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The League of United Latin American Citizens, the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement and the Hispanic Federation call for all councils, members, and allies to attend and support our fellow brothers and sisters on the Selma to Montgomery March and Rally in Alabama on March 4th- 9th, 2012. The LULAC National Office and LULAC Councils in metropolitan Washington, DC are mobilizing a delegation from Washington, DC to Alabama for the Selma to Montgomery March and Rally. Leaders of several local, state and national organizations are planning to re-enact the historic 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, with all of its powerful symbolism. Today, 47 years later, many states have launched an all-out coordinated assault on our democracy by attacking workers’ rights, voting rights, public education and comprehensive immigration reform. In 1965, the Selma to Montgomery March made history and changed America. In 2012, we march again…for the 99%. History will be on our side

WHAT:
LULAC, LCLAA and Hispanic Federation Latino Leaders Delegation from across the country will march to Alabama to protect our workers’ rights, voting rights, public education, and immigration reform.

WHEN:
March 7th- 9th (Wednesday- Friday)

WHERE:
Alabama

SELMA TO MONTGOMERY MARCH & RALLY DETAILS:
Trip attendees will begin marching on Thursday, March 8 for Immigrant’s/ Voting Rights day at 9am, and will end marching at 3pm, then participating in all evening events. On March 9th, we will begin marching at 9am and joining the Rally at 11:30 am.

TRANSPORTATION:
For LULAC members interested in attending, the LULAC National office will sponsor your transportation to Alabama and back to your departure city – free of charge. We will be renting passenger vans that can hold up to 16 passengers. Please be sure to speak with the LULAC members in your area so that we can coordinate transportation needs accordingly.

LULAC members that are planning on attending the rally will need to contact Liliana Rañón at [email protected] or at (202)365-0983 at the LULAC National office and provide the following information:
– Your full name & contact information (mobile number & email address)
– Your council number and/or LULAC affiliation
– Departure location, including city and state
– Departure time from your city
– Return date & time from Alabama (the Immigration Rally is taking place March 9th)
– Number of passengers – please note these passenger vans can accommodate 16 passengers

LODGING:
LULAC National will be sponsoring your lodging for you for your stay in Alabama. Please be sure to communicate your interest in attending to the LULAC National office in order for us to be able to make accommodations. Please note that due to the high volume of interest, attendees will be sharing rooms.

MEALS:
**Light meals will be provided for the marchers as well as transportation to the evening rally locations.

Limited capacity, please RSVP as soon as possible to Paloma Zuleta at [email protected] or Liliana Rañón at [email protected] & at (202) 365-0983

Source: http://thuglifearmy.com/news/4449-lulac-lclaa-and-the-hispanic-federation-invite-you-to-alabama-for-the-re-enactment-of-1965-selma-to.html

Finally! The KANSAS COMPACT efforts by non-partisan and Latina-led

political movement is penetrating the Heart of America in Kansas! The Tequila Party has headquarters in Arizona (immigration ground zero) and we are fighting Tea Party extremism.

The KANSAS COMPACT and the COMPACT WITH AMERICA needs support from all sides of the political spectrum and support cannot come from just one political aisle. The Tequila Party Movement consists of Independents, Democrats, Republicans, and Libertarian voters and it is going to take all efforts from all sides to set this nation back on a course that remembers our immigrant history. Immigrants have made this nation great.

We want to congratulate Kansas Rep. Louis Ruiz for introducing this bill and for his leadership. We felt this was necessary when Kansas Rep. Virgil Peck made the violent remark when he advocated the shooting of immigrants like hogs. We hope to see a positive outcome from a horrible black eye Virgil Peck left Kansas with.

As you know might already know, the Tequila Party is a counter movement to the extremist Tea Party Movement. The Tequila Party Movement is a group that motivates Latinos to get out and vote and vote for pro immigrant politicians. We need the Kansas Compact to be passed since Kris Kobach (also advises anti-immigrant 2012 Republican Presidential candidate — Mitt Romney) is the architect behind many anti-DREAM Act, anti-immigrant laws, and his attacks on our 14th amendment via birthright citizenship laws. Kris Kobach has ties to white nationalist and anti-semitic John Tanton.

Source: http://tucsoncitizen.com

TIME Magazine is making a bold claim: The Latino vote will decide the 2012 elections.

Their cover story, written by Michael Sherer, argues that the Latino vote has grown in certain parts of the country that may determine our President in 2012.

Sherer says that new voters in the Southwest are largely Latino, and that if Obama is able to win “heavily-Latino Western states like Nevada, Colorado and Arizona,” he would be able to afford losing industrial Midwestern states like Ohio and Wisconsin.

