Friday, September 6, 2024
Home Blog Page 399

The fun of Sunday Streets in SF to be the last one

by the El Reporter staff

The Gail Dobson Latin Jazz EnsembleThe Gail Dobson Latin Jazz Ensemble

Sunday Streets, events hosted by the City to get San Franciscans out of their homes to participate in fun group activities that promote health and community will feature its final event of 2011, titled Sunday Streets in the Mission on Sunday, Oct 23, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Most activities will be around the Mission and 24th streets area, so people living in the Mission District are especially encouraged to come and participate.

Among the fun filled happenings will include: low-rider bicycles, Salsa bands, DJs, Afro-Caribbean dance performances; and dental, health and vision screenings. For info: www.SundayStreetsSF.com or sundaystreets@gmail.com or call 415.344.0489

Best of Roots Plays Art House Gallery

The production, The Best of Roots, featuring Marcus Cohen and the Congress, a reggae band noted for their unique new music blend, a mixture of funk, jazz, Latin-jazz, R&B and soul will star at the Urban Music venue this Friday night.

This concert is but the first in a lineup of similar ones scheduled to show on Fridays and Saturdays October through December at the Art House Gallery on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley, with appearances by: the Best of Roots Music and the Groove and Voodoo Ville band in October; in November, its the Musical Art Quintet, and in December its Mark Levine & The Latin Tinge and The Gail Dobson Latin Jazz Ensemble.

For more info, contact: the Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, at 2905 Shattuck Ave, in Berkeley, at 510-472-3170 or go to stephanie@urbanmusicpresents.com.

United Nations Film Festival

The United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF) theme for the 14th UNAFF “Education Is a Human Right,” which has become even timelier in the past several months given recent developments in school budget cuts, tuition hikes, and rising dropout rates, which have led to state and federal-level debates about educational reform.

A number of films this year will address barriers to education not only in the U.S., but across the world as well. Extending beyond the main theme, UNAFF will also cover a wide range of topics including child labor, human trafficking, public health, and freedom of the press.

UNAFF will feature 70 documentaries presenting stories from 70 countries.

Founded in 1998 by Jasmina Bojic, film critic and educator, UNAFF is an international documentary film festival originally established to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As one of the oldest solely documentary film festivals in the US, UNAFF prides itself in providing a forum for discovery and dialogue about different cultures and solutions.

UNAFF will have this year more than 20 PREMIERES – World, the US and the West Coast and 40 filmmakers from all over the world. We would love to have your coverage. To be held between Oct. 21 – 30 in in Palo Alto, Stanford University, East Palo Alto and San Francisco. The theme for this year is EDUCATION IS A HUMAN RIGHT. For more info visit ­http://www.unaff.org/2011.

Exhibition in honor of Latina artists contributions

by the El Reportero’s staff

Zahara Flamenco MarroquíZahara Flamenco Marroquí

In honor of the Latina artistic contributions s in the areas of literature, film, music, dance and visual arts, the Consulate General of Mexico (here in San Francisco) will host an exhibition of female artists of Latin descent from the Bay Area and around the world.

In edition to the main events that will take place at the Consulate General, located at 532 Folsom St., there will also be a series of performances and attractions, such as murals, videos, and music at the SF Symphony, Mission Cultural Center, the Smith Rafael Film Center and the University of San Francisco.

The main event at the Consulate is on Oct 20 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., with other ones running through Dec 13.

For RSVP info, call: 415.354.1721 or for more info, go to www.mfelix@sre.gob.mx. http://www.mexicosf.com/mexicoinsf/menu/numina-femenina.

Zahara makes the U.S. scene

A new trendy Flamenco/Moroccan music/dance style mix called Zahara is making the U.S. scene and is being featured for the second time here locally in San Francisco.

Zahara has been around for about a year and is described as being passionate, dynamic, innovative, fun music to cut loose and dance to!

Gypsy Flamenco singer Kina Mendez from,Jerez de la Frontera, and the Moroccan Musicians of El Hamideen will be the featured performers. This event will take place at the Swedish American Music Hall, 2174 Market St., Oct. 21 at 8 p.m.

For tickets and info, go to www.cafedunord.com.

