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David Broza releases ‘La Mujer Que Yo Quiero’, an all-new album

by Araceli Martínez

 

Internationally renowned Israeli singer-songwriter David Broza, recognized for his dynamic guitar playing and humanitarian efforts, released on January 27, La Mujer Que Yo Quiero, the Spanish version of the epic album Ha’isha She’iti, released to the public. 40 years ago, and which has been the best-selling album in Israel’s recording history.

The idea of La Mujer Que Yo Quiero was to make emotional versions of the songs with only voice and guitar. The work was a strong process; and it is reported that during the recording, Broza sang for eight hours, barely stopping for coffee.

“Only after the session was over did I realize that I had immersed myself in the songs with all my body and soul. It was so intense that it took me several days to relax,” says Broza.

The result is a stark and pure performance, in a live recording of Ha’isha She’iti’s songs, now sung in Spanish.

The original album was a tribute to popular music in Spanish in the late 70’s and early 80’s.

The new album La Mujer que yo Quiero brings music back to its roots, with songs performed in Spanish just as they were originally written.

40 years ago, the songs of Ha’isha She’iti were meticulously translated into Hebrew by the great Israeli poet Jonathan Geffen, with a fluency that made them seem originally written in Hebrew, so much so that few people remember that the songs originated in Spain. .

During the last few years, Broza performed the songs live, mixing the Spanish lyrics with the Hebrew ones. This aroused in Broza the idea of recording a version completely in Spanish on the occasion of the album’s 40th anniversary.

With that in mind, in October 2022, Broza traveled to Madrid, Spain, and recorded the album in one take, during one day, meanwhile the preparation took more than a month, with rehearsals for long hours.

In total, nine songs made up the entire album. Only one song from the Ha’isha She’iti, “Rumba”, written by Broza with Geffen, was originally sung in Hebrew.

“Rumba” was replaced on La Mujer Que Yo Quiero by “La Más Bella Niña,” another translated song that was not part of the Ha’isha She’iti. The theme is a poem from Spain in the 16th century by Luis de Góngoras, with a melody by the musician Paco Ibañez.

“La Más Bella Niña” was the first song that Jonathan Geffen translated into Hebrew and the song that started this project more than 40 years ago.

Broza’s signature sound brings together songs in Hebrew, Spanish, and English, influenced by Spanish flamenco, American folk, rock and roll, and poetry.

Advocacy for social justice and peace are embedded in his musical work, and his 1977 hit song “Yihye Tov” remains an Israeli peace anthem.

He has more than 40 albums released, many of which are multi-platinum. Broza’s travels have contributed to his international sound and his commitment to human connection, storytelling and equality.

The singer-songwriter’s charismatic, vibrant and passionate energy is far-reaching and has a global impact. If you want to know more about Broza, visit his website: www.davidbroza.net

Vision experts warn of dangers of excessive screen time

by Suzanne Potter

California News Service

 

Americans spend almost 13 hours a day using digital devices, and experts said it has the potential to strain your eyes and lead to serious health problems down the road.

Blue light comes from the sun but also from digital screens, and some medical professionals say too much of it can lead to scratchy or itchy eyes, tearing up, problems focusing, and headaches.

Dr. Scott Edmonds, chief eye care officer for UnitedHealthcare Vision, recommended the 20-20-20 rule: Every 20 minutes, look away from the screen at something 20 feet away, for at least 20 seconds.

“It takes you away from the blue light, so your retina can recycle,” Edmonds explained. “It also takes the strain off your convergence muscles, the muscles that turn your eyes in to keep them focused on the screen. When you look at 20 feet, your focus goes to rest, your converging muscles go to their resting point, and you get 20 seconds away from the blue light.”

He also recommended adults, starting in their 20s, should get a baseline eye exam, so they can measure changes in the future. Ultraviolet light is damaging to the retina and over time and is thought to contribute to age-related macular degeneration.

Edmonds added experts are concerned blue light may be just as damaging.

“Blue, we always thought, was safe because it’s visible,” Edmonds acknowledged. “It may also be causative because it’s so high energy and because these new sources admit such high levels of the blue light.”

