Amnesty International ha evaluado negativamente el trabajo del gobierno mexicano ante el tema de la protección de los derechos de los migrantes.
La siguiente nota resume la afirmación de la organización:
"El gobierno mexicano no ha cumplido su promesa de proteger a los migrantes frente a los “abusos generalizados” contra sus derechos humanos, sostuvo Aministía Inrternacional.
“Pese a la promesa de cambio del gobierno mexicano, las leyes y otras medidas oficiales apenas tienen impacto, y los abusos sistemáticos contra migrantes continúan imparables”, afirmó Rupert Knox, investigador de AI sobre México.
De ahí que esa organización defensora de los derechos humanos ha emprendido una campaña con la que pretende despertar conciencias y evidenciar la “penosa” situación de miles de migrantes de Centroamérica que cada año atraviesan la región, informó en un comunicado de prensa."
This exceptional documentary will be airing on PBS on Wednesday, Sept. 21.
The documentary explores the local level impact of an anti-immigrant hate crime which took place in Patchogue, New York in 2008, when Ecuadorian immigrant Marcelo Lucero was killed. The documentary examines the local community's reaction to the crime.
In addition to the airing of the film, events are being organized throughout the country to hold local level meetings and discussions.
In addition, the following press release has been prepared:
For Immediate Release
NOT IN OUR TOWN: LIGHT IN THE DARKNESSPROFILES A LONG ISLAND COMMUNITY TAKING ACTION FOLLOWING A HATE CRIME KILLING
Documentary Narrated by Academy Award®-Nominee Alfre Woodard Debuts
Wednesday, September 21 on PBS
Not In Our Town Week of Action Kicks Off September 18
New York, NY (July 21, 2011) – Not In Our Town: Light in the Darkness – a new film which documents the story of a town standing together to take action after a hate crime killing devastates their community – will debut Wednesday, September 21 at 10:00 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings). Narrated by Academy Award®-Nominee Alfre Woodard, the documentary addresses the growing problem of anti-immigrant violence in communities nationwide.
In 2008, a series of attacks by a group of seven local teenagers against Latino residents of the Long Island, New York town of Patchogue ended with the killing of 37-year-old Marcelo Lucero. An Ecuadorian immigrant, Lucero had been a Patchogue resident for 13 years. Filmed over a two-year period, the documentary follows Mayor Paul Pontieri, the victim’s brother Joselo Lucero, diverse community leaders, residents and students as they openly address the underlying causes of the violence, work to heal divisions and initiate ongoing action to ensure everyone in their village will be safe and respected.
“As the country becomes increasingly divided about immigration, we hope this film sparks constructive discussions that separate policy differences from human issues and community safety, so that what happened in Patchogue will never happen again,” said Patrice O’Neill, Executive Producer and Director, Light in the Darkness and Founder of The Working Group.
The film serves as the centerpiece of Not In Our Town’s National Week of Action. From September 18-24, public media outlets and communities across the country will host screenings, events and discussions on hate crime prevention, working to develop new ways to make their towns safer. Public media stations in 20 markets, along with partner organizations including the Department of Justice Community Oriented Policing Services Office, National Council of Churches,National League of Cities, Interfaith Immigration Coalition, National Hispanic Media Coalition, United Methodist Women, and Welcoming America will use the film to initiate dialogue about issues of intolerance in their communities.
Light in the Darkness is the third PBS special from Not In Our Town, a project from The Working Group, whose mission is to highlight stories of communities taking positive action to fight intolerance. Not In Our Town was launched in 1995 with the national PBS special Not In Our Town, which followed the citizens of Billings, Montana as they joined forces to resist bigotry in their town. Not In Our Town II, a follow-up broadcast, aired in 1996 and showed how communities adapted the experience from Billings to counteract local hate violence. Over the past 15 years, Not In Our Town has grown from a PBS documentary into a national effort to connect people working together to take action against hate and create safe, inclusive communities.
Not In Our Town Light in the Darkness was directed by Patrice O’Neill and produced by The Working Group. Adrienne Calo and Charene Zalis serve as producers, with consulting producer Ray Telles. The film was edited by Linda Peckham, Andrew Gersh and Jill Strong, with principal photography by Brian Dentz.
Major support for this program is provided by PBS, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the Einhorn Family Charitable Trust. Additionalsupport has been provided by the Reva and David Logan Foundation and Public Welfare Foundation.
Noted economist and former Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich, has emphasized over the years the importance of using the well-being of working families as an indicator of the nation's overall economic health and prosperity. More recently, he has also been critical of the measures which have or have not been taken to address the deep recession and high unemployment that we suffer. Thus, it is not at all surprising that he now suggests that working families have little to celebrate on Labor Day. Instead of parading, he suggests, they should be protesting.
