118 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 26 VTMBH Article: Article Order 2 VTMBH Article: Title NAACP vital amidst terror war VTMBH Article: Author Charles Brooks VTMBH Article: Publication Amsterdam News VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section edits VTMBH Article: Blurb While the Bush administration is engaged in its global war against terrorism and implementing measures that threaten civil liberties, the NAACP is holding its 93rd annual convention this week, where the theme this year is Freedom under Fire. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body While the Bush administration is engaged in its global war against terrorism and implementing measures that threaten civil liberties, the NAACP is holding its 93rd annual convention this week, where the theme this year is Freedom under Fire. Julian Bond, NAACP chairman, said that freedom is shrinking as fear expands. With the events of September 11th, we realize we have not yet achieved either victorynot yet against tyranny abroad, not yet against racism here at home. Just as this enemyterrorismis more difficult to identify and punish, so is discrimination a more elusive target today. And just as we know a lot about discrimination, we know a lot about terrorism, too, Bond said. Kweisi Mfume, NAACP president and CEO, said, This years convention theme, Freedom Under Fire, reaffirms the fact that our work continues, even in the aftermath of the tragic events surrounding September 11th. During this convention, we will work to increase public awareness of the need for election reform, and many other issues, to ensure that the right to freedom and justice is enjoyed by every citizen. During the convention, the NAACP addressed several issues, including affirmative action, electoral reform and voter registration, as well as business opportunities for Blacks and other minorities in the hotel industry. Mfume and Bond also issued sharp criticism of President George W. Bush and his administration. Even though Bush addressed the NAACP convention during his run for the White House in 2000, he has declined invitations from the group since attaining the tainted presidency. Mfume said that he doesnt like Bushs presidential practice of divide and conquer when it comes to Black organizations and Black people. You cant be the president of all people when you only want to deal with some of the people, Mfume said. Bond declared, We have a president who owes his election more to a dynasty than to democracy. When he spoke to our convention in Baltimore in 2000, he promised to enforce the civil rights laws. We knew he was in the oil businesswe just didnt know it was snake oil. We have an attorney general who is a cross between J. Edgar Hoover and Jerry Falwell. And, too often, one political party is shameless and the other spineless. Bond pointed out that theres a right-wing conspiracy operating out of the U.S. Department of Justice, the Office of White House Counsel, and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He went on to cite the Bush administrations failure to uphold voting rights as only one example of broken promises. It is part of Attorney General Ashcrofts failure to uphold his sworn duty to enforce the civil rights laws. We know he is offended by naked justice. Bond told the audience that the NAACP must continue to monitor judicial nominees and work to defeat those nominees who are unacceptable. But with less than four months left before the 2002 elections, which will feature critical congressional and state-level races, Bond says that the NAACP has to address felony disenfranchisement while working to ensure massive voter turnout. One hundred thirty-one thousand Black men in Texas alone cannot vote because of felony convictions21 percent of the Black male population in this state. And weve got to ensure a massive voter turnout of minority voters in this years electionsour future is on the ballot in every state. If we dont vote, we lose, and our children and grandchildren will lose, too, Bond said. The NAACP called on the Congress to adopt election-reform legislation because the lack of a federal election-reform bill is apparently stalling election reform at the state level. The civil rights group says that its especially important to move quickly on this issue because of the planning time required for voter education and registration. According to a report released by the NAACP, only five governors signed notable election-reform legislation, while several states began the process of replacing punchcard machines, no state explicitly prioritized the replacement of the oldest machines in their states; and the nations governors remain silent about felony disenfranchisement. The report also points out that more than 5 million Americans who have completed their punishment remain disenfranchised. Dr. Ronald Walters, who served on a voter-empowerment panel, told AmNews that its important for the local NAACP branches to organize on a local level to ensure electoral fairness. There is a real need to organize the local communities and train people in order to address significant electoral issues so that what happened in Florida doesnt happen again, Walters said. He said that while on the panel, he addressed the need to get young people more involved in the political process. There must be a targeting strategy that gets young peoplethe hip-hop generationinvolved, but more importantly, to address the lack of civic education, because our young people today dont know how political participation can address their issues and concerns, Walters explained. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-07-16 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 64 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource NAACP vital amidst terror war 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 20 VTMBH Article: Article Order 2 VTMBH Article: Title The Synagogue's stake in the Church's scandal VTMBH Article: Author Moshe Waldoks VTMBH Article: Publication Forward VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section edits VTMBH Article: Blurb We in the Jewish community should not make the easy mistake of believing that the church's scandal is merely a <i>shande</i> of the <i>goyim</i>, for we are not immune to the aftershocks. Outside of the clergy, the scandal in the church has brought all of our joint Jewish-Catholic projects to a halt. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body In 1999 I led a Jewish-Catholic pilgrimage to Israel and Rome with Cardinal Bernard Law. His sincere efforts in leading his flock to a deep and enhanced relationship with Jews and Judaism was, and still is, a model for interfaith work. Law's Boston diocese is now at the epicenter of the sex abuse earthquake that has shaken the Catholic church. Calls for his resignation abound and he was even summoned by the pope in April to Rome. We in the Jewish community should not make the easy mistake of believing that the church's scandal is merely a <i>shande</i> of the <i>goyim</i>, for we are not immune to the aftershocks. To begin with, there is an understandable ripple effect when any part of the clergy is held up to negative evaluation. During the past few months, the scrutiny of the behavior of both parish priests and their superiors has shown a dark side to inner church politics and discipline that reflects negatively on all clerical groups. To compound matters, the scandal reinforces the biases of those who are already skeptical about religion and its practitioners. Because of my personal relationships with the church hierarchy in Boston, I initially reacted to the disclosures of misdoing by suggesting the need for empathy for Law. After all, when it came to Jewish issues as well as other issues such as racism and poverty the Cardinal has steered his diocese in positive directions. Now, of course, it is more difficult to empathize as the details of gross indifference come out again and again. The damage to the fabric of the Catholic laity and its relationship to clergy has reached such a point of anger that it is difficult to see how the road to repair will be possible under Law's leadership. Outside of the clergy, the scandal in the church has brought all of our joint Jewish-Catholic projects to a halt. There simply seems to be no time or interest now for a number of interfaith projects in our area, including efforts spearheaded by the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish Community Relations Council, the Synagogue Council of Massachusetts, the American Jewish Committee and the Bureau of Jewish Education. It will take considerable time before we will be able to recharge the necessary flow of energy that has fed Jewish-Catholic relations in Boston for almost three decades. As new and old instances of abuse are disclosed and brought to court, the scandal may cast a moral pall that will hang over the church through at least the end of this decade. Are there lessons for the Jewish community to learn from these events? Can we extrapolate the failures of the church hierarchy into our community? Do we tolerate sexual abusers in the rabbinate? Do we tolerate domestic abusers in our congregation if they are "respected" heads of household? Do we provide a transparency of our inner disciplinary processes when knowledge of these abuses becomes known? The rabbinate's policy of zero tolerance in cases of sexual harassment shows that there is more and more sensitivity to the possibility that rabbis are not immune from becoming predators. The policy also reveals the awareness that rabbis and other authority figures can be the object of transference by congregants. The rabbinic canon law prohibition against being alone in a room behind closed doors with a woman other than one's wife (or a man who is not one's husband) is being observed punctiliously in many rabbinic circles far from the precincts of Orthodoxy. It's simply dangerous to do otherwise. Even the intimation of harassment can result in a career destroyed. Despite the precautions, we must at all costs avoid witch-hunts that will view all clergy as potential sexual predators. We must aim for a spiritual transparency that permits rabbis to explore the subject of sexuality in our lives. We must also correct the facile association of homosexuality and pedophilia. We must educate our children to the realities of sexual responsibility. Vigilance may prevent the amount of casual sexual abuse suffered by teens at the hands of their peers and the date rape phenomenon that accompanies some excesses of college life. Let there be no doubt, this is not a call to Puritanism and prudery. On the contrary, this is a call to remove the veil of secrecy that surrounds sexual life and show the beauty that Judaism confers on mutual sexual relationships. The current scandal in the church demands of us a renewed awareness of ourselves as sexual beings. It begs us to examine our own tolerance of other forms of abuse, even if they are within a married or committed relationship. Finally, it asks of all of us to make a commitment to educate our student rabbis, of all denominations, in order for them to understand issues of power and authority vis-à-vis those who come under their tutelage. Without any unwarranted pride, we can point to our Torah and its values as a solid foundation on which to build our ethical lives. <i>Rabbi Moshe Waldoks is the spiritual leader of Temple Beth Zion, an independent Jewish congregation in Brookline, Mass.