Dr. Raj Maturi, clinical spokesperson for the American Academy of Ophthalmology, advised frequent breaks from the screen and turning them off well before bedtime to improve sleep.

“We get tired, our brain is not trying to slow down, and we don’t sleep well,” Maturi pointed out. “An excess amount of blue light at night can also decrease the amount of melatonin that our body produces, and therefore affect how quickly and how easily we fall asleep.”

 

CA ‘Just Safe’ campaign aims to redefine public safety

Social justice advocates have just launched a new public education campaign. It’s called “Just Safe,” and it’s aimed at changing the conversation about crime, especially in the wake of the recent mass shootings.

The group Californians for Safety and Justice has released a commercial, narrated by actress Jennifer Lewis, making the point that safety isn’t just the absence of crime – it is the presence of well-being.

The group’s executive director, Tinisch Hollins, said these shootings and others plague a society that neglects mental health.

“So, the goal of this is to invite conversation about doubling down on investments that lead to well-being,” said Hollins, “like mental health treatment, substance abuse treatment, education.”

The campaign applauds efforts to heal communities, such as the announcement last week from the California Victims Compensation board of a $2.5 million grant to open three new trauma recovery center offices in Stockton and Bakersfield.

The state’s 19 trauma recovery centers offer mental health treatment, help with medical expenses, and support groups for victims of violent crime.

While accountability is important for people involved with the justice system, Hollins said she agrees with the state’s efforts in recent years to prioritize rehabilitation over punishment. She called post-incarceration programs that help people re-enter society “a wise investment.”

“Removing barriers, making sure that they have the resources they need when they return home,” said Hollins, “keeps us all safe, prevents more crime from happening, and helps our economy, because we have more folks to be able to play a role.”

She noted that right now, people who’ve paid their debt to society often fail to recover when they face huge obstacles to finding employment and housing, and must comply with onerous legal requirements.

Find out more about the campaign online at ‘JustSafe.org.’

 

Congress is set to expose what may be the largest censorship system in U.S. history

by News Editors

 

February 07, 2023 – Below is my column in the Hill on the first hearings this week to be held by the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. It could be one of the most consequential investigations for free speech in decades if it pulls back the curtain on government censorship programs. After the historic release of the Twitter Files by Elon Musk, questions remain on any similar coordination with other social media companies with federal agencies like the FBI to target views considered “disinformation” or “misinformation.”

 

(Article by Jonathan Turley republished from JonathanTurley.org)

 

Here is the column:

This coming week a new House select subcommittee will hold its first hearing on the FBI and the possible “weaponization” of government agencies. A variety of such controversies have contributed to plunging public trust in government and the FBI in particular.

The role of the FBI in prior scandals will remain a point of heated debate in Congress. However, members of both parties should be able to agree on the need to investigate one of the most serious allegations: Censorship by surrogate.

Many of the allegations of FBI bias are worthy of investigation. Some of those allegations are problems of personnel who can be removed. But a far more menacing problem has emerged in recent months with the release of information from Twitter.

The “Twitter files” revealed an FBI operation to monitor and censor social media content — an effort so overwhelming and intrusive that Twitter staff at one point complained internally that “they are probing & pushing everywhere.” The reports have indicated that dozens of FBI employees worked on the identification and removal of material on a wide range of subjects and that Twitter largely carried out their requests.

Nor was it just the FBI, apparently. Emails reveal FBI figures like a San Francisco assistant special agent in charge asking Twitter executives to “invite an OGA” (or “Other Government Organization”) to an upcoming meeting. A week later, Stacia Cardille, a senior Twitter legal executive, indicated the OGA was the CIA, an agency under strict limits regarding domestic activities.

Twitter’s own ranks included dozens of ex-FBI agents and executives, including James Baker, who featured greatly in prior FBI instances of alleged bias.

The Twitter files also show various FBI offices monitoring social media and flagging “misleading” information on various subjects.

The dozens of disclosed emails are only a fraction of Twitter’s files and do not include still-undisclosed but apparent government coordination with Facebook and other social media companies. Much of that work apparently was done through the multi-agency Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), which operated secretly it seems to censor citizens.

