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Buffalo News reporting on education described as "propaganda Poloncarz Announces appointment of Fernando Garcia Martinez a disguised as journalism" by SUNY study member of New Erie County Arts By: Shane Meyer The Public “There are few things more dangerous than propaganda disguised and Cultural Advisory Board as journalism,” reads one conclusion from a study by SUNY Buffalo State professor Dr. Andrea B. Nikischer, who has delved into the past year of reporting on education by the Buffalo News. If we extrapolated her findings—and borrow the phrase quoted above—we could conclude that there are in fact few things more dangerous than the News’s education reporting. “Propaganda and Policy: An Investigation into Alleged Anti- Teacher’s Union and Pro-Charter School Bias in the Buffalo News” is the title of Dr. Nikischer’s report, which takes a deep look into the reporting done by the News with regard to charter schools and Buffalo Public Schools. The study demonstrates that two distinct stories are being told: The Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz first gives readers an uncritical look at charter schools, promoting and the Erie County Legislature announced them as the answer to the perceived failure of the city’s so-called the appointment of a new member to the Erie failing public schools, while the second gives an overwhelmingly County Arts and Cultural Advisory Board negative portrayal of Buffalo Public Schools, along with their (“Erie Arts Board”) that will administer the teachers and union. new, reinvigorated process for local cultural “As Buffalo has only one traditional newspaper, and virtually no institutions to compete for county funding. other mainstream media sources in the county provide detailed “Today, I am proud to announce the coverage of the Buffalo Public Schools or school reform, the appointment of Fernando Garcia Martinez power of articles published on these issues is immense,” notes Dr. as a member of the Erie County Arts and Nikischer, an assistant professor at Buff State’s Adult Education Cultural Advisory Board,” said Poloncarz. See PROPAGANDA on page 3 See GARCIA MARTINEZ on page 3 Solidario Pierluisi con movimiento para Heroin overdoses on the rise in Rochester destituir al gobernador By: Marcos Lebron Rochester authorities say they have seen Por: Carlos DePonce a sharp increase in the number of heroin En medio de la campaña estadista a favor overdoses during the past year. de pedirle a la Casa Blanca que “destituya” The latest incident happened Wednesday al gobernador Alejandro García Padilla, when a woman in her early 20s overdosed el comisionado residente en Washington, on the drug, according to Rochester Police Pedro Pierluisi, expresó su solidaridad con officer Gonzalez. She is expected to ese movimiento simbólico, pero advirtió recover. que el cambio de gobierno se puede We've seen an enormous uptick in these conseguir en las elecciones generales de (cases) in the last six months to a year," he noviembre de 2016. said. is the potential they could have a hidden Al terminar esta semana, la petición He estimates there have been roughly 60 needle. sometida en la página de internet de la Casa heroin overdoses reported during the 12 The other problem is that for every drug electoral, necesita un proceso de blanca a favor de que el presidente Barack months. Officers have also been arresting dealer we arrest, three replace them. If you destitución”, indica la petición, que es Obama y el Congreso saquen del poder more people in possession of heroin during drive up Clinton Street, you will find a drug impulsada por sectores estadistas, incluido a un gobernador electo por el pueblo, se that time. In fact, the department sent out dealer on every corner for two miles. In Alerta Progresista, una organización que acercaba a alcanzar las 100,000 firmas. a warning to police officers to be careful some cases, their can be 5 or 6 drug dealers suele hacer propaganda a favor de la “Puerto Rico no necesita un proceso when searching suspects because there on one block.” We are overwhelmed said See PIERLUISI on page 3 See OVERDOSES on page 3 A Bail Bond Company Niagara Family Dental ML Gallego Auto Insurance Cathy Rodriguez 821 Niagara Street 572 Amherst Street (716) 432-7964 (716) 883-3664 (716) 854-2800

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PROPAGANDA • from FRONT page Furthermore, the News has neglected to learn what’s happening in the broader educational Department. establishment. Dr. Nikischer found that the paper never, in any of the articles surveyed, Public school supporters have been critical of the News’s coverage, which has, they used academic research to back its claims. They have shut out competing voices in the believe, unfairly and loudly echoed the agenda of Governor Andrew Cuomo, the Buffalo community—as well as competing voices in New York State and national press—and Board of Education majority, and the nationwide school privatization and high-stake gone their own way. testing movements. Now, for the first time, they can point to a qualitative study to back Dr. Nikischer recommends two courses of action—the first for the News and the second these claims. for concerned subscribers: 1) hire an ombudsman to “monitor education content and To undertake the study, Dr. Nikischer evaluated News articles published from October delivery”; 2) “public school supporters should seriously consider cancelling their 1, 2013 to November 30, 2014. All articles—190 in total—were culled from the paper’s newspaper subscriptions and boycotting Buffalo News advertisers.” regularly published articles, SchoolZone blog posts, and opinion pieces. Each article was “As the opinion articles are very strongly written, I reviewed the Society of Professional coded in three respects: 1) for content and tone (What is the article about? What is the Journalists Code of Ethics. After review, I determined that [the News] is walking a line of tone—positive, negative or neutral?); 2) for general themes; and 3) whether to include ethical appropriateness,” she concludes. the article in the study or not. The idea is to compare large sets of data and draw general Here one must anticipate an argument—that the News’s coverage of charter schools is conclusions based on the tone and content of the articles. Disqualified articles were those more positive because charter schools are simply better than public schools. An obvious outside of the researchers’ ken and which had no relevance to the themes undertaken. objection presents itself in the behavior of Bennett, who insisted on full renewals for three Nikischer and her graduate assistant Vanessa Ludwig undertook the coding process underperforming Buffalo charters, while the News reeled off editorial after editorial in his separately in order to prevent bias contamination, finishing with a 99 percent inter-rater favor. A much simpler objection is that the job of a newspaper is not to advocate on behalf reliability—a measure which indicates the degree of agreement between independent of the powerful but to question their motives in the service of the dispossessed. coders. The articles that made it through the initial coding process were then moved to “A city with one newspaper…is like a man with one eye,” wrote the great press critic A. J. the content analysis portion of the study, in which the researchers identified positive Liebling, “and often the eye is glass.” signifiers (e.g. words such as good, effective, valuable, cost-saving, affordable, innovative, hard-working, etc.), and negative signifiers (e.g. expensive, ineffective, old, stubborn, PIERLUISI • from FRONT page broken, etc.). Tracking such signifiers while pairing them with previously identified themes allowed the researchers to judge with a reliable degree of objectivity what messages are dirección del Partido Nuevo Progresista (PNP) desde la gobernación de Luis Fortuño. being conveyed in the News’s daily reporting. Pierluisi, presidente del PNP, dijo el miércoles estar consciente de la campaña, pero “el The report found that the News is telling a one-sided story—a story that promotes the partido como tal no ha asumido posición en cuanto a eso”. agenda of high-stakes testing and privatization advocates, and one that minimizes the En el pasado, el comisionado Pierluisi ha rechazado la idea – que inicialmente impulsaron achievements of Buffalo Public Schools, along with their administrators and teachers. grupos conservadores, como la American Future Fund (AFF) –de que el Congreso, que “These topics receive very little independent coverage; when included in other stories the es el que tiene el poder sobre la isla, nombre una junta financiera administrativa que le tone is ‘neutral’ or ‘negative,’” writes Nikischer. arrebate al gobernador Alejandro García Padilla el manejo de la crisis fiscal. When it comes to covering charter schools, the News is markedly bullish. Those covered “Hemos estado fiscalizando y ofreciendo soluciones. Esta administración no ha dado most positively include former state education commissioner John King, former state resultado, pero la mejor manera de salir del gobernador García Padilla es ganando las regent Robert Bennett, Cuomo, the Buffalo Board of Education majority (in particular, próximas elecciones y en eso estoy enfocado”, indicó Pierluisi. the “maverick” Carl Paladino), and District Parent Coordinating Council president Sam Pierluisi, no obstante, rechazó la idea de un referéndum revocatorio, una propuesta con la Radford. que en el pasado han coqueteado políticos del PNP. “No lo favorezco. Para eso tenemos “In summary, all things in support of corporate school reform receive positive and/or elecciones cada cuatro años”, agregó. neutral coverage-and lots of it,” Nikischer found. El PNP está, por su parte, en el proceso de recoger firmas para pedir la admisión de Puerto In point of fact, the study’s “tone quotient analysis” found that of 30 articles published Rico como estado 51, con el propósito de respaldar la legislación 727 del comisionado on charter schools, 24 had a positive tone, while two had a negative tone and four had a Pierluisi que impulsa que el Congreso se vincule con un referéndum pro estadidad en la neutral tone. Twelve of the articles—including two front-page Sunday morning spreads— Isla. were rated “positive-bias” in favor of charters, while 18 were rated “neutral.” Hasta hoy, el PNP tenía sobre 33,000 cartas. La meta es enviarla al Congreso alrededor de Most disturbingly, the News never cites academic research to back any of their claims. For 100,000. instance, Cuomo’s proposed teacher evaluation plan [the Annual Professional Performance Review, or APPR] got a ringing endorsement the day after he unveiled it in his budget OVERDOSES • from FRONT page address. Yet the very same program was later slammed by nearly every group of education Gonzalez”. stakeholders who presented budget proposals to the New York State Assembly. The News "We're starting to see more needles in the community where we didn't see them in the blindly followed Cuomo’s lead, ignoring the opinions of experts. past," Gonzalez said. Consider, too, the News’s position on Robert Bennett, former Board of Regents member, So why the increase in heroin use? Gonzalez said its part of a national trend. Production whose retention was the subject of a full-court press from the News’s editorial board of opium is on the rise and making its way to the United States. The drug is also much during the months of February and March. more pure than it was back in the 1960s and 1970s when it became prevalent in the United “Regent Bennett’s hard work on education issues should be rewarded with another term,” States. That allows it to be snorted, which might entice some people to use it who would read the title of the February 2 entry into the opinion pages. That was followed on February otherwise be turned off by the idea of having to inject it with a needle. He said they are 20 by “Western New York legislators should unanimously back Bennett for a new term on also seeing younger people using the drug. It's not uncommon for users to be in their early the Board of Regents.” One week later, the News published a letter the title of which was 20s. “Bennett’s experience beneficial to students,” and still another letter a week after that titled A recent Department of Health report found that the number of people being treated for “Let Bennett continue great work as Regent.” Five days later, after Bennett had withdrawn heroin use has soared in the City of Rochester. In 2013, heroin accounted for nearly 32 his name for consideration, the News wrote, “Ousting of reformer from Regents is a percent of addiction treatment admissions compared to just more than 3 percent in 2000. triumph of politics over education.” Local addiction treatment professionals say they have definitely noticed more people The narrative generated by the News