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Kindergarden enrollment on the rise

by Juliana Birnbaum Fox

Kindergarten Enrollment on the Rise

Demand for public school Kindergarten in San Francisco continues to rise, with over 5% more requests for the 08-09 school year than this time last year.

After a decade of declining enrollment, this is the second year in a row that requests for Kindergarten placement have increased. Superintendent Carlos Garcia visited a newly opened public Montessori Kindergarten this week, one of only a handful of certifi ed Montessori Kindergartens in the nation’s public schools.

Anheuser-Busch Tries Luring Drinkers with “Swag”

Anheuser-Busch is sponsoring AB 1245, a bill to lower the restrictions on “swag,” free giveaways connected to the sale of alcohol. The limits on “swag” were put in place because promotional items like T-shirts and glasses can infl uence underage drinkers. Research has shown that more alcohol ads kids see, the more likely they are to drink. In 2006, the Journal of Studies on Alcohol concluded that underage drinking cost the citizens of California a staggering $7.3 billion.

Bay Area Joins Statewide Opposition to Water Bond

Supervisor Tom Ammiano voiced agreement with water advocates around the state last week, asking Governor Schwarzenegger to remove a $9.3 billion bond from November’s ballot. Advocates want the Governor to instead distribute existing bond funds, and engage in a process to develop real solutions for California’s water challenges.

“In San Francisco, we’ve been working for years to ensure that our water system returns water to the environment and diversifies our local supply in a responsible manner,” said Jennifer Clary of Clean 7Water Action. “This bond doesn’t reflect those priorities.”

Controversy Swirls Around East Bay Police Killings

Family and friends of slain Berkeley grandmother deportations that are separating families and terrorizing communities. They spoke out in support of the city’s sanctuary ordinance, which protects thousands of families, and called for an immediate moratorium on all raids, deportations, incarcerations and separation of families.

­Pencils Linked to Irresponsible Logging of California Forests

Some of the world’s largest pencil manufacturers have been linked to the clearcutting of California’s Sierra Nevada, according to a report released by Forest Ethics. The report card grades pencil makers on the amount of recycled content in their products, the use of lumber certified by the Forest Stewardship Council , and the use of lumber from Sierra Pacific Industries, a notorious violator of environmental logging standards. USA Gold and Dixon/Ticonderoga were last on the list, earning Fs. “Parents don’t want their children using pencils which degrade California’s landscape, drinking water, or species, and the top companies on our report card show that there’s a better way,” says Josh Buswell-Charkow of Forest Ethics.

The war against Luis

by Jorge Mújica Murias

A few weeks ago, amidst the preparations for the march in Postville, Iowa, in protest for the barbarous raid against the Agri processors Inc,’s workers, Luis, all of a sudden, remembered the issue of immigration.

He had been in hiding for over a year, without having been seen in public. He has closed his office in Pilsen, the Mexican barrio in Chicago, and more than once he “apologized for not being able to participate” en events where his presence had being announced. But in August he found enough courage to leave his clandestine existence and took off towards Postville, where he defended, in big style, the rights of immigrant workers. Once back, he sent a letter to George Bush criticizing him as tough against immigrants, for forgetting his promise to be “compassionate” with them, and for spending $590.000 to keep in jail many of those detained in Postville.

In the letter, he said all we already knew: mothers with electronic bracelets on their ankles, children who have been working some years at the factory despite being only 17 now, and women who suffered discrimination and sexual harassment in the workplace. Literally, he complained because “these men and women are suffering at the hands of the U.S. government and our President,” and because “Our immigration system has opened the way to make objects out of Human beings.”

Maybe encouraged because he had been able to show up in public, Luis wrote another letter for a Washington magazine, Político, where he said “the Gestapo is in charge of Homeland Security.” Gestapo was the especial force used by Adolph Hitler during the Third Reich in Germany.