Ironically, during the outcry over establishing a Disinformation Governance Board at the Department of Homeland Security, Biden administration officials had to have known they already were employing an extensive censorship system. When the administration finally relented and disbanded the disinformation board, that censorship work appears to have continued unimpeded through the FITF and agency censors.

According to reports, one email in August 2022 sent “long lists of newspapers, tweets or YouTube videos” deemed to be voicing “anti-Ukraine narratives.” Even satirical and comedy sites reportedly were pegged by the social media police.

What is most striking is that the FBI was not responding to false claims about its operations. Instead, these censorship demands were the result of policing “misinformation” and “disinformation” on subjects ranging from political corruption to elections.

Some apologists continue to defend this process, saying the FBI was only objecting to disinformation the way that citizens did on Twitter. That is not true; the government reportedly used back channels and regular meetings to flag unacceptable statements. Indeed, even if it were true, many things are more dangerous when done by government. When your neighbor attacks your opinion, it is just the crank next door. But when it is your government on the attack, it is far more threatening and stigmatizing. Natural News.

Beetroot juice found to “significantly increase muscle force during exercise”

by Ethan Huff

 

01/27/2023 – New research published in the journal Acta Physiologica has identified beetroot juice as a powerful workout-boosting food that “significantly increases muscle force during exercise.”

Researchers from the United States and the United Kingdom teamed up to test the effects of beetroot juice on a group of healthy men in their early 20s. The men were given 4.7 ounces of the nitrate-rich beverage before working out and examined for muscle improvement.

In the three days prior to the experiment, the men were told to consume a low-nitrate diet, including by avoiding the consumption of leafy green vegetables. There was also a placebo group given a dummy powder that looked and tasted like the beetroot juice cocktail, but that was devoid of nitrates.

Neither group knew which beverage they consumed before they completed a single exercise three hours after a warmup. All of the men were told to contract their quadricep muscle – the large one at the front of the upper leg – 60 times while their dominant leg was attached to the lever of a machine.

The goal was to have the men contract this muscle without actually moving their leg. While this was happening, researchers used electrical pulses to measure muscle force, or the force applied by the muscles as they contracted.

Muscle biopsies were collected from the participants’ active legs after they consumed the drink, as well as before and after the exercise to check nitrate levels in their tissue.

In the end, the beetroot juice group showed seven percent greater muscle force than the placebo group, demonstrating the power of beetroot juice and the nitrates it contains to maximize muscle force.

“This study provides the first direct evidence that muscle nitrate levels are important for exercise performance, presumably by acting as a source of nitric oxide,” said Dr. Barbara Piknova, a staff scientist at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases in the US.

“These results have significant implications not only for the exercise field, but possibly for other medical areas such as those targeting neuromuscular and metabolic diseases related to nitric oxide deficiency.”

Naturally occurring nitrates are important for muscle development, cellular energy function

Nitrates play an important role in musculature, helping them to respire, or release energy. They also power the mitochondria, or the energy factories in cells, helping to boost energy availability for contractions.

“Our research has already provided a large body of evidence on the performance-enhancing properties of dietary nitrate, commonly found in beetroot juice,” added Dr. Andy Jones, a physiologist at the University of Exeter in the UK.

“Excitingly, this latest study provides the best evidence to date on the mechanisms behind why dietary nitrate improves human muscle performance.”

Other foods besides beetroot that contain high levels of nitrates include spinach, Bok choy, lettuce, carrots, ham, and bacon.

“Be careful as beets are very high in oxalate – especially if you have any existing health issues,” noted one commenter, emphasizing that people need to take caution here.

“The tests were actually conducted using a synthetic drink, not actually beetroot juice – but the findings are still relevant,” noted another.

“I’m sipping on a beet smoothie right now!” wrote someone else. “It is one beet, juice from one lemon, one cup of strawberries, one avocado, and a tiny bit of ginger. I can barely taste the beets!”

Another wrote that beetroot also contains a hemoglobin-mimicking compound that helps further transport oxygen in the blood as well, enhancing its delivery throughout the body and into cells.