</i> VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-05-10 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File v20_e2.pdf VTMBH Article: Hit Count 133 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Synagogue's stake in the Church's scandal 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 16 VTMBH Article: Article Order 2 VTMBH Article: Title Powerful political forces VTMBH Article: Author VTMBH Article: Publication The Jewish Forward VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section J1 VTMBH Article: Blurb VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Last weeks Washington rally for Israel, bringing together some 100,000 demonstrators from across the nation on less than a week's notice, bore powerful testimony to the deep emotional bond that links ordinary Americans to the Jewish state. For making that possible, the organizers deserve a hearty round of thanks and a word or two of caution. For more than a year and a half, those of us who consider ourselves friends of Israel have watched with growing anguish as the Jewish state has endured the agonies of terrorism, mounting international isolation, the threat of regional war and, not least, the loss of hope for a better, more peaceful future. For most, these months have been a time of fear and anger, mixed with a frustrating sense of helplessness. But for one afternoon this week, thousands were able to come together and make themselves heard, and millions more stood a bit taller because of it. The rallys organizers, from the local schools and synagogues that chartered buses to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, which coordinated the effort, have earned our gratitude. The rally was more than just an outpouring of emotion. It was also a show of force, serving to remind Washington decision makers of the considerable political muscle packed by what is commonly known as the pro-Israel community. Its a point that needs to be raised right now. Israel's political star is widely assumed to be on the wane in this country, owing to the rise of interfaith marriage and the attending decline in Jewish ethnic and religious bonds. Given Israel's embattled stance on the world stage, the loss of a secure constituency in the United States, its one secure ally, could have catastrophic consequences in the long and not-so-long run. As this week's rally demonstrated, the reports of our demise are, at the very least, premature. A movement that manages on five days' notice to turn out 100,000 peopleon a workday in mid-Aprilis a movement with a vast support base. Pro-Israel passion, it turns out, is not limited to a dwindling core of the most devout Jews. It encompasses millions of secular, liberal and once-a-year Jews who still feel the pull of Jewish destiny, still pass that feeling on to their children and even, as mounting evidence suggests, share it with their in-laws. It includes millions of evangelical and fundamentalist Christians who believe, no less than Jews, in the sanctity of Jewish statehood. All told, the ranks of the pro-Israel communitythose who feel in their bones for the safety of Israelnumber in the tens of millions. That is indeed, as another President Bush once said, a powerful political force. It is not a monolithic force, however. Those who made the trek to Washington this week included both supporters and opponents of continued Israeli presence in the territories. There were those who favor the administration's efforts to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and those who oppose it. The opponents managed to make the most noise, heckling President Bush's personal representative at the rally and harassing fellow demonstrators who carried signs that seemed too dovish. But they were not the majority at the rally, nor are they the majority in the pro-Israel community nationwide. Their noisy intolerance should not divert attention away from the underlying unity expressed Monday in Washington. What unites friends of Israel is a deep sense of solidarity with the Jewish state and its people and a passionate concern for their safety. Unity is not the same thing as unanimity. It allows for a rich diversity of views. That diversity, we must be reminded over and over, is a source not of weakness but of strength. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-04-19 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 55 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Powerful political forces 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 20 VTMBH Article: Article Order 1 VTMBH Article: Title "Have you found more money for education? is the question for politicians VTMBH Article: Author David Greaves VTMBH Article: Publication Our Time Press VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section edits VTMBH Article: Blurb Now that the education crisis among African-American youth deepens, it is useful to look at history and try to repeat the good parts. Though we have failing schools and young people with commercialized minds, parents know are making it plain to politicians across the city, that education is where the politicians must make their stand. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Now that the education crisis among African-American youth deepens, it is useful to look at history and try to repeat the good parts. The first great mass movement for public education at the expense of the state, in the South, came from Negroes, writes W.E.B. DuBois in Black Reconstruction. It was only the other part of the laboring class, the black folk, who connected knowledge with power; who believed that education was the stepping-stone to wealth and respect, and that wealth without education, was crippled….And it was this demand that was the effective force for the establishment of the public school in the South on a permanent basis, for all people and all classes. Dr. DuBois goes on to describe the building of schools, school systems and colleges, institutions that lifted the race up out of slavery and through Reconstruction. These were institutions created and run by African-Americans. These were people who counted few blessings, but one of the things these newly freed Africans had on their side was relative solitude. In an environment of land, crops, livestock and family, children could read at night, sometimes aloud to parents, and had only human distractions from lessons. Things are different today. The advertising industry in the United States is a $300 billion-dollar business. These billions of dollars spill all over our youth in a constant assault that is scientifically designed to attract their attention. They are joined by the billions spent on movies and videos, and music, the contents of which can be appalling. These campaigns are constant and created by very smart people using sound, color, light and texture, and sex whenever they can, to promote products and buying habits that last a lifetime. There is such a frenetic intensity to marketing today, it is a wonder that children have any mental time left at all to devote to quaint things such as reading, writing and arithmetic. So it is no surprise that in 2002, at a time when those struggling at the turn of the last century must have thought Africans would surely be scaling the heights of humanity, we have failing schools and young people with commercialized minds, redirected for corporate profit and political control. This is not news to the parents, it is an ongoing part of their everyday struggle and they are making it plain to politicians across the city, that this is where the politician is to make their stand. Assemblyman Roger Green, chair of the powerful Black, Puerto Rican and Hispanic Caucus, says they are unbending on this issue and hes right. Here is where they work with the governor, the speaker, the mayor and the rest of the legislature, so that first the children are cared for, then they can finish up on their budgets. And when the governor, senators or members of Congress appear at events and photo-ops, ask, Have you found more money for education? If the answer is no, ask What are you doing to get it? Make it uncomfortable for them. When they come by the church on Sunday morning, ask them, Have you found the money? Things sure look bad for you if you don't find that money. Don't be embarrassed, God knows they have it. Tell them to find it in the prison budget, find it in the military budget, find it in making the tax code and enforcement fair, find it in ending corporate welfare, find it in foreign aid. And while they're looking, let's tell Mayor Bloomberg if he wants to be remembered as the education mayor, hed ask Adelaide Sanford to be chancellor for education, appoint a crackerjack administrator, give them the resources they need and get this show on the road. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-05-01 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File v20_e1.pdf VTMBH Article: Hit Count 129 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Have you found more money for education? is the question for politicians 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. unknown Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. article Original Name The original name of this item. Now that the education crisis among African-American youth deepens, it is useful to look at history Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-05-01 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 14 VTMBH Article: Article Order 3 VTMBH Article: Title WTC survivor struggles to regain life lived before September 11th VTMBH Article: Author Jordan Moss VTMBH Article: Publication Norwood News VTMBH Article: Original Language VTMBH Article: Translator English VTMBH Article: Section briefs VTMBH Article: Blurb VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body After a late evening of working a banquet at Windows on the World, where he had been a waiter for several years, Norwood resident Mohammed Shamim was headed back to work early the next morning to serve at another event. He got as far as the elevator banks in Tower 1 of the World Trade Centerand then came the loud crash that sent everyone in the lobby racing out of the building. Shamim, a native of Bangladesh who arrived in the Bronx in 1978, was one of the lucky ones. Seventy-three Windows on the World workers died that morning, including two very close friends, and Shamim would have been among them had he arrived only minutes earlier. Still, Shamim doesn't feel so lucky these days. Six months after the horrific attack, he is still out of a job, and his hopes of saving for a house and buying new furniture for the apartment on Hull Avenue he shares with his wife, Laila, and two children, Ibtehaj and Tahsin, are all gone. "I thought I was going to buy a house," said Shamim, who often earned $1,500 a week as a waiter. "I was happy." Shamim has been collecting unemployment. Restaurant jobs are difficult, if not impossible, to find. Even those of his neighbors who worked in restaurants that weren't obliterated by the attack are working only part time, maybe two or three days a week. Things are made even more difficult by his glaucoma, which requires that he work in a low-light environment. Shamim is grateful to his union, Local 100 of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees (HERE), for setting up a fund that extends his family's health insurance through at least June. But he is sharply critical of the way the large charitable funds, set up in the wake of September 11th, are being administered. There is help now only for the relatives of those who perished, not for the families of those who survived but are struggling without work. "I should die so my family would be taken care of," Shamim says. "I'm alive, so they can't do anything. That's what I feel like right now." Meanwhile, Shamim tries to get his family back on track financially, taking computer classes one day a week in Manhattanhe would go more often if there were more classesand trying to find English classes for his wife, so that she can perhaps find a job herself. "If I have to change my career I'm going to do it, but I need training right now," said Shamim, who once worked at Merrill Lynch on mainframe computers. Before September 11th, Shamim had great hopes for his family. Now he lives day to day. "It's very hard to survive," Shamim said. "The work we do is very hard to find in New York right now. I'm very unsure about the future." VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-04-10 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File v14b3.doc VTMBH Article: Hit Count 98 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource WTC survivor struggles to regain life lived before September 11th 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. unknown Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. article Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-04-10 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 42 VTMBH Article: Article Order 5 VTMBH Article: Title Different than 11 years ago: how Israelis are preparing for war VTMBH Article: Author Patrick Goldfein VTMBH Article: Publication Aufbau VTMBH Article: Original Language German VTMBH Article: Translator Kirstin Hallmann VTMBH Article: Section war1 VTMBH Article: Blurb VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body It smells of rubber in the mortuary. Brown boxes are piled up to the ceiling and the smell of the gasmasks comes through the packaging. The army has built this site at a former cemetery north of Tel Aviv, which has been closed for years. It is here, next to a bus stop, that gasmasks are distributed to the citizens. Precaution for the next gulf war. Two hundred masks are picked up per day, filters changed, inhalation syringes renewed. At this moment, no one comes by. Only six bored reserve soldiers sit at their tables, read the newspaper and discuss the poisoning-operation of the Russian army in liberating a Moscow theatre last month. The debate is interrupted by Shalom. He is 73, fought in five wars and laughs as he enters the room. Just give me the thing, I wont use it anyway, he shouts. Asked why he picks up a mask, he says, I just do this here for my wife. I am not afraid of the Iraqis. I trust our army. The others who stop by this afternoon try to show external composure, as well. Everyone has an excuse for why they pick up a protective mask. Most of them were just in the neighborhood. Hardly anyone confesses their fear of a chemical or biological missile attack. This is a typical Israeli reaction, says Lior, one of the soldiers who has performed his reserve service here for two weeks. One has to convince oneself that nothing will happen. If you are afraid, you are already dead. But as soon as the first Scud missile falls on us like in 1991, all hell will be break loose, he said. At a first glance, the signs seem to resemble that of the situation 11 years ago. Another American attack on Iraq is approaching. And Israel could again become a target of the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. As in 1991, the Likud Party is in power and the Intifada rages in the occupied areas. But different from erstwhile former president Yitzhak Shamir, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon leaves no doubt that Israel will fight back if Iraq attacks this time. His remark, Israel will, in the case of a conventional attack without damages to persons or properties, not fight back, is an implicit warning. Sharon can authorize this because the strategic starting point is more favorable for Israel this time around. In 1991, Shamir had to defer to American pressure. The Israeli army did not have an adequate defense system against Scud missiles and had to ask the Americans for Patriot missiles. Because intelligence information about western Iraq, where the Scud missiles were fired, was missing as well, Shamir had no choice but to hold fire during the first hostile air attack in Israels history. The Americans did not allow an Israeli retaliation to threaten the Arab coalitionSaudi Arabia, Syria, Egyptagainst Iraq. Israel, however, seems to have learned from its old mistakes. Their answer today is: Arrow. That is the name of the $2.2 billion missile defense system, which promises, according to army personnel, a 90 percent precision rate. American satellites record, within a few seconds, every missile fired from Iraq fired missile, and transmits a signal to the arrow base. It then fires an arrow missile, which locates the Scud missile with an electronic eye, and destroys it at an altitude of 10 kilometers above the Jordanian air space. There would even be time to fire a second arrow missile in case of emergency. Israeli losses are theoretically almost impossible in the case of a new gulf war. This is also the reason for the widespread support of the American plan to attack Iraq among the Israeli population. Hussein is a main enemy of Israel and if the Americans want to eliminate him, it would be beneficial for Israel. Especially because the destruction of the Iraqi nuclear weapons program is in harmony with the Begin-Doctrine, which says that Israel should remain the only nation in the region with nuclear power. One hopes as well for a positive signal for the end of the Antiradar after a fall of Saddam. Iraq has rewarded each family of a suicide attacker with U.S.$25,000. But there are also skeptical voices in Israel, independently of political parties. If Saddam defends his country against the Americans and attacks Israel, then the Hezbollah fighters in South Lebanon could be encouraged to attack the north of Israel with Katyusha missiles. Together with the Palestinian suicide attacks, there could be a threatening three-front scenario. Moreover right-wing hardliners fear that after the war in Iraq, the Middle East will be restructured to include the foundation of a Palestinian state. Left-wing Meretz leader Yossi Sarid warns in contrast of the failure of an American attack, which would diminish Americas power and make Israel more vulnerable. Meanwhile, writer Amos Oz suggests a long term alternative: He would pump the billions of dollars that the war would cost to Iraq and Israels neighbor, Jordan: When the Iraqis look out their window, and see a flourishing Jordanian economy, they will burst with envy and oust Saddam on their own. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-10-31 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 73 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 41 VTMBH Article: Article Order 1 VTMBH Article: Title Koreans demonstrate against Con Edison moving to Midtown: Korea Town will disappear if Con Edison comes VTMBH Article: Author JooChan Kim VTMBH Article: Publication Korea Times New York VTMBH Article: Original Language Korean VTMBH Article: Translator Jeongwoo Han VTMBH Article: Section briefs VTMBH Article: Blurb VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body On Oct. 30, about 200 people, including Koreans and neighboring residents and business owners, demonstrated against a proposed move of Con Edisons transformer station to Korea Town in midtown Manhattan. This demonstration, presided over by the Herald Square South Civic Association and several Korean associations, lasted an hour and a half in front of the Empire State Building. Korean small businessmen who have shops in Korea Town were joined by neighboring businessmen, and demonstrators from the Korean Association of New York, New York Society of Korean Businessmen, The Korean American Association of NYC, Nara Bank, and Liberty Bank. All demonstrators unanimously opposed the plan, many holding picket signs written in Korean. Demonstrators marched from the Empire State Building down 32nd Street to the proposed site of the new Con Edison transformer station, a 31st Street parking lot. There, protestors distributed tickets printed with statements against the move. Even in the cold weather, demonstrators chanted loudly, distributed information and collected petition signatures from passers-by. Jae-Kun Jung, executive coordinator of the New York Society of Korean Businessmen contends that, if [Con Ed moves the transformer] to this place, traffic jams will become worse and real estate prices will go down, and the economic atmosphere in this area will deteriorate, which will result in a big shock within Korean businesses in Korea Town. Henry Justin, chairman of the civic association, strongly urged Con Edison to move the transformer to different place. Justin warned, If the Con Edison transformer is built near such large commercial buildings as the Empire State Building, Macys Department Store, and Penn Station, it could be the target of terrorist attacks. Some politicians, including New York State Rep. Richard Gottfried and State Senator Liz Kreuger, participated. Mainstream media outlets such as the New York Times, the Daily News, NY1, and WNBC also reported on the demonstration. 