112 20 70360 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 2 VTMBH Article: Title CCNY student and family arrested by FBI, face deportation; students, faculty organize in her defense VTMBH Article: Author Hank Williams, Alexis Logsdon, and Rob Wallace VTMBH Article: Publication CCNY Messenger VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb Reem Khalil, a senior biochemistry major at City College, and her family remain in New Jerseys Hudson County jail, as CUNY students and faculty strategize on ways to speed their release. The Khalils were rounded up two months ago in the post-September 11 VTMBH Article: Keywords INS, CUNY, detain VTMBH Article: Body Reem Khalil, a senior biochemistry major at City College, and her family remain in New Jerseys Hudson County jail, as CUNY students and faculty strategize on ways to speed their release. The Khalils were rounded up two months ago in the post-September 11th sweeps by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). According to Frances Aboushi, a CCNY International Studies major and close friend of Reems, the Khalil family was arrested on Feb. 27 by the FBI. Aboushi told the Messenger that the FBI questioned Reems father about terrorism several weeks ago. FBI agents shackled the family members' hands and feet before transporting them in separate vehicles to FBI offices in Manhattans Federal Plaza for questioning. Aboushi told the Messenger that Reems father was questioned by the FBI several weeks ago about terrorism. The father, who owns a Manhattan restaurant and has lived in the United States for nearly two decades, was released when the FBI found nothing linking him to the terrorist attacks. The Khalils are from Syria. Because the Khalils are undocumented, the FBI turned them over to the INS, who are holding them in jail until deportation proceedings go through. The INS has split up the family and is holding them in separate facilities. Reem, her mother and teenage sister are in Hudson County; her father and one teenage brother are in Bergen County (New Jersey); and a second teenage brother is in Philadelphia. Two younger siblings who were born in the United States (and, thus, are citizens) are being cared for by a neighbor. Aboushi, the CCNY student, contacted the CCNY Coalition Against the War about Reems plight. The Coalition organized a speak-out in NAC Rotunda on March 7. Following the speak-out, a group of about 25 students went to the office of CCNY President Gregory Williams to present the situation to him. Williams has since written a letter to the INS on Reems behalf. Williams wasnt there, but the group was able to talk to Jean Wiles, deputy to the president. We demanded [that] President Williams defend one of his students by speaking out about her detainment, said Shaun Harkin, who was part of the delegation that spoke with Wiles. "Additionally, we demanded the response be immediate since Reem's fate is in the balance." A faculty member who spoke to Williams reports that the president was upset that students had gathered in his office and demanded to see him. Several groups and individuals at CCNY are trying to do whatever they can to help secure Reem's release and publicize the case. Aboushi, who has talked to the family's attorney, says it will be difficult to win any concessions for Reem in the current political climate. Aboushi feels that the Khalils should be released and Reem allowed to complete school. Reem was scheduled to graduate in June. CCNYs Faculty Council passed a resolution asking for the college administration to act on the situation. A petition is also being circulated demanding her immediate release. Over 200 people signed the petition, says Harkin, and many now know about what's happened to her. This a good start, [but] now we have to build on it. If there's no proof [of the father's guilt], there's no way to justify [the arrests], Pranita Tamma, a bio-med senior, told the Messenger when informed of Khalil's situation. The FBI was being careful, but the FBI's personal feelings played into their treatment of the family, said Nidhi Babbar, a senior biology major. America is full of immigrants. When someone from another country does something wrong, you can't just link everyone of that descent to the crime. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-03-01 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File v15n2.doc VTMBH Article: Hit Count 204 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource CCNY student and family arrested by FBI, face deportation; students, faculty organize in her defense 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. Reem Khalil, a senior biochemistry major at City College, and her family remain in New Jerseys Hudso Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-03-01 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 18 VTMBH Article: Article Order 2 VTMBH Article: Title Dont let it happen to your child VTMBH Article: Author Tony Best VTMBH Article: Publication New York Carib News VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb Michael Singh, 35, came to the United States from Jamaica when he was one year old. But apparently, neither he nor his parents sought U.S. citizenship for him, forcing him 34 years later to resign from an elected government position in Stratford, Conn. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body This is a wakeup call to hundreds, if not thousands, of Caribbean parents. Dont let it happen to your child. Joan Foy, the head of the immigration unit of the Caribbean Womens Health Association was using the unfortunate example of a West Indian elected official in a suburban community in Connecticut who resigned last week as Majority Leader of the Stratford Town Council after state officials raised questions about his citizenship. Michael Singh, 35, came to the United States from Jamaica when he was one year old, and apparently, neither he nor his parents sought to make him a naturalized American citizen and when the issue arose about his immigration status he had to resign from the influential position. I have seen hundreds of cases of people from Jamaica, Barbados, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada and other Caribbean countries whose children ran into somewhat similar problems or even worst, said Foy, herself an immigrant from Aruba. The tragedy in many of these cases is that far too often the young people themselves didnt even know that they were not citizens. They assumed that because they went through school and were living in the United States from the time they were little children that they were American citizens. But when they run into trouble with the law or were seeking certain positions or opportunities, which require U.S. citizenship, it was only then that they found out, rather painfully, that they are not citizens. Thats why the case of Mr. Singh in Connecticut is a wake-up call for thousands of parents who didnt take the step of ensuring that their children were naturalized. Singh, a Democrat, was forced to resign by his colleagues on the Town Council, state officials and by residents of Stratford. He quit the position, to which he was elected in November, in a letter of resignation sent to the Town Clerk, in which he simply expressed thanks for the chance to serve but didnt explain why he was leaving. It has been a privilege and an honor to serve the people, said the West Indian. Let me express my sincere appreciation to the many good people of Stratford who have supported me as a dedicated public servant. Many states around the country stipulate that candidates for local office at the state and local levels must be American citizens, either through naturalization or by birth. Its a federal requirement that people running for the U.S. House of Representatives or the Senate must be citizens. Connecticut is a state with such a law on its books. Any person found guilty of breaking it could end up spending five years in prison or be slapped with a criminal fine of up to $5,000 and be forced to up to $2,000 in civil fines. In addition, he or she could be deported to their birthplace. Connecticut state officials must now make a final decision in Singhs case, meaning it must determine once and for all if he was a citizen. Our investigation is continuing into the matter involving Singh, said Jeffrey B. Garfield, executive director of the Connecticut State Elections Enforcement Commission, the agency that made a preliminary finding that the West Indian was probably not a U.S. citizen. Garfield explained that the Commission had voted unanimously that based on the information they had received from several official government sources, Singh wasnt a citizen. As a matter of fact, Singhs lawyer, Anthony Avallone, told a reporter that his client didnt know if he was a citizen or not and was now investigating his immigration status. Foy didnt find the Singh case to be unusual. I have seen so many of these kinds of cases that I would believe him if he said he actually didnt know his immigration status, said CWHAs immigration attorney. That kind of thing is quite common, especially among people who came here at an early age, went through school, assuming that they were citizens when in fact they were not because their parents never bother to ensure that they were naturalized. As a matter of fact, said Foy, many West Indians have been deported to Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados, Grenada, St. Lucia, and other countries in the region because their parents didnt apply for naturalization for them when they were young. And in some cases, the parents themselves didnt become citizens and they are paying a heavy price for that failure. I keep advising clients who turn to CWHA for assistance on immigration matters to become citizens, she said. We are living in different times, ever since the 1996 immigration reform measures became the law of the land. Its a shame but that's what is happening and parents owe it to their children to remove that cloud of uncertainty from their childrens heads. It has happened that teenagers or young adults run into trouble with the law and its only when they are confronted with the possibility of being deported that they realized the trouble they are in. The entire landscape has changed and people should recognize that fact. Citizenship is important. Several Caribbean nations are now reeling from the after-effects of the 1996 immigration law, which requires that people who are not citizens and who commit felonies must be deported. Law enforcement authorities in Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Guyana and other Caribbean countries have complained that the criminal deportees from the United States were largely responsible for an upsurge in serious crimes. They have complained about drug traffickers, armed robbers and other criminals who went to the United States when they were infants now been dumped on their countries. For example, Dr. Basil Bryan, Jamaicas Counsel-General, said sometime ago that many of the criminal deportees had few, if any, relatives in Jamaica and elsewhere, after having lived in the United States for almost all of their lives. Some of them left when they were two, three, or four years and are now in their early twenties but dont have any connections with the region and when they are deported they resort to a life of crime, he said. This is a real problem we have in Jamaica and many of our Caribbean neighbors are experiencing a similar situation. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-04-30 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 122 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dont let it happen to your child 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. unknown Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. article Original Name The original name of this item. Michael Singh, 35, came to the United States from Jamaica when he was one year old. But apparently, Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-04-30 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 40 VTMBH Article: Article Order 4 VTMBH Article: Title ADL rips ACLU on terror stance VTMBH Article: Author Ori Nir VTMBH Article: Publication Forward VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), castigated the ACLU for running what he called an overzealous, excessive and extreme campaign against measures that the Bush administration has taken to fight terrorism, which the ACLU says compromise Americans civil rights. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body The leader of a Jewish defense organization that traditionally sides with civil libertarians is zinging the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for its stance on President Bushs war against terrorism. In an interview with the Forward, Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), castigated the ACLU for running what he called an overzealous, excessive and extreme campaign against measures that the Bush administration has taken to fight terrorism, which the ACLU says compromise Americans civil rights. Foxman reacted last week to a media campaign launched by the ACLU this month that includes television spots depicting Attorney General John Ashcroft as defacing the Constitution. The ACLU plays an important role in being a monitor and a guard and a watch to make sure that our freedoms are protected. However, every once in a while it loses perspective, Foxman said. To go on a media campaign with a broad brush stroke is excessive. I find it extreme to accuse this administration or the attorney general of deliberately acting to violate our laws or our constitution or our civil rights. The ACLUs $3 million campaign is described as the largest mobilization of resources in the organizations 82-year history and the first campaign involving a national television ad. In addition to the television spots, the campaign includes lobbying efforts, litigation efforts and a public-awareness drive of newspaper ads and brochures, primarily targeting the USA Patriot Act, which Congress passed last year following the September 11th terrorist attacks. The Patriot Act, adopted six weeks after the attacks, vastly expanded the administrations authority to spy on citizens and residents while easing judicial oversight. At the time, the ACLU sought the support of Jewish organizations in its criticism of the new legislation. Most Jewish organizations refused to join although the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, the lobbying arm of the Reform movement, wrote a letter to Ashcroft pointing out some of its objections to the administrations approach to battling terrorism. This time the ACLU acted alone, declining to build a coalition of organizations to support its campaign. In the ACLUs television spots, Ashcroft is portrayed as someone who has seized powers for the Bush administration that no president should have: the right to investigate you for what you say, to intrude on your privacy, to hold you in jail without charging you with a crime. Foxman said that the validity of such assertions should be tested in the court, not by any broad statements with a blitz campaign. The ACLU should not be scaring the American public, he added, that it is about to lose its rights. The ACLU vigorously defended its campaign. As we have done for the last 80 years, the ACLU will seek to stimulate debate challenging both the administration and the Congress to insure safety and liberty, said Laura Murphy, director of ACLUs Washington, D.C. national office. The ACLU believes that American society can be both safe and free, but doing so must start with an informed public. Even Attorney General Ashcroft has encouraged such a debate. Ashcroft himself issued what seemed to be a mild reaction to the campaign, saying, I am glad to live in a country where the ACLU can criticize me and vigorously debate the issues. I consider it my job as attorney general to make sure that this and all of our freedoms endure. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-10-25 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 69 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), castigated the ACLU for runni Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-10-25 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 9 VTMBH Article: Article Order 9 VTMBH Article: Title "Pi&#241;ero" is another Hollywood sucker punch to Latinos VTMBH Article: Author Aurora Flores VTMBH Article: Publication Siempre VTMBH Article: Original Language VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section edits VTMBH Article: Blurb The movie disrespects Latinos by celebrating Piñero as an icon of Nuyorican creativity and poetic art while ignoring the rampant rumors of pedophilia and even his sociopathic qualities. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Hollywood has hit Latinos with another sucker punch in this disjointed and undeveloped portrait of a psychopath. Worse than West Side Story, Badge 353 and Fort Apache, Pi?ero takes us on a walk on the wild side of hell without so much as a whisper of the rampant rumors of pedophilia surrounding this twisted, demented sociopath, whom the film celebrates as an icon of Nuyorican creativity. Miguel Pi?ero appeared on the New York artistic scene in 1974, with the presentation of Short Eyes, a play he wrote in a prison workshop while serving time in Sing Sing for armed robbery. Presented first by La Familia, then Lincoln Center and Joseph Papps Public Theater, the play became a hit. It won the N. Y. Drama Critics Circle Award for best American play before it was turned into a movie. The work was about someone who abused boys only to find himself in jail among prisoners who can forgive anything but. Piñero (who always told writers to write what they know, and surely knew this topic as both victim and predator) was tapped by Hollywood to write and act about crime and criminals for shows like Baretta, Miami Vice and others. The film opens with the multilayered beats of Hector LaVoes salsa pulsating. The beginning scenes slice through Piñero's black and white past with technical wizardry which masks the lack of infrastructure, stunted script and character development in the quick-paced, eye-blinking, MTV-ish frames. We see a jive-time hustler spewing smart-alecky street rhymes in jail. We move to a troubled child, beset by poverty and incest. We then see a strung-out junkie in a dope den, pimping the talent that took him out of jail. Then were back to his mother, holding onto five children and calmly telling the father to leave, after witnessing his rape of her eldest son. Welcome to the avant-garde. Actor Benjamin Bratts total possession of Piñeros spirit, however, is brilliant, electrifying and shocking. Bratt breaks through his previous papi chulo roles, bringing Piñero to life as vividly as the heroin that danced with Mikey through decadent degradation and debauchery. Like a lightweight boxer, Bratt pounces and punches his posse with words heard only in the deepest and most desperate layer of urban subculture. I have to keep doing bad to keep the writing good, is how Piñero justifies his anti-social behavior. But his writing was never all that to begin with. The topic of pedophile-as-underdog has been done many times over. The Quare Fellow, Brendon Behan's play about an imprisoned child molester murdered by his fellow inmates was produced here in New York before Short Eyes. And while Piñero's poetic rhetoric spoke of strength against the oppressor and societys hypocrisy, his soul was corrupted by his total weakness and enslavement to drugs and dereliction. There were moments of lucidity as the Puerto Rican/Nuyorican poets encounter each other. Piñero comes face to face with Puerto Rican scholars on the Island who repudiate his art and lifestyle. Piñero, the defiantly cool captive of his own dysfunction, outs the colonized slavery of the Islands academia as a sanctimonious identity not their own. By contrast, the scene where Piñeros play is presented by Papp to a packed audience is telling. In his moment of triumph, Piñero shows his ass to the world. The sun was not always shining for this cool dude. In his sickness and arrogance, Piñero never recognized his self-described junkie Christ as anti-Christ. Even in death, his unholy alliance with mainstream American media once again contemptuously maligns the hard working, self-sacrificing Latino artistic community that rises above its horrific childhood traumas to create works of true literary insight, craft and artistry as legacy of our pride and courage. Understandably, sensationalized commercial films sell tickets, but for a community still invisible on the screen, marginalized in society and misunderstood by its neighbors, this is one more attempt to show only the pus-infected canker sores of a debauched existence. On some deeper level, maybe Piñero knew he was being patronized and displayed like a curious monkey with humanlike qualities by the cultural elite who saw him more as freak than peer. He may be laughing right now at how, in death, he can still steal ten dollars from everyone who sees his film. The absence of real female characters in this contorted macho nightmare flies in the face of the founding of the Nuyorican Poets Café. The Café was founded on the poems of Sandra Maria Esteves, one of the cultural warriors of the Nuyorican frontline never mentioned in this hallucination. Neither are other worthy soldiers such as Victor Hernandez Cruz, Papoleto, Eddie Figueroa, Tato LaViera, el Coco que Habla, et al. But it's just as well. Even comic John Leguizamo refused to play the role after he researched Piñeros life. ¡Vaya Juanito! Clearly many of the new breed of poets look to the Nuyorican Poets Cafe as an alternative showcase for literary voices that relate to our reality. And there are many who answered the calling. Piñero was not one of them. And to claim that this was the precursor to hip hop and rap when The Last Poets had already carved a role as political griots of that particular social shift in time is bogus indeed. This is not a film to take a sensitive young artist to. Nor is it a portrait of an exemplary Latino talent that survived New York's dark reality. This is a film that celebrates the reckless life of someone who was abused by his father, let down by his mother and everyone around him; a deviant who crashed and burned under the weight of living taking a few down with him. Some hero. The Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund, the Institute of Puerto Rican Policy and the National Hispanic Media Coalition presented the community screening I attended. The Village Seven Theater was packed with community leaders from the arts, education, social services and politics. The applause for the movies spokespeople, Miguel Algarin, Giancarlo Esposito, Nelson Vasquez and Tim Williams was lukewarm. Questions about Hollywoods spotlight on negative Latino images and incest were glibly and smugly shrugged off or totally ignored by Algarin, who displayed the same self-delusional aplomb and cockiness as the film's protagonist. The response was polite curiosity from the crowd. But once everyone dispersed outside, the consensus was transparent. Miguelthe emperor has no clothes. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-02-09 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File e2.doc VTMBH Article: Hit Count 164 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Pi&#241;ero" is another Hollywood sucker punch to Latinos 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. unknown Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. article Original Name The original name of this item. The movie disrespects Latinos by celebrating Piñero as an icon of Nuyorican creativity and poetic ar Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-02-09 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 14 VTMBH Article: Article Order 1 VTMBH Article: Title Demanding labor dignity and jobs with justice VTMBH Article: Author Gloria Cruz VTMBH Article: Publication El Diario / La Prensa VTMBH Article: Original Language Spanish VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb Deli workers in New York City, supported by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) Local 1500, protested their working conditions Monday. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Deli workers in New York City, supported by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) Local 1500, protested their working conditions Monday. Among other things, the protestors demanded that they be treated with dignity and respect and that they be paid the wages that the law stipulates, including overtime. Many are required to work between 10 and 12 hours a day, six days a week. The protest happened in the heart of Manhattan, at 43rd Street and Madison Avenue. <i>Photo courtesy of El Diario.</i> VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-04-02 VTMBH Article: Thumb PROTEST-DELI-WORKERStn.jpg VTMBH Article: Article File v14n1.doc VTMBH Article: Hit Count 86 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Deli workers in New York City, supported by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) Loca 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. 2002-04-02 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 31 VTMBH Article: Article Order 1 VTMBH Article: Title Landlord of building where boy died stole rent money meant for poor VTMBH Article: Author William Wichert and Jordan Moss VTMBH Article: Publication Norwood News VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb Jashawn Parker submerged himself in a bathtub to stave off the fire in his apartment, but that quick thinking wasnt enough to protect him from years of landlord neglect. The landlord, Eric Gladstein, is currently on probation for stealing funds from a government program that provides rent money to poor tenants; an accomplice awaits sentencing on related charges. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body A fire claimed the life of eight-year-old Jashawn Parker just before midnight on Aug. 6. The PS 94 student, whose summer school classwork work was on display at the memorial outside the building, submerged himself in a bathtub full of water to stave off the flames which followed a loud explosion in the apartment. But that quick thinking wasnt enough to protect the boy from years of landlord neglect that had tenants, city officials and advocates in court for at least two years in hopes of taking the building away from its owner. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. In addition to the plumbing, electrical and wiring problems that plague the building, the landlord of the building where Parker died3569 DeKalb Avenueis now serving a three-year sentence of probation for stealing money from a government program that provides rent money to poor tenants. According to court documents obtained by the Norwood News, landlord Eric Gladstein of Quest Property Management IV Corp. was indicted in April 2001 for working with Deborah Pollock and Marla Lopez of Community Law Advocates, Inc. (CLA) to steal over $300,000 in welfare housing funds from the citys Human Resources Administration (HRA). Pollock, then an executive deputy commissioner-designate of HRA (she was never fully appointed but served in the position until June 2000), used her position at CLA, a non-profit group she formed in 1998 on behalf of struggling tenants, to squeeze funds from a state program that assisted welfare recipients who could not pay their rent. With her influence at HRA, Pollock and her associates at Palazzolo Investment Group, a collection of Bronx landlords including Gladstein, took advantage of the aid available through the Jiggetts relief program. While tenants facing eviction charges by their landlords may qualify for Jiggetts relief, Pollock and CLA presented relief applications containing false eviction suits to the Rental Assistance Unit of HRA. The tenants were not being evicted, but their landlords were cashing in on their names. Between October of 1998 and December of 2000, CLA submitted at least 66 false applications, each of which was worth thousands of dollars. Pollock and Lopez would file applications with HRA on behalf of tenants in buildings owned by either Pollock herself or the other landlords in the Palazzolo Investment Group. In September 1999, Gladstein directed that fictional index numbers be placed on documents purporting to be Bronx Housing Court pleadings as proof that eviction suits had been initiated against tenants in his buildings, according to court documents. Then he arranged for Pollock to be paid 10 percent of the Jiggetts relief payments that he directly received. Gladstein ultimately pled guilty in January 2002 to charges of petty larceny. He paid $40,851 in restitution and began a three-year probation sentence on March 22, said Brad Maione, a spokesman for Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, one of the officials who sought the indictment. Pollock is awaiting sentencing on numerous charges of grand larceny, conspiracy in the fourth degree, and defrauding the government, among others. She is also facing a separate indictment on charges of tax evasion for 1998 and 1999, during which time she did not report income earned from CLA, her real estate corporations, and payments received from the landlords. This was as cynical a crime as you could possibly imagine, Spitzer said in a press release issued on April 3, 2001. At the very time Pollock was supposed to be helping the poor with their housing problems, she was using her positions with the city and her non-profit group to abuse the system, steal from taxpayers and line her pockets and those of her partners. Tenants were being used, without their knowledge, as pawns in the fraudulent scheme. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-08-28 VTMBH Article: Thumb boy_portrait.gif VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 124 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Landlord of building where boy died stole rent money meant for poor 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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. Jashawn Parker submerged himself in a bathtub to stave off the fire in his apartment, but that quick Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-08-28 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 30 VTMBH Article: Article Order 4 VTMBH Article: Title Kosher tale nabs a frankenfish VTMBH Article: Author Max Gross VTMBH Article: Publication Forward VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb How do you get a live, illegal, non-native snakefish when nobody is selling them? Easypretend youre an Orthodox Jew. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Dick Horne was at a loss. How do you get a live, illegal, non-native fisha fish that scavenges and destroys the local ecosystem when it is put in an alien habitatwhen nobody is selling them? Easypretend youre an Orthodox Jew. Apparently, it worked. Horne, the co-proprietor of the American Dime Museum in Baltimore, acquired three live northern snakehead fish from a market in New Yorks Chinatowndespite restrictions barring the sale of live snakeheadsby asking a friend to claim that she was an Orthodox Jew who needed to kill the fish according to dietary laws. As a result, Hornes oddball museum is one of the few places gawkers can see a live snakehead, which captured headlines this summer after members of the carnivorous, three-foot-long, reputedly land-walking species were discovered thriving in a Crofton, Md., pond, close to the Patuxent River. The Crofton invader was released live into the pond by someone who bought the fish from a market. Fears that the Frankenfish would invade ecosystems around the country led officials to poison the pond, and Interior Secretary Gale Norton to propose a federal ban on importing live snakeheads. Such notoriety is a powerful lure for Horne, whose museum is named after the 19th-century museums propagated by P. T. Barnum. Horne felt a live snakehead would be an important acquisition for a museum that already exhibits a Fiji Mermaid, a shrunken head and Vietnamese nuclear worms. There was only one problem. They didnt want to sell me a live one, Horne said of the Chinese fish markets where snakeheads are considered a specialty, especially when smoked and dried. Horne called a friend who performs under the name Ula the Pain-Proof Rubbergirlshes a virtuoso contortionistand asked her to buy the fish for him. What am I gonna say? Ula asked. Tell them youre an Orthodox Jew, Horne replied. Ulas story, that she had to bring a live fish to a rabbi who would slaughter it according to Jewish law, seemed to have worked. Never mind that whether a fish is kosher or not has nothing to do with the way it is killed. There is no kosher way to kill a fish, said Murray Shaw, managing editor of Kosher Today, a monthly trade newspaper. Just take it out of the water. Shaw, who never comments on whether something is kosher, added, I would highly doubt this thing is kosher. Since coming to the museum, the three snakeheadsnamed Oedipus, Fluffy and Bartholomewhave been an instant success. Weve just come off the best month weve ever had, Horne said. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-08-09 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 285 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kosher tale nabs a frankenfish 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. unknown Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. article Original Name The original name of this item. How do you get a live, illegal, non-native snakefish when nobody is selling them? Easypretend youre Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-08-09 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 25 VTMBH Article: Article Order 3 VTMBH Article: Title The state of New Yorks Bangladeshi landlords VTMBH Article: Author VTMBH Article: Publication Weekly Thikana VTMBH Article: Original Language Bangla VTMBH Article: Translator Moinuddin Naser VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb Since 1993, several hundred Bangladeshis have bought buildings in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Long Island through newly-licensed Bangladeshi real estate agents, and rented the buildings to tenants. But as the recession hits the Bangladeshi community, landlords face growing tenant delinquency and are selling their buildings in Queens, and relocating to comparatively cheap areas in Long Island, Brooklyn, Richmond, Staten Island and the Bronx. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body The state New Yorks of Bangladeshi landlords, Weekly Thikana, 28 June 2002. Translated from Banlga by Moinuddin Naser Many Bangladeshi landlords who live in Queens and Manhattan face growing dilemmas. They have problems making their mortgage payments because their tenants are not paying their rent on time. Therefore, they sometimes keep their buildings vacant until they find reliable tenants. With the buildings vacant, they still have trouble with their mortgage payments. As a result, owners who bought houses with small down payments face hardships paying off their mortgage. Since 1993, several hundred Bangladeshis have bought houses in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Long Island through newly licensed Bangladeshi real estate agents. Many became building owners with only a five-to-ten percent down payment. As a result, their mortgage payments are higher than average. However, they were easily able to manage the payments from the rent they collected. As a result, many Bangladeshis enthusiastically pursued home ownership, usually at no additional cost than their previous monthly rent. To buy houses, they often spent all of their savings and applied for a lot of credit. Most owners preferred Bangladeshi tenants. But now things have changed, as many landlords and tenants are tangled in litigationleaving many owners without rent payments for six to seven months. In many places, it has been hard to find tenants. As a result, the owners, who depended on the tenants rent to pay the loan, have failed to repay the outstanding installments. Therefore, many Bangladeshis have had to work overtime and their wives have taken jobs as well, leaving their children unattendeda bad situation for the family. The landlords of Bangladeshi community are relocating to the cheaper areas of New York. Tenants are also moving to these cheaper areas to reduce their rent. Many Bangladeshi homeowners are selling their houses in Astoria, Jamaica, Elmhurst, Long Island City and Jackson Heights, and relocating to comparatively cheap areas in Long Island; Brooklyn; Richmond, Staten Island; and the Bronx, where their presence contributes to the law and order of their neighborhoods. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-06-28 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 174 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The state of New Yorks Bangladeshi landlords 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. unknown Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. article Original Name The original name of this item. Since 1993, several hundred Bangladeshis have bought buildings in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Long Islan Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-06-28 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 13 VTMBH Article: Article Order 4 VTMBH Article: Title Dovish group snags dinner talk by U.S. Envoy Zinni, activists read coup for signs of Bush's tilt VTMBH Article: Author Rachel Donadio VTMBH Article: Publication Forward VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb General Zinnis appearancethe first before an American Jewish audiencewill come at a particularly sensitive time, as American Jewish organizations are jostling influence on Bushs Middle Eastern policy. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body U.S. Middle East envoy General Anthony Zinni is slated to headline a gala dinner next month at the Israel Policy Forum, the dovish American group that was once synonymous with the Clinton administrations Middle East policy. Scheduled for April 7 at Manhattan's splashy Chelsea Piers, the dinner will be the retired Marine general's first major appearance as envoy before an American Jewish audience. It comes at a particularly sensitive time, as American Jewish organizations are jostling for a position to influence American Middle East policy. Although IPF said it had invited Zinni two months ago, before he was sent back to the region, his appearance prompted ample speculation about what he would say and to whom he chose to say it. IPF, which was founded in 1993 to rally support for the Oslo peace accords, points to the Zinni appearance as a sign of its growing clout with the Bush administration. IPF leaders said that in the last two months they had been holding frequent briefings with top administration officials, urging a more active U.S. role. Organizations that have been cooler to U.S. involvement since the collapse of the Oslo peace process publicly downplayed the significance of the Zinni appearance. Those opposed to Oslo harshly criticized Zinni's acceptance of the IPF invitation. Privately, many say IPF holds little sway with the administration. By continuing to advocate outreach to Arabs in an atmosphere in which most Jewish organizations are highlighting the futility of negotiating with the Palestinians, IPF has set itself apart. While more hawkish groups have blasted the proposal by Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah calling on Israel to return territories to the Palestinians in exchange for rapprochment with surrounding Arab countries, IPF officials have called it "a good example of how other Arab parties can play a constructive role" in resolving the Middle East conflict. [The Jerusalem Post reported that a Palestinian delegation had traveled to Saudi Arabia last week to try to convince the Saudis to include an agreement reached at Taba in the fall of 2000, when Clinton's team was still brokering the negotiations. The Palestinians reportedly urged that the Saudi plan include a "just, agreed solution" to the refugee problem, putting the Saudis and Palestinians at odds with Syria and Lebanon which demanded explicit endorsement of the "right of return."] Some say the planned Zinni appearance highlights a growing rift between IPF and other more mainstream organizations such as the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, American Jewry's main consensus umbrella organization on Israel, which has maintained a more cautious approach to American involvement in the Middle East. Michael Sonnenfeld, chairman emeritus of IPF and one of its two co-founders, said that he had brokered the Zinni appearance. "It will be the most high-profile, largest Jewish audience that he will address," Sonnenfeld said. "We've been directly in touch with him and with his people, and we haven't been given indication that he will not be there, but it's obviously a very fluid situation," added Jonathan Jacoby, a consultant to IPF and its former executive director. A spokesman for Zinni at the State Department did not return calls for comment. Sonnenfeld said he met Zinni at a State Department lunch last November, shortly after the general was named special envoy, and had kept in touch ever since. IPF has maintained particularly close ties to the State Department, whose Middle East division includes Clinton administration holdovers, among them Zinni's deputy, Aaron Miller, who has long been a friend of IPF. Sonnefeld said that in the last two months IPF had begun briefing "senior members of the administration" privately on a study that it had commissioned in June and will publicly unveil at the gala. Carried out by IPF independent scholar Stephen P. Cohen, the study, "Foundations for a Future Peace," lists "ten principles for Mideast peacemaking." These include involving the United States "as the credible, effective primary mediator" and encouraging the Arab states to play an active role. In its briefings with the administration, "we've received extraordinarily warm feedback about the insight and how helpful the results of this first phase of our study are," Sonnenfeld said. "I think the combination of the briefings that we've had, the participation by members of the administration through our weekly briefings and our materials have all combined to create a set of building blocks on which the relationship had been built." Jacoby declined to specify which individuals IPF had briefed. He said the group had met with "basically every key person in the State Department, Defense Department, White House and vice president's office that deals with the Middle East." He said the most recent briefing was with Senate staffers last week. Some hawks saw the Zinni appearance as a sign that the Bush administration did not have Israel's best interests at heart. "In politics, everything is carefully planned out, and I believe this has policy implications," said Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America. "Zinni speaking to a far-left group that supports one-sided concessions makes one question whether those are the real views of the administration that Zinni represents." "Just as [Former Prime Minister] Ehud Barak made his first major speech in the U.S. to the IPF, sending a clear signal of one-sided concessions to come," Klein said, "I think Zinni's choosing, as his first major public forum in the Jewish world, a group founded by the Labor party from the far left sends a very disturbing message." Klein said it was "a mistake" that Zinni "has chosen to speak to an organization that represents a fringe element of the American Jewish world, and certainly doesn't represent in any way, shape or form the policies of the Israeli government." "I hope Zinni will share what's really going on with Arafat rather than IPF trying to share with him their outdated philosophies," said Rabbi Pesach Lerner, executive vice president of the National Council of Young Israel, a right-wing Orthodox group. "It's too much already! How can anyone honestly believe that Arafat's a partner that can be trusted?" For its part, IPF calls itself a "centrist" group and claims that it represents the mainstream of American Jewry, which it said was in favor of Oslo. "If the Conference of Presidents by consensus were to conclude that the most important thing that could happen in the peace process is that the American government be central to it, then I guess there never would have been an Israel Policy Forum," said Theodore Mann, a member of the IPF executive committee and a former chairman of the President's Conference during the Carter administration. Other groups downplayed its significance. "AIPAC thinks it's great that Gen. Zinni is addressing the Jewish community about his recent trip," said Rebecca Needler, a spokeswoman for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the pro-Israel lobby. "I make nothing of it except that they were smart enough to issue an invitation, and he accepted in advance," said Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League. "However, if he is successful he may not be here for April 7." To say IPF was the new address for the administration in the Jewish community "would be an overstatement," Foxman said. He dismissed the idea that IPF was overshadowing the Conference of Presidents in the administration's eyes. "I think this is making something out of nothing," he said. The Zinni appearance "doesn't mean that they won't be in touch with other groups and will ignore them," said Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Reform movement's Union of American Hebrew Congregations, referring to the Bush administration. Rather, he said, "people who've advocated an American involvement are an address for this kind of presentation." Yet some of the same groups that downplayed the Zinni appearance have had their own share of bad blood with IPF in recent weeks. Earlier this month the Presidents Conference and AIPAC boycotted an IPF-brokered meeting in Washington with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak after it emerged that the Egyptians had banned Foxman from the meeting because of his harsh criticism of anti-Semitic tirades in the Egyptian press. IPF representatives attended the March 5 meeting, which was co-organized by the American Jewish Committee, as did representatives of Americans for Peace Now and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs. Other members of the Conference of Presidents said they were agnostic on the Zinni appearance at IPF. "I don't think it's an endorsement of the IPF," said Mandell Ganchrow, executive vice president of the Religious Zionists of America. "I don't think it sends any statement except from the point of view of IPF. They believe in the peace process; it's something they're trying to push." The IPF dinner will honor Marcia Riklis, a Jewish community activist who chaired the IPF's study group on Middle East diplomacy; Gail Furman, a Middle East peace activist and clinical psychologist at New York University Medical School who has compiled a book of drawings by Israeli and Palestinian children, and Peter Joseph, a Manhattan investment banker who is the president-elect of the new Jewish Community Center in Manhattan. <i>The Forward is the English-language sister paper of the Yiddish Forward and Russian Forward, Jewish papers that cover the national and international news in Manhattan.