Surprise” release and expelling to the US of 222 Nicaraguan opponents

With reports by BBC News World and other cables

 

The release of the political prisoners was well received by human rights organizations, which celebrated the release of 200 political prisoners without sparing criticism of Managua.

In the United States, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said in a statement that this decision “marks a constructive step to address human rights abuses in the country and opens the door for greater dialogue between the US and the US. and Nicaragua on topics of interest”.

The president of the Central American country, Daniel Ortega, assured on national television that there was no “negotiation” with the US for the release of the prisoners and that they did not ask Washington for anything in return.

On Thursday morning, magistrate Octavio Rothschuh, president of Chamber One of the Managua Court of Appeals, had made public a sentence that decreed the “immediate and effective deportation of 222 people sentenced for committing acts that undermine the independence, the sovereignty and self-determination of the people; for inciting violence, terrorism and economic destabilization”.

“The deportees were declared traitors to the homeland and punished for different serious crimes and permanently disqualified from exercising public office,” Rothschuh said.

The flight with the opponents left the Nicaraguan capital early in the morning for Washington DC, where it arrived at mid-morning.

The president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, spoke on national television to ensure that the release and expulsion of the 222 opponents that took place this Thursday was not done to obtain something in return from the United States.

“We are not asking for the sanctions to be lifted. We are not asking for anything in return,” the president said.

Ortega explained that the expulsion of the opposition group to Washington occurred after his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, spoke a few days ago by phone with the US ambassador in Managua, Kevin Sullivan, before a trip to his country, and He suggested that Washington receive the prisoners.

The president acknowledged that he did not expect a positive response from the United States to the request. However, Sullivan replied that he would consult the White House, but not before asking how many prisoners he intended to release.

“Everyone,” Ortega replied. “We do not want any trace of the empire’s mercenaries to remain in our country,” he added, according to information from the EFE news agency.

The individuals released from Nicaraguan custody include political and business leaders, journalists, civil society representatives, and students.

Writer Gioconda Belli, who was a guerrilla and revolutionary before becoming a staunch opponent of the government of Daniel Ortega, said: “Taking away their nationality and invoking exile for freed Nicaraguans is a display of cruelty…” during a interview from Spain, who said she was surprised by the news, and that she had to verify several times that the release this Thursday of 222 opponents from her country was real.

Mexico rejects possible US return to ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy  

by Mexico News Daily

 

Mexico has rejected a move by the United States to reactivate the Remain in Mexico policy, under which asylum seekers must wait in Mexico while their U.S. claims are processed.

The Biden administration has pledged to end the program, which the Trump administration introduced in 2019. The policy is currently suspended, after being terminated and reinstated several times due to contradictory rulings by U.S. courts.

In June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Biden had the right to terminate the program. However, in December, a federal judge ruled in favor of a lawsuit brought by states including Missouri and Texas, which argued that the Department of Homeland Security had failed to show the policy was ineffective.

After U.S. authorities notified Mexico of the intention to reinstate the program, Mexico’s Foreign Affairs Ministry (SRE) issued a statement on Monday, strongly opposing the plan.

“Faced with an attempted implementation of this policy for the third time, the Government of Mexico, through the Foreign Affairs Ministry, expresses its rejection of the U.S. government’s intention to return persons processed under this program to Mexican national territory.”

The statement points out that 74,000 people entered Mexico under the Remain in Mexico policy under President Trump, compared to 7,500 people under President Biden.

Although the Remain in Mexico policy is officially called the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), it has been criticized by human rights groups for forcing migrants to wait in dangerous border cities where they are vulnerable to exploitation by criminal groups.

The SRE’s statement does not give specific reasons for Mexico’s decision. However, it concludes by saying that Mexico “reaffirms its recognition of the new, orderly, safe, regular and humane access routes for people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Ukraine and Venezuela to the United States labor market.”

The latter refers to a new immigration plan announced by the Biden administration in January. Under the new protocol , up to 30,000 Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, Cubans and Haitians per month will be allowed to enter and work in the U.S. for two years, providing they pass all relevant checks and do not cross the border illegally. Similar measures were already in place for Ukrainians.

Mexico has committed to accepting up to 30,000 migrants per month expelled under this scheme.