painted Bennett as a non-controversial, logical seeking help for heroin addiction. Kendra Brown, a supervisor at the Drug Abuse treatment choice. Yet, during this same time period, the News missed a big story which gave a look Center, said that for a while they were seeing more people struggling with prescription into Bennett’s role on the Board of Regents. As reported by Geoff Decker at Chalkbeat in drug addiction, but that has changed. February—the same month the News was busy with its Bennett hagiography—Bennett "We have seen that shift towards an increase of actual heroin use, and sometimes that is asked his fellow Regents “to overturn short-term renewals the State Education Department coupled with alcohol and other substances," she said. had recommended for three Buffalo charter schools.” She added that the withdrawal process for heroin addicts is particularly difficult, with The New York State Education Department had recommended that renewals should not patients experiencing intensified flu-like symptoms. The center provides a safe place for have been granted for the full five-year period because of underwhelming performance patients to detoxify and has started a women's treatment group focused on helping them at each of the three schools: Buffalo Academy of Science Charter School, West Buffalo overcome prescription drug and heroin addictions. She said it is important for individuals Charter School, and Western New York Maritime Charter School. who go through detoxification to follow up with in-patient or out-patient therapy. NYSED recommended a four-year renewal term for the Buffalo Academy of Science Charter School, “based on the school’s mixed academic performance across the Grade 7 through 12 program and limited academic performance in the school focus areas of GARCIA MARTINEZ • from FRONT page mathematics and science.” Both the West Buffalo Charter School and the Western New “This board is responsible for administering our new, reinvigorated process for cultural York Maritime Charter School were also recommended for short-term renewals for similar institutions, both large and small, to compete for County funding to be included in the problems with performance. annual budget. The board will have the responsibility to scrutinize every application to “Bennett said he vouched for the schools, which deserved full, five-year renewals, ensure funding is allocated objectively and based on need and merit. While the significant and the board went along with his request—an unusual move that the Senior Deputy role of arts and culture to not only our local economy but also our overall quality of life Commissioner Ken Wagner and some Regents advised against,” wrote Decker. cannot be understated, this process will ensure the taxpayers get the highest return on their In other words, reform and accountability are words that apply to Buffalo Public Schools investment possible.” but not Buffalo’s charter sector. The reason the News was so up in arms regarding Fernando Garcia Martinez said, “I am humbled by the opportunity to serve the Erie Bennett’s departure from the Board of Regents is because they know he had the will and Arts Board and I would like to thank County Executive Poloncarz and the Erie County authority to push the agenda it supports even when it means undermining state education Legislature for the tremendous amount of faith he has put in me to administer a ridged standards. The News painted Bennett as bold reformer, but it’s a half story—one that, as but fair County cultural funding process. The recreation of a funding process and the Dr. Nikischer’s research points out, the News has gotten accustomed to telling. selection of these highly qualified and well respected board signals a new attitude towards The bias is at full pitch on the paper’s editorial page: Each one of 51 opinion articles the culturals by the Poloncarz administration and the Erie County Legislature that is very produced by the editorial board confirmed the themes identified by the tone and content welcomed. The balanced mix of financial, legal and arts advocacy experience will serve analysis. the board well as we evaluate organizations on their worthiness to receive public funding.” “The Buffalo News has made a choice to position schools (administrators, teachers, union) Mr. Martinez is Amherst resident and currently serves as a Vice- President at Bank of as the root problem instead of positioning poverty as the root problem,” she writes. America and owner of Panorama Hispano News Media LLC. The Buffalo News believes that it has the answers and seeks to advocate, not report, she Poloncarz added, “Rather than arbitrarily deciding who should get County funding like the concludes: “…its reporters have positioned themselves as education experts, rather than prior administration did, we have developed a new application process to appropriation education reporters.” funding for our cultural institutions that has been greatly streamlined. 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13h Annual Puerto Rican and Hispanic Day Parade of WNY School Board President James Sampson says he understands the frustration and perhaps By: Yolanda Martinez-Rodriguez, PRH Day Parade President the need to discuss this idea but adds "If you have a receiver and you don't do anything The Puerto Rican and Hispanic Day Parade Association of WNY has always sponsored with the rules and the union contract and bureaucracy that seems to have a difficult time events that are intended to be a celebration inclusive of all Hispanics, and to encourage moving forward then I'm not sure that a receiver in and of itself would be effective." pride in our Hispanic Heritage. As the Hispanic community (Mexicans, Dominicans, Radford admits he has not discussed his federal takeover idea with anyone at the federal Cubans, Colombians, and others from the Caribbean, Central American and South level. American Hispanic countries) continues to grow in the Western New York area, we feel 2 On Your side asked "How realistic is this that they will get involved...the way the that by enhancing our name, all those groups will feel the pride in raising their flags, and structure is set up, it's state taxation and regulation?" Radford replied "Well here;'s how in sharing in their cultural costumes, music and food when participating in a wonderful realistic it is. Last year in December Mrs. Elliott put in a complaint. By February the office celebration of Hispanic Heritage. of civil rights was in this district saying that woo...there's a problem here." Last year there were over 2,000 participants representing over 70 organizations from But it turns out the state is already thinking takeover. Remember the strong words of throughout Western New York. We look forward to this year’s events with great excitement Governor Cuomo when we asked him about Buffalo's school issues back in 2013. Cuomo as more groups participate and celebrate. said "Whether it's a takeover by the state, a mayoral takeover, or a charter school...there's We invite everyone to mark their calendars and come celebrate the gonna have to be a death penalty for failing schools." 13h Annual Puerto Rican and Hispanic Day Parade of WNY, Saturday, September 12th, The state education department again says they are looking at the so-called Massachusetts 2015 starting at 1:00pm in front of Buffalo City Hall and marching north on Niagara Street model for a state takeover. School Board President Sampson says he has heard it's in the (Avenida San Juan). Governor's proposed budget bill. State education officials say they do not feel any federal There will be amusement rides, great food and a free concert imediately following at takeover plan is necessary. LaSalle Park, on Buffalo’s beautiful waterfront. Radford says he'll accept either the state or the feds to takeover if it improves the city schools. But he feels the Governor won't get it approved by the state legislature because of Hispanic Heritage Council of WNY to hold Annual Breakfast the teacher's union influence. The Hispanic Heritage Council of WNY will hold its third annual community breakfast on Saturday June 13, 2015 at 9:00 am. Event will be held at: Templeton Landing 2 Templeton Terrace. Buffalo, NY. Cost for event is $30.00. Working To Make A Difference / Join Us!/Nosotros By: Wilmer Olivencia, Jr. For more information please visit their website at: www.hispanichertitagewny.org For the past several months a group of individuals that I consider think tankers have been sitting around a table discussing the political future of our community. Universal Pre-Kindergarten Program offered at The Belle Center We discussed the apathy that exist among the citizens here in Buffalo and asked the question why? We compared today with yesterday and looked at what motivated The Universal Pre-Kindergarten Program at The Belle Center offers an innovative full day our people to vote and get involve with the political process. Looking at yesterday of learning from 8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. with a Certified Teacher & Support Staff. Utilizing as far back as the early 70’s and 80’s were advocacy and leadership ran rapid for the Houghton Mifflin PRE-K Curriculum it provides “a hands-on, minds-on curriculum equality and accessibility to our elected officials for employment at all levels of that is based on scientific research. Aligned with key Pre-K learning goals, it provides government. We realized that the common denominator were JOBS! Yes, the children with the foundational skills they need to succeed as lifelong learners” (www. opportunity to earn money to sustain family has always been the great motivator eduplace.com). UPK at The Belle is FREE and is currently open to any Buffalo resident for our community. There have been many civic organizations that have tried to who is 4 years of age by 12/31/12. The UPK program also offers: penetrate and impact the political process and while they were active provided • Nutritious Meals positive results. However most of them have been dissolved. Despite bumps and • New Enclosed Playground bruises, there is one organization that still stands strong… NOSOTROS. • Full Size Gym NOSOTROS, translated in English means “we” or “us” meaning that “we can do • 5 Lane Lap Pool with Certified Life Guard it” was created by Augustin”Chito” Olivencia in the 1980’s. He realized that the Contact: The Belle Child Care Center Director - Laurie Beck: 716-845-0485 ext. 217 or only way we could have a voice would be to join forces among all groups within 218 the Latino community and begin working for a common cause. The mission would be to create a political presence among the status quo. Not only endorsing Parents Group Leader Wants Feds Takeover of BPS candidates but also holding them accountable. To stand behind the candidates that Buffalo, NY - We've seen a lot of parents upset at the way Buffalo schools are run. But we would endorse, running voter registration drives, collecting signatures, putting rarely has it gone as far it did today. up signs and anything else that came along with getting out the vote. There are not Some parents came forward claiming the schools would be better off in the hands of the many politicians that don’t know who NOSOTROS is and what we stand for. federal government. Therefore, the group has recommended that we make NOSOTROS stronger than They say they're upset with a district that only graduates 55.5 percent of its students, and ever. We have created a meeting to invite all those individuals that are interested in has faced state and federal complaints for not letting students transfer out of failing schools joining the organization, individuals that are serious about the development of the and disproportionately suspending African-American students. Latino community when it comes to the political process and individuals that are As Samuel Radford of the District Parent Coordinating Council puts it "Right now we interested in running for public office. need somebody who has the power to implement a solution." Radford says that somebody would be a receiver or special master appointed by a federal judge or the Federal We truly hope you can make it but please come only if you are serious in Education department to replace the school board and superintendent in leading and contributing productively to the group. We are excited to take NOSOTROS to a operating the Buffalo School District. whole new level and look forward to having you be a part of it. We have wasted a That is based on what he feels are the district's shortcomings and failings, and the prior lot of time in our community and look forward to making up for it by developing involvement of the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights review of discrimination leaders and working with all those that can contribute to a better tomorrow for our complaints children and community. If you have any questions please feel