The author calls it an “awkward coincidence” that the last of the Republican debates is occurring in Arizona — a state known for its controversial immigration laws. Many believe the GOP’s harsh rhetoric surrounding undocumented immigrants has alienated Latinos from the Republican party, and may in turn cost the party the election in 2012.

Somos Republicans founder DeeDee Garcia Blase is one of those people.

She told The Huffington Post that she joined the Republican Party because of the its emphasis on “family values,” “capitalism and national security.” A fifth generation Mexican-American and a former business owner who served in the U.S. Air Force during the senior Bush administration, Blase says the Republican party has “lost its way.”

“They’ve dehumanized the undocumented immigrant, and people that look like them,” Garcia Blase said. “I’m angry that I have to be defending my rights against laws like those in Arizona. I was willing to die for this country, and now I have to defend myself?”

During recent campaign stops and debates, some Republican candidates have ratcheted up their anti-immigrant talk, pledging aggressive measures to discourage illegal immigration. Romney suggested making life so difficult for undocumented immigrants that they “self-deport,” Gingrich called for a “double fence,” and Ron Paul pledged to “attack their benefits,” such as “free education” and “birth right citizenship”.

The March 5th issue of TIME Magazine also features an exclusive interview with Marco Rubio, who warns that the Republican party must soften their tone on immigration to appeal to the Latino voter.

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com

PHOENIX — A federal judge blocked police in Arizona from enforcing a section of the state’s 2010 immigration enforcement law that prohibited people from blocking traffic when they seek or offer day labor services on streets.

U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton ruled Wednesday that groups seeking to overturn the law will likely prevail in their claim that the day labor rules violate the First Amendment. She rejected arguments by the state that the rules were needed for traffic safety and pointed out that the law, also known as SB1070, says its purpose is to make attrition through enforcement the immigration policy of state and local government agencies.

“This purposes clause applies to all sections of SB1070, and nowhere does it state that a purpose of the statutes and statutory revisions is to enhance traffic safety,” the judge wrote.

The ban was among a handful of provisions in the law that were allowed to take effect after a July 2010 decision by Bolton halted enforcement of other, more controversial elements of the law. The previously blocked portions include a requirement that police, while enforcing other laws, question people’s immigration status if officers suspect they are in the country illegally.

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear Gov. Jan Brewer’s appeal of Bolton’s decision to put the most contentious elements of the law on hold. Another appeals court has already upheld Bolton’s July 2010 ruling.

Three of the seven challenges to the Arizona law remain alive. No trial date has been scheduled in the three cases.

Some of Arizona’s biggest law enforcement agencies have said in the past that they haven’t made any arrests under the sections of the law that were allowed to take effect.

Brewer said in a statement that she was disappointed with Bolton’s “erroneous decision,” which she said has further eroded the state’s ability to regulate public safety. Also, Wednesday’s ruling is just one more reason to look forward to the Supreme Court’s scheduled consideration of SB1070 in April, she said.

The governor signed the measure into law in the spring of 2010.

Dan Pochoda, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, one of the group’s representing people who filed the lawsuit, said the judge saw through the government’s ruse that the day labor rules were about traffic safety, when the goal all along was to get at day laborers.

“There are clear laws now that allow any cop to unclog (the streets) well before they had this law,” Pochoda said.

The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and other opponents had asked the judge for a preliminary injunction to block enforcement of the day labor rules, arguing they unconstitutionally restrict the free speech rights of people who want to express their need for work.

Brewer’s lawyers had opposed attempts to halt enforcement of the day labor restrictions. They argued the restrictions are meant to confront safety concerns, distractions to drivers, harassment to passers-by, trespassing and damage to property.

Brewer’s lawyers have said day laborers congregate on roadsides in large groups, flagging down vehicles and often swarming those that stop. They also said day laborers in Phoenix and its suburbs of Chandler, Mesa and Fountain Hills leave behind water bottles, food wrappers and other trash.

The judge wrote in her latest ruling Wednesday that the law appears to target particular speech rather than a broader traffic problem. “The adoption of a content-based ban on speech indicates that the Legislature did not draft these provisions after careful evaluation of the burden on free speech,” the judge wrote.

Bolton previously denied an earlier request to block the day labor rules, but opponents were allowed to bring it up again after the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on a similar issue in September.

The appeals court had suspended a law from Redondo Beach, Calif., that banned day laborers from standing on public sidewalks while soliciting work from motorists. The court ruled the law violated workers’ free speech rights and was so broad that it was illegal for children to shout “car wash” to passing drivers.

The ruling Wednesday still leaves other elements of the law in place, such as minor tweaks to the state’s 2005 immigrant smuggling law and 2007 law prohibiting employers from knowingly hiring illegal immigrants.

Other parts of the law that remain in effect include a prohibition on state and local government agencies from restricting the enforcement of federal immigration law and a ban on state and local agencies from restricting the sharing of information on people’s immigration status for determining eligibility of a public benefit.

