cash and property.
The reforms to the state’s civil asset forfeiture laws could mean the loss of millions of dollars from a program run by the federal government.
Documents obtained by the Institute for Justice show that the California District Attorneys Association has been circulating emails from the Justice and Treasury Departments confirming that the current reforms proposed to California’s civil asset forfeiture laws would make the state ineligible to receive millions of dollars through the federal government’s Equitable Sharing Program.
“This is a desperate and cynical attempt to derail civil forfeiture reform in California,” Lee McGrath, the Institute for Justice’s legislative counsel, said in a statement. “Discussions of dollars and cents have no place in the debate about criminal justice reform, nor do ‘desire’ or technical incapability on the part of the federal government.”
The Equitable Sharing Program allows law enforcement to circumvent state forfeiture laws when conducting seizures of property and money. Participating state and local agencies partner with the federal government, and law enforcement agencies keep up to 80 percent of the proceeds from property and money seized.
Last year, California law enforcement agencies received more than $89.6 million through the federal government’s Equitable Sharing Program.
In an email to Lee Carter, Santa Barbara’s senior deputy district attorney, Melissa Nasrah, legal counsel for the Treasury Executive Office for Asset Forfeiture, expressed concern about the proposed reforms to California’s civil asset forfeiture laws.
“I highly doubt our federal agencies can figure out whether a conviction occurred in any timely manner,” Nasrah wrote. “I’m not sure they would have the resources, desire, or technical capability even [if] they have the first two.”
Nasrah went on to tell Carter that the “legislation, in effect, takes decision-making authority away from the Treasury.”
“Accordingly,” she continued, “I think I would still advise our policy officials here that it would be prudent to not share with CA agencies should this law be passed.”
In a similar email to Carter, Alice Dery, deputy chief of the Justice Department’s Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section, warned that if the proposed legislation is passed, California’s state and local law enforcement agencies will not be able to participate in the Justice Department’s Equitable Sharing Program.
“A transfer to a state-controlled fund would not be a permissible use of funds, especially when that central fund would redistribute money to all law enforcement agencies in the state, regardless of their eligibility or participation in the program,” Dery wrote.
The California legislature is currently debating legislation that would reform the state’s civil asset forfeiture laws. If signed into law, law enforcement would be allowed to forfeit property and money only if a property owner is convicted of a crime. The legislation also prohibits law enforcement agencies from transferring seized property and cash to the federal government.
Under the proposed reforms, law enforcement agencies are entitled to the proceeds from cash or money seized through Equitable Sharing only if the property owner is convicted of a crime.
The California Senate passed the proposed reforms, 38-1, and the state Assembly is set to debate the changes this week.
However, members of the law enforcement community are pushing back on the legislation.
In an August letter to California state senators obtained by the Institute for Justice, the California District Attorneys Association spoke out against the reforms.
“The current version of the bill would essentially deny every law enforcement agency in California direct receipt of any forfeiture assets,” Sean Hoffman, director of legislation for the California District Attorneys Association, wrote in the letter. “California’s asset forfeiture law will be changed for the worse, and it will cripple the ability of law enforcement to forfeit assets from drug dealers when arrest and incarceration is an incomplete strategy for combating drug trafficking.”
Civil asset forfeiture is a tool that gives law enforcement the power to seize property and money if they are suspected of being tied to a crime. Asset forfeiture was originally intended to combat money laundering and drug trafficking, but police departments have been increasingly using the tool to pad their budgets in difficult fiscal times.
In addition to California, state lawmakers in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Oklahoma have been debating changes to their state civil asset forfeiture laws.
Earlier this year, New Mexico Gov. Susana Martínez signed legislation reforming the state’s forfeiture laws. New Mexico’s law now requires proceeds from federal forfeitures to be deposited into the state’s general fund.
In response to the reforms, New Mexico is no longer eligible for the federal government’s Equitable Sharing Program, according to emails from the Treasury Department.
“These emails make it clear that the [Department of Justice] is trying to make an example of New Mexico and ward off other states from curtailing the federal government’s ability to forfeit private property without first obtaining a criminal conviction,” McGrath said.

