62 20 70359 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 3 VTMBH Article: Article Order 5 VTMBH Article: Title The Companiganj Samity in New York donated $10,000 to those affected by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks VTMBH Article: Author VTMBH Article: Publication Bangla Patrika VTMBH Article: Original Language Bangla VTMBH Article: Translator Moinuddin Naser VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb As the representative of peace-loving Bangladeshis, we want to contribute something, though it is a very small amount, just as a token to show that we stand beside the affected people, said the General Secretary of the group. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body The Companiganj Welfare Association of New York donated $10,000 to help the people affected by the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. The money was handed over at the installation ceremony of the Association at Montauk school auditorium recently. A representative from the New York Police Department received the check on behalf of the city. Haji Motahar Hossen, president, Abdul Malek Manik, general secretary and Mominul Haque, outgoing secretary of the Companiganj Welfare Association handed over the check of $10,000. Congressman Major R. Owens (Democrat, District 11), and Luis Hernandes, from the Mayors staff, were present on the occasion. The function was presided over by the newly elected president of the association, Haji Mothahar Hossen, and addressed by Commander of Mukthijuddah Sangshad, Abu Zafar Mahmud and former General Secretary of the Bangladesh Society Fakhrul Alam. Condemning the attack on World Trade Center, Abdul Malek Manik said, we, the Bangladeshis, are opposed to all kinds of terrorism. As the representative of peace-loving Bangladeshis, we want to contribute something, though it is a very small amount, just as a token to show that we stand beside the affected people. So we have decided to give this donation. Commander of the Mukthijuddah Sangshad, reputed freedom fighter Abu Zafar Mahmud, said in his speech, We established Bangladesh through fighting against the terrorism of Pakistani military ruler in the year 1971. We, the Bangladeshis, are against all kinds of terrorism. During our war of independence, America chose to support the terrorism conducted by the Pakistan Military Ruler instead of supporting the people of Bangladesh, who were struggling for independence. As a nation, Bangladesh is opposed to fundamentalism and terrorism since long ago. Bangladesh has expressed its unbound support for exterminating terrorism throughout the world. Praising the Police, City Corporation and Government of the United States, for their effort to ensure the security of the Bangladeshi Community, Abu Zafar Mahmud hoped that were there a situation at any time, the police would continue to protect members of the Bangladeshi community in New York. Fakhrul Alam said, The people of Bangladesh are devoted people. But they have never believed in terrorism. We want to live here peacefully. In this regard we need cooperation from all quarters. Out-going President of the association Mominul Haque presided over the ceremony. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-01-03 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 52 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 16 VTMBH Article: Article Order 1 VTMBH Article: Title Police chiefs of major cities oppose police getting INS duties, say relationships with immigrant communities may be jeopardized VTMBH Article: Author VTMBH Article: Publication Pakistan Post VTMBH Article: Original Language Urdu VTMBH Article: Translator Rehan Ansari VTMBH Article: Section briefs VTMBH Article: Blurb VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body The countrys police chiefs are divided about United States Justice Departments legal draft arguing that local police be given the powers of the INS. According to the Justice Department, states and municipalities must enforce immigration laws. In Florida and South Carolina, with the exception of small pilot programs, state and local police are often present at Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) raids and assist in security and transportation, but do not make arrests. There is a mixed response to the polices new role. Supporters say that the INS will get more manpower and help the war against terrorism. Critics say that racial profiling will increase and the already strained relationships between immigrant communities and the police will severely deteriorate. A high-ranking police official from the Chicago Police Department called the issue political. He said that the CPD has unambiguous direction from the mayors office: the police will have nothing to do with immigration. If we stop someone to question them, we do not ask them their nationality or legal status, the official said. The Boston Police Department has a different opinion. Lieutenant Margolis, of the BPD, says the police may be essential players in arrests of Al Qaeda members. The chief of the Washington, D.C., Police Department, Charles H. Ramsay, said that immigration responsibilities will play havoc with the already charged relationship between police and the immigrant communities. Only if the incidence of severe crimes increases in the immigrant community should the police take this step. The Justice Department, without giving details, says that they are examining whether local and state police departments should be given INS powers. Angela Kelly, deputy director of the National Immigration Forum, noted that local and state police are not trained in immigration law. Under these circumstances the kinds of power that the Justice Department is seeking for the police will have disastrous consequences. Tim Edgar, legislative counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, agrees. There is a real danger of tremendous fear and distrust between the police and immigrant communities, he said. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-04-17 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 98 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 41 VTMBH Article: Article Order 4 VTMBH Article: Title David Chong lost his third bid for Palisades Park City Council by an unexpectedly large margin VTMBH Article: Author Joo-Chan Kim VTMBH Article: Publication Korea Times New York VTMBH Article: Original Language Korean VTMBH Article: Translator Jeongwoo Han VTMBH Article: Section elec02 VTMBH Article: Blurb Republican David Chong received a total of just 865 votes for the Palisades Park, N.J. City Council. Chong's campaign staff called the result shocking, since this year's total was much less than last year's. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body At press time, Republican David Chong received a total of just 865 votes for Palisades Park, N.J. City Concil. This number does not include all absentee ballots, but his loss was evident regardless of the rest. Mayor Sandy Favre (1,987 votes), and City Council candidates James Rotondo (2,057), Tony Omali (1,953), all Democrats, won with over twice the number of votes. Chong's campaign staff called the result shocking, since this year's total was much less than last year's 1,300 votes. One Chong staffer said, last year Chong ran for City Council and got 1,300 votes, but this year two Republican candidates ran, and we received few votes. The campaign office counted 200 Koreans as voting. This was Chongs third bid for a City Council seat. It seems that the Democratic Party's negative campaign to provoke racial conflict among residents affects me disadvantageously, said Chong, referring to an incident which has been an issue in the Korean American community. During the campaign, Mayor Favre distributed pamphlets calling Chong a boss and an alien and charging that he would represent only Korean Americans' interests. Among 1,300 Korean eligible voters, 73 percent (950 people) voted but failed once again to produce the first Korean City Councilman in the Eastern United States. Dong-suk Kim, director of the New Jersey Korean American Voters Council, said it is not possible to produce a Korean politician with only Korean votes, and when the Korean community and the support of the local party are united, a Korean candidate will win in the election. In this election, the Republicans and Democrats argued over how to apply for absentee ballots and count them. On election day, the Democratic Party contended that 276 absentee ballots, assumed to be from Koreans voters, should not be counted. The Democratic Party asked the County Prosecutor to examine the legitimacy of the absentee ballots and Judge Josep Yatino, of Bergen County Court, decided not to open the ballots until the legitimacy of the 276 absentee ballots was determined. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-11-06 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 37 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource David Chong lost his third bid for Palisades Park City Council by an unexpectedly large margin 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. unknown Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. article Original Name The original name of this item. Republican David Chong received a total of just 865 votes for the Palisades Park, N.J. City Council. Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-11-06 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 6 VTMBH Article: Article Order 9 VTMBH Article: Title Special Feature: Why Did God Choose Me? VTMBH Article: Author Kim Krisberg VTMBH Article: Publication New York Blade VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb A gay Egyptian seeking US asylum talks about a life forced to secrecy. This is an article from New York Blade, an independent gay weekly newspaper in New York City. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body <a href="http://www.nyblade.com/world/020125a.htm">Click here to read the story in the New York Blade.</a> VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-01-25 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 42 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Special Feature: Why Did God Choose Me? 