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Peruvian film director gathers fund to finish documentary about inmigration and her family

Mabel ValdiviezoMabel Valdiviezo

by Yáshenka Baca

Mabel Valdiviezo, Peruvian Film Director who produces and directs the documentary Prodigal Daughter, launched last week an internet based fundraising campaign to support the making of her film, which is being recorded in Peru, Canada, Japan, among others.

This first feature film proposal of Valdiviezo is based on the problems and effects a Peruvian family suffers due to the emigration of several family members to different parts of the world. This documentary expects to convey a message to thousands of illegal immigrants who lost contact with their families due to their precarious situation in countries of the first world as the United States.

In this film, which began its recording process back in May 2009, the film director mixed career and personal experience to give life to a documentary that according to Mabel seeks to “heal wounds”. The filmmaker hopes many immigrants feel identified with Prodigal Daughter and the film actually achieves a greater meaning by influencing local politicians regarding immigration laws. Valdiviezo, who is currently in San Francisco working on the edition of the film, spoke to The Reporter about the goals and development of it.

“This documentary must reach centers serving immigrants here in the United States, to be used as a document of discussion, as something therapeutic for those who don’t discuss their problematic situation easily” she noted.

Mabel, who also directed the short film Soledad is gone forever in 2006, explained on how to support the realization of the film, anyone wishing to contribute can do so by entering the pages: http://www.haikufilms.org/ support and http://www.indegogo.com/Prodigal-Daughter and make their donations.

The Reporter will be alert to the release of the film by the end of 2011.

Organizers announce Nominees for the Premio Lo Nuestro

In a Nominees Gala held in Miami, Florida last Thursday December 2nd, the organizers of Premios Lo Nuestro announced the Latin-American artists nominated to compete for the award in categories such as video of the year, group revelation, best solo, etc.

In this occasion Shakira was the female single with the greatest number of nominations, she achieved three of them. The Colombian will compete in categories like Best pop female artist, Song of the year (for Lo hecho, hecho está) and the Premio Lo Nuestro as Artist of the year.

The Costa Rican Debi Nova, who was one of the presenters at the Gala of ­Nominees, also received a nomination and is a strong candidate to take home the Premio Lo Nuestro as soloist revelation of the year.

Nova, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist currently promotes her hit Drummer Boy, part of her debut album New Moon. Jotdog, the Mexican group where Mary Barracuda and Jorge Chiquis Amaro show their musical talent, received the Video of the year nomination for its song Hasta contar a mil.

Lo Nuestro awards are awarded based on votes from fans on the Univision website, the votes will be received until December 24th and results will be made public during the twentysecond edition of Premio Lo Nuestro which will take place on February 17, 2011.

Central Valley DJ Markanthony passes away

­recopilado por Mark Carney

­Markanthony Sanchez, 55, a well-known radio personality in Central California, passed away on December 6, in his home, from complications of diabetes. Beginning in 1981, Sanchez took over a radio show at KSJV in Fresno that was immensely popular not only with Chicanos, but also with many Anglos. His late-night show, “Oldies but Goodies”, played a hip mixture of Latin rock, Soul, and R&B. This mixture appealed particularly to the “low-riders” among Central Valley Chicanos, who, if arrested and sent to prison, often wrote and sent artwork to Sanchez. To be sure, Sanchez considered himself an advocate for ex-convicts and, according to his sister, Sylvia Clark, “He loved helping prisoners to improve their lives. Mark was the same wonderful person on and off the air.”

Mission Neighborhood Center Thanks AT&T

The Mission Neighborhood Center (MNC) thanks AT&T for their continued financial support of an important community resource. This funding has allowed MNC to expand the hours of their Capp Street Senior Center to Saturdays, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and to start a fee-based Child Development Program.

Avalos and Building Trades Urge Local Hiring

The San Francisco Building and Construction Trades is, not surprisingly, excited about San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos’ proposal that 25% of construction workers hired be local residents. In addition, of that number, half must be from low-income communities; each year, that number must increase by 5% until, by 2016, 50% of all workers hired be from low-income communities.