free to call me at "We have children that have to fall further and further behind and the federal law tries to 716-578-6254. prevent that. Right now the district is breaking the law and they allowed to," Radford said. BUFFALO • DUNKIRK • ROCHESTER • ERIE pg 5 ׀ April/Abril 2015 2014 ׀ PANORAMA HISPANO Noticias de Rochester Tu Reflejo National Program Aimed At Reducing Violence And Improving Mujer Fuerte Community Relations Comes To Rochester Una mujer fuerte, es aquella que cuando tiene alguna preocupación o problema, escoge el Students Help Lead The First Community Forum With Members Of Law rincón de la noche, donde nadie la vea, en la soledad oscura para desbordarse en llanto y Enforcement así poder meditar, pensar, y hasta poder llorar si tiene que hacerlo. Last month group of Rochester City School District students will shared their personal Una mujer fuerte, muestra una sonrisa en medio de su torbellino. experiences related to violence, crime and culture with local law enforcement officials Una mujer fuerte es aquella que da palabras de gozo a aquellos que sufren como ella, sin from 10-11:30 am at Wilson Foundation Academy, 200 Genesee Street. The focus was to mostrar rastro de su sufrimiento interno. begin a dialogue that leads to better understanding, collaboration and eventual reduction Una mujer fuerte es aquella que confía y tiene fe cuando muchos cuestionan su cordura. in crime and improved relationships between youth and law enforcement. This will be Una mujer fuerte es aquella que canta y baila para no dar paso a la tristeza que quiere arroparla. the first community forum to take place in Rochester under the direction of the Rochester Una mujer fuerte es aquella que soporta, tolera y maneja los problemas ajenos más los suyos. Latino Theater Company, in collaboration with multiple local groups, such as IBERO, City Una mujer fuerte es aquella que encuentra consuelo brindando consuelo a los demás sin of Rochester community and R-Centers, and the FR=EE Juvenile/Criminal Justice Action ser egoísta. and Change workgroup. Una mujer fuerte no es sólo poderosa: es pura valentía, es pura inteligencia, es pura “As the only dual-language nonprofit in Rochester, Ibero is a strong supporter of the audacia, es pura compasión, es puro amor. Rochester Latino Theater Company and efforts to improve community relationships. In Una mujer fuerte no es sólo sinónimo de fuerza. Es sinónimo de Grandeza, de Gloria, de Honor. any and all efforts to improve the City of Rochester, it’s important to engage the people Una mujer fuerte es aquella coronada con fortaleza, vestida con esperanza, y calzada con who actually live there. We need to ask teens what life is like for them, why they struggle, comprensión. why they turn to gangs,” says Ibero’s Director of Development and Communications, Una mujer fuerte es paciente, tolerante y valiente. No confundas sus lágrimas con Tricia Cruz. flaquezas, con debilidad, ni delicadezas, pues cuando sus lágrimas brotan, la mayoría de “Our goal is to bring impactful experiences and programs to local students. We want to las veces es porque su coraje interior se exterioriza y fluye a través de sus ojos. help build a stronger community by engaging our youth and law enforcement in honest Una mujer fuerte es de las que renacen de las cenizas como el Ave Fénix, que vuela alto discussions about what they’re dealing with on a day-to-day basis,” says Annette Ramos, con sus enormes alas ardientes. founder of the Rochester Latino Theater Company and producer of the local Westside Una mujer fuerte es la más hermosa que pueda existir. Tú mujer que me lees eres una Story production that played at the Kodak Theater in November. Event organizers also de ellas. Sigue adelante. No desmayes, pues tu fe será recompensada de la meneara que include City of Rochester staff, Ray Mayoliz, manager of Youth Outreach & Violence menos esperas y cuando menos lo esperas. Prevention, and Moses Robinson, youth advocate and school resource officer. Por Damaris Cáceres Mercado The community forum taking place this month is part of the West Side Story Project, which provides an opportunity for law enforcement agencies to partner with a ¡Que tu esperanza nunca se marchite! nontraditional partner, such as a local theater company. Together, they work on developing Muchas veces nos suceden situaciones en nuestras vidas que nos hacen perder la new approaches to gang prevention, youth-police relations, and cultural conflict. esperanza. Los cantazos son tan frecuentes que dejamos de creer y hasta pensamos The four specific goals of the West Side Story Project are as follows: disparates, pero eso es lo menos que debemos pensar pues nunca habrá carga sobre • To use theater and drama to start dialogs between youth and law enforcement officers nosotros que no podamos cargar. Mientras más duro el reto más capacitados estamos para about youth and gang violence and youth/police relationships soportarlo pues de lo contrario, no nos sucedieran. Esos son los misterios universales. • To use theater and drama to give youth tools to deal with their own internal conflicts and ¡Que tu esperanza nunca se marchite! conflicts with others Sigue creyendo aun cuando la gente pierda la esperanza. • To engage interested youth in producing, with the assistance teaching artists, their own Sigue dando amor, aunque otros te odien y siembren odio. art and drama based on themes of West Side Story Sigue construyendo, aun cuando otros destruyan. • To engage the adult community in a dialog about youth violence, gangs, and strategies to Sigue hablando de Paz, aun en medio de una guerra. address system-wide responses to at-risk youth Sigue iluminando, aunque otros intenten apagar tu luz en medio de la oscuridad. The project provides an opportunity for middle and high school students to participate Sigue sembrando, aunque otros pisen tu cosecha. in activities designed to engage youth and members of law enforcement agencies in Sigue gritando, aun cuando otros callen porque la verdad siempre está en tu ser. conversations about gang and youth violence prevention, youth–police relationships, and Sigue dibujando sonrisas en rostros llenos de lágrimas aunque tengas que dibujarlas en el immigration and racial/ethnic relations. Simultaneously, it introduces youth, particularly tuyo propio. those considered at-risk, to a world far away from their everyday lives—the experience of Sigue transmitiendo alivio, cuando veas dolor porque eso te ayudará a ser fuerte y así live musical theatre and the opportunity to create their own art and drama based on themes lograrás hacer fuertes a los demás. from West Side Story while working with professional actors and teaching artists. Sigue regalando motivos de alegría donde sólo haya tristezas. So far, the local Westside Story Project has completed an anti-gang program with more Insta a caminar al que decidió quedarse y ayuda a levantar del suelo a los que se han than 45 students at the Avenue D R-Center, James Monroe High School, and Hillside rendido. Porque en medio de la desolación, siempre habrá un niño que nos mirará, Family of Agencies. Organizers are currently working with dozens of other students in esperanzado, esperando algo de nosotros, y aún en medio de una tormenta, por algún lado the City of Rochester. Participants will be surveyed after this month’s forum and all future saldrá el sol... y en medio del desierto crecerá una planta.Siempre habrá un pájaro que nos forums. cante, un río que nos sacie la sed y una mariposa que nos brinde su belleza. ¡Que tu esperanza nunca se marchite! 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COMPRA UNO Y RECEBE UNO Interviews: Students who complete all requirements will have an opportunity to de igual o menor valor competitively interview for appropriate summer employment opportunities. Employment: Youth employees earn hands-on training and work experience during a 6-8 week summer employment opportunity with area employers. How to apply to be a Youth Participant in Summer of Opportunity GRATIS Click here below to apply on-line https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=PtDJD%2fc2eX8tCaKpEYhvZg%3d%3d For more information Librería Bíblica de la SOOP Applicants and employers call 585-428-6366. Sociedad Bíblica de WNY

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September 16, 2015, Rochester Riverside Convention Center, 123 East Main Street Cupón es válido hasta el 04/31/15 Rochester, NY 14604 BUFFALO • DUNKIRK • ROCHESTER • ERIE ׀ April/Abril 2015 ׀ pg 6 PANORAMA HISPANO Noticias de Dunkirk Fredonia offers Bilingual Extension Boards and Committees: Do you have the knowledge and skills to teach English or another language? • Economic Development Committee, Chairman Complete 18 credit hours at Fredonia and you’re one step closer to earning your bilingual • Public Works Committee extension. • Finance Committee Evolve, Transform. Change the world • Dunkirk Local Development Corporation Board Member The Certificate of Advanced Study in Bilingual Extension is for candidates who have Contact Willie: current New York State (NYS) teacher certification. Qualified candidates who complete 716-338-7542 this six course program are eligible to take the NYSTCE Bilingual Education Assessment [email protected] (BEA) and apple for the NYS Bilingual Extension. The NYS Bilingual educator has the knowledge and skills necessary to teach effectively in English and a target language of SUNY Leaders Pushing for More Support of Public Higher Education instruction (language other than English) in New York State public schools. The bilingual The leadership from SUNY campuses in Western New York are calling on state legislators teacher understands the foundations of bilingual education, including the processes of to support public higher education in the state. The President of State University of New first and second language acquisition and learning, models/methodologies of bilingual York at Fredonia Dr. Virginia Horvath was among the leaders that took part in a gathering education, and the legal requirements and professional expectations related to bilingual that was held Thursday on the Buffalo State campus. Dr. Horvath tells WDOE News about education. The bilingual educator understands that language reflects a body of shared some of the programs they would like to see included in the upcoming state budget... values and assumption that constitute a distinctive culture. Horvath says there is a five-year pilot program that she is pushing for that would benefit Program Outline Fredonia and two other SUNY campuses that are located near the border EDU 518 Second Language Acquisition and Development Theories Horvath says the move would lower the out-of-state tuition to one-and-a-half times the EDU 519 Curriculum Theory for the Second Language Classroom state rate. EDU 540 Content Area English as a Second Language Also attending the event was Jamestown Community College President Corey Duckworth. EDU 568 Foundations of Bilingual Education EDU 555 Assessment and Evaluation of English Language Learners EDU 671 ESOL/BE Practicum & Supervision (20 Day) Total Credit Hours for Program Completion: 18 For more information contact: Graduate Studies Fessenden, Laumer & DeAngelo E230A Thompson Hall State University of New York at Fredonia Fredonia, NY 14063 Phone: (716) 673-3808 Fax: (716) 673-3712 Accidentes Graduate.Studies @fredonia.edu Incapacidad del Seguro Social Observer circulation drops 10.74 percent As the local demographics of Dunkirk change readership of continues to drop. Compensación de los trabajadores Circulation figures for US newspapers released Monday provided another dose of bad news for an industry that has seen a wave of bankruptcies, closures and cutbacks in newsrooms across the country Average daily US newspaper circulation declined 8.74 percent during the six months ending on March 31 compared with the same period a year ago, the Audit Bureau of Circulations said. Average Sunday circulation fell 6.54 percent during the October-March period, the bureau 81 Forrest Ave • Jamestown NY 14701 • (716) 484-1010 said. Representamos a las personas lesionadas y sus familias. The latest ABC figures come as US newspapers grapple with declining print advertising revenue, eroding circulation and the migration of readers to free news on the web or specialty language paper such as Spanish and Asian Interested in working in the classroom? 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He QUALIFICATIONS: Fluency in Spanish and English preferred will be the new Chair of the Economic Development Committee, and will sit on the Public HOURS: On call as needed 3 to 5 hours per week. Opportunities for advancement Works and Finance Committees. A lifelong resident of the city of Dunkirk, Willie is a retired New York State Police- IF INTERESTED, PLEASE SUBMIT RESUME TO: Pat Fatta, Human Resource Director Trooper. Upon his retirement, he worked with Chautauqua Opportunities, Inc. as the Lake Shore Behavioral Health, Inc. 