December 2011
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Immigrants Contribute Billions Into Social... →
I didn’t know, until today, that there’s such a thing as an earnings suspense file. It’s arunning count that the Social Security Administration keeps of the wages that don’t match up with real names and numbers in their system.
It’s a mystery, but it’s not the conundrum that people think. And if you’re Latino you have more than a passing suspicion about why this disparity exists. The...
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McDonald’s Closes All Their Restaurants in Bolivia →
Photo Credits: No More McDonald’s for Bolivia
Bolivia will become the first McDonald’s-free Latin American nation, after struggling for more than a decade to keep their numbers out of ‘the red.’
After 14 years in the nation and despite many campaigns and promos McDonald’s was forced to close its 8 Bolivian restaurants in the major cities of La Paz, Cochabamba and Santa Cruz de la Sierra.
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Manhunt gladdens heart of US activist →
LOS ANGELES—The hunt for the fugitive Jovito Palparan Jr. is one more reason for this Filipino-American activist to be merry this Christmas.
“Definitely, this is a step toward justice,” Melissa Roxas, who has accused the Philippine military of abducting and torturing her in May 2009 when she was on a visit to the country of her roots, told the Inquirer.
“Now what the [Philippine] government...
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Government hit for failure to act on flood peril →
FILIPINO RESILIENCE Slowly regaining strength and balance after a devastating calamity, flood victims carrying relief goods head back to evacuation centers in Iligan City. AP
Barely a month into the Aquino presidency, green activists warned Cabinet officials of a looming climatic catastrophe.
The warning went largely ignored, but the Climate Change Congress of the Philippines (CCCP) headed by...
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Communist Party to donate P4M to Sendong victims →
By Dennis Jay Santos Inquirer Mindanao
DAVAO CITY, Philippines – The Communist Party of the Philippines on Monday deferred celebrations for its 43rd founding anniversary and will instead donate millions worth of cash and goods to the victims of tropical storm Sendong in Northern Mindanao.
Jorge Madlos, alias Ka Oris, spokesman of the National Democratic Front (the political arm of the rebel...
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Take Action the Morning After Christmas: Tell...
by Nafcon Us
On December 26th, President Obama will either veto or pass into law a bill that allows the U.S. military to imprison any person in America indefinitely, including U.S. citizens, with out due process or trial. (ACT NOW)
PRESS STATEMENT
25 December 2011
Contact: Terry Valen
President, National Alliance for Filipino Concerns
Phone: 415.333.6267,...
Gov’t, NPA hunt for Palparan →
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Philippines–A fugitive from the law for six days now, retired Major General Jovito Palparan finds himself besieged on many fronts.
The National Bureau of Investigation and the Philippine National Police are after Palparan to make him and three soldiers stand trial for the kidnapping and subsequent disappearance of two University of the Philippines students in Hagonoy,...
How Can You Organize the People If You Cannot... →
There are a lot of so called activists, socialists, leftists who have succumbed to the obscene notion that individuality alone can make things happen. They go to protests, individually; they speak, individually and they shun the idea of organizing themselves, let alone others.
The revolution will not spark magically in the air because a few idealists are at a protest site. This sort of attitude...
US invasion leaves lasting Iraq scars - Middle... →
The US has fully withdrawn all combats troops from Iraq, ending its occupation after nearly nine years.
But the chemical effects of US bombardments continue to harm the future of the Iraqi people. Al Jazeera’s Omar Al Saleh reports from the Iraqi city of Fallujah, where residents accuse the US of leaving behind a poisonous legacy apparent at children’s’ births.
“Let food be thy medicine.”
– Hippocrates
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WatchThe Wall of Hate
Israel’s unquenchable thirst for Palestinian land and resources is painfully demonstrated in this shocking documentary.
“One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it...”
– Arnold H. Glasgow
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Bulacan court orders Palparan's arrest – DOJ →
A Bulacan court has issued an arrest warrant against retired Army general Jovito Palparan, who is charged for the disappearance of two student activists in 2006. Prosecutor General Claro Arellano told GMA News Online that Judge Teodora Gonzales of the Regional Trial Court Branch 14 in Malolos, Bulacan issued the arrest warrant on Monday afternoon, hours after Palparan’s attempt to leave...
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NAFCON Activates Bayanihan Relief for Victims of...
PRESS RELEASE
20 December 2011
Contact: Jun Cruz NAFCON Public Information Officer Email: info@nafconusa.org Phone: 650-580-7382
On the quiet night of December 17th, the Philippines was struck by another calamity in the Southern Islands of Mindanao identified as tropical storm ‘Sendong’.
Cagayan de Oro, Negros Oriental and Iligan were amongst the worst cities hit by flash floods...
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US senator makes Filipino illegal poster boy for... →
LOS ANGELES—Assistant Senate Majority Leader Richard Durbin has cited the case of undocumented Filipino Jose Librojo in the US Senate to convince his fellow senators to support an immigration reform bill that he had cosponsored.
“Because of our broken immigration laws, Jose has been placed in deportation proceedings” said Durbin, who held up a poster-size photo of Librojo as he spoke on the...
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Ex-Gen. Palparan to be charged for kidnap of... →
The Department of Justice has recommended the filing of charges against retired Army general Jovito Palparan and three other military officials for the disappearance of two student activists in Bulacan in 2006.
This marks a sharp turn of fortune for one of the most controversial Philippine military officers in recent history. Palparan had been lionized by the Arroyo administration for what many...
“The hope is always here, always alive, but only your fierce caring can fan it...”
– Susan Cooper
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Obama to sign indefinite detention bill into law
In one of the least surprising developments imaginable, President Obama – after spending months threatening to veto the Levin/McCain detention bill – yesterday announced that he would instead sign it into law (this is the same individual, of course, who unequivocally vowed when seeking the Democratic nomination to support a filibuster of “any bill that includes retroactive immunity for...
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Immigrant Detention Centers In Illinois Cited In... →
A report released Monday by two Chicago-based human rights groups calls for the Obama administration to close three immigrant detention facilities they accuse of having the most egregious violations, two of which are in Illinois.
Titled “Not Too Late For Reform,” the report was authored jointly by Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) and the Midwest...
“Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.”
– Henry Mencken
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70-year-old Palestinian professor is now a... →
Imagine if an Israeli or Jewish professor, aged 70, was arrested on political grounds. Imagine our State Department’s outrage. We related the arrest of Yousef Abdel Haq, a PFLP leader, in an earlier news roundup. I received this photograph and message from Saed Abu-Hijleh, a poet and lecturer in geography in Nablus.
The arrest of Professor Abdel Haq, on Wednesday, December 7, 2011, aims...
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“A fool may chance to put something into a wise man’s head.”
– African Proverb