SFPD officer C. Lewis waits for the owner of the car to recover his belongings to confiscate his vehicle. Apparently, confiscating the cars from the undocumented for not having a driver’s license, is part of the sanctuary business. The more undocumented come to the San Francisco, the more profit there is for the city, because they take their cars. (photo by Marvin J. Ramirez)
The other business of the City of SF
Pensions to be nationalized in Argentina population
by the El Reportero news services
Cristina Fernández
The government of President Cristina Fernández announced Oct. 21 that it will send a bill to Congress to nationalize Argentina’s 10 private pension funds. The nationalization will give the government control over some $US30bn currently managed by private funds, around half of which is invested in Argentine government bonds.
The government says that the decision was made to safeguard pensions against the global economic downturn. It may well, however, be motivated by a less noble concern: Fernández’s increasingly cash-strapped government is desperate for money to service its debts next year, when its financing needs are set to almost double.
The news was met with horror by foreign investors, dealing a crushing blow to already shaky market confidence in Argentina, and has given the opposition another reason over which to unite against the Kirchners. An opposition daily, La Nación, went so far today (22 October) as to describe the decision as “legalized robbery”.
“World Series” is finally beginning to live up to its name
by Robert Heuer
For those who are jittery about the growth and influence of the U.S. Hispanic Argentina population, there’s a lesson to be learned from the experience of one U.S. institution.
Major league baseball long ago stopped freaking out about its own “Latino takeover.”
It discovered Latinos are not a threat that should be fenced out. The pathway leading to baseball’s transformation is truly international. Spanish-speaking ballplayers have become a dominant force in the game as baseball has been setting attendance records and generating lucrative TV deals.
Baseball’s future is decidedly multicultural. Fears about allowing too many foreigners on the diamond are very much part of its past. A century-long Latin American connection is the cornerstone of MLB’s strategy to tap talent and fans worldwide.
Cubans began playing major league ball in 1911. At first, obviously-white guys were the only ones allowed, then sort-of white guys and, since1947, ballplayers reflecting the island nation’s full spectrum of racial hues. That pipeline closed after Fidel Castro seized power in 1959.
With Cuba off-limits, various teams found cheap talent elsewhere in the Caribbean.
This trend did not sit well with Minnesota Twins manager Cookie Lavagetto.
Claiming the “national” game was in jeopardy’ he told a reporter in 1961: “How will you ever fill the stands for the World Series if you have nine Yankees from Venezuela playing nine Giants from Puerto Rico?”
Latinos accounted for 7 percent of major league rosters that year. Twenty years later the numbers had climbed to 11 percent. Latinos were hardly taking oven but the prospect worried others in baseball.
Pittsburgh Pirate scout Howie Haak was another insider willing to say so. This scouting legend got his start !n Latin America in the 1950s on orders from Pirates general manager Branch Rickey to find the next Roberto Clemente.
Noting the game’s best young players were African American and Latino, Haak told a Pittsburgh reporter in 1982 that the Pirates probably should trade for a few whites.
Haak’s offhand remark made headlines nationwide. Baseball management’s heated denial fueled speculation !n the press about some magic percentage of white players needed on the fi eld to fi ll the ballpark.
In a recent interview, Philadelphia Phillies’ general manager Pat Gillich said Haah stated a fear then widely held inside baseball. With many of the best U S.-born athletes pursuing football and basketball careers, baseball was forced to seek talent outside of the U.S. despite uncertainty as to how its white fan base would react to changing demographics.
Gillich credits Hash with opening his eyes to prospecting opportunities overseas. In the 1960s, Gillich launched his baseball management career by developing Latin American scouting operations for Houston and then Toronto. In the early 1980s, the Blue Jays and Dodgers were at the forefront of a major league acceleration to secure players from around the world.
On opening day 2008, players from 16 foreign countries and territories fi lled nearly one-third of MLB’s rosters and nearly half of its minor league feeder system.
Dominican major leaguers totaled 86, Venezuelans 52, Puerto Ricans 29 and Japanese 16.
Clearly, ethnicity is no longer a concern. After all, eight of 17 players that fans voted onto starting lineups for this summer’s All Star game were either Latino or Japanese.
“Americans are a lot less prejudiced than they used to be,” Gillich explained. With the talent search now global in scope, Gillick sees the greatest promise in China and Cuba. And he considers nearby Mexico City on the short list for future expansion.