However, questions remain about migrants from other countries, particularly Central Americans. Even while Remain in Mexico has been suspended, the U.S. has continued to expel many of these asylum seekers to Mexico under pandemic-era public health regulations known as Title 42.

Like Remain in Mexico, Title 42 has been subject to multiple contradictory U.S. legal rulings. Although a federal judge ordered its termination in November, the Supreme Court granted a stay in December after several U.S. states argued their services would be overwhelmed by a sudden influx of asylum-seekers allowed to stay in the U.S. to await processing of their claims

The Biden administration has expressed its opposition to Title 42 but says its hands are tied due to the Supreme Court ruling, and the U.S. continues to implement the policy.

If both Remain in Mexico and Title 42 are terminated, the U.S. will either have to allow asylum seekers to remain in the country while their claims are processed, or make other arrangements to remove them.

After the SRE rejected Remain in Mexico’s reinstatement, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security told Reuters that the program “has always been contingent on the government of Mexico’s willingness to accept returns” and that the Biden administration would keep trying to terminate the policy through the courts.

With reports from Reuters and Aristegui Noticias.

More than a million undocumented immigrants gained driver’s licenses in California

by Wendy Fry

CalMatters

 

January 27, 2023 – Seven years after the Safe and Responsible Drivers Act gave undocumented residents a license to drive, the state is ready to expand its impact, but the law still has detractors

On a recent night, by the Miramar Reservoir in San Diego County, a man named Erwin sat at a picnic table scrolling through dozens of texts from his wife. He read aloud her warnings about police patrolling a road near their home.

“‘There’s a lot of cops out tonight,’” he read. “Cops everywhere.’ ‘Be careful; lots of cops.’ ‘Too many cops.’

“Every time I want to get a burger or juice or anything like that and I leave the house, she will text me ‘There’s a lot of cops. Be careful,’” Erwin explained. “It’s a reality that we live in. We adapt our life and our every day to it.”

Erwin, who asked not to use his last name for fear of deportation, is a 27-year old business manager, husband and father of a 6-month-old baby girl. He’s also a Congolese immigrant whose visa expired. His wife, a U.S. citizen, fears what would happen if police stop him.

Although California is a sanctuary state — with protections for immigrants who lack documentation authorizing them to be in the United States — there are loopholes and law enforcement sometimes works with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Beyond that, Erwin worries a traffic stop might escalate. “Believe me, in my country, I would never have to worry about getting pulled over and being scared that they’re going to shoot me,” he said.

Erwin wants to swap his foreign driver’s license for a California one.

“Before I didn’t have a family, so I could risk it,” he said, “but now I have my family and I drive my kid everywhere we go. So I decided to get right and get the driver’s license, so it’s less of an issue if I get pulled over.”

A license to drive

Erwin has made multiple attempts to obtain an AB 60 driver’s license. It’s a special license that lets undocumented California residents legally drive, but with federal limitations.

Proponents say the special license was a boon to immigrants and the state’s economy. But critics, and even some immigrant advocates, say it has drawbacks and risks, since law enforcement and immigration officials can access it. Nevertheless the state is expanding its flexibility, giving IDs to more undocumented residents.

California lawmakers first passed AB 60, called the Safe and Responsible Drivers Act, in 2013, as part of a broad effort to adopt more inclusive policies toward immigrants, to decriminalize their daily lives and maximize their contributions to the economy, experts said.

Since the law took effect in 2015, more than a million undocumented immigrants, out of an estimated 2 million, have received licenses, and more than 700,000 have renewed them.

Besides California, 18 other states have followed suit.

“With AB 60, what we did was recognize the needs of many hard-working immigrants living here and contributing so much to our great state,” said Luis Alejo, the former Assembly member from Watsonville who authored the bill. Now he is a county supervisor for Monterey County.

Undocumented immigrants in California contribute $3.1 billion a year in state and local taxes; nationally they contribute $11.7 billion in taxes, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a Washington D.C. research entity.

New legislation signed in September will make other California ID’s available in January to undocumented immigrants who don’t drive or who can’t take the driver’s test. Backers of that measure say residents most likely to benefit are the elderly and people with disabilities.

