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HAITI 2013 / DAY 11PM: One Final Board and A Look Back… (Guest Blog: Lowell Reinhart)
Blog, Missions Trip, YouthMade the connection. Watching them get the plane ready ready, pull up to the jet way, and be on the way home. I'll update facebook one last time when we're taxiing down the runway in case there's any delay.
Lowell blogs today, and sums up the whole trip from his journal. He does a beautiful job. I have nothing else to add. Lots to think about and reflect on. Wrap up blog coming next week. Thanks for praying us there, and back again. God is good.
Lowell gets the last word. See you Sunday…
GUEST BLOG: Lowell Reinhart
Two flights down, one to go! What an amazing adventure this trip has been. I am a little tired from the early morning and rough drive to the airport and full of many different emotions as we make our way back home. I am looking forward to getting home and being able to sleep not covered in my own sweat, but also very sad to be leaving the work and relationships that will be left behind in Haiti.
Over the course of our trip we ended each day as a group by debriefing on the roof of our building. During this time we took turns going through devotions, sharing testimony's, praying and going through highlights and low points of each person's day. I kept track of mine over the course of the trip and will share some of my highlights to help sum up the trip for me.
Day 3 – First full day in Haiti. Started off with a bang by pouring concrete for the roof of a duplex in the children's village. I was part of the transporting buckets of concrete line on the roof which we worked in pairs for. My highlight this day was working side by side with a Haitian man as we moved the buckets along. We couldn't communicate with each other and probably didn't have a lot in common, I never even got his name, but each of us with one hand on the same bucket were able to work as one unit to get the job done.
Day 4 – In the afternoon we went on community walks through Grand Goave to share about God and deliver bibles and care packages. It was quite a shock to see the lifestyles and so-called houses that people lived in. What I will always remember from this will be the face of a small boy who ran back to us after we dropped a package off with his family. He had the biggest smile on his face I have ever seen and in his hand he had a toothbrush. A toothbrush! Not a new toy truck or an Xbox, just a toothbrush. He had more joy than I have seen in anyone in a long time.
Day 6 – I sat by a couple boys today in church. They seemed a little skeptical of me at first but after about ten minutes I had one sleeping on my lap and one on each side of me playing with my hands. I taught one little guy how to thumb wrestle, he had a lot of fun with it.
Day 10 – Today was one of the most overall good feeling days of the trip for me. I had been working with Dave and Alex on designing and forming a couple drainage channels for under a sidewalk over the past couple days and today we were able to pour the concrete for them with the help of a couple Haitian guys. It was a job well done. Today was also a great day because I had the opportunity to see Claire (ed. Note: Lowell's sister-in-law) get baptized in the Caribbean Sea. It has been awesome to get to know her and see her grow in her faith.
Day 11 – Last day in Haiti. Since day two of the trip I have been working on some projects directly with a couple Haitian men – Mario and Desir (pronounced Dezzie). Desir could make his way through some English while Mario could only smile one of the nicest smiles I have ever seen and say "yes" to anything we asked, even if it wasn't a yes or no question. Today I was helping with our second concrete roof pour so I wasn't able to work with them but I did manage to stop by at lunch to say my goodbyes. I left them each with a pair of work gloves and a granola bar, they were quite thankful. I told them that after we were done for the day that we were planning on heading down to the beach. It was a pleasant surprise when we were packing up at the beach just about to head back to the compound I look up to see Mario back to say goodbye again. He walked with Alex and me most of the way home and we fought through as much conversation as we could. Alex's French skills helped get through some things. Mario wants to learn more English so next time we see him again he can talk more with us. I really do hope to see him again. I've never seen someone show up at 8 in the morning to use a pick axe with a greater smile and attitude then he came with.
I could continue with more highlights all day, but I'll leave it at that for now. I went on this trip as a chance to experience firsthand what life it is like in the poorest country in the western hemisphere. I laughed, I cried, met some amazing people, saw some beautiful scenery, and got somewhat of a tan, but most of all I was able to use the skills and abilities that God has given me to truly help the least of these. This is the beginning of something that Ann and I hope to continue and go deeper in throughout our lives. Haiti Arise – I can't wait to go back!

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Wrestling team begins season with a packed roster
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The Vashon High School Wrestling season is underway, and this year's roster numbers almost 30 wrestlers. Head coach Anders Blomgren said this year's team is the largest he's had in close to a decade. "We've got a wide range of abilities, from five wrestlers returning with state tournament experience to rookie wrestlers, including several seniors," he said. Every wrestler has been giving his best effort every practice with "our returning wrestlers definitely setting the tone for the team," said Blomgren. One such wrestler is senior Dominik Stemer, who considers the keys to success this season to be physical conditioning and work ethic. Stemer earned a state tournament medal with a top-eight finish in February. "I know how hard we need to work, and I want to set a good example for the new guys," Stemer said. "I try to help the new wrestlers get a sense of the best move in each situation." Mastering additional wrestling moves is an essential part of a wrestler's preparation. Returning state tournament participant junior Elliot Ellingsen used the off-season to analyze how he could improve. "Building on my killer cradle, I wanted to add more offensive moves to my arsenal," Ellingsen said. "I know that I will be on people's radar after making it so far at state." Similarly, state participant senior Vince Jovanovich said he seizes "the challenge of having a target on my back after last year's tournament." This has prompted him to train harder coming into the season. Joining the team this year is senior Alex Sohl, who has returned to wrestling after a multiple-season hiatus. "I am using all of my previous wrestling training and ability. It feels very natural to be back on the wrestling mat," Sohl said. Senior Peter Johnson is beginning his first season wrestling. Johnson is a star baseball catcher who wanted to get into better physical shape before spring. "I had heard about the difficulty of the wrestling workouts." Johnson said. "And, yes, they are as tough as I had heard." The girls wrestling team also boasts a bumper crop of new athletes, with six girls turning out so far. The girls are anchored by three-time state placer senior Madeleine Wolzcko and two-time state participant junior Iris Spring. Girls wrestling coach Dave Chapman said girls wrestling is a growing sport both on Vashon and across the nation. "Girl wrestlers continue to show improved technique and athleticism," he said. During her high school wrestling career, Wolzcko has experienced firsthand how the increased interest in girls wrestling has translated into fiercely competitive matches. "Having more girls on our team this year will make a difference in practice because everyone is pushing each other to improve," Wolzcko said. While the future looks bright for Vashon wrestling this season, the coaches still find it is difficult to make any predictions. "I think that in many of the matches we will be underdogs, but we can fight for every point and every victory," Blomgren said. "I look for each wrestler to improve all year." Vashon Wrestling will face some powerhouse teams in its first action on Saturday, Dec. 4, at the Auburn Tournament. — Marian Easton is a mother of two Pirate wrestlers. So keep your comments: We ask that all participants own their words by logging in with their Facebook account. It's a simple process that will take seconds and helps keep our comments free of trolls, cranks, and "drive-by" commenters. We reserve the right to remove comments from anyone using screen names, pseudonyms or false identities. Please refer to our Terms of Use for full detail on participating on our site.