­Fort Mason and Woman’s Building celebrates local/afar craftswomen

The Celebration of Craftswomen will feature its annual show, drawing attention to local artists and those from afar at Fort Mason’s Festival Pavilion Center.

The show will include 160 women artists, among them many respected Latinas. Participating Latina art

Catching pigs in russia, a warning to the people in the U.S.

Author unknown

There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab, the professor noticed one young man, an exchange student, who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt. The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country’s government and install a new communist regime.

In the midst of his story, he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked: Do you know how to catch wild pigs?

The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line.

The young man said that it was no joke. “You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come every day to eat the free corn.

When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used   to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence.

They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side.

The pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat that free corn again. You then slam the gate on them and ­catch the whole herd. Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom.

They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.”

The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening in America. The government keeps pushing us toward Communism/Socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tax exemptions, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, etc. while we continually lose our freedoms, just a little at a time.

One should always remember: There is no such thing as a free Lunch!

Also, a politician will never provide a service for you cheaper than

you can do it yourself.

So, if you see that all of this wonderful government ‘help’ is a

problem confronting the future of democracy in America, you might want to send this on to your friends. If you think the free ride is

essential to your way of life then you will probably delete this email,

but God help you when the gate slams shut!

In this ‘very important’ election year, listen closely to what the candidates are promising you – just maybe, you will be able to tell who

is about to slam the gate on America.

government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough

to take away everything you have.’ Thomas Jefferson

__________________

“Free people are not equal & equal people are not free.” — Mackinac Center for Public Policy

EstaThe Federal Reserve Cartel Third of Part III: The Financial Paradise

FROM THE EDITOR: Dear reader: this is the third of the fourth part of this series, The Federal Reserve Cartel, which chronically explains the history of the Fed and the false perception that resulted in Americans believing it’s part of the U.S. Government when in fact, not only the Fed Reserve is a private for-profit bank consorsium that ought to be abolished, and which is unconstitutional.

This is an excerpt from a book by Dean Henderson

To this end: almost all banks in the U.S. are members of The Fed, and by virtue of its enormous capital resources the New York Federal Reserve rules the Fed. The true center of power though is the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which only a NY Fed President has a permanent voting seat.

The FOMC issues directives on monetary policy that are executed from the 8th floor of the NY Fed, a fortress modeled after the Bank of England. In the fifth sub-basement of this 14-story stone hulk lays 10,300 tons of mostly non-US gold, one-third of the world’s gold reserves and the largest gold stockpile in the world.

The world of money is increasingly computerized. With the introduction by the Eight Families of complicated financial instruments like derivatives, options, puts and futures; the volume of inter-bank transactions took a quantum leap.

To handle this the Fed built a superhighway eerily known as CHIPS (Clearing Interbank Payment System), which is based in New York and modeled after Morgan’s Belgium-based Euro-Clear – also known as “The Beast.”

When the Fed was created, five NY banks- Citibank, Chase, Chemical Bank, Manufacturers Hanover and Bankers Trust- held a 43 percent stake in the New York Fed. By 1983 these same five banks owned 53 percent of the NY Fed. By year 2000, the newly merged Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase and Deutsche Bank combines owned even bigger chunks, as did the European faction of the Eight Families. Collectively they own majority stock in every Fortune 500 corporations and do the bulk of stock and bond trading. In 1955 the above five banks accounted for 15 percent of all stock trades. By 1985 they were involved in 85 percent of all stock transactions.

Still more powerful are the investment banks that bear the names of many of the Eight Families. In 1982, while Morgan bankers presided over negotiations between Britain and Argentina after the Falklands War, President Reagan pushed through SEC Rule 415, which helped consolidate securities underwriting in the six large investment houses owned by the Eight Families: Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Salomon Brothers, First Boston and Lehman Brothers. These banks further consolidated their power via the merger mania of 1980s and 1990s.

American Express swallowed up both Lehm2an Brothers-Kuhn Loeb – which had merged in 1977 – and Shearson Lehman-Rhoades. The Israel Moses Seif’s Banca de la Svizzera Italiana bought a 7 percent stake in Lehman Brothers.

