68 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 34 VTMBH Article: Article Order 1 VTMBH Article: Title The numbers game continues for Haitians VTMBH Article: Author Macollvie Jean-François VTMBH Article: Publication Haitian Times VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section briefs VTMBH Article: Blurb VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Two years after asking for mass support for collecting its data, the Census Bureau does not know how many Haitians or Haitian-Americans live in the United States. In 2000, census data was collected indiscriminately, but the results are not being furnished as inclusively because those who participated do not know how many others of shared ancestry are living here. All non-Hispanic black people are lumped under African-American, even though the bureau pledged to break down the African-American category into the various black groups and have it ready last month. Such ancestry data, called Summary File 3 (SF3), has been released for 12 states, but there is no national estimate yet. Its the way we process the files, said Cynthia Davis, a Census Bureau analyst. Theyre processed on a state-by-state basis… Theres no way to process all 50 states and the District of Columbia at the same time. The original date for the Census Bureau to release ancestry data was last month, Davis said, but its release has been delayed because of problems with the collected information. She did not know who decides when the SF3 is calculated or released. Among the data that the SF3 contains is a demographic profile of the 31 million foreign-born residents who make up 11 percent of the countrys population. In the months leading to Census 2000, the bureaus aggressive advertising campaign encouraged residents, especially ethnic and minority groups, to participate so that they would not be left out of the benefits such data would bring to their communities. During the past two years, that data has been used to support such changes as the redrawing of congressional district lines and new budgets for municipalities. Some community organizers have said that Haitians and Haitian-Americans must be counted so that they can get necessary funding for such special needs as immigration. They have discussed breaking down the African-American category on the next census, similar to the way Hispanic and Asian groups are categorized. Their hope is that the number of Haitians in the country would be released simultaneously with Hispanic and Asian figures, which is less than two years. It is a priority, but at the same time, we have to review the data and make sure that its correct before we release it to the public, Davis said. She said the bureau will process the data for all states and have the national figures by September 30. In the meantime, they will release the information for each state as it is processed. New York is among the 12 states whose numbers have been released as of August 19. According to New York Citys Department of Planning, 2000 census data show that 118,769 people of Haitian ancestry live in the five boroughs, compared with 85,692 in 1990. Thats a 38.76 percent increase. It covers census applicants who wrote in on the long form that they were either born in Haiti or the United States of Haitian parents and naturalized citizens, as well as those claiming at least one Haitian parent. New York State reports 60,319 people of Haitian ancestry overall, department staff said. Aside from the 74 percent of that number within the five boroughs, the remaining 23 percent reside in Westchester, Nassau, Suffolk and Rockland counties. Brooklyn has the highest concentration of Haitians, with 88,763, followed by Queens, with 45,839. The Haitian community is growing, but its still kind of small, said Tim Calabrese, a research assistant at the Population Division of the New York City Department of City Planning. Florida, which has the largest concentration of Haitians, in Miami, is not among the states the bureau has processed as of August 1. Florida tends to be last when it comes to having such data, said Oliver Kerr, a staff member at the Miami-Dade County Department of Planning and Zoning. Kerr said that based on a supplementary survey taken after the 2000 Census, there are an estimated 97,793 Haitians living in Miami-Dade, 65,100 in Broward and 37,737 in Palm Beach counties. The bureau expects to release the data for Florida later this month. Without census data to prove how a population is evolving, community organizers said the ethnic group may well not exist in the eyes of those who allocate government funds. Population data is used by federal, state and city governments to decide the amount of money communities will receive to run school districts; libraries; youth and elderly programs; community centers; sanitation, police and fire precincts; and other services that affect the quality of life. The Haitian community needs those solid numbers if it hopes to achieve anything in the United States, said Louis H. Marcelin, Ph.D., an anthropology professor at the University of Miami. Marcelin has stated that demographic data would help government officials take the Haitian community seriously. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-08-27 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 112 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 numbers game continues for Haitians 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 18 VTMBH Article: Article Order 7 VTMBH Article: Title Council Members seek approval of living wage bill VTMBH Article: Author by Marimar Navarrete VTMBH Article: Publication Hoy VTMBH Article: Original Language Spanish VTMBH Article: Translator Telesh Lopez VTMBH Article: Section briefs VTMBH Article: Blurb VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body The majority of the City Counsel seeks to pass a living wage bill that will set the minimum wage at $9.60 an hour for some workers. If Intro 66-A, known as the living wage bill, is passed, it will amend local laws to mandate a decent salary and guaranteed health benefits to workers at companies that have contracts with the city or receive subsidies or tax credits. It would raise the minimum wage $8.10 for those with health insurance, and to $9.60 for those who have no benefits. The federal minimum wage is currently $5.15 and the federal poverty level is considered to be $18,100 a year for a family of four. We support this bill because we believe that our Latino community and other minorities work very hard, sometimes 40, 50 even 60 hours a week, but they receive the lowest wages and cannot pass the federal poverty level, said Wilfredo Larencuent, a member of the Executive Committee of the Working Families Party. But this government bill is not well-regarded by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who feared it would affect the citys financial condition. Companies are given incentives to stay in the city and reduce their costs. If the bill is passed, these costs may be raised and so will the possibility of companies leaving New York, said Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding Daniel L. Doctoroff. Eighty-one cities across the nation, including Baltimore and Santa Fe, have passed Living Wage laws. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-04-24 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 94 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 Council Members seek approval of living wage bill 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 22 VTMBH Article: Article Order 3 VTMBH Article: Title Poles not discouraged by their teams defeat, hearts are with Poland VTMBH Article: Author Bozena Chojnacka VTMBH Article: Publication Nowy Dziennik / Polish Daily News VTMBH Article: Original Language Polish VTMBH Article: Translator Lukasz Bulka VTMBH Article: Section sports4 VTMBH Article: Blurb VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Polish soccer fans in Greenpoint wiped away their tears after the Polish team lost to Korea. Despite the loss, they will continue to support their national team. Even immigrants with dual citizenship dont want to root for the American team, who in fact play really well. Im an American citizen but my heart beats for Poland. America is only my substitute homeland. I will support the Polish team to the very end. Even a hangman should not lose hope because the rope can always break, said Bogdan Kowalski. Tuesday was one of the saddest days in my life. All my life I have been emotionally attached to the Polish team. After what they showed they have minimal chances to advance from the group. So now Im going to support Denmark and Senegal. I was very surprised by the American team. They have done a lot of work during the last 12 years. They play really well but they represent a country where people make fun of soccer. Thats why I will not root for them, said Andrzej Paton. My heart is still with Poland, although I predicted the 0:2 defeat with Korea. I hope the Polish team will advance from the group on the second position. I also support the Americans because my son was born here, said Slawomir Zaba. Americans dont deserve attention from soccer fans because of their arrogance toward soccer. Soccer is ignored by the omnipotent media. I am still going to root for the Polish team. Only after the defeat of the white and reds I will switch to root for the Americans. Its natural. I live here, said Pawel Majewski. Right after the Poles lost I redirected my support toward Americans. They are better than us, said Leszek Mikolajczyk. I compare the Tuesday game to a [Polish boxer Andrew] Golota fight. What a shame! Deep inside me I feel attached to the Polish team but because it is weak, I will root for the Americans, said Mieczyslaw Szulik. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-06-08 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 31 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 Poles not discouraged by their teams defeat, hearts are with Poland 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 27 VTMBH Article: Article Order 3 VTMBH Article: Title This is the limit: Christie Whitman may pollute New Jersey VTMBH Article: Author John Cappelli VTMBH Article: Publication America Oggi VTMBH Article: Original Language Italian VTMBH Article: Translator Katherine Sigelman VTMBH Article: Section edits VTMBH Article: Blurb New Jersey Democrats lambasted EPA head Christie Whitman for refusing to block a Navy plan to dump PCB-contaminated material off the coast of Sandy Hookan area she sought to protect as governor. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Shame on you, Christie Whitman, thundered Rep. Frank Pallone (D- Long Branch), at a Washington press conference. New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey, Sen. Jon Corzine and Sen. Robert Torricelli denounced Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Christie Whitmans actions against the state where she was once governor. McGreevey, Corzine and Torricelli spoke out against Whitman for generally reducing environmental protections, in accordance with George W. Bushs wishes, and because she refused to block a decision about off-shore pollution off the coast of Sandy Hook. According to the Democrats, Whitmans refusal is a betrayal of New Jersey by someone who, as a shining star in the GOP constellation, once identified herself with the cause of environmental protection. In June, the EPA approved a U.S. Navy project to unload 55,000 tons of material dredged from the Earle naval base six miles from Sandy Hook. According to Mammouth County experts, these materials are contaminated with toxic PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls). Scientists say materials or sewage containing more than 113 PCB particles per billion are harmful to all organisms, both human and nonhuman. The Earl naval base materials exceed that limit, with a level of 123 PCB particles per billion. These toxins are the same PCBs that the EPA ordered dredged out of the Hudson River (where General Electric deposited them there half a century ago) at the cost of a half billion dollars. The supreme irony of this development, as the politicians emphasized, is that the EPA head is the same Whitman, who, as New Jersey governor, fought to stop the abuse of the Sandy Hook Marina. Whats happening now is so pitiful, McGreevey said. She, who was once a passionate adversary of what was always known to the New Jersey population as the infamous Mud Dump, the mountain of mud that makes Sandy Hook into a dump. Now, pressed the governor, here she is, publicly reversing her own position, approving the unloading of 55,000 tons at the Marina, which would directly pollute the environment with PCBs. Christie Whitman defended herself, claiming that, for now, the project is still up in the air, and wont be brought to conclusion until another case concerning dredging, now in court, is decided. However, we are specifying that scientists, not the politicians from either side, must decide. And yet, it seems to you like I am setting out to pollute our coastal waters? It certainly does seem that way to us, contested Pallone. Was it or was it not Whitman who signed off on unloading 55,000 tons at the Marina, with 10 particles over the maximum? Lets not lose sight of other major crises, Corzine said, that are also at the Administrators door, such as the exclusion of 33 polluted sites from the Superfund, five of which are in our New Jersey -- another example of the game that she is playing for Bush. At the end of the press conference, Torricelli censured Whitmans support for the watered-down, Bush-supported Clear Skies program over the Clean Air Act. Meanwhile, about those 55,000 tons destined for Sandy Hook, Pallone said, I will do my best in the Senate Committee on Finance to arrange for them to end up somewhere else, and cause less damage. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-07-11 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 106 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 This is the limit: Christie Whitman may pollute New Jersey 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. New Jersey Democrats lambasted EPA head Christie Whitman for refusing to block a Navy plan to dump P 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. 2002-07-11 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 15 VTMBH Article: Article Order 3 VTMBH Article: Title Latino immigrants in New York hold "Viacrucis" memorial vigil VTMBH Article: Author VTMBH Article: Publication El Sol De Mexico VTMBH Article: Original Language Spanish VTMBH Article: Translator Erica Pearson VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb The Way of the Cross (Viacrucis) began in front of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) building, the cross symbolizing policys that oppresses immigrant workers and cause so much of their suffering. VTMBH Article: Keywords undocumented, immigrants, Asociación Tepeyac VTMBH Article: Body More than 350 undocumented immigrants and hundreds of children gathered for a Way of the Cross vigil (Viacrucis) in memory of undocumented immigrants who died in the struggle to survive with greater dignity, far away from their home and families. The Viacrucis began in front of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) building, the cross symbolizing policys that oppresses immigrant workers and cause so much of their suffering. They asked God to enlighten those in power in the United States and in their respective countries, to establish international exchange agreements and laws that consider immigrants lives, values, and culture instead of mere economic interests. They asked God to help U.S. lawmakers reconsider their positions and reexamine immigration laws that leave immigrants without legal options, vulnerable to oppression and exploitation by those who take full advantage of their lack of legal status. They reaffirmed their fight for the right to human mobility, asserting that everyone has the right to work in the country that allows them to care for their families. They asked God to make them stronger as people and as organizations, so that they will not stumble in this fight. They asked to know how to join together, organize and educate themselves to move forward and attain what they hoped for when they left their home countries. They asked for better working conditions and better living conditions, to live with greater dignity and prepare for a better future for their children and their race, here and in their country of origin. And in light of the new Supreme Court decision to annul undocumented immigrants protections and labor rights, they hoped that unions appeal the ruling. We need to reinforce our struggle for permanent residence, it seems to be the only thing that assures we will be treated a little better, they said. We are filled with hope that the National Coalition for Dignity and Amnesty is meeting with U.S. senators and representatives to find one senator and one representative who will sponsor amnesty legislation. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) will no longer be promoting proposal HR 500 (the U.S. Employee, Family Unity, and Legalization Act) The coalition's proposal is called Freedom Act. This proposal suggests giving temporary three-year legal status to four types of immigrants: those who are already in the United States, the family members of those already in the United States, those who have already filed papers and are waiting for the INS to process them, and those who want to work in the United States have an employer willing to send a letter on their behalf. Those who qualify would go to the United States consulate to solicit their temporary residential visa, with the right to choose permanent residence after the visa expires. The government would give these immigrants a Social Security number and investigate to ensure that they are working and paying their taxes. The immigrants, including who were requested by a specific employer, would be able to work for any employer. As soon as the person completes his or her third year, he or she can begin the process of requesting permanent residency. The Asociación Tepeyac reminded everyone not to miss the demonstration for amnesty in Washington, D.C. on May 1. They suggested those who remain in New York, participate in the May 1 march that will go from the INS building to Battery Park. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-04-10 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File v15n3.doc VTMBH Article: Hit Count 73 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 Latino immigrants in New York hold "Viacrucis" memorial vigil 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 46 VTMBH Article: Article Order 4 VTMBH Article: Title Russian seniors cry foul: residents complain of language barrier at subsidized housing project billed as immigrant friendly VTMBH Article: Author Adam Dickter VTMBH Article: Publication Jewish Week VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb Since the layoff of a Russian-speaking employee, residents of a Brooklyn housing project say they have been left in the dark. Many are elderly tenants, who speak only Russian, and face increased difficulty seeking repairs, reading safety instructions and dealing with building management. Claiming that the language barrier does not allow residents to access services, a public interest lawyer has filed a suit on behalf of 16 tenants. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Inside the front door of Viktor Bashs apartment at the Arlene and David Schlang Pavilion in Brownsville, Brooklyn, are two pages of detailed safety instructions to be used in the event of an emergency. In the fifth-floor hall hangs a notice that a Dec. 4 tenants meeting has been canceled. The federally subsidized housing projects management recently distributed detailed instructions about the citys new recycling laws. But those notices are virtually meaningless to Bash and his wife, Dina, because the elderly couple born in Odessa, Ukraine speak almost no English. Theirs is one of 23 units at the complex, run by Brookdale Hospital, that are rented to Russian-speaking immigrants. Thats more than half the independent-living units at the 5-year-old complex with immaculate hallways and modern, generous-sized apartments, where monthly rent can be as low as $120, depending on income. In all, there are 34 Russian-speaking tenants and one Russian-born patient in the assisted-living program at the pavilion on Rockaway Parkway. Since the layoff of a Russian-speaking employee earlier this year, however, those residents say they face increased difficulty dealing with the building management, seeking repairs, providing necessary information about their income, participating in tenants meetings and in other daily situations. Last week there was no hot water in the bathroom, said Bash through a translator provided by The Jewish Week. I complained, but it was off for three days because they didnt understand or didnt care. Claiming the language barrier amounts to unequal access to services and programs for the residents, a public interest lawyer has filed complaints on behalf of 16 tenants with the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Office of Civil Rights at the federal Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Justice. The lawyer, Rose Cuison-Villazor, is also preparing for a lawsuit against the hospital, if necessary. City and state laws hold that if a person of limited English proficiency does not have access to services provided at a place of public accommodation, it constitutes national-origin discrimination, said Cuison-Villazor of New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, a nonprofit group. Every tenant has a right to attend meetings of the Tenants Association. But for the last six months these tenants have stopped going because of the language barrier. Calls to numerous officials at Brookdale Hospital were not returned as of Tuesday. Cuison-Villazor said the only reply to her inquiries was a message from the hospitals legal affairs office stating that a response to her complaint had been sent to the states Division of Human Rights, which investigates complaints on behalf of HUD. The complaint was filed on behalf of Ida Vapne, 90, the only Russian-speaking patient in the Schlang Pavilions assisted living program. Vapnes son, Genrikh, said he has already received word that the division recommended no action be taken in the matter. Vapne, a native of St. Petersburg, said he has contacted numerous Jewish organizations that deal with émigrés but none has taken an interest. The pavilion currently has several security guards who speak Russian and an occasional volunteer translator. But residents say thats not enough because no one is available full-time to deal with health emergencies and act as a permanent liaison. One resident, Yakov Sokolov, said he moved from an apartment in Midwood to the pavilion because of an ad in a Russian paper that said a full-time translator would be available and that a large number of Russian-speaking residents lived there. Bash said he was led to believe during the application process that 50 to 60 percent of the residents would be Russian-speaking Jews. But Sokolov, who has lived in the building since 1998, said he has seen the number of immigrants from the former Soviet Union dwindle in recent years as vacancies occur, and that he feels increasingly isolated from the Russian-speaking community. Had I known it would be like this, I would rather pay $700 or $800 to stay in a Russian neighborhood, he told a translator. The Bashes, who immigrated eight years ago, showed a visitor an official letter from the management they believe had been translated by a computer and made little sense to them. Another letter, not translated, informed them that they were under review for a rent increase and had to provide a list of documents before a deadline. If they did not meet the deadline, the rent would automatically increase. In a thick blue folder, Bash presented papers that were translated to him in detail during the application process. The Bashes, whose bookshelves were lined with medical dictionaries, grammar books and copies of Rogets Thesaurus, have taken a basic English course to qualify for citizenship, which they have attained. But the course focused on helping them pass the citizenship exam, not on basic colloquial dialogue. Vapne said he was told the Russian-speaking former employee, Ella Zaltsman, was fired for budgetary reasons. But he said Zaltsman, who performed other administrative tasks in addition to translating, was replaced by an employee who did the same administrative work but does not speak Russian. The Daily News on Sunday quoted hospital administrators as saying that Zaltsman was fired because she was functioning as a personal secretary to Vapnes mother. Genrikh Vapne called that a humiliating explanation. William Rapfogel, director of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, which manages some 1,100 units of subsidized housing at a dozen facilities, said his organization routinely provides regular on-site translation services for a high concentration of Russian-speaking residents. Rapfogel said, We make sure there is ample staff who understand Russian and can work to empower the tenants to play a role in our residences. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-12-13 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 103 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 Russian seniors cry foul: residents complain of language barrier at subsidized housing project bille 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 23 VTMBH Article: Article Order 1 VTMBH Article: Title American Muslims must communicate with other communities VTMBH Article: Author M. R. Farrukhi VTMBH Article: Publication Pakistan Post VTMBH Article: Original Language Urdu VTMBH Article: Translator Rehan Ansari VTMBH Article: Section edits VTMBH Article: Blurb Jewish and Christian leaders have agreed to attend an upcoming Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) convention, as has FBI Director Robert Mueller. These are good signs because American Muslims, in these challenging times, must reach out to government officials as well as other American communities. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body We dont know how much the world has changed since September 11th, but that change is upon us is indisputable in our everyday lives. Every official, from the President to the employees of every federal and state agency, is working in the post September 11th context. It is their duty to protect American life and property, and we should support them in every way. But these duties must not infringe on the rights of American minorities. Unfortunately, that is what is happening. Muslims in America face unprecedented discrimination and suspicion. People have come here from many Muslim countries to earn an honest living. Pakistanis, for example, do not figure into any crime statistics, nor were any of those responsible for the September 11th attacks Pakistani. But since September 11th, Pakistanis account for 75 percent of those detained. Most Pakistanis came to the United States after 1985. Since then, we have been accustomed to moving about freely in this country. People found all kinds of work, legally or illegally. For us, there was no other country in the world that gave us freedom to come and go and work. A few people took advantage of the openness in this society and wreaked havoc. Now the entire country is hardening its attitude. The mainstream media has been presenting harsh images of Muslims. That Muslims rights are evaporating in this country is confirmed in report from Amnesty International. Many organizations are protesting. American Muslim organizations are meeting with officials and presenting the case that Muslims in America are peace-loving; however these organizations resources are meager. I often argue in this column that our voices need not go unheard by officials. A Congressman attending a meeting organized by the American Muslim Council said that we should use email, phone and fax to reach out to the White House, the Senate, and the Congress. He said that if American Muslims think these methods dont work, then they are wrong. He said that Jewish organizations are adept at these methods and Muslims must learn from them. The history of Muslim communities is not as long as that of Jewish communities in America. Muslims are also not well-represented in the media and in the government. That does not mean we do nothing. Times are tough. Everyday we hear of new terrorism warnings in the media, new restrictions on immigration, but we must not despair. Muslim organizations are coordinating their efforts as never before, and in all recent conferences they are working to present a positive image of Muslims for Americans. Members of the American Muslim Council have met with President Bush and Attorney General John Ashcroft, among others. At the end of June, AMC is organizing a three day conference in D.C and has invited Senators and members of Congress. The FBI does not seem friendly to Muslims after September 11th (to say the least!) so it is heartening that FBI Director Robert Mueller III, will attend. In the first week of July, ICNA has organized a conference called, The Role of Muslims in America. Prominent Jewish and Christian leaders have been invited. This is a very good thing. 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Jewish and Christian leaders have agreed to attend an upcoming Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA 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. 2002-06-19 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 2 VTMBH Article: Article Order 2 VTMBH Article: Title Hate Crime Suspect Asks for Forgiveness at Mosque 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 The suspect said that he would accept the punishment, whatever it was. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body A man accused of committing a hate crime returned to the neighborhood where the incident took place to apologize. What I have done is unpardonable, Raf Gibler told the members of the Ditmars mosque in Astoria. I have committed a grave mistake. In early October, Gibler came to the Shahjalal mosque while drunk and shouted racial epithets at the devotees. Then he kicked the door of the mosque. Police arrested him, but he was released on bail. The leaders of the mosques committee said they had pardoned him on behalf of the community, but the rest will be decided by the courts. Gibler said that he would accept the punishment, whatever it was. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2001-11-30 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. 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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. 2001-11-30 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 26 VTMBH Article: Article Order 2 VTMBH Article: Title NAACP vital amidst terror war VTMBH Article: Author Charles Brooks VTMBH Article: Publication Amsterdam News VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section edits VTMBH Article: Blurb While the Bush administration is engaged in its global war against terrorism and implementing measures that threaten civil liberties, the NAACP is holding its 93rd annual convention this week, where the theme this year is Freedom under Fire. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body While the Bush administration is engaged in its global war against terrorism and implementing measures that threaten civil liberties, the NAACP is holding its 93rd annual convention this week, where the theme this year is Freedom under Fire. Julian Bond, NAACP chairman, said that freedom is shrinking as fear expands. With the events of September 11th, we realize we have not yet achieved either victorynot yet against tyranny abroad, not yet against racism here at home. Just as this enemyterrorismis more difficult to identify and punish, so is discrimination a more elusive target today. And just as we know a lot about discrimination, we know a lot about terrorism, too, Bond said. Kweisi Mfume, NAACP president and CEO, said, This years convention theme, Freedom Under Fire, reaffirms the fact that our work continues, even in the aftermath of the tragic events surrounding September 11th. During this convention, we will work to increase public awareness of the need for election reform, and many other issues, to ensure that the right to freedom and justice is enjoyed by every citizen. During the convention, the NAACP addressed several issues, including affirmative action, electoral reform and voter registration, as well as business opportunities for Blacks and other minorities in the hotel industry. Mfume and Bond also issued sharp criticism of President George W. Bush and his administration. Even though Bush addressed the NAACP convention during his run for the White House in 2000, he has declined invitations from the group since attaining the tainted presidency. Mfume said that he doesnt like Bushs presidential practice of divide and conquer when it comes to Black organizations and Black people. You cant be the president of all people when you only want to deal with some of the people, Mfume said. Bond declared, We have a president who owes his election more to a dynasty than to democracy. When he spoke to our convention in Baltimore in 2000, he promised to enforce the civil rights laws. We knew he was in the oil businesswe just didnt know it was snake oil. We have an attorney general who is a cross between J. Edgar Hoover and Jerry Falwell. And, too often, one political party is shameless and the other spineless. Bond pointed out that theres a right-wing conspiracy operating out of the U.S. Department of Justice, the Office of White House Counsel, and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He went on to cite the Bush administrations failure to uphold voting rights as only one example of broken promises. It is part of Attorney General Ashcrofts failure to uphold his sworn duty to enforce the civil rights laws. We know he is offended by naked justice. Bond told the audience that the NAACP must continue to monitor judicial nominees and work to defeat those nominees who are unacceptable. But with less than four months left before the 2002 elections, which will feature critical congressional and state-level races, Bond says that the NAACP has to address felony disenfranchisement while working to ensure massive voter turnout. One hundred thirty-one thousand Black men in Texas alone cannot vote because of felony convictions21 percent of the Black male population in this state. And weve got to ensure a massive voter turnout of minority voters in this years electionsour future is on the ballot in every state. If we dont vote, we lose, and our children and grandchildren will lose, too, Bond said. The NAACP called on the Congress to adopt election-reform legislation because the lack of a federal election-reform bill is apparently stalling election reform at the state level. The civil rights group says that its especially important to move quickly on this issue because of the planning time required for voter education and registration. According to a report released by the NAACP, only five governors signed notable election-reform legislation, while several states began the process of replacing punchcard machines, no state explicitly prioritized the replacement of the oldest machines in their states; and the nations governors remain silent about felony disenfranchisement. The report also points out that more than 5 million Americans who have completed their punishment remain disenfranchised. Dr. Ronald Walters, who served on a voter-empowerment panel, told AmNews that its important for the local NAACP branches to organize on a local level to ensure electoral fairness. There is a real need to organize the local communities and train people in order to address significant electoral issues so that what happened in Florida doesnt happen again, Walters said. He said that while on the panel, he addressed the need to get young people more involved in the political process. There must be a targeting strategy that gets young peoplethe hip-hop generationinvolved, but more importantly, to address the lack of civic education, because our young people today dont know how political participation can address their issues and concerns, Walters explained. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-07-16 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 64 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 NAACP vital amidst terror war 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 20 VTMBH Article: Article Order 2 VTMBH Article: Title The Synagogue's stake in the Church's scandal VTMBH Article: Author Moshe Waldoks VTMBH Article: Publication Forward VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section edits VTMBH Article: Blurb We in the Jewish community should not make the easy mistake of believing that the church's scandal is merely a <i>shande</i> of the <i>goyim</i>, for we are not immune to the aftershocks. Outside of the clergy, the scandal in the church has brought all of our joint Jewish-Catholic projects to a halt. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body In 1999 I led a Jewish-Catholic pilgrimage to Israel and Rome with Cardinal Bernard Law. His sincere efforts in leading his flock to a deep and enhanced relationship with Jews and Judaism was, and still is, a model for interfaith work. Law's Boston diocese is now at the epicenter of the sex abuse earthquake that has shaken the Catholic church. Calls for his resignation abound and he was even summoned by the pope in April to Rome. We in the Jewish community should not make the easy mistake of believing that the church's scandal is merely a <i>shande</i> of the <i>goyim</i>, for we are not immune to the aftershocks. To begin with, there is an understandable ripple effect when any part of the clergy is held up to negative evaluation. During the past few months, the scrutiny of the behavior of both parish priests and their superiors has shown a dark side to inner church politics and discipline that reflects negatively on all clerical groups. To compound matters, the scandal reinforces the biases of those who are already skeptical about religion and its practitioners. Because of my personal relationships with the church hierarchy in Boston, I initially reacted to the disclosures of misdoing by suggesting the need for empathy for Law. After all, when it came to Jewish issues as well as other issues such as racism and poverty the Cardinal has steered his diocese in positive directions. Now, of course, it is more difficult to empathize as the details of gross indifference come out again and again. The damage to the fabric of the Catholic laity and its relationship to clergy has reached such a point of anger that it is difficult to see how the road to repair will be possible under Law's leadership. Outside of the clergy, the scandal in the church has brought all of our joint Jewish-Catholic projects to a halt. There simply seems to be no time or interest now for a number of interfaith projects in our area, including efforts spearheaded by the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish Community Relations Council, the Synagogue Council of Massachusetts, the American Jewish Committee and the Bureau of Jewish Education. It will take considerable time before we will be able to recharge the necessary flow of energy that has fed Jewish-Catholic relations in Boston for almost three decades. As new and old instances of abuse are disclosed and brought to court, the scandal may cast a moral pall that will hang over the church through at least the end of this decade. Are there lessons for the Jewish community to learn from these events? Can we extrapolate the failures of the church hierarchy into our community? Do we tolerate sexual abusers in the rabbinate? Do we tolerate domestic abusers in our congregation if they are "respected" heads of household? Do we provide a transparency of our inner disciplinary