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Chilean expert shares experiences of the Ayotzinapa case

by the El Reportero’s wire services

Francisco Cox, one of the five members of the Interdisciplinary Independent Expert Group which investigates the disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa teachers shared his experiences on the case, Mexican journal Publimetro reports today.
In an interview with Publimetro, the Chilean lawyer explained that he first heard about the case in November 2014 and since it is “one of the most important and significant cases in years, I voiced my interest in participating.”
As soon as we arrived on March 2nd, the first thing we did was to meet with the members of the Mexican state that had invited us and then we headed to the Ayotzinapa school, he said.
One of the things that really shocked us during that meeting with relatives and students was when the families told we were their last hope.
This is one of the cases that have changed my life, he finally said.
The Interdisciplinary Group of Experts from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights recently presented a report ruling out the official version stating that the bodies of the 43 teachers were incinerated at a garbage dump in the municipality of Cocula, Guerrero.

Canada Supreme Court says case against Chevron can proceed
A group of Ecuadorian villagers can proceed in Canada with their class action lawsuit against Chevron Corp. over environmental contamination in the rain forest, the country’s top court ruled.
The Supreme Court of Canada said in a unanimous decision that the company can be pursued in the country for its alleged actions in Ecuador, in a case that’s spanned more than two decades.
Canadian courts take a “generous and liberal approach to the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments,” Justice Clement Gascón wrote in the decision.The ruling on jurisdiction does not mean the villagers will be awarded Canadian assets, only that the case can proceed and be argued by both sides, the court ruled.

New Delhi Cervantes Institute to exhibit Colombian movies
The Cervantes Institute in New Delhi will exhibit a cycle of Colombian cinema in the capital during the month of September, in collaboration with the Embassy of Colombia in India, the cultural center announced.
A statement from the institution said the exhibition will take place every Sunday of the month at 4:30 local time in the Auditorium of the Cervantes Institute, dedicated to exhibit works of contemporary cinema.
The project includes the films Cazando Luciernagas (Chasing fireflies), by Roberto Torres Prieto; La Sirga (The towrope), by William Vega; Los Hongos (The Mushrooms) of Oscar Ruiz Navia, and Sofia y el Terco (Sofia and the Stubborn), by Andres Burgos, all winners of international awards.
Issues such as loneliness, the value of human relationships, the impact of war on the lives of individuals or the reality of young people in the slums of Colombia will be reflected in this films by outstanding Latin American filmmakers.
The Cervantes Institute in New Delhi is a cultural organization for the promotion and teaching of the language and for the dissemination of Spanish and Latin American culture, which maintains collaboration with museums, theaters, publishing houses and other institutions from India and the rest of the world.

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Culture and Arts Festival in the Oracle Arena

Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff

Come see Latin history through culture and arts at the Bay Area Latino Festival’s which mission is to showcase and highlight Latino artists and their contributions while stimulating, educating and nurturing the cultural life in the Bay Area primarily through the three areas of the arts: Visual Arts, Performing Arts and Literary Arts. This event provides exhibitions, educational demos, performances that support the arts and engage the diverse community that we live in.
Some of the organizations that will be part are The Mexican Museum, Latin American Media, MCCLA, UC Berkeley Latino Alumni Association, Chican@Latin@ Legacy Celebration, CandleLight Global America among many more. There will be activities for children.
Featuring Artists: Richard Bean & SAPO, Martha Soledad, Alma Latina, Ballet Tonalli de San Jose, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, Mariachi, Visual Artist, Literary Artist and Hands on Art and more!
At the Oracle Arena East Side Club, on Sept. 12, 2015, from noon to 5 p.m.

Live in concert in the Mission Catalina Claro

Catalina Claro & Friends: Award winning pianist, composer, and singer, Catalina Claro returns to San Francisco for One Night Only!
Catalina Claro is a Chilean composer, arranger, pianist, guitarist, and singer. She is influenced by a diverse range of genres, from classical to boleros, from pop to flamenco.
At the Make Out Room, 3225 22nd St. @ Mission St, San Francisco, on Saturday, Sept. 19. Doors 6:30 p.m. Showtime 7 p.m.