Salomon Brothers nabbed Philbro from the South African Oppenheimer family, then bought Smith Barney. All three then became part of Traveler’s Group, headed by Sandy Weill of the David-Weill family, which controls Lazard Freres, through senior partner Michel David-Weill. Citibank then bought Travelers to form Citigroup. S.G. Warburg, of which Oppenheimer’s Chartered Consolidated owns a 9 percent stake, joined the old money Banque Paribas- which merged ­into Merrill Lynch in 1984. Union Bank of Switzerland acquired Paine Webber, while Morgan Stanley ate up Dean Witter and purchased Discover credit card operations from Sears.

Kuhn Loeb-controlled First Boston merged with Credit Suisse, which had already absorbed White-Weld, to become CS First Boston- the major player in the dirty London Eurobond market. Merrill Lynch – merged into Bank of America in 2008 – is the major player on the US side of this trade tracks. Swiss Banking Corporation merged with London’s biggest investment house S.G. Warburg to create SBC Warburg, while Warburg became more intertwined with Merrill Lynch through their 1998 Mercury Assets tie up. The Warburg’s formed another venture with Union Bank of Switzerland, creating powerhouse UBS Warburg. Deutsche Bank bought Banker’s Trust and Alex Brown to briefly become the world’s largest bank with $882 billion in assets. With repeal of Glass-Steagal, the line between investment, commercial and private, banking disappeared.

This handful of investment banks exerts an enormous amount of control over the global economy. Their activities include: advising Third World debt negotiations, handling mergers and breakups, creating companies to fill a perceived economic void through the launching of initial public stock offerings (IPOs), underwriting all stocks, underwriting all corporate and government bond issuance, and pulling the bandwagon down the road of privatization and globalization of the world economy.

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: MORE TO COME NEXT WEEK

Following up the events of Occupy Wall Street

by the El Reportero staff

Protests against the Federal Reserve Bank growing. (PHOTO BY DAVID BACON)Protests against the Federal Reserve Bank growing. (PHOTO BY DAVID BACON)

While local television news stations, excepting Channel 2, refuse to air Occupy Wall Street (OWS) coverage; as OWS embarks upon its third week of its protest, there can be no denying that this political movement against what the Wall Street financial investment banking institution has come to symbolize and stand for is gaining in credibility.

As of late, there are OWS startups springing up in nearby Oakland, Berkeley and Fresno, with others in the making. This new political movement is proving to have wide far reaching social and cultural appeal as is being witnesses by groups like the Chinese Progressive Association and the International Socialist Organization are hitching on.

In this vein, Chinese Progressive participated in a march in front of the Federal Reserve and down Market Street, where members chanted, “We are the 99 percent!”

This reference to the ratio of Americans who don’t make up the 1 per­cent who control the bulk of the wealth in this country has become the OWS rallying cry of solitary and it seems to capture the spirit of many Americans from all walks of life in this country.

Needless to say, OWS has far reaching appeal among immigrants, especially undocumented ones, because of the disparity between the ultra-rich and the poor.

“Are we returning to the revolution of the 60’s?” Psychologist Nathan Hare queries.

As the OWS struggle gains in momentum and validity, it becomes to symbolize the voices of all those who feel downtrodden upon by the rich, i.e., the homeless, those with little or no access to education…

As of late, groups like Just Cause and Oakland Teachers Association are planning actions in support of OWS, as is more progressive ones like Homes Not Jails, who as of late have taken to occupying unused real estate in San Francisco.

As of yesterday, in part, in a show of support for the OWS movement, Homes Not Jails took over the un­occupied former Cathedral Hill and Charlie’s hotels.

However, this hotel takeover action proved to be merely symbolic in nature because as of today when San Francisco police moved in to throw them out, Homes Not Jails members had abandoned both sites.

The International Socialist Organization issued this statement about OWS: “Millions of people have come to the understanding that capitalism is no longer working. And millions of people around the world—from Athens to Cairo to San Francisco—are fighting back. Marxism provides a revolutionary understanding and strategy for ridding society of exploitation and oppression once and for all.”

OWS actions were originally inspired by the Egyptian political movement that resulted in the Egyptian people, with the aid of social media amassing and toppling their government.

 

­

Stop the Walgreens flu shot harassment!

by Mike Adams
Natural News

Accounts are pouring in to NaturalNews that Walgreens customers feel they are being verbally harassed by Walgreens employees at the checkout counter over flu shots. Multiple accounts from NaturalNews readers describe aggressive verbal harassment by Walgreens employees who appear to be “over the top” in pushing flu shots, even onto pregnant women!