La Migra, (the immigration service), did not like to comparison, and declared they will ask the U.S. Congress to punish Luis. After all, said the Legislative Director of La Migra, Jamie Zuieback, “our agents should not be criticized when enforcing the laws approved by the Congress of which Mr. Gutiérrez is part of.”

Luis’ War Right! Just in case our readers still were asking who is Luis, we are talking about Luis Gutiérrez, the clandestine Congressman of the Illinois Fourth District.

His friends, because he still has some, faster than immediately launched an offensive against the idea of asking for Luis’ punishment, but these days he does not have many supporters. The general view about Luis is that he’s lonelier than an abandoned dog in a back alley. Some Internet e-mails condemn La Migra (we agree with those), and they celebrate the name “Gestapo” for them (we agree even more with those), but other messages remembered that “the general goal of the Immigration is to detain 27,000 people a day!!! (That’s what Luis Gutiérrez proposed in his STRIVE initiative.

Which side is he on, anyway?

Luis would seems to be on the side of immigrants, but he left his position clear, in black and white ink, in STRIVE: criminalization of undocumented immigrants; legalization in a 12-year long process, expensive and only after the border was secured and a program to verify every worker in the United States was in place; jail terms for employers who hired undocumented workers, immigration laws enforcement by local police departments and so on. Thinking about it, sounds awfully a lot like McCain’s immigration plan!

But Luis wants out of his clandestine mode. For months he only spoke to a few reporters and did not even returned the calls to those who wanted to ask him about the Migra’s request for punishment. He did not answer either to the reporter who got a front-page article in one of the most popular newspapers in Chicago portraying his Green Party opponent for the Fourth Congressional District, Omar López.

López, activist and convener of the immigration marches since 2006, has won the endorsements of the Greater Chicago Caucus and the Independent Voters of Illinois Independent Precinct Organization, the two most influential political action committees in the state. These actions have forced Luis to start campaigning, and to forget his (wel  founded in this thwarted election system,) assumption that voters would simply elect him by default when voting for Obama.

It was also said that Luis was quiet because “he has a lot of chances” to be the next Illinois Senator, given his close friendship with Governor Rod Blagojevich, who will appoint Obama’s successor it he wins the race to the White House. Never the less, another rumor says Blagojevich want to appoint himself to such a beautiful seat.

mxCongresswoman for the IllinoisBut there’s also the rumor that “the good one” will be Jan Schakowsky, 9th District. As a fact, Luis missed one of the greatest “citizenship fairs” this year alter being announced along with Richard Durbin y Schakowsky. Some gossipers said his absence was due to the request to keep away from Jan, to avoid giving her a bad image.

What’s not a rumor is that Luis is presenting (the Mexican banda) “Los Tigres del Norte” at the Ravinia Cultural Center through a newly formed “Immigration PAC,” with which he wants to raise funds to distribute among other immigrant-friendly candidates. If these candidates support immigration the way he “supported” it in STRIVE, we could very well apply the old saying “with friends like these… who needs enemies?”

But punishing Luis would not be worth it. Let’s just leave the punishment in the hands of his constituents in November. They can get him out of the place where he’s been hiding for the last 16 years the U.S. Congress.

Jorge Mújica Murias is a journalist who writes the syndicated column, México del Norte. mexicodelnorte@yahoo.com.mx.

9/11 aftermath: about death and dummies

­by José de la Isla

HOUSTON– Jeff Dunham is a ventriloquist who frequently appears on cable TV’s Comedy Central with Walter, one of his dummy characters. Walter is ornery, crabby and mean-spirited. But entertaining and funny. The act is probably the best since Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, or Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney Dunham, through Walter, captures a certain character type who has been angry ever since the 1960s. Advances made by social change are to his dislike. They are mostly viewed as coming at a cost (too much) and therefore worth discrediting.

Walter has probably been angry since Richard Nixon’s “silent majority” and has complained ever since about integration, hippies, George McGovern, anti-Vietnam marches, taxes, and most recently, unauthorized immigration.