Meanwhile, MLB’s international business arm expands the enterprise’s appeal through special events, broadcasting, licensing and sponsorship initiatives. Many corporations see baseball as a vehicle to sell consumer products through out the planet.
An MLB spokesman said 2008 game broadcasts were retransmitted in 13 languages to more than 200 countries. Next March, teams from 16 countries will take part in MLB’s second World Baseball Classic.
The plan is to hold the tournament every four years thereaffer, including an expansion of the participant fi eld in 2013.
Baseball’s internationalization could lead to reinstatement in the 2016 Olympic Games. The Olympic committee dropped baseball from the 2012 schedule because professionals don’t participate. (National Basketball Association players can compete because summer Olympics take place during the off-season; the National Hockey League takes a two-week hiatus so its players can participate in the winter Olympics).
MLB is receptive to scheduling a vacation in August 2016 for the Olympics, allowing players to represent their homelands.
According to a 2007 ESPN sports poll, 63.1 percent of U.S. Hispanics are MLB fans. Seventeen of its 30 teams broadcast at least partial schedules in Spanish.
(Robert Heuerr of Evanston, IIL, is a public policy consultant. He has covered baseball’ Latinos for Hispanic Link since 1983.)
Boxing
October 24 (Friday), 2008 At TBA, Montreal, Canada
- NEW Lucian Bute (22-0) vs. Librado Andrade (27-1) (The Ring Magazine #3 Super Middleweight vs. #4) (IBF Super Middleweight belt).
November 22 (Saturday), 2008 At The Stadthalle, Westerburg, Germany
- Roman Aramian (25-7) vs. TBA.
- Mario Stein (19-4) vs. TBA.
- Yakup Saglam (14-0) vs. TBA.
December 6 (Saturday), 2008 At TBA, Las Vegas, NV
- (PPV) Oscar De La Hoya (39-5) vs. TBA (The Ring Magazine #3 Jr. Middleweight vs. Unranked).
30th Street Senior Center 9th annual dinner autumnmagic dinner and dance
by Mark Aspillera
Come to Patio Español to join this bilingual fundraiser event for the 30th Street Senior Center. Senior citizenship is strictly optional and not required in order to attend.
Salsa lessons and dinner at 6:30 pm. Latin dance music will be provided until 10:30 pm by DJs Entertainment and Sound Connection.
Demonstrations of Tango, Salsa and Mambo dance will be performed at the event by Oye Productions.
All proceeds go to 30th Street Senior Center programs such as “Always Active,” a senior-oriented fi tness program and the new computerized “Brain Fitness” program. The event begins on Friday, Oct. 24, 2008 at 5:30 pm. For more information on 30th Street Senior Center or the dance party, call (415) 292-8732 or E-mail Cynthia Tam at ctam@onlok.org.
Consciousness, community, liberation: fulfilling the promise of ‘68
Come to San Francisco State University to join special guests and invited scholars as well as alumni, students and faculty for this free commemoration of the 1968 San Francisco State student-led strike.
The event recognizes the 40th anniversary of the longest student-led strike in history. It will commemorate “the event’s legacy in social justice, student leadership and access to higher education.”
Issues to be discussed range from student activism, civil rights, and social justice to equity in the political, educational and economic spheres.
Event begins Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008 at San Francisco State University on 1600 Holloway Ave. on 19th Ave. Register and obtain a full schedule of events and speakers at http://www.sfsu.edu/~ethnicst/home5.html. For information call (415) 338-1694 or e-mail fortieth@sfsu.edu.
Imperial Silence: Una Ópera Muerta/A Mariachi Opera in Four Acts
Director John Lota Leaños celebrates the Day of the Dead in this collaborative multimedia production in San Francsco.
The four-act opera integrates animation and a soundtrack of Mexican folklore dance, Mariachi music, hip-hop, bossa nova and blues written and performed by Leaños, composer Cristóbal Martinez, Mariachi ensemble Los Cuatro Vientos and actor Sean Levon Nash. Performers include a live DJ, stage actors, folklore dancers and Mariachi singers who interact with projected animations.
“Imperial Silence” will be performed twice concurrently on Nov. 1 and 2, 2008 at the Brava Theatre Center and Mission Cultural Center for the Latino Arts, respectively. Tickets for the Brava Theatre performance can be obtained for $10-$15 at (415) 647-2822. Mission Cultural Center (415-821-1155) tickets are $5 with free admission for children.