“IDs are needed for so many aspects of everyday life, from accessing critical health benefits, to renting an apartment,” said Shiu-Ming Cheer, deputy director of programs and campaigns at the California Immigrant Policy Center, a sponsor of the law.

Experts say more flexible ID laws may do more than help people on an individual level. Eric Figueroa, a senior manager at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, said licenses enable undocumented immigrants to look for better jobs and gain better protections from employers trying to steal or withhold wages.

“It helps build the economy broadly — by unlocking people’s potential — and it helps the workers by giving them more options,” he said.

Erwin uses family connections to remotely renew his Congo license — a privilege he noted not everyone has. Being able to drive allowed his family to move to a better neighborhood and him to find better employment in a suburb about 25 miles away, he said.

No one has studied how many people have garnered better jobs as a result of the special licenses. Alejo said many of his constituents describe “profound economic impacts,” but he agrees more research is needed.

Some opponents of the licenses say their economic benefits are likely negligible. Instead it is encouraging illegal migration to California, they say, which further strains the state’s budget to provide education and other services.

More than that, it makes undocumented residents too comfortable, critics argued.

Before the special licenses, immigrants said they feared routine traffic stops and drunk-driving checkpoints, where their vehicles could be impounded for not having a driver’s license. Many also could face deportation proceedings after being contacted by police.

“Community members used to share that they always used to have to buy beat-up cars because they always knew it would get impounded,” said Erin Tsurumoto Grassi, policy director at Alliance San Diego, a community organization focused on equity issues.

“Folks were always losing their vehicles because they didn’t have a license. They didn’t have the ability to have a license,” she said.

Accident trends

Some opponents of the special license law claimed it would make roadways less safe, because some immigrant drivers wouldn’t be able to read traffic signs in English.

But a 2017 study by the Immigration Policy Lab at Stanford University showed those safety concerns were speculative. The rate of total accidents, including fatal accidents, did not rise and the rate of hit-and-run accidents declined, which likely improved traffic safety and reduced overall costs for California drivers, researchers said.

The study, which documented a 10% decline in hit-and-run accidents, ran in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in April 2017.

“Coming to this as scientists, we were immediately shocked by the absence of facts in this debate,” said Jens Hainmueller, a Stanford political science professor and co-director of the lab. “Nobody was drawing on any evidence; it was more characterized by ideology.”

Other research by Hans Lueders, a postdoctoral research associate for the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice at Princeton University, found AB 60 did not improve insurance premiums nor increase the share of uninsured drivers.

Are license holders safe?

Questions persist about whether the special licenses make recipients easier targets for immigration enforcement.

Some immigrant advocates initially opposed the new licenses because they looked different from other driver’s licenses. On the front of the cards’ upper right side is “Federal Limits Apply” instead of the iconic gold bear of California. On the back the cards say: “This card is not acceptable for official federal purposes.”

Alejo said legislators had intended to protect people from immigration enforcement, so they wrote certain protective measures into the original AB 60 bill. They added language prohibiting state and local government agencies from using the special license to discriminate against license holders or for immigration enforcement.

Yet some advocates point to reports of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement accessing the databases of state and local law enforcement agencies and of state departments of motor vehicles.

In December 2018, the ACLU of Northern California and the National Immigration Law Center published a report detailing multiple ways federal immigration agencies get access to motor vehicle records. After that, the California Attorney General’s Office implemented new protocols to protect immigrants’ DMV information from ICE and other agencies.

A chilling effect

Dave Maass, director of investigations at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said there is always going to be a risk someone will misuse data on undocumented people.

“I wouldn’t say that people should feel 100% safe,” he said.” I would just say that the risk has been lessened quite a bit … but that does not mean the risk has totally gone away.”

In recent years there has been a large drop-off in the number of immigrants applying for AB 60 licenses. According to the Department of Motor Vehicles, 396,859 immigrants applied for the licenses in fiscal 2014-15, but only 68,426 applied in the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2022.

Advocates said that may be because most people who wanted a license applied for it already,  or because education and outreach about the law have lessened over the years.

Cheer said news of ICE accessing California databases could have a chilling effect on  immigrants’ willingness to interact with government.