I get my scripts filled at Walgreens so they know me real well at the one I go to,” one reader told NaturalNews. “When I was pregnant they kept trying to push one on me and I kept refusing them.” Several readers who say they are Walgreens employees have also reported to NaturalNews — and requested anonymity out of fear of losing their jobs — that they were being rewarded with unincentives or threatened with reprimands if they met a certain “goal” of pushing a certain number of customers into getting flu shots. “I have been told that I have to push the flu shot on my customers, arrange flu shot clinics at off-site locations and draw up flu shots to give to the customers,” one person who claimed to be a Walgreens employee told NaturalNews. They added, “Please don’t blame the employees who are asking about the flu shot, they are having their jobs threatened,” indicating the existence of a feeling of intimidation by their employer.

“Another employee informed me that they do not receive bonuses but will receive write ups and threats if they forget to ask each customer who enters their stores if they want a flu shot,” says blogger Aydan in Oak Park, California (http://aydansrecovery.blogspot.com/…).

“A Walgreen’s employee who checked me out yesterday asked if I had gotten my flu shot,” reports another NaturalNews reader. “I said no. She pressed me to get it. Then, she added that their entire staff was going to be rewarded with iPads when they met their quota.”

CVS pharmacies also appear to be using employees to push flu shots: “I work for CVS and they are making us wear shirts that say get your flu shot today, and [they give a] 50 dollar bonus for whoever has the most sales. I hate my job…” says another NaturalNews reader.

I called Walgreens media relations department to ask whether this pushing of flu shots onto customers was a corporate policy. There, I spoke with Robert Elfinger, a media relations representative for Walgreens.

­Elfinger said he was unaware of any corporate policy asking employees to verbally promote vaccines. He also stated he was unaware of any complaints from customers about Walgreens employees wanting people to get flu shots. So this is neither a denial nor a confirmation of anything; it just says that the Walgreens media relations department isn’t aware of any of this.

To lodge a complaint with Walgreens Call their customer service line at: (800) 925-4733.

Calderón demands reduction of drug use by the U.S. — or else legalizationla

by the El Reportero’s news services

Felipe CalderónFelipe Calderón

Close to six years after launching a military-backed drive against Mexico’s drug gangs, themselves engaged in a savage turf war, with both developments having jointly claimed more than 40,000 lives, President Felipe Calderón has joined the ranks of those proposing what he calls ‘market alternatives’ to the ‘war on drugs’ — in other words, legalisation. He wants the consumer countries to start.

Latin America’s new economic visio­n

The US’s economic problems have undermined its distinctive spin on capitalism. In the US, the “bottom line” has long been seen as the be-all-and-end-all of economic activity. How the “bottom line” was achieved was much less important, as the Enron saga showed, than the size of the figures in it. There are, however, ­other ways to use the information markets offer.

Peru’s judicial reform starts at home

On Aug. 18 President Ollanta Humala outlined the focal point for judicial reform: attacking corruption in the judiciary.

“A corrupt judge is more dangerous than a criminal”, President Humala said on Aug. 18.

Corruption has long undermined the public standing of judges and the sentences they hand down; the judiciary has been often described as an institution where money buys results, and allegedly, the more money one pays the more ‘justice’ one gets.

Efficiency – the more technical, but less visible twin problem facing the judiciary – will nevertheless be an important component, if not the core focus.

Humala’s reforms are going with the grain of what senior judges, notably, César San Martin, the president of the supreme court, has been saying since he was appointed in January.

­

Free trade agreements killing jobs and labor rights

by David Bacon
TruthOut News Analysis

Last week President Obama broke his campaign commitment and put three free trade agreements up for a vote in Congress. Nineteen years ago, when the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was in Congress, supporters said it would create jobs and protect labor rights. Before agreeing to new free trade treaties with Colombia, South Korea and Panama, Congress should look at the dismal record.

Promise #1. A typical pro-business study predicted in 1992 that NAFTA would create 130,000 U.S. jobs in two years, double U.S. exports to Mexico, and create 609,000 jobs there. Today Tom Donahue, CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, repeats the promise, saying the three new treaties also “are about creating jobs.”

