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</div><div style="line-height: 14px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; color: rgb(222, 73, 0); "><span style="color: rgb(77, 77, 77); "><br></span></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">This was also published in Juventud Rebelde on Tuesday, April 10, 2012</span><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://www.juventudrebelde.cu/opinion/2012-04-10/fascismo-en-miami/" target="_blank" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">http://www.juventudrebelde.cu/opinion/2012-04-10/fascismo-en-miami/</a><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Ozzie Guillén and Fascism in Miami</span><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">By Lázaro Fariñas* / Photo: Virgilio Ponce / April 11, 2012</span><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://www.walterlippmann.com/docs3391.html" target="_blank" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">http://www.walterlippmann.com/docs3391.html</a><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">A CubaNews translation. Edited by Walter Lippmann.</span><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Up until a few days ago, Venezuelan-born baseball manager Ozzie Guillén of the Miami Marlins believed he was a free man living in a democratic society and therefore entitled to say whatever he wanted without having to abide by the consequences. Poor man… How wrong he was to think such nonsense! Since he had said no less irreverent things in public about other topics in the past, Guillén thought he could freely voice his respect for the Cuban people's undeniable leader, Commander Fidel Castro, without having to pay dearly for it.</span><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Headlined "I love Fidel Castro", Time Magazine staff reporter Sean Gregory's article transcribed Ozzie Guillén's exact words. I don't think more than two hours had passed after the issue hit the stands when the right-wing fascists of Miami launched a smear campaign against the baseball manager and decried his remarks through their radio stations. They used venom-oozing terms to describe the man who dared say that he loved a political leader who is equally loved and respected by millions of Cubans and hundreds of millions around the world. Their venom soon infected the local politicians who started to demand Marlins owners to oust their manager. </span><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Even if the team made a public statement claiming no responsibility for Guillén's words and no walking papers have been issued so far, he was given a five-game suspension. Chances are, though, that Guillén's constant expressions of sorrow and repentance for the benefit of the Miami-based scum will not be enough to be pardoned and keep his job. This is an insatiable pack to which Guillén's kowtowing –or anybody else's for that matter– will be pointless, because the hardcore rightists of this city are sick with rage and hatred. </span><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">His is just another name, not the first and certainly not the last one, on a long list of people who have demeaned themselves to beg forgiveness after these individuals have pounced on them. Bear in mind that Nelson Mandela was declared persona non grata by the local authorities for his bonds of friendship with Cuba and its leaders; that Popes have been more than once accused of being communist; that even the presidents Kennedy, Carter, Clinton and now Obama have been labeled as favorable to the Cuban government. </span><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Among others who have also run the gauntlet at some point of the fascist carnival are the Venezuelan singer Oscar de León –who had to come to Miami and apologize on the radio, tears running down his face, when they took it out on him after he performed in a music festival in Varadero– and many more. Some examples include wit, the duet Los Españolísimos, Julio Iglesias, the Brazilian Denise de Kalafe, the Puerto Ricans Danny Rivera and Andy Montañez, the Cuban Ana Margarita Martínez Casado, and even Willie Chirino himself, who also went on the air crying after he gave a musical instrument as a gift to a Cuban musician in Panama. It's true that these spineless weepers have stooped to say one thing one minute and another the next, but in the end so many insults, prospects of economic reprisals and even death threats have been more of a factor.</span><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The question here is, how is it possible in an American city governed by a Constitution that includes an amendment giving citizens the right to speak their mind that someone is humiliated and threatened to be fired or killed for saying precisely what they think?</span><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">This can only happen because there's a fascistoid enclave whose wealthy members are in control of the media, boast far too much political power, and spend all day shouting from the rooftops that there's no democracy in Cuba while hurling abuse at and threatening everyone here who dares say anything different from what they want to hear.