“It does create more of a trust deficit with government agencies whenever there is a story about ICE having access to California databases or information in California databases,” she said.

Being seen

On the other hand, there’s an added benefit to the new licenses, Cheer said: immigrants now have a feeling of being included and acknowledged as residents of California.

“I feel like that’s a very important psychological piece, in the sense of ‘This is who I am. I have an ID to show you who I am,’” she said.

Erwin said he carefully weighed the possibility that he would be effectively giving ICE his home address against wanting to have the proper paperwork, so there would be no excuse for a police officer to escalate a traffic stop with him. He decided one risk was worth reducing the risk of the other.

For some immigrants, the passage of the license law didn’t come soon enough.

Dulce Garcia, an attorney and advocate for immigrants, recently described at a San Diego public forum on immigration enforcement what happened when police stopped her brother who was undocumented.

Police cited Edgar Saul Garcia Cardoso for driving without a license and when he appeared in a courthouse in January 2020 to face the consequences, ICE detained and deported him, within hours, to Tijuana, she said.

There he was kidnapped, held for ransom and tortured for eight months, Garcia said.

In May 2021, he returned to the United States and received asylum protections. But he never recovered from the trauma, Garcia said. He died of unknown causes in September 2022.

“I wish there was a way you could see through my eyes the harm you have caused by colluding with ICE,” Garcia told law enforcement officials at the forum. “Edgar was loved, and his life mattered.”

Thalía is separating from Tommy Mottola, says the international press

Share from Diario El Tiempo Colombia

 

Mexican singer Thalía, 51, has been married for 22 years to businessman Tommy Mottola, 74, making them one of the most solid couples in show business.

Despite the age difference, Thalía and Tommy have managed to maintain a stable relationship and although there have been several rumors of breakup and separation over the years, the couple has kept their detractors quiet.

But in the last few hours, various media outlets in Mexico and the United States have raised a possible infidelity by Mottola that would have led Thalía to make the decision to end their relationship.

According to show magazines, the producer would have had an affair with Leslie Shaw, 33, a woman of Peruvian nationality.

Shaw is a singer, model and actress, in fact, she represented Peru in Viña del Mar in 2011 and was the first Peruvian to have been recognized by Heat Latin Music.

Rumors have increased – regarding the possible separation from her – since the protagonist of ‘Marimar’ stopped publishing photos with Mottola since December 2022.

Thalía’s last publication -in networks- was recorded in December, the day she celebrated her 22nd birthday with Mottola.

“My love, I love you deeply, I admire you, I celebrate your life. I love your way of being, inexhaustible, creative, unstoppable. I love your commitment to our family, your love for me. God bless you my love and for many more years of happiness! Happy wedding anniversary, ”Thalía wrote to Mottola, without him responding through her networks.

The couple has not commented on the matter.

John Santos & Friends: Concert, Food & Film at MCCLA

Compiled by the El Reportero‘s staff

 

Coquito Contest, reception featuring delicious food by Rico Pabon, Documentary Q&A with filmmakers and After party concert.

A Latin jazz icon with seven Grammy Award nominations and an expansive, self-produced discography that encompasses master musicians from Cuba, Puerto Rico, New York, the Bay Area and beyond, Santos has thrived outside of Latin music’s commercial domain.

On Saturday, Jan. 28th 2023, 4 p.m. – 8:30 p.m., at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, 2868 Mission Street, San Francisco.

 

“Pertenecer: To Belong” at MACLA in San Jose

MACLA presents “Pertenecer: To Belong”, where six artists lean into their “Latinidad” as they investigate their intercultural identities and share their experiences of feeling othered across different spaces and social conditions.

Featuring works by @livingrelic @pilar.aguero.esparza @jtknoxroxs @kristinamicotti @rayos_magos @hectorfmunoz

MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana
At 510 S 1st St San Jose, CA 95113. Now thru March 19, 2023. Wednesday – Friday 12-7 p.m., Saturday – Sunday 12-5 p.m., or by special Free admission.

 

Special Rumba with Edmundo Pina Machin!