LOS ANGELES, (BUSINESS WIRE) — X-Change Corporation, An emerging hip-hop entertainment conglomerate, is pleased to announce that negotiations are currently underway with a number of major distributors to have a put deal to distribute their music label’s albums. Old West Entertainment, which is headed by iconic West Coast hip-hop legend, Kid Frost, is planning to have a deal secured by the first quarter of 2012. At the moment, Old West Entertainment has build up a library of 10 albums that are ready to be distributed into market. “We have a strong library which is ready to be presented to the public, most of our artist have a strong following already”, says Arturo Molina aka Kid Frost.

Universal Music Group is currently the largest global record company to date. UMG owns and operates labels such as, Interscope Geffen A&M, The Island Def Jam Music Group, Universal Republic Records, Universal Music Group Nashville, Decca Label Group, The Verve Music Group, Show Dog — Universal Music, Universal Music Enterprises, Universal Music Latin Entertainment, and A&M/Octone. Working in concert with all of the company’s record labels, they provide a frontline approach to catalog management, a concentration of resources, a greater emphasis on strategic marketing initiatives and opportunities in new technologies such as the Internet. Universal Music Group consists of many major artists like, Rihanna, Akon, Amy Winehouse, Avant, Baby Bash, Babyface, Lil Wayne, Blackstreet, Boy II Men, Busta Rhymes, Diana Ross, DJ Khaled, Jay Z, Justin Beiber, Rick Ross, and so much more. UMG covers genres, pop, rock, rap, R&B, country, jazz, classical and Latin music.

Sony Music Entertainment is the second largest global record company in the world today, and is wholly owned subsidiary of “Sony Corporation of America”. The company that evolved into Sony Music was founded in 1929, as the “American Record Corporation”. Through merger of several smaller companies, the Columbia Broadcasting System acquired the American Record Corporation in 1938. Through the years of evolution, in 1991, the record label was renamed “Sony Music Entertainment”. Sony now owns and operates many record labels such as, American Recordings, Arista Nashville, Battery Records, Beach Street Records, BNA Records, Columbia Nashville, Columbia Records, Day 1, Epic Records, Essential Records, Flicker Records, LaFace Records, Legacy Recordings, Masterworks, Polo Grounds, RCA Records, RCA Nashville, RCA Red Seal, RCA Victor, Reunion Records, Roc Nation, Sony Classical, Sony Music Latin, Star Time International, Verity Gospel Music Group, and Volcano Entertainment. Today Sony Music Entertainment has many great artists like, Michael Jackson, Aaliyah, Alicia Keys, Aerosmith, Avril Lavigne, J. Cole, Beyonce, Britney Spears, Chris Brown, Daddy Yankee, DMX, Jennifer Lopez, Toni Braxton and tons more. Sony Music is home to premier record labels representing music from every genre.

Old West Entertainment is also making their library available on iTunes for digital downloads, according to a new report from research analysts. Global Equities Research has revealed that Apple’s iTunes platform, including music, films, iBooks and the App Store, will grow at a rate of 39% over the next three years to contribute $13 billion in revenue in 2013. The group’s research indicates that more publishers are supporting Apple’s iBook format over Amazon’s Kindle platform, with it believed that Apple’s design and finishing has begun to tempt users way from the Kindle. “We are excited to have our library available on iTunes in 2012 for digital downloads, and hopefully we are able to close a put deal with a major like Sony, Universal, Warner, etc.”, added Old West CEO, Arturo Molina.

Old West Entertainment Corp.

Source: http://thuglifearmy.com

A pair of Phoenix police officers contacted Ernest Atencio, the man who died last month after an altercation with sheriff’s detention officers, two times in short order on his last night of freedom.

During the first contact, outside a convenience store, officers noticed Atencio was acting erratically and told him to go home.

Moments later, the officers received a call about a man who was kicking at a woman’s apartment door in the 2800 block of West Laurel Lane. The officers recognized Atencio as the man they had just encountered outside the convenience store, according to police documents. With the victim requesting prosecution of Atencio, the officers took the 44-year-old Phoenix resident into custody.

Atencio would die within days, after Phoenix police officers struggled with him in a jail booking area and Maricopa County sheriff’s officers joined in the scrum. According to a hospital report, Atencio was stunned with a Taser six times. Then, he was left naked in a safe cell.

The sheriff’s investigation of Atencio’s death is ongoing, and it could be months before the Medical Examiner’s report identifying the cause of his death is complete.

Atencio’s family has threatened to sue the Sheriff’s Office over the incident.

