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lunes, 17 de octubre de 2011
FORO - SALVADOREÑOS EN LONG ISLAND: BOLETIN CONSULAR
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domingo, 16 de octubre de 2011
SIGUE EL BAILONGO EN LA CASA DE TEDDY AL SON DE NIFA
El presupuesto no esta balanceado, de acuerdo a Grant Thornton, entidad privada contratada por Autoridad Financiera Interina de Nassau... Deficit: $153 millones.
Y QUE DICEN NUESTROS LIDERES, DONDE ESTAN?
http://libn.com/2011/10/07/nifa-rejects-another-nassau-budget-plan/
NIFA rejects another Nassau budget
by John Callegari
Published: October 7, 2011
At its first meeting since County Executive Ed Mangano submitted his latest iteration of the county budget, the Nassau Interim Finance Authority declared the budget proposal out of balance.
Even NIFA Chairman Ronald Stack admitted he got a feeling of déjà vu during the whole ordeal.
Mangano and NIFA have been going back and forth since June over how to accurately balance the budget. And round after round, NIFA has stated the budget proposals are not adequate under the statutes of the NIFA Act, for which the finance authority must abide.
Thursday’s meeting was no different.
Saying Mangano’s budget proposal had “a high degree of uncertainty and lack of strategic direction,” NIFA Chairman Ronald Stack led a proposal to discharge the budget without recommendation. It is now up to the county Legislature to adopt a budget that fixes the problems NIFA continues to have with the budget, such as relying on red light camera revenues or proposals like union concessions and legislative actions that would likely result in litigation.
If the Legislature does not adopt a budget acceptable to NIFA by the Oct. 30 deadline, the finance authority could reject the budget, forcing it to revise its proposal. If that new proposed budget is again rejected by NIFA, Stack said NIFA would be forced to act to correct it, although he would not elaborate on what that would mean for the county.
NIFA officials said they were “very concerned” about the year-end budget status, which they estimated would reach a deficit of $153 million. And if no other cost reduction or revenue-producing measures were put in place, that amount could balloon to a $283 million deficit by the end of 2012.
Included in Mangano’s proposal as a contingency budgetary proposal was the privatization of Nassau’s sewer system, estimated to bring in $750 million in revenue. The measure had originally been included as a major component of the budgetary plan, but was reduced to a contingency measure after NIFA rejected it as having too many uncertainties attached to it. Stack once again dismissed the measure saying it was “in no way acceptable to NIFA.”
“There should be public discussion as to whether the proposed sale of Nassau’s sewer system is good public policy,” NIFA member George Marlin said. “The public should be told how much more it will cost to flush their toilets if there is a sale. There will be a flush fee, also known as a tax, because sewage costs will no longer be based on property tax assessments and because the buyers of the sewer system will require a profit on their investment.”
But, the Mangano administration retorted, saying NIFA was doing nothing to come up with ways to solve the budget deficit problem.
“County Executive Mangano’s budget decreased year-to-year spending and implemented recommendations included in NIFA’s own Grant Thornton report,” said Tim Sullivan, Mangano’s deputy county executive for finance. “It is now confusing that NIFA rejects its own specific recommendations. If they are asking for a tax increase, they ought to just come out and say so. NIFA must offer suggestions, rather than only criticism, and join with the County in solving Nassau’s fiscal crisis.”
Along with rejecting Mangano’s most recent budget proposals, NIFA also rejected a resolution to contract with the Landtek Group to install artificial turf at baseball fields at Cantiague Park and Bay Park. That contract, worth $8.1 million, was subject to NIFA review because it was above the $5 million threshold for which all contracts must be reviewed by the state-imposed finance authority. In rejecting the measure, NIFA officials said they were not necessarily against park improvements, but installing artificial turf on the baseball fields would not generate the kind of revenue the county would need just to break even on the investment.
“This is not the time to put artificial turf on baseball fields,” Stack said. “The county should focus on getting its budget expenditures in line, not on ballfields and parking lots.”
Y QUE DICEN NUESTROS LIDERES, DONDE ESTAN?
http://libn.com/2011/10/07/nifa-rejects-another-nassau-budget-plan/
NIFA rejects another Nassau budget
by John Callegari
Published: October 7, 2011
At its first meeting since County Executive Ed Mangano submitted his latest iteration of the county budget, the Nassau Interim Finance Authority declared the budget proposal out of balance.
Even NIFA Chairman Ronald Stack admitted he got a feeling of déjà vu during the whole ordeal.
Mangano and NIFA have been going back and forth since June over how to accurately balance the budget. And round after round, NIFA has stated the budget proposals are not adequate under the statutes of the NIFA Act, for which the finance authority must abide.
Thursday’s meeting was no different.
Saying Mangano’s budget proposal had “a high degree of uncertainty and lack of strategic direction,” NIFA Chairman Ronald Stack led a proposal to discharge the budget without recommendation. It is now up to the county Legislature to adopt a budget that fixes the problems NIFA continues to have with the budget, such as relying on red light camera revenues or proposals like union concessions and legislative actions that would likely result in litigation.
If the Legislature does not adopt a budget acceptable to NIFA by the Oct. 30 deadline, the finance authority could reject the budget, forcing it to revise its proposal. If that new proposed budget is again rejected by NIFA, Stack said NIFA would be forced to act to correct it, although he would not elaborate on what that would mean for the county.
NIFA officials said they were “very concerned” about the year-end budget status, which they estimated would reach a deficit of $153 million. And if no other cost reduction or revenue-producing measures were put in place, that amount could balloon to a $283 million deficit by the end of 2012.
Included in Mangano’s proposal as a contingency budgetary proposal was the privatization of Nassau’s sewer system, estimated to bring in $750 million in revenue. The measure had originally been included as a major component of the budgetary plan, but was reduced to a contingency measure after NIFA rejected it as having too many uncertainties attached to it. Stack once again dismissed the measure saying it was “in no way acceptable to NIFA.”
“There should be public discussion as to whether the proposed sale of Nassau’s sewer system is good public policy,” NIFA member George Marlin said. “The public should be told how much more it will cost to flush their toilets if there is a sale. There will be a flush fee, also known as a tax, because sewage costs will no longer be based on property tax assessments and because the buyers of the sewer system will require a profit on their investment.”
But, the Mangano administration retorted, saying NIFA was doing nothing to come up with ways to solve the budget deficit problem.
“County Executive Mangano’s budget decreased year-to-year spending and implemented recommendations included in NIFA’s own Grant Thornton report,” said Tim Sullivan, Mangano’s deputy county executive for finance. “It is now confusing that NIFA rejects its own specific recommendations. If they are asking for a tax increase, they ought to just come out and say so. NIFA must offer suggestions, rather than only criticism, and join with the County in solving Nassau’s fiscal crisis.”
Along with rejecting Mangano’s most recent budget proposals, NIFA also rejected a resolution to contract with the Landtek Group to install artificial turf at baseball fields at Cantiague Park and Bay Park. That contract, worth $8.1 million, was subject to NIFA review because it was above the $5 million threshold for which all contracts must be reviewed by the state-imposed finance authority. In rejecting the measure, NIFA officials said they were not necessarily against park improvements, but installing artificial turf on the baseball fields would not generate the kind of revenue the county would need just to break even on the investment.
“This is not the time to put artificial turf on baseball fields,” Stack said. “The county should focus on getting its budget expenditures in line, not on ballfields and parking lots.”
viernes, 14 de octubre de 2011
jueves, 13 de octubre de 2011
DIGAMOS NO A LOS DESPIDOS
Mil gracias otra vez,
Es el comentario de un ciudadano que tuvo a bien compartir con esta redacción. De aquí la pregunta obligada ¿Donde están nuestros suedo líderes que solo sirven para tomarse la foto? Ser adornos porque solo calientan la silla, se pasan de hocicones hablando barrabasadas y media, o escribiendo tonterías apoyando a los anti-inmigrantes en nombre de la comunidad aun que no sean explícitos. De qué sirve vanagloriarlos que están dentro del sistema político local, si solo sirven para nada ya que se quedan callados cuando realmente tienen que participar a favor de la colectividad que dicen representar.
Ello deja en evidencia el tremendo abismo y dolencia de nuestra comunidad como grupo. Carecemos de gente capaz y estamos plagados de incapaces que solo velan por sus propios intereses. Y son los mismos que embaucan a nuestra gente vendiéndole espejitos de los políticos que a ellos les conviene respaldar porque ya negociaron su huesito. Y nos quejamos como viejas lloronas y demandamos más puestos dentro de la política y/o gobiernos locales, solo para llenarlos con ineptos para fomentar el compadrazgo y colusión a su favor, porque tanta es su mediocridad que son incapaces también de sostener sus propios negocios o dentro de las reglas del sistema Oferta y Demanda, donde la calidad, profesionalismo, capacidad, ética y principios son tomados en cuenta.
Tiempo de elecciones está por venir y saldrán como sompopos de mayo, hablando maravillas de sus candidatos a su conveniencia previa negociación bajo la mesa y por un huesito, a nuestra comunidad.
Estaremos atentos de estos personajes
No debemos apoyar a políticos anti-inmigrantes y a los incapaces.
COUNTY EXECUTIVE ED MANGANO IS PLANNING TO
RALLY
Against Layoffs and
THE CONSTANT ATTACK ON LABOR!
Monday, October 17, 2011
11:30am-2:00pm
Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building
1550 Franklin Ave., Mineola
COUNTY EXECUTIVE ED MANGANO IS PLANNING TO:
LAYOFF MORE THAN 1,000 CSEA MEMBERS
MANDATE EMPLOYEES AND RETIREES TO PAY 25% INTO THEIR HEALTH INSURANCE COSTS
PASS LANDMARK LEGISLATION THAT ALLOWS HIM THE ABILITY TO MODIFY CONTRACTS & BENEFITS AND FREEZE WAGES!
THIS IS AFTER ALREADY LAYING OFF 128 CSEA MEMBERS IN JUNE!
JOIN US TO HELP PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF ALL ORGANIZED LABOR ON LONG ISLAND!
*PARKING WILL BE AVAILABLE BEHIND THE LORD & TAYLOR ON THE CORNER OF FRANKLIN AVE AND 14TH ST.
miércoles, 12 de octubre de 2011
FORO - SALVADOREÑOS EN LONG ISLAND: EL MENSAJE DE GIO " UNO MAS DE LOS BUENOS SALVADOR...
FORO - SALVADOREÑOS EN LONG ISLAND: EL MENSAJE DE GIO " UNO MAS DE LOS BUENOS SALVADOR...: Quedamos lo mismo, tanto bla-bla-bla. Y al final no dijo nada. Los hechos hablan más que palabras Sr. Mata. El consejo que preside Sr...
