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Vida Guerra! Not bad IMO
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Welcome and wish you a lot of fun with the station.
SOTU
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What are these two tracks:
"Sometimes... run around in circles... deep down in my soul" (it was a bleepy techy kind of track that Obby played towards the end).
Audiofly feat. Priscilla - Circles (Original Mix)
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Just got to the station. Joey's going off.
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Told ya!!!!!
As I was saying,,,,these Mexicans and other Central/South Americans,,,JUST DON’T GET IT…..They’re being counter productive towards their cause. I'm all for them staying but be smart about it.
May 4, 2006
Growing Unease for Some Blacks on Immigration
By RACHEL L. SWARNS
WASHINGTON, May 3 — In their demonstrations across the country, some Hispanic immigrants have compared the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle to their own, singing "We Shall Overcome" and declaring a new civil rights movement to win citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants.
Civil rights stalwarts like the Rev. Jesse Jackson; Representative John Lewis, Democrat of Georgia; Julian Bond and the Rev. Joseph E. Lowery have hailed the recent protests as the natural progression of their movement in the 1960's.
But despite some sympathy for the nation's illegal immigrants, many black professionals, academics and blue-collar workers feel increasingly uneasy as they watch Hispanics flex their political muscle while assuming the mantle of a seminal black struggle for justice.
Some blacks bristle at the comparison between the civil rights movement and the immigrant demonstrations, pointing out that black protesters in the 1960's were American citizens and had endured centuries of enslavement, rapes, lynchings and discrimination before they started marching.
Others worry about the plight of low-skilled black workers, who sometimes compete with immigrants for entry-level jobs.
And some fear the unfinished business of the civil rights movement will fall to the wayside as America turns its attention to a newly energized Hispanic minority with growing political and economic clout.
"All of this has made me start thinking, 'What's going to happen to African-Americans?' " said Brendon L. Laster, 32, a black fund-raiser at Howard University here, who has been watching the marches. "What's going to happen to our unfinished agenda?"
Mr. Laster is dapper and cosmopolitan, a part-time professor and Democratic activist who drinks and dines with a wide circle of black, white and Hispanic friends. He said he marveled at first as the images of cheering, flag-waving immigrants flickered across his television screen. But as some demonstrators proclaimed a new civil rights movement, he grew uncomfortable.
He says that immigrant protesters who claim the legacy of Dr. King and Rosa Parks are going too far. And he has begun to worry about the impact that the emerging immigrant activism will have on black Americans, many of whom still face poverty, high rates of unemployment and discrimination in the workplace.
"I think what they were able to do, the level of organization they were able to pull off, that was phenomenal," said Mr. Laster, who is also a part-time sociology professor at a community college in Baltimore. "But I do think their struggle is, in fundamental ways, very different from ours. We didn't chose to come here; we came here as slaves. And we were denied, even though we were legal citizens, our basic rights."
"There are a still lot of unresolved issues from the civil rights era," he said. "Perhaps we're going to be pushed to the back burner."
This painful debate is bubbling up in church halls and classrooms, on call-in radio programs and across dining room tables. Some blacks prefer to discuss the issue privately for fear of alienating their Hispanic allies. But others are publicly airing their misgivings, saying they are too worried to stay silent.
"We will have no power, no clout," warned Linda Carter-Lewis, 62, a human resources manager and the branch president of the N.A.A.C.P. in Des Moines. "That's where I see this immigrant movement going. Even though so many thousands and thousands of them have no legal status and no right to vote right now, that day is coming."
Immigrant leaders defend their use of civil rights language, saying strong parallels exist between the two struggles. And they argue that their movement will ultimately become a powerful vehicle to fight for the rights of all American workers, regardless of national origin.
"African-Americans during the civil rights movement were in search of the American dream and that's what our movement is trying to achieve for our community," said Jaime Contreras, president of the National Capital Immigration Coalition, which organized the April 10 demonstration that drew tens of thousands of people to Washington.
"We face the same issues even if we speak different languages," said Mr. Contreras, who is from El Salvador and listens to Dr. King's speeches for inspiration.
Mr. Jackson, who addressed the immigrant rally on Monday in New York, echoed those views. He noted that Dr. King, at the end of his life, focused on improving economic conditions for all Americans, regardless of race. And he said the similarities between African-Americans and illegal immigrants were too powerful to ignore.
"We too were denied citizenship," Mr. Jackson said. "We too were undocumented workers working without wages, without benefits, without the vote. "We should feel honored that other people are using tactics and strategies from our struggle. We shouldn't say they're stealing from us. They're learning from us."