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Before 9/11, the Bush administration's national security focus was on missile defense, not terrorism. In fact, on 9/11, then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice was set to deliver a speech that focused "largely on missile defense." Writing at the Huffington Post, Joe Cirincione — president of the Ploughshares Fund — recalls this quote from Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE) on Sept. 10, 2001, warning against the Bush administration's approach:
We will have diverted all that money to address the least likely threat while the real threats come into this country in the hold of a ship, or the belly of a plane, or are smuggled into a city in the middle of the night in a vial in a backpack.
Cirincione writes, "If George Bush had listened to Joe Biden instead of Donald Rumsfeld, the history of the past seven years would have been very different. We might have prevented 9/11."
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Posted: April 12th, 2010 | Author: Stephen | Filed under: Open Source | Tags: business model, legal | No Comments »First of all a disclosure – I am currently employed by IBM as a software developer (but not in the z/OS group), however I will try to be impartial in my assessment of the situation. As you read this post keep in mind that the opinions expressed are mine alone and not representative of the opinions of IBM or its affiliates.
If you haven't heard about the recent shots fired between IBM and TurboHercules, Ars Technica has good coverage of the whole situation which can be found here. If you don't have a few minutes to read the whole thing there I can give you the gist: The Hercules open source project allows applications written for the IBM System Z operating system to run on alternate hardware (including desktop computers) within mainstream operating systems. IBM had no problem with this until recently, when TurboHercules was founded to offer the software commercially – and made a move against IBM accused monopoly of the mainframe space. Now, IBM has asserted a number of its patents against TurboHercules (some of which were pledged to the open source community back in 2005).


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We will get together regularly to learn about Oracle database technologies and network with other Oracle professionals. All Oracle professionals are welcome including administrator, developer, data warehouse, engineer, architect, DBA, and data modeler. We will explore all Oracle technologies that relate to databases including RAC, Data Guard, PL/SQL development, tuning, Middleware Applications including Weblogic, Golden Gate, SOA, as well as some of the newer technologies such as Exadata, Exalyt …
Database Meets Solid State, a Silicon Valley based community group, provides a meeting point for people interested in the intersection of flash memory and database acceleration. Use cases include: Cloud computing, Big Data, Virtualization, and Analytics. Our mission: Bring together people interested in learning, presenting, and networking with others about improving their database performance and how solid state storage makes that happen. Host for our first meeting is Skyera. We plan to have re …
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Ideas, learning, experimentation, and conversation about graph data and its value to businesses and consumers alike. Located in Redwood City, the heart of Silicon Valley's Data Corner, the Lab explores the application of graph theory and emerging database and visualization technologies.
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Welcome to the meetup area of the Northern California Oracle Users Group, the most active and longest running Oracle users group in the world! You've never heard of us before? Well, now you have! NoCOUG has more than 500 enthusiastic members, some of whom have remained members for 25 years! We organize four full-day conferences around the bay area every year and produce a wonderful publication called the NoCOUG Journal. Check out some of our pictures at http://www.meetup.com/Northern-California- …
We are Aerospike. Our group is focused on having discussions around scaling real-time, high transaction and low latency NoSQL database systems. We will have guest speakers talk about their real world experiences and learned techniques around building and managing mission critical businesses that realize 100% up-time. Collaborate with peers trying to solve the same complex problems that arise when you bet your business on your infrastructure.
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Riak is a enterprise grade NoSQL database, distinct from MongoDB, Cassandra and Couchbase.
Join us to learn about Oracle Big Data/NoSQL and related technologies, including use cases, new features and exciting networking with other professionals.
Our group is focused on having discussions around scaling real-time, high transaction and low latency NoSQL database systems. You will hear use cases, customer successes and thought leadership discussions on emerging applications and use cases - and the supporting platforms and technologies that enable them. Collaborate with peers working to solve truly complex, technical issues while betting their business on an infrastructure with 100% uptime. Find Us: http://www.aerospike.com Follow Us: http …
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I am planning to form this group to have hands on all Distributed Databases technologies and build our own hadoop cluster and use various hadoop flavors including Hadoop,HDFS,Hive,Pig,HQL. Also have hands on all Nosql Technologies like Cassandra,MongoDB etc. We would also like to go over R programming tool as part of Haddop Analysis. We would like to compare Hadoop vs any Relational DB and MPP Dbs to find some of the use cases where it could really helpful . Also we would like to solve some Indu …
This is a group for SAP HANA (in-memory database technology) adopters and hackers. This includes programmers, architects and experts who work on SAP HANA or are looking to learn more about it. The goal of this group is to share experiences with working on SAP HANA, or any other Big Data (Hadoop, MongoDB, GreenPlum, Cloudera, Hortonworks) integration scenarios. We will be holding lectures, panel discussions, demos, hackathons and networking for all members.