FORO - SALVADOREÑOS EN LONG ISLAND: SERA OTRA ALABAMA LO QUE DESEA GIO PARA SU GENTE
FORO - SALVADOREÑOS EN LONG ISLAND: SERA OTRA ALABAMA LO QUE DESEA GIO PARA SU GENTE: No entiendo que tienen de especial algunos buenos salvadoreños como se auto denominan, que solo ellos ven, lo que la mayoría no. Una mayor...
BOSTON NOTES- OCCUPY BOSTON LEADS TO MASSIVE ARRESTS
Occupy Boston leads to massive arrests
Published: 12 October, 2011, 02:18
Weeks after the Occupy movement started up, protests are still going strong and spreading. Unfortunately, so are the responses from law enforcement. Last night, over 100 demonstrators were arrested for participating in Occupy Boston.
Hip-hop artist Immortal Technique told RT that the video of New York City protesters being pepper-sprayed by the NYPD at the start of the movement served as a catalyst for public support. Though police may have hoped that their actions could keep the protesters down, crowds continue to gather in Lower Manhattan and elsewhere. The Occupy Wall Street movement spread out of Zuccotti Park in recent weeks and onto the Brooklyn Bridge where around 700 participants were arrested by the New York Police Department. RT reported earlier today that cops in Seattle, Washington are prohibiting protesters from using umbrellas while they occupy parks in the city and masses continue to swarm public spots in other parts of America.
Jason Pramas of Open Media Boston told RT that the political establishment in Boston is starting to get nervous as the movement grows in the same city that helped spawn the United States. It wasn’t the run-of-the-mill hippies that the mainstream pegs as the common protesters that was arrested last night; Pramas said that decorated veterans, legal observers and medics were arrested as well. Pramas says that despite this opposition, he doesn’t see an end in sight.
“In American terms, this is our Chicago ‘68 all over again,” Pramas said to RT. “Young people are up in arms about the situation in society, about the inability to make a living, they are afraid of the future.”
Rob Kall of OpedNews.com added to RT that opposition is coming from law enforcement all across America, with some cities being more understanding than others. “We’ve had experiences in Philadelphia with some police where they arrest our journalist and other times where the police are just great. It’s a lot of personal differences, I think,” Kall told RT. “You are going to have police who are more sensitive. When we were down in Washington over the weekend, we saw one policeman who literally attacked signs and tore them apart and went after people pretty viciously.”
Cops continue to crack down on demonstrations across the country, but Pramas says it is must more than just keeping protesters from being heard — it’s an infringement on everything American. “What we are talking about here is basic rights,” said Pramas. “This is protected speech, this is protected assembly”
“It’s clear that not only is this the voice of a generation, it’s the voice of working Americans,” added Pramas
You can watch the massive arrests, click here
http://rt.com/usa/news/occupy-boston-pramas-immortal-629/
Published: 12 October, 2011, 02:18
Weeks after the Occupy movement started up, protests are still going strong and spreading. Unfortunately, so are the responses from law enforcement. Last night, over 100 demonstrators were arrested for participating in Occupy Boston.
Hip-hop artist Immortal Technique told RT that the video of New York City protesters being pepper-sprayed by the NYPD at the start of the movement served as a catalyst for public support. Though police may have hoped that their actions could keep the protesters down, crowds continue to gather in Lower Manhattan and elsewhere. The Occupy Wall Street movement spread out of Zuccotti Park in recent weeks and onto the Brooklyn Bridge where around 700 participants were arrested by the New York Police Department. RT reported earlier today that cops in Seattle, Washington are prohibiting protesters from using umbrellas while they occupy parks in the city and masses continue to swarm public spots in other parts of America.
Jason Pramas of Open Media Boston told RT that the political establishment in Boston is starting to get nervous as the movement grows in the same city that helped spawn the United States. It wasn’t the run-of-the-mill hippies that the mainstream pegs as the common protesters that was arrested last night; Pramas said that decorated veterans, legal observers and medics were arrested as well. Pramas says that despite this opposition, he doesn’t see an end in sight.
“In American terms, this is our Chicago ‘68 all over again,” Pramas said to RT. “Young people are up in arms about the situation in society, about the inability to make a living, they are afraid of the future.”
Rob Kall of OpedNews.com added to RT that opposition is coming from law enforcement all across America, with some cities being more understanding than others. “We’ve had experiences in Philadelphia with some police where they arrest our journalist and other times where the police are just great. It’s a lot of personal differences, I think,” Kall told RT. “You are going to have police who are more sensitive. When we were down in Washington over the weekend, we saw one policeman who literally attacked signs and tore them apart and went after people pretty viciously.”
Cops continue to crack down on demonstrations across the country, but Pramas says it is must more than just keeping protesters from being heard — it’s an infringement on everything American. “What we are talking about here is basic rights,” said Pramas. “This is protected speech, this is protected assembly”
“It’s clear that not only is this the voice of a generation, it’s the voice of working Americans,” added Pramas
You can watch the massive arrests, click here
http://rt.com/usa/news/occupy-boston-pramas-immortal-629/
martes, 11 de octubre de 2011
GINNY FIELDS A LITTLE HISTORY
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/islip-board-assemblywoman-must-shutter-one-rental-1.1778508Islip
board: Assemblywoman must shutter one rental
February 24, 2010 by JENNIFER MALONEY / jennifer.maloney@newsday.com
Three years after Assemb. Ginny Fields was cited for illegally renting out two Oakdale cottages, Islip's Zoning Board of Appeals has ruled that she can continue to rent one - but she must demolish or move the other.
Islip in 2007 issued notices to Fields and her husband, Walter Fields, for two one-story cottages on the lot of a larger house at 3 East Shore Rd. The cottages did not have rental permits and were not included in the house's certificate of occupancy, as required by town code.
Newsday reported a year ago that Fields (D-Oakdale) still had not submitted an application to the zoning board of appeals to bring the cottages into compliance.
She began the application process in March and completed it in December, town officials said.
At a zoning board hearing last month, she argued that both cottages qualified for legal nonconforming use, or "grandfathering." She testified that both had been occupied every summer since they were built in 1940.
But a man who in the 1940s and '50s lived next to the property testified that while one cottage had regular seasonal tenants, the other had no plumbing - just a garden hose running from next door - and was largely vacant until 1955.
In a written decision released Wednesday, the zoning board's chairman, Richard Scheyer, called that neighbor's testimony "extremely credible."
The board ruled that the cottage that was steadily occupied qualifies for a certificate of compliance, making it eligible for residential use. The other does not, the board found, because it had been vacant for more than a year and its structure was substantially altered in a renovation.
The cottage's tenant must vacate within 30 days, town attorney Alicia O'Connor said.
In a phone interview from Albany, Fields said she has not decided what to do with the cottage but may offer to donate it for historic preservation. "We've done everything we could to be in compliance. It's a bit unfortunate because . . . the records don't go back that far. I was unable to really show genuine proof" of continuous occupancy.
O'Connor said the town will extend the 30-day deadline if the owners "show good faith effort" to remove the cottage as quickly as possible. The ruling made note of several neighbors who attended last month's hearing to complain about the cottages. But town code does not allow quality-of-life issues to be considered in such a case, Scheyer wrote.
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/islip-board-to-rule-on-fields-oakdale-rentals-1.1769364Islip
board to rule on Fields' Oakdale rentals
February 18, 2010 by JENNIFER MALONEY / jennifer.maloney@newsday.com
Three years after she was first cited for illegally renting out two Oakdale cottages, Assemb. Ginny Fields will soon hear from Islip's zoning board on whether she can continue to rent them - or must shutter them for good.
The zoning board of appeals, which last month heard Fields' case, could issue its decision as early as Tuesday.
Islip issued notices to Fields in May and June 2007 for two one-story cottages on the same lot as a larger house at 3 East Shore Rd. The cottages did not have rental permits and were not included in the house's certificate of occupancy, as required by town code.
Newsday reported last February that Fields still had not brought the rentals into compliance with town code and had not yet submitted an application to the zoning board of appeals.
She began the application process in March and completed it in December, town officials said, noting that the process took several months because the town required Fields to submit a new survey and a chain of title dating to 1940, when the cottages were built.
The zoning board heard the case on Jan. 26. At issue was whether the cottage structures had been substantially altered and whether they had been vacant for more than a year since they were built.
About a dozen neighbors attended the hearing to register complaints about the rentals and protested when the board's chairman, Richard Scheyer, explained that in such an application, quality-of-life issues are not considered.
Fields and her husband inherited the property in 2005 from a neighbor, Myron van Essendelft, for whom they had cared until his death at age 97, Fields' attorney, Eliot Bloom ofMineola, has said.
Ginny Fields spoke briefly at the hearing, testifying that the cottages had been rented out every summer since she moved to the cul-de-sac in 1971. The Essendelfts told her that they had been occupied every season since they were built, she said. "They were always rented out, always," she said.
But a man who in the 1940s and '50s lived adjacent to the property, at a Montauk Highway address, offered a different story.
Andrew Connor of Roslyn Heights, who testified at the request of the Fields' neighbors, said he was 10 when he moved there in 1941. He described in detail the properties and their occupants during that time.
While one of the cottages saw a parade of seasonal tenants, the other had no plumbing - just a garden hose running from another house - and remained vacant from 1940 and 1955, except for a tenant who stayed just two or three months, he said.
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/politics/islip-hikes-landlord-fines-for-illegal-rentals-1.1219107
Islip hikes landlord fines for illegal rentals
Published: April 16, 2009 3:13 PM
By JENNIFER MALONEY jennifer.maloney@newsday.com
The Town of Islip, which has faced criticism recently for slow enforcement of illegal rentals, is taking aim at landlords with onerous new penalties, including jail time of up to a year or a fine as high as $10,000 for third-time offenders.
The penalties, adopted unanimously by the town board this week, are among the highest on Long Island: for the first offense, a fine as high as $2,500; for the second, as high as $5,000.
Islip's matches Babylon's highest penalty.
Huntington's code calls for a fine as high as $15,000 but no jail time.
At a public hearing Tuesday before the board voted, Peter and Carol Schwasnick, who have named Islip Town in a lawsuit against their Oakdale neighbor, Assemb. Ginny Fields, chastised officials for not forcing Fields to put her illegal rental properties in compliance more quickly.
Fields was cited in 2007 for illegally renting two cottages. The town rejected her application to modify them and bring them up to code and she failed to file an appeal before her application expired last year, the town said.
Records obtained by Newsday show that she submitted the final documents for the application earlier this month. Fields' attorney, Eliot Bloom of Mineola, said the application took so long because it required new surveys, historic titles and affidavits.
The zoning board of appeals has not yet ruled on the application.