Día de Los Muertos family concert
The Mexican Day of the Dead is set to be welcomed by the San Francisco Symphony’s first-ever performance of a Día de los Muertos family concert in the Davies Symphony Hall.
The performance features compositions by Mexican composers José Pablo Moncayo, Silvestre Revueltas and Astor Piazzolla among many others. Performers with the symphony include composer Enrique Arturo Diemecke, violinist Danielle Belen Nesmith and Peter Soave on bandoneón.
SFS has joined with the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts to offer a series of pre-concert activities in the Davies Symphony Hall lobby. These include face painting for children, refreshments such as pan de muerto and Mexican hot chocolate and a centerpiece Día de los Muertos altar, commissioned by SFS and created by Mexican artist Herminia Albarrán Romero.
Doors to the symphony will open on Sunday, Nov. 2, 2008 at 1 pm. The concert begins at 2 pm. Tickets range from $15-$57. Children under the age of 17 may enter for half price. Order tickets via the SFS Box Office at (415) 864-6000, or http://www.sfsymphony.org.
Celebrated singers from U.S., Spain and Latin America recipients of Lifetime Award
by Antonio Mejías-Rentas
Cheo Feliciano
CELEBRATED SlNGERS: Six vocalists from the U.S., Spain and Latin America are this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award recipients selected by the Latin Recording Academy.
Awards will be presented Nov. 12 in Houston, a day before the Academy hands out its Latin Grammy awards.
The two U.S. singers are from Texas: three-time Grammy winner Vikki Carr, who was born in El Paso, and Houston-born Angelica Maria, who was raised south of the border and whose popularity as a singer and actress earned her the title of “La novia de Mexico”.
Recipients also include Puerto Rican singer Cheo Feliciano, a major figure of the 1 970s salsa explosion in New York. The native of Ponce is the only male among the six honorees.
Two of the singers are from South America: Argentina’s Estela Raval, known both as a soloist and as a member of the group Los 5 Latinos, and Brazil’s Astrud Gilberto, a leading voice of the bossa nova movement known for her recording of The Girl from Ipanema.
The sixth recipient is Spain’s María Dolores Pradera, a vocalist known for such classic singing styles as bolero, ronda and fado.
Angélica María
Along with the six Lifetime Achievement Awards, the Academy announced three musicians to receive its Trustees Award: Venezuelan singer and composer Simon Diaz, Cuban guitarist and composer Juanito Marquez and Jewish-American band~leader and keyboardist Larry Harlow, known in salsa circles as ‘’El Judío maravilloso”.
BACK TO SCHOOL: Last year’s top Latin AndradeGrammy winner Juan Luis Guerra says he’s returning to his Boston alma mater, this time as a teacher.
The Dominican singer-songwriter surprised fans last week by saying he called the Berklee College of Music and asked to start teaching classes next summer. He also hopes to enroll in courses as a student.
Vickki Carr
The 51-year~old musician graduated from Berkley in 1982 with a degree in jazz composition.
ONE LINERS: Mexican director Servando Gonáalez Hernandez, who worked in Hollywood films in the 1 960s, died Oct. 4 at age 85, reportedly a cancer victim: he is best remembered for fi Iming a 1968 student massacre in Mexico City, although his footage never screened publicly and disappeared shortly after it was shot… Univisi6n anchor Jorge Ramos will receive the Award for a Lifetime of Achievement in Hispanic Television Oct. 23, at the sixth annual Hispanic Television Summit in New York… and police in Corona, California, are investigating the theft of a video from the home of Jenni Rivera, in which the popular banda singer appears having sex with an unidentified man… Hispanic Link.
Voting rights organization visit county jail
by Mark Aspillera
Barry Hermanson
Visitors for prisoners in Santa Rita County Jail were approached by members of Get Out the Jail Vote-2008 on Sunday, October 19th. The organization’s stated goal is to inform visitors about prisoners’ right to vote.
A press release states that “over 100,000 Californians are being disenfranchised of their right to vote,” referring to inmates.
Get Out the Jail Vote is sponsored by Proyecto Common Trust, a non-profit organization for legal rights of female parolees.
City to attempt earthquake drill
San Francisco’s first “citywide” earthquake drill will take place on Tuesday, October 21st, the Mayor’s Office said.