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. unknown Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. article Original Name The original name of this item. A gay Egyptian seeking US asylum talks about a life forced to secrecy. This is an article from New Y Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-01-25 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 45 VTMBH Article: Article Order 4 VTMBH Article: Title Ridgewood doesnt want Brooklyn VTMBH Article: Author Marek Tomaszewski VTMBH Article: Publication Nowy Dziennik / Polish Daily News VTMBH Article: Original Language Polish VTMBH Article: Translator Lukas Bulka VTMBH Article: Section briefs VTMBH Article: Blurb VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body A plan to cut out a part of Ridgewood in Queens, and attach it to Bushwick in Brooklyn, sparks a great deal of controversy among local residents. Its the death of the neighborhood, said State Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan during a hearing at Queens College. Nolan was one of 40 people who spoke on the issue of redistricting. She believes that the implementation of the plan proposed in June by the New York City Districting Commission would have a negative impact on the neighborhood. Reject these plans today, demanded Nolan, who represents Ridgewood in the state assembly. She reminded those at the hearing of a similar proposal that was turned down 10 years ago due to protests from residents. If they assign us to Brooklyn, the residents of the redistricted area will pay more for car insurance and real estate and the value of their houses will decrease, Rev. Lukasz Trocha of St. Matthews Church in Ridgewood told Nowy Dziennik. He explained that Bushwick has a bad reputation, which results in higher costs paid by residents compared to those who live in calm neighborhoods such as Ridgewood. My children will belong to a worse school district, noted Grazyna Wysocka from Ridgewood, who also attended the hearing at Queens College. She held a sign that read: Keep Ridgewood in Queens. Her colleague, Agnieszka Ambroziak, talked about how garbage collection would be less frequent, while Miroslawa Staskiewicz mentioned safety issues, as the Bushwick police precinct is located far away from South Ridgewood. These are some of the reasons why the Polish women, and the many others who spoke at the Queens hearing, wish their neighborhood would be left alone. There are 31,000 people living in the part of Ridgewood that is supposed to be cut out of Queens. Sixty percent are Hispanic, and others include: Yugoslavians, Romanians, Albanians, Asians, and around 2,500 Poles. According to the City Charter of New York, the borders of the city districts should be redrawn after every Census. The Census takes place every 10 years. As stated by the City Charter, the city is divided into 51 districts and each district is to have a corresponding number of council members. With more than 8.08 million people living in New York City, each district should have 157,025 people (margin of error: 5-10 percent). The need to come up with new district borders is because of demographic changes in the city. While the number of residents in certain neighborhoods decrease, and others increase, the number of voters in each district should remain similar. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-11-29 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 95 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ridgewood doesnt want Brooklyn 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. unknown Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. article Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-11-29 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 40 VTMBH Article: Article Order 4 VTMBH Article: Title Aishwarya makes Patakis fundraiser more lively VTMBH Article: Author Shakti Bhatt VTMBH Article: Publication India Abroad VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section briefs VTMBH Article: Blurb VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Sorry, no press allowed, said the man outside Shaan restaurant. The event was a cocktail and dinner party in honor of Gov. George Pataki, seeking a third term in the Nov. 26 gubernatorial election on the Republican ticket. We debated the need for press presence. The hassled event manager, who claimed the governors office had left strict instructions to keep the media out, relented. Just try and be invisible, he instructs. And please, please dont ask anybody any questions! Organized by New York-based diamond magnate Andy Shenoy, the fundraiser, which according to Shenoy raised between $60,000 and $80,000, was indicative of the attempt by Indian Americans in New York City to acquire a credible voice in public policy. The whos who of Indian American businessmen and women demonstratedwhile sipping vodka and nibbling at chicken tikkatheir support for the Republican Party, which has been actively seeking to espouse the immigrant community, a section of voters historically wooed by Democrats. As Indians go up the economic scale, they tend to support Republicans, observed a community leader from Queens. Shenoys guest list was unique. Unlike an earlier fundraiser held for Democratic challenger Carl McCall by Asian Americans (Indian Abroad, Oct. 18), where most present were avowed Democrats, the invitees here did not necessarily share Patakis political affiliations. As the guests were seated at their respective tables, Sandy Treadwell, chairman of the N.Y. Republican Committee, asked how the Republican Party hoped to attract an electoral segment traditionally ignored and sometimes resented, answered, That is actively changing. Right now, the core beliefs of our party match the needs of immigrant communities. We are for lower taxes, creating jobs, safer streets by being tough on crime and a smaller and smarter government. Let me tell you about an amazing statistic, said Treadwell. People who look like me [meaning white Americans] make up 70 percent of Americas population today. In the next 100 years, that will be 30 percent. This is terrific, because this is really what energizes our country. The immigrants are an important emerging community. Clamorous Bollywood music played in the background as Patakis arrival was announced. Donors rushed to get their picture taken with the governor, who patiently obliged. The absence of a united front to barter effective political concessions is evident in the fact that next week, Dr. Deepak Nandi will host another fundraiser at his home in Old Westbury. According to Shenoy, he tried to convince Dr. Nandi to hold a combined party but the latter refused. Our fundraiser will be exclusively for physicians, Dr. Nandi said on the phone. The one held this week was mostly for businessmen. But these [Nandis guests] will be educated groups. We will have professors from Cornell, Columbia, you know, the intellectual class. Shenoy, meanwhile, was determined to make the evening a success, even if he had to do it alone. How I look at it is that the community, no matter what their political affiliations, should get the benefit out of this event. It is a great chance to develop our relations and do some networking, he said. Aishwarya Rai, Indias globally marketed pretty face, was a guest of honor. Glamorous in a bright pink sari and golden string blouse, Rai favored the visibly enamored governor with flattering smiles. As the emcee announced, in shrill tones of excitement, the grand arrival of Indias beauty queen, a girl dressed in a raunchy ghaghra choli broke into an elaborately choreographed dance to the strains of Nimbooda, Rais much touted hit dance number from the movie Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam. This is why no one takes us seriously, said the same Democrat activist from Queens. Can you imagine something like this at a Jewish fundraiser? The dance, Shenoy said, was planned to make the atmosphere more lively. As the clearly stressed host approached the podium, he thanked the governor for his contribution in reducing the crime rate and taxes. The quality of life for immigrants is much better now than any other time, said Shenoy, crediting the administration also for its role in encouraging small businesses. It is less than seven days to the gubernatorial election and Pataki is said to have gathered an impressive $9 million, while the treasure chest of his State Comptroller rival boasts no more than one million dollars. Extolling the Indian community for their professionalism and entrepreneurship, Pataki gave a short speech that lasted less than 10 minutes. He promised to bring business back to the Big Apple and awarded special thanks to Neville Bugwadia, vice president and deputy commissioner involved in the Empire State Development program initiated by the state government post-September 11th. Patakis speech, which seemed largely extempore, ended with an expression of sympathy for the victims of the recent terrorist attack on the Swaminarayan temple in Akshardham, Gujarat. He promised the community that he would, if re-elected, engage in a cultural mission to India. Shenoy garlanded the governor. The guests cheered. We tend to get too emotional, said Satish K. Babbar, commissioner for technical affairs at New York Citys Department of Buildings. We should have kept the entertainment aside and just concentrated on what we are here for. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-10-25 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 153 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aishwarya makes Patakis fundraiser more lively 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. unknown Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. article Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-10-25 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 24 VTMBH Article: Article Order 4 VTMBH Article: Title Language problems: New Jersey school refuses to allow valedictorian to give bilingual speech at graduation VTMBH Article: Author Rubén Domínguez VTMBH Article: Publication Hoy VTMBH Article: Original Language Spanish VTMBH Article: Translator Hannah Emmerich VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb Valedictorian Angela Salazar wants to thank her family, some of whom only understand Spanish, as part of her graduation speech. School officials, however, demand she stick to English. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Angela Victoria Salazar has won numerous college scholarships, received academic awards this year from New Jersey Governor James E. McGreevy and New Brunswick Mayor Jim Cahill, and is this years valedictorian of New Brunswick High School. However, despite all her achievements, and the fact that 2001 valedictorian Aniel Cruz gave a bilingual speech at his graduation, Salazar will not be allowed to give her valedictory speech in both English and Spanish this year. This school has never recognized any of my achievements, and now that I will graduate first in my class they are going to take away my right to give my speech in both English and Spanish, grieved 17-year-old Salazar, whose father, Ivan Salazar, is a pathologist from Ecuador. Since her arrival at the school three years ago, Salazar has excelled in academic achievements. Today she calmly asked that the school show me some respect. A memorandum signed this year by the schools Activities Coordinator, Angela Cephas, requires Salazar to limit her speech to five minutes. The memorandum also states that the students written speech, approved in advance by the school, is the only one he or she may read at graduation, and that the speech should focus on the students positive experiences at New Brunswick High School. The school has warned Salazar that any deviation from her written speech would result in termination of her time at the podium. I feel disappointed and destroyed. This means so much to me and I have shed many tears over this matter. Even though I am in the United States and I speak English, on my graduation day I want to give thanks to people who have supported me over the years and who do not speak English. I want to express my appreciation to them in Spanish, Salazar said. The mayor gave the order that this years graduation would take place only in English, Salazar explained. This afternoon, after two previous attempts to speak with Mayor Cahill, Salazar went to his office accompanied by her father and stepmother, Berta León, to demand that he change his decision. What am I supposed to do? Salazar asked the mayors press secretary, Edward Bray, wait until after graduation when the mayor can see me to resolve the problem? Bray refused to intervene on Salazars behalf, saying that the school board, not the mayor, should resolve the issue. Dr. Salazar disagreed and expressed his disappointment, This is a violation of her constitutional rights of freedom of expression. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-06-21 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 565 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Valedictorian Angela Salazar wants to thank her family, some of whom only understand Spanish, as par Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-06-21 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 9 VTMBH Article: Article Order 7 VTMBH Article: Title Patti Smith performs in fundraiser opposed to Greenpoint power plant VTMBH Article: Author Andrzej Dobrowolski VTMBH Article: Publication Nowy Dziennik / Polish Daily News VTMBH Article: Original Language Polish VTMBH Article: Translator Lukasz Bulka VTMBH Article: Section briefs VTMBH Article: Blurb VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Over 1,000 people gathered last Saturday night to see Patti Smith and other American musicians at the Polish National Home in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The concert was a fundraiser for a local group fighting a proposed power plant on Greenpoints waterfront. Building a power plant on someones backyard is just another form of terrorism, Smith told Nowy Dzienniks reporter. Smith, known as the number one poet of the punk rock movement, played for free. So did the bands Hammil on Trial, Vic Thrill and Hugh Pool, all of which performed at the benefit. The Greenpoint-Williamsburg Waterfront Task Force raised $21,000 at the Saturday concert. It was the first of a series of events planned to support the Task Force, which is working to stop an independent developer from building a power plant in Williamsburg. The audience loved Pattis performance and enthusiastically applauded at the singer-activists remarks. Smith expressed her opposition to the treatment of American Talib John Walker Lindhs case, and called for a fair verdict in his trial. The artist did have some nice things to say about the Polish National Home and its tenant, Club Warsaw, established in 2001 by Antoni and Mark Chroscielewski and Steve Weitzman. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-02-04 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File b3.doc VTMBH Article: Hit Count 161 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 15 VTMBH Article: Article Order 2 VTMBH Article: Title CCNY student and family arrested by FBI, face deportation; students, faculty organize in her defense VTMBH Article: Author Hank Williams, Alexis Logsdon, and Rob Wallace VTMBH Article: Publication CCNY Messenger VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb Reem Khalil, a senior biochemistry major at City College, and her family remain in New Jerseys Hudson County jail, as CUNY students and faculty strategize on ways to speed their release. The Khalils were rounded up two months ago in the post-September 11 VTMBH Article: Keywords INS, CUNY, detain VTMBH Article: Body Reem Khalil, a senior biochemistry major at City College, and her family remain in New Jerseys Hudson County jail, as CUNY students and faculty strategize on ways to speed their release. The Khalils were rounded up two months ago in the post-September 11th sweeps by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). According to Frances Aboushi, a CCNY International Studies major and close friend of Reems, the Khalil family was arrested on Feb. 27 by the FBI. Aboushi told the Messenger that the FBI questioned Reems father about terrorism several weeks ago. FBI agents shackled the family members' hands and feet before transporting them in separate vehicles to FBI offices in Manhattans Federal Plaza for questioning. Aboushi told the Messenger that Reems father was questioned by the FBI several weeks ago about terrorism. The father, who owns a Manhattan restaurant and has lived in the United States for nearly two decades, was released when the FBI found nothing linking him to the terrorist attacks. The Khalils are from Syria. Because the Khalils are undocumented, the FBI turned them over to the INS, who are holding them in jail until deportation proceedings go through. The INS has split up the family and is holding them in separate facilities. Reem, her mother and teenage sister are in Hudson County; her father and one teenage brother are in Bergen County (New Jersey); and a second teenage brother is in Philadelphia. Two younger siblings who were born in the United States (and, thus, are citizens) are being cared for by a neighbor. Aboushi, the CCNY student, contacted the CCNY Coalition Against the War about Reems plight. The Coalition organized a speak-out in NAC Rotunda on March 7. Following the speak-out, a group of about 25 students went to the office of CCNY President Gregory Williams to present the situation to him. Williams has since written a letter to the INS on Reems behalf. Williams wasnt there, but the group was able to talk to Jean Wiles, deputy to the president. We demanded [that] President Williams defend one of his students by speaking out about her detainment, said Shaun Harkin, who was part of the delegation that spoke with Wiles. "Additionally, we demanded the response be immediate since Reem's fate is in the balance." A faculty member who spoke to Williams reports that the president was upset that students had gathered in his office and demanded to see him. Several groups and individuals at CCNY are trying to do whatever they can to help secure Reem's release and publicize the case. Aboushi, who has talked to the family's attorney, says it will be difficult to win any concessions for Reem in the current political climate. Aboushi feels that the Khalils should be released and Reem allowed to complete school. Reem was scheduled to graduate in June. CCNYs Faculty Council passed a resolution asking for the college administration to act on the situation. A petition is also being circulated demanding her immediate release. Over 200 people signed the petition, says Harkin, and many now know about what's happened to her. This a good start, [but] now we have to build on it. If there's no proof [of the father's guilt], there's no way to justify [the arrests], Pranita Tamma, a bio-med senior, told the Messenger when informed of Khalil's situation. The FBI was being careful, but the FBI's personal feelings played into their treatment of the family, said Nidhi Babbar, a senior biology major. America is full of immigrants. When someone from another country does something wrong, you can't just link everyone of that descent to the crime. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-03-01 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File v15n2.doc VTMBH Article: Hit Count 204 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Reem Khalil, a senior biochemistry major at City College, and her family remain in New Jerseys Hudso Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-03-01 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 18 VTMBH Article: Article Order 2 VTMBH Article: Title Dont let it happen to your child VTMBH Article: Author Tony Best VTMBH Article: Publication New York Carib News VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb Michael Singh, 35, came to the United States from Jamaica when he was one year old. But apparently, neither he nor his parents sought U.S. citizenship for him, forcing him 34 years later to resign from an elected government position in Stratford, Conn. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body This is a wakeup call to hundreds, if not thousands, of Caribbean parents. Dont let it happen to your child. Joan Foy, the head of the immigration unit of the Caribbean Womens Health Association was using the unfortunate example of a West Indian elected official in a suburban community in Connecticut who resigned last week as Majority Leader of the Stratford Town Council after state officials raised questions about his citizenship. Michael Singh, 35, came to the United States from Jamaica when he was one year old, and apparently, neither he nor his parents sought to make him a naturalized American citizen and when the issue arose about his immigration status he had to resign from the influential position. I have seen hundreds of cases of people from Jamaica, Barbados, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada and other Caribbean countries whose children ran into somewhat similar problems or even worst, said Foy, herself an immigrant from Aruba. The tragedy in many of these cases is that far too often the young people themselves didnt even know that they were not citizens. They assumed that because they went through school and were living in the United States from the time they were little children that they were American citizens. But when they run into trouble with the law or were seeking certain positions or opportunities, which require U.S. citizenship, it was only then that they found out, rather painfully, that they are not citizens. Thats why the case of Mr. Singh in Connecticut is a wake-up call for thousands of parents who didnt take the step of ensuring that their children were naturalized. Singh, a Democrat, was forced to resign by his colleagues on the Town Council, state officials and by residents of Stratford. He quit the position, to which he was elected in November, in a letter of resignation sent to the Town Clerk, in which he simply expressed thanks for the chance to serve but didnt explain why he was leaving. It has been a privilege and an honor to serve the people, said the West Indian. Let me express my sincere appreciation to the many good people of Stratford who have supported me as a dedicated public servant. Many states around the country stipulate that candidates for local office at the state and local levels must be American citizens, either through naturalization or by birth. Its a federal requirement that people running for the U.S. House of Representatives or the Senate must be citizens. Connecticut is a state with such a law on its books. Any person found guilty of breaking it could end up spending five years in prison or be slapped with a criminal fine of up to $5,000 and be forced to up to $2,000 in civil fines. In addition, he or she could be deported to their birthplace. Connecticut state officials must now make a final decision in Singhs case, meaning it must determine once and for all if he was a citizen. Our investigation is continuing into the matter involving Singh, said Jeffrey B. Garfield, executive director of the Connecticut State Elections Enforcement Commission, the agency that made a preliminary finding that the West Indian was probably not a U.S. citizen. Garfield explained that the Commission had voted unanimously that based on the information they had received from several official government sources, Singh wasnt a citizen. As a matter of fact, Singhs lawyer, Anthony Avallone, told a reporter that his client didnt know if he was a citizen or not and was now investigating his immigration status. Foy didnt find the Singh case to be unusual. I have seen so many of these kinds of cases that I would believe him if he said he actually didnt know his immigration status, said CWHAs immigration attorney. That kind of thing is quite common, especially among people who came here at an early age, went through school, assuming that they were citizens when in fact they were not because their parents never bother to ensure that they were naturalized. As a matter of fact, said Foy, many West Indians have been deported to Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados, Grenada, St. Lucia, and other countries in the region because their parents didnt apply for naturalization for them when they were young. And in some cases, the parents themselves didnt become citizens and they are paying a heavy price for that failure. I keep advising clients who turn to CWHA for assistance on immigration matters to become citizens, she said. We are living in different times, ever since the 1996 immigration reform measures became the law of the land. Its a shame but that's what is happening and parents owe it to their children to remove that cloud of uncertainty from their childrens heads. It has happened that teenagers or young adults run into trouble with the law and its only when they are confronted with the possibility of being deported that they realized the trouble they are in. The entire landscape has changed and people should recognize that fact. Citizenship is important. Several Caribbean nations are now reeling from the after-effects of the 1996 immigration law, which requires that people who are not citizens and who commit felonies must be deported. Law enforcement authorities in Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Guyana and other Caribbean countries have complained that the criminal deportees from the United States were largely responsible for an upsurge in serious crimes. They have complained about drug traffickers, armed robbers and other criminals who went to the United States when they were infants now been dumped on their countries. For example, Dr. Basil Bryan, Jamaicas Counsel-General, said sometime ago that many of the criminal deportees had few, if any, relatives in Jamaica and elsewhere, after having lived in the United States for almost all of their lives. Some of them left when they were two, three, or four years and are now in their early twenties but dont have any connections with the region and when they are deported they resort to a life of crime, he said. This is a real problem we have in Jamaica and many of our Caribbean neighbors are experiencing a similar situation. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-04-30 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 122 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dont let it happen to your child 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. unknown Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. article Original Name The original name of this item. Michael Singh, 35, came to the United States from Jamaica when he was one year old. But apparently, Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-04-30 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 40 VTMBH Article: Article Order 4 VTMBH Article: Title ADL rips ACLU on terror stance VTMBH Article: Author Ori Nir VTMBH Article: Publication Forward VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), castigated the ACLU for running what he called an overzealous, excessive and extreme campaign against measures that the Bush administration has taken to fight terrorism, which the ACLU says compromise Americans civil rights. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body The leader of a Jewish defense organization that traditionally sides with civil libertarians is zinging the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for its stance on President Bushs war against terrorism. In an interview with the Forward, Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), castigated the ACLU for running what he called an overzealous, excessive and extreme campaign against measures that the Bush administration has taken to fight terrorism, which the ACLU says compromise Americans civil rights. Foxman reacted last week to a media campaign launched by the ACLU this month that includes television spots depicting Attorney General John Ashcroft as defacing the Constitution. The ACLU plays an important role in being a monitor and a guard and a watch to make sure that our freedoms are protected. However, every once in a while it loses perspective, Foxman said. To go on a media campaign with a broad brush stroke is excessive. I find it extreme to accuse this administration or the attorney general of deliberately acting to violate our laws or our constitution or our civil rights. The ACLUs $3 million campaign is described as the largest mobilization of resources in the organizations 82-year history and the first campaign involving a national television ad. In addition to the television spots, the campaign includes lobbying efforts, litigation efforts and a public-awareness drive of newspaper ads and brochures, primarily targeting the USA Patriot Act, which Congress passed last year following the September 11th terrorist attacks. The Patriot Act, adopted six weeks after the attacks, vastly expanded the administrations authority to spy on citizens and residents while easing judicial oversight. At the time, the ACLU sought the support of Jewish organizations in its criticism of the new legislation. Most Jewish organizations refused to join although the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, the lobbying arm of the Reform movement, wrote a letter to Ashcroft pointing out some of its objections to the administrations approach to battling terrorism. This time the ACLU acted alone, declining to build a coalition of organizations to support its campaign. In the ACLUs television spots, Ashcroft is portrayed as someone who has seized powers for the Bush administration that no president should have: the right to investigate you for what you say, to intrude on your privacy, to hold you in jail without charging you with a crime. Foxman said that the validity of such assertions should be tested in the court, not by any broad statements with a blitz campaign. The ACLU should not be scaring the American public, he added, that it is about to lose its rights. The ACLU vigorously defended its campaign. As we have done for the last 80 years, the ACLU will seek to stimulate debate challenging both the administration and the Congress to insure safety and liberty, said Laura Murphy, director of ACLUs Washington, D.C. national office. The ACLU believes that American society can be both safe and free, but doing so must start with an informed public. Even Attorney General Ashcroft has encouraged such a debate. Ashcroft himself issued what seemed to be a mild reaction to the campaign, saying, I am glad to live in a country where the ACLU can criticize me and vigorously debate the issues. I consider it my job as attorney general to make sure that this and all of our freedoms endure. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-10-25 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 69 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), castigated the ACLU for runni Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-10-25 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 9 VTMBH Article: Article Order 9 VTMBH Article: Title "Pi&#241;ero" is another Hollywood sucker punch to Latinos VTMBH Article: Author Aurora Flores VTMBH Article: Publication Siempre VTMBH Article: Original Language VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section edits VTMBH Article: Blurb The movie disrespects Latinos by celebrating Piñero as an icon of Nuyorican creativity and poetic art while ignoring the rampant rumors of pedophilia and even his sociopathic qualities. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Hollywood has hit Latinos with another sucker punch in this disjointed and undeveloped portrait of a psychopath. Worse than West Side Story, Badge 353 and Fort Apache, Pi?ero takes us on a walk on the wild side of hell without so much as a whisper of the rampant rumors of pedophilia surrounding this twisted, demented sociopath, whom the film celebrates as an icon of Nuyorican creativity. Miguel Pi?ero appeared on the New York artistic scene in 1974, with the presentation of Short Eyes, a play he wrote in a prison workshop while serving time in Sing Sing for armed robbery. Presented first by La Familia, then Lincoln Center and Joseph Papps Public Theater, the play became a hit. It won the N. Y. Drama Critics Circle Award for best American play before it was turned into a movie. The work was about someone who abused boys only to find himself in jail among prisoners who can forgive anything but. Piñero (who always told writers to write what they know, and surely knew this topic as both victim and predator) was tapped by Hollywood to write and act about crime and criminals for shows like Baretta, Miami Vice and others. The film opens with the multilayered beats of Hector LaVoes salsa pulsating. The beginning scenes slice through Piñero's black and white past with technical wizardry which masks the lack of infrastructure, stunted script and character development in the quick-paced, eye-blinking, MTV-ish frames. We see a jive-time hustler spewing smart-alecky street rhymes in jail. We move to a troubled child, beset by poverty and incest. We then see a strung-out junkie in a dope den, pimping the talent that took him out of jail. Then were back to his mother, holding onto five children and calmly telling the father to leave, after witnessing his rape of her eldest son. Welcome to the avant-garde. Actor Benjamin Bratts total possession of Piñeros spirit, however, is brilliant, electrifying and shocking. Bratt breaks through his previous papi chulo roles, bringing Piñero to life as vividly as the heroin that danced with Mikey through decadent degradation and debauchery. Like a lightweight boxer, Bratt pounces and punches his posse with words heard only in the deepest and most desperate layer of urban subculture. I have to keep doing bad to keep the writing good, is how Piñero justifies his anti-social behavior. But his writing was never all that to begin with. The topic of pedophile-as-underdog has been done many times over. The Quare Fellow, Brendon Behan's play about an imprisoned child molester murdered by his fellow inmates was produced here in New York before Short Eyes. And while Piñero's poetic rhetoric spoke of strength against the oppressor and societys hypocrisy, his soul was corrupted by his total weakness and enslavement to drugs and dereliction. There were moments of lucidity as the Puerto Rican/Nuyorican poets encounter each other. Piñero comes face to face with Puerto Rican scholars on the Island who repudiate his art and lifestyle. Piñero, the defiantly cool captive of his own dysfunction, outs the colonized slavery of the Islands academia as a sanctimonious identity not their own. By contrast, the scene where Piñeros play is presented by Papp to a packed audience is telling. In his moment of triumph, Piñero shows his ass to the world. The sun was not always shining for this cool dude. In his sickness and arrogance, Piñero never recognized his self-described junkie Christ as anti-Christ. Even in death, his unholy alliance with mainstream American media once again contemptuously maligns the hard working, self-sacrificing Latino artistic community that rises above its horrific childhood traumas to create works of true literary insight, craft and artistry as legacy of our pride and courage. Understandably, sensationalized commercial films sell tickets, but for a community still invisible on the screen, marginalized in society and misunderstood by its neighbors, this is one more attempt to show only the pus-infected canker sores of a debauched existence. On some deeper level, maybe Piñero knew he was being patronized and displayed like a curious monkey with humanlike qualities by the cultural elite who saw him more as freak than peer. He may be laughing right now at how, in death, he can still steal ten dollars from everyone who sees his film. The absence of real female characters in this contorted macho nightmare flies in the face of the founding of the Nuyorican Poets Café. The Café was founded on the poems of Sandra Maria Esteves, one of the cultural warriors of the Nuyorican frontline never mentioned in this hallucination. Neither are other worthy soldiers such as Victor Hernandez Cruz, Papoleto, Eddie Figueroa, Tato LaViera, el Coco que Habla, et al. But it's just as well. Even comic John Leguizamo refused to play the role after he researched Piñeros life. ¡Vaya Juanito! Clearly many of the new breed of poets look to the Nuyorican Poets Cafe as an alternative showcase for literary voices that relate to our reality. And there are many who answered the calling. Piñero was not one of them. And to claim that this was the precursor to hip hop and rap when The Last Poets had already carved a role as political griots of that particular social shift in time is bogus indeed. This is not a film to take a sensitive young artist to. Nor is it a portrait of an exemplary Latino talent that survived New York's dark reality. This is a film that celebrates the reckless life of someone who was abused by his father, let down by his mother and everyone around him; a deviant who crashed and burned under the weight of living taking a few down with him. Some hero. The Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund, the Institute of Puerto Rican Policy and the National Hispanic Media Coalition presented the community screening I attended. The Village Seven Theater was packed with community leaders from the arts, education, social services and politics. The applause for the movies spokespeople, Miguel Algarin, Giancarlo Esposito, Nelson Vasquez and Tim Williams was lukewarm. Questions about Hollywoods spotlight on negative Latino images and incest were glibly and smugly shrugged off or totally ignored by Algarin, who displayed the same self-delusional aplomb and cockiness as the film's protagonist. The response was polite curiosity from the crowd. But once everyone dispersed outside, the consensus was transparent. Miguelthe emperor has no clothes. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-02-09 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File e2.doc VTMBH Article: Hit Count 164 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Pi&#241;ero" is another Hollywood sucker punch to Latinos 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. unknown Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. article Original Name The original name of this item. The movie disrespects Latinos by celebrating Piñero as an icon of Nuyorican creativity and poetic ar Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-02-09 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 14 VTMBH Article: Article Order 1 VTMBH Article: Title Demanding labor dignity and jobs with justice VTMBH Article: Author Gloria Cruz VTMBH Article: Publication El Diario / La Prensa VTMBH Article: Original Language Spanish VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb Deli workers in New York City, supported by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) Local 1500, protested their working conditions Monday. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Deli workers in New York City, supported by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) Local 1500, protested their working conditions Monday. Among other things, the protestors demanded that they be treated with dignity and respect and that they be paid the wages that the law stipulates, including overtime. Many are required to work between 10 and 12 hours a day, six days a week. The protest happened in the heart of Manhattan, at 43rd Street and Madison Avenue. <i>Photo courtesy of El Diario.</i> VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-04-02 VTMBH Article: Thumb PROTEST-DELI-WORKERStn.jpg VTMBH Article: Article File v14n1.doc VTMBH Article: Hit Count 86 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 31 VTMBH Article: Article Order 1 VTMBH Article: Title Landlord of building where boy died stole rent money meant for poor VTMBH Article: Author William Wichert and Jordan Moss VTMBH Article: Publication Norwood News VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb Jashawn Parker submerged himself in a bathtub to stave off the fire in his apartment, but that quick thinking wasnt enough to protect him from years of landlord neglect. The landlord, Eric Gladstein, is currently on probation for stealing funds from a government program that provides rent money to poor tenants; an accomplice awaits sentencing on related charges. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body A fire claimed the life of eight-year-old Jashawn Parker just before midnight on Aug. 6. The PS 94 student, whose summer school classwork work was on display at the memorial outside the building, submerged himself in a bathtub full of water to stave off the flames which followed a loud explosion in the apartment. But that quick thinking wasnt enough to protect the boy from years of landlord neglect that had tenants, city officials and advocates in court for at least two years in hopes of taking the building away from its owner. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. In addition to the plumbing, electrical and wiring problems that plague the building, the landlord of the building where Parker died3569 DeKalb Avenueis now serving a three-year sentence of probation for stealing money from a government program that provides rent money to poor tenants. According to court documents obtained by the Norwood News, landlord Eric Gladstein of Quest Property Management IV Corp. was indicted in April 2001 for working with Deborah Pollock and Marla Lopez of Community Law Advocates, Inc. (CLA) to steal over $300,000 in welfare housing funds from the citys Human Resources Administration (HRA). Pollock, then an executive deputy commissioner-designate of HRA (she was never fully appointed but served in the position until June 2000), used her position at CLA, a non-profit group she formed in 1998 on behalf of struggling tenants, to squeeze funds from a state program that assisted welfare recipients who could not pay their rent. With her influence at HRA, Pollock and her associates at Palazzolo Investment Group, a collection of Bronx landlords including Gladstein, took advantage of the aid available through the Jiggetts relief program. While tenants facing eviction charges by their landlords may qualify for Jiggetts relief, Pollock and CLA presented relief applications containing false eviction suits to the Rental Assistance Unit of HRA. The tenants were not being evicted, but their landlords were cashing in on their names. Between October of 1998 and December of 2000, CLA submitted at least 66 false applications, each of which was worth thousands of dollars. Pollock and Lopez would file applications with HRA on behalf of tenants in buildings owned by either Pollock herself or the other landlords in the Palazzolo Investment Group. In September 1999, Gladstein directed that fictional index numbers be placed on documents purporting to be Bronx Housing Court pleadings as proof that eviction suits had been initiated against tenants in his buildings, according to court documents. Then he arranged for Pollock to be paid 10 percent of the Jiggetts relief payments that he directly received. Gladstein ultimately pled guilty in January 2002 to charges of petty larceny. He paid $40,851 in restitution and began a three-year probation sentence on March 22, said Brad Maione, a spokesman for Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, one of the officials who sought the indictment. Pollock is awaiting sentencing on numerous charges of grand larceny, conspiracy in the fourth degree, and defrauding the government, among others. She is also facing a separate indictment on charges of tax evasion for 1998 and 1999, during which time she did not report income earned from CLA, her real estate corporations, and payments received from the landlords. This was as cynical a crime as you could possibly imagine, Spitzer said in a press release issued on April 3, 2001. At the very time Pollock was supposed to be helping the poor with their housing problems, she was using her positions with the city and her non-profit group to abuse the system, steal from taxpayers and line her pockets and those of her partners. Tenants were being used, without their knowledge, as pawns in the fraudulent scheme. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-08-28 VTMBH Article: Thumb boy_portrait.gif VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 124 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Landlord of building where boy died stole rent money meant for poor 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 30 VTMBH Article: Article Order 4 VTMBH Article: Title Kosher tale nabs a frankenfish VTMBH Article: Author Max Gross VTMBH Article: Publication Forward VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb How do you get a live, illegal, non-native snakefish when nobody is selling them? Easypretend youre an Orthodox Jew. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Dick Horne was at a loss. How do you get a live, illegal, non-native fisha fish that scavenges and destroys the local ecosystem when it is put in an alien habitatwhen nobody is selling them? Easypretend youre an Orthodox Jew. Apparently, it worked. Horne, the co-proprietor of the American Dime Museum in Baltimore, acquired three live northern snakehead fish from a market in New Yorks Chinatowndespite restrictions barring the sale of live snakeheadsby asking a friend to claim that she was an Orthodox Jew who needed to kill the fish according to dietary laws. As a result, Hornes oddball museum is one of the few places gawkers can see a live snakehead, which captured headlines this summer after members of the carnivorous, three-foot-long, reputedly land-walking species were discovered thriving in a Crofton, Md., pond, close to the Patuxent River. The Crofton invader was released live into the pond by someone who bought the fish from a market. Fears that the Frankenfish would invade ecosystems around the country led officials to poison the pond, and Interior Secretary Gale Norton to propose a federal ban on importing live snakeheads. Such notoriety is a powerful lure for Horne, whose museum is named after the 19th-century museums propagated by P. T. Barnum. Horne felt a live snakehead would be an important acquisition for a museum that already exhibits a Fiji Mermaid, a shrunken head and Vietnamese nuclear worms. There was only one problem. They didnt want to sell me a live one, Horne said of the Chinese fish markets where snakeheads are considered a specialty, especially when smoked and dried. Horne called a friend who performs under the name Ula the Pain-Proof Rubbergirlshes a virtuoso contortionistand asked her to buy the fish for him. What am I gonna say? Ula asked. Tell them youre an Orthodox Jew, Horne replied. Ulas story, that she had to bring a live fish to a rabbi who would slaughter it according to Jewish law, seemed to have worked. Never mind that whether a fish is kosher or not has nothing to do with the way it is killed. There is no kosher way to kill a fish, said Murray Shaw, managing editor of Kosher Today, a monthly trade newspaper. Just take it out of the water. Shaw, who never comments on whether something is kosher, added, I would highly doubt this thing is kosher. Since coming to the museum, the three snakeheadsnamed Oedipus, Fluffy and Bartholomewhave been an instant success. Weve just come off the best month weve ever had, Horne said. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-08-09 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 285 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kosher tale nabs a frankenfish 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. unknown Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. article Original Name The original name of this item. How do you get a live, illegal, non-native snakefish when nobody is selling them? Easypretend youre Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-08-09 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 25 VTMBH Article: Article Order 3 VTMBH Article: Title The state of New Yorks Bangladeshi landlords VTMBH Article: Author VTMBH Article: Publication Weekly Thikana VTMBH Article: Original Language Bangla VTMBH Article: Translator Moinuddin Naser VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb Since 1993, several hundred Bangladeshis have bought buildings in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Long Island through newly-licensed Bangladeshi real estate agents, and rented the buildings to tenants. But as the recession hits the Bangladeshi community, landlords face growing tenant delinquency and are selling their buildings in Queens, and relocating to comparatively cheap areas in Long Island, Brooklyn, Richmond, Staten Island and the Bronx. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body The state New Yorks of Bangladeshi landlords, Weekly Thikana, 28 June 2002. Translated from Banlga by Moinuddin Naser Many Bangladeshi landlords who live in Queens and Manhattan face growing dilemmas. They have problems making their mortgage payments because their tenants are not paying their rent on time. Therefore, they sometimes keep their buildings vacant until they find reliable tenants. With the buildings vacant, they still have trouble with their mortgage payments. As a result, owners who bought houses with small down payments face hardships paying off their mortgage. Since 1993, several hundred Bangladeshis have bought houses in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Long Island through newly licensed Bangladeshi real estate agents. Many became building owners with only a five-to-ten percent down payment. As a result, their mortgage payments are higher than average. However, they were easily able to manage the payments from the rent they collected. As a result, many Bangladeshis enthusiastically pursued home ownership, usually at no additional cost than their previous monthly rent. To buy houses, they often spent all of their savings and applied for a lot of credit. Most owners preferred Bangladeshi tenants. But now things have changed, as many landlords and tenants are tangled in litigationleaving many owners without rent payments for six to seven months. In many places, it has been hard to find tenants. As a result, the owners, who depended on the tenants rent to pay the loan, have failed to repay the outstanding installments. Therefore, many Bangladeshis have had to work overtime and their wives have taken jobs as well, leaving their children unattendeda bad situation for the family. The landlords of Bangladeshi community are relocating to the cheaper areas of New York. Tenants are also moving to these cheaper areas to reduce their rent. Many Bangladeshi homeowners are selling their houses in Astoria, Jamaica, Elmhurst, Long Island City and Jackson Heights, and relocating to comparatively cheap areas in Long Island; Brooklyn; Richmond, Staten Island; and the Bronx, where their presence contributes to the law and order of their neighborhoods. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-06-28 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 174 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The state of New Yorks Bangladeshi landlords 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. unknown Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. article Original Name The original name of this item. Since 1993, several hundred Bangladeshis have bought buildings in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Long Islan Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-06-28 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 13 VTMBH Article: Article Order 4 VTMBH Article: Title Dovish group snags dinner talk by U.S. Envoy Zinni, activists read coup for signs of Bush's tilt VTMBH Article: Author Rachel Donadio VTMBH Article: Publication Forward VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb General Zinnis appearancethe first before an American Jewish audiencewill come at a particularly sensitive time, as American Jewish organizations are jostling influence on Bushs Middle Eastern policy. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body U.S. Middle East envoy General Anthony Zinni is slated to headline a gala dinner next month at the Israel Policy Forum, the dovish American group that was once synonymous with the Clinton administrations Middle East policy. Scheduled for April 7 at Manhattan's splashy Chelsea Piers, the dinner will be the retired Marine general's first major appearance as envoy before an American Jewish audience. It comes at a particularly sensitive time, as American Jewish organizations are jostling for a position to influence American Middle East policy. Although IPF said it had invited Zinni two months ago, before he was sent back to the region, his appearance prompted ample speculation about what he would say and to whom he chose to say it. IPF, which was founded in 1993 to rally support for the Oslo peace accords, points to the Zinni appearance as a sign of its growing clout with the Bush administration. IPF leaders said that in the last two months they had been holding frequent briefings with top administration officials, urging a more active U.S. role. Organizations that have been cooler to U.S. involvement since the collapse of the Oslo peace process publicly downplayed the significance of the Zinni appearance. Those opposed to Oslo harshly criticized Zinni's acceptance of the IPF invitation. Privately, many say IPF holds little sway with the administration. By continuing to advocate outreach to Arabs in an atmosphere in which most Jewish organizations are highlighting the futility of negotiating with the Palestinians, IPF has set itself apart. While more hawkish groups have blasted the proposal by Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah calling on Israel to return territories to the Palestinians in exchange for rapprochment with surrounding Arab countries, IPF officials have called it "a good example of how other Arab parties can play a constructive role" in resolving the Middle East conflict. [The Jerusalem Post reported that a Palestinian delegation had traveled to Saudi Arabia last week to try to convince the Saudis to include an agreement reached at Taba in the fall of 2000, when Clinton's team was still brokering the negotiations. The Palestinians reportedly urged that the Saudi plan include a "just, agreed solution" to the refugee problem, putting the Saudis and Palestinians at odds with Syria and Lebanon which demanded explicit endorsement of the "right of return."] Some say the planned Zinni appearance highlights a growing rift between IPF and other more mainstream organizations such as the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, American Jewry's main consensus umbrella organization on Israel, which has maintained a more cautious approach to American involvement in the Middle East. Michael Sonnenfeld, chairman emeritus of IPF and one of its two co-founders, said that he had brokered the Zinni appearance. "It will be the most high-profile, largest Jewish audience that he will address," Sonnenfeld said. "We've been directly in touch with him and with his people, and we haven't been given indication that he will not be there, but it's obviously a very fluid situation," added Jonathan Jacoby, a consultant to IPF and its former executive director. A spokesman for Zinni at the State Department did not return calls for comment. Sonnenfeld said he met Zinni at a State Department lunch last November, shortly after the general was named special envoy, and had kept in touch ever since. IPF has maintained particularly close ties to the State Department, whose Middle East division includes Clinton administration holdovers, among them Zinni's deputy, Aaron Miller, who has long been a friend of IPF. Sonnefeld said that in the last two months IPF had begun briefing "senior members of the administration" privately on a study that it had commissioned in June and will publicly unveil at the gala. Carried out by IPF independent scholar Stephen P. Cohen, the study, "Foundations for a Future Peace," lists "ten principles for Mideast peacemaking." These include involving the United States "as the credible, effective primary mediator" and encouraging the Arab states to play an active role. In its briefings with the administration, "we've received extraordinarily warm feedback about the insight and how helpful the results of this first phase of our study are," Sonnenfeld said. "I think the combination of the briefings that we've had, the participation by members of the administration through our weekly briefings and our materials have all combined to create a set of building blocks on which the relationship had been built." Jacoby declined to specify which individuals IPF had briefed. He said the group had met with "basically every key person in the State Department, Defense Department, White House and vice president's office that deals with the Middle East." He said the most recent briefing was with Senate staffers last week. Some hawks saw the Zinni appearance as a sign that the Bush administration did not have Israel's best interests at heart. "In politics, everything is carefully planned out, and I believe this has policy implications," said Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America. "Zinni speaking to a far-left group that supports one-sided concessions makes one question whether those are the real views of the administration that Zinni represents." "Just as [Former Prime Minister] Ehud Barak made his first major speech in the U.S. to the IPF, sending a clear signal of one-sided concessions to come," Klein said, "I think Zinni's choosing, as his first major public forum in the Jewish world, a group founded by the Labor party from the far left sends a very disturbing message." Klein said it was "a mistake" that Zinni "has chosen to speak to an organization that represents a fringe element of the American Jewish world, and certainly doesn't represent in any way, shape or form the policies of the Israeli government." "I hope Zinni will share what's really going on with Arafat rather than IPF trying to share with him their outdated philosophies," said Rabbi Pesach Lerner, executive vice president of the National Council of Young Israel, a right-wing Orthodox group. "It's too much already! How can anyone honestly believe that Arafat's a partner that can be trusted?" For its part, IPF calls itself a "centrist" group and claims that it represents the mainstream of American Jewry, which it said was in favor of Oslo. "If the Conference of Presidents by consensus were to conclude that the most important thing that could happen in the peace process is that the American government be central to it, then I guess there never would have been an Israel Policy Forum," said Theodore Mann, a member of the IPF executive committee and a former chairman of the President's Conference during the Carter administration. Other groups downplayed its significance. "AIPAC thinks it's great that Gen. Zinni is addressing the Jewish community about his recent trip," said Rebecca Needler, a spokeswoman for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the pro-Israel lobby. "I make nothing of it except that they were smart enough to issue an invitation, and he accepted in advance," said Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League. "However, if he is successful he may not be here for April 7." To say IPF was the new address for the administration in the Jewish community "would be an overstatement," Foxman said. He dismissed the idea that IPF was overshadowing the Conference of Presidents in the administration's eyes. "I think this is making something out of nothing," he said. The Zinni appearance "doesn't mean that they won't be in touch with other groups and will ignore them," said Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Reform movement's Union of American Hebrew Congregations, referring to the Bush administration. Rather, he said, "people who've advocated an American involvement are an address for this kind of presentation." Yet some of the same groups that downplayed the Zinni appearance have had their own share of bad blood with IPF in recent weeks. Earlier this month the Presidents Conference and AIPAC boycotted an IPF-brokered meeting in Washington with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak after it emerged that the Egyptians had banned Foxman from the meeting because of his harsh criticism of anti-Semitic tirades in the Egyptian press. IPF representatives attended the March 5 meeting, which was co-organized by the American Jewish Committee, as did representatives of Americans for Peace Now and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs. Other members of the Conference of Presidents said they were agnostic on the Zinni appearance at IPF. "I don't think it's an endorsement of the IPF," said Mandell Ganchrow, executive vice president of the Religious Zionists of America. "I don't think it sends any statement except from the point of view of IPF. They believe in the peace process; it's something they're trying to push." The IPF dinner will honor Marcia Riklis, a Jewish community activist who chaired the IPF's study group on Middle East diplomacy; Gail Furman, a Middle East peace activist and clinical psychologist at New York University Medical School who has compiled a book of drawings by Israeli and Palestinian children, and Peter Joseph, a Manhattan investment banker who is the president-elect of the new Jewish Community Center in Manhattan. <i>The Forward is the English-language sister paper of the Yiddish Forward and Russian Forward, Jewish papers that cover the national and international news in Manhattan.