</i> VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-03-29 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File v13n4.doc VTMBH Article: Hit Count 163 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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General Zinnis appearancethe first before an American Jewish audiencewill come at a particularly sen Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-03-29 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 45 VTMBH Article: Article Order 3 VTMBH Article: Title Schumer promises aid to Latino nonprofits VTMBH Article: Author Ana Ledo VTMBH Article: Publication El Diario / La Prensa VTMBH Article: Original Language Spanish VTMBH Article: Translator Hannah Emmerich VTMBH Article: Section briefs VTMBH Article: Blurb VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Senator Charles Schumer met yesterday with directors of Latino community and nonprofit organizations to present his plan to increase donations from major foundations on the basis that these organizations do not receive a fair share of available funding from foundations and charitable trusts. According to a 2000 study, only 13 of the 50 largest foundations in the nation, such as The Pew Charitable Foundation, The Ford Foundation, and The Rockefeller Foundation, have donated funds to Latino organizations in New York. Schumer indicated that these nonprofits received only 1.3 percent of available funds from charitable foundations, while Latinos comprise 13 percent of the nations population. Its not that these foundations dont want to fund Latino organizations, or that these organizations dont deserve the money, but rather there seems to be a lack of communication between the two parties, said the senator. He added that in the majority of cases, Latino organizations are very small and often lack the resources to apply for grants. The senators plan calls for philanthropic foundations to advertise upcoming grant opportunities through the Spanish-speaking media. Under the plan, foundations will also offer Latino organizations and nonprofits workshops on grant-writing and technical assistance during the application process. However, nonprofit directors complained that even when they do apply for grants from foundations, the money is never offered. We give aid to hundreds of thousands of citizens, not only Latinos, and we have asked for funding but the answer is always no, said Yolanda Sanchez, director of the Puerto Rican Association for Community Action (PRACA). For his part, Schumer indicated that he would organize a meeting in the near future between foundation directors and community organizations. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-12-05 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 54 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Schumer promises aid to Latino nonprofits 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 39 VTMBH Article: Article Order 2 VTMBH Article: Title Are small businesses prey in New York City? Small businesses are angry with the reckless issuing of tickets VTMBH Article: Author JeeWoo Jung VTMBH Article: Publication Korea Times New York VTMBH Article: Original Language Korean VTMBH Article: Translator Jeongwoo Han VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb An endless stream of inspectors and other ticket-issuing personnel from the New York City Consumer Affairs Department, the Health Department, the Sanitation Department, the Buildings Department, and the Fire Department have been visiting small businesses. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Due to New York Citys deficit, small businesses are suffering from unreasonable tickets issued by the city. The City government in the last two years has recorded a loss of $500 million, and it is in the worst financial situation since the financial crisis of 1970. Some civil servants warned that, if the situation does not get any better soon, there is a high possibility that the New York City government will become bankrupt. To decrease deficit spending, the New York City government is implementing money-collecting tactics. Small businesses are most affected by this strategy. An endless stream of inspectors and other ticket-issuing personnel from the New York City Consumer Affairs Department, the Health Department, the Sanitation Department, the Buildings Department, and the Fire Department have been visiting small businesses. Mr. P., who runs a small telecommunications business in Jackson Heights, Queens, was recently fined by an inspector from the Consumer Affairs Department for not displaying the price tags on phones clearly enough. According to Mr. P., in addition to the price tag violation, the inspector also tried to claim that the taxes were not properly written down in the accounting book. Mr. Kim, who owns a deli in Elmhurst, Queens, said that he was fined by an inspector from the Building Department, who came without notice and claimed that the stores sign violated city rules. If the New York City government uses such cowardly means to resolve its fiscal problem, then it will never succeed, Mr. Kim said. He ranted, If, due to these inspectors, small businesses leave New York City, how does the City expect to regain its economic strength? People worry that New York Citys massive ticketing spree will continue until the budget is balanced. Although this sudden strictness in law enforcement may not be comprehensible by the small business owners, once an inspector notices a violation, a ticket is unavoidable. New Yorks small businesses are suffering doubly: one because of the recession, and two because of the ticketing burden. 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An endless stream of inspectors and other ticket-issuing personnel from the New York City Consumer A Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-10-15 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 26 VTMBH Article: Article Order 1 VTMBH Article: Title Starting a petition for legal status for undocumented immigrants VTMBH Article: Author Sunghoon Lee VTMBH Article: Publication Korea Daily News VTMBH Article: Original Language Korean VTMBH Article: Translator Bo Kwon VTMBH Article: Section edits VTMBH Article: Blurb Last week, I visited churches and cathedrals to get signatures for the campaign to secure legal status for undocumented immigrants. many Korean-Americans encouraged me, saying such kind words as good job, and youre doing a wonderful thing. As I witnessed the positive reaction of the Korean-American community to the campaign, I felt proud of my work. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Whenever I hear the words undocumented immigrants, or illegal immigrants, I am reminded of my friend from high school. Like many other high school students, my friend and I enjoyed our teenage years together. During our senior year, however, I discovered that he was an undocumented immigrant. My friend, who was bright, friendly, and full of smiles that he often shared with others, began to go astray, and his difficult financial circumstances forced him to throw away his acceptance letter from SUNY and enter a two-year college instead. Since then, we have lost touch, but during my involvement with the Signature Campaign to Grant Legal Status to Undocumented Immigrants, I could not stop thinking about him. According to the 2000 Census, there are currently about 180,000 undocumented Korean immigrants in America, and 45,000 of them live in New York. Regardless of how or why they came to the United States, they are all leading immigrant lives. They work just as hard as green card holders or naturalized citizens, and diligently pay taxes to the United States government. Nevertheless, because of their lack of legal status, undocumented immigrants are excluded from all government benefits and cannot even receive financial aid for education, which are funded by the taxes that they pay. The tragedy of September 11th has further exacerbated the lives of undocumented immigrants: the undocumented immigrant victims of September 11th, as well as their families, had to remain silent because of their illegal status and thus received no compensation. Fortunately, there is some good news. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which is the biggest labor union in the United States, began a signature campaign to secure legal status for undocumented immigrants. This signifies a major change in the American labor unions outlook on immigrant laborers. Previously, many labor unions in the United States have ignored the issue of immigrant workers, maintaining that an influx of immigrant labor destroys the established labor wage system. Many Korean-American organizations, including the National Korean American Service and Education Confederation, have joined such campaigns. Last week, I visited churches and cathedrals to get signatures for the campaign. Despite the hot weather, many Korean-Americans encouraged me, saying such kind words as good job, and youre doing a wonderful thing. Some elderly women asked if I was hungry and even brought me food. As I witnessed the positive reaction of the Korean-American community to the campaign, I felt proud of my work. There is always at least one undocumented immigrant around us, whether he or she is a friend, or a colleague. We should not turn away from the burdens and sufferings of undocumented immigrants. Even on a humanitarian level, if these people have led an exemplary life as a citizen, performing all of its required duties, isnt it time for them to earn legal status? This week, I am once again participating in the Signature Campaign to Grant Legal Status to Undocumented Immigrants. It is for my friend from high school, for my neighbors, and for the numerous families of the victims of September 11th who had to grieve in silence. I hope that more Korean-Americans will participate in the campaign and show their support and care. <i> The author is a campaign coordinator for the National Korean American Service and Education Confederation.