Mr. Jackson said corporate employers were fueling the tensions between blacks and immigrants by refusing to pay a living wage to all workers. John Campbell, a black steel worker and labor activist from Iowa, agreed.
"This is a class issue," said Mr. Campbell, who has been disheartened by black critics of the immigrant marches. "We need to join forces. We can't improve our lot in life as African-Americans by suppressing the rights of anyone else."
But blacks and immigrants have long had a history of uneasy relations in the United States.
W.E.B. DuBois, a founder of the N.A.A.C.P., and other prominent black leaders worried that immigrants would displace blacks in the workplace. Ronald Walters, director of the African-American Leadership Institute at the University of Maryland, said blacks cheered when the government restricted Asian immigration to the United States after World War I. And many Europeans who came to this country discriminated against blacks.
Blacks and Hispanics have also been allies. In the 1960's, Dr. King and Cesar Chavez, the Mexican-American farm labor leader, corresponded with each other. And when Mr. Chavez was jailed, Dr. King's widow, Coretta Scott King, visited him in jail, Mr. Walters said. In recent years, blacks and Hispanics have been influential partners in the Democratic Party.
A recent poll conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center captured the ambivalence among blacks over immigration. Nearly 80 percent said immigrants from Latin American work very hard and have strong family values.
But nearly twice as many blacks as whites said that they or a family member had lost a job, or not gotten a job, because an employer hired an immigrant worker. Blacks were also more likely than whites to feel that immigrants take jobs away from American citizens.
Mr. Walters said he understood those conflicting emotions, saying he feels torn himself because of his concerns about the competition between immigrants and low-skilled black men for jobs. In 2004, 72 percent of black male high school dropouts in their 20's were jobless, compared with 34 percent of white and 19 percent of Hispanic dropouts.
"I applaud them moving out of the shadows and into the light because of the human rights issues involved," Mr. Walters said of illegal immigrants. "I've given my entire life to issues of social justice as an activist and an academic. In that sense, I'm with them.
"But they also represent a powerful ingredient to the perpetuation of our struggle," he said. "We have a problem where half of black males are unemployed in several cities. I can't ignore that and simply be my old progressive self and say it's not an issue. It is an issue."
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Obby ... you just made it impossible to read and shut.
There are a few issues in which you are purposedly misleading.
First, these protests come NOT from illegal immigrants or undocumented voters ... it is the come together of latin american background AMERICANS. In support of other latin americans who are presently undocumented ... in response of the House's proposed law.
That’s not completely true. Too rosy(IMHO). These protests do include a plethora of illegal immigrants. Undocumented is spin for ILLEGAL. Let’s not get “Johnny Cochran-ish”. In response to a house bill? This has been brewing for a while!
Secondly, to imply that May 1st is a Soviet Union holiday is just plain ignorance. In most countries worldwide- including Spain, May 1st is the The Day of Work ... what in the US is celebrated the 1st Monday of September. Why are they choosing May 1st and not Labour Day? Because the issue needs to be attended today, not in 4 months.
Fair enough,,,Well said.
Third, there is no easy solution to this issue without closing the borders. That is the first step that ALL will agree. Afterwards, just play politics and find a compromise between opposing ends ... those who want to kick them out now and those who want amnesty. I don't stand in any of the extremes. But thousands, if not millions of AMERICANS, are demonstrating peacefully to defend their opinion and voice in a democracy.
Very true. There is no easy solution. These ILLEGAL immigrants are lucky America does not enforce it’s immigration laws like Mexico enforces theirs. I believe the issue NEEDS to be addressed(sooner than later). First, Ameirca needs to stop the bleeding and implement the current laws. SEAL THE FRIGGIN’ BORDER! Then, work on a solution for the illegals in country and the business that lure them here.
Fourth ... after 14 years of the Free Trade agreement with Mexico, it is wrong to intentionally blind yourself and not realize that the main problem lays in the US subsidies to their agro ... which makes most farm workers in Mexico lose their jobs in their homeland, and decide to leave everything they are born to love to migrate to this country to do the same job they were doing at home. These are mostly uneducated people. Unheard in their country, unheard here. You better believe that this is a HUGE factor for their migration. Don't forget that Mexicans are among the most nationalistic citizens ... from wars to the monolitic political party that governed them for decades.
Here’s where you and I part ways. Everything that happens in the world is not Americas fault. Looking at the worlds problems through that prism is intellectually dishonest, at best. I blame MEXICO for Mexico’s problems. At it’s core, top to bottom, a gov’t corrupt beyond beliefe! Let’s start there, shall we? As for Mexico’s history, I have to say “okay, and???” (Note: I don’t mean to sound heartless, but I care about America first!)
