January 24, 2006 by elenamary
Vatican Paper Hits ‘Intelligent Design
The Vatican newspaper has published an article saying “intelligent design” is not science and that teaching it alongside evolutionary theory in school classrooms only creates confusion.
That’s Right! Say it Loud!
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January 1, 2006 by elenamary
I’ve been reading Bésame Que Soy Mexicana:
somos muchachas en busca de amor. twenty-something, thirty-something women, not unlike you, who have gone through traditional ways of finding a date and the brave new world of electronic matchmaking. we have come back with some war stories.
These womyn are really funny. You can’t help but want to scream OMG girlfriend, I’ve been there. If you are a heterosexual womon feeling mopey and are fed up with dating, either grab a lap top or borrow one, a big blanket and a pint of chocolate ice cream and start reading!
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November 11, 2005 by elenamary
Una impugnación a elecciones del IME
08:22 AM CDT on Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Por PATRICIA ESTRADA / Al DÃÂa
Este martes a las 5 de la tarde venció el plazo para someter reclamos o impugnaciones a la manera en que se llevaron a cabo las elecciones de los nuevos integrantes del Consejo Consultivo del Instituto de Mexicanos en el Exterior (CCIME).
Un proceso que se efectuó el pasado 24 de septiembre y que generó la inconformidad de por lo menos un lÃÂder comunitario, quien de manera oficial sometió su rechazo al proceso por escrito a las autoridades correspondientes.
Roberto ChavarrÃÂa, presidente de la Federación de Clubes de Michoacanos del Norte de Texas dijo en una carta que no estaba de acuerdo con el método en que se realizó dicha elección.
Su oposición fue escuchada y su carta se turnó a Cándido Morales, dirigente del IME en México, dijo Laura González, una de las consejeras locales del IME.
La funcionaria dijo que no depende de los consejeros locales revisar o decidir si la impugnación de ChavarrÃÂa procede o no.
“La analizamos y la contestamos”, dijo González.
Agregó que serán los miembros del comité general electoral del CCIME quienes decidan si esta impugnación procede.
El proceso tardará algunos dÃÂas, dijo.
Los consejeros electos para el próximo perÃÂodo de tres años fueron Marcela Garcini, Claudia Torrescano, Rafael Narváez, Francisco Rojas y como suplente fue electa Carmen Acosta.
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November 8, 2005 by elenamary
To find your polling place go to:
www.MyPollingSite.com
Info on issues & candidates:
nationwide Indyvoter.org
Citywide columbusindyvoter.org
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November 5, 2005 by elenamary
Many of you I am sure have heard about the riots in Paris
As I heard about the riots in Paris between the police and the people who are primarly decendents of African countries that where French colonies, I began to think about immigration worldwide.
Thursday of two youths, Malian Bouna Traore, 15, and Tunisian Zyed Benna 17, who were electrocuted when they jumped over a fence surrounding a high-voltage electrical transformer. Some relatives and witnesses said the two boys were trying to escape a police identity check, although the police deny they were being chased. Upon hearing of the deaths, other youths from the suburb began looting and rioting in the city’s immigrant-heavy northern suburbs.
During the past nine days, an estimated 1,800 vehicles have been torched and more than 400 people arrested. Gangs of youths are running through the streets, setting buildings on fire and throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails at police. On Friday, some rioters reportedly set a 56 year-old disabled woman on fire, while reports of unrest emerged in Rouen in Normandy, Dijon in Burgundy and Marseilles in the South. —TPM Cafe
The conlfict in France and the treatment of French-Algerians is not unique. There are the Turks in Germany, Albanians in Greece, Indians in the UK, Guatemalans in Mexico, and Mexicans in the United States.
As I thought about these groups I also began to think about El Vez, and his song “Immigration Time” set to the music of the Oldie “Suspiscious Minds”. Below are the lyrics and you can hear a sample here ( the ‘?’ are where I couldn’t make out the wording correctly and very poorly guessed).
And right now I’d like to play you something off our Graciasland album. This is a song about immigrations rights. And in Germany the kids from Turkey think its about them, and in England the kids from India think it’s a song about them. But I wrote this song for the world and originally with the point of the Southern California immigrants coming in from Mexico into California. But this is a global situation. You remember you’ve got to think globally but act El Vezly.
I am caught in a trap
I can’t walk out
Because my foot is caught in this border fence
Why can’t you see
Statue of Liberty
I am your homeless, tired, and wearyWe can go on together
It is immigration time
And we can build our dreamsits immigration time
Yes I am trying to go
Get out of Mexico
The promise land waits on the other side
There is the fence! Look out!
And here they come againwatch out for la migra
They are trying to fence me in
Wanting to live with the brave and the home of the free
That’s you and me
We can go on together
Its immigration timeAnd we can build our dreams
Its immigration timeAll that I have I will share
I ain’t asking a lot oh no
You are the one that is supposed to care
All of you
Where the mountain part (?)
Oh you lied to me (?)
Oh that much (?)I’m caught in a trap
I cant walk out
Because my foot is caught in this borderland
Why can’t you see
Statue of Liberty
I am your homeless, tired, and wearyI’m caught in a trap
I can’t walk out
Because my foot is caught in your playlot of (?)
Why can’t you see
Statue of Liberty
I am your homeless, tired,
I got my green card
I want my gold card
I am your homeless, tired, and weary
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October 25, 2005 by elenamary
Rosa Parks said she wanted to be remembered “as a person who wanted to be free and wanted others to be free.” In a 1984 radio interview she said that sometimes she couldn’t escape the fame and responsibility that was thrust upon her.
Rosa Parks, who ignited the modern civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to surrender her seat on a bus to a white man on December 1′ 1955 – dead at the age of 92. Voice of America
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