The drill, named “Shake Up San Francisco,” will consist of several smaller drills carried out by what the Mayor’s Office described as “city departments, private businesses, non-profits, schools and individuals.”
San Francisco Unified School District’s campuses will engage in a “Stop, Cover and Hold” drill. The Mayor’s Offi ce said that they expect approximately 175,000 people to participate.
Businesses recognized for accommodating workplace breastfeeding
Five California businesses received awards from the California Taskforce on Youth and Workplace Wellness on the steps of the State Capitol last week.
The Taskforce said that the awards were given for having workplace policies that “support breastfeeding” implement the state lactation accommodation law.
Santa Barbara County, Rancho Cordova Wal Mart, Huntington Memorial Hospital, Pleasant Hill’s Crestwood Behavioral Health and Babies R Us in Emeryville all received the award, called the “Mother Baby Friendly Workplace Award.”
The awards were presented as part of several events organized by the California WIC Association, California Breastfeeding Coalition, CaliforniaDepartment of Public Health WIC and MCAH Divisions and the Breastfeeding Coalition of Greater Sacramento.
Proposition U supporters hold fundraiser
Barry Hermanson, Green Party candidate for Congress, hosted a fundraiser for Proposition U at his San Francisco home last Friday.
The proposition, which supports the termination of congressional funding for the war in Iraq, states: “[it is] the Policy of the people of the City & County of San Francisco that: Its elected representatives in the United States Senate and House of Representatives should vote against any further funding for the deployment of United States Armed Forces in Iraq, with the exception of funds specifi cally earmarked to provide for their safe and orderly withdrawal.”
Proposition U will be on the city ballot on November 4. Endorsers include the San Francisco Labor Council, San Francisco Democratic Party, San Francisco Green Party, California Nurses Association and the San Francisco Tenants Union.
Oakland emergency communication system goes into effect
An emergency radio system that allows city agencies to communicate with each other more easily in a disaster situation was activated last Thursday, the Oakland Mayor’s Office said.
Agencies connected to the digital radio network include the Oakland Police and Fire Departments, as well as the Oakland Unified School District.
“This is the first step in our overall effort to interoperate, not only with our own city, but to communicate with other cities in the region,” said Mayor Ron Dellums.
The network is part of the Bay Area Regional Interoperable Communications System (BAYRICS), a communications network for local emergency services in multiple cities.
Economic bail-out option won’t reach street-level
by Javier Aguirre
It would be optimistic to say that the economy is on the brink of disaster. That would be taking the Pollyanna approach. In actual fact, the economy has gone over the edge.
Although this cataclysmic event has been showing its ugly head for some time, the failure of our legislators to acknowledge it and informing the general population is as deplorable as the event is cataclysmic.
Then again, the failure of the general population is almost as deplorable. The questions we didn’t respond to then have returned to bite us on the proverbial gluteus maximus.
Are sub-prime loans good for the market, or simply good for commissions? Is the practice of selling homes No Money Down a feasible approach, or simply a legally constructed practice for flipping homes? Are gluttonous salaries and perks for corporate CEO’s really justified?
This is point in time when practically any state in the nation can approach its sports teams and borrow enough money from a single player to pay off the state budget’s deficits. Yet the federal government is considering using tax dollars to bail out corporations that have failed to regulate themselves in a fiscally sound manner.
The public should not forget that the government is considering doing this from a deficit position.
Who benefits? Certainly not the middle class, who have already lost their homes and are living in a ten city somewhere.
Certainly not the chronic unemployed, who will continue to be unemployed.
Certainly not those whose credit is already shot and won’t get any benefit from the bail-out unless they get offered another sub-prime loan, which won’t happen under federal regulation.
Public assistance agencies maintain that if welfare recipients were to receive $10,000 to get back on their feet, it won’t happen; they will blow it. It is presumed that they are not fiscally responsible. Yet, if we apply this same analogy to the corporations and the federal bail-out, there will be no shortage of “reasonable” explanations and excuses why it’s not the same. Seven hundred billion dollars.
Let’s do this . . . Divide it up among the states. That will provide each state with approximately 13 billion, 461 million, 538 thousand, 461 dollars and 50 cents. That should cover quite a few state deficit budgets and help bring them back in line.
Regulation, you say? Earmark the money for attacking poverty and all of its ancillary problems such as school failure, legislative incompetence, homelessness, governmental ignorance and unemployment.