We discuss all things Big Data including tools, use cases and especially opportunities around this emerging area of large scale data
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Exploring flash acceleration for in-memory, NoSQL, and relational data stores. Join us for discussions, presentations, brainstorming and more.
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Data Center Technologies? Technologies Flowing Through Data Centers? How Does A Data Center Make Their Money?
We meet monthly at the Microsoft campus in Mountain View. Meetings are free and include pizza and drinks - please join us! * Network with other Developers and DBAs * Get the latest and greatest SQL Server news * Get questions answered by Microsoft insiders * Get the inside track on emerging technologies * Learn from the experts and meet your peers * Enjoy pizza, drinks, and valuable giveaways
Monthly hack sessions at Citizen Space.
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Silicon Valley PostgreSQL Users Group
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We have Hadoop meetups that brings awareness about Hadoop Ecosystem to an extent or that discusses about the future enhancements in Hadoop and products and things that can be done. But there is no proper meetup that can provide perspective of a real Hadoop Developer to the current market that can address any level of knowledge seeker. Also there is no meetup group where one actually working on Hadoop Ecosystem can discuss common issues they face and ask for help. This meetup group overcomes thes …
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This group meets monthly to discuss different ways to use Cassandra to scale your website
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A San Francisco and Silicon Valley based group focused Oracle EPM, BI and Big Data Technologies including Endeca Information Discovery, Hyperion Essbase, Oracle BI and Analytics Applications, Big Data including NoSQL, Hadoop, Cloudera, R, Oracle Data Integrator, Big Data Appliance, Exalytics, Master Data Management, DRM, Hyperion Planning, and Hyperion Financial Management, and an ever expanding suite of Oracle related technologies. Please join us as we share user experiences, problems and solu …
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We are a Bay Area user group focused on helping Datameer users share experiences, tech tips, solve big data analytic problems and solutions. This group is for those who want to learn and advance their knowledge and use of Datameer. Intended to be casual, this Meetup will encourage knowledge sharing and discussions set 'unconference' style. At the beginning of the meetup, we will showcase a best practice then break out into discussion groups. All Datameer related topics will be welcome.
Hive is a scalable data warehouse infrastructure built on top of Hadoop. It provides tools to enable easy data ETL, a mechanism to put structures on the data, and the capability to querying and analysis of large data sets stored in Hadoop files. Hive defines a simple SQL-like query language, called HiveQL, that enables users familiar with SQL to query the data. At the same time, this language also allows programmers who are familiar with the MapReduce fromwork to be able to plug in their custom …
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A group of professional FoxPro and database developers interested in exteding Visual FoxPro and other database software development platforms.
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This group's focus is to explore the LAMP stack. However, we will not strictly be looking at LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP), instead we will look at a plethora of compatible, complimentary, and sometimes competing technologies...based upon industry trends and speaker availability. The organizer, Tish Wood, has been programming web applications professionally since 2002, began using LAMP in the last few days of that year, and is a veteran of the Silicon Valley Startup Industry. He has taught a var …
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Rams double up on the Rattlers
Published: Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
The Tucumcari Rattlers lost 70-35 Monday night to the Portales Rams.
It was an uphill battle for the (2-7) Rattlers boys varsity team as the (5-6) Rams jumped off to an early 8-0 lead against the Rattlers at the Snake Pit.
Still, the Rattlers Andrez Apodaca, a shooting guard, kept pace with Rams high-scorer, guard Shawn Carrasco, with each shooting 14 points in the game.
"They are a very quick and athletic team," Rattlers basketball coach John Span said. "They had good spacing on the floor and transitioned well from offense to defense."
The Rams lead grew as the game progressed from 9 to as much as 35 points. The Rattlers shots were short, over and, at times, the shots would hit the rim but would not fall.
"Even with a large lead, we have learned that you can't look past coach Span's team," said Rams coach Mark Gallegos. "We came down here two years ago and they beat us. You always have to be ready to play here in Tucumcari."
Despite Rams's wide lead, the Rattlers kept working hard and played all the way through, Span said.
With district play right around the corner, both coaches are looking for extra experience and conditioning for their players.
"Our district play is about to begin and a win like this helps build the team's confidence," Gallegos said. "We will play at the Hope Christian Invitational (beginning on Thursday) where we hope to play against West Las Vegas who is in top five of the 3A class."
"This was our third game out of six to be played over nine days," Span said. "It has been tough but it will definitely help prepare the team for district competition."
Game leaders
Andrez Apodaca 14 points
Freddie Beltran 7 points
Shawn Carrasco 14 points
William Archibeque 10 points
The Rattlers will play again at 4 p.m. Thursday against the Elida Tigers at Elida.
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BY ROB SALERNO: After a 17-year absence, the International Lesbian and Gay Association was welcomed back to the United Nations' Economic and Social Council this week as an accredited non-governmental organization. The decision gives ILGA the right to participate in debates and reports that will be circulated and discussed at the council. It also gives the group the right to participate in the UN's Human Rights Council.
ILGA is an association of more than 600 gay rights groups in 110 countries. It was previously accredited from 1993-94 but was booted out after it came to light that ILGA counted among its members the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) and other groups that advocated for pedophilia. ILGA later booted the groups to comply with the UN decision, but UN members continued to refuse ILGA's application for reaccreditation, on the grounds that ILGA couldn't prove that it was no longer associating with the pedophilia groups. (ILGA kepts its membership list private, so as to protect groups in countries where homosexuality is still illegal.)
