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Feinstein and Pelosi targeted by human rights groups

­by the El Reportero’s staff

Members of the human ­rights and antiwar group, Codepink held a protest in front of Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Nancy Pelosi on Feb. 14, to denounce the unlawful treatment of whistleblower Bradley Manning, charged with leaking information of U.S. war crimes and failed foreign policy in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Codepink and other human rights groups claim they have documents presented to Feinstein Monday – which will prove Manning has been mistreated in violation of his constitutional rights, noting he has been detained in solitary confi nement for more than eight months, without trial, and is not allowed to have any meaningful exercise. His sleep is regularly interrupted.

In a Codepink statement, the group demanded that Manning be treated like any U.S. Citizen because he has a constitutional right for a speedy trial and humane treatment. “Instead, he is being punished without a conviction of any crime, but rather for suspicion of leaking truth about the war crimes of others,” the statement said. “Like the prisoners at Guantanamo, he is being held in indefinite detention… It is the duty of all elected offi cials to protect the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens. His case is a testament to the current assaults on our democracy.”

Proposed funding cuts to Head Start

Last week the U.S. House of Representatives would vote on a plan to cut 200,000 of the most at-risk children across the country from Head Start classrooms. “H.R. 1, a budget proposal for the remaining seven months of fi scal year 2011, represents an unprecedented cut to a program that has historically received bipartisan support,” says Rick Mockler, Executive Director of the California Head Start Association, in a written document.

According to the organization, the proposed cuts would reduce Head Start funding by over 20 percent. If these cuts are enacted, in California 27,000 children and their families will be dropped from Head Start’s education, health, and support service programs.

ACLU send letter to Sheriff Hennessy against supporting immigration raids

Citing the ACLU new report, Costs and Consequences: The high Piece of Policing Immigrant Communities, it lets know Sheriff Hennessy the price to pay for enforcing immigration laws.

“It can discourage witnesses and victims of crime from coming forward, undermine local peace officers’ credibility with immigrant community members and ultimately harm public safety for the whole community,” the letter said.

The report, says the ACLU’s letter, draws on many conversations they had with law enforcement leaders over the last year and a half.

Computers for students who live in public housing

Fifty-eight Malcolm X Elementary students who live in public housing will be given computers to extend their learning at home. This Bayview school has the highest percentage of students in SFUSD living in public housing, where residents now have wi-fi access. At home, they will be able to use the online Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY) and School Loop (a website to keep parents informed about their child’s progress at school).

Students are being encouraged to spend about three hours a week studying on EPGY; their progress will be monitored by the district in this pilot program.

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The intelligent border

Jorge Mújica Murias
Mexicodelnorte@yahoo.com

It started about two years ago, and is called the “Intelligent Border Project,” a very commercial but full of sense initiative, so border merchants lose less money due to the long waiting lines at the border crossing. According to its organizers, merchants from both sides of the border lose each year around 8 billion 580 million dollar because their clients take hours to cross the line. More time waiting to cross means less time shopping, and as the saying goes, “time is Money”.

According to their numbers, at the Tijuana-San Diego crossing, the busiest in the world, with well over 10 million people, loses about 5 billion 100 million dollars a year. The close-by crossing at Mexicali-Imperial County loses 3 billion 300 millions every 12 months.

And let me repeat it, the “Intelligent Border” is a purely commercial project. To be a “partner” of the smart border you have to come down with 50 thousand dollars, which has not been an obstacle for a bunch of States and Counties. Another kind of “partner,” with less money but maybe more intelligence, are private companies serving as advisors to evaluate programs to shorten the waiting crossing times, and each one of them has to come up with 25 thousand dollars to have the right to speak their minds.

The last Partners of the venture are private companies with real state interests in both sides of the border, who lobby and advocate on both sides of the border. These are the real heavy weight guys, investing about 6 billion dollars a year, which they hope to recover implementing measures to reduce the famous waiting times.