Offer that money as a high-interest loan to the states with high-performance standards tied into the loan. The interest is forgiven as performance standards are met. Get it down to the lowest levels of society by using CBOs who are also required to meet the highest performance standards possible.
Couple this action with quarterly formative evaluations conducted by third-party evaluators, not governmental employees.
Programs not performing quarterly will lose their funding. No exceptions. For example, for most employment and training programs “train and place” is the standard of measure. Consequently, even if the client leaves after only several days of work, the placement counts toward performance. Long-term retention should be the measure of success, not placement. Long-term retention is defined as enough employment to result in the building of personal equity such as unemployment insurance.
The traditional model for resolving problems impacting upon the poverty and middle-class populations has been from the top down. Most recently, the savings-and-loan fiasco proved that this model is ineffective.
In this 21st century, the model is obsolete. The bail-out never reaches the street level, where it is most necessary. The only viable solution is to impact upon the chronic, low-income unemployed who have problems with job retention. There is an old adage that says that it “rolls downhill.” This is true. It’s time to flip the pyramid.
(Javier Aguirre is a former migrant farmworker with extensive ties to the laboring community. He currently holds a bachelor’s degree in public administration from Heritage College in Washington and a master’s degree from American Intercontinental University in Illinois. He is a doctoral candidate at the University of Phoenix. A past contributor of Hispanic Link, community organizer and educator, he is employed as operations manager for Fresno West Coalition for Economic Development of Fresno, Calif. Fresno is known as the Appalachia of the West, with one of the highest concentrations of poverty among urban communities. He is author of Expanding Horizons: A journey to Becoming a Skilled Language Interpreter.) ©2008
McCain, Obama and the flying piñata
por José de la Isla
José de la Isla
HOUSTON – Right after Hurricane Ike struck Galveston, Texas, a TV news reporter was out near Surfside describing the devastation. She gave an account of how in one part of the community, the storm lifted a beach house, sending it airborne, and slamming into another beach house. In a voice with rising decibels, the reporter said, “It was like, like a piñata.”
The imagery was perfect: A flying house, like a missile, clobbering a stationery one, with the debris scattered everywhere, harem-sacrum.
Some situations, like this one, require us to have a broad imagination, a wider-than-usual understanding which goes beyond the commonplace to reach reality.
That’s what came to mind reading the current issue of Literal magazine, a bilingual English-Spanish publication that brings a Latin American and transnational perspective to the arts and modern living.
In it José Blanco writes an essay that wants to level with us. It reads like a challenge about whether we are ready to level with ourselves in the upcoming presidential campaign. Would we ask the candidates the hard questions, with the hyperbole and distracting exaggerations put aside?
Blanco simply recognizes that the United States is passing from the scene as the world’s only heavyweight economy, that our military has been used like a bouncer in the world community. According to Blanco, a world leader is needed, not another heavy. And when we don’t act responsibly, our country is weaker abroad.
We were the world leader in habeas corpus — guaranteeing the civil rights of individuals to avoid arbitrary arrest and detention, he reminds us. The rest of the world has now witnessed how quickly we compromised human rights principles through extraordinary renditions, Abu Graib, Guantanamo and the Torture Talks inside the White House. How the next leader will restore rights, post-Patriot Act, will say a lot about redeeming ourselves, or whether ours is now a seriously compromised and hypocritical country.
Is the United States one that can lead the world into finding a new monetary system with financial security for all? Can we resolve problems that might seem national but are really global in scope, impacting far more than our neighborhoods and towns? These include treating migration as a worldwide phenomenon, eradicating hunger in the next 50 years, transferring technology, and facilitating education.
Even as our own education reform might be slow, the lack of more education abroad will increasingly become our problem as people seek a way out of their dire straights.
Education reform everywhere, as futurist Juan Enríquez has point out, is now a choice between development and underdevelopment.
Blanco raises many questions, each one with a major issue to resolve. He poses them as a citizen of the world who has an interest in what U.S. voters will decide.
Clearly this election is already trivialized into one about “hockey moms” or the revenge of “Hillary’s people,” about race, the old and the young, or selecting somebody you would like to drink a beer with. But the stakes are simply too high. And our judgment is in question.