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Anticipan que no se argumentará en contra de que se reconozcan las uniones entre parejas homosexuales El Distrito Federal tendrá tours aéreos (Puerto Rico) El secretario de Justicia, César Miranda, anunciará hoy los detalles la nueva MÉXICO).- El Gobierno del Distrito Federal (GDF) dará a conocer este día el servicio de postura del gobierno en torno a los matrimonios de personas del mismo sexo. tours aéreos Turiskay, informó el titular de la Secretaría de Turismo local, Miguel Torruco La expectativa desde inicios de semana es que el gobierno podría estar quitándole su Márquez. respaldo a la porción del Código Civil de Puerto Rico que solo reconoce el matrimonio Comentó que esta modalidad operará a través de helicópteros último modelo en donde se cuando está compuesto por un hombre y una mujer. Esta nueva postura se presentará como proporcionará información en cuatro idiomas en su primera etapa, incluidos el ruso y el parte de los argumentos del gobierno en un caso que actualmente está la bajo revisión del chino mandarín. Primer Circuito de Apelaciones en Boston del Tribunal Federal, en el que cinco parejas "Verán surcar CDMX por todos los cielos de esta gran capital, es un día muy especial, este piden que se validen sus derechos matrimoniales. nuevo tour que hemos integrado viene a enriquecer a la Ciudad de México como lo que ya Esta mañana, el Comité Amplio para la Búsqueda de la Equidad (CABE) celebraba que es y lo que le ha conferido el ámbito internacional" expuso. el gobierno se allanara a la petición del reconocimiento del matrimonio entre personas del Durante la toma de protesta del Consejo Directivo 2015-2017 de la Asociación Mexicana mismo sexo, asunto que posiblemente se anuncie en una conferencia de prensa en la tarde de Agencias de Viajes del Distrito Federal (AMAVDF), comentó que este proyecto forma de hoy en el Departamento de Justicia. parte de las acciones propuestas por las autoridades capitalinas para fomentar el turismo. “La equidad para las comunidades LGBTT se está ganando paso a paso. La decisión De igual manera, adelantó que la próxima semana pondrán en marcha el sistema de de hoy del gobierno no tiene un efecto automático en el resultado final del caso, pero información turística que contendrá más de siete mil artículos relacionados con el turismo envía un mensaje importante al país: cuando se trata de derechos humanos hay que en la capital. hacer lo correcto. Y lo correcto hoy era dejar de defender lo indefendible, el discrimen Agregó que la promoción turística a través de los tour operadores para el Distrito y la desigualdad institucionalizadas a través de un artículo de nuestro Código Civil que Federal es importante, ya que será el soporte que permita incorporar nuevos mercados y impedía a personas de las Comunidades LGBTT decidir libremente si quieren casarse o segmentos. no”, expresó Amarilis Pagán Jiménez, portavoz de CABE y directora ejecutiva de Proyecto En tanto el presidente de la AMAVDF, Fidel Ovando, comentó que en la actualidad a Matria. través de estos organismo se colocan 53 por ciento de los viajes de negocios y 22 por Hace una semana el liderato de la mayoría del Partido Popular Democrático (PPD) en ciento por internet; mientras que 68 por ciento de los viajes de placer por las agencias el Senado, encabezado por el presidente Eduardo Bhatia, anunció su intención de unirse tradicionales y 52 por ciento lo hace por los touroperadores. como “amigos de la corte” en respaldo a la posición de la Unión de Libertades Civiles de EE.UU. (ACLU) a favor del reconocimiento del matrimonio entre personas del mismo Países de la OEA llaman a diálogo entre Estados Unidos y Venezuela sexo. La mayoría de los Estados miembros de la OEA llamó hoy a un diálogo entre Estados En mayo de 2012, el presidente de Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, anunció la Unidos y Venezuela, en una sesión donde la canciller venezolana, Delcy Rodríguez, alertó determinación de dejar de respaldar el estatuto federal -DOMA, por sus siglas en inglés- de que las sanciones impuestas por Estados Unidos a su Gobierno son el preludio de una que solo reconocía el matrimonio como la unión entre un hombre y una mujer. "intervención militar" en su país. En junio de 2013, el Tribunal Supremo de Estados Unidos declaró inconstitucional la Los cancilleres y representantes del continente, reunidos en la Organización de Estados ley DOMA, al determinar que niega la igualdad de las personas que protege la quinta Americanos (OEA) para tratar la escalada de tensión entre Estados Unidos y Venezuela, enmienda de la Constitución estadounidense. coincidieron en la importancia de que los dos países conversen para rebajar las tensiones. A partir de entonces ha crecido el respaldo a la anulación de estatutos que impedían en La sesión extraordinaria del Consejo Permanente de la OEA, convocada para escuchar a la Estados Unidos el matrimonio gay, el cual ya se reconoce en tres cuartas partes de los canciller venezolana, no resultó en ninguna declaración formal del organismo, a diferencia estados, así como en 17 países. de lo ocurrido en las citas de la Unasur o el ALBA en los últimos días. En Puerto Rico, el reconocimiento del matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo ha sido El debate reveló la reacción -que osciló entre el rechazo, la perplejidad y las dudas- de matizado en gran medida por posturas de algunos religiosos conservadores que entienden los países del continente ante la orden ejecutiva emitida este mes por el presidente que el matrimonio solo puede ser compuesto por un hombre y una mujer. estadounidense, Barack Obama, que declaró una "emergencia nacional" por la "amenaza" de la situación en Venezuela a la seguridad de Estados Unidos. Compañía de ferries de Florida viajaría a Cuba La canciller venezolana alertó de que esa declaración, que incluyó la imposición de Po:r Agencia EFE sanciones a siete funcionarios venezolanos, "violenta" el derecho internacional y la Sería la primera empresa con permisos para transportar a la isla viajeros por mar "soberanía" de Venezuela, además de suponer una "amenaza real" para su país. Miami.- La compañía de ferris del sur de Florida (EE.UU.) CubaKat confía en comenzar "La historia ha demostrado que la aplicación de decretos de esta naturaleza suelen preceder muy pronto a operar viajes por mar a Cuba desde el cayo de Marathon, en el extremo sur a intervenciones militares (...). Intereses hegemónicos pretenden apoderarse de la mayor del estado, informó hoy la empresa. reserva de petróleo del mundo", denunció Rodríguez. "El objetivo de CubaKat es ofrecer este año nuestro servicio de ferry desde los cayos de Al respecto, el representante interino de Estados Unidos ante la OEA, Michael Fitzpatrick, Florida a Cuba. Actualmente, estamos trabajando con funcionarios de ambos países para quiso "dejar claro" que su Gobierno no está "preparando una invasión militar" en hacer realidad esta aventura", señaló la compañía en su página web. Venezuela. No es la única compañía de Florida interesada en realizar viajes al puerto de La Habana: "No buscamos desestabilizar o derrocar al Gobierno de (el presidente Nicolás) Maduro con Havana Ferry Partner, entre otras, con oficinas en Fort Lauderdale, presentó hace tiempo su un golpe de Estado", dijo. petición de licencia para el servicio de barcos rápidos a Cuba. El funcionario estadounidense intentó corregir las "malas interpretaciones" que se han El visto bueno a los proyectos de estas compañías tendrá que esperar a que el Gobierno hecho sobre lo que implica la orden ejecutiva emitida por Obama, al explicar que ese tipo estadounidense autorice la emisión de licencias, sujeta a la normativa vigente del embargo de decretos se han aplicado respecto a "docenas de países" y su emisión era un requisito de comercial de EE.UU. a Cuba. una ley aprobada por el Congreso de Estados Unidos en diciembre. A diferencia de varias aerolíneas de vuelos chárter que operan ya vuelos a la isla, todavía También llamó a la OEA, "una institución basada en principios democráticos", a no existe ninguna compañía con licencia para trasladar por mar viajeros a Cuba, según pronunciarse sobre la situación de derechos humanos en Venezuela, incluida la detención la Oficina de Control de Activos Extranjeros (OFAC), dependiente del Departamento del de líderes opositores. Tesoro de Estados Unidos. El secretario general de la OEA, José Miguel Insulza, opinó que "no es común" en CubaKat podría contar con un rápido catamarán para cubrir el trayecto ente dicho cayo y la región "que un país sea declarado amenaza a la seguridad de otro", y alertó de que La Habana, una distancia que tardaría unas cuatro horas en recorrer la embarcación. la escalada de tensión entre Estados Unidos y Venezuela puede tener "consecuencias "Nuestro deseo es muy simple: queremos proporcionar un viaje a bajo costo, confiable impredecibles". y seguro para los que quieran visitar la isla de Cuba", ya sea para encontrarse con Insulza afirmó que la OEA debe "llamar al diálogo" y "buscar la concordia" entre esos dos países, "familiares, explorar un nuevo país o participar en actividades religiosas o educacionales", y "resguardar" así el ambiente positivo que había generado el acercamiento entre Estados Unidos y destacó la compañía. Cuba para la Cumbre de las Américas que se celebrará en Panamá en abril. La empresa de servicio de barcos rápidos confía en que el próximo diciembre puedan Al respecto, la vicepresidenta y canciller de Panamá, Isabel Saint Malo, aseguró durante la sesión efectuar el lanzamiento oficial del servicio de "ferry" a la isla. que su país "se pone a la disposición" de Estados Unidos y Venezuela "y ofrece sus buenos oficios para procurar que prevalezca el dialogo como el único mecanismo que nos puede permitir abordar Si bien "no prestamos servicio de ferry actualmente a la isla, estamos trabajando muy las tensiones surgidas". estrechamente con las autoridades de Cuba y EE.UU. y otros socios para lograr la completa También el canciller de Costa Rica, Manuel González Sanz, confió "en que Estados Unidos y aprobación de nuestro servicio", insistió CubaKat. Venezuela recobren el diálogo bilateral". El ministro de Exteriores de la República Dominicana, Andrés Navarro, consideró que "para el éxito Estados Unidos niega que prepare invasión a Venezuela de la Cumbre de las Américas es necesario que el diálogo entre Estados Unidos y Venezuela se inicie Estados Unidos desestimó la acusación de Venezuela de una invasión militar en ciernes y antes, esta semana" a ser posible. reiteró su disposición de entablar un diálogo con Caracas en un marco de respeto mutuo. México, a través de su subsecretaria para América Latina y el Caribe, Vanessa Rubio Márquez, también alentó "a ambos Gobiernos a retomar el diálogo bilateral y a redoblar esfuerzos para "No estamos preparando una invasión militar, no estamos buscando desestabilizar o solucionar sus diferencias, en estricto apego al derecho internacional". derrocar al gobierno de (el presidente Nicolás) Maduro en un golpe de Estado", dijo aquí el Al llamado al diálogo se sumaron los representantes de Colombia, Perú, Brasil, Guatemala, representante estadounidense ante la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA), Michael Honduras, entre otros; mientras que la canciller venezolana recordó que se va a crear un grupo de J. Fitzpatrick. ministros encargado de mediar en su diálogo con Estados Unidos. Al hablar aquí ante el Consejo Permanente de la OEA, Fitzpatrick rechazó además que El canciller de Ecuador, Ricardo Patiño, confirmó el miércoles a Efe que acepta liderar ese grupo de su administración este complotando a nivel internacional "para lesionar la economía o la mediadores, cuya creación se decidió en una reunión de la Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de gente de Venezuela". América (ALBA) esta semana, pero por el momento Estados Unidos no ha indicado si está dispuesto "Nosotros somos el mayor socio comercial de Venezuela", dijo el funcionario en alusión al a implicarse en ese mecanismo. lugar que guarda esa nación sudamericana como el tercer mayor abastecedor de petróleo de Respecto al decreto de Obama, la subsecretaria mexicana mostró su "preocupación" porque "el lenguaje que utiliza no contribuye a fomentar el diálogo", y el embajador de Guatemala, José María Estados Unidos. Argueta, rechazó "la imposición de medidas coercitivas" de ese tipo. Las palabras de Fitzpatrick fueron la respuesta a la denuncia hecha antes en el mismo El canciller de Argentina, Héctor Timerman, opinó que Estados Unidos debía haber acudido a foro por la canciller de Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, a propósito de la orden ejecutiva la OEA antes de emitir ese decreto, porque "por más que ahora digan que Venezuela no es una anunciada la semana pasada por el presidente Barack Obama, calificando a esa nación amenaza", la historia "indica que tal vez una orden ejecutiva termina siendo después un desastre en como una amenaza a la seguridad nacional de su país. nuestra región". BUFFALO • DUNKIRK • ROCHESTER • ERIE ׀ April/Abril 2015 ׀ pg 8 PANORAMA HISPANO Technology & Science Exciting Opportunities for Women in Technology Launched Wednesday, FortiSandbox 2.0 provides new features for scanning familiar A major force emerged this year at ground-breaking technology conference South By file types that could deliver malicious code. 