In a recent interview, Dunham talked about meeting Bob Hope but had no particular punch line, to which Walter commented, “I can die happy knowing that crap.”

Walter’s exaggerated attitude makes us conscious about the unenlightened side of our opinions.

Flash back now to September 11, 2001. Somewhere in the inventory of 2,974 people killed during the attacks, the 24 missing and presumed dead, the 90 foreign nationals, there was a segment among those killed who lacked immigration papers. Their exact number was unknown.

They were referred to as the “invisible dead,” shadow people who office dwellers don’t see, unnoticed because of status differences—the maintenance workers, delivery personnel, kitchen help. They were anonymous but several were believed to have come from Latin American countries.

Who were they? How could body parts get identified if any were found—when their names did not exist on documents? Families of those who were known to have been there had trouble getting death certificates in the chaos that followed. Some uncooperative employers wanted to mitigate compounding complications following the disaster.

This month immediate family members of 15 of those once-invisible dead — spouses, parents, children who also lacked papers — were granted temporary legal status by Homeland Security. Since 9/11 they have lived in fear of deportation, largely invisible themselves during the past seven years.

Life even got complicated after the Victim Compensation Fund made payments between $875,000 to $4.1 million to surviving families of all those who died.. Without Social Security numbers and other offi cial identifi cation, bank deposits, investments, and other prudent safeguards are diffi cult, if not impossible.

Two U.S. Congress members from New York introduced a bill last year to grant permanent resident visas to immediate relatives of the undocumented workers who were killed. Several “Walters” in the U.S. House of Representative opposed the measure, wanting “assurance” the immigrants weren’t themselves terrorists or criminals.

The temporary legal status for the 15 could fabclear the way for receiving permanent legal status.

The New York Times posted 26 comments with its news item on DHS’s Aug. 15 announcement. With some exceptions, readers’ reactions were sympathetic. Note2self wrote in: “Great move! The undocumented were the anonymous victims of this tragedy.”

Some thoughtful people like MdeG said, “Their families are just as bereaved as the families of citizens. Their spouses and children still have to eat. Have a heart, would you?”

This in reaction to one particularly obnoxious poster, who wrote, “Do you know how much $875,000 and/or $4.1 million dollars could benefit our schools, our police force, OUR FRIGGING BORDER PATROL!?!?!?!”

To wit, Ed replied, “A millionaire is not going to 6be a burden on our social programs. This is obviously the right thing to do.”

Mail OrderBride simply called it for what it was: “Are you implying that illegal alien status negates any tragedy suffered as a result of 9/11?”

But Alpal, like a Walter, responded, “I don’t understand.

Either you are legally here or illegally here. If you are illegally here, whether you freaking die on 9/11 does not mean you get (a) green card.”

That logic could pass from Walter’s mouth as more of his cynical humor because he is not human. But it isn’t funny coming from the mouth of a human turned into a dummy.

(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 ricantes

How the prison business really works in the United States

by Marvin J Ramirez

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I can’t believe how ingenuous can politicians be in order to publically ‘show cause’ to why they should be elected, in their pursuit for fame and name at the time of elections.

A few weeks ago, I went to a press conference at the Excelsior District where supposedly was supposed to be the San Francisco Chief of Police Heather Wong – who failed to appear – along with Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval, who is leaving office because of term limits but running for judge, community activists, and relatives of murder victims Anthony Bologna and his sons Michael and Matthew, to hear about the wave of murders that are afflicting our City of San Francisco.

And as if more police force would solve the problem of violence, the politicians went on with fury calling for more funds for police force, and Sandoval so excitedly went on talking to the TV cameras and called for the troops, but upps! rapidly changed the statement to police presence. An honest mistake of words.

Meanwhile, District 11 Supervisorial candidate Julio Ramos, started distributing his campaign program right after the press conference, in which he calls for a faster 911 response time in the City, among other points for crime control.