The vote at ECOSOC on July 26 had 29 in favour, 14 against and five abstentions. The "nays" were all African and Islamic countries, plus Russia and China. The "yeas" were mostly European and North and South American countries (yes, Canada voted in favour) but also included South Korea, Japan, India and Mongolia.
The full results:
In favour: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Malta, Mexico, Mongolia, Nicaragua, Norway, Peru, Republic of Korea, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States and Venezuela.
Against: Bangladesh, Cameroon, China, Egypt, Ghana, Iraq, Morocco, Namibia, Pakistan, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Senegal and Zambia.
Abstentions: Bahamas, Cote d'Ivoire, Guatemala, Philippines and Rwanda.
IGLA has posted the full text of the debate on its website (scroll down to the bold part).
According to the Bay Area Reporter, ILGA is now one of several gay rights groups with consultative status at the United Nations, including: International Wages Due Lesbians; Australia's Coalition of Activist Lesbians; ILGA-Europe (an autonomous division of ILGA); Denmark's Landsforeningen for Bøsser og Lesbiske (National Association for Gays and Lesbians); Lesben- und Schwulenverband in Deutschland (Lesbian and Gay Federation in Germany); the Swedish national LGBT group RFSL (its former initials now are its full name); Coalition Gaie et Lesbienne du Québec (Quebec Gay and Lesbian Coalition); COC Netherlands (a national LGBT group whose former initials are now its full name); Associação Brasileira de Gays, Lésbicas e Transgêneros (Brazilian Association of Gays, Lesbians and Transgenders); the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission; and Spain's Federaci—n Estatal de Lesbianas, Gays, Transexuales y Bisexuales (State Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals).
Finally something has been done to help a married lesbian couple in India whose lives have been threatened by relatives and friends.
On July 26, the police stepped in and moved Savita, 25, and Veena, 20, into a safe house, where they will have 24-hour protection.
According to the Daily Telegraph, the two were married in a civil ceremony in Haryana, close to New Delhi. The couple first approached the court complaining that Savita had been forced to marry against her will, and that she had left her marriage after telling her husband she was in a relationship with Veena.
Savita was granted a divorce, and the two women were married in a court ceremony on July 22 — India's first lesbian marriage.
That should be a cause for celebration, but what followed is not.
The couple returned to their home village only to be greeted with threats of violence. Harayana has been the centre of protests by villagers who believe that their village councils should be allowed to impose their own punishments — mainly honour killings — on those who disobey their rules or break tradition.
The couple, fearing for their lives, returned to the courts, which is where the police stepped in.
The women's experience highlights the schism between social acceptance of homosexuality and the law. In 2009, the high court overturned a colonial law that declared homosexuality to be a crime punishable by 10 years in jail.
A recent countrywide survey by the CNN-IBN television news channel revealed that as many as 73 percent of Indians believe homosexuality should be illegal. The poll, which was conducted in urban neighbourhoods, showed that 83 percent of the respondents felt that homosexuality was not part of Indian culture.
It's not only civilians who object to homosexuality; some politicians and religious groups vehemently oppose it. Their rhetoric is nothing new — homosexuality is an evil Western import, it's immoral, against local culture and unnatural. Under that clime, the fear of being ostracized runs high, and even though Delhi and Bangalore have held Pride parades, many of the marchers wear masks to hide their identity.
It always seems to be one step forward and two steps back for gay rights. But my congratulations go out to Savita and Veena — I hope they will be happy and safe.
BY ROB SALERNO - The US government is finally considering ending the gay blood-donor ban that has been in place since the HIV epidemic hit the blood supply in the 1980s.
Last year, the Department of Health and Human Services decided to uphold the ban, but it recently announced that it would reconsider its decision pending resolution of four areas of concern: 1) how donor risk factors relate to transmissable disease, 2) how blood not cleared for use is sometimes accidentally released, 3) whether or not donors actually understand the current criteria and whether or not men who have sex with men would comply with modified criteria (ie, a six-month deferral period), and 4) if an alternative screening strategy, such as pre/post donation disease testing for MSM would maintain blood safety.
HHS has also announced that it will conduct research into these problems.
US senator and former presidential candidate John Kerry has been pushing HHS to update the policy for years. This latest announcement follows one of his requests for information.
Earlier this year, Canadian Blood Services announced that it, too, wanted to end or modify the ban but was awaiting further scientifiic research and approval from Health Canada.
BY ROB SALERNO - Foreign affairs minister and noted pussy lover John Baird is at the centre of the latest non-issue dust-up from Ottawa, where he ordered staff at the Department of Foreign Affairs to ditch a pair of paintings by revered Quebec artist Alfred Pellan in favour of a photo portrait of Queen Elizabeth II.
Critics say the paintings are masterpieces that speak to the Canadian identity more than a portrait of a foreign monarch.
The paintings were replaced with the photo just ahead of the recent visit to Ottawa from Prince William and his wife Kate (or the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, if you must) and in celebration of Queen Liz's upcoming diamond jubilee next year.
Baird is both a monarchist and a lover of pug-faced British ladies. He's also an obvious appreciator of giggle-worthy double-entendre-laden headline grabbers, so I'm sure he's having a good laugh with this one. Although to be honest, when I saw the headline "John Baird Orders Quebec Paintings Replaced by Queen's Portrait" I assumed the Huffington Post meant an image of himself.
On July 25, the International Gay and Lesbian Association (ILGA) finally won United Nations accreditation. ILGA, one of the oldest organizations fighting for gay rights, had been trying to gain recognition at the UN for the past 20 years.