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Los seis firmantes de esta carta fuimos todos criados He won the applause of millions of gay Catholics when he asked, “Who am I to judge por padres y madres gays y lesbianas. Cinco de nosotros somos mujeres y uno es gay, them?” He was cheered for telling women they had a greater role in the church. He was aunque todos criamos a nuestros hijos con sus padres de sexo opuesto. named Time Person of the Year. And he even helped the United States and Cuba restore Queremos agradecerles por dar voz a algo que aprendimos por experiencia: Todo ser diplomatic relations. humano tiene una madre y un padre, y cortarlo de la vida de un niño es robarle la But a recent spat with Mexico, home to the world’s second biggest Catholic population, dignidad, humanidad e igualdad. signaled the honeymoon could be over, at least in these parts. Francis first ruffled the feathers of the Mexican government in an email he sent to a Sabemos que los padres homosexuales pueden ser amorosos, dado que amamos a nuestros lawmaker in his native Argentina. padres y ellos nos aman. No obstante, hemos tenido todos la experiencia de primera mano con la dura reacción que sigue cuando se cuestiona la visión dominante de “la paternidad “I hope we are in time to stop Mexicanization,” the pope reportedly wrote Feb. 21, homosexual” como universalmente positiva. commenting how his home country has suffered from a rise in drug violence. “I was Sabemos que llegarán a estar bajo una tremenda presión, especialmente ahora cuando en talking to Mexican bishops and it is a question of terror.” Italia y Estados Unidos están siendo empujados para ignorar nuestra preocupación por For the pope, Mexico had become the very reference point for drug war mayhem. nuestros derechos a tener una mamá y un papá, con el fin de complacer al poderoso lobby When the mail became public, Mexico’s Foreign Secretary Jose Antonio Meade sent a gay. letter to the Vatican, complaining that it was “stigmatizing” Mexico. “We express our Nadie recibe ataques más feroces de parte del lobby que aquellos que vienen de la propia sadness and concern regarding the comments apparently made in a letter from Pope comunidad gay y cuestionan sus políticas: hijos de parejas homosexuales, tanto como los Francis,” Meade told a news conference. gays que los defienden (como ustedes dos). When the Vatican sent a reply that it meant no offense and Mexico’s top diplomat said Seis personas criadas por parejas homosexuales enviaron una carta a los diseñadores things were “completely settled,” the matter seemed to be over. Until Pope Francis gave a italianos Domenico Dolce y Stefano Gabbana para exhortarlos a seguir defendiendo follow-up interview to Mexico’s biggest TV network, and made an even more provocative la familia natural y el derecho de los niños a tener una mamá y un papá, a pesar de los comment. feroces ataques de parte de la comunidad gay internacional que, a través del cantante Elton Drug violence, he told Televisa on March 12, was the devil punishing Mexico; Satan was John, ha lanzado un boicot contra su marca de ropa y que busca destruir su reputación. angry because Mexicans are such devoted Catholics. La carta ha sido publicada en asktheBigot.com y los firmantes son cinco mujeres y un gay, “I think that the devil is punishing Mexico with great fury,” Francis said. “The devil varios de ellos autores de libros que abordan la problemática de la crianza de niños en does not forgive Mexico because she [the Virgin Mary] showed her son there. That is my hogares homosexuales. “Ustedes han demostrado ser extremadamente valientes. Ustedes interpretation.” nos han dado una gran inspiración para preparar cartas y enviarlas a la Corte Suprema As the statement was plastered across front pages it sparked furious debate, and some contra el matrimonio gay”, expresaron. anger, in a country considered to have a special relationship with the Holy See. Outside Mexico City’s elegant metropolitan cathedral, several devotees coming from Lo más probable es que muchos en la comunidad internacional tratarán de conseguir prayer this week said they were disappointed with the pontiff. cancelar sus espectáculos, censurar sus anuncios y destruir su reputación en internet.

“I believe in the church. But I think that saying that people have died because of some Ustedes han demostrado ser extremadamente valientes. Ustedes nos han dado una gran spiritual punishment is not very respectful to the suffering families,” said Hector Cruz, a inspiración para preparar cartas y enviarlas a la Corte Suprema contra el matrimonio gay. 52-year-old engineer. Queremos elogiar su coraje y agradecerles por su inspiración. También les imploramos Since 2007, cartel-related violence has killed more than 83,000 people, according to a no rendirse cuando la reacción violenta crezca en intensidad. Si ustedes se retractan y government count. Many innocent people, including students and children, are among the se disculpan por lo que dijeron, dejarán a los niños de hogares homosexuales aún más victims. vulnerables y desacreditados. Several columnists also questioned the wisdom of the pope’s words. “Evil exists, without doubt, and its representation is Satan, the devil,” Raul Rodriguez Es importante por nuestro bien, por el bien de los niños italianos, que no se disculpen o wrote in El Grafico. “But in this case, it is necessary to point the finger at corruption, capitulen. Por favor, apoyen la idea de que todos los niños necesitan estar unidos con sus criminals infiltrating the government, poverty, hunger, ideological confrontation and madres y padres. Es un derecho humano. inequality as some of the causes of the explosion [of violence].” Si podemos ayudarlos de alguna manera, por favor, háganoslo saber. No todos somos More from GlobalPost: This hero of the poor was shot giving Mass. Now he's on the path cristianos, pero queremos enviarles nuestras bendiciones y prometerles que seremos to sainthood compradores para toda la vida de Dolce y Gabbana desde ahora. About 82 percent of Mexico’s 120 million people are Catholic, according to the 2010 Heather Barwick, colaboradora de Federalista census, but the country has secular laws, keeping the church out of politics. The Rivka Edelman, co-autora de “Jephthah’s Daughters: Innocent Casualties in the War for number of Catholics has fallen from 98 percent in 1950, with some Mexicans turning to Family Equality” Protestantism or atheism. Katy Faust, redactora en asktheBigot Robert Oscar Lopez, co-autor de “Jephthah’s Daughters: Innocent Casualties in the War Religious anthropologist Elio Masferrer says the pope’s message was more complicated for Family Equality” than the scandalous-sounding headlines. In the interview, Francis also talked about Denise Shick, autora de “My Daddy’s Secret” poverty and American drug consumption driving violence. Dawn Stefanowicz, autora de “Fuori Dal Buio: La Mia Vita Con Un Padre Gay”. “The pope said many more things than this comment. You have to analyze these messages carefully. He uses a lot of symbolic language,” says Masferrer, who is president of the Pope Francis Will Break Bread With Gay, Transgender Inmates secular Latin American Religious Studies Association. During Prison Visit “Mexicans are mixed in their feelings about this. While some may be offended, others (RNS) When Pope Francis pays a visit to Naples this Saturday (March 21) he will have agree with what Pope Francis says.” lunch with some 90 inmates at a local prison, a contingent that will reportedly include 10 Masferrer also points out that Pope Francis, who took his papal name after the saint of from a section reserved for gay and transgendered prisoners, and those infected with the the poor, has been supporting victims of violence. In December, the Vatican’s envoy in virus that causes AIDS. Mexico gave Mass to the families of disappeared students in the bloodstained state of The stopover at the Giuseppe Salvia Detention Center in Poggioreale, near Naples, was Guerrero. originally not scheduled to include lunch, according to a report from Tv2000, an Italian Rev. Hugo Valdemar, spokesman for the archdiocese of Mexico City, said that the pope’s television network operated by the country’s Catholic bishops. comments simply reflect the age-old Catholic position. But the pope insisted on the meal, which will be prepared by the prisoners, some of whom will come from two other detention centers. The 90 were chosen by lottery from among “Scripture states clearly that the devil is behind evil acts. This is in line with Catholic 1,900 inmates, according to the Vatican Insider website. thinking and one shouldn’t make a scandal out of it,” Valdemar told GlobalPost. Mexican Catholics have felt a special link to the Vatican since it supported them in the Among the many innovations Francis has made since his election two years ago this face of religious persecution after the Mexican Revolution, Valdemar said. They had month has been a new tone and approach to gay and transgender people. a particular devotion to Pope John Paul II, who visited the nation five times, attracting One of his signature phrases, “Who am I to judge?,” came in response to a question about crowds of millions. His successor Pope Benedict XVI visited Mexico in 2012 and drew whether a gay man could be a priest. And in late January he met privately in the Vatican more modest crowds, before stepping down due to ill health. with a transgender man from Spain who had written to Francis about the rejection he was “There was a deep affection in Mexico for John Paul II, and those are hard shoes to fill,” experiencing in his home parish. Rev. Valdemar said. “But Pope Francis can still win the hearts of the Mexican people.” Francis has made an outreach to detainees a signature part of his ministry to the “marginalized.” On Holy Thursday next month, he will wash the feet of men and women Seis “hijos” de parejas gays envían carta a Dolce & Gabbana: Gracias inmates at a facility near Rome, as he did shortly after his election. por defender nuestro derecho The lunch this Saturday will be very simple, even “frugal,” because the pontiff wants ROMA, (ACI).- Seis personas criadas por parejas homosexuales enviaron una carta a to take time to meet each prisoner individually, Anna Maria Esposito, head of a prison los diseñadores italianos Domenico Dolce y Stefano Gabbana para exhortarlos a seguir ministry, told Vatican Radio. defendiendo la familia natural y el derecho de los niños a tener una mamá y un papá, a The prison visit is part of a busy day for the pope in the sprawling Italian city 150 miles pesar de los feroces ataques de parte de la comunidad gay internacional que, a través del south of Rome. cantante Elton John, ha lanzado un boicot contra su marca de ropa y que busca destruir su Francis will begin by praying at a sanctuary in Pompeii — a town known for its Marian reputación. shrine, as well as a volcano — and he will go on to hold a series of events, including La carta ha sido publicada en asktheBigot.com y los firmantes son cinco mujeres y un gay, an outdoor Mass and meetings with young people and the sick before returning in the varios de ellos autores de libros que abordan la problemática de la crianza de niños en evening to the Vatican. 