Tea Party Leader in favor of Restricting Voting

Judson Phillips, the President of “Tea Party Nation”, has spoken in favor of restricting voting to property-holding citizens, as was done in eighteenth-century America. On his weekly radio show, Phillips remarked,” The Founding Fathers…put certain restrictions on who got the right to vote. It wasn’t you were just a citizen and you automatically got to vote. Some of the restrictions, you know, you obviously would not think about today. But one of them was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense because if you are a property owner, you actually have a vested stake in the community.” In response to these comments, Tenants Together, a renter’s advocacy group, noted that there were 14 million renters in California alone, and has demanded that Phillips apologize.

Campaign To Prevent Medicare Cuts

The California Medical Association and the AARP have launched a campaign to kill legislation that would cut Medicare payments to doctors by up to 25%. Many experts believe that this reduction would leave many Californians without access to medical care.

Transportation and Social Issues interest Young San Franciscans

The San Francisco Youth commission, together with the Student Advisory Council, held hearings on Wednesday, December 8, to consider crucial transportation and social issues affecting young San Franciscans. These two groups, which are empowered by the city charter to advise the Mayor and the Board of Supervisors, consists of young people aged 12 to 23. Because two-thirds of San Francisco public school students rely on public transportation, its availability and cost are of paramount importance. A second hearing will focus on prejudice shown towards Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Questioning (LGBTQQ) youth in San Francisco.

Telling the zrizzly truth

por José de la Isla

HOUSTON – Among the possessions I passed along to my nephew David following a recent move was a Royal standard typewriter, circa 1916, that came from my father’s typewriter shop. My father’s business adapted to the advances made in his time, from manual to electric, then to electronic. But he closed the store with the advent of digital business machines. In its day, the invention of the typewriter had been to personal communications as significant as Guttenberg’s press was to publishing.

When I passed the relic along to David, I said I wanted him to see what the first Internet had looked like. In its time it was a speedy way to move content to an intended receiver — by snail mail. Western Union telegrams were the Twitter of their day. Using comparisons such as this help explain the world to my nephew because his still-short life has not accumulated a lot of the context and connections that one gets over time. Indeed, the typewriters encouraged more people to become writers. They could edit better because they quickly saw what their thoughts looked like in a standardized form, not their idiosyncratic handwriting.

Thoughts and ideas were expressed efficiently, with words that got to the point fast.

The same pattern seems to be taking shape now when it comes to digital writing. Since personal expression is available virtually to anyone with a computer, long writing is going by the boards.

Too many people have too much to say, and readers have too little time to take it all in. Good writing (messages worth passing along) has become increasingly brief, and key words become defi nitional.

In the past, several words were used to explain what the speaker meant in a political context. For example, Richard Nixon’s vice president, Spiro Agnew, referred to “an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals” in reference to the wonks of his day before an appreciative bunch much like the Tea Partiers now.

Today, a more taunting “Man up” takes its place. Even Clint Eastwood’s “Make my day” sounds lame compared to “Man up,” which is not unlike the hiss by Neytiri, the Na’vi character in the movie Avatar. Another political expression, “Grizzly,”gained political currency and meaning during the midterm elections.

Sarah Palin, in the 2008 vice presidential campaign first used it to refer to “Momma Grizzlies.” The expression took on a political life of its own among the disaffected, gaining her some followers.

Newsweek writer Lisa Miller says it means, a “common-sense” conservative woman, someone who “rises up” to protect her children when she sees they ­might be endangered due to bad Washington policies. She is fearless in taking on any foe. Instead of fl ight, she will fi ght and tear the foe to shreds.

The imagery is that of a one-woman gang war. Simple words and expressions like those can carry a lot of content that resonate and suggest realms and realms of meaning. Otherwise, calling a woman grizzly or a bear is an insult. But, if the intention is to get beyond taunts, dares, and hisses, there’s a lesson to take into account from the progressive playbook: less is more.

It’s really humane values that make for good political rhetoric that will last over time. Those are the expressions that really matter. That’s done efficiently by saying less and meaning more. A few well placed metaphors are poetry to the political mind. Even an old typewriter can provide that kind of content, which could make the old machines sing again, even over the latest, showy computers. Hispanic Link.

[José de la Isla’s latest book, Day Night Life Death Hope, is distributed by The Ford Foundation. He writes a weekly commentary for Hispanic Link News Service and is author of The Rise of Hispanic Political Power (2003). E-mail him at joseisla3@yahoo.com.]