And while the grieving family mourn their loved ones, and many more around the Bay Area and the nation resign to the police inability to solve murder cases, and the public witness how hundreds of more kids being incarcerated every day after calls by politicians asking for a stronger stance on crime, crime is increasing more rapidly like never before.

Meanwhile, the feds ask the states to give more to the fraudulent war on terrorism that little by little is taking this nation into what was the Soviet Union: a police state without constitutional protections for the citizens, taking away education funding, while creating more jails and prisons, and even newly created concentration camps.

Why politicians mostly call for more money for police? Do they mean the police are going to take the criminals away and train them to be good citizens for the future? Do they sincerely believe that the cities will be free from bad people, and everybody else will live a happy ending, like in a Cinderella or Wonderland fairy tale?

What is happening to our country is beyond these calls for more money for street safety, because what our enforcement officers are doing is just business as usual, a commercial busi- ness in human beings. What the public don’t know is that your Federal and State “Statutes” are Bonds or Obligations of Record and are represented in the courtroom by the Recognizance Bond, which is a Bond of Record or Obligation for the payment of debt.

A condensed version of what is going on is that the Corporation of Corrections of America (CCA) as a corporation, creates or issues stock certifi cates based on prison population, goods or chattel as they are called in commercial law. The underwriter is the one who buys the stock from the Issuer the CCA with intent to resell it to the public or an entity or person, which is usually an investment banker.

The investment banker purchases all or part of the shares of the stock for resale to the public in the form of newly issued investment securities based on the shares of the stock. Brokerage Houses and Insurance Companies Bid on the Investment Securities with a Bid Bond issued by the The General Service Administration (GSA), the business manager and purchasing agent for the world’s largest customer the U.S. Government.. The Bid Bond is then indemni- fied by a surety company through Performance and Payment Bonds. The Bid, Performance, and Payment Bonds are then underwritten by the Banks as Investment Securities for resale to the public. The Institutional Holders who own most of the Shares are:

  1. FMR [Fidelity Management Research Corporation 3, 084,024 shares at a value of $109,791,254 dollars.
  2. Legg Mason Inc. 1,235,563 shares valued at $43,986,042 dollars.
  3. Barclays Bank Pic 1, 041,671 shares valued at $37,083,487. There are seventeen more corporations owning various amounts of shares at varying dollar values. These can be viewed by going to http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=CXW.
  4. Turner, Jimmy 13,817 shares as of 23-May-03.
  5. Horne, John R. 5,751 shares as of 29-Jun-04.

As you can see by the above information, this system permeates every fabric of our society. Currently global terrorism is being funded by the prison system and the State’s Retirement Fund go to www.DivestTerror.Org this is a 115 page treatise on the Terrorism Investments of the 50 States.

If you want to know the whole scheme of the prison system business, visit: http://freedom-school.com/law/prison_treatise.shtml, in which you will

Latino wrestler shares Olympic Gold Medal with U.S. and mother’s Mexican homeland

by Nicole Joy

15 months ago: U.S. Henry Cejudo, right, wrestles Colombia’s Fredy Serrano in the 55-kg class of the Pan-American wrestling: championship in San Salvador, May 20, 2007. Cejudo won the gold medal. (photo by Edgar Romero)15 months ago: U.S. Henry Cejudo, right, wrestles Colombia’s Fredy Serrano in the 55-kg class of the Pan-American wrestling championship in San Salvador, May 20, 2007. Cejudo won the gold medal.(photo by Edgar Romero)

Coinciding with updated data revealing that Hispanics comprise 22 percent of new HIVAIDS diagnoses in the United States, major global and national sessions are addressing the statistics with new concern.

The figures, released by the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control, fed discussions this month at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, which drew 22,000 participants.

Multiple organizations representing U.S. Hispanics joined in presentations on issues impacting the community as they strategized on how to fight AIDS effectively across all borders.

A major U.S. conference on AIDS will follow Sept. 18-21 in Miami Beach, hosted by the National Minority AIDS Council.