</i> VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-07-03 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 108 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Starting a petition for legal status for undocumented immigrants 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. unknown Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. article Original Name The original name of this item. Last week, I visited churches and cathedrals to get signatures for the campaign to secure legal stat Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-07-03 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 25 VTMBH Article: Article Order 1 VTMBH Article: Title Terence Park has chance to become Flushing Democratic Party leader VTMBH Article: Author Jong Hoon Kim VTMBH Article: Publication Korea Daily VTMBH Article: Original Language Korean VTMBH Article: Translator Sunkyu Yun VTMBH Article: Section briefs VTMBH Article: Blurb VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body The Democratic Party has announced that it would officially support Asian candidates for the Party District leadership. At the June 17 press conference held in front of the Flushing Library, four candidates, including Korean-American Terence Park, seeking the District 22s top leadership positions in the Democratic Party officially announced their candidacies. They also revealed that their candidacies are getting official support from the Queens Democratic Party. They added that, for the first time, the Party is granting its endorsement to these Asian Americans running for party leadership positions. On September 10, the primary election day, registered voters in Queens with the Democratic Party affiliation, will pick the two party leaders for each districts, which are divided into two parts, A and B. Each district must have a man and a woman representing the Party. City Councilman John Liu and Jacqueline Lavalle will be the teammates for District A. For District B, Terence Park and Ellen Young will be running teammates. For this party leadership election in District 22, many expect Asian American candidates to have a strong showing since three incumbents, including Assemblyman Brian McLaughlin, are not running. However, in District B, the former City Councilwoman Julia Harrison, who is only incumbent leader running, will face Ellen Young. For the upcoming State Assembly election in the area, both John Liu and Terence Park announced that they would support Barry Grodenchik, a Jewish American, instead of two Asian American candidates Ethel Chen and Jimmy Meng. Grodenchik has also garnered endorsements from various insiders of the Party. In Flushing, Asian American voters are the majority, therefore, if we, the Asian Americans in the district, can pull together our support for Barry Grodenchik, he will win, John Liu said. We will show that Asian Americans can be the factor in upcoming election. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-06-17 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 220 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 Terence Park has chance to become Flushing Democratic Party leader 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. 2002-06-17 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 45 VTMBH Article: Article Order 5 VTMBH Article: Title Learning Japanese-style VTMBH Article: Author VTMBH Article: Publication Yomiuri America VTMBH Article: Original Language Japanese VTMBH Article: Translator Brian Byun VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb In an effort to promote Japanese-style teaching methods, a Japanese school in Greenwich, Conn., opened its doors to 140 American teachers from across the U.S. Teachers observed math classes and discussed issues such as the content of textbooks and problem-solving strategies, which are handled very differently in the two cultures. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body On Nov. 21, The New York Japanese School (located in Greenwich, Conn; Principal: Kouji Yoshida) held open elementary arithmetic and upper-level math classes. The New York Japanese School has focused its resources on its arithmetic and math department for several years and began opening these classes for observation in collaboration with teachers from Paterson, New Jerseys School #2. The partnership has garnered attention as an example of U.S.-Japanese educational exchange in practice. At this years open class, more than 140 teachers and researchers from all over the United States came to observe the Japanese-style lessons with great interest. The group also included about 30 teachers from after school programs in New York, Detroit, Columbus, and Los Angeles. As always at this school of only Japanese students, the open class day brought an influx of U.S.-Japanese educators, and there was a palpable excitement in the airvery different from the normal everyday atmosphere of the school. The open classes demonstrated how teachers created general unit guidance plans in conjunction with actual lesson plans. It is the goal of these open classes to encourage schools everywhere to practice this effective method of guidance used by Japanese schools in the United States. American teachers observed (wearing earphones that offered simultaneous interpretation) a special arithmetic and math lesson in the Japanese style. Also, teachers from Patersons School #2 conducted an open sixth grade arithmetic class in the gymnasium. The students, though surrounded by more than 140 teachers, were calm, and carried on class as usual. According to Principal Yoshida, Though the differences in educational methodology between the United States and Japan are strikingly clear. This open class day attempts to bridge that gap by sharing teaching systems and plans, and demonstrating them in a classroom setting. In the United States, teachers have their own subjects and own themes which they must research individually, attending seminars on their own and putting their individual knowledge to use in the classroom. Meanwhile, in Japanese schools, research meetings are organized by subject committees, and the lessons are carried out according to the predetermined theme of the year. The teaching methodology of arithmetic is also very different in the United States than in Japan. In the United States, the focus is placed on making students practice several problems and teaching them how to solve them. In Japan, teachers have adopted a guidance model of teaching that gives students various methods of calculating, say, the area of a trapezoid, and asks the students to choose the most effective formula themselves. Furthermore, American elementary school arithmetic textbooks are thick, sometimes exceeding 300 pages. There is inevitably some overlap from one year to the next. Japanese textbooks, meanwhile, are systematically concentrated. Principal Yoshida points out this large discrepancy between the two countries educational ideologies. The final part of the open class day was a large-scale assembly of all the participants and a free exchange of opinions and ideas. Several of the teachers who came to observe made comments like, I was surprised by the high level of education at Japanese schools, and I would like to use the Japanese methodology in my own class. However, some teachers had this to say: I actually tried using the Japanese-style methodology in my own class, but even though I went through all the motions, it still didnt work very well. In light of the fact that there has been no previous consultation about methods of educational guidance between Japanese and American schools, and in light of the attention which has been focused on his school because of its epoch-making efforts to tackle this issue, Principal Yoshida had this to say: This open class day is a great stimulus for our schools teachers and students. There is still much more research and work that needs to be done, but I believe that the Japanese teaching methodology is being used more and more in American schools. I hope that we can work together with the schools in this area to promote further research and development. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-11-28 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 Learning Japanese-style 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 2 VTMBH Article: Title A room of their own: Uptown and downtown, Green Chimneys is an alternative to foster homes VTMBH Article: Author Winnie McCroy VTMBH Article: Publication NY Blade VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb For gay and transgendered teens, Unger House and its parent organization, Green Chimneys, has given them a second chance at life. Many of the kids here have a triple-whammy, said Randi Anderson, a director with Green Chimneys. They are gay or transgender, Hispanic, Latino or Caribbean, or learning disabled. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body On a Friday afternoon, 10 gay and transgendered teens laugh and talk on the steps of a well-kept Gramercy Park apartment building. A pretty transgendered girl sweeps her carefully coiffed hair from her face as she flirts and poses. Nearby, two boys with coffee-colored skin watch her and smile. It is lunch hour at Unger House, and soon two dozen kids will attend their house meeting and receive their allowances. For these kids, Unger House and its parent organization, Green Chimneys, has given them a second chance at life. It doesnt take an advocate like Rosie ODonnell for most of us to realize that growing up in the foster care system provides a less-than-perfect childhood. To the very real problems of being shuttled between transient housing every year, poverty and a broken home, now add an adolescents growing realization that he is gay, and the situation becomes that much worse. But the gay foster kids enrolled in Green Chimneys can find the education, compassion and understanding they need to become strong, healthy adults. The New York City Administration of Childrens Services [ACS] didnt want to acknowledge that gay kids werent getting everything they needed in the foster care system, but Gary [Mallon, the founder] stood in the face of homophobia and transphobia, recalled Randi Anderson, the director of Green Chimneys Life Skills Program, from her cozy office in Unger House. He wanted kids to be safe in a group home rather than out in the streets. A combination of both Cagney and Lacey, Anderson exudes the perfect combination of warmth and a no-nonsense attitude needed for this job. We fought tooth and nail to make this program for the GLBTQ (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, queer) kids, she said. Word got out that the school was a place where it would be safe to be gay. The original Green Chimneys was a 75-acre dairy farm upstate, in Putnam County. Beginning in 1947, Mallon used the farm to teach troubled kids how to be in harmony with animals and thereby learn more about themselves. Named for the green paint used on the cupolas and chimneys, the program grew through the years to include a pre-school and day camp, and later, group homes in Westchester County and in Danbury, Conn. In the 80s, Green Chimneys began operating the Gramercy Life Skills Program, a 25-bed facility for young men in Manhattan. The program now includes a Supervised Independent Living Program (SILP) in Harlem for gay and lesbian young people who range from 18 to 21-years-old. Today, Unger House stands as the only agency-sponsored program of its kind on the East Coast. Many of the kids here have a triple-whammy, said Anderson, who has worked with the program since 1993. They are gay or transgender, Hispanic, Latino or Caribbean, or learning disabled. Unger House provides a structured existence where, Anderson said, kids are rewarded with visitors and phone privileges. You get to higher levels if you keep up your schoolwork, hygiene, room care, curfew and attend meetings. They have to participate in the meetings. If you dont learn the lesson the meeting is teaching, at least you learn to socialize. If someone is grandstanding or monopolizing time, others will speak up. The facilities at Unger House resemble a community center more than a state-run institution. Teens sit and talk on couches in an airy, open front room, while sun from a skylight streams in over a stone-lined indoor lily pond. A large tabby cat