Part of the business partners is being used to design and engineer triplelane crossing points, cashonly fast lines, community awareness programs about the “crisis in the border towns,” and to “educate and teach the community about the economic advantage of crossing rapidly and have an expedited commercial exchange between both nations.”

The Stupid Border

All that comes to mind because a few days ago the Obama regime finally, like the donkey in the fable, blew the right way and played the flute.

The boss of the so called Homeland Security offi ce, Janet Napolitano, announced in a low publicity way, that she’s cancelling the high tech border Project, the so called “virtual fence”, in which the US government had put about one billion of taxpayers money. It had been started in 2006, by congressional decision, and it barely covered 53 miles at the border.

The “Virtual Fence” has a network of cameras, movement sensors and radars that supposedly would detect undocumented immigrants crossing the border, and the Border Patrol would be notifi ed to immediately  stop them. Instead, theygot a bunch of “coyotes”, not the two-legged ones but the real four-legged animals, a ton of deer and rolling sagebrush, but few immigrants, at the cost of 15 million dollars a mile.

Those results lead us to the conclusion that the only intelligent guys in the project were the Presidents and CEO’s of Boeing, company who sold the government a ton of junk, making millions on the process. And they will keep making money, because they will continue “giving maintenance to the technology already installed.”

Of course, Republicans who approved the Project in the first place, are now complaining and criticizing Obama because he took “too long to cancel the Project”, and because he is “taking too long to decide what to do instead”. They want more personnel, new technology and equipment for the Border Patrol. I say the Money would  be better invested on the Intelligent Border Project. One billion dollars would suffi ce to put a bridge every mile across the border, or at least two in every border town and village, and maybe to triple thenumber of guys who ask ­you if you are a citizen at those bridges. That would promote business and improve social relations on both sides of the border, both badly needed in times of crisis and recession.

But I don’t think it will happen. A plan like that renders no profit to any congressman, the President or any executive. It would be viewed as a very farfetched idea, because no one in Washington is intelligent enough to appreciate it.

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Our chosen wars: Iraq, Afganistan. Now drugs?

por José de la Isla
Hispanic Link News Service

MEXICO CITY — There was “victory” in Iraq and a pending one in Afghanistan. Now, we’re told, it’s time to turn our weapons to the war on drugs.

The need for an escalation and murky triumph at any price led U.S. Army Undersecretary Joseph W. Westphal to let out a horrifying peetoot. He has planted the thought in public discourse that Invading Mexico Is not out of the question.

We also don’t like losing wars. We fight only for the right side because our intent is for a happy ending. Just consult any public-education history book, if you’re in doubt. Given that, a mistake was made from the beginning with the misapplication of ”war” to the campaign to minimize illicit drug use and its distribution. Wars provoke resistance from the other side. We don’t like or understand that.

The Nixon administration gave the war on drugs a law-and-order spin in the early 1970s. Its concern was with out-of-control youth (mostly in college), the association of pot-smoking with draft-resistance, hippies, yippies, cultural drift and the Beatles. Drug use was considered the common denominator with what was causing disorderliness and threatening the upright, the straight-laced, the moral community and what made over-thetop youth go bonkers.

A law-enforcement, rehab, talk-and-treatment therapy, and a public relations industry grew up around legitimate concerns over distribution and illicit drug use. However, the application of drug laws today tends to serve other social-control purposes.

For example, low-level pot possession is the number one cause of arrest in New York City, 50,383 cases. Of those, 86 percent of the arrests last year were of blacks and Latinos despite consistent research showing young whites use marijuana at higher rates, according to the Drug Policy Alliance.

In another theater of the war, a November 2008 report from the Brookings Institution think-tank in Washington, D.C., co-chaired by Mexico’s former president Ernesto Zedillo, declared the U.S. war on drugs had failed. The report called for rethinking the “asymmetrical” U.S. policy which calls for countries like Mexico to stanch the fl ow of drugs without making a successful effort to stop the flow of guns going south and avoiding the public health issue that large-scale illegal-drug consumption presents. The drug fi ght will fail so long as law enforcement remains the policy’s emphasis. Neglect of the problem of consumption, despite all the health and brain-science evidence on addiction, shows how wrong-headed the policy is.