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Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 31 VTMBH Article: Article Order 5 VTMBH Article: Title In surprise raids, INS arrests over 100 undocumented Korean immigrants VTMBH Article: Author Jonghoon Kim VTMBH Article: Publication Korea Daily News VTMBH Article: Original Language Korean VTMBH Article: Translator Bo Kwon VTMBH Article: Section briefs VTMBH Article: Blurb VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Over the last two weeks, the Immigration and Naturalization Service arrested more than 100 illegal Korean immigrants in New York and New Jersey. According to Korean immigration lawyers, INS investigators in New York and New Jersey began raiding Korean residences and businesses in late July, arresting those who are undocumented or possess illegally issued Social Security cards. INS investigated a Bergen County, N.J. couples green card application last week; the police and five INS investigators unexpectedly paid a visit early one morning. After questioning the couple, they arrested the husband and informed the wife that she would be called in for further questioning in two weeks. On Aug. 2, around 6:00 a.m., INS investigators raided yet another Korean residence and arrested one couple, leaving their two children in the hands of the grandmother. In a nail salon in uptown Manhattan, INS investigators checked the identities of the employer and the 10 employees and arrested two undocumented Korean immigrants. The Social Security Administration recently notified the nail salon that some of the employees Social Security numbers were false. Another nail salon in the Bronx is in a similar situation. Furthermore, the INS is investigating undocumented immigrants who acquired Social Security numbers by paying $1,000 to driving schools. The INS is holding most of the recently arrested Korean immigrants in INS detention centers located in Middlesex and Hudson Counties in New Jersey. We cannot inform you of the exact number of Korean immigrants who are detained, but they are only a minority compared to the number of all arrested, said the INS on Aug. 9, in a reference to the large-scale raids taking place in New York and New Jersey. Dong-kyu Park, an immigration lawyer, said that he received more than 10 cases of INS arrests in the past week, and that the illegal green card application scandal in Virginia involving a lawyer named Samuel Kruzky may have something to do with it. Park predicted that, Since there are hundreds of Koreans across the United States who applied for green cards through Kruzky, the number of Koreans arrested will continue to increase. Soo-eun Nam, another immigration lawyer, commented, A group of Korean immigrants who illegally attained visas in Korea through immigration brokers has recently been discovered. The surprise raids are directed at eliminating such methods of acquiring visas. 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Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 17 VTMBH Article: Article Order 3 VTMBH Article: Title Washington Heights bids farewell to local musician killed by NJ police VTMBH Article: Author Jose Acosta VTMBH Article: Publication El Diario / La Prensa VTMBH Article: Original Language Spanish VTMBH Article: Translator Erica Pearson VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb Upper Manhattan's Dominican community gave homage yesterday to Santiago "Chago" Villanueva, 35, who died last week after being handcuffed by four Bloomfield police officers while he suffered an epileptic seizure. Community activists demand that NJ authorities investigate his death. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body With prayers, songs, voices of protest and musica de palo, Upper Manhattan's Dominican community gave homage yesterday to Santiago "Chago" Villanueva, 35, who died last week after being handcuffed by four Bloomfield police officers while he suffered an epileptic seizure. Community leader Ydannis Rodriguez demanded that the New Jersey authorities immediately deliver Villanueva's body, along with the investigation results. This Thursday, at 5:30 in the afternoon, we are going to return to Bloomfield to continue protesting, so that justice will be done. We are asking that they immediately suspend the four police officers until the investigations are finished. We urge leaders, politicians and community members to unite in this fight against police brutality, Rodriguez said. According to community activist Nina Paulino, Villanueva was working at the clothing factory Quick Cut, making $7.50 an hour to support his children Esmaily, 9, and Jeudi, 13, who live in the Dominican Republic. It was there that he had an epileptic attack and his supervisor called an ambulance, said Paulino. Four police officers arrived instead of the emergency team. Even though they were told that Villanueva was sick, the officers began to abuse him physically and verbally, thinking that the Dominican musician had taken drugs. After handcuffing him and pushing on his chest until his breathing stopped, the officers gave him artificial respiration. Now the Bloomfield police are calling this heroic. The activist also revealed that Villanueva died of mechanical asphyxia. She asked his family members not to take his body until the authorities report on the cause of his death. Chago did not die of epilepsy, he died of asphyxiation. Heroes save lives, they don't take lives. We are not going to allow this to continue happening. We need to unite so that these actions against minorities don't repeat themselves, said Paulino. Afro-Caribbean musical groups Palo Mayor, 21 Divisiones and Palo Monte gave rhythm to the cries of protest that called for justice for Villanueva. The Dominican father died just three weeks after gaining his green card, which he needed in order to accomplish one of his dreams: to return to his homeland and be reunited with his children. [Green cards are necessary for non-citizens to re-enter the country.] I will go to the most beautiful land, to drink the water that gives life, sang those gathered in prayer, while Villanueva smiled down from an altar set up on the sidewalk, as though he were grateful to see the Quisqueyano peoples outpouring of solidarity. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-04-29 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 158 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Upper Manhattan's Dominican community gave homage yesterday to Santiago "Chago" Villanueva, 35, who Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-04-29 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 28 VTMBH Article: Article Order 4 VTMBH Article: Title No more layoffs, Bloomberg: Public employees protest in on the steps of City Hall because the mayors threat that thousands co VTMBH Article: Author Marimer Navarrette VTMBH Article: Publication Hoy VTMBH Article: Original Language Spanish VTMBH Article: Translator Telesh Lopez VTMBH Article: Section briefs VTMBH Article: Blurb VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body The possibility of thousands of public employees losing their jobs provoked a protest yesterday in front of New Yorks City Hall. The protesters expressed their feelings toward the mayor through posters. I pay my part. Mike Bloomberg, keep the budget just, said one. Another demanded, Impose taxes on the rich and dont take our jobs away. The budget was approved with $1.7 million in cuts and now he wants to make more cuts. Mayor Mike, you have made enough cuts! said Sophie McCarthy, co-director of the Working Families Party which organized the protest. This protest happened days after the NYC Office of Management and Budget sent a letter to all the local commission agencies asking them to implement an additional cut of 7.5 percent to their budget. Bloomberg reverts to old tactics from the 70s of drastic cuts and massive layoffs. We cannot go back to old days when citizens where given poor service. We cannot risk repeating the mistakes of the past. No more layoffs! said Mark Rosenthal, president of Local 983, AFSCME DC 37, a union that represents thousands of city workers. For Dominican Yoralis Vidal, of the organization Making the Road by Walking, the reduction of city workers generates fewer services for immigrants. With these cuts, vital services like English as a second language (ESL), translation services in hospitals and welfare offices would be reduced, and we would be very affected, said Vidal, a Brooklyn activist. The protest relied on the support of Council Members Robert Jackson, Bill de Blasio, David Weprin, Bill Perkins, Gail Brewer, and Christine Quinn, and Assemblyman Dick Gafrey. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-07-25 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 53 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource No more layoffs, Bloomberg: Public employees protest in on the steps of City Hall because the mayors 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 36 VTMBH Article: Article Order 3 VTMBH Article: Title Chasm in cyberspace widens: Black entrepreneurs continue to fall behind technology curve VTMBH Article: Author Herb Boyd VTMBH Article: Publication Network Journal VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb Why are black businesses missing from the Internet? The reason is lack of awareness, said Don Rojas, CEO and founder of The Black World Today. Others discussed the difficulties of recouping ad losses, the economic slump, and strategies for gaining access to computers and e-commerce strategies at the Blacks in Technology summit. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Steve Ballmer knows how to get an audiences attention. When Ballmer, CEO and president of Microsoft Corp., said that less than two percent of African-American entrepreneurs possessed an e-commerce strategy, a loud murmur rippled across the vast auditorium at New Yorks Jacob Javits Convention Center. With small business a key driver of American economic growth…ethnic small businesses must understand and embrace the new technology that can help them succeed in the digital decade ahead, he said. Ballmers message was not lost on those attending his keynote address at the two-day Blacks in Technology summit (www.blacksintechnology.com) at the Javits Center. He warned that too many black business people were falling behind the technology curve, thus widening the so-called digital divide in computer literacy and Internet access between whites and ethnic minorities. In an interview with The Network Journal after his address, Ballmer said Microsoft was working to improve the e-commerce capabilities of minority firms and the access African-Americans have to computers. Overall, we have dispensed some $30 million to minority banks across the nation, and the $9 million I mentioned during my speech is in addition to this sum, he explained. We must overcome the digital divide in which only 56 percent of African-Americans work on personal computers, compared to 70 percent for white Americans, he said. And our industry is not doing a good job of reaching people. Ballmers points were accented by a colleague at a workshop at the Blacks in Technology event. By 2004, all government procurement will occur online, noted Martin Taylor, director of business strategy at Microsoft. So its a matter of priorities, and if they dont get online, opportunities will be lost. According to several black technology experts, these online opportunities will provide an unprecedented amount of potential online sales revenue which is expected to spike at about $60 billion over the next couple of years. Why are black businesses missing from the Internet? The reason is lack of awareness, said Don Rojas, CEO and founder of The Black World Today (www.tbwt.com), an online news and information center. But the critical issue may be they are not convinced that money can be made on the Internet. They hear all the horror stories about the failure of dot-com companieseven the major onesand this news is obviously very discouraging, he said. Rojas, whose company has been on the Internet since 1996, spoke at length about the troubles a small, independent business faces trying to survive in cyberspace. And this situation, particularly in the realm of available advertising for minority-owned firms, has taken even a deeper turn for the worst since September 11th, he continued. Despite the gloomy picture, there are still more black businesses building websites and experimenting with this electronic medium, he said. Increasing awareness of the Internet and its fiscal possibilities were some of the goals of the Blacks in Technology summit, which also made stops in Los Angeles, Atlanta and Chicago. These urban areas were targeted by Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard Co. and other sponsors, who enlisted talk show host Tavis Smiley and his foundation to help spread the word. We cant be road kill on the information superhighway, Smiley asserted as he moderated a panel of leading African-American authorities on new technologies. He said that in order to close the increasing chasm between the haves and the have-nots, minority businesses cant afford to wait much longer to purchase the tools they need to get online. How does a business maintain itself once it has a presence on the Internet? Unless you have an inexhaustible amount of risk capital, promotional funds, with considerably endowed sponsors, running a business solely online will be difficult, said Victoria Jackson, an Internet consultant based in Detroit. Just getting the money owed to you by advertisers through electronic invoicing presents new problems, said Jackson. In short, it just takes you longer to get paid. During a recent forum sponsored by the National Association of Black Journalists, it was reported that less than half of black newspapers are online. And this figure may be a bit inflated. Id be surprised if a third of them have a presence online, Rojas observed. Part of the problem for new people on the Internet is fear of being lost in the shuffle or else they are bothered by what they feel is a complexity of technology. 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The reason is lack of awareness, said Don Rojas, Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-09-01 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 46 VTMBH Article: Article Order 3 VTMBH Article: Title Television news ignores Latinos VTMBH Article: Author Lynn Elber VTMBH Article: Publication El Diario / La Prensa VTMBH Article: Original Language Spanish VTMBH Article: Translator Hannah Emmerich VTMBH Article: Section briefs VTMBH Article: Blurb VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body According to researchers, the explosive growth of the Latino population in the United States is not being reflected in the television news programs of the major networks and the cable station CNN. On Monday, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) released data from their study, The Network Brownout Report. The study revealed that a mere 99 out of 16,000 (0.62 percent) stories reported last year on the evening news were related to Latinos or the Latino community. The lamentable trajectory of the networks is that the coverage of the fastest growing minority group in the country contradicts the informational necessities of U. S. citizens and distorts the public discourse necessary in any democratic society, said NAHJ President Juan González. Latinos, at 35.3 million, represent 12.5 percent of the population, a number which has grown almost 60 percent since 1990. According to the study, television news stories tended to perpetuate unflattering stereotypes of Latinos. The stories about Latinos generally used the border as an image to insinuate a division between Latino and non-Latino populations and to define Latinos as illegal immigrants, reported the NAHJ. The network with the most coverage of Latinos was ABC with 31 stories, followed by NBC with 24, and CBS and CNN with 22 each. The study maintained that a lack of diversity in the newsroom is one of the major causes of poor news coverage of Latinos. Two networks responded that they were taking measures to increase coverage on Latino issues, namely retaining more Latino staff. The data also revealed that for the second consecutive year the most reported story relevant to the Latino community was that of the U.S. military presence in Vieques. The other stories were related to politics, immigration and sports. In one aspect there was a positive change. The proportion of news stories about Latinos in which Latinos themselves were interviewed grew to 67.6 percent, up from 24.4 percent in 2001. The study was prepared by Serafín Méndez Méndez, an associate professor and chair of the Department of Communication at Central Connecticut State University, with former NAHJ President Diane Alverio. 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Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 2 VTMBH Article: Article Order 3 VTMBH Article: Title No Mans Land VTMBH Article: Author Karen Ochayon VTMBH Article: Publication Maariv VTMBH Article: Original Language Hebrew VTMBH Article: Translator Jon Lincoln VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb We didnt think we would survive. Now that we are at last in Israel, we are calling on all Israelis who remain in the United States to leave everything and return home at once. Since Sept. 11, the United States has changed completely. It is no longer the land of the free. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body <i>We didnt think we would survive. Now that we are at last in Israel, we are calling on all Israelis who remain in the United States to leave everything and return home at once. Since Sept. 11, the United States has changed completely. It is no longer the land of the free.</i> Such was the advice of seven workers from Our Van moving company who were arrested in New Jersey on Sept. 11 and held for nearly a month and a half as suspects in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. The workers described their treatment during their detention as harsh. The owner of their company disappeared soon after his own release on Sept. 12 and hasnt been seen since. As far as I know, he has not even paid the workers who were arrested, one said. I am sure he did not want to be connected to this complicated situation. Despite the large number of arrests since the terrorist attacks, hundreds and perhaps thousands -- of young Israelis continue to work illegally in the United States and hope for the best. Many have tried to prevent their friends from being incarcerated. We just want to help out young people like us, one of the Israelis who were arrested said last week. Dont come to America -- and if you are already here, go back to Israel immediately. This is not the same country. Since the dramatic events of Sept. 11, American immigration authorities have intensified their enforcement of laws against illegal workers. But what measures have companies taken to protect their employees? Maariv posed this question to the owners of several companies who employ large numbers of Israelis. G -- a foreman for a moving company who asked not to reveal his name said: We dont send them to work in high risk areas where there are not a lot of Israelis or places where there are few foreigners, so that they wont stick out too much. Its been a while since we sent people to North Carolina or Virginia -- places where people pay attention to race. Today we dont take workers there. S -- a dispatcher for a major moving company added: We try to arrange it so that we have legal workers mixed in with illegal ones. We would never send out a group without at least one guy who had papers. Y -- a dispatcher for a different company -- said: Israelis look like Latinos, so we try to make a team of both Israelis and Americans. S added: Workers are not coming from Israel any more. We got a lot of calls from parents pressuring and begging their kids to come home, and they generally managed to persuade them. It is clear that many Israeli companies -- travel agencies, Israeli TV, high-tech industries, taxi and car services, and others -- are growing more careful about illegal workers. We do not want to be connected with all of this, an owner of a taxi company said earlier this week. I worked hard for many years in order to get permission to work and a green card, and I wont allow myself to endanger the business with illegal workers. That sentiment holds true for high-brow business owners as well. One executive of a high-tech company said: We want to employ Americans. It is forbidden for us to employ workers without working papers and that includes Israelis. Indeed, many Israeli business owners who used to employ undocumented workers are starting to turn them away. The owner of an Israeli restaurant in Greenwich Village said: In the past, all of our waiters were Israelis. Now they are leaving because they are scared that immigration agents are out looking for them. For me, it is not easy. The fines for