Whose jaw doesn’t drop when José Blanco points out the Iraq war costs $341.4 million per day? The cumulative total is about $530 billion. Meanwhile, Iraq’s gross national product is $18.8 million. The United States has thrown into that enterprise 28 times everything that Iraq can possibly produce. With that amount, the whole of sub-Saharan Africa could have been redeveloped.
The question runs deeper than how we got into that war. It is as well about what “victory” means and the real costs of that maniacal pursuit. There’s a Spanish word for that. It is called a capricho.
If we don’t watch out, someday unusual incidents will be called “flying piñatas” and lack of human rights and policy irrationality will be called “capricho americano.” And if we don’t do the right thing now, we will likely lose our friends, we won’t be able to influence people, and we’ll all have empty pockets.
[José de la Isla, author of “The Rise of Hispanic Political Power” (Archer Books, 2003) writes a weekly commentary for Hispanic Link News Service. E-mail joseisla3@yahoo.com]. ©2008
The traditional political parties are accomplices of the financial crisis we are living now
by Marvin J. Ramirez
Marvin J. Ramirez
For many who depend on just CNN, Fox News or similar mainstream media for information, the bailout of more than $700 billion for the failed banking and mortgage industries is nothing more than an intent to save the international financial system and little more. But notice that they keep calling it, over and over, a ‘bailout,’ when in fact it is a nationalization, like in communist systems. It’s the beginning of and end of our freedoms and a complexion of the enslavement of humanity to the bankers.
Did you notice that a problem of this magnitude was announced just overnight in the mainstream mediaor in the “Wizard of Oz screen” as I prefer to call the media? They keep feeding the public with spoon-sized information, while they prepare for the collapse of the entire financial system, the public being the losers.
There are many things the Wizard of Oz screens are not telling you because their owners have practically placed a zipper over their mouths. They don’t tell you that there is a plan called the New World Order to create a One-World Government, with a one-world Constitution and one currency under the United Nations, and one world bank.
To do this, the real controllers of this plan need to make all the banks and the financial system fail or go bankrupt, so they will be able to purchase your stocks and mortgages at their lowest value. It’s the beginning of the end of private enterprise.
Everything will be owned by the International Monetary Fund, owner of the Federal Reserve Bank, which prints the currency of the United States, and lend it bank to the government with interest.
Someone suggested a little while ago that both communism and capitalism were created by these same forces, and although they look different, both give the state the power to own the people’s property and labor. And this make the people slaves of the state.
If you can tell, Congress, the President, the Federal Reserve Chairman and the United States Treasurer worked so hard to keep the people out of the bailout benefits, which could have included all the mortgages owned by the middle-class, therefore putting a halt to the evictions of millions of Americans about to lose their homes.
State Green Party presidential nominee Cynthia McKinney, said that the Wall Street bailout is nothing more than socialism for the wealthy.
A state and national financial collapse was predicted, in large part, by the recently deceased Peter Camejo, the Green Party’s three-time nominee for California governor, who died on Sept. 13 of cancer.
“Both major parties have been dominated by moneyed interests and today reflect the historic period of corporate rule,” wrote Camejo, a socially responsible investment counselor, in an historic document now called “The Avocado Declaration,” said a party document.
Camejo predicted the takeover of the federal government on Wall Street because “Republicans seek to convince the middle classes and labor to support the rule of the wealthy with the argument that ‘what benefi ts corporations is also going to benefi t regular people.’” The Democratic Party, he said, is different, but still beholden to “corporate rulers.”
That’s right, “beholden to corporate rulers,” and also to part of the scam perpetrated against we the people, in perpetrating the enslavement by submitting to receive worthless “money” that won’t sustain its value for our labor.
And although the Green Party is a third-party option to breaking the monopoly of the two-party system, it is still far from being different from the other two, unless it truly advocates openly for the abolishment of the Federal Reserve Bank. Unless the Reserve is abolished, we won’t really accumulate the wealth we deserve, from our hard labor and be able to inherit to our next generations. It is this banking system, dictating the inflation and deflation of our currency that is stealing the fruit of our labor.
To start, however, what many are calling the “revolution” to change the current corrupt system, we must break the monopoly of these two political parties, who on every election both are funded by the same sources.
It’s a very well-planned conspiracy: the media, the Congress and the bankers work together in order to keep sustaining their command of who is going to be elected, who is going to be placed on the Wizard of Oz screen for the people to vote for. All to make the public believe they are the only option to choose from, to lead us- into the hell we are heading to.
We must vote for a third party on this election.