According to the Economic Policy Institute, however, between 1993 and 2004 the U.S. trade deficit with Mexico ballooned by $107 billion, which cost 1,015,290 U.S. jobs. Mexico lost more jobs because of the treaty than those relocated from the U.S. Because the treaty allowed U.S. grain companies to dump corn in Mexico, 1.3 million farmers lost their livelihood as well.

Six million people from Mexico came to live and work in the U.S. as a result of this displacement. The Colombian FTA has a provision identical to that in NAFTA, which led to the corn dumping, so those farmers will be uprooted too.

Enrique Athankasiadis, President of Panama’s National Agricultural Organization, says, “We are certain that the FTA will cause great displacement in the Panamanian agriculture sector, on which 40 percent of our nation’s population depends. We Panamanians do not want to follow the Mexicans and Central Americans in the flood of immigration to the United States.”

Obama’s FTA with Korea will cost 159,000 U.S. jobs in seven years, according to EPI.

Promise #2. Supporters promised a NAFTA labor side-agreement would protect the right to join unions and raise wages in Mexico.

In the past two years, the Mexican government fired 44,000 electrical  workers to destroy their union, and helped a giant mining company break a 4-year strike. NAFTA did nothing to prevent these or other violations of labor rights. Mexican wages have declined since the treaty took effect, producing more unemployed workers, more displacement and more forced migration.

This will be the story in Colombia too, where over 2850 trade unionists have been murdered in the last 25 years. Union leaders in South Korea have also been arrested repeatedly and imprisoned. But there are no protections proposed at all for workers in South Korea or Panama.

Higher profits and a “competitive edge” don’t ensure companies will keep jobs in Colombia. EPI’s founder Jeff Faux says, “These ­agreements provide global corporations with the opportunity to outsource production for the U.S. market.”

Workers and unions in the U.S., Colombia and South Korea all agree. The AFL-CIO’s Rich Trumka says, “We need to be creating jobs-not passing agreements that will offshore more jobs.” “We do not need a NAFTA-style FTA,” adds the Korean unions, calling it “harmful not only for the Korean workers and working families, but for the workers and working families in the U.S. as well.”

Congress should listen. Free trade treaties that throw more workers on the street, undermine labor rights and lead to forced migration, are political suicide for Democrats, as they will need workers’ votes next year. Regardless of promises about a stimulus or a new jobs bill, working families will not forget how they voted on these job-killing treaties.

Right2KnowMarch protests against genetically-altered food

­by the El Reportero Staff

The Right2Know March group photo at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York, October 1, 2011The Right2Know March group photo at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York, October 1, 2011

Right2KnowMarch (one word) is sponsoring a political march aimed at making people aware of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), in layman’s terms, “Genetically Modified (GM) food, which has been all over the headlines as of late, because those against using this technology in food growth point out how genetically altered corn and soy beans are allegedly killing Monarch butterflies and hummingbirds. Hence, if it is bad for animals it must have some undesired residual effects upon humans.

For this reason, European, and now American, environmental groups have taken to the streets to engage in acts of protests against GM foods, and at the forefront of making U.S. citizens aware of the toxicity of this technology is Right2KnowMarch.

At noon on Oct. 13 at SF City Hall Right2Know will host a press conference informing citizens of an up and coming West Coast political march they are hosting. To this end: on Friday Oct. 14 at 9 a.m. protestors will depart SF City Hall, destined for West Oakland’s “Rising Sun Entrepreneurs/ La Placita Commercial Kitchen.” From there, they will present Mayor Jean Quan’s office with their GMO finding report. From there, it’s on to Berkeley, Richmond … and eventually ending in Sacramento where they will voice their concerns to Governor Brown at the state capital.

For more information: contact Miguel Pérez (SF) at 415.240.1797; Shelly Garza (Oakland) at 510.698.4178 (office) or 510.544.9740 (cell); Sandra Elizondo (Berkeley) at 510.704.0929; or Ramon Cardona (Richmond) at 510.776.8020 or go to right2know.com.

Women and Children on the Anza Trail

This talk is part of the Mexican Mayflower speaker series, supported by the Anza Trail and the IMLS. Talks will explore the legacy of the Juan Bautista de Anza Expedition, which brought European settlers to the West Coast: an event in American history on par with the voyage of the Mayflower.