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tiene un lugar cimero dentro de los carbohidratos complejos, versátiles y nutricionalmente Sammy Barnes valiosos. is a fighter — "El arroz es un componente vital para la vida de la mitad de la población mundial", asegura Anne Banville, vicepresidenta de la Federación del Arroz de Estados Unidos (USA and not just for Rice Federation). "En todo el mundo, las familias consumen arroz diariamente, como himself. importante ingrediente de su dieta que proporciona energía. En Estados Unidos, ha sido por generaciones un artículo básico de la despensa para platos acompañantes y principales, y cada año se celebra en septiembre la cosecha de más de veinte mil millones de libras de arroz cultivado en Estados Unidos, durante el Mes Nacional del Arroz". Si bien podrías pensar que conoces a fondo todo lo necesario sobre este grano de amplio uso, hay algunos datos sorprendentes y divertidos que tal vez ignoras: 1. Es el grano más versátil. Por supuesto, se pueden hacer muchas cosas con otros, pero en lo tocante a versatilidad y facilidad de uso, el arroz es lo máximo. Una serie de productos de utilidad demostrada con el paso del tiempo convierten la cocción del arroz en la parte más fácil de la preparación de sus alimentos. Están disponibles en variedades como Whole In November 2011 he was diagnosed with a type of blood cancer called multiple Grain Brown, Brown & Wild, Multi-Grain Medley, y White, entre otras, viene totalmente myeloma, just six months after losing his ex-wife — who was also the mother of his three cocinado y se calienta en el horno microondas, gracias a lo cual es una opción idónea de children — to cancer. He decided to fight back against the disease, enlisting the help of his almuerzo portátil. Y si deseas preparar una cena rápida y fácil para las noches de semana kids to create Multiple Myeloma Fighters, an organization dedicated to raising awareness hay variedades como Brown, White, Jasmine y Basmati - ofrece un arroz perfectamente and helping support the search for a cure. cocido en solo 10 minutos, además de que las porciones están pesadas previamente en sus “I’d like people to know that there’s someone out there fighting for them,” Barnes said. “I convenientes bolsas listas para hervir. want to take my group to each community in Buffalo and spread the word about multiple 2. El arroz proporciona beneficios de salud en dependencia de la variedad que escojas. myeloma.” Por ejemplo, el arroz integral viene con un 100 por ciento de grano entero. Varias As a member of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) Minority Patient Action investigaciones revelan que los granos enteros pueden reducir el riesgo de enfermedades Team, whose members consists of predominantly African-American and Hispanic/Latino crónicas como las del corazón, la diabetes y el cáncer si se consumen como parte de una patients at RPCI, he offers advice, feedback, and insight based on his own experiences to dieta bien balanceada. Las personas que suelen comer arroz, también consumen nutrientes help enhance programs and services for his fellow patients. vitales y un porcentaje menor de calorías provenientes de las grasas comunes y saturadas, Barnes is currently dealing with the side effects of chemotherapy, including dizzy spells según un estudio realizado por Tufts University. Además, el arroz es una opción magnífica that make it difficult to be active and travel. “It’s hard to attend events in the condition para las personas que padecen de intolerancia al gluten, porque carece totalmente de esa I’m in,” he said. “I have my good days and my bad days, and on my good days I try to get sustancia. around and do whatever I can.” 3. Tal vez ya sepas que el arroz es un carbohidrato complejo que contribuye a estimular Research underway at RPCI aims to extend and improve the lives of patients like Barnes. el funcionamiento mental y muscular. Pero, ¿sabías que el arroz proporciona más de 15 Kelvin Lee, MD, Chair of the Department of Immunology and Co-Leader of the Tumor nutrientes esenciales como vitaminas B, hierro, zinc y folato? Immunology and Immunotherapy Program, focuses his work on the immunology and 4. ¿Te propones reducir la ingestión de grasa y calorías? El arroz es bajo en grasa por biology of multiple myeloma. The ultimate goal: to develop vaccines that can harness the naturaleza. Y la poca que contiene es la grasa "buena", no las trans ni las saturadas patient’s own immune system to destroy cancer cells. asociadas con índices elevados de colesterol. Además, el arroz es un componente idóneo Barnes’ goal: that more people begin talking to their doctors to learn what their risk para el conteo de calorías y el control de las porciones: una taza de una sola porción factors for cancer might be.For information about risk factors for cancer and RPCI’s equivale a solo 100 calorías. early-detection programs for people at high risk, call 1-877-ASK-RPCI (1-877-275-7724) 5. El arroz también puede hacerte más feliz… ¡Sin exageraciones! Comer cosas deliciosas or visit www.roswellpark.org. nos hace felices, pero los carbohidratos como el arroz también desencadenan la producción de serotonina en el cerebro, según una investigación del MIT. Se sabe que la hormona El arroz es bueno: cinco datos divertidos que ignoraba de este estimula el estado de ánimo y reduce el apetito. Y, por si lo anterior fuese poco, cuando magnífico grano optamos por versiones a toda prueba puedes congratularte a ti mismo por servir algo fácil La versatilidad del arroz lo hace un ingrediente perfecto. de hacer y gratificante desde el punto de vista nutricional. ¿Quién no se siente bien al Seguramente lo has comido frito, hervido y "pudinizado". Y lo has saboreado en lograr algo así? numerosas variedades, como el arroz de grano largo y el blanco. Pero, ¿crees que por eso Finalmente, la versatilidad del arroz lo hace un ingrediente perfecto en una amplia gama de lo sabes todo del arroz? Piénsalo de nuevo. En el mundo de los granos notables, el arroz culturas culinarias, y para casi todas las comidas del día. BUFFALO • DUNKIRK • ROCHESTER • ERIE ׀ April/Abril 2015 ׀ pg 16 PANORAMA HISPANO Business 9 Billionaires Are About to Remake New York's Public Schools— organizations have been laying the groundwork for this maneuver for years, even Here's Their Story before Cuomo took office. The current push for education reform in New York is not an By; George Joseph expression of the vast majority of New York's parents and children but the result of a Hedge-fund manager Whitney Tilson stands at a Harvard club podium in midtown five-year-long billionaire hedge-funders' campaign to realize their own vision for public Manhattan, facing a room full of investors eating eggs and bacon, and eager to learn more schools. about charter schools. The walls of the wood-paneled room are lined with the portraits of The Billionaire Boy's Club Tilson's Harvard forefathers. Above the podium where Tilson stands hangs an ornamental In the 2014 election cycle, no two groups dominated Albany more than the pro–education gold ship, swaying. In the corner of the room is a large screen, on which the logos of the reform Families for Excellent Schools (FES) and the anti-tax Super PAC New Yorkers day's sponsors, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Sam Walton Foundation, for a Balanced Albany. Cuomo's policy proposals come straight out of FES's playbook. float like guardian angels. Two large stone fireplaces dominate the west end of the room. Eliza Shapiro in a recent Capital New York piece, noted that Cuomo's report about New Their exaggerated mantelpieces are each decorated with two empty crests and a laurel— York's ‘failing schools' crisis "was sometimes indistinguishable from the eight reports symbols of power drained of any purpose. on struggling schools F.E.S. [Families for Excellent Schools] has sent reporters since the Tilson begins an enormous PowerPoint presentation, speaking of the inequities black and summer." Latino children face in the public school system. "Your entire prison population is in these This rapid purchase of this influence is unprecedented. As Capital New York reported, last red bars," he explains, showing red bars indicating the high percentage of poor black and September and October alone Families for Excellent Schools spent nearly $2.9 million, Latino children who could not read at a fourth-grade level. No such children, nor their more than doubling the previous spending record for that period and making ideas like a parents, seemed to have been invited to this presentation. 50 percent test-based teacher evaluation suddenly conceivable. The year's final numbers Despite the role poverty plays in determining whose kids gets stuck in those red bars, are not out yet, but if such high levels of spending has continued, Families for Excellent Tilson declares to the room of Ivy League investors, "This is not rocket science. Notice Schools will have spent $13.4 million in 2014, the largest single-year lobbying spree in on my list there's no #5, no Spend More Money. You get new facilities and smaller New York state history. Similarly, in just a matter of weeks, New Yorkers for a Balanced classrooms but nothing changes. Nobody believes anymore that if you give us more Albany's $4.3 million ad buy pushed the possibility of a Republican Senate takeover from money we'll solve all the problems." probable to guaranteed, freeing Cuomo to go even farther rightward in his State of the Something is Rotten in the State of New York State budget proposal. These exact talking points were echoed in Democrat Andrew Cuomo's State of the State Nonetheless, despite the two groups' distinct political expenditures and public rhetoric, it is address, last January, where the governor commanded the legislature, "Don't tell me that almost certain that Families for Excellent Schools and New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany if we only had more money [for education], it would change. We have been putting more are funded and organized by the same small network of people: the same nine New York money into this system every year for a decade and it hasn't changed and 250,000 [failing hedge-fund billionaires. children] will condemn the failing schools by this system." Though Families for Excellent Schools presents itself as a grassroots parent education Putting his money, or lack thereof, where his mouth is, Cuomo has banked his reform organization, four of its five original board members are Wall Street titans like gubernatorial legacy on a budget that would again fail to meet the state's public-school Bryan Lawrence and Paul Appelbaum, who made their millions in the hedge fund and funding requirements, instead increasing the privatization of New York's education system private equity worlds respectively. Families for Excellent Schools' known donors include and weakening New York State's once powerful teachers' union, NYSUT. Cuomo's corporate foundation groups like the Walton Family Foundation ($700,000) and the Broad education reform proposal would tie 50 percent of teacher evaluations to student test Foundation ($200,000), but these donations account for only a tiny fraction of Families for scores, based on a controversial practice called Value-Added Modeling, drastically Excellent Schools' overall revenue. In contrast to most "grassroots" parents' organizations, weaken teachers' opportunity for tenure, expedite the firing of teachers, make room for Families for Excellent Schools has retained the services of David Grandeau, New York's a hundred more charter schools, and promote state takeover of "failing" (or poor) school former top lobbying regulator, whose expertise has helped shield its donors' identities by districts—a tactic that has been used to expand charter school growth without the consent funneling most of its spending through a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. of elected school boards across the country. In his 2014 re-election bid, Cuomo declared Nonetheless, overwhelming institutional similarities indicate that Families for Excellent that as governor he would work to enact long-term measures to "break" public education, Schools is largely funded by the same nine hedge-fund billionaires behind almost all which he called "one of the only remaining public monopolies." His pledge will be put to of New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany's rapid expenditures. Hedge fund manager Joel the test when the state legislature votes on his budget proposals at the end of this month. Greenblatt, who gave $250,000 to New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany, founded Success The consensus that New York public schools do not require more funding is curious, Academy, a charter school chain that has been spearheading Families for Excellent given the landmark 2006 Campaign for Fiscal Equity court ruling and subsequent Schools' on the ground efforts. Additionally, hedge fund mogul Daniel Loeb, who gave statewide resolution ordering the state to correct its inequitable school-funding formula $1.025 million to New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany, sits on the board of Success to provide every student their constitutional right to "sound basic education." In 2007, Academy and Julian H. Robertson Jr. who also gave $1 million to the PAC, is the father Governor Spitzer and the New York State Legislature enacted a statewide resolution, of the founder of PAVE charter school, also affiliated with Families for Excellent Schools. creating one statewide school aid formula based on student poverty concentration and To top it all off, as WNYC reported last year, Families for Excellent Schools and the New district wealth and promising to add $5.5 billion in schools's operating aid over four years. York branch of New Yorkers for A Balanced Albany's registered parent organization, Yet in 2009, after two years of more equitable funding, the state froze school aid, citing StudentsFirst, share a business address. the financial crisis. Over the next two years, New York State actually cut