</i> VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-03-29 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File v13n4.doc VTMBH Article: Hit Count 163 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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General Zinnis appearancethe first before an American Jewish audiencewill come at a particularly sen Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-03-29 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 45 VTMBH Article: Article Order 3 VTMBH Article: Title Schumer promises aid to Latino nonprofits VTMBH Article: Author Ana Ledo VTMBH Article: Publication El Diario / La Prensa VTMBH Article: Original Language Spanish VTMBH Article: Translator Hannah Emmerich VTMBH Article: Section briefs VTMBH Article: Blurb VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Senator Charles Schumer met yesterday with directors of Latino community and nonprofit organizations to present his plan to increase donations from major foundations on the basis that these organizations do not receive a fair share of available funding from foundations and charitable trusts. According to a 2000 study, only 13 of the 50 largest foundations in the nation, such as The Pew Charitable Foundation, The Ford Foundation, and The Rockefeller Foundation, have donated funds to Latino organizations in New York. Schumer indicated that these nonprofits received only 1.3 percent of available funds from charitable foundations, while Latinos comprise 13 percent of the nations population. Its not that these foundations dont want to fund Latino organizations, or that these organizations dont deserve the money, but rather there seems to be a lack of communication between the two parties, said the senator. He added that in the majority of cases, Latino organizations are very small and often lack the resources to apply for grants. The senators plan calls for philanthropic foundations to advertise upcoming grant opportunities through the Spanish-speaking media. Under the plan, foundations will also offer Latino organizations and nonprofits workshops on grant-writing and technical assistance during the application process. However, nonprofit directors complained that even when they do apply for grants from foundations, the money is never offered. We give aid to hundreds of thousands of citizens, not only Latinos, and we have asked for funding but the answer is always no, said Yolanda Sanchez, director of the Puerto Rican Association for Community Action (PRACA). For his part, Schumer indicated that he would organize a meeting in the near future between foundation directors and community organizations. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-12-05 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 54 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Schumer promises aid to Latino nonprofits 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 39 VTMBH Article: Article Order 2 VTMBH Article: Title Are small businesses prey in New York City? Small businesses are angry with the reckless issuing of tickets VTMBH Article: Author JeeWoo Jung VTMBH Article: Publication Korea Times New York VTMBH Article: Original Language Korean VTMBH Article: Translator Jeongwoo Han VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb An endless stream of inspectors and other ticket-issuing personnel from the New York City Consumer Affairs Department, the Health Department, the Sanitation Department, the Buildings Department, and the Fire Department have been visiting small businesses. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Due to New York Citys deficit, small businesses are suffering from unreasonable tickets issued by the city. The City government in the last two years has recorded a loss of $500 million, and it is in the worst financial situation since the financial crisis of 1970. Some civil servants warned that, if the situation does not get any better soon, there is a high possibility that the New York City government will become bankrupt. To decrease deficit spending, the New York City government is implementing money-collecting tactics. Small businesses are most affected by this strategy. An endless stream of inspectors and other ticket-issuing personnel from the New York City Consumer Affairs Department, the Health Department, the Sanitation Department, the Buildings Department, and the Fire Department have been visiting small businesses. Mr. P., who runs a small telecommunications business in Jackson Heights, Queens, was recently fined by an inspector from the Consumer Affairs Department for not displaying the price tags on phones clearly enough. According to Mr. P., in addition to the price tag violation, the inspector also tried to claim that the taxes were not properly written down in the accounting book. Mr. Kim, who owns a deli in Elmhurst, Queens, said that he was fined by an inspector from the Building Department, who came without notice and claimed that the stores sign violated city rules. If the New York City government uses such cowardly means to resolve its fiscal problem, then it will never succeed, Mr. Kim said. He ranted, If, due to these inspectors, small businesses leave New York City, how does the City expect to regain its economic strength? People worry that New York Citys massive ticketing spree will continue until the budget is balanced. Although this sudden strictness in law enforcement may not be comprehensible by the small business owners, once an inspector notices a violation, a ticket is unavoidable. New Yorks small businesses are suffering doubly: one because of the recession, and two because of the ticketing burden. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-10-15 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 61 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Are small businesses prey in New York City? Small businesses are angry with the reckless issuing of 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. unknown Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. article Original Name The original name of this item. An endless stream of inspectors and other ticket-issuing personnel from the New York City Consumer A Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-10-15 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 26 VTMBH Article: Article Order 1 VTMBH Article: Title Starting a petition for legal status for undocumented immigrants VTMBH Article: Author Sunghoon Lee VTMBH Article: Publication Korea Daily News VTMBH Article: Original Language Korean VTMBH Article: Translator Bo Kwon VTMBH Article: Section edits VTMBH Article: Blurb Last week, I visited churches and cathedrals to get signatures for the campaign to secure legal status for undocumented immigrants. many Korean-Americans encouraged me, saying such kind words as good job, and youre doing a wonderful thing. As I witnessed the positive reaction of the Korean-American community to the campaign, I felt proud of my work. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Whenever I hear the words undocumented immigrants, or illegal immigrants, I am reminded of my friend from high school. Like many other high school students, my friend and I enjoyed our teenage years together. During our senior year, however, I discovered that he was an undocumented immigrant. My friend, who was bright, friendly, and full of smiles that he often shared with others, began to go astray, and his difficult financial circumstances forced him to throw away his acceptance letter from SUNY and enter a two-year college instead. Since then, we have lost touch, but during my involvement with the Signature Campaign to Grant Legal Status to Undocumented Immigrants, I could not stop thinking about him. According to the 2000 Census, there are currently about 180,000 undocumented Korean immigrants in America, and 45,000 of them live in New York. Regardless of how or why they came to the United States, they are all leading immigrant lives. They work just as hard as green card holders or naturalized citizens, and diligently pay taxes to the United States government. Nevertheless, because of their lack of legal status, undocumented immigrants are excluded from all government benefits and cannot even receive financial aid for education, which are funded by the taxes that they pay. The tragedy of September 11th has further exacerbated the lives of undocumented immigrants: the undocumented immigrant victims of September 11th, as well as their families, had to remain silent because of their illegal status and thus received no compensation. Fortunately, there is some good news. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which is the biggest labor union in the United States, began a signature campaign to secure legal status for undocumented immigrants. This signifies a major change in the American labor unions outlook on immigrant laborers. Previously, many labor unions in the United States have ignored the issue of immigrant workers, maintaining that an influx of immigrant labor destroys the established labor wage system. Many Korean-American organizations, including the National Korean American Service and Education Confederation, have joined such campaigns. Last week, I visited churches and cathedrals to get signatures for the campaign. Despite the hot weather, many Korean-Americans encouraged me, saying such kind words as good job, and youre doing a wonderful thing. Some elderly women asked if I was hungry and even brought me food. As I witnessed the positive reaction of the Korean-American community to the campaign, I felt proud of my work. There is always at least one undocumented immigrant around us, whether he or she is a friend, or a colleague. We should not turn away from the burdens and sufferings of undocumented immigrants. Even on a humanitarian level, if these people have led an exemplary life as a citizen, performing all of its required duties, isnt it time for them to earn legal status? This week, I am once again participating in the Signature Campaign to Grant Legal Status to Undocumented Immigrants. It is for my friend from high school, for my neighbors, and for the numerous families of the victims of September 11th who had to grieve in silence. I hope that more Korean-Americans will participate in the campaign and show their support and care. <i> The author is a campaign coordinator for the National Korean American Service and Education Confederation.</i> VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-07-03 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 108 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Starting a petition for legal status for undocumented immigrants 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. unknown Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. article Original Name The original name of this item. Last week, I visited churches and cathedrals to get signatures for the campaign to secure legal stat Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-07-03