</span><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">All this pressure will go on until the Marlins manager is sacked. Let's hope they won't get away with it, although I doubt it. Come what may, and although as a human being I feel sorry for Ozzie Guillén, I'm glad that this happened and was reported by the U.S.'s mainstream media, so that the rest of the people in this great country realize once again who's the rabble in charge of the economic, political and social life of one of America's most important cities.</span><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">(*) Lázaro Fariñas is a Cuban journalist who lives in the United States.</span><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Original source: Martianos-Hermes-Cubainformación-Cubasolidaridad</span><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">These texts can be freely reproduced as long as they are for nonprofit purposes and the source is mentioned. </span><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Fascismo en Miami. Por Lázaro Fariñas*</span><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Publicado por Virgilio PONCE el abril 11, 2012 a las 2:35am</span><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Ver blog</span><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Por Lázaro Fariñas*/Foto Virgilio Ponce -Martianos-Hermes-Cubainformación-Cubasolidaridad.- Ozzie Guillén, el manager del equipo de baseball de las grandes ligas, los Miami Marlíns, hasta hace unos días creía que era un hombre libre que, viviendo en una sociedad democrática, podía expresar lo que le diera la gana sin tener ningún tipo de consecuencias. Pobre hombre. ¡Qué equivocado estaba al creer semejante bobería! El venezolano Guillén pensó que, como en otras ocasiones públicamente había dicho cosas irreverentes refiriéndose a otros temas, también podía afirmar libremente su respeto por el líder indiscutible del pueblo cubano, el Comandante Fidel Castro, y no pagar ninguna consecuencia.</span><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Empezando con las palabras "I love Fidel Castro", en la última edición de la revista Time salió publicado un artículo escrito por el periodista Sean Gregory, quien transcribe textualmente la frase que le dijera Ozzie Guillén. No creo que hayan pasado más de dos hora de haber salido la revista a la calle, cuando los fascistas de la extrema derecha de Miami comenzaron la campaña de difamación contra Guillén. Los programas de radio que dirigen estos personajes locales empezaron a destilar veneno contra el hombre que se había atrevido a decir que amaba a un líder político que es amado y respetado por millones de cubanos y por centenares de millones de personas alrededor del mundo. El veneno de la radio saltó a los políticos locales, quienes exigían a los dueños del equipo beisbolero que votara a su manager. Mientras la administración del equipo sacó públicamente una declaración en la que se alejaba de lo declarado por Guillen y aunque hasta la fecha no lo han despedido, sí lo han suspendido por 5 juegos. Lo más probable es que, a pesar de las constantes declaraciones de Guillén en las que les pide perdón a la morralla miamenses, este no pueda evitar que los Marlíns lo dejen en la calle y sin llavín. Esta jauría es insaciable y de nada le vale a Guillén, ni a nadie, humillarse ante ella para conseguir un perdón, porque estos elementos de la extrema derecha de Miami está compuesto por personas enfermas de rabia y de odio. Por esa humillación de tener que pedir perdón, ya han pasado muchos antes. Guillén es el último, no el primero, ni el único. Sería interminable la lista de las personas a las que aquí les han caído encima. No hay que olvidar que Nelson Mandela fue declarado persona non grata por el gobierno condal por ser amigo de Cuba y su líder; que los Papas han sido, en diferentes ocasiones, acusados de comunistas; aquí, hasta a los presidentes Kennedy, Carter, Clinton y ahora Obama los han acusado de colaboradores del gobierno cubano. También tuvo su momento en este carnaval fascista el cantante venezolano, Oscar de León, quien tuvo que venir a la radio de Miami a pedir perdón, llorando, después que le cayeron como buitres por haber participado en un festival de música en Varadero. Por ese camino también han pasado, entre muchos otros, el dúo Los Españolísimos, Julio Iglesias, la brasilera Denise de Kalafe, los puertorriqueños Danny Rivera y Andy Montañez, la cubana Ana Margarita Martínez Casado y hasta el mismísimo Willie Chirino, quien tuvo que llorar en un programa de radio después que le regaló un instrumento musical a un músico cubano en Panamá. Es verdad que esta gente que ha llorado no tienen columna vertebral y se han irrespetado a sí mismos al tener que decir que donde dijeron Diego dijeron digo, pero los insultos son muchos y las amenazas económicas y hasta de la propia vida, son más.</span><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">La verdad que hay que preguntarse es ¿cómo es posible que en una ciudad norteamericana, donde rige una constitución que contiene una enmienda que le da el derecho a los ciudadanos de expresar libremente su pensamiento, alguien sea humillado y amenazado de perder su trabajo o su vida, precisamente por expresar lo que piensa?