The Agenda of the Illuminati Part 17th of a multi-series)

by Marvin Ramire­z

­Marvin J. Ramírez­Ma­rv­in­ R­­am­­­í­r­­ez­­­­­

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: Given the important and historical information contained i­n this 31-page article on the history of the secret and evil society, The Illuminati, El Reportero is honored to provide our readers with the opportunity to read such a document by Myron C. Fagan, which mainstream media has labeled it a conspiracy theory. To better understand this series, we suggest to also read the previous articles published in our previous editorials.

This is the seventeenth part of the series.

The following is a transcript of a recording distributed in 1967 by Myron C. Fagan. He had hoped that if enough Americans had heard (or read) this summary, the Illuminati takeover agenda for America would have been aborted, just as Russia’s Alexander I had torpedoed the Illuminati’s plans for a One World, League of Nations at the Congress of Vienna from 1814-15. Fagan correctly describes those members of congress, the executive branch, and the judicial branch of that time as TRAITORS for their role in assisting to implement the downfall of America’s sovereignty. It’s understandable that most listeners of that period would have found it impossible to believe that the Kennedy’s, for instance, were (are) part of the Illuminati plot, but he did say that Jack had a spiritual rebirth and attempted to rescue the country from the Illuminati’s stranglehold by issuing U.S. silver certificates, which apparently greatly contributed to the Illuminati’s decision to assassinate him (his son, John Jr., was also murdered because he had intended to expose his father’s killers after he  gained public office).

— That is; all but one: the United States, the very one that Schiff and his coconspirators least expected would balk and that was their one fatal mistake in that early plot. You see; when Schiff planted Woodrow Wilson in the White House; the conspirators assumed that they had the United States in the proverbial bag. Wilson had been perfectly built up as a great humanitarian. He supposedly became established as a God-man with the American people. There was every reason for the conspirators to have believed that he would easily hornswaggled Congress into buying the “League of Nations,” sight unseen, exactly as the Congress of 1945 bought the “United Nations,” sight unseen.

But there was one man in the Senate in 1918 who saw through that scheme just as the Russian Czar did in 1814. He was a man of great political stature; almost as great as that of Teddy Roosevelt and fully as astute. He was highly respected and trusted by all members of both houses of Congress and by the American people. The name of that great and patriotic American was Henry Cabot Lodge (not the phony of today who called himself Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., until he was exposed). Henry Cabot Lodge completely unmasked Wilson and kept the United States out of the “League of Nations.”

Shortly thereafter; the Illuminati had created the 17th Amendment to do away with appointed Senators by the legislatures of the several states of the Union. Whereas the Illuminati controls the press; they now control the election of the US Senators. The Illuminati/CFR had little or no power over the individual legislatures of the several states or their appointed U.S. Senators prior to the [purported] ratification of the 17th Amendment. Although the 17th Amendment supposedly amends the method of placing Senators into the US Senate; the 17th Amendment was never ratified in accordance to the last sentence of Article V of the US Constitution.

Two states, New Jersey and Utah, voted down the proposition and nine other states never voted at all. Whereas the states of New Jersey and Utah expressly refused to relinquish their “suffrage” in the Senate while the other non-voting nine states never gave their “express” consent; the proposition for the 17th Amendment did not obtain the “unanimous” vote required for its adoption. Furthermore; the resolution that created the “Proposition” did not pass the Senate with a “unanimous” vote and as those Senators of that day were “appointed” by the legislatures of their states; those “negative” votes or “non-votes” were made in the name of their respective state.

Here it becomes of great interest to know the real reason for the Wilson League of Nations flop. As I previously stated, Schiff was sent to the United States to carry out four specific assignments:

1. Most important was to acquire complete control of the U.S. money system.

2. As outlined in the original Weishaupt Illuminati blueprint, he was to find the ­right kind of men to serve as stooges for the great conspiracy and promote them into the highest offices in our federal government, our Congress, our U.S. Supreme Court, and all federal agencies, such as the State Department, the Pentagon, the Treasury Department, etc.

3. Destroy the unity of the American people by creating minority groups strife throughout the nation; especially between the whites and blacks as outlined in Israel Cohen’s book.