Come to La Peña m for a Edmundo Pina Machin

Edmundo is a musician with 47 years of experience, 40 of which were with the legendary Cuban orchestra Los Van Van… and he is visiting the Bay Area! He will be presenting his research on the history and evolution of Cuban popular music. This event is FREE and open to everyone. See you there!

On Sunday, January 22nd from 4pm-6:30 p.m.

* 𝙁𝙍𝙀𝙀 𝙀𝙑𝙀𝙉𝙏 & Highly Recommended

 

Adrian Areas Fuze Band @ Bird & Beckett Books

The Adrian Areas Fuze Band will be Performing Original Latin Jazz Rock @ Bird & Beckett Books in San Francisco. Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023 at 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

 

San Francisco Symphony collaborative partner Claire Chase performs Marcos Balter’s Pan

On Friday, February 24, San Francisco Symphony Collaborative Partner Claire Chase performs Marcos Balter’s Pan, an evening-length piece for flute, live electronics, and an ensemble of community performers.

The 70-minute piece tells the story of the mythological goat-god Pan, one of only two Greek deities said to have been put to death, in a series of staged episodes exploring the contradictions and betrayals in Pan’s relationships.

For this performance—which features a version of the piece specifically for her collaboration with the San Francisco Symphony—Chase and the Orchestra partner with Amateur Music Network, Openhouse, and other art, education, and community organizations who will perform the piece alongside Chase.

Following the February 24 performance, Chase joins Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony on its 2023 European Tour (March 9–17), performing Pan with members of the San Francisco Symphony and the Paris community on March 12 in the Cité de la Musique concert hall at the Philharmonie de Paris.

Financial Resolutions: 4 tips and tools to improve your family’s money skills in 2023

Sponsored content from JPMorgan Chase & Co.

 

To help start the new year off strong, have open and honest conversations as a family about finances. The beginning of the year is a great opportunity to review your family’s expenses. Use this moment to review spending and savings habits, and discuss how to improve them this year. By having these open conversations with your kids, you can help them better understand the basics of money and lay a strong foundation for financial independence.

Not sure where to start? Check out these four tips that can help your family talk about your finances and build better money habits together.

  1. Saving made easy for 2023

Managing your money can be overwhelming, but it doesn’t need to be. The end of the year can be especially hectic with additional expenses like holiday shopping and travel costs. To make things easier in 2023, automate your savings to help reach your financial goals faster.

With tools like Chase Autosave, customers can set up repeating, automatic transfers from their Chase checking into their Chase savings account. This presents a great learning opportunity for families to discuss the importance of savings, working towards a goal and building healthy habits.

Parents, you can show your children how you determine your savings goals and then help them set their own financial goals for the new year. Once they’ve figured out how much they want to save, help them set up a plan to get there.

  1. Work together as a family to improve your finances

Working toward a common goal can make everyone feel like they have a stake in the ground. Setting financial goals together for 2023 and creating a monthly budget will help organize finances throughout the year.

As a Chase checking customer, you can open a bank account with a debit card for kids.  For kids 6-17, Chase First BankingSM comes with its own debit card and parental control, while offering several other benefits like setting spending limits and allowing them to experience money firsthand. This opens the line of communication between parents and kids about building good money habits.

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  1. Build healthy financial practices

Make financial discussions a regular part of family conversations.

Whether it be what or where they’re spending, how much they’re earning or their savings goal, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to discuss good money habits with your kids. To get a clearer picture of your spending and saving habits, check out their Spending Snapshot in the Chase Mobile® app. You and your kids can also set up real-time account alerts to ensure you know exactly where and how they are spending their money.

  1. Prepare students heading back to school

Now that 2022 is coming to a close, it’s time to prepare students heading back to school for their second semester. Before winter break is over, talk with your high school and college students about their finances and help them feel confident in their future by laying the groundwork for financial independence.

Accounts like Chase High School Checking℠, for students 13-17 and co-owned by the parent, and Chase College Checking℠, available to students 17-24 with no monthly service fee for five years while in college, provide access to digital banking tools to help them stay on top of their finances throughout the semester.

Using these four tips, your family can start the new year off with optimism about the state of their finances. To learn more and continue the conversation, visit chase.com/studentbanking.

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