Islip Town also has come under fire for an illegal multifamily home in Brentwood where residents have gone to the hospital twice with carbon monoxide poisoning.
A full year after the town first cited the property owner for illegal apartments and fire code violations, carbon monoxide levels spiked again.
Town officials said the court process, which can stretch for several months, contributed to the delay in forcing the landlord to eliminate the illegal apartments.
Islip Supervisor Phil Nolan said the town's new penalties will make illegal apartments less profitable.
"You have to look at how much money these guys are able to get by breaking the law," he said. "I have to attack on the money side."
Previously, the town code limited the penalty for a third offense to $1,500 or up to six months in jail.
http://www.newsday.com/news/ginny-fields-neighbors-suing-the-assemblywoman-1.892643Ginny
Fields' neighbors suing the assemblywoman
February 19, 2009 by JENNIFER MALONEY /
Oakdale neighbors of Assemb. Ginny Fields have filed a lawsuit charging that she, her son William and tenants launched an intimidation campaign against them in a dispute over a school bus stop and cottages rented illegally on Fields' property.
The abuse-of-power lawsuit charges that Fields (D-Oakdale) had claimed that a public right-of-way used for a bus stop was instead her private property and that she used political influence to discontinue its use. It also says she began harassing neighbors after they reported to the Town of Islip several code violations on a nearby property where Fields has acknowledged illegally renting out two cottages.
According to the lawsuit, Fields, with her son and tenants, threatened neighbors, blared a sexually explicit radio station in their direction, rode a motorbike along the property line and drove a truck dangerously close as they waited for the school bus.
Fields, who has been in the State Assembly since 2004, declined to comment on the charges in the lawsuit yesterday. Her son, William Fields, could not be reached.
The lawsuit was filed in federal court by Carol and Peter Schwasnick, who live around the corner on Montauk Highway. They charge that the harassment began in April 2007, after they reported code violations involving cottages being rented at 5 and 7 E. Shore Rd., two of six homes on the cul-de-sac owned by Fields and her husband, Walter, property records show.
The lawsuit charges the following:
Bus stop. William Fields, 30, drove at high speeds and dangerously close to Peter Schwasnick's car on several occasions as he waited for his daughter at the bus stop at East Shore Road and Montauk Highway, and Ginny Fields laid railroad ties studded with nails along the shoulder to prevent the Schwasnicks from parking there.
Verbal harassment. Ginny Fields, 63, swore at Peter Schwasnick, 41, an elementary school physical education teacher and said, "We've been through this, you can't be here. I'm not playing games. You don't know who you're dealing with. You're done."
Political influence. Soon afterward, Fields "used her influence" with district Superintendent Alan Groveman to eliminate the bus stop.
"False reports." After the Schwasnicks and another parent complained to the district about the bus stop removal, Fields made "false reports" to Islip Town, alleging code violations on their properties.
Noise. Ginny Fields and her tenants in May and June 2008 rode a motorbike along the Schwasnicks' property line. When the Schwasnicks called Suffolk police to complain about the noise, police asked Fields to stop. But she continued to ride. And William Fields in June 2007 backed up his truck to the property line and played a sexually explicit radio station at high volume.
The suit also charges that Ginny Fields' tenants turned sprinklers on the Schwasnicks, threw eggs at their house and urinated near their fence.
The Connetquot Central School District said yesterday district buses no longer make stops at the location next to Fields' property. Instead, a bus now makes stops at two nearby locations on Montauk Highway.
Kevin O'Brien, assistant superintendent for business, said Groveman, the superintendent, had been advised not to comment on the lawsuit. "There is a process we do have for changing bus stops and that is followed," O'Brien said
lunes, 10 de octubre de 2011
DEL ESCRITORIO DEL ASAMBLEISTA PHIL RAMOS
El asambleísta Phil Ramos (D-Central Islip) dijo:
"Como miembro de la coalición de oficiales electos Afroamericanos e Hispanos de Long Island, me complace anunciar nuestro respaldo colectivo al Supervisor Steve Bellone, el Supervisor Phil Nolan, el concejal Gene Parrington y Renee Ortiz.
El Supervisor Nolan ha demostrado en repetidas ocasiones su compromiso con las comunidades de Brentwood y Central Islip. El ha hecho del desarrollo de los centros de Brentwood y Central Islip una prioridad de su gestión de gobierno. Pero estamos claros que él no puede hacerlo sólo. Necesita nuestra ayuda para lograr la reelección de Parrington y la elección de Renee Ortiz, quien se convertiría en la primera hispana en representarnos en la alcaldía de Islip. Como equipo, ellos se aseguraran que las necesidades y aspiraciones de nuestras comunidades sean satisfechas."
"Por su parte, el Supervisor Bellone no viene a prometernos nada de lo que no ha hecho ya. El lidera el gobierno municipal más diverso de Long Island. El ha sido clave para elegir la primera concejal afroamericana, Jackie Gordon, y al primer salvadoreño en todo el estado de Nueva York, el concejal Tony Martinez, al concejo municipal de Babylon. Además, Steve Bellone ha pasado del discurso a la acción y ha hecho el desarrollo de Wyandanch, la mayor inversión de su administración. Steve Bellone no viene a contarnos lo que quiere hacer, él viene a nosotros con un record de logros y con un compromiso firme de llevar esa agenda de diversidad e inclusión a la administración del condado de Suffolk."
Lista de oficiales electos que asistieron a la conferencia de prensa:
Assemblyman Phil Ramos, Islip
Suffolk Legislator Ricardo Montano, Islip
Suffolk Legislator DuWayne Gregory, Babylon
Councilwoman Jackie Gordon, Babylon
Councilman Tony Martinez, Babylon
Nassau Legislator Robert Troiano, North Hempstead
Councilwoman Dorothy Goosby, Town of Hempstead
Councilman Len Torres, City of Long Beach
Trustee Tony Rosario, Village of Hempstead
Trustee Carmen Pineyro, Village of Freeport
"Como miembro de la coalición de oficiales electos Afroamericanos e Hispanos de Long Island, me complace anunciar nuestro respaldo colectivo al Supervisor Steve Bellone, el Supervisor Phil Nolan, el concejal Gene Parrington y Renee Ortiz.
El Supervisor Nolan ha demostrado en repetidas ocasiones su compromiso con las comunidades de Brentwood y Central Islip. El ha hecho del desarrollo de los centros de Brentwood y Central Islip una prioridad de su gestión de gobierno. Pero estamos claros que él no puede hacerlo sólo. Necesita nuestra ayuda para lograr la reelección de Parrington y la elección de Renee Ortiz, quien se convertiría en la primera hispana en representarnos en la alcaldía de Islip. Como equipo, ellos se aseguraran que las necesidades y aspiraciones de nuestras comunidades sean satisfechas."
"Por su parte, el Supervisor Bellone no viene a prometernos nada de lo que no ha hecho ya. El lidera el gobierno municipal más diverso de Long Island. El ha sido clave para elegir la primera concejal afroamericana, Jackie Gordon, y al primer salvadoreño en todo el estado de Nueva York, el concejal Tony Martinez, al concejo municipal de Babylon. Además, Steve Bellone ha pasado del discurso a la acción y ha hecho el desarrollo de Wyandanch, la mayor inversión de su administración. Steve Bellone no viene a contarnos lo que quiere hacer, él viene a nosotros con un record de logros y con un compromiso firme de llevar esa agenda de diversidad e inclusión a la administración del condado de Suffolk."
Lista de oficiales electos que asistieron a la conferencia de prensa:
Assemblyman Phil Ramos, Islip
Suffolk Legislator Ricardo Montano, Islip
Suffolk Legislator DuWayne Gregory, Babylon
Councilwoman Jackie Gordon, Babylon
Councilman Tony Martinez, Babylon
Nassau Legislator Robert Troiano, North Hempstead
Councilwoman Dorothy Goosby, Town of Hempstead
Councilman Len Torres, City of Long Beach
Trustee Tony Rosario, Village of Hempstead
Trustee Carmen Pineyro, Village of Freeport
sábado, 8 de octubre de 2011
IKARUS GALLERY CULTURAL PROGRAM: CONOZCAMOS LA OBRA DE MARIALOLI
IKARUS GALLERY CULTURAL PROGRAM: CONOZCAMOS LA OBRA DE MARIALOLI: Acuarelista Mexicana María Dolores Torres es una artista con sensibilidad en la figura humana que comparte su incesante exploración del ...
LOS INDIGNADOS, PROXIMO MOVIMIENTO REVOLUCIONARIO EN LATINOAMERICA
Los Indignados, próximo movimiento revolucionario en Latinoamérica
Por Luis Montes Brito
Algunas de las características más importantes en los sistemas de vida de los países desarrollados han sido hasta hace poco que cualquier persona podía superarse, que la tasa de nivel de pobreza además de ser mínima mantenía una tendencia a disminuirse. Ahora esto ha cambiado y cada vez es mucho más difícil que sea posible. La brecha entre ricos y pobres se ensancha y prácticamente cada vez son más los que están condenados a morir pobres si nacieron de esa manera.
El pasado 17 de septiembre un grupo de varios cientos de personas en su mayoría jóvenes, frustrados por: la crisis económica, la voracidad de las instituciones financieras y la incapacidad o complicidad de los políticos para revertirla, decidieron agruparse y protestar en Nueva York.
El movimiento espontáneo fue denominado como “Ocupa Wall Street”, el corazón del capitalismo a nivel mundial. Este movimiento en la práctica es la antípoda del Tea Party.
Después de captar la atención a nivel mundial con la captura de 700 manifestantes, son varias organizaciones políticas y sindicales quienes intentan montarse en la ola de los indignados y conducir el movimiento hacia sus intereses.
Este movimiento gracias a la indignación general y al uso de las redes sociales ha logrado expandirse rápidamente dentro de Estados Unidos.
El combustible para esta ola de protestas son las diferentes y profundas frustraciones en cada uno de los países donde han surgido. El detonante que ha encendido este tipo de movimientos lo encontramos en las obras intelectuales, independiente entre si, de 2 respetados ancianos: Gene Sharp y Stephane Hessel.
El primero, Gene Sharp, estadounidense, Doctor en Teoría Política de la Universidad de Oxford e investigador de Asuntos Internacionales de la Universidad de Harvard con sus obras: De la dictadura a la democracia y 198 métodos de acción no violenta.
El segundo, Stephane Hessel, francés de origen judío, uno de los redactores de la Declaración Universal de Derechos Humanos adoptada por la ONU en 1948, con su libro Indígnese! escrito por este diplomático.
Ambos autores incitan a romper con la indiferencia y la apatía de protestar, a la vez que proponen insurrecciones pacíficas, no partidaristas y anti dogmáticas.