The Mexico City sessions, which concluded Aug. 8, ranged from satellite meetings and special youth programs to visual arts exhibitions. A series of presentations covered social and economic factors prevalent in the Latino community.

Dennis deLeón, head of the New York-based Latino Commission on AIDS, related to Weekly Report the many challenges facing those working to confront the AIDS epidemic.

“We hope to share what is happening in other countries through more press coverage—and to see how those countries are coping with care needs,” he said.

DeLeón singled out stigma as a main challenge the Latino population faces. “This stigmatizing process can cut persons with AIDS off from their families’” he said.

“It causes sexually active Hispanics not to get tested for HIV or to delay taking medications until they are presented with an AIDS diagnosis.”

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A 24-minute video presentation produced by the Bay Area National Latino AIDS Awareness Day(BANLMD), “A Todos Nos Afecta’” encouraged discussions about HIV/AIDS related stigma and risk behaviors.

It featured interviews with infected individuals in conjunction with telenovela-style dramatizations about Latino immigrant populations in California.

In addition’ the National Latino AIDS Committee of Northern Virginia displayed an exhibit titled “Portraits of Latinos fighting against AIDS in the Washington’ D.C. metropolitan area.”

In other health related news:

As Hispanics grow older, Alzheimer’s poses bigger threat to community

by Virginia Torres

Hispanics with mild to moderate Alzbeimer’s disease experienced major progress in cognition after 12 weeks of treatment with Aricept (donepezil HCI tablets), according to a study released July 30 at the 2008 Alzheimer’s Association International ­Conference.

Approximately 200,000 Hispanics living in the United States today have AD, and by the year 2050 an estimated 1.3 million will have the disease, announced the National Institute on Aging.

Óscar López, professor of neurology at the University of Pittsburgh, is one of the lead investigators in the study, which involved 106 Hispanic men and women at least 50 years old. L6pez has conducted several studies in the clinical diagnosis of AD and vascular dementia.

“This news should serve as a call to action for Hispanic families to watch for early signs of AD among their loved ones and speak with a doctor as soon as possible if symptoms are suspected,” he said.

The research indicates that symptoms of AD in Hispanics show seven years before non-Hispanics, and approximately 40 percent of the cases are undiagnosed and untreated. It adds that: Latinos usually wait three years after having the fi rst symptoms to see a doctor due to language and cultural barriers.

AD is increasing among Latinos because of the growing elderly population, genetics and higher rates in diabetes and hypertension, the study concludes. Hispanic Link.

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Perú: The Amazon in emergency estadium – thousands of Natives defend their rights

The Peruvian government should seek a dialogue and end the conflict

by the El Reportero’s news services

The Peruvian government must look for the dialogue and finish the conflict Bolzano/Bozen, Göttingen, on August 20, 2008.

The Association for the Threatened Peoples (APA) sent the urgent one appeal to the government of Peru so that it finishes the conflict with People of the Amazons.

In a letter to Peruvian President Alan Garcia and Prime Minister Jorge del Castillo, the APA remarked that government violence against indigenous communities in a desperate struggle to survive and have their rights respected will not come to anything. The APA also communicated that in the next weeks will ask that religious and civil human rights groups embrace the cause of Peruvian indigenous people.

Without any consultation with indigenous populations, the Peruvian government approved 30 new laws that will facilitate the sale of indigenous territories rich in natural resources to transnational corporations, above all, petroleum companies. This violates the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, and also the ILO Convention 169 ratifi ed by Peru in 1994.

As a consequence, thousands of indigenous people affected by the new laws have risen up in desperate protest. Recently, they have rallied at various petroleum and gas extraction sites as well as hydroelectric centers, bridges and highways. The government’s response was to proclaim a state of emergency and invade the four regions involved.

The extraction of petroleum and gas in the Peruvian Amazon has already gravely affected the environment and the health of indigenous populations in these regions. The Camisea project, for example, the largest gas extraction project in Peru’s history, directly affected 8700 people in the Machiguenga area and the Nahua, Nanti and Kirineri communities. Nearly 75 percent of the extraction is concentrated in areas of indigenous populations who are living in voluntary isolation, and nearly 70 percent the Peruvian Amazon, including several natural reserves, has already been divided into petroleum extraction regions.