processes when knowledge of these abuses becomes known? The rabbinate's policy of zero tolerance in cases of sexual harassment shows that there is more and more sensitivity to the possibility that rabbis are not immune from becoming predators. The policy also reveals the awareness that rabbis and other authority figures can be the object of transference by congregants. The rabbinic canon law prohibition against being alone in a room behind closed doors with a woman other than one's wife (or a man who is not one's husband) is being observed punctiliously in many rabbinic circles far from the precincts of Orthodoxy. It's simply dangerous to do otherwise. Even the intimation of harassment can result in a career destroyed. Despite the precautions, we must at all costs avoid witch-hunts that will view all clergy as potential sexual predators. We must aim for a spiritual transparency that permits rabbis to explore the subject of sexuality in our lives. We must also correct the facile association of homosexuality and pedophilia. We must educate our children to the realities of sexual responsibility. Vigilance may prevent the amount of casual sexual abuse suffered by teens at the hands of their peers and the date rape phenomenon that accompanies some excesses of college life. Let there be no doubt, this is not a call to Puritanism and prudery. On the contrary, this is a call to remove the veil of secrecy that surrounds sexual life and show the beauty that Judaism confers on mutual sexual relationships. The current scandal in the church demands of us a renewed awareness of ourselves as sexual beings. It begs us to examine our own tolerance of other forms of abuse, even if they are within a married or committed relationship. Finally, it asks of all of us to make a commitment to educate our student rabbis, of all denominations, in order for them to understand issues of power and authority vis-à-vis those who come under their tutelage. Without any unwarranted pride, we can point to our Torah and its values as a solid foundation on which to build our ethical lives. <i>Rabbi Moshe Waldoks is the spiritual leader of Temple Beth Zion, an independent Jewish congregation in Brookline, Mass.</i> VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-05-10 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File v20_e2.pdf VTMBH Article: Hit Count 133 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 Synagogue's stake in the Church's scandal 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 16 VTMBH Article: Article Order 2 VTMBH Article: Title Powerful political forces VTMBH Article: Author VTMBH Article: Publication The Jewish Forward VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section J1 VTMBH Article: Blurb VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Last weeks Washington rally for Israel, bringing together some 100,000 demonstrators from across the nation on less than a week's notice, bore powerful testimony to the deep emotional bond that links ordinary Americans to the Jewish state. For making that possible, the organizers deserve a hearty round of thanks and a word or two of caution. For more than a year and a half, those of us who consider ourselves friends of Israel have watched with growing anguish as the Jewish state has endured the agonies of terrorism, mounting international isolation, the threat of regional war and, not least, the loss of hope for a better, more peaceful future. For most, these months have been a time of fear and anger, mixed with a frustrating sense of helplessness. But for one afternoon this week, thousands were able to come together and make themselves heard, and millions more stood a bit taller because of it. The rallys organizers, from the local schools and synagogues that chartered buses to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, which coordinated the effort, have earned our gratitude. The rally was more than just an outpouring of emotion. It was also a show of force, serving to remind Washington decision makers of the considerable political muscle packed by what is commonly known as the pro-Israel community. Its a point that needs to be raised right now. Israel's political star is widely assumed to be on the wane in this country, owing to the rise of interfaith marriage and the attending decline in Jewish ethnic and religious bonds. Given Israel's embattled stance on the world stage, the loss of a secure constituency in the United States, its one secure ally, could have catastrophic consequences in the long and not-so-long run. As this week's rally demonstrated, the reports of our demise are, at the very least, premature. A movement that manages on five days' notice to turn out 100,000 peopleon a workday in mid-Aprilis a movement with a vast support base. Pro-Israel passion, it turns out, is not limited to a dwindling core of the most devout Jews. It encompasses millions of secular, liberal and once-a-year Jews who still feel the pull of Jewish destiny, still pass that feeling on to their children and even, as mounting evidence suggests, share it with their in-laws. It includes millions of evangelical and fundamentalist Christians who believe, no less than Jews, in the sanctity of Jewish statehood. All told, the ranks of the pro-Israel communitythose who feel in their bones for the safety of Israelnumber in the tens of millions. That is indeed, as another President Bush once said, a powerful political force. It is not a monolithic force, however. Those who made the trek to Washington this week included both supporters and opponents of continued Israeli presence in the territories. There were those who favor the administration's efforts to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and those who oppose it. The opponents managed to make the most noise, heckling President Bush's personal representative at the rally and harassing fellow demonstrators who carried signs that seemed too dovish. But they were not the majority at the rally, nor are they the majority in the pro-Israel community nationwide. Their noisy intolerance should not divert attention away from the underlying unity expressed Monday in Washington. What unites friends of Israel is a deep sense of solidarity with the Jewish state and its people and a passionate concern for their safety. Unity is not the same thing as unanimity. It allows for a rich diversity of views. That diversity, we must be reminded over and over, is a source not of weakness but of strength. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-04-19 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 55 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 Powerful political forces 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 20 VTMBH Article: Article Order 1 VTMBH Article: Title "Have you found more money for education? is the question for politicians VTMBH Article: Author David Greaves VTMBH Article: Publication Our Time Press VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section edits VTMBH Article: Blurb Now that the education crisis among African-American youth deepens, it is useful to look at history and try to repeat the good parts. Though we have failing schools and young people with commercialized minds, parents know are making it plain to politicians across the city, that education is where the politicians must make their stand. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Now that the education crisis among African-American youth deepens, it is useful to look at history and try to repeat the good parts. The first great mass movement for public education at the expense of the state, in the South, came from Negroes, writes W.E.B. DuBois in Black Reconstruction. It was only the other part of the laboring class, the black folk, who connected knowledge with power; who believed that education was the stepping-stone to wealth and respect, and that wealth without education, was crippled….And it was this demand that was the effective force for the establishment of the public school in the South on a permanent basis, for all people and all classes. Dr. DuBois goes on to describe the building of schools, school systems and colleges, institutions that lifted the race up out of slavery and through Reconstruction. These were institutions created and run by African-Americans. These were people who counted few blessings, but one of the things these newly freed Africans had on their side was relative solitude. In an environment of land, crops, livestock and family, children could read at night, sometimes aloud to parents, and had only human distractions from lessons. Things are different today. The advertising industry in the United States is a $300 billion-dollar business. These billions of dollars spill all over our youth in a constant assault that is scientifically designed to attract their attention. They are joined by the billions spent on movies and videos, and music, the contents of which can be appalling. These campaigns are constant and created by very smart people using sound, color, light and texture, and sex whenever they can, to promote products and buying habits that last a lifetime. There is such a frenetic intensity to marketing today, it is a wonder that children have any mental time left at all to devote to quaint things such as reading, writing and arithmetic. So it is no surprise that in 2002, at a time when those struggling at the turn of the last century must have thought Africans would surely be scaling the heights of humanity, we have failing schools and young people with commercialized minds, redirected for corporate profit and political control. This is not news to the parents, it is an ongoing part of their everyday struggle and they are making it plain to politicians across the city, that this is where the politician is to make their stand. Assemblyman Roger Green, chair of the powerful Black, Puerto Rican and Hispanic Caucus, says they are unbending on this issue and hes right. Here is where they work with the governor, the speaker, the mayor and the rest of the legislature, so that first the children are cared for, then they can finish up on their budgets. And when the governor, senators or members of Congress appear at events and photo-ops, ask, Have you found more money for education? If the answer is no, ask What are you doing to get it? Make it uncomfortable for them. When they come by the church on Sunday morning, ask them, Have you found the money? Things sure look bad for you if you don't find that money. Don't be embarrassed, God knows they have it. Tell them to find it in the prison budget, find it in the military budget, find it in making the tax code and enforcement fair, find it in ending corporate welfare, find it in foreign aid. And while they're looking, let's tell Mayor Bloomberg if he wants to be remembered as the education mayor, hed ask Adelaide Sanford to be chancellor for education, appoint a crackerjack administrator, give them the resources they need and get this show on the road. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-05-01 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File v20_e1.pdf VTMBH Article: Hit Count 129 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 "Have you found more money for education? is the question for politicians 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. Now that the education crisis among African-American youth deepens, it is useful to look at history 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. 2002-05-01 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 14 VTMBH Article: Article Order 3 VTMBH Article: Title WTC survivor struggles to regain life lived before September 11th VTMBH Article: Author Jordan Moss VTMBH Article: Publication Norwood News VTMBH Article: Original Language VTMBH Article: Translator English VTMBH Article: Section briefs VTMBH Article: Blurb VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body After a late evening of working a banquet at Windows on the World, where he had been a waiter for several years, Norwood resident Mohammed Shamim was headed back to work early the next morning to serve at another event. He got as far as the elevator banks in Tower 1 of the World Trade Centerand then came the loud crash that sent everyone in the lobby racing out of the building. Shamim, a native of Bangladesh who arrived in the Bronx in 1978, was one of the lucky ones. Seventy-three Windows on the World workers died that morning, including two very close friends, and Shamim would have been among them had he arrived only minutes earlier. Still, Shamim doesn't feel so lucky these days. Six months after the horrific attack, he is still out of a job, and his hopes of saving for a house and buying new furniture for the apartment on Hull Avenue he shares with his wife, Laila, and two children, Ibtehaj and Tahsin, are all gone. "I thought I was going to buy a house," said Shamim, who often earned $1,500 a week as a waiter. "I was happy." Shamim has been collecting unemployment. Restaurant jobs are difficult, if not impossible, to find. Even those of his neighbors who worked in restaurants that weren't obliterated by the attack are working only part time, maybe two or three days a week. Things are made even more difficult by his glaucoma, which requires that he work in a low-light environment. Shamim is grateful to his union, Local 100 of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees (HERE), for setting up a fund that extends his family's health insurance through at least June. But he is sharply critical of the way the large charitable funds, set up in the wake of September 11th, are being administered. There is help now only for the relatives of those who perished, not for the families of those who survived but are struggling without work. "I should die so my family would be taken care of," Shamim says. "I'm alive, so they can't do anything. That's what I feel like right now." Meanwhile, Shamim tries to get his family back on track financially, taking computer classes one day a week in Manhattanhe would go more often if there were more classesand trying to find English classes for his wife, so that she can perhaps find a job herself. "If I have to change my career I'm going to do it, but I need training right now," said Shamim, who once worked at Merrill Lynch on mainframe computers. Before September 11th, Shamim had great hopes for his family. Now he lives day to day. "It's very hard to survive," Shamim said. "The work we do is very hard to find in New York right now. I'm very unsure about the future." VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-04-10 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File v14b3.doc VTMBH Article: Hit Count 98 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 WTC survivor struggles to regain life lived before September 11th 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. 2002-04-10 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 42 VTMBH Article: Article Order 5 VTMBH Article: Title Different than 11 years ago: how Israelis are preparing for war VTMBH Article: Author Patrick Goldfein VTMBH Article: Publication Aufbau VTMBH Article: Original Language German VTMBH Article: Translator Kirstin Hallmann VTMBH Article: Section war1 VTMBH Article: Blurb VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body It smells of rubber in the mortuary. Brown boxes are piled up to the ceiling and the smell of the gasmasks comes through the packaging. The army has built this site at a former cemetery north of Tel Aviv, which has been closed for years. It is here, next to a bus stop, that gasmasks are distributed to the citizens. Precaution for the next gulf war. Two hundred masks are picked up per day, filters changed, inhalation syringes renewed. At this moment, no one comes by. Only six bored reserve soldiers sit at their tables, read the newspaper and discuss the poisoning-operation of the Russian army in liberating a Moscow theatre last month. The debate is interrupted by Shalom. He is 73, fought in five wars and laughs as he enters the room. Just give me the thing, I wont use it anyway, he shouts. Asked why he picks up a mask, he says, I just do this here for my wife. I am not afraid of the Iraqis. I trust our army. The others who stop by this afternoon try to show external composure, as well. Everyone has an excuse for why they pick up a protective mask. Most of them were just in the neighborhood. Hardly anyone confesses their fear of a chemical or biological missile attack. This is a typical Israeli reaction, says Lior, one of the soldiers who has performed his reserve service here for two weeks. One has to convince oneself that nothing will happen. If you are afraid, you are already dead. But as soon as the first Scud missile falls on us like in 1991, all hell will be break loose, he said. At a first glance, the signs seem to resemble that of the situation 11 years ago. Another American attack on Iraq is approaching. And Israel could again become a target of the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. As in 1991, the Likud Party is in power and the Intifada rages in the occupied areas. But different from erstwhile former president Yitzhak Shamir, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon leaves no doubt that Israel will fight back if Iraq attacks this time. His remark, Israel will, in the case of a conventional attack without damages to persons or properties, not fight back, is an implicit warning. Sharon can authorize this because the strategic starting point is more favorable for Israel this time around. In 1991, Shamir had to defer to American pressure. The Israeli army did not have an adequate defense system against Scud missiles and had to ask the Americans for Patriot missiles. Because intelligence information about western Iraq, where the Scud missiles were fired, was missing as well, Shamir had no choice but to hold fire during the first hostile air attack in Israels history. The Americans did not allow an Israeli retaliation to threaten the Arab coalitionSaudi Arabia, Syria, Egyptagainst Iraq. Israel, however, seems to have learned from its old mistakes. Their answer today is: Arrow. That is the name of the $2.2 billion missile defense system, which promises, according to army personnel, a 90 percent precision rate. American satellites record, within a few seconds, every missile fired from Iraq fired missile, and transmits a signal to the arrow base. It then fires an arrow missile, which locates the Scud missile with an electronic eye, and destroys it at an altitude of 10 kilometers above the Jordanian air space. There would even be time to fire a second arrow missile in case of emergency. Israeli losses are theoretically almost impossible in the case of a new gulf war. This is also the reason for the widespread support of the American plan to attack Iraq among the Israeli population. Hussein is a main enemy of Israel and if the Americans want to eliminate him, it would be beneficial for Israel. Especially because the destruction of the Iraqi nuclear weapons program is in harmony with the Begin-Doctrine, which says that Israel should remain the only nation in the region with nuclear power. One hopes as well for a positive signal for the end of the Antiradar after a fall of Saddam. Iraq has rewarded each family of a suicide attacker with U.S.$25,000. But there are also skeptical voices in Israel, independently of political parties. If Saddam defends his country against the Americans and attacks Israel, then the Hezbollah fighters in South Lebanon could be encouraged to attack the north of Israel with Katyusha missiles. Together with the Palestinian suicide attacks, there could be a threatening three-front scenario. Moreover right-wing hardliners fear that after the war in Iraq, the Middle East will be restructured to include the foundation of a Palestinian state. Left-wing Meretz leader Yossi Sarid warns in contrast of the failure of an American attack, which would diminish Americas power and make Israel more vulnerable. Meanwhile, writer Amos Oz suggests a long term alternative: He would pump the billions of dollars that the war would cost to Iraq and Israels neighbor, Jordan: When the Iraqis look out their window, and see a flourishing Jordanian economy, they will burst with envy and oust Saddam on their own. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-10-31 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 73 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 1 VTMBH Article: Title Koreans demonstrate against Con Edison moving to Midtown: Korea Town will disappear if Con Edison comes VTMBH Article: Author JooChan Kim VTMBH Article: Publication Korea Times New York VTMBH Article: Original Language Korean VTMBH Article: Translator Jeongwoo Han VTMBH Article: Section briefs VTMBH Article: Blurb VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body On Oct. 30, about 200 people, including Koreans and neighboring residents and business owners, demonstrated against a proposed move of Con Edisons transformer station to Korea Town in midtown Manhattan. This demonstration, presided over by the Herald Square South Civic Association and several Korean associations, lasted an hour and a half in front of the Empire State Building. Korean small businessmen who have shops in Korea Town were joined by neighboring businessmen, and demonstrators from the Korean Association of New York, New York Society of Korean Businessmen, The Korean American Association of NYC, Nara Bank, and Liberty Bank. All demonstrators unanimously opposed the plan, many holding picket signs written in Korean. Demonstrators marched from the Empire State Building down 32nd Street to the proposed site of the new Con Edison transformer station, a 31st Street parking lot. There, protestors distributed tickets printed with statements against the move. Even in the cold weather, demonstrators chanted loudly, distributed information and collected petition signatures from passers-by. Jae-Kun Jung, executive coordinator of the New York Society of Korean Businessmen contends that, if [Con Ed moves the transformer] to this place, traffic jams will become worse and real estate prices will go down, and the economic atmosphere in this area will deteriorate, which will result in a big shock within Korean businesses in Korea Town. Henry Justin, chairman of the civic association, strongly urged Con Edison to move the transformer to different place. Justin warned, If the Con Edison transformer is built near such large commercial buildings as the Empire State Building, Macys Department Store, and Penn Station, it could be the target of terrorist attacks. Some politicians, including New York State Rep. Richard Gottfried and State Senator Liz Kreuger, participated. Mainstream media outlets such as the New York Times, the Daily News, NY1, and WNBC also reported on the demonstration. 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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 31 VTMBH Article: Article Order 5 VTMBH Article: Title In surprise raids, INS arrests over 100 undocumented Korean immigrants VTMBH Article: Author Jonghoon Kim VTMBH Article: Publication Korea Daily News VTMBH Article: Original Language Korean VTMBH Article: Translator Bo Kwon VTMBH Article: Section briefs VTMBH Article: Blurb VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Over the last two weeks, the Immigration and Naturalization Service arrested more than 100 illegal Korean immigrants in New York and New Jersey. According to Korean immigration lawyers, INS investigators in New York and New Jersey began raiding Korean residences and businesses in late July, arresting those who are undocumented or possess illegally issued Social Security cards. INS investigated a Bergen County, N.J. couples green card application last week; the police and five INS investigators unexpectedly paid a visit early one morning. After questioning the couple, they arrested the husband and informed the wife that she would be called in for further questioning in two weeks. On Aug. 2, around 6:00 a.m., INS investigators raided yet another Korean residence and arrested one couple, leaving their two children in the hands of the grandmother. In a nail salon in uptown Manhattan, INS investigators checked the identities of the employer and the 10 employees and arrested two undocumented Korean immigrants. The Social Security Administration recently notified the nail salon that some of the employees Social Security numbers were false. Another nail salon in the Bronx is in a similar situation. Furthermore, the INS is investigating undocumented immigrants who acquired Social Security numbers by paying $1,000 to driving schools. The INS is holding most of the recently arrested Korean immigrants in INS detention centers located in Middlesex and Hudson Counties in New Jersey. We cannot inform you of the exact number of Korean immigrants who are detained, but they are only a minority compared to the number of all arrested, said the INS on Aug. 9, in a reference to the large-scale raids taking place in New York and New Jersey. Dong-kyu Park, an immigration lawyer, said that he received more than 10 cases of INS arrests in the past week, and that the illegal green card application scandal in Virginia involving a lawyer named Samuel Kruzky may have something to do with it. Park predicted that, Since there are hundreds of Koreans across the United States who applied for green cards through Kruzky, the number of Koreans arrested will continue to increase. Soo-eun Nam, another immigration lawyer, commented, A group of Korean immigrants who illegally attained visas in Korea through immigration brokers has recently been discovered. The surprise raids are directed at eliminating such methods of acquiring visas. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-08-12 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 138 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 In surprise raids, INS arrests over 100 undocumented Korean immigrants 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 17 VTMBH Article: Article Order 3 VTMBH Article: Title Washington Heights bids farewell to local musician killed by NJ police VTMBH Article: Author Jose Acosta VTMBH Article: Publication El Diario / La Prensa VTMBH Article: Original Language Spanish VTMBH Article: Translator Erica Pearson VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb Upper Manhattan's Dominican community gave homage yesterday to Santiago "Chago" Villanueva, 35, who died last week after being handcuffed by four Bloomfield police officers while he suffered an epileptic seizure. Community activists demand that NJ authorities investigate his death. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body With prayers, songs, voices of protest and musica de palo, Upper Manhattan's Dominican community gave homage yesterday to Santiago "Chago" Villanueva, 35, who died last week after being handcuffed by four Bloomfield police officers while he suffered an epileptic seizure. Community leader Ydannis Rodriguez demanded that the New Jersey authorities immediately deliver Villanueva's body, along with the investigation results. This Thursday, at 5:30 in the afternoon, we are going to return to Bloomfield to continue protesting, so that justice will be done. We are asking that they immediately suspend the four police officers until the investigations are finished. We urge leaders, politicians and community members to unite in this fight against police brutality, Rodriguez said. According to community activist Nina Paulino, Villanueva was working at the clothing factory Quick Cut, making $7.50 an hour to support his children Esmaily, 9, and Jeudi, 13, who live in the Dominican Republic. It was there that he had an epileptic attack and his supervisor called an ambulance, said Paulino. Four police officers arrived instead of the emergency team. Even though they were told that Villanueva was sick, the officers began to abuse him physically and verbally, thinking that the Dominican musician had taken drugs. After handcuffing him and pushing on his chest until his breathing stopped, the officers gave him artificial respiration. Now the Bloomfield police are calling this heroic. The activist also revealed that Villanueva died of mechanical asphyxia. She asked his family members not to take his body until the authorities report on the cause of his death. Chago did not die of epilepsy, he died of asphyxiation. Heroes save lives, they don't take lives. We are not going to allow this to continue happening. We need to unite so that these actions against minorities don't repeat themselves, said Paulino. Afro-Caribbean musical groups Palo Mayor, 21 Divisiones and Palo Monte gave rhythm to the cries of protest that called for justice for Villanueva. The Dominican father died just three weeks after gaining his green card, which he needed in order to accomplish one of his dreams: to return to his homeland and be reunited with his children. [Green cards are necessary for non-citizens to re-enter the country.] I will go to the most beautiful land, to drink the water that gives life, sang those gathered in prayer, while Villanueva smiled down from an altar set up on the sidewalk, as though he were grateful to see the Quisqueyano peoples outpouring of solidarity. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-04-29 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 158 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 Washington Heights bids farewell to local musician killed by NJ police 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. Upper Manhattan's Dominican community gave homage yesterday to Santiago "Chago" Villanueva, 35, who 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. 