Estimulan a los jóvenes a indignarse, afirmando que todo buen ciudadano debería hacerlo debido al rumbo actual del mundo, gobernado por poderes financieros que acaparan todo.
La obra de estos autores son señaladas como las motivantes directas de movimientos cívicos de protesta en Birmania, Bosnia, Estonia, Zimbabue, Túnez, Egipto, Israel, Grecia, España y ahora en Estados Unidos.
Ambos autores hablan con propiedad ya que fueron revolucionarios en su juventud, arrojo que pagaron con cárcel.
Sharp, estuvo preso nueve meses en una prisión federal en Danbury, Connecticut, por ser objetor de conciencia durante la guerra de Corea. En 1989, fue testigo de las protestas de la plaza de Tiananmen en China y en los noventa, se introdujo clandestinamente en un campamento rebelde en Birmania.
Por su parte Hessel huyó en 1940 de la Francia ocupada por los Nazis hacia Londres para unirse a la resistencia francesa. Fue miembro de la fuerza aérea, ingresando al servicio secreto conducido por Charles De Gaulle, ejecutó varias misiones siendo capturado y torturado en 1944 para ser enviado posteriormente al campo de concentración de Buchenwald.
Tal como ha sucedido con las diferentes corrientes sociales a través de la historia, la llegada de este tipo de movimientos a Latinoamérica es cuestión de tiempo y se irá dando en el mejor de los casos, de forma gradual y no como en el mundo Árabe que generó una reacción en cadena.
Las condiciones están dadas: gobiernos corruptos, ancha brecha social que en lugar de reducirse se amplía cada vez más, organismos financieros voraces, una clase media castigada severamente, insatisfacción generalizada con los gobernantes, complicidad o negligencia de la clase política.
En fín solo hace falta algún evento coyuntural que servirá de detonante para que este tipo de rebeliones pacíficas surjan de una a una en nuestros países. Hay que mirarse en el espejo estadounidense, donde desde hace muchos años no se tenían protestas como las que actualmente se están llevando a cabo en Nueva York y que ahora se están extendiendo rápidamente en las ciudades más importantes de la gran nación americana.
Por Luis Montes Brito
Algunas de las características más importantes en los sistemas de vida de los países desarrollados han sido hasta hace poco que cualquier persona podía superarse, que la tasa de nivel de pobreza además de ser mínima mantenía una tendencia a disminuirse. Ahora esto ha cambiado y cada vez es mucho más difícil que sea posible. La brecha entre ricos y pobres se ensancha y prácticamente cada vez son más los que están condenados a morir pobres si nacieron de esa manera.
El pasado 17 de septiembre un grupo de varios cientos de personas en su mayoría jóvenes, frustrados por: la crisis económica, la voracidad de las instituciones financieras y la incapacidad o complicidad de los políticos para revertirla, decidieron agruparse y protestar en Nueva York.
El movimiento espontáneo fue denominado como “Ocupa Wall Street”, el corazón del capitalismo a nivel mundial. Este movimiento en la práctica es la antípoda del Tea Party.
Después de captar la atención a nivel mundial con la captura de 700 manifestantes, son varias organizaciones políticas y sindicales quienes intentan montarse en la ola de los indignados y conducir el movimiento hacia sus intereses.
Este movimiento gracias a la indignación general y al uso de las redes sociales ha logrado expandirse rápidamente dentro de Estados Unidos.
El combustible para esta ola de protestas son las diferentes y profundas frustraciones en cada uno de los países donde han surgido. El detonante que ha encendido este tipo de movimientos lo encontramos en las obras intelectuales, independiente entre si, de 2 respetados ancianos: Gene Sharp y Stephane Hessel.
El primero, Gene Sharp, estadounidense, Doctor en Teoría Política de la Universidad de Oxford e investigador de Asuntos Internacionales de la Universidad de Harvard con sus obras: De la dictadura a la democracia y 198 métodos de acción no violenta.
El segundo, Stephane Hessel, francés de origen judío, uno de los redactores de la Declaración Universal de Derechos Humanos adoptada por la ONU en 1948, con su libro Indígnese! escrito por este diplomático.
Ambos autores incitan a romper con la indiferencia y la apatía de protestar, a la vez que proponen insurrecciones pacíficas, no partidaristas y anti dogmáticas.
Estimulan a los jóvenes a indignarse, afirmando que todo buen ciudadano debería hacerlo debido al rumbo actual del mundo, gobernado por poderes financieros que acaparan todo.
La obra de estos autores son señaladas como las motivantes directas de movimientos cívicos de protesta en Birmania, Bosnia, Estonia, Zimbabue, Túnez, Egipto, Israel, Grecia, España y ahora en Estados Unidos.
Ambos autores hablan con propiedad ya que fueron revolucionarios en su juventud, arrojo que pagaron con cárcel.
Sharp, estuvo preso nueve meses en una prisión federal en Danbury, Connecticut, por ser objetor de conciencia durante la guerra de Corea. En 1989, fue testigo de las protestas de la plaza de Tiananmen en China y en los noventa, se introdujo clandestinamente en un campamento rebelde en Birmania.
Por su parte Hessel huyó en 1940 de la Francia ocupada por los Nazis hacia Londres para unirse a la resistencia francesa. Fue miembro de la fuerza aérea, ingresando al servicio secreto conducido por Charles De Gaulle, ejecutó varias misiones siendo capturado y torturado en 1944 para ser enviado posteriormente al campo de concentración de Buchenwald.
Tal como ha sucedido con las diferentes corrientes sociales a través de la historia, la llegada de este tipo de movimientos a Latinoamérica es cuestión de tiempo y se irá dando en el mejor de los casos, de forma gradual y no como en el mundo Árabe que generó una reacción en cadena.
Las condiciones están dadas: gobiernos corruptos, ancha brecha social que en lugar de reducirse se amplía cada vez más, organismos financieros voraces, una clase media castigada severamente, insatisfacción generalizada con los gobernantes, complicidad o negligencia de la clase política.
En fín solo hace falta algún evento coyuntural que servirá de detonante para que este tipo de rebeliones pacíficas surjan de una a una en nuestros países. Hay que mirarse en el espejo estadounidense, donde desde hace muchos años no se tenían protestas como las que actualmente se están llevando a cabo en Nueva York y que ahora se están extendiendo rápidamente en las ciudades más importantes de la gran nación americana.
miércoles, 5 de octubre de 2011
NEWSDAY NOTES - BUDGET WOULD SLASH SOCIAL SERVICES
Las decisiones de Ed Mangano , prefiere seguir pagando por fiestas, bailongos y diplomas que ahorrar fondos para educación especial e intervención temprana.
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/nassau-budget-would-slash-social-services-1.3225576Nassau budget would slash social services
October 5, 2011 by ROBERT BRODSKY / robert.brodsky@newsday.com
Health and social service programs would take a hit in Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano's proposed 2012 budget, with major cuts targeted for special education, employment services and early intervention, according to an analysis by the independent Office of Legislative Budget Review.
The review was released in advance of Thursday's legislative hearing examining the budgets of the departments of health, social services and human services. Combined, the departments would see their budgets drop by almost $12 million as Nassau County seeks to close a projected $300-million deficit.
"These are some pretty major cuts," said Steve Antonio, acting director of the budget review office. "And you would expect them to have an impact on services."
Social services would see its $528-million budget drop by nearly $5 million -- or about 1 percent. The savings would be achieved primarily through layoffs and eliminating or reducing nonmandated services, said John Imhof, social services commissioner.
The cuts would require the department to lay off more than 100 employees and to leave 43 vacant positions unfilled. "It's excruciating to consider even one layoff," said Imhof, noting that the department's average worker makes $55,000 per year.
The department, he said, will provide services mandated by law, but some nonessential functions will be eliminated.
For example, the county would no longer provide $130,000 for the health and welfare council, which provides outreach on health and human services. The county would also eliminate $290,000 in contracts for disability determinations, as those decisions would be left to physicians, Imhof said. A $512,500 contract for temporary workers would not be renewed, and several education and training contracts would be rebid.
"These are some very painful choices," Imhof said. "The challenge is to maintain the most important, lifesaving services."
The county would also take a scalpel to the new Department of Human Services, which would see its $45.5-million budget cut by $4.3 million, or 9.4 percent. The department was formed this year by consolidating the offices of behavioral health, aging, physically challenged and youth services.
The cuts would span the four offices, including reductions in funding for long-term medical care, mental health counseling and meals for seniors. Six vacant positions would also be eliminated but no layoffs would occur, said Mangano spokesman Brian Nevin.
The Department of Health's nearly $203-million budget would take a 1 percent cut, bringing it down to $200.7 million. In addition to 32 layoffs, the volunteer medical reserve corps would be utilized to supplement emergency response personnel while other functions would be scaled back to the state mandated minimum, the report said.
Two other hearings are scheduled this month and the budget must be voted on by Oct. 30.
martes, 4 de octubre de 2011
IKARUS GALLERY CULTURAL PROGRAM: CELEBRAMOS NUESTRA HERENCIA HISPANA CON CULTURA, A...
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FORO - SALVADOREÑOS EN LONG ISLAND: EL ARTE NACIDO BAJO LA DIASPORA, UNA HISTORIA QUE ...
FORO - SALVADOREÑOS EN LONG ISLAND: EL ARTE NACIDO BAJO LA DIASPORA, UNA HISTORIA QUE ...: Francisco Fuentes González (Fragua) Nació en Cacaopera, Morazán, el 4 de octubre de 1974. El Salvador. Lugar que abandono junto a su...
lunes, 3 de octubre de 2011
miércoles, 28 de septiembre de 2011
Justice and the Suffolk County Police
EDITORIAL
Justice and the Suffolk County Police
Published: September 25, 2011
Suffolk County, N.Y., has seen some of the country’s most shameful political battles over day laborers and a string of violent crimes against Latinos, most notoriously the fatal stabbing of an Ecuadorean, Marcelo Lucero, in 2008 by a gang of teenage boys who had made a sport of hunting and assaulting dark-skinned men.
The county executive, Steve Levy, has cultivated a national reputation as a hard-liner on illegal immigration. Immigrants and their advocates charged that the Suffolk Police Department had routinely tolerated hate crimes. Mr. Levy and his appointed police commissioner, Richard Dormer, denied it.
The Justice Department and the United States attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York have been investigating since 2009. Though its inquiry is not complete, Justice’s Civil Rights Division has now sent Mr. Levy a “technical assistance letter,” pointing out ways the Suffolk police could improve policies and procedures to ensure that they are “constitutional.” Its tone is solicitous, but its content damning. In 28 pages the letter makes more than 100 recommendations.