New study finds Hispanics young and healthy, but susceptible to serious health conditions

by Virginia Torres

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Twenty-seven percent of Hispanic adults living in the United States have no health care providers and 83 percent of them obtain answers to medical questions from the media, according to a report released Aug.12 by the Pew Hispanic Center and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

The study indicates that although Hispanics are a young and healthy population, they are more susceptible to serious health conditions like obesity and diabetes.

During an Aug. 13 briefing on the 78-page report at the National Press Club, William Vega, professor of medicine at UCLA Medical School, said that cultural and adaptation challenges are among the main reasons Hispanics lack health care providers.

“The study really points out where the Jagged edges are,” Vega said. “Three-fourths of the Latino population is composed of immigrants and the children of immigrants. They need health care access regularly. They Jagged edges are,” Vega said. “Three-fourths of the Latino population is composed of immigrants and the children of immigrants. They need health care access regularly. They need people they can count on.”

Groups less likely to have health care providers are men, young adults, the less educated and those who do not have health insurance.

Luncheon speaker Elena Rios, president and CEO of the National Hispanic Medical Association, suggested several strategies to improve health care access, including changing the media’s approach so that it focuses on a younger audience (30 years old or less). She also suggested hiring Latino staff who have connections to the community, making health insurance more universal and affordable, and to start educating the Hispanic community at a younger age.

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“We have to transform the way we think in terms of health,” Rios said. Ríos commented that while there has been greater support in Congress for several bills that have been introduced, problems remain in gaining more backing from the leadership in the Senate.

As far as the way Senators Obama and McCain are dealing with the health care problem, Rios said “McCain is a little less friendly toward the low-income population, while Obama does have specifics, especially in prevention, obesity and diabetes.”

For further information, visit http://:pewhispanic.or9/reports/report.php?ReportlD=91.

In other news:

IMMIGRATION: 25 bills and 33 Amendments, but once again, THE BIG ONE got away

by Alonso Yáñez

Although the second session of the 110th U.S. Congress has adjourned until September for its summer vacation, many topics important to the Latino community have still not been resolved.

Among the most prominent unaddressed issues by Congress during this session are a comprehensive immigration reform bill, the DREAM Act and stabilizing the agricultural workforce. Before the Senate stopped debating a comprehensive immigration bill, there were 33 amendments to its first version (SB1348), and six to the last one (SB1 639).

What happened:

Comprehensive immigration refor­m: Weeks of negotiations between various senators and the White House produced the Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Reform Act (SB1348), which provides more resources for border, interior and worksite enforcement and establishes a temporary worker program. After many amendments, the bill was re-introduced June 18 as SB. 1639 but was filibustered by Jim DeMint (R-SC), Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and David Vitter (R-LA). There was a vote to end the filibuster on June 28, but the motion to invoke cloture failed by a vote of 48 to 53, and the Senate moved on to other business.

DREAM ACT: The Development, Relief and Education for Minors Act (SB. 774), which provided in-state tuition to resident undocumented graduates of the state’s public schools, was introduced March 6,2007.After the bill was blocked twice by Republicans, the Senate considered the DREAM Act on Oct.24 (re-introduced as SB.2205), but was filibustered by Republicans. A procedural vote failed to gain support of 60 Senators to stop the filibuster and the Senate moved on to other business.

Stabilizing agricultural workforce: Since more than 50°/O of the agricultural workforce in the nation is undocumented, addressing immigration in this sector is cruciak The Agricultural Job Opportunity Benefits and Security Act (AgJOBS) or SB. 340, which put undocumented immigrant farm workers on a path to legalization, was introduced by Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Larry Craig (R-Idaho). The bill was included in the comprehensive immigration reform bill that was filibustered in the Senate in June 2007. Hispanic Link.