Fifth ... from Colombia to Haiti to Venezuela to Peru to Bolivia to Nicaragua to Guatemal to El Salvador ... there are thousands and thousands who also fled political persecution and radicalization in their homelands. And I won't get into the reasons nor the sources of this mayhem, as each case is unique in their own time and source. It ain't an exclusivity of the handful of communist countries.
Bottom line: It’s the law of the land. Is it unfair in favor of the Cuban immigrants? Maybe? But it’s still the law of the land. Period! Illegal is illegal, is illegal! Only congress can change that. Protest to congress to have them change that “wet foot/dry foot Cuban policy” for all I care. But to illegally enter this country and demand you be rewarded for it while keeping a straight face,,,I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH! Anglos and Black in America won’t stay silent forever. Remember, America is still a white country! The majority of America is white,,NOT black or latino, etc…(IOW….CAREFUL,,don’t bit the hand that feeds you). Do you think blacks are eager to loser their precious minority status to latino’s? Do you think anglo’s will sit back and watch illegals strain the average tax paying citizen?
There are many other factors to put into an equation. The hardships of most legal immigrants to this country are far more complex than taking a raft for 80 miles. Or to arrive with the "Mariel". And those millions who are now AMERICANS will have a say no matter what your political view is. That is a democracy.
And it’s a a country governed by the RULE OF LAW!
Lastly, I object any kind of boycott. But support a democratic movement. And being this issue as delicate and complex as it is, it will need a compromised solution that fits the best interest of this nation. This will probably include controlling the borders, re-evaluating farm subsidies, and the process to assimilate the undocumented workers- if it gets that far.
Again, illegal is illegal! Let’s trash this “undocumented” mumbo-jumbo!
It’s a very complex issue and I for one, have no magic pill. I simply believe that these ILLEGAL immigrants must first acknowledge and appreciate the opportunities this country offers. They must know this given that they’re here and not in Mexico?
At least, the conservative Catholic church in LA and Mexico has discouraged a boycott and encouraged a peaceful march ... we start to find common issues with the heart of the GOP. Even if minimal.
That’s always a good thing, but I wouldn’t let that influence my opinion one way or another. The catholic conservative church also agrees that abortion is the murder of the innocent, unborn child,,,,yet we still find a way to co-exist?
Go Fig’r?
Bottom line…..this immigration thing is complicated and this being an election year, this will become even more cloudy! For every person that claims this is a racist, republican crusade, there are others who’ll say it’s typical liberals pandering to a large entitlement-minded voter group who’ll desperately vote for anyone who promises more free “stuff” at the expense of the Ameircan tax payer. Remember, over 60% of America budget is spent on entitlements(which include education, medicare, ss, welfare, unemployment, etc..etc..)
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How much do we have to repeat and emphasize the fact that it has nothing to do with nationality and all to do with legal status.......
We all know that this Country is a country of immigrants….LEGAL IMMIGRANTS!
Again, illegal is illegal is illegal. PERIOD!
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Quote from: Slammin' Shaun on April 30, 2006, 07:21:39 PM
You know, I think its funny how the Mexicans chose a communist holiday (Soviet Union's May Day) as the day to launch their boycott. It's almost fitting. If the illegals ever tried to organize a boycott like this back home, they'd be locked up in jail....no media to save the day, no Howard Dean or Ted Kennedy....
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Let’s cut the bullshit and call them what they really are “UNDOCUMENTED VOTERSâ€.
If this country is as bad as they claim, then they can always leave. Truth is, they flock to this country because of it’s greatness. If not, they wouldn’t be here in such numbers.
Another thing, this country is a country of immigrants….LEGAL IMMIGRANTS!
Illegal is illegal, is illegal…PERIOD!
Cubans fled communism seeking freedom. These Mexicans(and all other Central/South Americans) fled poverty seeking prosperity. There’s the big difference between the 2 groups and why they’ll never see eye to eye.
The opportunities the country provides did not happen by accident. Until these “illegal†immigrants and their supporters learn to appreciate the sacrifices made by this nation and begin respecting the rule of law, they will not gain the support of masses.
Any politician who panders to these “undocumented voters†and is successful in implementing law which excuses their illegal infiltration does so at his/her own peril! Wait until the “gringo†finally says “enough is enough†and you’ll see. Also, don’t forget the black American. They were just passed up by the latino’s as the largest minority. Do you think they’re in favor of losing that coveted entitlement status to latino’s? I don’t think so. We’re gonna see black/white American unite against this total lack of respect for the law of the land.