It said department rules governing when officers could ask people about immigration status were “too vague” and “subject to abuse,” leaving them wide open to accusations of racial profiling. It said that while detectives receiving reports of hate crimes were required to conduct in-person follow-up interviews with accusers, they rarely did so — in person or by phone. It said that by allowing officers to classify attacks as mere “youth disturbances” — and not report them — the department risked leaving hate crimes underreported and unprevented. It noted that other Latino men had told the police that Mr. Lucero’s attackers had attacked them, but nothing was done about it.
Mr. Levy is leaving office at the end of the year, his career cut short by an unrelated scandal. His successor will have a lot of work to do to repair toxic relations with Suffolk’s immigrants and reform a police force that has shirked its responsibility to protect all residents.
martes, 27 de septiembre de 2011
FORO - SALVADOREÑOS EN LONG ISLAND: SEPTIEMBRE: MES DE LA HISPANIDAD EN EEUU
FORO - SALVADOREÑOS EN LONG ISLAND: SEPTIEMBRE: MES DE LA HISPANIDAD EN EEUU: SEPTIEMBRE: MES DE LA HISPANIDAD EN EEUU. Por Alirio Alemán* HISPANOS SOMOS Y AQUÍ ESTAMOS. Es comprensible nuestro largo recorrido pa...
FORO - SALVADOREÑOS EN LONG ISLAND: ¿LA VIDA DEL INMIGRANTE…DE DÓNDE VENIMOS?
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NEWSDAY NOTES-ANTI-INMIGRANT POSTING RILES IMMIGRANTS
http://www.newsday.com/columnists/joye-brown/anti-immigrant-posting-riles-immigrants-1.3203261
Anti-immigrant posting riles immigrants
September 26, 2011 by JOYE BROWN / joye.brown@newsday.com
A group of activists got a surprise at the Third Precinct in Bay Shore after last week's news conference demanding better Latino-police relations: An anti-immigrant posting on a station house wall.
The posting came under the heading "Are We SLOW LEARNERS or What?" It selectively characterized Theodore Roosevelt's views on immigration, which stressed assimilation. It read, in part: "Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag . . . we have room for but one language."
The group took a photo. "It is offensive," Luis Valenzuela, head of the Long Island Immigrant Alliance, said last week, "because it sends a very clear message that immigrants are not welcome here."
The posting was torn down by Inspector Jan Rios, the precinct's commanding officer, when the group complained. But one activist said she had seen it hanging there since December.
This is not the message of inclusion thatSuffolk -- under ongoing scrutiny by a U.S. Justice Department investigation into allegations of discriminatory policing -- wants in a station house.
Monday, Deputy Chief of Patrol Christopher Bergold called the posting "an unauthorized document" that went up in the station's public area. He said he did not know how long it had been there.
"It does not reflect the sentiment, policy or procedures of our department," Bergold said. The department serves residents regardless of "what language they speak and [their] immigration status."
The posting, similar to a message making the rounds on the Internet, states, incorrectly, thatRoosevelt made the comments about English and the flag in a 1907 speech.
Roosevelt actually included the words in a letter he sent to the American Defense Society in 1919, days before he died.
According to David Godshalk, an expert on Roosevelt, race and immigration who teaches history at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania, Roosevelt held conflicting views on immigration.
"On the one hand, Roosevelt frequently argued that each American should be treated on 'his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he shows himself worthy to have,' " Godshalk said.
"On the other hand, Roosevelt also expressed fears that African-Americans and immigrants -- especially German and Irish Americans -- placed their racial and ethnic loyalties above their duties as citizens."
Early in his career, Roosevelt railed against what he called "hyphenated Americans." DuringWorld War I, his criticism "reached a crescendo, and he publicly questioned the patriotism and loyalty of many German and Irish Americans during the war effort," Godshalk said.
Hyphenated Americans? A century ago, Roosevelt could not have imagined the Internet or DNA testing could gift us the ability to proudly add multiple hyphens.
One flag? What would Roosevelt make of the flags of so many nations adorning many a rearview mirror or back bumper of immigrants and generations of U.S. citizens?
One language? What would he make of religious services or cultural gatherings in native languages?
"An Irish flag hanging from a car mirror, speaking Italian to another Italian, Roosevelt would view them as signs of disloyalty to the U.S.," Godshalk said.
The idea is ridiculous in this global, 21st century economy. Yet Roosevelt's conflicting notion of inclusion -- but not for everyone -- stubbornly survives. Especially for the nation's newest immigrants.
Anti-immigrant posting riles immigrants
September 26, 2011 by JOYE BROWN / joye.brown@newsday.com
A group of activists got a surprise at the Third Precinct in Bay Shore after last week's news conference demanding better Latino-police relations: An anti-immigrant posting on a station house wall.
The posting came under the heading "Are We SLOW LEARNERS or What?" It selectively characterized Theodore Roosevelt's views on immigration, which stressed assimilation. It read, in part: "Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag . . . we have room for but one language."
The group took a photo. "It is offensive," Luis Valenzuela, head of the Long Island Immigrant Alliance, said last week, "because it sends a very clear message that immigrants are not welcome here."
The posting was torn down by Inspector Jan Rios, the precinct's commanding officer, when the group complained. But one activist said she had seen it hanging there since December.
This is not the message of inclusion thatSuffolk -- under ongoing scrutiny by a U.S. Justice Department investigation into allegations of discriminatory policing -- wants in a station house.
Monday, Deputy Chief of Patrol Christopher Bergold called the posting "an unauthorized document" that went up in the station's public area. He said he did not know how long it had been there.
"It does not reflect the sentiment, policy or procedures of our department," Bergold said. The department serves residents regardless of "what language they speak and [their] immigration status."
The posting, similar to a message making the rounds on the Internet, states, incorrectly, thatRoosevelt made the comments about English and the flag in a 1907 speech.
Roosevelt actually included the words in a letter he sent to the American Defense Society in 1919, days before he died.
According to David Godshalk, an expert on Roosevelt, race and immigration who teaches history at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania, Roosevelt held conflicting views on immigration.
"On the one hand, Roosevelt frequently argued that each American should be treated on 'his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he shows himself worthy to have,' " Godshalk said.
"On the other hand, Roosevelt also expressed fears that African-Americans and immigrants -- especially German and Irish Americans -- placed their racial and ethnic loyalties above their duties as citizens."
Early in his career, Roosevelt railed against what he called "hyphenated Americans." DuringWorld War I, his criticism "reached a crescendo, and he publicly questioned the patriotism and loyalty of many German and Irish Americans during the war effort," Godshalk said.
Hyphenated Americans? A century ago, Roosevelt could not have imagined the Internet or DNA testing could gift us the ability to proudly add multiple hyphens.
One flag? What would Roosevelt make of the flags of so many nations adorning many a rearview mirror or back bumper of immigrants and generations of U.S. citizens?
One language? What would he make of religious services or cultural gatherings in native languages?
"An Irish flag hanging from a car mirror, speaking Italian to another Italian, Roosevelt would view them as signs of disloyalty to the U.S.," Godshalk said.
The idea is ridiculous in this global, 21st century economy. Yet Roosevelt's conflicting notion of inclusion -- but not for everyone -- stubbornly survives. Especially for the nation's newest immigrants.
FORO - SALVADOREÑOS EN LONG ISLAND: Festival de Brentwood: un encuentro de todas las c...
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lunes, 26 de septiembre de 2011
DEL ESCRITORIO DE LA CANDIDATA A CONSEJAL RENEE ORTIZ
Subject: For Immediate Release to Media
Carta a la comunidad
Por Renee Ortiz, candidata a concejal del pueblo de Islip
Me gustaría aprovechar esta oportunidad para dirigirme a las comunidades de Brentwood, Bay Shore y Central Islip para comentar sobre mi candidatura para concejal del pueblo de Islip. He sido una residente de Central Islip de toda la vida y es evidente la necesidad de una mayor representación de los intereses de las familias trabajadoras en el concejo del pueblo. Hija de un padre puertorriqueño y madre judía que llegaron a Brentwood en la década de los 1950s. Este año, el partido Demócrata me eligió para correr como su candidata oficial. La mayoría de mi vida adulta, la he pasado trabajando en distintos niveles de gobierno lo que me ha dado la oportunidad de ver de cerca los mecanismos que son esenciales para mejorar la calidad de vida de nuestras comunidades. Si soy elegida, planeo unir fuerzas con el asambleísta Phil Ramos, el legislador Rick Montano y por supuesto el supervisor del pueblo, Phil Nolan, así como otros funcionarios electos para darle más poder a nuestras voces y poder satisfacer las muchas necesidades de nuestras comunidades. La he pasado trabajando en distintos niveles de gobierno lo que me ha dado la oportunidad de ver de cerca los mecanismos que son esenciales para mejorar la calidad de vida de nuestras comunidades. Si soy elegida, planeo unir fuerzas con el asambleísta Phil Ramos, el legislador Rick Montano y por supuesto el supervisor del pueblo, Phil Nolan, así como otros funcionarios electos para darle más poder a nuestras voces y poder satisfacer las muchas necesidades de nuestras comunidades. en referencia a la visión de Ginny Fields quien es la candidata a secretaria (clerk) del pueblo ha sido objeto de discusión pública. Me gustaría aprovechar este espacio para dejar claro que no estoy de acuerdo con las opiniones de Ginny Fields en lo que a inmigración se refiere. También es importante señalar que un oficial electo a nivel municipal no tiene jurisdicción sobre asuntos de inmigración. Sin embargo, aunque no sea un tema de jurisdicción oficial, la pregunta es legítima y el público tiene derecho a saber cuál es mi posición sobre el tema.Tengan por seguro de que siempre voy a luchar duro por una representación adecuada de todos los habitantes del municipio de Islip. Estamos a las puertas de hacer historia nuevamente en nuestra comunidad! Por favor, salga a votar el martes 08 de noviembre.