According to Michael Manning, the family’s attorney, the police report and independent toxicology results confirm what Atencio’s family members already believed: Atencio should have been on medication to help him with his psychological issues, but he was not under the influence of any drugs or alcohol at the time he was involved in the jail altercation.

The toxicology screening, conducted when Atencio was admitted to St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center the day after his arrest, showed negative results for alcohol and a host of drugs including cocaine and methamphetamine.

The toxicology results confirm the suspicions of the two Phoenix police officers who encountered Atencio twice on the evening of Dec. 15 and wrote in their reports that while Atencio was behaving erratically, they did not believe he was on drugs.

“He showed no signs of being a danger to himself or others, he simply appeared to be not medicated and engaged in very random conversation,” Officer Sarah Roberts wrote of her first encounter with Atencio that night. “He was not violent at all toward any officer or civilian present. Atencio stated that he lived down the street and as we had no crime he was instructed to return to his home.”

The call from the apartment complex came a short time later and the responding officers found Atencio “aggressively pointing his cell phone” at the victim. The officers later learned that Atencio was kicking the woman’s apartment door. When the woman walked out into the parking lot, Atencio walked up to her “and stopped only an inch away from her face and began yelling at her.”

“But after a few minutes of yelling at her, Atencio then got distracted by a car and began chasing it,” officers wrote.

The behavior – consistent through both encounters – led the officers to believe Atencio was experiencing mental-health issues, according to the report.

“He was not exhibiting any symptoms of drug use. His eyes appeared normal, he was not sweating profusely, he was not twitching, his speech was normal … he was alert and would respond to questions,” Roberts wrote. “However would get easily distracted and speak of random and odd things.”

Video taken from jail surveillance cameras showed Atencio’s struggle with police and sheriff’s detention officers occurred about 90 minutes after he arrived at the Fourth Avenue Jail.

In the video, a Phoenix police officer can be seen placing his arm around Atencio’s upper chest or neck before Atencio is taken to the floor and surrounded by officers. Atencio kicks and struggles on the floor, wrestling with as many as 10 officers before an unidentified sheriff’s deputy deploys a Taser in an effort to defuse the situation.

The video later shows eight sheriff’s officers surrounding Atencio in a padded cell, where they dragged the Gulf War veteran after he was subdued. Once in the cell, the sheriff’s officers continue to struggle with Atencio, although the crowd in the small room makes it difficult to see Atencio, who is on the floor.

A sheriff’s spokeswoman said when Phoenix police officers took Atencio to the floor, sheriff’s detention officers went to help as they would with any altercation in the jail-booking area.

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2012/01/10/20120110phoenix-inmate-dies-police-report-sheds-light-on-condition.html#ixzz1jCLqFimm

Sixteen Latin American and Caribbean countries have asked to join in the Justice’s Department’s lawsuit against South Carolina’s new illegal immigration law, citing concerns for their citizens. Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico and other countries filed papers Tuesday, asking to join the litigation in Charleston. The law would require law officers who make a traffic stop to call federal immigration officials if they suspect that someone is in the country illegally. Opponents say the measure would encourage racial profiling. The countries say the law would lead to state-sanctioned discrimination against their citizens.

Conservative Arizona State Sen. Russell Pearce lost a recall election Tuesday evening, with Republican challenger Jerry Lewis taking 54 percent of the votes. The recall drive in Maricopa County serves to some degree as a referendum on Peace’s aggressive stance on immigration. As a state senator for the last 10 years, Pearce has pushed for laws to crack down on illegal immigration, and was catapulted to the national political stage when he spearheaded the passage of SB 1070 — a law that would give police greater authority to demand proof of legal residence from people they stop, among other provisions. The law was not fully implemented, due to a legal challenge from the Justice Department. Lewis, who favors a more moderate line on immigration, was supported by immigrant rights activists in the recall election as an alternative to Pearce.

Source: http://latindispatch.com/2011/11/09/immigration-russell-pearce-loses-recall-election/

For the last few months the Our BLOG has been hacked repeatedly. Now that we have a high level of security we can now continue to bring you the news that effects all Latino community’s in areas that are underrepresented in other news mediums. We are sorry for the down time but will post news that took place during our outage. These news stories will be tagged with the letters CBPN (Chicano BLOG past news) so that you may easily navigate through or BLOG for past and present news.

WELCOME BACK!

by Joe Ortiz

The tape contains music and interviews with Chicano rock pioneers TIERRA, YAQUI, Mark Guerrero and Chicano rock music producer, Art Brambila, which aired 40 years ago on KLOS-FM in Los Angeles, CA. Memories, precious memories! Joe Ortiz, 1st Mexican American to host a talk show on an English-language, commercial radio station on KABC AM Radio in 1971.

Read more: http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/10217418-rare-tape-of-a-radio-show-on-the-evolution-of-chicano-rock-music-found-after-40-years