A Poet’s Love – combining song, aerial dance and theatre
Zaccho Dance Theatre (ZDT) will premiere A Poet’s Love , a new work created by Zaccho’s Artistic Director Joanna Haigood and Brooklyn-based singer/actor José Joaquín García.
A Poet’s Love is a new creation based on the Dichterliebe song cycle from classical German composer Robert Schumann. A Poet’s Love takes the form of sixteen discrete vignettes, each one responsive to and deeply immersed in the musical and poetic context of a song in Dichterliebe.
The complete work – combining song, aerial dance and theatre – will be performed at Zaccho Studio in San Francisco and will feature members of ZDT’s performance ensemble as well as José Joaquín García, who will perform the songs accompanied by well-known Bay Area pianist Frederick Harris.
On Friday Oct. 2, 2015. Additional performances will occur Saturday, Oct. 3 at 8 p.m. and Sunday Oct. 4 at 7 p.m.
Tickets are $20 at the door, but seating is limited. To guarantee and pre-order tickets please visit http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2182219. Feel free to call us at 415.822.6744 or send an email to christopher@zaccho.org for more information.

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Latin Grammy nominees to be anounced in three weeks

por servicio de noticias de El Reportero

La Academia Latina de la Grabación anunciará el próximo septiembre 23 nominaciones a los Premios Grammy Latinos, informaron hoy los organizadores.
Vía  LatinGRAMMY.com’s el centro de actividad Social  latino en donde un grupo de artistas revelará ocho de las 48 categorías de los premios, que tendrá su gala el 19 de noviembre en Las Vegas, Estados Unidos.
Un día antes de la ceremonia se llevará a cabo un homenaje al cantante brasileño Roberto Carlos.
Considerado como uno de los principales representantes de la música popular brasileña, el reconocido cantante ha vendido en todo el mundo más de 120 millones de discos y la edición de 2015 le honrará como Persona del Año en la Gala de Grabación de la Academia Latina.
Los Grammy Latinos se establecieron en 1989 en los Estados Unidos con el fin de reconocer la excelencia artística y técnica de América en los records de música.
En años anteriores, el evento ha honrado a artistas como Christina Aguilera, Juanes, Miguel Bosé, Laura Pausini, Shakira, Rubén Blades, Juan Luis Guerra y Calle 13.

Bolivia participara en el Festival Latinoamericano de Video
Bolivia estará presente en la 22ª edición del Festival de Video Latinoamericano que se realizará en Rosario, Argentina, a partir del próximo 04 de septiembre, fue publicado hoy.
Un informe del Consulado de Bolivia en Rosario, indica que seis películas y jurados Bolivianos participarán en el evento.
El festival está organizado por el Centro Audiovisual Rosario (CAR).
Marcos Loayza, un cineasta boliviano conocido, será parte del jurado del evento, en el que más de 200 películas de todo el continente se exhibirán a partir del 3 de septiembre al 23.

Caricaturistas de 14 países comparten experiencias en México
Más de 60 caricaturistas de 14 países compartirán sus experiencias a partir de hoy y hasta el próximo sábado en el Primer Congreso Latinoamericano de Políticas, Ilustración y Dibujo de la historieta (FiLo 2015).
Los debates, conferencias, talleres y panel de reflexión se llevará a cabo en tres lugares del centro histórico de esta ciudad: la ciudad de México y populares Museos de arte y de la Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana.
Caricaturistas de Argentina, Cuba, Colombia, Ecuador, Estados Unidos, Brasil, Chile, España, Francia, México, Nicaragua, Perú, Portugal y Venezuela participaran en este evento y alzaran sus voces a favor de la paz y contra la violencia, además de referirse a la globalización.
Para dicha reunión también asistirán  artistas nacionales e internacionales, entre los cuales esta Antonio Antunes, fundador de World Press Cartoon, de Portugal, y Jean Plantureux (Plantu), del diario francés Le Monde.

El actor Matt Damon critica discurso de Donald Trump “sobre los inmigrantes”
Actor estadounidense Matt Damon describió al discurso sobre los inmigrantes del candidato presidencial republicano Donald Trump como “xenófobo”, “repugnante” y “deshumanizante”, dieron a   conocer los medios de comunicación hoy.
Damon rechazó declaraciones de Trump, en el que llaman a los indocumentados mexicanos como “violadores” y “narcotraficantes”.
La estrella de Hollywood, que está casado con una mujer argentina, con quien tiene tres hijas, dijo que las palabras del candidato a la presidencia son ofensivas para todos los latinoamericanos.
Trump propuso deportar a millones de inmigrantes y discutió la posibilidad de construir un muro para separar a los Estados Unidos desde México.
Antonio Banderas, criticó a su posición racista e hizo una fuerte defensa de la cultura latinoamericana durante la gala de Platinum, celebrada en Marbella.

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