Boxing

August 21 (Thursday), 2008 At The Tachi Palace Casino, Lemoore, CA

  • NEW Carina Moreno (18-1) vs. Yahaira Martinez (7-2).
  • NEW Dewey Cooper (16-1-3) vs. TBA.

August 22 (Friday), 2008 At The Sommet Center, Nashville, TN

  • NEW (ESPN2) Cristobal Cruz (36-11-1) vs. Takalani Ndlovu (28-4).
  • (The Ring Magazine #10 Featherweight vs. Unranked) NEW (ESPN2) Jason LeHollier (21-0-1) vs. Harry Yorgey (20-0-1)

In TBA, Sydney, Australia

  • Mick Shaw (26-8-3) vs. Matthew Paulley (15-5-5).
  • Robert Medley (20-2) vs. TBA.

August 23 (Saturday), 2008 At The Tropicana Casino, Las Vegas, NV

  • Marvin Cordova (19-0-1) vs. Derrick Samuels (15-3-1).
  • Carlos De Leon Jr. (20-2-2) vs. TBA.
  • Akinyemi Laleye (9-1) vs. Isaiah Henderson (11-9).

At The Drusba Sportpalace, Donetsk, Ukraine

  • Vyacheslav Senchenko (26-0) vs. TBA Stas Kashtanov (22-0) vs. TBA.

August 28 (Thursday), 2008 In Brescia, Italy

  • Fabio Tuiach (21-1) vs. Walter Palacios (20-13-2).
  • Rodrigo Bracco (6-1) vs. Roberto Priore (4-3).

August 29 (Friday), 2008 At Casino Rama, Rama, Canada

  • Steve Molitor (27-0) vs. Ceferino Labarda (18-0).
  • (The Ring Magazine #4 Jr. Featherweight vs. Unranked) (IBF Jr. Featherweight belt) Martin Lindsay (12-0) vs. Alberto Garza (16-4-1).
  • Grzegorz Kielsa (6-0) vs. Arthur Cook (13-3-2).

Latinamerican Month Annual Juried exhibition

by the El Reportero staff

Festival Fair OaksFestival Fair Oaks

Experimental CartoonDrawing Exhibition & Experimental Photography With Hugh D’ Andrade, guest artist, who will create a live political cartoon mural at the opening reception. This exhibition is in collaboration with the Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco. Music by Michael Parson’s Trio.

The exhibition started on Aug. 15, but it will continue through out Sept. 12, 2008. Gallery Hours, Tuesday – Saturday , 10-5 p.m.

Main Gallery. At the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts Gallery. At 2868 Mission Street @ 24th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110, 1/2 a block away from th 24th Street BART Station and is wheelchair accessible. For more info call (415) 821-1155. General admission $2.00. www.missionculturalcenter.org.

7th Annual North Fair Oaks Festival

Come and enjoy with your whole family one of the most diverse fairs in Northern California. Grupo Venus, the crowning of the Queen of Festival, Grupo Lirio, La Sonora Dinamita, Los Cadetes de Linares, and much more in music.

There will Sheriff’s programs for youth on camping, Drug and Alcohol Resistance Education for fi fth graders. It teaches kids how to indentify and reject harmful behavior by showing positive examples and testimonies. These programs also include the Parent Project, to teach parents techniques on discipline to better the relation between parent and children.

View of César Chávez Street which will redesigned, and neighbors are invited to give their opinion at a community meeting.View of César Chávez Street which will redesigned, and neighbors are invited to give their opinion at a community meeting.

There will also be mariachi, dance from Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, and much more.

The event kicks off at 11 a.m., on August 24, on Middlefi eld Road between 1st and 5th Avenue in Redwood City.

César Chávez Street Design workshop

Please come to the second public design workshop where we’ll continue our discussion on a vision for an improved Cesar Chavez Street.

The Planning Department will be presenting two preliminary design proposals that refl ect public comment at an earlier workshop in May.