employing illegal workers are high and its just not worth it for me to endanger the business -- especially now that there are so many unemployed workers with papers. Yet, a manager at another restaurant not far away contended that she still hires undocumented Israelis and will continue to do so in the future. We told them that it is their responsibility, she said. We cannot organize papers, nor can we save them from arrest. Whoever takes this danger upon themselves, its their problem. Yet, Maariv found a number of young Israelis who were still prepared to do any type of work under any sort of condition. A reporter showed them the following quote from one of the mothers whose son was arrested after Sept. 11: Our kids also said that it would not happen to them, and look what happened. If it happened to them -- serious kids who finished their army service on their way to or after university -- it can happen to anyone. They replied as follows: Dani, a moving company worker: This is a waste of time. You have not succeeded in scaring us. In New York, it just cant happen; its not the same situation. Those workers from Our Van were arrested because they were suspected of a terror attack, not because they worked with a moving company. Yael, a waitress: I have not heard that they are searching Israeli restaurants. If they search all the restaurants, it will never end. I am doubtful that this will happen. Tami, a sales clerk: What can I tell you -- it is in Gods hands. If I need to be arrested, arrest me. The probability of that is very low. New York is not a mall in the middle of nowhere. Half the people here dont even speak English, so how much do I stand out? Moshe, another worker in a moving company: Scared or not, this is the situation. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2001-11-30 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 67 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource No Mans Land 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 22 VTMBH Article: Article Order 1 VTMBH Article: Title Wheres the mayor? VTMBH Article: Author VTMBH Article: Publication Highbridge Horizon VTMBH Article: Original Language English and Spanish VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section edits VTMBH Article: Blurb In the 82 days we tracked his appearances, the mayor scheduled events outside of Manhattan on only 31 days--and he's come to the Bronx only seven times. Its like the mayor is afraid to leave Manhattan! VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Every morning when we get into the office, an e-mail message from the mayors press office is waiting in our inbox. Public Schedule for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg for… followed by the date. Basic details of the mayors public schedule appear in the text of the message, with the location of each event written in capital letters: MANHATTAN; QUEENS; BROOKLYN; STATEN ISLAND; BRONX; LONG ISLAND; WASHINGTON, D.C. Having rarely seen BRONX in those e-mails, on Feb. 15 we decided to start saving them. As of Tuesday, May 7, we have accumulated 82 messages. Only seven contained the word BRONX. None of those seven contained more than one Bronx event. Here are the seven events that brought our mayor, Michael Bloomberg, to our borough. February 28 Swears in members of the Bronx Hispanic Chamber of Commerce at a ceremony at Hostos Community College in Melrose. March 10 Marches in a St. Patricks Day parade in Throgs Neck, on the Bronx southeastern tip. March 26 At Van Cortlandt Park, declares a drought emergency. April 4 Attends the funeral of Police Detective Jamie Betancourt in Unionport, on the eastern half of the Bronx. April 13 Speaks at a luncheon of the New York Hispanic Clergy Organization in Baychester. May 3 Attends the funeral of firefighter Michael Lynch in Schuylerville, on the Bronx eastern shore. Heres the one we like most: April 5 The mayor is in the Bronx for the second day in a row, this time to throw out the first pitch before the Yankees first home game of the season. Three of those visits came while the mayor was on his way to an event or back from an event outside New York City. Staten Island has it worse, only being graced with the mayors presence six times since Feb. 15. Mr. Bloomberg has visited Brooklyn nine times and Queens 15 times. Add them up and subtract the six days when he visited more than one borough in a day, and heres the bottom-line: in 82 days, the mayor scheduled events outside of Manhattan on only 31 days. Its like the mayor is afraid to leave Manhattan! Half the job of being mayor is simply showing up. We need to see our officials in order to know they are working for us. Where is the mayor? In the first months of his administration a big deal was made over his weekend excursions out of the city. We suppose Mr. Bloomberg cannot be blamed for preferring to spend his weekends in Bali or the Bahamas instead of the Bronx. Wouldnt we all like to be there for a little R & R? Of course we would, but were not the mayor. His job is to manage the cityall five boroughs, all 8 million people. If he continues to neglect us now, lets not forget to neglect him when he runs for reelection. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-05-15 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 153 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wheres the mayor? 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. In the 82 days we tracked his appearances, the mayor scheduled events outside of Manhattan on only 3 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. 2002-05-15 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 29 VTMBH Article: Article Order 3 VTMBH Article: Title Chinese-owned long-distance bus carriers emphasize value; all buses are insured and safe VTMBH Article: Author Hoi Jeet Huang VTMBH Article: Publication World Journal VTMBH Article: Original Language Chinese VTMBH Article: Translator Wendy Szeto VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb Flexibility, convenience, and cheap fares have helped Chinese-run long distance bus services flourish. Though customer service and arrival times still need improvement, these companies are in fierce competition with each other and their American-owned counterpartsincluding Greyhound, which has been taking notes. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Beginning in 1990, New York immigrants from Fuzhou moved to New York. Many of them worked outside of New York in various cities or towns in the Northeast. Chinatown bus line services began because of their transportation needs. When this business trend began, the most passengers were those who had found jobs through Chinatown placement agencies. Because of the success of the New York - Philadelphia line in 1995 and 1996, New York entrepreneurs joined this line of business, expanding service from one line (New York to Philadelphia) served by 15-passenger minibuses to the multiple city destinations served by 57-passenger tourist buses today. Though most passengers are still Fuzhou immigrants, passengers now include a sizeable number of non-Chinese people, especially students. The number of destinations, scheduled buses, and non-Chinese passengers are all growing. In fact, it is reported that non-Chinese New Yorkers ask their Chinese friends for information about these bus lines. There are five or six bus services that cover the northeastern region; in reality, all of these bus lines belong to two bigger firms, Golden Dragon and New Century. But as the Chinese-run long distance bus service grows, some New Yorkers doubt the safety of these cheap-fare buses. There are approximately 20 tourist buses that come in and out of the Chinatown bus stop. According to the owners, all the buses are 2001 or newer models, 100 percent fully insured, and inspected for safety. According to a representative of Golden Dragon Inc., their insurance policies cover $10 million in damages, including protections for all the passengers in case of an accident en route. New Centurys insurance policy is $5 million. Both companies buses are fully equipped with air conditioning, heat, television, VCRs, and bathrooms. According to both companies, drivers are required to take a two-hour break after each bus trip, to ensure that they have the energy to drive safely. Ms. Wong from New Century reports that they have seven tourist buses, and two minibuses; all are leased vehicles. Insurance policies are required for leases. Mr. Chan, who works at Massachusetts Transportation and Development Center, always doubted the safety of these bus lines. He contacted his friend, Myra Bulis, at the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to check the validity of these bus lines, and received positive response. <i>Flexibility and convenience are reasons for success, but customer service is uneven</i> The success of the Chinese-owned bus service not only comes from the low fares, but its fast and convenient service, and flexible operations. When compared to Greyhound, Chinatown bus services offer better pricing and direct transportation to and from the Chinatown areas of each destination, eliminating the hassle of additional transportation from major bus terminals to Chinatown areas. In addition, bus service owners took into consideration Fuzhou immigrants schedules and culture when scheduling their bus trips. For example, most Fuzhou weddings take place on Sundays and Mondays; therefore, service on these two days is more frequent. And because most Fuzhou immigrants are restaurant workers (they make use of their off days to travel to New York City to visit and buy groceries), they tend to work late on Fridays, and so there are fewer scheduled runs on Fridays. All buses departing from New York are scheduled so that passengers arrive at their destination before restaurant business hours start. For buses arriving in New York from other cities, schedules are set approximately an hour after normal restaurant closing hours, so customers may arrive in New York at their earliest convenience. On the other hand, as the bus service companies make an effort to become more flexible, they have sacrificed customer service. On weekends and long holidays, buses do not run on schedule. Moreover, the tickets are oversold, and some ticketed passengers are unable to board the buses. Greyhound is paying close attention to the growing Chinese-owned long distance bus services. According to one of the bus services owners, Greyhound sends a market analyst to Chinatown almost every day to observe their daily operations and the number of passengers. One of the main bus stops in Chinatown is located at East Broadway and Division Street. At the beginning of this year, the businesses purchased bigger tourist buses to serve their customers; this news was featured in the Boston Globe and the New York Post, which helped services grow even faster. During the fierce competition for business, bus line owners began to change their image from semi-professional to a more structured, professional image. In addition to partnering with American bus services, companies hired security firms to ensure customers and drivers safety. Because of the competition, there have been reported cases of violent activities at the bus stop or on the bus; this reduced passengers' confidence in the bus service. Golden Dragon hired 7871 Bus Company to help with the New York - Philadelphia line. Mr. Cheng, manager of Golden Dragon, hired two security guards to be stationed at the Chinatown bus stop in an event of any violent disturbance. The two security guards will circle around the station in their jeeps to ensure all operations run normally. Security Guard Andy Wong reports that his job is to stop any violent activities. Orlando, a uniformed bus driver with the 7871 Bus Company is surprised at the number of passenger these bus lines carry. Because Chinatown has no delegated bus terminal to service these lines, at times there are five to six buses lined up on the neighborhoods busy streets, causing major traffic jams in the already packed vicinity. Orlando is surprised that the city government hasnt paid closer attention to this trend. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-07-20 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 970 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 Chinese-owned long-distance bus carriers emphasize value; all buses are insured and safe 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 34 VTMBH Article: Article Order 6 VTMBH Article: Title Profiling and pride: Arab American attitudes and behavior since September 11th VTMBH Article: Author VTMBH Article: Publication Aramica VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section briefs VTMBH Article: Blurb VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body In May 2002, the Arab American Institute Foundation (AAIF) commissioned a survey of Arab American attitudes and behavior since September 11th. The May survey is compared to a similar poll commissioned by AAIF in October 2001, in the immediate aftermath of the terror attacks. On some variables a three-way comparison is made, including findings from a survey of Arab American attitudes taken in 2000. The findings of the May 2002 survey reveal that Arab Americans concern about how the aftermath of September 11th has affected their community has increased, but they continue to maintain strong attachments to their ethnic identity and pride. Among the findings: Nearly one in three Arab Americans (30 percent) say they have personally experienced discrimination in the past because of their ethnicity, nearly identical to the October 2001 survey. Forty percent of those surveyed know someone who was discriminated against since September 11th. Roughly one-fifth of respondents reported discrimination against themselves. Those who are young, Muslim and/or foreign- born are more likely to have experienced discrimination. Compared to October 2001, Arab Americans feel discrimination since September 11th is more prevalent at work (31 percent), less at school (21 percent), and about the same among neighbors and friends (25 percent); discrimination, they say, is more likely to happen in other places (20 percent) than it did last year. Seventy-eight percent of Arab Americans feel there has been more profiling of Arab Americans since September 11th. About two-thirds of those surveyed expressed concern about the long term effects of discrimination. Two in five respondents feel the events of September 11th have impacted the public display of their heritage, while nearly three-quarters (73 percent) say their pride in being Arab American has not changed, similar to results reported in 2001. Since September 11th, about two-fifths of respondents say they are more likely to speak to their friends and acquaintances about events in the Middle East, while another 43 percent were doing so to the same degree as before. Only 14 percent indicated they were less likely to engage in public discussion now. Roughly one in five who speak Arabic say they feel less comfortable speaking Arabic in public. When asked if they were reassured by President Bush's comments and conduct since the September 11th attacks, 54 percent of Arab Americans say they are reassured, while 35 percent say they are not reassured. This ratio is down sharply from the results of the October 2001 poll, when 90 percent of Arab Americans surveyed said they were reassured by the president's response. Eight out of ten Arab Americans surveyed said they responded to September 11th by either contributing to a victims' fund, displaying a flag, or donating blood. Overall, 89 percent of Arab Americans professed to be either extremely or very proud of their ethnicity. This is virtually the same as the percentage (90 percent) who claimed strong attachment in a January 2000 survey, and up slightly from the 87 percent recorded in the October 2001 poll. <b>Demographics and Characteristics of Sample</b> Three-fourths of those surveyed were born in the United States and 89 percent hold American citizenship. Eighty-one percent speak English at home. Sixty-three percent reported a Christian affiliation, 24 percent Muslim, and 13 percent of other or no religious affiliation (Figure 1). Occupational breakdowns are similar to census-based results, with 36 percent reporting some form of professional or managerial job. Able to ask even more detail than available in the census, the survey revealed that 10 percent of the respondents are teachers and 7 percent are homemakers. Twenty-two percent of those surveyed reported membership in a union, and 34 percent own or operate a business. Close to two out of three respondents reported household income in excess of $50,000, compared to 16 percent with annual incomes under $25,000. The ZI/AAIF survey probed the issue of primary self-identification by asking, How are you most likely to describe yourself? By nearly a two-to-one margin, more respondents describe themselves as Arab American (39 percent) than by their country of origin (21 percent). Approximately one in eight (12 percent) describe themselves as both Arab American and by country of origin. One in four uses neither choice to describe themselves. Those who were born in the United States (36 percent) are less likely than those born elsewhere (49 percent) to describe themselves as Arab Americans. Half of American citizens not born in the United States (51 percent) describe themselves as Arab American, while more than two in five permanent residents (44 percent) refer to themselves by their country of origin. To read the complete survey report compiled by the Arab American Institute, please go to: http://www.aaiusa.org/PDF/poll%20report.pdf. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-09-07 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 105 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 Profiling and pride: Arab American attitudes and behavior since September 11th 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 11 VTMBH Article: Article Order VTMBH Article: Title Latinos deceived by Bush's general amnesty stance VTMBH Article: Author Ana Ledo VTMBH Article: Publication El Diario / La Prensa VTMBH Article: Original Language Spanish VTMBH Article: Translator Matthew Corey VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb Representatives of the U.S. immigrant community pronounced themselves "deceived" by President George W. Bush's "unjust" decision last week to call off his general amnesty for immigrants in the United States. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Representatives of the U.S. immigrant community pronounced themselves "deceived" by President George W. Bush's "unjust" decision last week to call off his general amnesty for immigrants in the United States. The president's decision is inadequate, said immigrant rights groups in New York and Massachusetts, especially when "it is this country's immigrants who help the economy" by taking jobs that no citizen would perform. In any case, the various organizations indicated that the terrorist attacks of September 11th ratcheted up the anti-immigrant sentiment that may have influenced Bush's decision. "Before September 11, we [immigrants] had won a lot of sympathy around the country. But after, they started looking at us as if we were criminals. It doesn't seem right to me that they accuse us like this. The president's decision doesn't seem fair," said Esperanza Chacón, of Asociacion Tepeyac, in New York. "They argue [against amnesty] on the basis of the country's national security problems, but the census says there are 8 million undocumented persons in the United States. They work for small businesses and support the community," claimed Mónica Santana, director of the Latino Workers' Center of New York. She added that she doesn't place "much importance on the denial of general amnesty because this is a question of politics. They say one thing and do another. I definitely think they took the wrong path when they placed the responsibility for what happened on September 11th on immigrants. We could end up with a population of hardworking people who have neither rights nor protections," she asserted. For her part, Giovanna Negretti, executive director of the Massachusetts-based organization ¿Oíste? said she felt "greatly deceived" by this decision, and argued that President Bush doesn't "take seriously the political capacity of [Latinos] to remove him from power." "[Bush] knows he has to depend on the Latino vote in order to win in the coming elections, and many of the votes in these elections will come from Latinos. I think it's strange. It's very sad that the president of a nation of immigrants would decide to close the doors to [new] immigrants," Negretti said. She also spoke of anti-immigrant sentiment that the attacks have generated. "This country has always been anti-immigrant, but September 11th gave special license to the immigrant-bashers to do things that are simply incredible," Negretti said. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-03-15 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File news46.doc VTMBH Article: Hit Count 97 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 Latinos deceived by Bush's general amnesty stance 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. Representatives of the U.S. immigrant community pronounced themselves "deceived" by President George 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. 