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This doesn't have to do with being Latin or not. It has to do with the fact of being ILLEGAL or not.
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makes absolutely no sense. the issue has never been immigration....the subject is ILLEGAL immigration. :
Exactly!!!! We can thank the media for this spin.
I myself know that this is a land of immigrants and we owe them a lot but it does not overpower the fact that this is also a land of laws. The question of the day should be, do illegal in the USA have the right to disrupt our economy and do they have the right to protest (concidering that they are here illegally).
I personally think they are going about this the wrong way. IMO this is going to backfire on them. Reports of the amount of illegals currently crossing our borders has risen ever since the rumor of amnesty was brought up. This is only going to bring about a more strict border.
Again, this is a Country of immagrants but it is also a Country of laws.
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Police to conduct traffic operation on causeway tonight
The Miami and Miami Beach police departments will be conducting ''Operation Move Over'' today from 6 p.m. to midnight on the MacArthur Causeway.
The traffic operation is being done because the number of avoidable traffic crashes that injure emergency responders continues to grow, Miami police spokeswoman Herminia Salas-Jacobson said in a news release. Those crashes cause the greatest number of injuries and deaths to law enforcement personnel, she added.
The Florida Highway Patrol conducted a similar operation a few weeks ago on the Don Shula Expressway (State Road 874).
In addition to the move-over enforcement, Miami police will have DUI/DRE (Drug Recognition Expert) officers on Watson Island to check and arrest impaired drivers.
Here is what's required when a driver sees an emergency vehicle by the roadside:
``When an authorized emergency vehicle making use of any visual signals is parked or a wrecker displaying amber rotating or flashing lights is performing a recovery or loading on the roadside, the driver of every other vehicle, as soon as it is safe:
• ``Shall vacate the lane closest to the emergency vehicle or wrecker when driving on an interstate highway or other highway with two or more lanes traveling in the direction of the emergency vehicle or wrecker, except when otherwise directed by a law enforcement officer.
• Or ``shall slow to a speed that is 20 miles per hour less than the posted speed limit when the posted speed limit is 25 miles per hour or greater; or travel at 5 miles per hour when the posted speed limit is 20 miles per hour or less, when driving on a two-lane road, except when otherwise directed by a law enforcement officer.''
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Just read this.
Happy birthday fiera. May you have many more.
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Can a "Local Progressive House Person" attend?
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http://www.drudgereport.com/flash.htm
The arrival ceremony for Chinese president Hu Jintao was interrupted by a protester who appealed to President Bush to stop Hu from 'persecuting the Falun Gong,' a banned religious movement in China.
The woman began shouting from the top of a camera stand located directly in front of Hu and Bush.
'President Bush, stop him from killing'... 'Stop persecuting the Falun Gong,' she yelled... She also shouted in Chinese, 'President Hu, your days are numbered, No more time for China's ruling party.'
The incident occured right after Bush urged Hu to allow Chinese to 'speak freely'. The woman, had a temporary pass with a big 'T' on it, also unfurled a yellow 'Falun Gong' banner.
The woman was taken away by uniformed secret service officers.
Bush leaned over and whispered to Hu, 'You're okay.' Hu, who had stopped talking briefly, then resumed speaking.
On China TV: As Hu was speaking when yells of protesters became audible, the screen went black. When the feed came back the screen once again went black when woman was again heard. During CNN International's post-speech commentary, at mention of south lawn heckler, the screen also went black again. The CNN feed returned when the incident ended.
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Today Tehran, Tomorrow the World
What's at stake in the dispute over Iranian nukes? Ultimately, human survival
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
Posted Sunday, Mar. 26, 2006
Like many physicists who worked on the Manhattan Project, Richard Feynman could not get the Bomb out of his mind after the war. "I would see people building a bridge," he wrote. "And I thought, they're crazy, they just don't understand, they don't understand. Why are they making new things? It's so useless."
Feynman was convinced man had finally invented something that he could not control and that would ultimately destroy him. For six decades we have suppressed that thought and built enough history to believe Feynman's pessimism was unwarranted. After all, soon afterward, the most aggressive world power, Stalin's Soviet Union, acquired the Bomb, yet never used it. Seven more countries have acquired it since and never used it either. Even North Korea, which huffs and puffs and threatens every once in a while, dares not use it. Even Kim Jong Il is not suicidal.