More than two years after the Brookings report, the Inter-American Dialogue also labels the policy a failure. It challenges the policy whose purpose is to fi ght on and spend into oblivion, with seeming disinterest on whether drug use and distribution is declining. Debate about the 40-year U.S. war on drugs,” said the Dialogue, “remains muted.” Inter-American Dialogue president emeritus Peter Hakim presented his case to “drug czar” Gil Kerlikowske. He briefed staff at the Office of National Drug Control Policy, and discussed the report with assistant secretary William Brownfi eld of the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.

Who was Hahim trying to move? The very people whose careers and budgets depend on keeping the drug war going? Have we sat and watched this scenario before?

Try public education, where bad results get more money, which produces more bad results. Good money chasing good policy is the prescription. Not good money chasing bad policy. The “farreaching debate” Hakim wants is sound but unlikely because of war promoters.

Look long and hard into the public-policy syndicates that lie and have no serious public interest at heart. Reason demands something different.

­With drugs, even the law and justice theme rings phony — like documentaries for future TV episodes of Cops. Some days, the glowing reports about a bust or a capture look suspiciously like that banner “Mission Accomplished,” but eight long years before the Iraq war began winding down.

To make the Iraq war increasingly a thing of the past, it took some bold changes of policy, personnel and public attitude. Just as it will take in the war on drugs.

(José de la Isla, a nationally syndicated columnist for Hispanic Link and Scripps Howard news services, has been recognized for two consecutive years for his commentaries by New America Media. His forthcoming book is “Our Man on the Ground.” His previous books include “DAY NIGHT LIFE DEATH HOPE” (2009) and “The Rise of Hispanic Political Power (2003).” Available at joseisla3@yahoo.com)

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The Agenda of the Illuminti (24nd part of a multi series)

­by Marvin Ramíre­z­

­­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 twenty- fourth 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).

— And surely you know that the U.N. policy during the Korean and Vietnam Wars was to prevent us from winning those wars?

Do you know that all the battle plans of General McArther had to go first to the U.N. to be relayed to Vasialia, Commander of the North Koreans and Red Chinese, and that any future wars fought by our sons under the U.N. flag would have to be fought by our sons under the control of the U.N. Security Council? Do you know that the U.N. has never done anything about the 80,000 Russian Mongolian troops that occupy Hungary? Where was the U.N. when the Hungarian freedom fighters were slaughtered by the Russians [1956]?

Do you know that the U.N. and its peace army turned the Congo over to the communists? Do you know that the U.N.’s own, so-called, peace force was used to crash, rape, and kill the white anticommunists in Katanga?

Do you know that the U.N. stood by and did nothing while Red China invaded Laos and Vietnam? That it did nothing while Nero invaded Goa and other Portuguese territories? Do you know that the U.N. was directly responsible for aiding Castro? That it does absolutely nothing about the many thousands of Cuban youngsters who are shipped to Russia for communist indoctrination.

Do you know that Adlai Stevenson said: “the free world must expect to loose more and more decisions in the U.N..” Do you know that the U.N. openly proclaims that its chief objective is a “one-world government” which means “one-world laws,” “oneworld court,” “one-world schools,” and a “one world church” in which Christianity would be prohibited?

Do you know that a U.N. law has been passed to disarm all American citizens and to transfer all our armed forces to the U.N.? Such a law was secretly signed by saint’ Jack Kennedy in 1961. Do you realize how that fi ts in with Article 47, paragraph 3, of the U.N. Charter, which states and I quote: “the military staff committee of the U.N. shall be responsible through the Security Council for the strategic direction of all armed forces  placed at the disposal of the Security Council” and when and if all our armed forces are transferred to the U.N., your sons would be forced to serve and die under the U.N. command all over the world. This will happen unless you fi ght to get the U.S. out of the U.N.