investigates a cage of songbirds. Kids have visiting hours, a curfew, and planned activities. As befitting gay and lesbian young people, the free time went way beyond team sports and card games. Anderson compared the goings-on, which include a dance and Bitchy Bingo, to the film Paris Is Burning. Enrollees can attend the Audre Lorde School, a city-sponsored program by the city to get a high-school diploma. The Audre Lorde program helps gay and lesbian students who are harassed at mainstream schools. We have two Board of Education teachers, and a captive audience, so to speak, because a lot of the kids who live here are in the school, Anderson said. There are also kids who dont live here who come to the school, and we even take kids who are too old for high school or are undocumented. For Anthony Harper, a 19-year-old known to his friends as Junior, Unger House has provided a place where he doesnt have to hide his identity. We can just be gay instead of going out and being gay and coming back and acting straight, he said. Harper, who is now enrolled in college, said he would rather be at Unger House than any other group home. We take a lot of the bonuses for granted, but they give us a lot, he said. Where else can we get $45 a week for an allowance? The staff is realistic about the temptations these kids will find on the mean streets of New York City. We cant just be like Nancy Reagan and say Just say no, Anderson said. Kids will get high, will want to do things that they shouldnt, and will be learning about their bodies. We want them to be able to come to us and say, I took drugs, and I feel bad, for the transgender kids to come to us and say, I got an implant, and something feels wrong. They may face penalties, and get dropped a level if they do drugs or stay out all night, but at least they can get the help they might need. Kids need to discover that school can be a safe environment for learning, regardless of the lesson, Anderson said. This month, she plans to discuss the problem of homophobia in schools at a meeting with the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. School is not just about class work, its about socialization skills, she noted. Although ACS has been more responsive this year to the program at Unger House, the agency still presses her to find jobs for the kids. Their parents throw these kids out, and say Dont come home until youre a man, she said. They are ignorant, and some of them are very religious. So when ACS says, Go get a job, if the name on your birth certificate is Charlie, but you go by Destiny and have breasts and wear a dress, how are you going to get a job? I cant even get some of them in patient substance abuse programs! Although Anderson applauds the addition of transgender protection to the citys human rights legislation, she doesnt expect transphobia to disappear overnight. She tries to get part-time jobs and internships to build experience and pride. Anderson has found some success working with Friends Indeed and a restaurant chef who gives the residents cooking classes; recently, he hired four of them to work in his restaurant. For kids who prove to be more self-sufficient, Green Chimneys offers the Supervised Independent Living Program apartments in Harlem; seven apartments for 18 gay youth to ease the transition from foster care to independent living. The program offers a 15-unit course, based on Green Chimneys own curriculum, Life Skills for Living in the Real World. Residents then implement this course living in a furnished apartment with another resident. In the uptown facility, there is a different criterion, Anderson explained. They want you to have your high school diploma, be working or in college, and at a high level of functioning. If they show they are capable of cooking, cleaning and working, they are given money, and have to buy their own food. It is not 24-hour supervision, but it is still supervised. They have to go to monthly meetings, but it is the least level of restrictive care. Triangle Tribe Apartments is a new program from Green Chimneys that holds meetings open to any child in foster care who needs a safe space. Once a week, young people can get together in a place where they can find other people like themselves a welcome respite from the stress of their everyday lives. Anderson looks at her work like a group mom. Garys focus is safety and teaching life skills. Im a loving person, and he showed me a place where I can be a mother, said Anderson. On the other hand, when you go into social work, you learn about transference, and sometimes kids who have issues with their mothers transfer it to me. I become subject to their rage. But if youre good, you can grab that moment and begin the healing. If you cant teach them to fill that hole, what can you do? You cant fill it for them. For more info contact: Randi Anderson at Green Chimneys 212-677-7288, ext. 208 www.greenchimneys.org VTMBH Article: Line Breaks VTMBH Article: Date 2002-10-03 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/. 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For gay and transgendered teens, Unger House and its parent organization, Green Chimneys, has given Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-10-03 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 30 VTMBH Article: Article Order 7 VTMBH Article: Title Protest against felicitation of Sadhvi Ritambra VTMBH Article: Author VTMBH Article: Publication Indian Express VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section briefs VTMBH Article: Blurb VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body A group of organizations held a protest against the felicitation of Sadhvi Ritambra at the Ganesh Temple in Queens last week. According to the organizations protesting against Sadhvi, the Ganesh Temple is a community institution and should be a place for peace and prayer, not for fundamentalist religious leaders like her, who represent the Sangh Parivar. Some of the Non-Resident Indian (NRI) groups involved in the protest were the International South Asia Forum (INSAF), the SAMAR media collective, the Forum of Indian Leftists (FOIL), and NRIs for a Secular and Harmonious India. These groups and others had engaged in several previous actions against the communal violence in Gujarat in the past. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-08-02 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/. 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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 2 VTMBH Article: Title McDonalds takes its dollar menu to the bathroom VTMBH Article: Author Xiaoqing Rong VTMBH Article: Publication Sing Tao Daily VTMBH Article: Original Language VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb The Choice is Yours: At the McDonalds on Canal Street, you can use the bathroom only if you buy a $1 certificate or unless youve already spent at least that on food or drink. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body McDonalds usual we love to see you smile slogan may be turned into a we love to see you frown campaign in Manhattans Chinatown. The fast food chain is taking its the choice is yours dollar menu out of the kitchen and into its restrooms. At the McDonalds in the bustling Canal Street commercial area, visitors wanting to use the bathroom are being forced to buy a $1 certificate if they havent already spent at least that amount on food or drink. If they arent prepared to pay up, then a security guard, employed just for this purpose, will block their way to the bathroom. The certificate can be redeemed for food if it is used the same day. Denise Gatsche, from New Jersey, didnt see much happiness through the Golden Arches when she tried to use the bathroom last weekend. After being stopped by the security guard and told to read a sign with the policy in English, Chinese and Spanish, she was forced to rush across the street to the neighboring Burger King, which has a more liberal toilet policy. "They don't care whether people piss in their pants," Gatsche said bitterly. Her fiancé, Christopher Colby, added, "I think it should be illegal for McDonalds to charge people to use the restroom." In Burger King, a sign on the door says that the restroom is for customers only, but nobody bothers those drifting in off the street with the sole purpose of relieving themselves. "We put that sign there only to let people realize that we expect them to buy stuff," said a manager of the Canal Street Burger King, who wouldnt disclose his name. "But we won't stop them. There are only two fast-food chains on Canal Street. This is a very busy street people need the bathrooms." The lack of public bathrooms in the Big Apple has long been a complaint of visitors and residents alike. According to a City Council survey of 2,000 New York City residents conducted in August 2001, about 59 percent had been bothered by the lack of restrooms in public places in the previous 12 months. With precious few public toilets available, some travel guide books tell tourists to turn to the nearest McDonalds and other fast-food chains. The McDonalds security guard-turned-toilet monitor, Rolando Reypolds, said he is in a very uncomfortable position. Until the Canal Street McDonalds introduced its policy several months ago, his main job was to greet customers at the door. "Before, when I opened the door for people, they said 'thank you' to me," Recpolds said. "Now they look down on me. Some people are understanding, but some argue with me. This is a hard job." The Canal Street McDonalds manager declined to comment. It wasnt immediately clear whether the policy had been brought in by an individual franchise or if it was more widespread. McDonalds officials at the companys regional office couldnt be reached for comment on Thursday. But the managers of other McDonalds in New York expressed surprise. At the Times Square McDonalds, the manager said, "They do? My God, who's the manager? He added, "We won't do it. It's not right. At a McDonalds in Flushing, the Chinatown in Queens, the manager also expressed surprise at such a policy. "We consider McDonalds a public place, and the restroom is for the public. We won't stop anybody from using it, he said, while declining to give his name. "Sometimes I go out. I have to use different McDonalds bathrooms. If they charged me, I would be outraged." VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-05-07 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File 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 McDonalds takes its dollar menu to the bathroom 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. unknown Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. article Original Name The original name of this item. The Choice is Yours: At the McDonalds on Canal Street, you can use the bathroom only if you buy a $1 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. 