According to Reuters Africa, 29 countries — mainly European and Latin American, but also India, South Korea, Japan and Mongolia — voted to allow ILGA consultant status to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Thirteen countries, all African and Islamic countries, as well as China and Russia, opposed the motion.
There were six abstentions: Guatemala, Mauritius, Philippines, Rwanda, Bahamas and the Ivory Coast.
That's the good news and a step forward for gay rights.
However, on Tuesday, July 26, Italy put a spanner in the works by rejecting a bill that would protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people from discrimination.
Parliament's lower house, dominated by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's conservatives, voted 293 to 250 not to approve the legislation.
Pink News reports that Italy already bans discrimination on the grounds of race, religion, ethnicity and nationality. Campaigners for the bill say that, because of the rising number of homophobic and transphobic attacks, gay and trans people need more protection.
Unfortunately, Italy is not known for its pro-gay stance; gay couples are not allowed to adopt or marry. And Berlusconi, well, he is just something else. His reputation as a playboy dominates his political role and his crassness is well-known. Last year, he brushed off criticism by saying, "It's better to be passionate about beautiful women than to be gay."
He must be beaming now that his party has trumped bigotry over human rights.
Parliament's decision, however, has sent activists into a fury.
Paolo Patanè, head of gay rights association Arcigay, said that parliament "has betrayed justice and civility and has decided to support the violent."
He also called upon the European Union to "help us face this extremely dangerous rise in homophobia, xenophobia and racism that the Italian parliament has decided to legitimize."
Amnesty International also stepped in to say that parliament wasted an opportunity.
In fact, Nicola Duckworth, Amnesty's director for Europe and Central Asia, was forthright in her admonishment of the parliamentarians.
"In addition to passing the right laws, authorities and politicians should set the example. They should promote equality and non-discrimination and refrain from and condemn derogatory and discriminatory remarks that foster a climate of intolerance."
Hear, hear.
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Thepeoplesresponse.org to the groundbreaking of the George W. Bush Library & Policy Institute is to organize a peaceful march and rally in Dallas on November 16, 2010. Organizers invite people to join them to remind past, present, and future Administrations that the truth cannot be buried or changed. Will the George Bush Policy Institute develop the same kinds of policies that brought pre-emptive war, economic crisis, environmental disaster, unprecedented presidential power, and diminished civil and human rights? They speculate that items unlikely to be found in the Bush lie-bury will include:
Dick Cheney's papers
The 35 Articles of Impeachment
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Statements in support of Bush's impeachment
The 35 Articles of Impeachment and the Case for Prosecuting George W. Bush
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Politico.com makes note of the fact that never in modern political history has there been so much secret money gushing into an American election. By Election Day 2010, independent groups will have aired more than $200 million worth of campaign ads using cash that can't be traced to its original source, predicts Fred Wertheimer, president of the nonprofit group Democracy 21. "And this is just the beginning.... Unless we get some changes to mitigate this problem, I would expect we will see $500 million or more in 2012."
Mortgage Fraud
From Truthout.org comes a "Democracy Now!" report on the foreclosure fraud scandal. A coalition of as many as 40 state attorneys general is expected to announce a joint investigation into the recent revelations that major lenders may have committed fraud while forcing thousands of people out of their homes. Major banks and lenders are also back-pedaling in light of these allegations. On Friday, October 8, Bank of America became the first bank to halt foreclosures in all 50 states. JPMorgan Chase and Ally Financial had already suspended foreclosures in 23 states. But both Wall Street and the White House are against the moratoriums. On Monday, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association warned that, quote, "It would be catastrophic to impose a system-wide moratorium on all foreclosures and such actions could do damage to the housing market and the economy." While senior congressional Democrats have joined the calls for a national moratorium on foreclosures, the White House is arguing against punishing the industry.
Drug Enforcement
Kevin Zeese sent a reminder that California's Proposition 19, if passed, would end marijuana possession arrests and allow local jurisdictions in California to make marijuana legal. He notes the incredible statistic—that is, "Since the founding of the Drug Enforcement Administration in 1973, 15 million Americans have been arrested for marijuana." Zeese also notes that the DEA's aggressive national law enforcement efforts have resulted in a marijuana arrest every 38 seconds, but that approximately 90 percent of youth have described marijuana as "easier to buy than alcohol or prescription drugs."
Amid plenty of mass media coverage of Tea Partying (and virtually none for progressive events), www.unitedforpeace.org reminds us via mass emails that on October 2, antiwar activists across the U.S. marked the 10th anniversary of the Afghanistan War with protests. Mock drone attacks dramatized the human cost of war in Madison, WI, Boston, MA, and Washington, DC. There was a die-in in Springfield, OR, and on Long Island, NY, Veterans for Peace and other peace activists demonstrated for an end to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. In San Francisco, Daniel Ellsberg joined a panel on "Anti-War Perspectives from the Left and Right. "
Also, 175,000 people from all walks of life and from all 50 states gathered at the Lincoln Memorial under the umbrella of One Nation Working Together. UFPJ distributed over 5,000 posters, 25,000 stickers, and almost 15,000 leaflets making the connections between cutting military spending, ending the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the urgent need to revitalize our economy and create new green jobs here at home.
From firstname.lastname@example.com comes the news that on October 1, 2010 at 1:00 PM EST, U.S. military veterans, members of Veterans for Peace, hung an enormous banner on the front of the Newseum in Washington, DC, wrapping their message around the First Amendment chiseled in five stories of limestone (see photo). Several veterans dropped the banner down the front of the Newseum, while others distributed special edition copies of the War Crimes Times, explaining the action and what they considered obscene: "The American public should be shocked that we are still killing and crippling thousands of innocent people in these countries as well as our own soldiers—that's what's truly obscene," said Mike Ferner who served in Vietnam. "Blowing people's arms and legs off, burning, paralyzing them, causing sewage to run through their streets, polluting the water that kills and sickens children, terrorizing and bombing people and their livestock with flying robots—that defines obscenity. If this banner shocks and offends a single person who hasn't been shocked and offended by what's being done in our name, we've accomplished our mission."