Do you know that Congressmen James B. Utt has submitted a bill to get the U.S. out of the U.N. and a resolution to prevent our President from forcing us to support the U.N. embargoes on Rhodesia? Well, he has and many people all over the country are writing to  their representatives to supportthe Utt bill and resolution. Fifty Congressmen, spear headed by Schweiker and Moorhead of Pennsylvania, have introduced a bill to immediately transfer all our armed forces to the U.N.? Can you imagine

such brazen treason? Is your Congressman one of those 50 traitors? Find out and take immediate action against him and help Congressman Utt.

­Now do you know that the National Council of Churches passed a resolution in San Francisco which states that the United States will soon have to subordinate its will to that of the U.N. and that all American citizens must be prepared to accept it? Is your church a member of the National Council of Churches? In connection with that, bear in mind that God is never mentioned in the U.N. Charter and their meetings are never opened with prayer. IT WILL CONTINUE ON THE NEXT WEEK EDITION.

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Gadhafi’s grip on military and media shows atrocities

­An analysis by Andrew Bossone

La gente en Libia protesta para sacar del poder al dictador Moammar Gadhafi.Libyan people protest to oust Moammar Gadhafi. (photo by Associated Press)

Moammar Gadhafi’s totalitarian control over the military and media has made Libya’s revolution the most violent so far in a region beset by uprisings.

The dictator has gone to extreme lengths in an attempt to beat down the protest movement, bringing in mercenaries to slaughter people on the streets and ordering aircraft and boats to fire on crowds of civilians.

“We managed to capture mercenaries and we discovered chemical weapons to use against protesters. Now we are afraid of the chemical materials we found. We don’t know how to store it or destroy it,” Mohamed al-Hasy, who defected from the military, told AOL News.

Gadhafi, of course, does not hold a monopoly on oppression among the now-shrinking list of the world’s dictators. But in his Machiavellian quest to be both feared and loved, he has wielded an unmatched amount of control over both the military and communications.

“In the whole western area, airplanes are used to bombard people from a low altitude,” al-Hasy said.

“They don’t use bombs but machine guns so they don’t leave any trace. I heard of 2,000 killed in Tripoli and 3,000 injured. Bodies and injured are hidden in stores, many of which are incinerated.”

An accurate accounting of the number of deaths ­and injured is nearly impossible because of a blackout on communications. Press estimates vary greatly, from a few thousand to tens of thousands.

The death toll might have been far worse if members of the Libyan military had not disobeyed orders. Jets, helicopters and warships have landed in Malta after soldiers refused to massacre fellow Libyans.

 

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Fluoride depletes iodine in the body, causing hypothyroidism and inmune defiency

by Marianne Leigh

Natural News (NaturalNews)

Fluoride is getting a lot of bad press these days, and for good reason: it is a toxic molecule that wreaks extensive, often irreversible, havoc on the body. The thyroid is particularly affected by fluoride exposure because its  store of iodine is depleted.Iodine deficiency depresses the thyroid’s metabolic and immune functions, resulting in hypothyroidism and lowered immunity.

Fluoride and iodine are both halogens. Fluoride, the negative ion of the element fluorine, easily displaces iodine in the body because it is much lighter and therefore more reactive. In fact, the activity of any one of the halogens (Iodine 126.70, Bromine 79.90, Chlorine 35.45, Fluorine 18.99 are the most common) is inversely proportional to its atomic weight. In other words, one halogen can displace another one of a higher atomic weight but cannot displace one of lower weight.

Lack of iodine shuts down production of thyroxine, the thyroid prohormone that controls metabolism, and, in one way or another, impacts every aspect of health. The resulting hypothyroidism causes weight gain, cold intolerance, dry and prematurely aged skin, depression, constipation, hair loss, memory loss, irritability, increased cholesterol levels, heart disease and loss of libido. But the action of iodine in the thyroid is not limited to metabolism; it also has an important immune function.