4. Create a movement to destroy religion of the United States with Christianity to be the chief target or victim.

In addition; he was strongly reminded of the imperative directive of the Illuminati blueprint to achieve full control of all mass communications media to be used to brainwash the people into believing and accepting all of the maneuverings of the great conspiracy. Schiff was warned that only control of the press, at that time our only mass communications media, would enable him to destroy the unity of the American people. IT WILL CONTINUE ON THE NEXT WEEK’S EDITION.

Religious leaders shine light on SF Hotel workers’s plight

por Mark Carney

Diferentes denominaciones religiosas participaron en una vigilia candelaria en apoyo a los trabajadores hotelres en SF.Different religious denominations participated in a candle vigil in support of hotel workers in SF.

December, for several western religions, is a month held sacred, and a month in which, perhaps not coincidentally, social harmony is especially esteemed. This past Wednesday, December 8, the Progressive Jewish Alliance (PJA) and the Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE-San Francisco), joined Local 2, the San Francisco hotel workers’ union, in a candlelight procession around Union Square to protest the stalled contract negotiations with the luxury hotels of downtown San Francisco. The procession, consisting of eight life-size candles and a banner reading “Shine A Light on Economic Justice for 12,000 Hotel Workers”, circled Union Square, and then delivered a life-size “holiday card” to Hyatt hotel management.

The eight candles symbolized the eighth night of Hanukkah, regarding which Rabbi Julie Sax-Taller, of the PJA, said,” One aspect of the miracle we celebrate during Hanukkah is the miracle of faithÑdespite that it appeared that they had only a small supply of fuel, the people took the step of faith as they lit the lamp in the ancient Temple. We can join the workers in having faith that they are on a worthy journey toward justice and dignity in the workplace.”

Members of the local faith community, according to a press release, urged the hotel industry ” to treat workers with respect and dignity, and provide just wages and safe working conditions.” At present, contract negotiations between Local 2 and hotel management have not resulted in any signifi cant agreements. Management is insisting that workers pay more for health insurance, and that wages remain stable. Local 2, on the other hand, refuses to agree to increases in health care premiums, and would like small wage increases.

The procession ended at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, owned by the Pritzker family. While Hyatt workers across North America experienced layoffs, increased workloads, reduced hours, and increasing rates of injury, the Pritzker family cashed out over $900 million in Hyatt shares. Company performance, too, was bright, as “higher levels of corporate and group business resulted in improved  ­performance at convention and business hotels”, in the words of Hyatt CEO Mark Hoplamazian. Hilton, another of the luxury hotels with which Local 2 is negotiating, is owned by Blackstone Group, one of the largest private equity firms on Wall Street. Blackstone recently persuaded the Federal Reserve to write off $180 million of its debt, despite clearly having the resources to pay it off. Indeed, according to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, Blackstone expects revenue to increase by 50% this year.

For workers in these hotels struggling to pay their bills, the splendor and glory of high fi nance is less comprehensible. As Caddie Lin, a housekeeper at the Grand Hyatt, said ”I don’t understand how these hotel corporations can demand unaffordable concessions from us, especially as they keep growing. We make them millions. When will they start investing in us?

 

Obama’s healthcare scheme ruled unconstitutional

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger

Editor of NaturalNews.com

(NaturalNews) U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson dealt a severe blow to Obamacare today, ruling that the government’s attempt to force citizens to buy health insurance violates the U.S. Constitution. This decision puts the enforceability of Obama’s health care system in doubt.

Obama’s health plan was designed around a “minimum essential coverage provision” that seeks to force every American to purchase health insurance beginning in 2014.

This is essentially a Big Brother commerce requirement where the government dictates that private citizens must purchase a product or service even if they don’t wish to. It also forces followers of natural medicine to buy into a system of drugs-and-surgery conventional medicine even if they have no intention of  ever using it.

The Constitution limits the power of federal government

The United States Constitution, which is the document that grants the federal government powers, did not grant the federal government any right to force citizens to purchase certain products or services. Obama’s health care insurance mandate, therefore, was an overreaching effort on the part of the federal government to dictate the purchasing decisions of private citizens in order to achieve a political goal.

Citizens who refused to comply with this requirement to purchase health insurance were to be punished by none other than the IRS. Fines would be issued to citizens beginning in 2014 if they failed to prove to the IRS that they had purchased health insurance.