-Renee Ortiz
"A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.” - Henrik Ibsen
Carta a la comunidad
Por Renee Ortiz, candidata a concejal del pueblo de Islip
Me gustaría aprovechar esta oportunidad para dirigirme a las comunidades de Brentwood, Bay Shore y Central Islip para comentar sobre mi candidatura para concejal del pueblo de Islip. He sido una residente de Central Islip de toda la vida y es evidente la necesidad de una mayor representación de los intereses de las familias trabajadoras en el concejo del pueblo. Hija de un padre puertorriqueño y madre judía que llegaron a Brentwood en la década de los 1950s. Este año, el partido Demócrata me eligió para correr como su candidata oficial. La mayoría de mi vida adulta, la he pasado trabajando en distintos niveles de gobierno lo que me ha dado la oportunidad de ver de cerca los mecanismos que son esenciales para mejorar la calidad de vida de nuestras comunidades. Si soy elegida, planeo unir fuerzas con el asambleísta Phil Ramos, el legislador Rick Montano y por supuesto el supervisor del pueblo, Phil Nolan, así como otros funcionarios electos para darle más poder a nuestras voces y poder satisfacer las muchas necesidades de nuestras comunidades. La he pasado trabajando en distintos niveles de gobierno lo que me ha dado la oportunidad de ver de cerca los mecanismos que son esenciales para mejorar la calidad de vida de nuestras comunidades. Si soy elegida, planeo unir fuerzas con el asambleísta Phil Ramos, el legislador Rick Montano y por supuesto el supervisor del pueblo, Phil Nolan, así como otros funcionarios electos para darle más poder a nuestras voces y poder satisfacer las muchas necesidades de nuestras comunidades. en referencia a la visión de Ginny Fields quien es la candidata a secretaria (clerk) del pueblo ha sido objeto de discusión pública. Me gustaría aprovechar este espacio para dejar claro que no estoy de acuerdo con las opiniones de Ginny Fields en lo que a inmigración se refiere. También es importante señalar que un oficial electo a nivel municipal no tiene jurisdicción sobre asuntos de inmigración. Sin embargo, aunque no sea un tema de jurisdicción oficial, la pregunta es legítima y el público tiene derecho a saber cuál es mi posición sobre el tema.Tengan por seguro de que siempre voy a luchar duro por una representación adecuada de todos los habitantes del municipio de Islip. Estamos a las puertas de hacer historia nuevamente en nuestra comunidad! Por favor, salga a votar el martes 08 de noviembre.
-Renee Ortiz
"A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.” - Henrik Ibsen
jueves, 22 de septiembre de 2011
NEWS NOTES- Gaining comfort between cops, community
Otra columna sobre el "gran trabajo, digno de reconocimiento" hecho por el liderazgo de la policia en Suffolk... Vale aclarar que los errores han sido cometidos por el liderazgo... De ahi emanan los problemas...
http://www.newsday.com/columnists/joye-brown/gaining-comfort-between-cops-community-1.3190391
Gaining comfort between cops, community
September 21, 2011 by JOYE BROWN / joye.brown@newsday.com
Latino advocates Wednesday held a news conference demanding that Suffolk County police be more responsive to the community.
They did so at a police precinct located in the heart of Long Island's largest and oldest collection of Latino communities. El Salvador has a consulate in the precinct; and Long Island's lone Latino representative in the state Legislature, Phil Ramos, lives there.
Back in the 1930s, Puerto Ricans, savoring the suburban lifestyle, settled in Brentwood in droves. Followed, over later decades, by emigrants from Chile, El Salvador and a host of other South and Central American countries who settled in neighboring Central Islip and in Bay Shore, where the Third Precinct station house is located.
The precinct serves other immigrants as well. At PRONTO, a community outreach center, ESL classes attract students whose native languages include Spanish, Farsi, Russian, Chinese and Polish.
If Suffolk County can't get community outreach right in this mosaic of a district, where can it?
Wednesday, residents at a restaurant and a laundry near the station house had praise for officers in the community. "The ones I see do OK," said a man who would identify himself only as Raoul.
But the emphasis was on policy, not officers during Wednesday's news conference. It was the first called in Suffolk by the Long Island Immigrant Alliance and other advocates since a U.S. Justice Department letter detailed suggested department reforms. "The key issues in this precinct are not hate crimes," Ramos said. "It's the kind of quality-of-life issues, like gangs, cleaning up graffiti, answering domestic violence calls, that police mostly deal with."
That job, Ramos and others said, is key to protecting individuals and, by extension, the community. If police and residents are not comfortable with each other, the job cannot get done.
Tatiana Grez, an emigrant from Chile, said she's lived in the district for 12 years. She said she was frustrated because police reports often did not reflect important points she was trying to make. "I don't have the right words," she said. "I don't think they don't care, I think they don't get what I am trying to say."
The justice department letter detailed recommendations that would address Grez's concerns: Hiring more officers with language skills and making translation services more available. They also recommended improving community relations and retooling internal communications so everyone, from top brass to patrol officer, knows what needs to be done.
Residents and some organization representatives were still milling around after the news conference when Richard Dormer, Suffolk's police commissioner, issued a news release. "We strongly refute the claims being made at a press conference being held outside the Third Precinct this morning asserting that the Suffolk County Police Department is somehow dragging its feet in providing programs . . . to better communicate with members of the public," it said.
"We're not even gone from here and the department is already being defensive," said Luis Valenzuela, head of the Long Island Immigrant Alliance. "This is not a way to build a relationship," he said.
http://www.newsday.com/columnists/joye-brown/gaining-comfort-between-cops-community-1.3190391
Gaining comfort between cops, community
September 21, 2011 by JOYE BROWN / joye.brown@newsday.com
Latino advocates Wednesday held a news conference demanding that Suffolk County police be more responsive to the community.
They did so at a police precinct located in the heart of Long Island's largest and oldest collection of Latino communities. El Salvador has a consulate in the precinct; and Long Island's lone Latino representative in the state Legislature, Phil Ramos, lives there.
Back in the 1930s, Puerto Ricans, savoring the suburban lifestyle, settled in Brentwood in droves. Followed, over later decades, by emigrants from Chile, El Salvador and a host of other South and Central American countries who settled in neighboring Central Islip and in Bay Shore, where the Third Precinct station house is located.
The precinct serves other immigrants as well. At PRONTO, a community outreach center, ESL classes attract students whose native languages include Spanish, Farsi, Russian, Chinese and Polish.
If Suffolk County can't get community outreach right in this mosaic of a district, where can it?
Wednesday, residents at a restaurant and a laundry near the station house had praise for officers in the community. "The ones I see do OK," said a man who would identify himself only as Raoul.
But the emphasis was on policy, not officers during Wednesday's news conference. It was the first called in Suffolk by the Long Island Immigrant Alliance and other advocates since a U.S. Justice Department letter detailed suggested department reforms. "The key issues in this precinct are not hate crimes," Ramos said. "It's the kind of quality-of-life issues, like gangs, cleaning up graffiti, answering domestic violence calls, that police mostly deal with."
That job, Ramos and others said, is key to protecting individuals and, by extension, the community. If police and residents are not comfortable with each other, the job cannot get done.
Tatiana Grez, an emigrant from Chile, said she's lived in the district for 12 years. She said she was frustrated because police reports often did not reflect important points she was trying to make. "I don't have the right words," she said. "I don't think they don't care, I think they don't get what I am trying to say."
The justice department letter detailed recommendations that would address Grez's concerns: Hiring more officers with language skills and making translation services more available. They also recommended improving community relations and retooling internal communications so everyone, from top brass to patrol officer, knows what needs to be done.
Residents and some organization representatives were still milling around after the news conference when Richard Dormer, Suffolk's police commissioner, issued a news release. "We strongly refute the claims being made at a press conference being held outside the Third Precinct this morning asserting that the Suffolk County Police Department is somehow dragging its feet in providing programs . . . to better communicate with members of the public," it said.
"We're not even gone from here and the department is already being defensive," said Luis Valenzuela, head of the Long Island Immigrant Alliance. "This is not a way to build a relationship," he said.
NEWSDAY NOTES- seeks more Latino-sensitive police
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/protest-seeks-more-latino-sensitive-police-1.3190421Protest
seeks more Latino-sensitive police
September 21, 2011 by VÍCTOR MANUEL RAMOS / victor.ramos@newsday.com
At the Suffolk County Police Department's Third Precinct station house, a sign on the front counter, written in Spanish, offers help with interpreters or in filling out forms.
The department says it's routinely providing that help, but immigrant and civil rights advocates disagree.
About 20 protesters gathered outside the station house in Bay Shore Wednesday called on the department to do a better job of providing interpreters, teaching officers Spanish and hiring bilingual employees.
The advocates view such improvements "as a first step" toward making police more responsive to a growing Hispanic community.
"It is incumbent upon the county to get it right with the Latino community," said Luis Valenzuela, of the Long Island Immigrant Alliance. "It's problematic that today we have people from the community who are not being allowed access because of language issues."
The department, under a U.S. Department of Justice investigation over allegations of discriminatory policing stemming from the 2008 hate killing of immigrant Marcelo Lucero, issued a prompt rebuttal.
"We strongly refute the claims . . . that the Suffolk County Police Department is somehow dragging its feet in providing programs that will allow it to better communicate with members of the public," Police Commissioner Richard Dormer said in a statement.
Dormer called the department's efforts "a model for other municipalities," noting the launch of a bilingual police officer exam to attract Spanish-speaking applicants and an increase in bilingual 911 operators.
He also cited Spanish-language training requirements for recruits, efforts to translate police forms, and a section of the department website written in Spanish. The department, Dormersaid, has linked "every precinct, investigative command and public police facility" to interpreters through a telephone service.
But Hispanic community advocates pointed to a domestic violence victim who said she had difficulty filing an accurate police report when information was lost in translation. They also discussed the case of a Latino immigrant who had difficulties filing a police report in the wake of a family altercation.
Central Islip business owner Alba Aquino said she felt left out at a Third Precinct community meeting last month that had no Spanish translator available. Aquino wanted to ask for more patrols to prevent street crime, but said she didn't dare speak up in her faulty English. "There's many of us who don't speak English, and we want to be heard," she said in Spanish.
A police spokesman Wednesday said the department will respond to such concerns by providing translators at community meetings. The department also will reach out to people who say they have encountered language barriers.
That barrier could become a more serious obstacle for immigrants reporting hate crimes or domestic violence incidents, advocates said. "Immigrant communities and immigrant advocates have been waiting far too long," said Amol Sinha, director of the Suffolk chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union. "Until we see that immigrant communities and minority populations aren't living in fear, we won't be satisfied."
seeks more Latino-sensitive police
September 21, 2011 by VÍCTOR MANUEL RAMOS / victor.ramos@newsday.com
At the Suffolk County Police Department's Third Precinct station house, a sign on the front counter, written in Spanish, offers help with interpreters or in filling out forms.
The department says it's routinely providing that help, but immigrant and civil rights advocates disagree.
About 20 protesters gathered outside the station house in Bay Shore Wednesday called on the department to do a better job of providing interpreters, teaching officers Spanish and hiring bilingual employees.
The advocates view such improvements "as a first step" toward making police more responsive to a growing Hispanic community.
"It is incumbent upon the county to get it right with the Latino community," said Luis Valenzuela, of the Long Island Immigrant Alliance. "It's problematic that today we have people from the community who are not being allowed access because of language issues."
The department, under a U.S. Department of Justice investigation over allegations of discriminatory policing stemming from the 2008 hate killing of immigrant Marcelo Lucero, issued a prompt rebuttal.