Blood circulates through the thyroid once every 17 minutes in what has been called the ‘17 minute passage’. Secretion of iodine, a potent germ killer, into the blood stream as it is passing through the thyroid weakens invading organisms, allowing them to be more easily eradicated. If the thyroid is defi cient in iodine, this critical step in immunity will be reduced or eliminated.

Unlike iodine, which the body cannot store longterm, fl uoride is a problematic and persistent toxin. Its effects are systemic and only about half of what is ingested can be excreted; the rest is stored in bones and ­tissues, blocking access to other elements, like iodine.

Fluoride exposure can come from multiple obvious and not-so-obvious sources. In addition to dental hygiene products and drinking water, many breakfast cereals, juices from concentrate, soda and other processed foods contain alarming levels. Fluoride-containing pesticide use means that the environment is being fl ooded with fluoride by conventional agriculture (http://www.fluoridealert.org/fpest…).

Also, many antidepressants contain large amounts of fluoride and are widely prescribed, often for a lifetime of use.

Conventional medicine’s response to hypothyroidism typically ignores causes and prescribes synthetic thyroxine hormone in an attempt to balance out the health equation with another unnatural substance; this is nothing new. But hypothyroidism is a national epidemic, affecting roughly 10% of the female population in the US and in no way sparing men. It has created a stable, everexpanding market for these cash cow thyroid drugs (the leading thyroid drug was number 7 on JAMA’s list of ‘most commonly prescribed’ in 2006; one year later it was number 4).

One might assume then that fl uoride’s role in depressing thyroid function is a new discovery, that government fluoride programs simply lack this vital information. Yet research has been taking place since the 1930s, when fluoride was used to treat individuals with overactive thyroid. The relationship is well established, and old.

Which leads inevitably to a diffi cult question:

How could government allow fluoride addition to drinking water, approve fluoride-containing drugs and pesticides, and fail to test for fl uoride content in food when there is a known connection with serious thyroid complications?

Perhaps the cash value of the fact that millions of Americans take thyroid drugs, and most likely will take them the rest of their lives, can suggest an unbiased, honest answer.

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Faced with the Democratic Charter, Chávez beats a hasty retreat

by the El Reportero’s news services

Hugo ChávezHugo Chávez

Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, who played a key role in invoking the Inter- American Democratic Charter (IADC) against those who ousted Manuel Zelaya from the presidency of Honduras in June 2009 and in portraying as a coup d’état attempt the police mutiny against the government of Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa in September 2010, found himself accused in January this year of breaching the Charter. After trying to shrug this off as yet another U.S. maneuver against him, he bowed to pressure and announced that he was relinquishing the power to rule by decree until 2012.

Ecuador referendum gets go-ahead

Ecuador’s constitutional court approved President Rafael Correa’s 10 question referendum on Feb. 15. The nine person constitutional court voted, with six votes in favor and three against, to ignore the recommendations made by one of the judges, Nina pacari, which concluded that four of the five proposed constitutional amendments could not be changed by referendum. She (and the opposition) dismissed the court’s ruling as “political”.

Peru and Argentina dominate

This year, 2011, is another busy year for elections and referenda in the region.

Unlike last year, where no elections outside the Caribbean featured an incumbent running for re-election, this year will probably see President Cristina Fernández of Argentina and, more controversially, President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, running again for their respective presidencies.

More unusual is that Peru’s ruling Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (Apra) is not fi elding a presidential candidate. Such a move revives memories of Ecuador in the late 1990s and early 2000s, where the once-dominant Partido Social Cristiano spurned presidential elections and dwindled as a national force.

Change in direction over drugs?

President Alejandro ToledoThe Peruvian elections are a microcosm of an apparent shift in counternarcotics policy thinking amongst former Latin American presidents and experts across the world. On Jan. 28 former ­Peruvian (2001-2006), who is also the current presidential candidate for Alianza Perú Posible, commented on the recently created Global Commission on Drug Policy (Idpc) and said that if elected, his government would look into legalisation “as an avenue to explore”.