Thus, Obama’s health care system put the IRS in charge of enforcing an unconstitutional mandate that private citizens buy something they did not want nor need.

This is what Judge Henry Hudson found to be unconstitutional. He found that the essential coverage provision “exceeds the constitutional boundaries of congressional power.”

Tenth Amendment protections He’s right, of course.

There is no such power granted to the federal government by the United States Constitution. Furthermore, the Tenth Amendment clearly states that the “powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

In other words, if a specific power was never granted to the federal government, then that power remains with the States or the people. Since the Constitution never granted the federal government the power to dictate that private citizens purchase health insurance — and in fact Jefferson, Franklin, Madison and other founding fathers would have been horrifi ed by such a power grab — that power remains solely with the States and the people.

What will the US Supreme Court rule?

With this ruling in place, the constitutionality of Obamacare will now likely move to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Supreme Court, of course, is the body that interprets the Constitution and decides whether modern- day laws are allowed under its provisions.

If the justices of the Supreme Court actually abide by the Constitution, they must agree with Judge Henry Hudson and strike down the minimum essential coverage provision of Obama’s health care law.

But if they choose to betray the Constitution and the People, they may decide in favor of Obamacare and thereby ratchet up the power of Big Government to control the private lives and purchasing decisions of American citizens. The Supreme Court has not always respected the language of the Constitution, of course, so it’s not yet certain how the court will rule on this subject. Most likely, the more conservative members of the Court will rule it unconstitutional.

Conventional health care is so bad that you have to threaten people if they don’t buy it

It is especially enlightening that the U.S. health care system is such an utter failure ­that the government must force citizens to buy into it under the threat of IRS penalties. If health care based on conventional drugs and surgery actually worked, you wouldn’t have to threaten the citizens with punishment if they chose not to use it. The only reason IRS agents have to be used to bully people into buying health insurance is because our modern sickcare system doesn’t work. Obama’s dictatorial approach to health care mirrors the health care system itself, in fact: Oppressive, punitive, widely hated and ridiculously ineffective.

Instead of forcing people to buy into a system that’s already broken, Obama would serve the interests of the American people far better by ending the medical racket monopoly currently being operated by Big Pharma, the FDA, the quack medical journals and corrupt doctors, and instead legalizing healing by embracing health freedom and the world of natural medicine.

It is quite fascinating that even in a system where natural medicine isn’t covered by insurance, and where natural therapies are widely discredited by the FDA, the AMA and most conventional doctors, record numbers of people seek out natural therapies anyway because they are more affordable, more effective, safer and more readily compatible with human biology.

The FDA and Big Government don’t want people to have a choice in the matter, you see. They want to force everyone to buy into the failed pharmaceutical system that enriches the drug companies, even while keeping the U.S. population suffering from record rates of degenerative disease.

That’s why we call it a “sick care” system. It’s not about health. It’s about making money off a diseased population while denying them access to natural treatments and cures that could save this nation from medical bankruptcy.

Mexico smarts from WikiLeakes

by the El Reportero’s news services

Felipe CalderónFelipe Calderón

On 2 December, the designated publishers of the ‘WikiLeaks’ U.S. State Department cables started publishing material on Mexico. The first half dozen (of the 2,500) cables to be published show the U.S. officials to be scathing about President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa. Calderón’s wellknown sensitivity to any criticism means that the publication will further complicate U.S.-Mexican relations.

How Chávez is playing his rapprochement with Santos

The thaw in Colombian-Venezuelan relations that began when presidents Juan Manuel Santos and Hugo Chávez restored ambassadorial relations last August has been proceeding apace. Venezuela is handing over Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) guerrillas, paying accumulated debts, agreeing to joint anti-drugs and anti-kidnap efforts. Colombia is reciprocating by clamping down of gold smuggling from Venezuela and agreeing to extradite a suspected Venezuelan drug kingpin — a man Chávez is keen to get hold of for political reasons involving the U.S.