A brief excerpt from this article:
"The ratio of corporate profits to wages is now higher than at any time since just before the Great Depression.
Meanwhile, the American economy has all but stopped growing -- in large part because consumers (whose spending is 70 percent of GDP) are also workers whose jobs and wages are under assault.
Perhaps there would still be something to celebrate on Labor Day if government was coming to the rescue. But Washington is paralyzed, the president seems unwilling or unable to take on labor-bashing Republicans, and several Republican governors are mounting direct assaults on organized labor (see Indiana, Ohio, Maine, and Wisconsin, for example).
So let's bag the picnics and parades this Labor Day. American workers should march in protest. They're getting the worst deal they've had since before Labor Day was invented -- and the economy is suffering as a result."
Para nadie es un secreto que la popularidad del Presidente Barack Obama ha caído de manera significativa entre electores latinos y la población latina en general. Las razones son muchas, entre las que se pueden destacar: la continua debilidad de la economía, la cual ha afectado seriamente a las familias latinas; altos niveles de desempleo; la ausencia, hasta hace unos días, de mejorías en las políticas migratorias del país; etc.
Si bien el estado de la economía y el desempleo alto son problemas generalizados que afectan a la nación, la población latina si tiene intereses particulares, como en el caso de una reforma migratoria, que han sido descuidadas por los poderes ejecutivo y legislativo.
Resultará interesante ver el comportamiento del electorado latino en la eleccion del 2012, puesto que los legisladores federales del partido Republicano, y sus contrapartes en muchas entidades estatales, son quienes han bloqueado una reforma migratoria y/o impulsado o aprobado leyes anti-inmigrantes.
Los Latinos verán a Obama y a los demócratas como la opción menos mala? Se aumentará el apoyo latino a los republicanos?
El desencanto actual con Obama es documentado por una nueva encuesta realizada por Impremedia/Latino Decisions. A continuación, un fragmento del articulo publicado en La Opinión y el link para dicha nota:
El más reciente sondeo Impremedia/Latino Decisions, realizado entre finales de julio y principios de agosto muestra que el nivel de voto seguro de los latinos por Obama en 2012 permanece a niveles insuficientes para, a estas alturas, ofrecer la supermayoría del voto hispano necesario para que el presidente pueda ganar determinados estados difíciles, como Nuevo México, Colorado y otros del oeste.
Actualmente, sólo el 39% de los votantes latinos está seguro de votar por el presidente Obama el año que viene. Esa cifra era de 43% en febrero, cuando IM/LD realizó una encuesta similar y había subido a 49% en junio, tras la captura de Osama Bin Laden y el discurso de Obama en El Paso, Texas, reafirmando su apoyo sobre la inmigración.
La encuesta también halló que sólo la mitad de los votantes latinos está "entusiasmado" para votar en las elecciones presidenciales del próximo año, un 26% está "algo" entusiasmado.
Campbell and Putnam offer a ver interesting analysis of the origins and key features of the Tea Party movement.
An excerpt:
Our analysis casts doubt on the Tea Party’s “origin story.” Early on, Tea Partiers were often described as nonpartisan political neophytes. Actually, the Tea Party’s supporters today were highly partisan Republicans long before the Tea Party was born, and were more likely than others to have contacted government officials. In fact, past Republican affiliation is the single strongest predictor of Tea Party support today.
What’s more, contrary to some accounts, the Tea Party is not a creature of the Great Recession. Many Americans have suffered in the last four years, but they are no more likely than anyone else to support the Tea Party. And while the public image of the Tea Party focuses on a desire to shrink government, concern over big government is hardly the only or even the most important predictor of Tea Party support among voters.
So what do Tea Partiers have in common? They are overwhelmingly white, but even compared to other white Republicans, they had a low regard for immigrants and blacks long before Barack Obama was president, and they still do.
More important, they were disproportionately social conservatives in 2006 — opposing abortion, for example — and still are today. Next to being a Republican, the strongest predictor of being a Tea Party supporter today was a desire, back in 2006, to see religion play a prominent role in politics. And Tea Partiers continue to hold these views: they seek “deeply religious” elected officials, approve of religious leaders’ engaging in politics and want religion brought into political debates. The Tea Party’s generals may say their overriding concern is a smaller government, but not their rank and file, who are more concerned about putting God in government.
Paul Krugman's consistent claims that it is necessary for US economic policy to focus on employment creation has been admirable, in light of the continuously high unemployment rates at the national level and, even more so, in states with high Latino and Mexican-origin populations.
His most recent op-ed in the NY Times calls attention once again to this issue, now framed within the context of the drastic declines in the stock markets in the US and other countries.