Stunts and killings dominate Mexican headlines, obscuring big development

The most eye-catching event in Mexico last week was the erection of a banner in the lower chamber, at the start of the fi rst congressional session of 2011, by deputies from the leftwing Partido del Trabajo accusing President Felipe Calderón of being a drunk.

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‘Hispanic’ states rank low on health care access scorecard

by Nathalia González

Commonwealth Fund senior vice president Cathy Schoen and colleagues came together during a teleconference Feb. 1 to provide a group of reporters, including Hispanic Link, with a scorecard that rates the 51 states on their concern about children’s and parents’ access to affordable health insurance.

According to Schoen, the Fund’s VP for policy, research and evaluation, there is a two-to-threefold spread between top and bottom ranked states. Top states are found mostly in New England and the Upper Midwest regions. The bottomranked states are in the South and Southwest.

The Commonwealth Fund scorecard creates benchmarks for all states to reach. The speakersmaintained that if those benchmarks are achieved by all of them, 5.6 million more children and 10.4 million more parents would be insured, 9 million more children would have primary care medical access and more than 10 million would receive the appropriate preventive care services.

Focusing on states with a significant Hispanic population, these are the facts:

Five of the six states, New York being the exception, fall into in the scorecard’s low third and fourth quartiles of the scorecard. Schoen explained that, according to their Commonwealth Fund research, one-fourth to one-third of the population in the lower-ranked states does not receive recommended preventive care.

Among her suggestions as to what can be done to improve conditions in those highly Hispanic-population states is to post surveys and reports in Spanish — and other languages as appropriate.

“We hope, looking forward, that states and local care systems will seize on the potential and learn from innovation so that all children will have a more equal opportunity to survive, thrive and lead healthy, productive lives,” Schoen said, ending on a positive note.

For details, visit commonwealthfund.org.

In other Hispanic news:

Students hail victory as UTEP reinstates César Chávez Day

by Danya P. Hernández

EL PASO Texas — Dr. Diana Natalicio president of the University of Texas at El Paso, circulated an email message to the university’s faculty and its 20,000 students Feb. 8 that the institution’s annual celebration of César Chávez’s March 31 birthday was no longer on the chopping block.

The Day was established as an optional state holiday in 1999 by then-Gov. George Bush and readily adopted by UTEP, where the student population is three-quarters Hispanic. When the state approved only 12 holidays for academic year 2010- 11, UTEP had to trim two. Its Faculty Senate announced late last month that César Chávez Day would be eliminated.

Some 150 students, supported by alumni, quickly mobilized against the decision and confronted Natalicio, who expressed sympathy for the students’ cause and requested time to work on a solution. Ten days later she made her announcement that the Faculty Senate had rescinded its vote. While details are apparently still being worked out, student reaction was immediate and favorable.

A Facebook group, “UTEP Students for César Chávez Day,” was among the fi rst to posted a note: “Thanks to everyone for this victory. ¡Qué Viva César Chávez!” Student Javier SanRomán added the message to his facebook page, “¡Que orgullo, gracias a todos Uds. Sigan luchando. César vive, la luche sigue!”

In her announcement, Natalicio stated, “We regret the calendar confusion and the misunderstanding that resulted from it.” Prior to the president’s announcement, campus and community groups mobilized against the decision. Among them: Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MEChA) and Cultural Artists United for Social Action (CAUSA).

A “Restore César Chávez” rally featured community speakers and members of the groups that helped organize it. A petition to reinstate the holiday was circulated. The rally culminated with Pete Duarte, an active    alumnus, declaring he would give back his Gold Nugget Award, UTEP’s most prestigious award for alumni.

“The action taken by the Faculty Senate is not only a slap in the face to the students, faculty and staff on campus — an act of culture and racial

genocide — but also an ­act of racism,” Duarte said.