WikiLeaks gives Unasur a leg up

Among the standout diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks in late November was one sent to the U.S. State Department by the U.S. ambassador to Honduras, Hugo Llorens, stating unequivocally that the former president Manuel Zelaya (2006-2009) was illegally removed in a coup d’état on 28 June 2009. The timing of the WikiLeaks release is a perfect gift for the 12-member Union of South American Nations (Unasur), which has just approved the addition of a new democratic charter to its 2008 constitutive treaty empowering the new regional organisation to impose political and commercial sanctions against member nations for breaches of the democratic order.`

The empire with no clothes: WikiLeaks and U.S.-Latin American relations

Criticism, concern, silence, even indifference. The release of just the first few hundred of 250,000 classified U.S. State Department memos and cables by WikiLeaks on 28 Nov. elicited a varied response from Latin American governments. Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez said the U.S. was left “naked”.

He is right. The fact that so much could be accessed and leaked might complicate international diplomacy for the U.S.. Where he is wrong is in supposing that only the U.S. was stripped bare. Many Latin Americans have a visceral suspicion of U.S. duplicity and will be surprised nothing more compromising has emerged – at least not yet. That some of their own governments are guilty of hypocrisy is more of an eye-opener, especially at a time when they are striving to deepen integration, and reduce U.S. infl uence in the region, through the Union of South American Nations (Unasur).

­Bolivia to be host to ALBA

Defense Academy Minister of Defense of Bolivia Ruben Saavedra confirmed that as of 2012 the eastern region of Santa Cruz will be the venue of the Defense Academy of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America. In remarks to state-run Cambio daily, Saavedra said that the certero f academia studies and research is being constructed in Santa Rosita del Paquio, in Warnes province.

He recalled that the presidents of each member country of ALBA will put the academy in operation to train their military and even civilians interested in defense and security. He said that the center is being constructed at the initiative of President Evo Morales put forward in the ALBA Summit of Cochabamba on Oct. 17, 2009, as a response to foreign military infl uence and the need for ALBA members to count on their own doctrine.

Big sis wants behavior scanners at sports events, malls

by Paul Joseph Watson

Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano admitted yesterday that body scanners would eventually find their way into U.S. public transportation, trains and boats, but Big Sis is already beta-testing technology that goes even further, by forcing Americans to undergo a behavioral interrogation before they are allowed to enter sports events, rock concerts and shopping malls.

“I think the tighter we get on aviation, we have to also be thinking now about going on to mass transit or to trains or maritime.

So, what do we need to be doing to strengthen our protections there?” said Napolitano, indicating that naked body scanners and invasive pat downs will eventually become a necessity in order to merely catch the subway or ride a bus.

Indeed, mobile body scanners have already hit the streets with “more than 500 backscatter x-ray scanners mounted in vans that can be driven past neighboring vehicles to see their contents” having been sold to government agencies,” reports Forbes. American Science & Engineering, a company based in Billerica, Massachusetts, has sold many of the devices to U.S. law enforcement agencies, who are already using them on the streets for “security” purposes.

However, body and vehicle scanners are just one tool authorities plan to implement on a widespread basis as part of our deepening decline into a hi-tech militarized police state.

Homeland Security is already implementing technology to be enforced at “security events” which purportedly reads “malintent” on behalf of an individual who passes through a checkpoint. The video below explains how “Future Attribute Screening Technology” (FAST) checkpoints will conduct “physiological” and “behavioral” tests in order to weed out suspected terrorists and criminals.

Big Sis wants to know if there are any evil thoughts inside your head before they   allow you to go about your business.

The clip shows individuals who attend “security events” being led into trailers before they are interrogated as to whether they are terrorists while lie detector-style computer programs analyze their physiological responses. The subjects are asked about their whereabouts, and if they are attempting to smuggle bombs or recording devices into the “expo,” proving that the technology is intended to be used at public events and not just airports. Individuals who do not satisfy the fi rst lie detector- style test are then asked “additional questions”. Americans will be mandated to prove to the government that they are well-behaved slaves before they are allowed to do anything. “The best thing about FAST is its portability,” points out Howard Portnoy.

“If the Big Sis has a mind, they can park an MMR (mobile miner reader—my own acronym) outside the local mall, the petting zoo … you name it, and the government will be there to tap into your brainwaves and fi nd out whether you’re naughty or nice.”

The use of such technology is not only a complete violation of the Fourth Amendment, it also eviscerates the notion of innocent until proven guilty, and therefore totally undermines everything America stands for. Given the widespread abuse witnessed in the fi rst year alone after the roll out of airport body scanners, Americans need to boycott the companies producing these systems and also resist their deployment at every turn.