See links below for the overall website, the May presentation, and the results of people’s comments and votes at the May workshop. The upcoming workshop will offer an opportunity for you to comment and help shape these proposals for the reconfiguration of César Chávez Street.

The workshop will be held at Leonard Flynn Elementary School, 3125 Cesar Chavez Street, on Tuesday, Aug. 26, at 6 p.m. for more info call 415-558-6384.

For more information visit the website for CC Puede: (http://www.ccpuede.org/) or cesarchavez@sfgov.org.

Nicaraguans celebrate Augustine Festivities

A long-held tradition in Nicaragua, and now celebrated abroad, the group, Nicaraguan Friendshipment Unity, has organized a tardeada (an afternoon feast) to celebrate the Fiestas Agostinas.

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There will be delicious Nicaraguan food, cocktails, and music by Alex Ocón. The event, which will be held at Club Caliente, at 298 11th Street, SF, was also organized to collect funds for aid programs for those in need in Nicaragua. For more info and to purchase tickets, call Frank Ayala at 415-902-7752. $15 donation.

­Mexican Singer Cristian Castro added to 2008 State Fair FREE Concert Series!

Cristian has demonstrated with his long list of hits that he is one of the most admired Latin artists throughout the Americas and Europe. Aside from that, the singer is known for breaking record sales and filling concert halls worldwide.

General admission to all California State Fair concerts is FREE with the price of State Fair Admission. Cristian is all set to perform at the 2008 California State Fair on Sunday, Aug. 31 on the Golden 1 Stage.

Visit the State Fair Website at www.bigfun.org or call (916)-263-FAIR.

Three major films with Latino stars will in U.S. theaters this week

by Antonio Mejías-Rentas

Daddy Yankee como aparece en el filme Talento del Barrio, la cual debutó el 23 de julio de 2008 en el Festival Latino de Nueva York. (photo by Associated Press)Daddy Yankee as he appears in the movie Talento del Barrio, which debuted July 23, 2008 at the New York Latino Film Festival. (photo by Associated Press)

FILM FARE: Three major films with Latino stars make it to U.S. theaters this week.

Both Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Henry Poole is Here open nationally Aug. 15 and the third, Talento de barrio, debuts in Puerto Rico Aug. 14, ahead of an expected continental U.S. opening in the fall.

The latest film from director Woody Allen, Vicky Cristina Barcelona was fi med in the title city in Spain and stars that country’s Oscar-winning actor Javier Bardem. It also stars Spanish actress Penélope Cruz—Bardem’s girlfriend, according to media reports—and Scarlett Johannsson.

The Allen film is about an American tourist who visits Barcelona, falls in love with a local painter and has to deal with his ex-wife.

Henry Poole is Here, about the effect of an apparent miraculous apparition in the home of a non-believer, features Oscar-nominated actress Adriana Barraza (Babel). The Mexican actress plays the Latina woman who discovers the face of Jesús etched on a wall of the home of the title character. The film also features George López as the priest who examines the reported miracle.

The third film, Talento de barrio, had its world premiere last month at the New York International Latino Film Festival. It marks the acting debut of reggaetón recording artist Daddy Yankee and its soundtrack hits stores this week. The film has been picked up for U.S. distribution by Los Angeles-based Maya Releasing, which has not announced a release date.

ONE LINERS: Mexican actors Diego Luna (Y tu mama también) and Camila Sodi are first-time parents to a baby boy, his film company Canana Films announced.

The baby was reportedly born in Los Angeles. Los Tigres del Nonte, the best-known singers of Mexican corridos, begin their fifth tour of Spain this month. Based in San José, Calif., they’ll play gigs in five cities through Aug. 24… Gloria Estefan announced a benefit concert to take place next October in Hollywood, Florida, to benefit several South Florida school districts… and Puerto Rican reggaeton singer Ivy Queen, 36, says she is studying to obtain her high school diploma some 15 years after dropping out of school. Hispanic Link.

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