Peter Gough, Professor of History at University of Las Vegas, Nevada, will share the untold stories women and children who traveled North from New Spain to settle California.

Speakers will address untold stories and relevant themes of the journey including the African heritage of many settlers, the contributions of Native Americans, and the dangerous journeys which those from Mexico still make daily to California. On Saturday, Oct. 15, from 6-7:30 p.m.

Latino Theater Company presents Evelina Fernández

­by the El Report­ero’s staff

Evelina FernándezEvelina Fernández

Hope is a story about a handsome, idealistic young President in the White House. He has a lovely wife and two beautiful children. It is a time of global crisis. He has come to bring America hope. It’s not 2011. It’s 1962. The President is John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

In the months between August and October of 1962, Americans lived in real dread of a nuclear confrontation with the U.S.S.R., as the Soviets placed missiles in Cuba, within striking distance of the Gulf Coast states.

Hope, however, has a Latino twist.

Elena García has endured the philandering and the violence of husband Carlos for a long time. Many times she has forgiven him. But she cannot continue to do this and face her children. Her brother-in-law wants to comfort her and treat her like a queen. Her older daughter Gina is angry, rebellious and sexual. Younger daughter Betty is obsessed with President Kennedy, and speaks to him on the phone, regularly.

Evelina Fernández’ new play Hope, part II of a Mexican Trilogy will have its world premiere on Friday, Oct. 21, 2011. Written by Fernández and directed by Jose Luis Valenzuela, Hope is presented by the Latino Theater Company at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in downtown Los Angeles.

The new play Hope is Part II of A Mexican Trilogy. The Trilogy received a public reading in January of this year. Hope is the first part of the Trilogy to be fully produced.

SF Film Society debuts Center for Investigative Reporting new film

The San Francisco Film Society will showcase, Behind the Story: Under Suspicion, a new film which draws attention to some of the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) most controversial stories, with particular attention focused on how 9/11 has hampered our civil liberties.

The first of this film Mexiseries kicks off with its Under Suspicion segment, reflecting upon how 9/11 programs like “See Something, Say Something and Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting” have resulted in American lost of liberties, like privacy, taking a back seat to National Security.

Attention is paid to anti-terrorism laws eroding our great democracy.

This SF Film Society and Center collaboration draws attention to the naïveté of Middle Americans by showing how Homeland Security performed identity checks and questioned thousands of people at a mall in Minnesota – and then passed on the information to the FBI and local police – without the subjects ever bulking or questioning the process.

Tickets are $11 for general admission and $10 for seniors. For more information, visit cironline.org or call 415.561.5024.

EMMY NEWS: Producers under pressure to cut Charlie Sheen from broadcast

Charlie Sheen is planning on going to the Primetime Emmy Awards and that has a whole lot of people  in an uproar. Well people

Sheen is suing, anyway.

The Emmy Awards buzz is that there has been some pressure put on the TV Academy and the producers of tonight’s Primetime Emmy Awards telecast not to have former Two And A Half Men star Charlie Sheen as a presenter. The word around Tinseltown is that Two and a Half Men creator Chuck Lorre, who was the subjects of many of Sheen’s public insults last spring and is currently being sued by the ­actor over his termination from the show, confronted TV Academy’s chairman John Shaffner, who is the production designer of 2 of Lorre’s comedy series, Two And A Half Men and The Big Bang Theory.

We hear that Lorre demanded that Sheen’s planned appearance be cut from the broadcast. Meanwhile, Warner Bros. Television Group president Bruce Rosenblum, who oversees the studio producing Men, Warner Bros. TV, which also is being sued by Sheen, made a call to Fox chairman Peter Rice asking whether it would be possible for Sheen to be dropped.

1...398399400...599Page 399 of 599

SELECTIONS

POPULAR TICKETS

POPULAR CATEGORY

ABOUT US

Welcome to our Marvin J. Ramirez website! We are an innovative newspaper located in the heart of San Francisco. With a relentless passion for telling powerful stories, we inform our community with truthful news, insightful analysis, and compelling reporting.

Contacto: lreportero@aol.com

FOLLOW US

© Copyright 2023. Agenciadigital.pw. All rights reserved.