License to Kill
From ccrjustice.org comes news that CCR and the ACLU have filed a joint lawsuit to challenge the legality and constitutionality of a licensing scheme that requires lawyers to seek government permission to represent individuals that same government intends to kill. The U.S. government has claimed the power to target and kill U.S. citizens and other individuals anywhere in the world outside of any battlefield without charge, trial, or a judicial process of any kind. Not only is the government trying to kill U.S. citizens without due process, it is also trying to stop lawyers from representing them to challenge the government's actions.
The suit charges that the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury has exceeded its authority by subjecting pro bono legal services to a licensing requirement and that OFAC's regulations violate the First Amendment, the Fifth Amendment, and the principle of separation of powers. They are asking the court to invalidate the regulations and to make clear that lawyers can provide representation for the benefit of designated individuals without first seeking the government's consent.
Flood Protest
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Prisoner Release
Truthout.org forwards an article by Marjorie Cohn about the release of a Puerto Rican political prisoner after 30 years in U.S. prison. Carlos Alberto Torres was convicted of conspiring to use force against the lawful authority of the United States over Puerto Rico and punished for being a member of an armed clandestine organization called FALN (Armed Forces of National Liberation), which had taken responsibility for bombings (no deaths or injuries resulted). Torres was not accused of taking part in these bombings, only of being a member of the FALN.
In 1898, Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States by Spain as war bounty in the treaty that ended the Spanish-American War. Nevertheless, the U.S. invaded Puerto Rico and has occupied it ever since. Puerto Ricans have always resisted foreign occupation. Every year for 29 years the UN Decolonization Committee has passed a resolution calling for independence. There have been similar declarations from the Non-Aligned Movement and recent submissions to the UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review. Cohn writes: "...there is a damper on the celebration, as Torres leaves behind his compatriot Oscar López, a 67-year-old decorated Vietnam War veteran. While celebrating Torres's release and the movement for Puerto Rican independence, we need to commit ourselves to continue the struggle until Oscar López Rivera and Avelino González Claudio, as well as all political prisoners in U.S. prisons, also walk free."
Ecuador Coup
Atilio Boron's article on the failed coup in Ecuador, forwarded from machetera.wordpress.com, notes that the coup was not, as various Latin America media reported, an "institutional crisis," as if what happened had been a jurisdictional conflict between the executive and the legislature, rather than an open insurrection by one branch of the executive, the National Police, whose members make up a small army of 40,000, against the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of Ecuador, who is none other than the legitimately elected president. Neither was it, as U.S. Under Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Arturo Valenzuela claimed, "an act of police insubordination." Boron further notes that all the media oligopolies offered a distorted version of what occurred, carefully avoiding talking about an attempted coup. Instead they referred to it as a "police uprising."
Boron points out that the coup was carried out by a group of social and political actors at the service of the local oligarchy and imperialism, who will never forgive Correa for having ordered the removal of the U.S. military base at Manta and the audit of Ecuador's foreign debt and its incorporation into ALBA, among many other actions.
The coup failed: (1) because of the rapid and effective mobilization of significant sectors of the Ecuadoran population which, in spite of the danger that existed, took to the streets and plazas to manifest their support for President Correa; (2) because the popular mobilization within Ecuador was accompanied by an urgent and extraordinary meeting of UNASUR in Buenos Aires—the clear backing received by Correa from the governments of South America and several from Europe was effective because it made clear that the future of the coup makers, had their plans ultimately proved successful, would have been ostracism as well as political, economic, and international isolation; and (3) President Correa would not give in and forcefully resisted the harassment and the kidnapping to which he was subjected.
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LABOR - May 1 is May Day. Workers of the world will celebrate the 124th anniversary of International Worker's Day. Born out of a call for an 8-hour workday in the United States, this day is an opportunity for all workers to show their solidarity with one another, as well as to renew the call for labor rights.FARM CONFERENCE - The Farm Conference on Community and Sustainability will be held May 24-26 in Summertown, TN, in partnership with the Fellowship of Intentional Communities. Tour green homes, see sustainable food production, learn about solar installations, alternative education, midwifery, and more.
Contact: email@example.com; http://www.thefarmcommunity.com/.
PALESTINE - The Conference of the Palestinian Shatat in North American will be held June 3-5 in Vancouver. The conference will examine the future of the Palestinian liberation movement.
Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com; http://www.palestinianconference.org/.
LABOR - The Pacific Northwest Labor History Association's 45th annual conference will be held May 3-5, in Portland, OR. This year's theme is Labor Under Attack: Learning from the Past and Preparing for the Future. A call for presentations, workshops and papers is currently underway.
Contact: PNLHA, 27920 68th Ave. East, Graham, WA 98338; 206-406-2604; email@example.com; http://www3.telus.net.
MARIJUANA - On the first Saturday of May marijuana legalization activists will hold informational and educational events, rallies and marches in over 300 cities around the world.
ECONOMICS - The Union For Radical Political Economics will hold its 39th annual conference May 9-11 in New York City.
Contact: http://www.ramapo.edu/eea/2013/.
RECLAIM THE DREAM - The 2013 Poor People's Campaign & March from Baltimore to Washington D.C. will be May 11. Communities, schools and unions interested in participating are encouraged to contact the Baltimore People's Assembly.
Contact: 410-500-2168; 410-218-4835; firstname.lastname@example.com; Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Baltimore and the Baltimore Peoples Power Assembly, 2011 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218.