2002-05-07 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 2 VTMBH Article: Title For Dominicans in Queens, a dim view of Councilman Hiram Monserrate VTMBH Article: Author Bolivar Balcacer VTMBH Article: Publication Resumen VTMBH Article: Original Language Spanish VTMBH Article: Translator Hannah Emmerich VTMBH Article: Section briefs VTMBH Article: Blurb VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body In his first days as councilmember of District 21 in Queens, the New Yorker-Puerto Rican Hiram Monserrate, a Democrat, presented himself as a friend of the people. However he can hardly be called that, considering he ran a nasty smear campaign with the help of Dominicans Juan Gómez and Miguel López. Moreover, Monserrate not only failed to show political effectiveness, but also has done little in favor of the community. While López and Gómez remain loyal to the councilman, Monserrate has betrayed them through aggression against Dominican people. It is well known in Queens that during Monserrates campaign, he authorized the defacement of his opponents campaign material, especially that of Dominican Angel del Villar. It is also well known that Monserrate, a former policeman, was behind the removal of documents from a political event that was the cause of del Villars arrest. After holding a position in a Hispanic police organization (about which we will have more information in the future), Monserrate failed to honor the organization that gave him opportunity and education, and supportied subversive activities in his own department. Monserrate is a fraud. During his campaign, he made many promises to the people of District 21, but after 120 days in office he has yet to give his first address to the community or present a political agenda for his term. There are two possible explanations for this: either the councilmember didnt know what he was getting himself into, or he is so steeped in corruption and disorganization that he do anything but maintain the status quo. One of his many campaign vows was to confront the drainage problem in District 21; however, he has yet to show any interest in the problem. The only noteworthy thing Monserrate has done so far has been to hold a meeting for 40 clergymen in a small restaurant in Queens, where they were served hot chocolate. No members of the press were invited to the meeting, further evidence of Monserrates disinterest in his position and in the community. He is so detached that he hasnt even thought about hiring a cleaning service; instead, his small staff takes care of that in his office on Northern Boulevard and 99th Street in Corona. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-04-18 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File v15b2.doc 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 For Dominicans in Queens, a dim view of Councilman Hiram Monserrate 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 38 VTMBH Article: Article Order 3 VTMBH Article: Title American Muslims protest slandering of Prophet Muhammad at CBS offices VTMBH Article: Author VTMBH Article: Publication Pakistan Post VTMBH Article: Original Language Urdu VTMBH Article: Translator Rehan Ansari VTMBH Article: Section edits VTMBH Article: Blurb Christian-right extremist Jerry Falwells comment that the Prophet Mohammed was a terrorist on 60 Minutes prompted a protests in New York and Houston of the CBS-TV offices on Oct. 8. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Christian-right extremist Jerry Falwells comment that the Prophet Mohammed was a terrorist on 60 Minutes prompted a large protest of the CBS-TV offices on Oct. 8. Many in the media, as well as prominent ministers and rabbis, also expressed dismay at Falwell and CBS. Many Muslims have responded to the appeal by the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), and protested in front of CBS offices in Manhattan and Houston as well as by fax, email and telephone. On one hand, President Bush tells the public not to denigrate Islam or Muslims. He has called Islam a religion of peace. He has also said that the administration and the public should not be prejudiced against Arabs and other Muslims. On the other hand, Bush's friend and spiritual guide, Jerry Falwell, is busy defaming the prophet of Islam and Muslims. On 60 Minutes Falwell called Prophet Mohammed a terrorist and Islam a fraudulent religion. Since President Bush is silent on this issue we believe that he must agree with Falwell. Many Christian leaders have criticised Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Franklin Graham. Speaking to the protestors at the Houston CBS offices, Zulfiqar Ali Shah, president of ICNA, said that President Bush must stop associating with people who, like Jerry Falwell, are prejudiced. Naeem Baig, general secretary of ICNA, said that as part of their faith, Muslims pay respects to Prophets Moses and Jesus. He hoped that many in the Jewish and Christian communities will register their protest against the defamation of the Prophet of Islam. ICNA has said people should be respectful when they register their protests. People may call or fax CBS (phone: 212 975 3691; fax: 212 975 1893). ICNA also encouraged people to call the offices of the Washington Times and commend their wonderfully supportive editorial. Other organizations that protested include Pakistan Americans for Community Organizing, Council of Pakistani Organizations, Muslim League Voice, People's Party Voice and Pakistani Progressive Forum. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-10-17 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 79 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 American Muslims protest slandering of Prophet Muhammad at CBS offices 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. Christian-right extremist Jerry Falwells comment that the Prophet Mohammed was a terrorist on 60 Min Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-10-17 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 31 VTMBH Article: Article Order 4 VTMBH Article: Title Chinatown Ice Cream Factorys twenty five year legend VTMBH Article: Author Xiaoqing Rong VTMBH Article: Publication Sing Tao Daily VTMBH Article: Original Language Chinese VTMBH Article: Translator Xiaoqing Rong VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb Read through any Chinatown tour guide and you will always find the Chinatown Ice Cream Factory on Bayard Street gets high marks. Founded 25 years ago by five second-generation Chinese brothers, CICF has attracted a large group of loyal customers, both Chinese and Western, with its special flavors. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Read through any Chinatown tour guide, and in addition to dim sum, there will always be a recommendation to try ice cream at the Chinatown Ice Cream Factory (CICF), on Bayard Street. Actually, as one of the oldest Chinese-run ice cream stores, the 25-year-old CICF has already attracted a large group of loyal customers, both Chinese and Western, with its special flavors. I always pass by here on my way home, said Liao, as her five-year-old daughter licked a red bean corn and she held a mango one from the CICF. Some of their flavors you cant find anywhere else, she said. Every time I come to Chinatown, I come here, said Jana Willinger, who lives in Brooklyn. I can find something different here that I cant find at the chain stores like Haagen Dazs. Being different is what the five Zhao brothers, who founded and manage the CICF, always pursue. And being different was the reason that 25 years ago, the brothers, who are the second generation of a Chinese immigrant family, didnt pick up typical Chinese industries such as restaurants or laundries, but squeezed into the ice cream industry, which is dominated by large companies. Zhaos parents emigrated from China to New York in the early 1940s. Because he suffered from anti-immigrant discrimination, Zhaos father picked up a mainstream last name, Seid, for his family. The five brothers still use it on paper, but their first names couldnt be more Chinese: Ren, Yi, Li, Zhi, Xin each contains a word from the five virtues of confucism: humanity, justice, propriety, wisdom and faith. The names show Zhaos fathers expectation of his sons. And the five virtues also have become Zhaos brothers management principal and contributed to the survival and success of the CICF. We were all in our 20s, didnt have money, but did have plenty of adventurous ideas, said Yi Zhao, (Philip Seid), the second of five brothers. Although his father tried various businesses, including a laundromat, his sons wanted to try something different. At the time, the only ice cream store in all of Chinatown was a Carvel chain store on Mott Street, where a Haagen Dazs is located today. Zhaos brother thought the potential market was far from fully served. None of us know anything about the ice cream industry. But our adventurous personality encouraged us to start the business, said Yi. Without a big budget, the brothers did all the decorating themselves. The wall was done by our oldest brother. The ceiling light was the third brothers job. And the floor was finished by me and other brothers, said Yi. However, during the first several months, the business was not as good as the five brothers expected. We had all the popular flavors, such as chocolate and vanilla, but people just ignored this small, Chinese-run store, and went to the Carvel as they used to, Yi said. And there had been a Chinese-run ice cream store before us. But it closed soon after its grand opening. Although they used Seid as their last name on their business cards, it didnt take the Zhao brothers too long to realize that the only way to make the CICF survive was to differentiate it from its mainstream competitors. Thus, several of the Zhaos special flavorstaro, banana, mango, and lycheewere born. It was not hard. Its actually just a mixture of the popular flavors and Chinese fruits, said Yi. But its our specialty. And it ensured a boom for the CICF. As the business grew, troubles came as well. There are always some people who dont like you. Yi said. One of them was Carvel, which sued the CICF for copying part of their copyright-protected nameIce Cream Factory. Then, the Chinese gangsters came to collect a protection fee. The case with Carvel only lasted for a week. And we compromised and paid the fine, because we didnt have enough money or time to fight with a big company, said Yi. But the way the Zhao brothers dealt with gangsters was to, return an eye for an eye and and a tooth for a tooth, an old Chinese expression meaning, treat people in the same manner they treat you. At that time, the gangs controlled the whole of Chinatown. Most business people didnt dare to confront them. Paying them money was the only way they knew how to deal with gangsters, said Yi. We five were probably among the first who fought back. We had several fights with them. They punched my nose. My brothers and I also beat them badly, said Yi, rubbing his nose as if the fight happened just yesterday. They always threatened to retaliate. But they never returned. Although they fought bravely against the gangsters, in the eyes of their friends, the Zhao family is nice and loving. Stephen Katz has known Zhaos family since the first time he went into the CICF to buy an ice cream 10 years ago. I like the ice cream. I also like the owners family, said Katz, who then became a family friend of the Zhaos. They are a great Chinese family, in which the family members are very close to each other. Whenever one gets into trouble, the others are always there to help. I think this is a major reason for the success of this family-run store. Chinatown changed a lot during the past 25 years. The Carvel on Mott Street was replaced by a Haagen Dazs. But the CICF, which has 40 different flavors and 12 specials, has become the best-known ice cream store in Chinatown. Competition is always there, Yi said. But we have our specials. This will be in our blood line forever. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-08-11 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 341 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 Chinatown Ice Cream Factorys twenty five year legend 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. Read through any Chinatown tour guide and you will always find the Chinatown Ice Cream Factory on Ba Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-08-11