2002-03-15 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 41 VTMBH Article: Article Order 4 VTMBH Article: Title Filipinos fear the INS invitation may result in arrest, deportation VTMBH Article: Author Emelyn Tapaoan VTMBH Article: Publication Filipino Express VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section briefs VTMBH Article: Blurb VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body How can we walk into the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) without fear, when people of color on the subway or in their homes were being questioned and arrested? This reaction was one of several Filipinos to the invitation from an INS official for Filipinos to go freely to the INS office to clarify doubts on their visa status or to inquire about immigration rules and policies. Dont be afraid of the INS, said Christian Rodriguez, the INS New York Public Affairs Specialists, who was one of the resource persons in a forum sponsored by the Philippine Independence Day Council, Inc. and the Philippine Consulate General in New York on Oct. 19 at the Philippine Center. Rodriguez said the INS has only 110 agents in New York to monitor millions of immigrants. But not all of them are bad, although we are the most hated agency next to IRS, quipped Rodriguez, adding that the INS gives out free coffee and doughnuts to people waiting in line. But the invitation was slammed by Lolita Compas, PIDC Vice President, saying how can one not have fear going to the INS, when local secret service agents can knock at ones door 6:00 a.m. and arrest non-citizens, without the benefit of legal counsel? Compas remark was received with nods of agreement from the Filipino audience, some of whom said, only a dummie would go walking at the INS office. Others murmured, we dont want your doughnuts. If the INS people are all like you, Mr. Rodriguez, then, perhaps, our fellow Filipinos can inquire freely at the INS, said Philippine Consul General Linglingay Lacanlale, but the consulate office has received numerous reports of interrogation and arrest without due process. After September 11th, its the liberties of non-citizens that have been most severely curtailed, said lawyer Reuben Seguritan, PIDC president. He said that in combating terrorism, the U.S. government has established a climate that erodes precious human rights to due process, equal protection, legal counsel, and a fair trial. The aftermath of September 11th has resulted in a backlash against Filipino communities, and other people of color, taking the forms of deportation and detention of hundreds of Filipinos by the INS and the FBI, he said. Sin Yen Ling, staff attorney of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), was also one of the panelists. She lashed at the so-called immigration policy change giving state and local police department the power to track down illegal immigrants as part of the effort to combat terrorism. Ling cited the case of an undocumented Filipino immigrant who was picked up by the New York Police Department (NYPD) because of a violation of immigration laws that has nothing to do with criminal laws. Ling, the nations leading authority on anti-Asian violence, also revealed that thousands of immigrants were swept up and disappeared into detention and secret trials; racial profiling turned from an increasingly discredited and offensive means of crime-fighting into a brazen national policy. She said the most egregious breach has been the preventive detention of thousands of Muslim, Arab and South Asian immigrants under an unprecedented veil of secrecy. She said some have been deported without yielding information about or connections to terrorism. Reports from the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights pointed out that the attorney general also changed the regulations that govern detention. By declaration, he expanded the period the INS can detain someone without charges from 24 to 48 hours, and added that in times of emergency, an unspecified reasonable period of time was permissible, giving agents leave to incarcerate first and then dig up minor immigration violations as justification. The LCHR said the majority of non-citizens detained by the government were long-term residents, business owners and taxpayers. Many are married to U.S. citizens and have U.S. citizen children. (The exact number cannot be known; the government stopped releasing its running tally in November at 1182). We as a community of immigrants should organize ourselves to have our rights and voices heeded, said Rebecca Thornton, one of the forums resource speakers and an Equal Justice Work Fellow at the LCHR. She persuaded those present at the forum to come up with strategies such as a letter writing campaign, lobbying, among others, to make your issues known. Several of those in attendance echoed Thorntons suggestion saying, it is high time for us to get organize and stir our tales to advocacy and action. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-11-03 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 144 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 Filipinos fear the INS invitation may result in arrest, deportation 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 40 VTMBH Article: Article Order 4 VTMBH Article: Title Perception or paranoia: Alleged sniper ID has Black folks asking questions VTMBH Article: Author Nayaba Arinde VTMBH Article: Publication Daily Challenge VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section edits VTMBH Article: Blurb The Black community, including the Nation of Islam, feels targeted after the much-publicized arrest of alleged Washington, D.C. area snipers John Muhammad and John Lee Malvo. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Skepticism is not a trait unfamiliar to the Black community regarding any official word. The huge taskforce which has desended upon the D.C. area declared that John Allen Muhammad, (a.k.a. John Allen Williams) and John Lee Malvo, 17, his unofficial ward, were the snipers who terrorized the region for three weeks, leaving 10 people dead and three others seriously injured. They havent proved them to be guilty of anything. I wouldnt know the motivation if they were guilty, candid activist Father Lawrence Lucas told the Daily Challenge yesterday. Most of the terrorists in this country are white folks. I was surprised when I heard, because normally this is white peoples behavior, not ours. It shows the effect of integration that has really wrecked some Black folks to the extent that they are thinking and behaving just like white folk. This may give us the likes of the Ashcrofts, the Bushes and the Rumsfelds another excuse for racial profiling with regards to Black folk. When white folk blow up an Oklahoma building, they dont target folk in general. But, Im already hearing commentators talking about a link to Al Qaeda. Evidently, this extraordinary turn of events came from the two phone calls to the tip line. Pointing towards an Alabama robbery, one call is reported to have come in from Tacoma, Wash., and the other is said to have come from the sniper, angered that investigators were not taking him seriously. On Wednesday, Montgomery Police Chief Charles Moose announced that arrest warrants were issued for Muhammed and Malvo. Arrested at 3:30 a.m. on Thursday on Interstate 70 in Frederick County, Maryland at a reststop, the two men were asleep when a motorist spotted the parked blue Chevy Caprice, with the tag number that had been widely publicized the previous day. Were positive its these guys, an official told reporters. By early Thursday afternoon, authorities were all but beaming that they had cracked the case. But, last week, addressing a New York audience, Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan declared that the government, and President George Bush in particular was targeting him and his organization. The rounding up of Black Muslims in Oregon, on what he suggested were incredulous terrorism-connected charges, was just a part of the blueprint, said Farrakhan. Perception or paranoia? While the mainstream media has yet to engage in full-scale analysis of any Nation of Islam link with Muhammad, writer Saeed Shabazz told the Challenge that the not-so-subtle hints have already begun. Shabazz, a New York staff reporter for the Final Call said, This whole sniper thing has been very erratic. Why would a Muslim leave a tarot card? How do they catch you sleeping in a roadstop in a car they say they are looking for? The spelling of the name is vital. On Wednesday night, the news was spelling Muhammad with an O, a short while later they changed it to an U. Everybody knows that the Arabs dont use the U, that Nation uses the U. The Minister was very clear that the government would be working to divide Black Christians from Black Muslims, Shabazz said. Already they are trying to connect James Ujaama in Seattle with the six Muslims who were arrested in Portland, Ore., and now this John Muhammad, Shabazz continued. Suppose somebody now decides to attack someone in the Nation of Islam, what are we supposed to do? This plants the seed, thats what the Minister was talking about. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-10-27 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 88 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 Perception or paranoia: Alleged sniper ID has Black folks asking questions 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 Black community, including the Nation of Islam, feels targeted after the much-publicized arrest 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. 2002-10-27 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 38 VTMBH Article: Article Order 3 VTMBH Article: Title Cash flow to campaign coffers VTMBH Article: Author Causewell Vaughn VTMBH Article: Publication Weekly Gleaner VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section VTMBH Article: Blurb Jamaicas Prime Minister J.P. Patterson has been here to raise money, so has opposition leader Edward Seaga. But they are not the only ones. Politicians from throughout the Caribbean have come here to increase cash flow to their campaign coffers.At home, people are just too poor, said one local politician. 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 2002-10-16 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 3 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 Cash flow to campaign coffers 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. Jamaicas Prime Minister J.P. Patterson has been here to raise money, so has opposition leader Edward 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. 2002-10-16