MOTHER'S DAY - The 17th Annual Mother's Day Walk For Peace will be May 12th, in Dorchester, MA. The walk began in 1996 for families who had lost children to violence. The day has become a way for thousands of people to financially support the work of the Louis Brown Peace Institute.
Contact: http://www.ldbpeaceinstitute.org/; http://mothersdaywalk4peace.org/.
NATO 5 - An International Week of Solidarity with the NATO 5 has been called for May 16-21. Supports call on supporters to raise awareness of the NATO 5 and support funds for the defendants on the one-year anniversary of their preemptive arrests.
Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com; https://nato5support.wordpress.com.
MOUNTAINTOP - The 2013 Mountain Justice Summer Activist Training Camp will be held May 19-27 in Damascus, VA. It will be a week of workshops, field trips to view Mountain Top Removal coal mines, direct actions, and service project.
Contact: http://rampscampaign.org/.
FEMINIST SCI-FI - The feminist science fiction convention WisCon 37 is scheduled for May 24-27 in Madison, WI.
Contact: WisCon, ? SF3, PO Box 1624, Madison, WI 53701; email@example.com; http://www.wiscon.info/.
ANARCHY FEST - A month-long Festival of Anarchy is scheduled for May in Montreal. The festival includes The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair (May 19-20).
Contact: http://www.anarchistbookfair.ca/; http://www.radicalmontreal.com/.
LABOR - The International Labor Rights Forum will present: Down the Supply Chain, Driving Corporate Accountability, on May 22 in Washington, DC. The Labor Rights Awards Ceremony and Reception will honor pioneers in supply chain worker organizing, working solidarity and international labor rights policy.
Contact: http://laborrights.org/.
MULTICULTURE - The 26th annual National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE) will take place May 28-June 1, in New Orleans.
Contact: SWCHRS, 3200 Marshall Avenue, Suite 290, Norman, OK 73072; 405-325-3694; firstname.lastname@example.com; www.ncore.ou.edu.
MEDIA - The 2013 Alliance for Community Media Annual Conference will be held May 29-31, in San Francisco, CA. Participants will include educators, community leaders, media professionals, journalists, nonprofit leaders, policymakers and students.
Contact: http://www.allcommunitymedia.org/.
RADIO - The 38th Annual Community Radio Conference is schedule for May 29-June 1, in San Francisco, CA, with discussions and workshops.
Contact: 1101 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20004; 202-756-2268; firstname.lastname@example.com; http://www.nfcb.org/.
BRADLEY MANNING - On June 1, a rally will be held at Fort Meade in support of Bradley Manning.
Contact: http://www.bradleymanning.org.
BIKES - Bikes Not Bombs is holding its 24th annual Bike-A-Thon and Green Roots Festival in Boston, MA on June 3, with several bike rides scheduled, music, exhibitors and more.
Contact: Bikes Not Bombs, 284 Amory St., Jamaica Plain, MA 02130; 617-522-0222; firstname.lastname@example.com; www.bikesnotbombs.org.
LEFT FORUM - The 2013 Left Forum will be held June 7-9, at Pace University in New York City.
Contact: 365 Fifth Avenue, CUNY Graduated Center, ? Sociology Dept., New York, NY 10016; http://www.leftforum.org/.
VEGAN FEST - Mad City Vegan Fest will be held in Madison, WI, June 8. The annual event features food, speakers, and exhibitors.
Contact: 122 State Street, Suite 405 B, Madison, WI 53701; firstname.lastname@example.com; http://veganfest.org/.
ADC CONFERENCE - The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) holds its annual conference June 13-16, in Washington, DC, with panel discussions and workshops on civil rights, media and other topics.
Contact: 1990 M Street, Suite 610, Washington, DC, 20036; 202-244-2990; firstname.lastname@example.com http://convention.adc.org/.
CUBA/SOCIALISM - A Cuban-North American Dialog on Socialist Renewal and Global Capitalist Crisis will be held in Havana, Cuba, June 16-30. There will be a 5 day Seminar at University of Havana, plus visits to a cooperative, urban garden, community development project, social research centers, and educational & medical institutions.
Contact: email@example.com; http://www.globaljusticecenter.org/.
NETROOTS - The 8th Annual Netroots Nation conference will take place June 20-23 in San Jose, CA. The event features panels, trainings, networking, screenings, and keynotes.
Contact: 164 Robles Way, #276, Vallejo, CA 94591; email@example.com; http://www.netrootsnation.org/.
MEDIA - The 15th annual Allied Media Conference will be held June 20-23, in Detroit.
Contact: 4126 Third Street, Detroit, MI 48201; http://alliedmedia.org/.
GRASSROOTS - The United We Stand Festival will be hosted by Free & Equal, June 22 in Little Rock, Arkansas. The festival aims to reform the electoral process throughout the U.S.
Contact: http://freeandequal.org/.
SOCIALISM - The Socialism 2013 Conference is scheduled for June 27-30 in Chicago, featuring talks and panel discussions.
Contact: email@example.com; http://www.socialismconference.org.
LITERACY - The National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) will hold its conference July 12-13 in Los Angeles under the heading, Intersections: Teaching and Learning Across Media.
Contact: 10 Laurel Hill Drive, Cherry Hill, NJ 08003; http://namle.net/conference/.
IWW - The North American Work People's College will take place July 12-16 at Mesaba Co-op Park in northern Minnesota. The event will bring together Wobblies from branches across the continent to learn new skills and build One Big Union.
Contact: http://workpeoplescollege.org/.
PEACESTOCK - On July 13th, the 11th Annual Peacestock: A Gathering for Peace, will take place at Windbeam Farm in Hager City, WI. The event is a mixture of music, speakers and community for peace. Sponsored by Veterans for Peace.