school funding, aken together, these two organizations have provided a vehicle for a tiny group of wealthy including $2.1 billion in classroom cuts. NYC hedge-fund managers not just to push their vision of education reform but to tip the Zakiyah Ansari, a parent and public schools advocate with the labor-backed Alliance for political balance of the entire state—throwing support to Cuomo and state Republicans— Quality Education, called such reasoning shameful, "Why do Cuomo and these hedge to ensure its success. funders say money doesn't matter? I'm sure it matters in Scarsdale. I'm sure it matters Astroturfing a Movement where the Waltons send their kids. They don't send their kids to schools with overcrowded Though Families for Excellent Schools really began making headlines in 2014 with its classrooms, over-testing, no art, no music, no sports programs, etc. Does money only ‘not record lobbying expenditures, its first few years were spent quietly organizing rallies with matter' when it comes to black and brown kids?" charter school parents and college students in support of education reform issues. Much of But the coalition to remake New York's education system isn't hearing it. A few years ago, this "activism" was funded and directly organized by FES. such blunt threats against public schools, the state's formidable teachers' union, NYSUT, FES' director Jeremiah Kittredge, for example, trained student organizers from the college not to mention the majority of Cuomo's own party, would have been unthinkable. Yet group, Students For Education Reform, which the pro-charter school advocacy group over the last year, a dark-money charter-school advocacy group, Families for Excellent Education Reform Now boasted about helping laying the groundwork for back in 2010. Schools, smashed almost all lobbying records in Albany and a Super PAC, New Yorkers' Though Students For Education Reform has begun to implode due to students' concerns for a balanced Albany poured $4.3 million into six Senate races, helping tip the Senate about its top-down corporate agenda, SFER, like its parent organization Education Reform Republican in a state with six times as many registered Democrats as Republicans. Thus, Now, has raised headlines for allegedly violating its 501(c)(3) status in explicitly pro- with the infusion of five business-friendly senators, Governor Cuomo's radical education education reform political activities in mayoral and state races nationwide. reform bill is suddenly a real political possibility. Read the rest of the article on our website at PanoramaHispanoOnline.com Clearly, the governor's ambitions are not focused on New York State any longer. A recent Quinnipiac poll, for example, indicates Cuomo's education proposal has lowered his overall approval rating to its lowest in office, with only 28 percent in support of and 63 percent against his massive reform plan. While 50 percent support his advocacy of with a caring company. charter schools, an overwhelming 71 percent do not believe teachers should be evaluated based on student test scores, and 65 percent do not believe such scores should determine tenure. Furthermore, if Cuomo was at all interested in staying in New York, he would HHAs/PCAs not be waging an all out war against the state's still formidable teachers' union, once considered the preeminent political force in Albany. "Andrew Cuomo's career is based on copying everything Bill Clinton ever did, going against teachers' unions with the support F/T, P/T & WEEKENDS of billionaires, just like the Clintons did with Walmart," argues one Albany lobbyist to Erie County The Nation. "He's not especially original, but he's tough, mean, and can execute a plan. He doesn't give a rats' ass about education, he just wants Wall Street money. He sees the FREE TRAINING AVAILABLE backing of billionaires key to his future success." And over years, Cuomo has earned this backing. 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Estos son Carlos clasificarse a los playoffs sin una de sus estrellas. “El Topo” Gerena, a quien venció por decisión mayoritaria en 2002; Omar Adorno, que Durant jugó por última vez el 19 de febrero contra Memphis, y tres días después fue se fue vía nocaut dos años después; Juan Manuel “Juanma” López, que probó la amarga operado para remover un tornillo que le ocasionaba molestias en el pie derecho que se medicina de la derrota en dos ocasiones (2011 y 2012) por nocaut técnico; y Orlando “El fracturó, y que fue operado, durante la pretemporada. Fenónemo” Cruz, que también fue despachado por nocaut en el 2013. El ala-pívot del Thunder, Serge Ibaka, podría perderse el resto de la campaña tras ser Sin embargo, el vegabajeño Román “Rocky” Martínez (28-2-2, 17 KO’s) confía en operado de la rodilla derecha esta semana. detener esa racha cuando se enfrente a Salido el sábado, 11 de abril, por el cinturón de las 130 libras de la Organización Mundial de Boxeo (OMB) en la cartelera bautizada como Pippen pensó que Jordan nunca regresaría “The War” que se escenificará en el Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot, en San Juan. Se cumplen 20 años del primer regreso del exastro de la NBA “En lo absoluto”, dijo el dos veces excampeón junior ligero de OMB cuando se le Si pensamos en los grandes regresos en la historia de los deportes, seguramente el primero preguntó si él podría ponerle fin a la racha de victorias sobre boxeadores boricuas que en la memoria sería la reaparición de Michael Jordan en la NBA en 1995 luego de un año lleva el mexicano. de anunciar su retiro, cuando se encontraba en el mejor momento de su carrera. “Estoy sumamente seguro que el 11 de abril voy a salir con la victoria. Estoy trabajando Y su 'escudero' Scottie Pippen jamás pensó que vería nuevamente a su compañero en uniforme. a 12 asaltos porque Salido es un peleador que se cae y vuelve y se para. Si lo puedo parar En una serie de tuits, el exalero de la NBA contó sobre el día que se concretó el regreso- por nocaut, muy bien. Si no, le vamos a ganar por decisión. Lo que tengo en la mente es la el primero de dos- de quizás el mejor jugador de liga en la historia. victoria”, agregó el peleador este miércoles durante un entrenamiento público que realizó "Veo que han pasado 20 años desde las dos palabras más famosas en la historia del en el gimnasio municipal de Dorado. deporte: 'I'm back'", recordó Pippen en la red social. Durante la jornada de ejercicios, Martínez lució una máscara de entrenamiento, cuyo Jordan entró en cancha el 19 de marzo de 1995 frente a los Pacers de Indiana luego propósito es simular los entrenamientos en altitud sin necesidad de tener que desplazarse de anunciar vía un mensaje de fax que se pondría las zapatillas nuevamente luego de durante una temporada a un lugar alto. Lo que se busca es que los atletas puedan aumentar colgarlas en 1993 tras tres campeonatos corridos con los Bulls. su capacidad pulmonar mientras hacen ejercicios. Y eso es precisamente lo que pretende Con el número 45 en vez del clásico 23, Jordan jugó 43 minutos con 19 puntos, 6 la esquina de “Rocky”. asistencias, 6 rebotes y tres robos de balón en la derrota en tiempo extra. “Esa máscara emula la altura de 10,000 a 12,000 pies. Lo podemos comparar como con "Para ser honesto, después que se retiró por primera vez en 1993 pensé que para él era el la altura de México, más o menos. Muchos atletas la están usando ahora. Nosotros la fin. Creo que un regreso era lo más lejos de su mente. Siempre recuerdo lo impactados estamos usando porque deseo que cuando Rocky esté en el sexto round, se sienta como en que estuvimos cuando MJ abandonó el juego de esa manera. Estábamos listos para ir por el primero. Para que siga por ahí para abajo a las millas”, explicó el entrenador del púgil, un cuarto título al hilo", contó Pippen. Raúl “Papo” Torres. Jordan se sumergió en otras de sus pasiones: el béisbol. Estuvo activo con los Barons de El técnico añadió que su pupilo lleva aproximadamente un mes usando la máscara y Birmingham, novena afiliada a los Medias Blancas de Chicago, en la DobleA. sostiene que ha visto mejoría en el aguante a la distancia. "Estuve en contacto con él mientras jugaba béisbol pero no hablamos mucho. Le di su “Se nota el cambio porque cuando trabaja 12 asaltos de guanteo, no abre la boca. espacio ya que necesitaba un tiempo fuera del baloncesto. No sabía cuánto amaba el Nosotros solo la usamos cuando tenemos entrenamiento de piso. Cuando hay guanteos béisbol hasta ese punto. Era bastante apasionado sobre el juego y demostró que podía y otros trabajos, la eliminamos. También la eliminamos en la carrera matutina”, acotó jugar", continuó Pippen. Torres, quien también se mostró seguro de que Martínez ganará. Los Bulls terminaron con marca de 47-35 con la integración de Jordan, pero perdieron en El púgil coincidió con su entrenador en que la máscara le ha ayudado a mejorar su las semifinales de la Conferencia del Este en seis juegos frente al Magic de Orlando. función cardiovascular cuando se enfrentará a Salido, un boxeador que es conocido por "Perder contra Orlando fue duro. Pasó mucho tiempo desde que tuvimos a MJ y perder en tener mucho aguante. los playoffs. Pero nos motivó. Él lo tomó duro", siguió Pippen. “Hasta ahora he sentido la diferencia cuando la uso. Esto es para coger un poquito más de La temporada siguiente, los Bulls regresaron al trono para repetir la hazaña de tres títulos aire porque sabemos queSalido es peleador que rinde, al igual que yo, pero un extra puede en fila (seis en ocho años) antes del segundo retiro de Jordan en 1998. Regresó por tercera ayudar”, declaró Martínez. vez en el 2001 por par de temporadas con los Wizards de Washington. Más allá de la máscara, el peleador puntualizó que la preparación para esta pelea ha sido la mejor que ha tenido en su carrera. Expuso que ha utilizado como compañeros de Pele backs Blatter for 5th term running FIFA guanteo a peleadores de 130 y 135 libras con distintas habilidades para poder adaptarse a LONDON (AP) Pele is supporting Sepp Blatter's bid to continue running world football distintos patrones de pelea. También ha trabajado para evitar caer en el excesivo toma y as the FIFA president prepares for his toughest-ever election battle. dame y para cuidar su guardia. Blatter is taking on three rivals in FIFA's May election, including Pele's friend, Luis Figo, Asimismo, indicó que entiende que podrá hacer de manera cómoda las 130 libras the former Portugal, Barcelona and Real Madrid player. reglamentarias. But Pele is insistent that the 79-year-old Blatter should serve a fifth, four-year term “Gracias a Dios estoy bien, estoy como a unas 10 o nueve libras (de las 130). Esperamos despite lingering questions over FIFA's handling of ethics scandals. hacer el peso bien. Siempre cuando uno llega a las 133-134, la cosa se pone un poco mala. ''I am going to be clear, I will support Sepp Blatter because Blatter has more experience, Pero con el trabajo que llevamos, podremos hacerlas”, dijo. he stayed there a long time,'' Pele said in an interview with The Associated Press on Por último, Martínez sostuvo que la pelea contra Salido es “la más importante de su Friday. ''Of course in life you must have some changes, but I will support Blatter, I think carrera” porque de ganar, volvería a la cima. “Por eso he tomado esta preparación bien, he is still has opportunity to do nice administration.'' bien en serio porque sé que mi carrera depende de ella”, puntualizó. Pele believes FIFA's biggest challenge is being able to effectively manage a rapidly- Además de la pelea de Salido y Martínez, la cartelera “The War” enfrentará al expanding game. puertorriqueño McWilliams Arroyo (15-2, 13 KO’s) y al excampeón mundial junior ''People should pay attention to one thing, for some years it was two or three countries mosca, el mexicano Ramón García Hirales (20-5-1, 12 KO’s), por el título regional peso (dominating) football),'' the Brazilian said. ''Now you have growth ... Asia, Africa. (It's) mosca (112 libras) Latino de la OMB. También se medirán José 'Chelo' González (23-1, becoming more difficult to administrate FIFA now, that is the problem.'' 18 KO’s) y el estadounidense Sharif Bogere (26-1, 18 KO’s) por el vacante título ligero Pele also highlighted ''this problem with Platini and Blatter'' - with UEFA President Intercontinental de la OMB. Michel Platini demanding the 79-year-old Swiss steps aside. Platini, though, is not a candidate in the election. Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan and Primo de A-Rod se declarará culpable en caso Biogenesis Dutch football chief Michael van Praag are joining Figo and Blatter as candidates in the Es el último acusado cuyo caso faltaba por dilucidarse en la investigación federal secret ballot of FIFA's 209 member associations. MIAMI- Yuri Sucart, el primo del astro de los Yanquis Alex Rodríguez, tiene previsto The 74-year-old Pele was speaking at a Subway sandwich store promotional event in declararse culpable de los cargos por trasiego de sustancias dopantes, según documentos London three months after leaving a Brazilian hospital after being treated for a urinary de la corte. tract infection. The infection stemmed from a Nov. 13 surgery to remove kidney stones. Sucart es el último acusado cuyo caso faltaba por dilucidarse en la investigación federal ''Of course, when you stay in the hospital always people worry but ... I am a strong guy,'' por la trama de dopaje de la clínica Biogenesis. said Pele, who is attending Liverpool's Premier League match against Manchester United Los documentos judiciales indican que Sucart cambiará su declaración inicial en la on Sunday. ''I am healthy. Thanks to everyone who prayed for me.'' audiencia pautada para el próximo viernes ante la jueza de distrito federal, Cecilia M. The illness also brought on renewed reflections on Pele's achievements - winning three Altonaga. Sucart fue sindicado dentro un pliego de siete cargos en los que se menciona World Cups with Brazil - and where he ranks among the greatest players of all time. distribución de testosterona y conspiración para distribuir sustancias para mejorar el ''I think always when they talk about big names, big players at the moment they compare rendimiento físico. with me,'' Pele said. ''We have to talk about the moment - the past is the past - but you Sucart estuvo entre los acusados por vínculos con la clínica Biogenesis en Coral Gables, cannot forget George Best, Bobby Moore, Bobby Charlton, Pele, (Franz) Beckenbauer, hoy cerrada. La clínica era administrada por Anthony Bosch, quien se hacía pasar como (Johan) Cruyff. You have excellent players in the past.'' doctor. These days, it's Barcelona forward Lionel Messi and Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo La investigación que realizó el béisbol de Grandes Ligas derivó en la suspensión de 14 who have joined the discussion about the best ever. peloteros. Rodríguez fue el sobresaliente del grupo de sancionados, marginado durante ''Messi is more my style,'' said Pele, who presented the FIFA world player of the year toda la pasada temporada. award to Ronaldo in 2014. ''In the last 10 years the better player in the world was Messi - Bosch y los demás se declararon culpables. Bosch recibió la sentencia más severa: cuatro no doubt. ... Ronaldo is more of a center forward. Messi is more for the team.'' años de prisión. One thing Pele still finds it painful to talk about is Brazil's 7-1 loss to Germany in the Si Sucart se declara culpable, Rodríguez no tendrá que testificar ante la corte. World Cup semifinals on home soil last July. ''You have to talk about this?'' Pele said. ''This is life. This happens. Football is always a Incierto regreso de Kevin Durant box of surprise.'' Todavía se encuentra adolorido OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma— Kevin Durant todavía siente dolor en el pie derecho y el Thunder de Oklahoma City no tiene un plazo para que el jugador más valioso de la VISITENOS EN EL INTERNET - VISIT US ONLINE NBA regrese a la cancha. www.PanoramaHispanoNews.com El gerente general del Thunder, Sam Presti, dijo que Durant será examinado por especialistas para determinar el próximo paso a seguir. Interactivo•Actualizado • Videos•Imagenes•Links BUFFALO • DUNKIRK • ROCHESTER • ERIE ׀ April/Abril 2015 ׀ pg 18 PANORAMA HISPANO Editorial/Letters Continuing Momentum At Los Tainos MATAN INMIGRANTES Y NO PASA NADA When I was voted in as President at Los Tainos, the organization was in turmoil. Cuando la policía mata a un inmigrante en Estados Unidos, la indignación es la misma que Accusations of theft, lack of transparency and questions about how the funds were cuando mata un afroamericano. misappropriated were commonplace. Trust had deteriorated to the point that some Pero la respuesta es distinta. Tras la muerte de tres mexicanos a manos de la policía members of the board were pushed out and I, a relative new comer, had been sought out no hemos visto las protestas y las marchas que ocurrieron luego de las muertes de los to lead the organization toward transparency. A new board was quickly established and afroamericanos Michael Brown en Ferguson, Missouri, y Eric Garner en Staten Island, with it, a hope for a brighter future. Nueva York. Algo no está bien aquí. El problema es que, además de la tragedia por sus muertes, los latinos e inmigrantes siguen That was 4 years ago. con miedo ante la policía y no confían en que se hará justicia. Por eso la reacción es tan tibia. Pero no debería ser así. Recently, I decided to step down from my leadership position due to numerous A nivel oficial parecería que la muerte de inmigrantes es menos importante que la de responsibilities related to full-time work and my recent commitment as Chairman of the ciudadanos norteamericanos. Ni el presidente Barack Obama, ni el Procurador General, City of Buffalo Boy Scouts organization, among others. I knew I could not juggle these Erick Holder, ni ningún líder Republicanos han salido en público a denunciar que la responsibilities while maintaining a healthy work-life balance- something that has become policía mató a tres inmigrantes mexicanos en menos de tres semanas. increasingly important to me throughout the past decade. After four years, it was my time El gobierno mexicano envió una carta de protesta a Washington -diciendo que no son to hand over the ropes to someone with the enthusiasm and energy to carry on the mission hechos aislados- pero no ha querido convertir estas tres muertes en un asunto central que of Los Tainos. tense las relaciones bilaterales. Los mexicanos que viven en Estados Unidos están solos; saben que no son una prioridad para el gobierno en la ciudad de México. Matan mexicanos I reached out to various individuals in the community, requesting involvement in the y no pasa nada. organization with the goal of establishing a new leadership board. Esto es lo que pasó: The call was heeded by Mr. Benny Matta, a longtime community advocate, at an open 1) El 10 de febrero la policía de Pasco, estado de Washington, mató al mexicano Antonio meeting announced nearly 4 weeks in advance and held Wednesday, March 18th. The Zambrano luego que el indigente les tirara piedras, según muestra un video. house was packed with around 30 seniors in attendance, as well as representatives from 2) El 20 de febrero la policía de Grapevine, Texas, mató al mexicano Rubén García luego the West Side Community Services and Concerned Ecumenical Ministries, who were also de una persecución. “¿Me vas a matar?” aparentemente le preguntó García a un agente de invited to attend. la policía, con los brazos en alto, de acuerdo con la versión de su cuñado. Sí, lo mataron: recibió dos disparos en el pecho. By most accounts, the meeting was a success. I commended Mr. Matta for stepping up 3) Y por último, el 27 de febrero la policía de Santa Ana, California, mató al mexicano to the plate and I answered questions from those in attendance. A succession plan was Ernesto Canepa, quien era sospechoso de robo y a quien le encontraron un pistola de firmly established, with my full confidence in Mr. Matta’s ability to lead the organization perdigones en su auto. La familia de Canepa dice que tenía dos trabajos y cuatro hijos. forward. A estas tres muertes -que están bajo investigación- hay que sumar las de al menos 17 mexicanos que han muerto en enfrentamientos con la Patrulla Fronteriza desde el 2010, The next day I received a call from an active member in the community who had heard de acuerdo con las cifras de la organización Southern Border Communities Coalition. La rumors that there were “problems” at Los Tainos. This community resident was unable to triste realidad es que la mayoría de estas muertes pasan desapercibidas y, pocas veces, se provide me with any additional details. sabe realmente qué pasó. La impunidad es, casi, total. Nadie, generalmente, termina en la cárcel. Although I had no details of these rumors, it disturbed me. I want to set the record straight Otra triste conclusión es que tampoco existe una expectativa de justicia. No me imagino by highlighting the progress of Los Tainos over the past four years through this open al Departamento de Justicia haciendo una investigación a fondo sobre los abusos de la letter. policía en contra de inmigrantes latinoamericanos. Estoy seguro que, si la hicieran, sus conclusiones serían muy parecidas a las de su reciente informe sobre el maltrato de la With the help of our volunteer board, With the help of our volunteer board, numerous policía de Ferguson contra afroamericanos: detenciones sin razón, uso de lenguaje racista, initiatives were established that helped to secure a better future for Los Tainos including: abuso de fuerza y la terrible sensación de que no son tratados justamente. Esta sensación de injusticia contra los inmigrantes en Estados Unidos está reforzada por Infrastructure upgrades which included replacement of floor tiles, ceiling boards, wall el lenguaje de muchos políticos en Washington, y fuera de Washington, que los califican painting. de “criminales”. Los políticos son culpables de crear este falso estereotipo del inmigrante; New carpeting for offices and new chairs for waiting area. una cosa es estar aquí ilegalmente y otra muy distinta es cometer crímenes. Y, siguiendo Complete upgrade of the center’s plumbing system, including bathrooms and kitchen. el mismo y equivocado argumento, muchos departamentos de policía de Estados Unidos Purchase of new equipment including industrial-size refrigerator and freezer. tratan a los inmigrantes como “criminales” aunque lo no sean. Fixing broken equipment, including food warmers, stove and fryer. No, a pesar de lo que diga la Declaración de Independencia, en Estados Unidos no todos Re-negotiation of existing lease agreement with the WNY Puerto Rican and Hispanic son tratados como iguales. Algunos -por el simple hecho de haber nacido en el extranjero, Parade which more than doubled revenue from previous agreement. hablar con acento y tener otro color de piel- pueden perder la vida a manos de quien los Partnership with welfare-to-work participants to upkeep maintenance of facility. debería proteger: la policía. Establishment of bilingual literacy program Por Jorge Ramos Avalos. Increased participation of the Center’s subsidized lunch program. Increased participation of the center’s Bingo program Establishment of new revenue streams, including a donation box program at Niagara Cafe. Renewal of Community Development Block Grant funding. Secured financial support from private entities, including the Buffalo Metropolitan Federal Credit Union and H&R Block. Secured generous funding from elected officials, including the office of Councilman Rivera and Councilman Pridgen. Partnership with West Side Community Services and Concerned Ecumenical Ministries to establish West Side Seniors, an initiative which has introduced new programs and activities to engage the seniors and improve their quality of life. Agreement with Catholic Charities to assume responsibility over plumbing and other costs, thereby significantly reducing costs to Los Tainos. Negotiated $1 annual lease agreement Delta Development and La Casa De Los Tainos. Establish space rental for birthday parties, weddings, etc.. Creation of website and social media presence.

All the while we established a sense of calm, trust and normalcy at the center – something that had been missing for years.

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When the new board was established nearly 4 years ago, it inherited thousands of dollars in debt and it successfully cleared all outstanding debt up that point. This non-profit organization is ALWAYS in need of additional funding sources and individuals willing to step up to the plate and get involved. On Wednesday, March 25th, a new leadership will Pensando en casarse? Tenemos Su respuesta be established at the center and I encourage you to be part of the solution to help make the Pilgrim-St. Luke’s y El Nuevo Camino lives of the elderly better. Este hermoso Santuario se parece a un castillo desde afuera y es hermoso por The future of Los Tainos is set atop a strong foundation and with the right leadership and dentro. Situado en el corazón del Elwood Village estamos disponibles para llevar a guidance, I am certain that the best is yet to come. Get involved. cabo todos tipos de bodas en español o inglés. Incluso podemos diseñar una misa bilingüe para satisfacer sus necesidades. También celebramos Quinceañeras para -- celebrar y dedicar sus hijas al cuidado de nuestro Señor, Jesús. Sergio R. Rodriguez El reverendo Justo Gonzalez, II, M.Div., M.S.S.A., M.A.P.M. tiene 25 años de 716-316-1545 experiencia en el ministerio y trabajará con ustedes para crear la boda de tus PO Box 806 sueños. Contáctenos al 716-989-9207. Buffalo, NY 14220 BUFFALO • DUNKIRK • ROCHESTER • ERIE pg 19 ׀ April/Abril 2015 ׀ PANORAMA HISPANO

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