"We strongly refute the claims . . . that the Suffolk County Police Department is somehow dragging its feet in providing programs that will allow it to better communicate with members of the public," Police Commissioner Richard Dormer said in a statement.
Dormer called the department's efforts "a model for other municipalities," noting the launch of a bilingual police officer exam to attract Spanish-speaking applicants and an increase in bilingual 911 operators.
He also cited Spanish-language training requirements for recruits, efforts to translate police forms, and a section of the department website written in Spanish. The department, Dormersaid, has linked "every precinct, investigative command and public police facility" to interpreters through a telephone service.
But Hispanic community advocates pointed to a domestic violence victim who said she had difficulty filing an accurate police report when information was lost in translation. They also discussed the case of a Latino immigrant who had difficulties filing a police report in the wake of a family altercation.
Central Islip business owner Alba Aquino said she felt left out at a Third Precinct community meeting last month that had no Spanish translator available. Aquino wanted to ask for more patrols to prevent street crime, but said she didn't dare speak up in her faulty English. "There's many of us who don't speak English, and we want to be heard," she said in Spanish.
A police spokesman Wednesday said the department will respond to such concerns by providing translators at community meetings. The department also will reach out to people who say they have encountered language barriers.
That barrier could become a more serious obstacle for immigrants reporting hate crimes or domestic violence incidents, advocates said. "Immigrant communities and immigrant advocates have been waiting far too long," said Amol Sinha, director of the Suffolk chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union. "Until we see that immigrant communities and minority populations aren't living in fear, we won't be satisfied."
NEWSDAY NOTES - MANGANO 2012 BUDGET " OUT OF TOUCH"
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/dems-mangano-2012-budget-out-of-touch-1.3193479Dems:
Mangano 2012 budget 'out of touch'
September 22, 2011 by ROBERT BRODSKY / robert.brodsky@newsday.com
Nassau County Democrats came out swinging Thursday against County Executive Edward Mangano's proposed fiscal 2012 budget, calling it "out of touch with reality" and a threat to public safety if police precincts are closed.
At a news conference, members of the minority bloc castigated Mangano's $2.63 billion proposal submitted to the Legislature last week. The county plans to close two police precincts, require all employees to contribute 25 percent to their health insurance and lay off 700 workers to close a projected $310 million budget gap next year.
Democrats argue that the plan relies too heavily on union givebacks that will likely never come to fruition and could lead to costly legal battles. "There isn't one realistic expectation in the budget," said Legis. Judy Jacobs (D-Woodbury).
Legis. Kevan Abrahams (D-Hempstead) said the proposal included "too many what-ifs" and did not offer a Plan B if some of the proposed savings did not materialize.
Mangano spokesman Brian Nevin said the "criticism comes from the same partisan legislators who spent lavishly over the past decade while increasing property taxes and imposing a heating tax on all homeowners."
Abrahams said that he was not prepared to offer $300 million in substitute cuts but said Democrats had found millions in wasteful spending in the budget, including $5 million in outside fees to legal counsel. With only eight votes, Democrats cannot block Mangano's budget unless at least two Republicans vote against the plan, a scenario considered unlikely by both parties. A budget must be adopted no later than Oct. 30.
Mangano 2012 budget 'out of touch'
September 22, 2011 by ROBERT BRODSKY / robert.brodsky@newsday.com
Nassau County Democrats came out swinging Thursday against County Executive Edward Mangano's proposed fiscal 2012 budget, calling it "out of touch with reality" and a threat to public safety if police precincts are closed.
At a news conference, members of the minority bloc castigated Mangano's $2.63 billion proposal submitted to the Legislature last week. The county plans to close two police precincts, require all employees to contribute 25 percent to their health insurance and lay off 700 workers to close a projected $310 million budget gap next year.
Democrats argue that the plan relies too heavily on union givebacks that will likely never come to fruition and could lead to costly legal battles. "There isn't one realistic expectation in the budget," said Legis. Judy Jacobs (D-Woodbury).
Legis. Kevan Abrahams (D-Hempstead) said the proposal included "too many what-ifs" and did not offer a Plan B if some of the proposed savings did not materialize.
Mangano spokesman Brian Nevin said the "criticism comes from the same partisan legislators who spent lavishly over the past decade while increasing property taxes and imposing a heating tax on all homeowners."
Abrahams said that he was not prepared to offer $300 million in substitute cuts but said Democrats had found millions in wasteful spending in the budget, including $5 million in outside fees to legal counsel. With only eight votes, Democrats cannot block Mangano's budget unless at least two Republicans vote against the plan, a scenario considered unlikely by both parties. A budget must be adopted no later than Oct. 30.
miércoles, 21 de septiembre de 2011
DEL ESCRITORIO DEL ASAMBLEISTA PHIL RAMOS
No nos dejemos engañar, votemos el martes 8 de noviembre
Asambleísta Phil Ramos
6º Distrito
Dice un dicho que cuando el río suena, piedras trae y al parecer, según reportes de miembros de la comunidad así como de miembros del partido demócrata, los republicanos están desesperados y haciendo hasta lo imposible para que los hispanos y las minorías en general no voten este próximo martes 8 de noviembre.
Como ya es tradición en tiempo de elecciones, mucha gente que no ve con buenos ojos el creciente poder político de los hispanos en Long Island están dispuestos a hacer todo tipo de trucos y triquiñuelas para oprimirnos o intimidarnos para que no votemos. En este caso, el objetivo es que los hispanos no salgan a votar ya que las encuestas tienen como favorito entre los hispanos al candidato demócrata, Steve Bellone.
Hay que poner atención ya que, según reportes, miembros o grupos afines al partido republicano- el mismo partido de Steve Levy- en el condado de Suffolk estarán enviando correos y haciendo llamadas a casas de hispanos y otras minorías con la información incorrecta del día de las elecciones.
Y es que la campaña sucia ya inició. Se tienen reportes de que algunos de los nuevos ciudadanos que se han intentando registrar para votar son intimidados con preguntas o se les piden requisitos- innecesarios hasta ilegales- que no son solicitados a ningún otro grupo. Pongamos atención, familia!
En realidad es triste ver que algunos grupos en el condado todavía crean que la manera de avanzar es suprimiendo el voto de las minorías. Esos son los mismos grupos que después de las elecciones se llenan la boca diciendo que los hispanos y otras minorías no hay que ponerles atención ya que no votan.
Además, lastimosamente no faltarán aquellos hispanos que saldrán a defender lo repudiable. Esos mismos que ahora le lavan la cara a Levy, no tardarán en salir hablando o escribiendo en defensa de los opresores argumentando cualquier disparate. Desde ya les decimos, la comunidad hispana está cansada de tanta idiotez e inventos. Estamos listos y nos hemos preparado para salir a votar y les demostraremos que esos grupúsculos no significan nada. De hecho, a partir del 1º de enero del 2012, se les acabó la fiesta.
Este próximo martes 8 de noviembre, los hispanos del condado de Suffolk tenemos la oportunidad de cambiar nuestra historia. O seguimos con las mismas políticas republicanas o cambiamos el rumbo y elegimos a Steve Bellone quien más allá de cualquier discurso nos ha demostrado con acciones que él si cree en la diversidad, en tender puentes y su compromiso de trabajar de la mano con la comunidad hispana.
______________________________________________________________________________________________
La columna se da en reacción a la información recibida por autoridades del partido demócrata sobre la intención de algunos miembros o grupos afines al partido republicano para confundir a los votantes y consecuentemente lograr menor participación ciudadana el día de las elecciones.
http://www.newsday.com/news/breaking/spin-cycle-1.812042/schaffer-gop-wants-to-suppress-democratic-vote-1.3183996
Schaffer: GOP wants to suppress Democratic vote
Monday September 19, 2011 7:26 PM By Rick Brand
Richard Schaffer, the Suffolk Democratic chairman, held a conference call Sunday night with 126 party candidates, party officials and campaign aides to warn them about voter suppression efforts. He said Republicans are planning to confuse voters in heavily Democratic areas about the date of Election Day this year.
This year’s Election Day is Nov. 8, but Schaffer said he received “credible information” over the weekend that Republicans may seek to confuse voters that the date is Tuesday, Nov. 1 through automated phone calls and video postings to YouTube. He added his understanding is that the GOP plans agressive efforts to challenge voters at the polls to drive down turnout.
John Jay LaValle, Suffolk Republican chairman, said there is “absolutely no concerted effort” to suppress the vote, and that Schaffer is “seeing ghosts.” He said Schaffer is merely trying to rev up party workers who are unenexcited by the party’s own candidates. “The poor performance of the Democratic candidates is suppression enough,” LaValle said.
Schaffer said he was not specifically accusing LaValle of involvement. The Democratic chief declined to identify the authors of the alleged strategy. “I’m not accusing any particular person but the informtion is coming to me from very high-level Republican sources,” he said.
Schaffer said he intends to include the correct election date on all ads and campaign material. He also said he will hold emergency meetings with each town committee and in each town board district in Brookhaven to get out the message. “I wanted to be proactive and show how serious I take it and how serious we are going to be to have our troops combat it,” he said.
LaValle countered that Schaffer is doing negative mailings and push polls — spreading false information on GOP candidates in the form of voter surveys — to Republican households. “They are doing exactly the same thing they claim we’re doing. It’s very odd,” LaValle said.
Asambleísta Phil Ramos
6º Distrito
Dice un dicho que cuando el río suena, piedras trae y al parecer, según reportes de miembros de la comunidad así como de miembros del partido demócrata, los republicanos están desesperados y haciendo hasta lo imposible para que los hispanos y las minorías en general no voten este próximo martes 8 de noviembre.
Como ya es tradición en tiempo de elecciones, mucha gente que no ve con buenos ojos el creciente poder político de los hispanos en Long Island están dispuestos a hacer todo tipo de trucos y triquiñuelas para oprimirnos o intimidarnos para que no votemos. En este caso, el objetivo es que los hispanos no salgan a votar ya que las encuestas tienen como favorito entre los hispanos al candidato demócrata, Steve Bellone.
Hay que poner atención ya que, según reportes, miembros o grupos afines al partido republicano- el mismo partido de Steve Levy- en el condado de Suffolk estarán enviando correos y haciendo llamadas a casas de hispanos y otras minorías con la información incorrecta del día de las elecciones.
Y es que la campaña sucia ya inició. Se tienen reportes de que algunos de los nuevos ciudadanos que se han intentando registrar para votar son intimidados con preguntas o se les piden requisitos- innecesarios hasta ilegales- que no son solicitados a ningún otro grupo. Pongamos atención, familia!