Contact: Bill Habedank, 1913 Grandview Ave., Red Wing, MN 55066; 651-388-7733; firstname.lastname@example.com; http://www.peacestockvfp.org.
CHILDREN'S DEFENSE - July 15-19, join clergy, seminarians, Christian educators, young adult leaders and other faith-based advocates for children at CDF Haley Farm in Clinton, Tennessee, for five days of spiritual renewal, networking, movement building workshops, and continuing education about the urgent needs of children at the 19th annual Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry.
Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com; http://www.childrensdefense.org.
ACTIVIST CAMP - Youth Empowered Action (YEA) Camp will have sessions in July and August in Ben Lomond, CA; Portland, OR; Charlton, MA. YEA Camp is designed for activists 12-17 years old who want to make a difference in the world.
Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com; http://yeacamp.org/.
LA RAZA - The annual National Council of La Raza (NCLR) Conference is scheduled for July 18-19 in New Orleans, with workshops, presentations and panel discussions.
Contact: NCLR Headquarters Office, Raul Yzaguirre Building, 1126 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036; 202-785-1670; www.nclr.org.
LABOR - The Eastern Conference For Workplace Democracy: Growing Our Cooperatives, Growing Our Communities, will be held at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA, July 26-28.
Contact: email@example.com; http://east.usworker.coop/.
WOMEN/LYNNE STEWART- Radical Women is asking for support letters and cards to be sent to Lynne Stewart. Stewart is a civil rights attorney and political prisoner who is currently in jail. She has breast cancer and authorities have denied her request for transfer from her Texas prison to the New York City hospital where she received medical attention during a prior bout of breast cancer. Send messages and cards to: Lynne Stewart 53504-054, Federal Medical Center Carswell, P.O. Box 27137, Fort Worth, TX 76127.
Contact: 747 Polk Street, San Francisco, CA 94109; 415-864-1278; email@example.com; http://lynnestewart.org/; http://www.radicalwomen.org/.
HAITI/WOMEN - Haiti's government is considering a legal reform measure that would prohibit and punish all sexual assault, including marital rape. MADRE and the International Campaign to Stop Rape & Gender Violence in Conflict are launching a petition to raise international support for this push to address violence against women in Haiti.
Contact: 121 West 27th Street, #301, New York, NY 10001; 212-627-0444; email@example.com; http://www.madre.org.
SYRIA/MIDDLE EAST - The Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA) is currently seeking funds to assist more than 200,000 refugees fleeing violence in Syria.
Contact: https://www.mecaforpeace.org.
FOLK FESTIVAL - The Falcon Ridge Folk Festival will be held August 2-4, in the Berkshires, NY.
Contact: http://www.falconridgefolk.com/; firstname.lastname@example.com.
WAR RESISTERS - The War Resisters League will hold its 90th anniversary conference, Revolutionary Nonviolence: Building Bridges Across Generations and Communities, August 1-4, at Georgetown University. The event will focus on the U.S.' long history of antimilitarism.
Contact: 339 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10012; 212-228-0450; email@example.com; http://www.warresisters.org.
POPULAR ECONOMICS - The Center for Popular Economics is holding its 2013 Summer Institute August 4-9 at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. No background in economics is needed for this intensive training. This year's theme is, The Care Economy: Building a Just Economy with a Heart.
Contact: Center for Popular Economics, PO Box 785 Amherst, MA 01004; 413-545-0743; email@example.com; www.populareconomics.org.
VETERANS - Veterans for Peace is holding the 28th annual convention August 6-11 in Madison, WI. This year's theme is, Power To The Peaceful.
Contact: http://www.vfpnationalconvention.org/.
DEMOCRACY - The Democracy Convention will take place August 7-11 in Madison, WI. The convention brings together nine conferences including topics such as media, education, defense, race, environment and others.
Contact: https://democracyconvention.org/.
MEN - The 38th National Conference on Men & Masculinity: Forging Justice: Creating Safe, Equal and Accountable Communities, presented in partnership with HAVEN, will be held in Detroit, MI, August 8-10.
Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com; http://www.nomas.org/.
OCCUPY - An Occupy National Gathering will be held in Kalamazoo, MI, August 21-25.
Contact: email@example.com; http://occupynationalgathering.net/.
COMMUNITIES - The Communities Conference is a networking and learning opportunity for co-operative or communal lifestyles, with workshops, events and entertainment; scheduled for August 30-September 2 at the Twin Oaks Community in Louisa, Virginia.
Contact: http://www.communitiesconference.org/.
LABOR DAY - The 29th annual Bread and Roses Festival, a celebration of the ethnic diversity and labor history of Lawrence, MA, will be held September 2, in honor of the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike. There will be music, dance, poetry, drama, ethnic food, historical demonstrations, walking & trolley tours.
Contact: PO Box 1137, Lawrence, MA 01842; 978-794-1655; http://www.breadandrosesheritage.org/.
OCCUPY WALL STREET - September 17 is the two-year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Events are planned in New York City and worldwide.
Contact: http://occupywallst.org/.
TEACHERS - The 13th Annual Conference, "Teaching for Social Justice: The Politics of Pedagogy," will be held October 12 in San Francisco, CA. The free event features workshops, resources, and free childcare.
Contact: 415-676-7844; firstname.lastname@example.com; http://www.t4sj.org/.
HAITI - International Action, which brings clean water and chlorinators to Haiti, seeks office space capable of housing up to six people and their office equipment.
Contact: Zach Bremer, firstname.lastname@example.com; 202-488-0735; http://www.haitiwater.org/.
MEDIA - The Union for Democratic Communications and Project Censored are sponsoring a joint conference on media democracy, media activism and social justice to be held November 1-3 at the University of San Francisco. Proposals for presentations, workshops and panels from activists and critical scholars are invited.


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