­Big Sis has made it clear that everything we see in the airport, from invasive groping to body scanners to iris scans, is eventually destined to be rolled out on the streets. When this happens, people who thought they could avoid such treatment by simply refusing to fly will instead discover that their apathy has greased the skids for a total surveillance society that outstrips anything they read about in George Orwell’s 1984 or saw in movies like Minority Report.

Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show. Watson has been interviewed by many publications and radio shows, including Vanity Fair and Coast to Coast AM, America’s most listened to late night talk show.

Boxing

Luis Franco, Fernando Saucedo and Julio César Chávez, JrLuis Franco, Fernando Saucedo and Julio César Chávez, Jr

Saturday, Nov. 27 — at Oakland, CA (Showtime)

  • WBA su­per middleweight titles: Andre Ward vs. Sakio Bika

Wednesday, Dec. 1 — at Bali, Indonesia

  • WBA featherweight title: Chris John vs. Fernando Saucedo.

Thursday, Dec. 2 — at Paris, France

  • Jean Marc Mormeck vs. Hasim Rahman.

Friday, Dec. 3 — at Santa Ynez, CA (Showtime)

  • Lateef Kayode vs. TBA.­
  • Luis Franco vs. Leonilo Miranda.

Saturday, Dec. 4 — at Anaheim, CA (iNDEMAND)

  • Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. vs. Alfonso Gomez.
  • WBC lightweight title: Humberto Soto vs. Urbano Antillon.

Benefit for Chilean earthquake victims

Compiled by Mark Carney

Rafael Manriquez and Ingrid Rubis will be joined by Quijerama for a performance to benefit the Chilean victims of February’s earthquake. Rafael, a native of Santiago, Chile, is known for his exquisite voice as well as his facility on many Latin American string instruments. On his ten albums, he has sung of the struggles and hopes of Latin Americans and, over the years, he has performed throughout Europe and the Americas. Quijerama is a Bay Area quintet that, in playing over thirty instruments, synthesizes the diverse genres of South American folk music into a jazzy idiom.

Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. Friday, Dec. 3, at 7 p.m. Donation is $10-50. Call Harold Adler at (510) 472-3170 for more info.

Ancient Dances of India to be performed

On Saturday, Dec. 4th, Odissi Vilas will perform ancient temple dances of India. The evening will include storytelling, pallavi (pure dance), as well as moksha (dance of liberation).

On the following day, Sri Vishnu Tattva Das will teach an odissi workshop. La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. 8 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 4. $13 in advance, $15 at the door. For more info call (510) 849-2568 or visit http://lapena.org.

Weekend of Flamenco

On the third weekend of December, Caminos Flamencos, a northern California flamenco company, will perform Lo Clasico , a show of traditional Iberian dance and music. Yaelisa, an Emmy-award winner and the troupe’s Artistic director, describes this show as classic in that, “ (it) is something which never goes out of style, and which can bring one to a nostalgic place. Our show this year is all of these things, with a few surprises thrown in.”

The 2010 Season Premiere is a holiday concert for the entire family that pays tribute to all things classical – Spanish classical dances using the music of Manuel de Falla, Ravel’s Bolero, and others, and the more traditional, fiery flamenco that the Company is recognized for. Yaelisa brings together 20 dancers ­and four musicians onstage for an evening of exploration into what makes something classical, whether it is the Ritual Fire Dance, a traditional Fandango, a Jerez-style Bulerias, Faure’s Pavane or Yaelisa’s signature Soleares, considered the mother of all flamenco.

Lo Clásico, is offered for three performances only on Friday & Saturday, December 17 & 18 at 8p.m., and Sunday, December 19 at 3p.m. at San Francisco’s Cowell Theatre (Fort Mason Center). Reserved Seating is $35; $25 students/seniors; $15 Children 12 and under). To purchase call (415) 345-7575 / www.fortmason.org/boxoffice.

Free Holiday Events at the SF Public Library

There are a plethora of free events being offered at the San Francisco Public Library over the next several weeks. In addition to the many craft workshops throughout the month, there will be a performance of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. On Dec. 9, 10:30 a.m., Main Library, Fisher Children’s center, 100 Larkin St., San Francisco. (415) 557-4282

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