But that's the point. We're now at the dawn of an era in which an extreme and fanatical religious ideology, undeterred by the usual calculations of prudence and self-preservation, is wielding state power and will soon be wielding nuclear power.
We have difficulty understanding the mentality of Iran's newest rulers. Then again, we don't understand the mentality of the men who flew into the World Trade Center or the mobs in Damascus and Tehran who chant "Death to America"--and Denmark(!)--and embrace the glory and romance of martyrdom.
This atavistic love of blood and death and, indeed, self-immolation in the name of God may not be new--medieval Europe had an abundance of millennial Christian sects--but until now it has never had the means to carry out its apocalyptic ends.
That is why Iran's arriving at the threshold of nuclear weaponry is such a signal historical moment. It is not just that its President says crazy things about the Holocaust. It is that he is a fervent believer in the imminent reappearance of the 12th Imam, Shi'ism's version of the Messiah. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been reported as saying in official meetings that the end of history is only two or three years away. He reportedly told an associate that on the podium of the General Assembly last September, he felt a halo around him and for "those 27 or 28 minutes, the leaders of the world did not blink ... as if a hand was holding them there and it opened their eyes to receive" his message. He believes that the Islamic revolution's raison d'être is to prepare the way for the messianic redemption, which in his eschatology is preceded by worldwide upheaval and chaos. How better to light the fuse for eternal bliss than with a nuclear flame?
Depending on your own beliefs, Ahmadinejad is either mystical or deranged. In either case, he is exceedingly dangerous. And Iran is just the first. With infinitely accelerated exchanges of information helping develop whole new generations of scientists, extremist countries led by similarly extreme men will be in a position to acquire nuclear weaponry. If nothing is done, we face not proliferation but hyperproliferation. Not just one but many radical states will get weapons of mass extinction, and then so will the fanatical and suicidal terrorists who are their brothers and clients.
That will present the world with two futures. The first is Feynman's vision of human destruction on a scale never seen. The second, perhaps after one or two cities are lost with millions killed in a single day, is a radical abolition of liberal democracy as the species tries to maintain itself by reverting to strict authoritarianism--a self-imposed expulsion from the Eden of post-Enlightenment freedom.
Can there be a third future? That will depend on whether we succeed in holding proliferation at bay. Iran is the test case. It is the most dangerous political entity on the planet, and yet the world response has been catastrophically slow and reluctant. Years of knowingly useless negotiations, followed by hesitant international resolutions, have brought us to only the most tentative of steps--referral to a Security Council that lacks unity and resolve. Iran knows this and therefore defiantly and openly resumes its headlong march to nuclear status. If we fail to prevent an Iranian regime run by apocalyptic fanatics from going nuclear, we will have reached a point of no return. It is not just that Iran might be the source of a great conflagration but that we will have demonstrated to the world that for those similarly inclined there is no serious impediment.
Our planet is 4,500,000,000 years old, and we've had nukes for exactly 61. No one knows the precise prospects for human extinction, but Feynman was a mathematical genius who knew how to calculate odds. If he were to watch us today about to let loose the agents of extinction, he'd call a halt to all bridge building.
I see Israel taking care of Iran. Don't want it to be that way but if China won't step up and niehter will Russian then .............I'm for it.
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Happy birthday sucia!
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odelay vato~! wut ju nee' me to sell meng~!?
LOL
great way to advertise a job vacancy in miami: on a club board. chances of crackhead applying for the job: 100%.LOL LOL
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Bump for my boys.
How was Thomas last week? I was there is spirit.
OBBY
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Nice!
Happy Birthday Loca! May you have many more.
xoxoxox
OBBY
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Inan rocked it as expected. The WOMB and I def wants here back.
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This is class people,
attend... and u'll be schooled properly...
What he said!!!!!
Palabra!
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Torch
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SOTU tune alert!!!!
Great Stuff does it again with this fine set of remixes of Margot's 'Torch'. The original "main mix" which happens to be my favorite features a noir female vocal over a strong bass hook with dramatic string stabs, while the dub mix focuses on a looser feel to the percussion arrangement and a lighter mood. Border Community's Extrawelt brings a lo-slung techy remix with a spine-tingling edge for you tech heads, plus a redux remix that brings out more of the electro-house flavas. Hard to believe that this was originally a Soft Cell tune! Slammed this one on the WOMB last week and will continue to slam it in these upcomming weeks. Hope you beat freaks enjoy it as much as I have been.
SOTU Approved!!!!!!
Sample the "Main Mix" below:
http://www.soturecords.com/SOTUmedia051106.mp3