2002-04-29 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 28 VTMBH Article: Article Order 4 VTMBH Article: Title No more layoffs, Bloomberg: Public employees protest in on the steps of City Hall because the mayors threat that thousands co VTMBH Article: Author Marimer Navarrette VTMBH Article: Publication Hoy VTMBH Article: Original Language Spanish VTMBH Article: Translator Telesh Lopez VTMBH Article: Section briefs VTMBH Article: Blurb VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body The possibility of thousands of public employees losing their jobs provoked a protest yesterday in front of New Yorks City Hall. The protesters expressed their feelings toward the mayor through posters. I pay my part. Mike Bloomberg, keep the budget just, said one. Another demanded, Impose taxes on the rich and dont take our jobs away. The budget was approved with $1.7 million in cuts and now he wants to make more cuts. Mayor Mike, you have made enough cuts! said Sophie McCarthy, co-director of the Working Families Party which organized the protest. This protest happened days after the NYC Office of Management and Budget sent a letter to all the local commission agencies asking them to implement an additional cut of 7.5 percent to their budget. Bloomberg reverts to old tactics from the 70s of drastic cuts and massive layoffs. We cannot go back to old days when citizens where given poor service. We cannot risk repeating the mistakes of the past. No more layoffs! said Mark Rosenthal, president of Local 983, AFSCME DC 37, a union that represents thousands of city workers. For Dominican Yoralis Vidal, of the organization Making the Road by Walking, the reduction of city workers generates fewer services for immigrants. With these cuts, vital services like English as a second language (ESL), translation services in hospitals and welfare offices would be reduced, and we would be very affected, said Vidal, a Brooklyn activist. The protest relied on the support of Council Members Robert Jackson, Bill de Blasio, David Weprin, Bill Perkins, Gail Brewer, and Christine Quinn, and Assemblyman Dick Gafrey. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-07-25 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 53 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 No more layoffs, Bloomberg: Public employees protest in on the steps of City Hall because the mayors 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 36 VTMBH Article: Article Order 3 VTMBH Article: Title Chasm in cyberspace widens: Black entrepreneurs continue to fall behind technology curve VTMBH Article: Author Herb Boyd VTMBH Article: Publication Network Journal VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb Why are black businesses missing from the Internet? The reason is lack of awareness, said Don Rojas, CEO and founder of The Black World Today. Others discussed the difficulties of recouping ad losses, the economic slump, and strategies for gaining access to computers and e-commerce strategies at the Blacks in Technology summit. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Steve Ballmer knows how to get an audiences attention. When Ballmer, CEO and president of Microsoft Corp., said that less than two percent of African-American entrepreneurs possessed an e-commerce strategy, a loud murmur rippled across the vast auditorium at New Yorks Jacob Javits Convention Center. With small business a key driver of American economic growth…ethnic small businesses must understand and embrace the new technology that can help them succeed in the digital decade ahead, he said. Ballmers message was not lost on those attending his keynote address at the two-day Blacks in Technology summit (www.blacksintechnology.com) at the Javits Center. He warned that too many black business people were falling behind the technology curve, thus widening the so-called digital divide in computer literacy and Internet access between whites and ethnic minorities. In an interview with The Network Journal after his address, Ballmer said Microsoft was working to improve the e-commerce capabilities of minority firms and the access African-Americans have to computers. Overall, we have dispensed some $30 million to minority banks across the nation, and the $9 million I mentioned during my speech is in addition to this sum, he explained. We must overcome the digital divide in which only 56 percent of African-Americans work on personal computers, compared to 70 percent for white Americans, he said. And our industry is not doing a good job of reaching people. Ballmers points were accented by a colleague at a workshop at the Blacks in Technology event. By 2004, all government procurement will occur online, noted Martin Taylor, director of business strategy at Microsoft. So its a matter of priorities, and if they dont get online, opportunities will be lost. According to several black technology experts, these online opportunities will provide an unprecedented amount of potential online sales revenue which is expected to spike at about $60 billion over the next couple of years. Why are black businesses missing from the Internet? The reason is lack of awareness, said Don Rojas, CEO and founder of The Black World Today (www.tbwt.com), an online news and information center. But the critical issue may be they are not convinced that money can be made on the Internet. They hear all the horror stories about the failure of dot-com companieseven the major onesand this news is obviously very discouraging, he said. Rojas, whose company has been on the Internet since 1996, spoke at length about the troubles a small, independent business faces trying to survive in cyberspace. And this situation, particularly in the realm of available advertising for minority-owned firms, has taken even a deeper turn for the worst since September 11th, he continued. Despite the gloomy picture, there are still more black businesses building websites and experimenting with this electronic medium, he said. Increasing awareness of the Internet and its fiscal possibilities were some of the goals of the Blacks in Technology summit, which also made stops in Los Angeles, Atlanta and Chicago. These urban areas were targeted by Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard Co. and other sponsors, who enlisted talk show host Tavis Smiley and his foundation to help spread the word. We cant be road kill on the information superhighway, Smiley asserted as he moderated a panel of leading African-American authorities on new technologies. He said that in order to close the increasing chasm between the haves and the have-nots, minority businesses cant afford to wait much longer to purchase the tools they need to get online. How does a business maintain itself once it has a presence on the Internet? Unless you have an inexhaustible amount of risk capital, promotional funds, with considerably endowed sponsors, running a business solely online will be difficult, said Victoria Jackson, an Internet consultant based in Detroit. Just getting the money owed to you by advertisers through electronic invoicing presents new problems, said Jackson. In short, it just takes you longer to get paid. During a recent forum sponsored by the National Association of Black Journalists, it was reported that less than half of black newspapers are online. And this figure may be a bit inflated. Id be surprised if a third of them have a presence online, Rojas observed. Part of the problem for new people on the Internet is fear of being lost in the shuffle or else they are bothered by what they feel is a complexity of technology. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-09-01 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 150 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 Chasm in cyberspace widens: Black entrepreneurs continue to fall behind technology curve 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. Why are black businesses missing from the Internet? The reason is lack of awareness, said Don Rojas, 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. 2002-09-01 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 46 VTMBH Article: Article Order 3 VTMBH Article: Title Television news ignores Latinos VTMBH Article: Author Lynn Elber 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 According to researchers, the explosive growth of the Latino population in the United States is not being reflected in the television news programs of the major networks and the cable station CNN. On Monday, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) released data from their study, The Network Brownout Report. The study revealed that a mere 99 out of 16,000 (0.62 percent) stories reported last year on the evening news were related to Latinos or the Latino community. The lamentable trajectory of the networks is that the coverage of the fastest growing minority group in the country contradicts the informational necessities of U. S. citizens and distorts the public discourse necessary in any democratic society, said NAHJ President Juan González. Latinos, at 35.3 million, represent 12.5 percent of the population, a number which has grown almost 60 percent since 1990. According to the study, television news stories tended to perpetuate unflattering stereotypes of Latinos. The stories about Latinos generally used the border as an image to insinuate a division between Latino and non-Latino populations and to define Latinos as illegal immigrants, reported the NAHJ. The network with the most coverage of Latinos was ABC with 31 stories, followed by NBC with 24, and CBS and CNN with 22 each. The study maintained that a lack of diversity in the newsroom is one of the major causes of poor news coverage of Latinos. Two networks responded that they were taking measures to increase coverage on Latino issues, namely retaining more Latino staff. The data also revealed that for the second consecutive year the most reported story relevant to the Latino community was that of the U.S. military presence in Vieques. The other stories were related to politics, immigration and sports. In one aspect there was a positive change. The proportion of news stories about Latinos in which Latinos themselves were interviewed grew to 67.6 percent, up from 24.4 percent in 2001. The study was prepared by Serafín Méndez Méndez, an associate professor and chair of the Department of Communication at Central Connecticut State University, with former NAHJ President Diane Alverio. 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