En realidad es triste ver que algunos grupos en el condado todavía crean que la manera de avanzar es suprimiendo el voto de las minorías. Esos son los mismos grupos que después de las elecciones se llenan la boca diciendo que los hispanos y otras minorías no hay que ponerles atención ya que no votan.
Además, lastimosamente no faltarán aquellos hispanos que saldrán a defender lo repudiable. Esos mismos que ahora le lavan la cara a Levy, no tardarán en salir hablando o escribiendo en defensa de los opresores argumentando cualquier disparate. Desde ya les decimos, la comunidad hispana está cansada de tanta idiotez e inventos. Estamos listos y nos hemos preparado para salir a votar y les demostraremos que esos grupúsculos no significan nada. De hecho, a partir del 1º de enero del 2012, se les acabó la fiesta.
Este próximo martes 8 de noviembre, los hispanos del condado de Suffolk tenemos la oportunidad de cambiar nuestra historia. O seguimos con las mismas políticas republicanas o cambiamos el rumbo y elegimos a Steve Bellone quien más allá de cualquier discurso nos ha demostrado con acciones que él si cree en la diversidad, en tender puentes y su compromiso de trabajar de la mano con la comunidad hispana.
______________________________________________________________________________________________
La columna se da en reacción a la información recibida por autoridades del partido demócrata sobre la intención de algunos miembros o grupos afines al partido republicano para confundir a los votantes y consecuentemente lograr menor participación ciudadana el día de las elecciones.
http://www.newsday.com/news/breaking/spin-cycle-1.812042/schaffer-gop-wants-to-suppress-democratic-vote-1.3183996
Schaffer: GOP wants to suppress Democratic vote
Monday September 19, 2011 7:26 PM By Rick Brand
Richard Schaffer, the Suffolk Democratic chairman, held a conference call Sunday night with 126 party candidates, party officials and campaign aides to warn them about voter suppression efforts. He said Republicans are planning to confuse voters in heavily Democratic areas about the date of Election Day this year.
This year’s Election Day is Nov. 8, but Schaffer said he received “credible information” over the weekend that Republicans may seek to confuse voters that the date is Tuesday, Nov. 1 through automated phone calls and video postings to YouTube. He added his understanding is that the GOP plans agressive efforts to challenge voters at the polls to drive down turnout.
John Jay LaValle, Suffolk Republican chairman, said there is “absolutely no concerted effort” to suppress the vote, and that Schaffer is “seeing ghosts.” He said Schaffer is merely trying to rev up party workers who are unenexcited by the party’s own candidates. “The poor performance of the Democratic candidates is suppression enough,” LaValle said.
Schaffer said he was not specifically accusing LaValle of involvement. The Democratic chief declined to identify the authors of the alleged strategy. “I’m not accusing any particular person but the informtion is coming to me from very high-level Republican sources,” he said.
Schaffer said he intends to include the correct election date on all ads and campaign material. He also said he will hold emergency meetings with each town committee and in each town board district in Brookhaven to get out the message. “I wanted to be proactive and show how serious I take it and how serious we are going to be to have our troops combat it,” he said.
LaValle countered that Schaffer is doing negative mailings and push polls — spreading false information on GOP candidates in the form of voter surveys — to Republican households. “They are doing exactly the same thing they claim we’re doing. It’s very odd,” LaValle said.
domingo, 18 de septiembre de 2011
MANGANO - NEWSDAY NOTES
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/mangano-to-cut-700-nassau-county-jobs-1.3170066
Mangano to cut 700 Nassau County jobs
by CELESTE HADRICK / celeste.hadrick@newsday.com
Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano on Wednesday announced that he will eliminate 700 more jobs, consolidate police precincts and require all employees to contribute 25 percent to their health insurance -- but will not raise taxes to close a $310 million budget gap next year.
Mangano was to announce the spending plan at a news conference in Mineola. He must submit his 2012 budget to the county Legislature by Thursday.
Some of Mangano's moves -- such as eliminating minimum manning provisions in police contracts -- would require union concessions and approval of the county Legislature.
Mangano said he is reducing the number of jobs by 1,010 positions, including some police. He said 300 already have been eliminated this year through layoffs and attrition, reducing the current workforce to 8,400. The new cuts would drop the full-time employees to 7,400. Twenty years ago, the county had 16,000 full-time employees.
Without those cuts, Mangano said, property taxes would have to increase by 39 percent. His recommendations adhere closely to an outside consultant's draft report sent to the county by a state board in control of Nassau's finances.
"Nassau's finances spun out of control over the past decade because of a broken assessment system and overly generous contractual obligations that are unaffordable in a sluggish economy," Mangano said. "My reforms will fix Nassau now."
Only appointed employees hired after Jan. 1, 2002 now contribute to their health insurance.
Mangano released only highlights of the budget Wednesday and did not make the full spending plan available.
Al fin, alguien dice lo lógico... En tiempos que se anuncian despidos y cortes a servicios sociales, como se justifica seguir festejando?
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/politics/legis-to-mangano-cancel-car-show-parade-1.3177513
Legis. to Mangano: Cancel car show, parade
by CELESTE HADRICK / celeste.hadrick@newsday.com
Nassau Legis. Kevan Abrahams (D-Hempstead) Friday called on County Executive Edward Mangano to cancel his antique car show and parade Sunday morning, branding it a "frivolous" expense at a time of financial crisis.
Abrahams said Mangano should show that he's trying to cut all unnecessary expenses after proposing to lay off 710 employees to help close a projected $310 million deficit. "We should be looking to control costs in all situations," Abrahams said. "We should set an example."
Abrahams and law enforcement sources say the parade will cost an estimated $75,000 in police overtime, with 78 officers assigned to the eight-mile route.
But Mangano aide Brian Nevin retorted in a statement that the event "does not cost residents a single dime as all costs, including labor, are funded by hotel/motel tax revenues collected from visitors who stay in local hotels. In fact, the car show generates sales tax revenue that helps hold the line on property taxes."
Mangano, who owns a 1969 gold Corvette convertible, started the "Nassau County Executive's Cruise to the Show Parade and Car Show" last year. This year's parade starts at 9 a.m. at Briarcliffe College inBethpage and heads west on Hempstead Turnpike to Eisenhower Park, where the car show takes place. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomowill be driving the Corvette in the parade.
This week, Mangano announced he will have to lay off employees, close museums, consolidate police precincts, and require givebacks from county unions to balance his proposed $2.63 billion budget.
Nevin accused Abrahams of "carrying the water" for the county's Police Benevolent Association. "We all know that Nassau's finances spun out of control, not due to a car show, but due to labor contracts that provide free health insurance and other costly perks," he said. Nassau's police unions are running commercials against Mangano's cuts.
But Abrahams said, "This has nothing to do with the PBA. This is strictly a budgetary issue." The hotel/motel sales tax revenues would be better spent to keep museums open, he said.
PBA president James Carver could not be reached. But Gary Learned, president of the Superior Officers Association, said, "If we had any chance of convincing our members to make further concessions, he almost negates it by wasting money on a combination car show/parade. In their mind, they think, 'If they can spend money on this type of event, how bad off is the county?' "
Mangano to cut 700 Nassau County jobs
by CELESTE HADRICK / celeste.hadrick@newsday.com
Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano on Wednesday announced that he will eliminate 700 more jobs, consolidate police precincts and require all employees to contribute 25 percent to their health insurance -- but will not raise taxes to close a $310 million budget gap next year.
Mangano was to announce the spending plan at a news conference in Mineola. He must submit his 2012 budget to the county Legislature by Thursday.
Some of Mangano's moves -- such as eliminating minimum manning provisions in police contracts -- would require union concessions and approval of the county Legislature.
Mangano said he is reducing the number of jobs by 1,010 positions, including some police. He said 300 already have been eliminated this year through layoffs and attrition, reducing the current workforce to 8,400. The new cuts would drop the full-time employees to 7,400. Twenty years ago, the county had 16,000 full-time employees.
Without those cuts, Mangano said, property taxes would have to increase by 39 percent. His recommendations adhere closely to an outside consultant's draft report sent to the county by a state board in control of Nassau's finances.
"Nassau's finances spun out of control over the past decade because of a broken assessment system and overly generous contractual obligations that are unaffordable in a sluggish economy," Mangano said. "My reforms will fix Nassau now."
Only appointed employees hired after Jan. 1, 2002 now contribute to their health insurance.
Mangano released only highlights of the budget Wednesday and did not make the full spending plan available.
Al fin, alguien dice lo lógico... En tiempos que se anuncian despidos y cortes a servicios sociales, como se justifica seguir festejando?
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/politics/legis-to-mangano-cancel-car-show-parade-1.3177513
Legis. to Mangano: Cancel car show, parade
by CELESTE HADRICK / celeste.hadrick@newsday.com
Nassau Legis. Kevan Abrahams (D-Hempstead) Friday called on County Executive Edward Mangano to cancel his antique car show and parade Sunday morning, branding it a "frivolous" expense at a time of financial crisis.
Abrahams said Mangano should show that he's trying to cut all unnecessary expenses after proposing to lay off 710 employees to help close a projected $310 million deficit. "We should be looking to control costs in all situations," Abrahams said. "We should set an example."
Abrahams and law enforcement sources say the parade will cost an estimated $75,000 in police overtime, with 78 officers assigned to the eight-mile route.
But Mangano aide Brian Nevin retorted in a statement that the event "does not cost residents a single dime as all costs, including labor, are funded by hotel/motel tax revenues collected from visitors who stay in local hotels. In fact, the car show generates sales tax revenue that helps hold the line on property taxes."
Mangano, who owns a 1969 gold Corvette convertible, started the "Nassau County Executive's Cruise to the Show Parade and Car Show" last year. This year's parade starts at 9 a.m. at Briarcliffe College inBethpage and heads west on Hempstead Turnpike to Eisenhower Park, where the car show takes place. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomowill be driving the Corvette in the parade.
This week, Mangano announced he will have to lay off employees, close museums, consolidate police precincts, and require givebacks from county unions to balance his proposed $2.63 billion budget.
Nevin accused Abrahams of "carrying the water" for the county's Police Benevolent Association. "We all know that Nassau's finances spun out of control, not due to a car show, but due to labor contracts that provide free health insurance and other costly perks," he said. Nassau's police unions are running commercials against Mangano's cuts.
But Abrahams said, "This has nothing to do with the PBA. This is strictly a budgetary issue." The hotel/motel sales tax revenues would be better spent to keep museums open, he said.
PBA president James Carver could not be reached. But Gary Learned, president of the Superior Officers Association, said, "If we had any chance of convincing our members to make further concessions, he almost negates it by wasting money on a combination car show/parade. In their mind, they think, 'If they can spend money on this type of event, how bad off is the county?' "
jueves, 8 de septiembre de 2011
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