Coordinator of Students for César Chávez Day Adrian Rivera said, “They didn’t take into consideration the population of the University and they didn’t consider the effect of changing something like that,” Protesters used Chávez’s peaceful ways to voice their concerns — proof that his legacy lives on, said Rivers. “Faculty Senate gave us the stage and we are going to use it to start educating about what César did for the community and the nation.” Hispanic Link

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Los Hermanos Rosario from DR to SF

­

­by Mark Carney

Los Hermanos RosarioLos Hermanos Rosario

From their unique sound and style, Los Hermanos Rosario is a group worthwhile to see play and dance along their musical beat. If you don’t believe it, google it and see the many U-Tube links that show their talent, for yourself.

It’s a type of merengue that doesn’t burn you up dancing because of its speed, it’s soft, it is also soft and a little bit fast but also very romantic. It’s a very traditional merengue, and modern at the same time. They really got it. Los Hermanos Rosario, since childhood, showed an interest in playingmusic, according to bio posted by Wikipedia.

They played self-created instruments such as bottle caps, plastic containers, pots, pans and other items. Soon, they started singing and playing in their neighborhood. They formed in the Dominican Republic city of Higuey in May 1978. The 14-piece orchestra has had a series of very successful albums among those are “Los Hermanos Rosario,1983,” “Bomba Mi Hermano,1990 “ “Insuperables, 1991” “Los Dueños del Swing,1995” and “Bomba 2000.” They count with 14 estudio albums since 1983, including eight copilations since 1989. On Friday, Feb. 25, at Roccapulco Superclub, at 3140 Misison Street, SF, at 9 p.m.

New Art Exhibits To Open

The Togonon Gallery is now showing the works of several interesting artists. Lora Groves’ show, New Works, will be exhibited until Feb. 25, with the opening reception to be held on Thursday, Feb. 5, at 5 p.m. Ms. Groves, a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute, combines many textures of linen, paper, and concrete board into dissonant gestalts, often using shades of mauve, azure, olive green and mallow pink.

The gallery has this year added a new exhibition format, The Collector’s Room, in which the works of both new as well as gallery artists will be showcased. The first exhibition will include works by Pantea Karimi and Luis Gutiérrez. Ms.Karimi’s works are jarring combinations of images taken from the mass media, meant as socio-cultural critiques of our money-obsessed habits. Mr. Gutiérrez, a Mexican-American artist who

taught at San Jose City College for several decades, is well known, both for his abstract paintings and his assemblage sculptures. The Togonon Gallery is located at 77 Geary St., SF, CA, just one block from the Powell BART station.

February Shows at Roccapulco

Valentine’s Day is approaching and a night of salsa dancing would be a romantic way to spend the evening. On Saturday, Feb.12, Hector Rey will be performing his many hits, such as Te Propongo, Ya No Es Lo Mismo and Tan Enamorado, and DJ Tony O and DJ Bosco will be spinning the best salsa songs from the ‘90s. Singles are welcome, and a ‘meet and greet’ will take place early in the evening.

Dinner packages are also available, but reservations are required. Call (415) 821-3563 for more information. Come see the crowdpleasing favorite Los Hermanos Flores, from El Salvador, on Saturday, Feb. 19. The group, which is an orchestra featuring three lead vocalists—two male and one female—plays rousing cumbias and salsas. Their use of their three vocalists makes them an especially interesting group. Many ­of their songs are stories in which the respective views of men and women are presented through these vocalists, oftentimes in a humorous way. The orchestra, too, takes part, shouting out choruses with the lead singers. DJ L.Caballero, DJ Tony and DJ Bosco will, as always, be on hand to keep the dancers moving during the breaks in live music. Roccapulco, 3140 Mission St., SF, CA. Sat. Feb. 19, from 8 p.m to 2 a.m. Tickets are $25. (Marvin Ramírez contributed to this report).

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