As he indicates in the excerpt below, the ratio of employment to population has remained virtually the same during the last two years, resulting in a lastin human catastrophe.
"Yes, officially the recession ended two years ago, and the economy did indeed pull out of a terrifying tailspin. But at no point has growth looked remotely adequate given the depth of the initial plunge. In particular, when employment falls as much as it did from 2007 to 2009, you need a lot of job growth to make up the lost ground. And that just hasn’t happened.
Consider one crucial measure, the ratio of employment to population. In June 2007, around 63 percent of adults were employed. In June 2009, the official end of the recession, that number was down to 59.4. As of June 2011, two years into the alleged recovery, the number was: 58.2.
These may sound like dry statistics, but they reflect a truly terrible reality. Not only are vast numbers of Americans unemployed or underemployed, for the first time since the Great Depression many American workers are facing the prospect of very-long-term — maybe permanent — unemployment. Among other things, the rise in long-term unemployment will reduce future government revenues, so we’re not even acting sensibly in purely fiscal terms. But, more important, it’s a human catastrophe."
Today's L.A. Times has an excellent op ed by Peter Schrag, who has been one of the most persistent writers in the state addressing the demographic transformation of California and the political/electoral irrationality that persists.
A fragment of the article and the link:
Immigrants are key to California's future - latimes.com: "Yet as boomers retire by the millions beginning in this decade, taking their skills with them, California, rather than making college and other advanced education more accessible, is making access harder, shutting down programs and increasing the costs. 'Cultivating a stronger base of future home buyers,' Myers says, 'will help the older generation as much as the young. This partnership needs to be strengthened between older future home sellers and younger potential home buyers.'
So far, however, the critical economic and social nexus between the self-interest of older white homeowners and the younger Latinos and other immigrants who represent much of the state's future is hardly perceived by much of California's tax-averse electorate."
Jerry Brown eases path for undocumented college students to receive aid - latimes.com: "Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Monday allowing undocumented college students to access private financial aid for college, calling the new law “another piece of an investment in people.” But he said he was not yet ready to commit to signing a second piece of the Dream Act, which would provide public funding for those students.
Brushing over the politics of illegal immigration during a ceremony at the Los Angeles City College library, Brown talked about the bill within the broader context of maintaining education funding during the budget crisis.
“We are facing many obstacles and adversaries,” Brown said. “The debate is very clear: shrivel public service, shrink back, retrench, retreat from higher education, from schools, from the investment in people; or make the investment. So this is one piece of a very important mosaic, which is a California that works for everyone and a California who understands where our strength is."
Más de un millón de mexicanos, listos para inmigrar a EU - El Universal - El Mundo: "Casi un millón 400 mil mexicanos están en las listas de espera para inmigrar en forma legal a Estados Unidos a través de la petición de un familiar, un trámite que podría forzarlos a esperar hasta 18 años, según datos oficiales difundidos hoy.
Las cifras del Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos, correspondientes al año fiscal 2010, muestran que a pesar de la cantidad de mexicanos en espera de inmigrar, sólo se concedieron 26 mil entre octubre de 2009 y septiembre de 2010.
La limitación en el número de visas disponibles para quienes buscan inmigrar a través del sistema de familia extendida, definida como los hijos adultos o los hermanos de un ciudadano estadounidense, ha motivado un enorme rezago."
La Serpiente sin Cabeza. La fútil cacería de capos. | blogs.milenio.com: "De acuerdo con un reporte de inteligencia de la Oficina de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos (CBP, por sus siglas en inglés), obtenido por MILENIO, todo apunta a que la disponibilidad de droga en calles estadunidenses es independiente de qué tan fuerte se golpee a las estructuras de mando de los cárteles.
En el reporte, fechado el 13 de julio pasado y creado 'sólo para uso oficial', la agencia estadunidense echa por tierra la idea de que la decapitación de un cártel deja a la organización herida de muerte, un tema altamente polémico que va contra la ortodoxia y esfuerzos gubernamentales que presumen la caída de capos como grandes logros. La duda se resume a dos puntos: ¿Puede la cacería exitosa de un narco de peso reducir la oferta de narcóticos? ¿Si no hay un jefe, los embarques se detienen?
Para responder esas y otras interrogantes, CBP se basó en tendencias detectadas tras la muerte y arresto de jefes criminales entre febrero de 2009 y febrero de 2010, incluidos operadores de alto nivel del cártel de los Beltrán Leyva, el Golfo, Los Zetas y el cártel de Sinaloa.
"Desde 2008 los cárteles mexicanos han perdido personajes clave, quienes fueron arrestados o abatidos. Este análisis enfrenta la principal pregunta que surge de esto: ¿afecta eso el flujo de narcóticos a Estados Unidos?", se cuestionó CBP. Su respuesta es no."
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