</span><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Esto solo pasa porque en esta ciudad existe un enclave fascistoide que domina los medios de comunicación, que tiene poder económico y además, exagerado poder político. Ese enclave es el mismo que se pasa la vida gritando a los cuatro vientos que en Cuba no hay democracia, mientras ellos aquí amenazan y humillan a todo aquel que se atreva a decir algo diferente a lo que ellos quieren que se permita decir.</span><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">La presión para que boten al manager de los Marlíns no va a parar hasta que logren su objetivo. Ojalá que no lo logren, aunque mucho lo dudo. Suceda lo que suceda con Ozzie Guillén, y aunque humanamente me da pena con él, me alegro que esto haya sucedido y que haya sido reportado por todos los grandes medios de comunicación de los Estados Unidos para que se vuelva a enterar el resto de los habitantes de este gran país de la clase de morralla fascista que controla económica, política y socialmente una de las más importantes ciudades de esta nación.</span><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Lázaro Fariñas periodista cubano residente en EE.UU.</span><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Fuente original: Martianos-Hermes-Cubainformación-Cubasolidaridad</span><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Estos textos pueden ser reproducidos libremente siempre que sea con fines no comerciales y cite la fuente</span><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></div><div><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></span></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><table align="center" width="626" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="1" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="FFFFFF"><table align="center" width="700" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="line-height: 17px; "><tbody><tr><td><table align="center" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="line-height: 17px; "><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=VzFV00ynxcbGzqtdIKxGaYRQd5YlNyQ0" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><img border="0" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4001/c/18/images/aflcionowblog_700x100.jpg" alt="" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; "></a></td></tr><tr><td><table align="left" width="700" cellpadding="13" border="0" style="line-height: 17px; "><tbody><tr><td><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><b>April 12, 2012</b></span></span></p><table align="right" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="7" border="0" style="line-height: 17px; width: 22px; height: 38px; "><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=ucEX7sxw7xsPGdFiGE6b1IRQd5YlNyQ0" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><img border="0" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4001/c/18/images/Are-Your-Tax.jpg" title="Corporate welfare" alt="Corporate welfare" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; "></a><br><span style="line-height: 13px; font-size: 10px; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=GT5NSInM8gsw3460UIgIxYRQd5YlNyQ0" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><font color="navy" style="line-height: normal; ">Workers’ income tax dollars in 16 states are being used to provide lavish subsidies to corporations, rather than paying for vital public services, according to a new study</font></a>.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">As traditional pension plans become less common and 401(k) savings accounts prove to be frighteningly inadequate, Americans’ retirement crisis grows. 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The AFL-CIO and SEIU have both objected to the Administration’s plans to move forward while the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) circulated an April 3, 2012 letter signed by a dozen Colombian unions arguing that much more progress remains to be made.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="line-height: 20px; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; ">Shortly before Congress voted on the controversial agreement, the President promised he would not implement the agreement until Colombia met key elements of a <a href="http://usleap.org/top-colombia-labor-school-reports-labor-action-plan-insufficient-and-poorly-implemented" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana; ">Labor Action Plan</a> signed by both governments in 2011. <a href="http://www.wola.org/publications/progress_on_labor_and_human_rights_must_come_before_colombia_free_trade_agreement_goes_" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana; ">USLEAP signed on to an April 10, 2012 letter</a> organized by WOLA, the Latin America Working Group, the U.S. Office on Colombia, and the Center for International Policy declaring that<em> “key elements of the Labor Action Plan remain unfulfilled.</em>” The letter concludes that, <em>“The labor and human rights situation in Colombia has not improved sufficiently to implement the Free Trade Agreement.”</em></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="line-height: 20px; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; ">In <a href="http://www.wola.org/commentary/obama_poised_to_give_presidential_seal_of_approval_to_gross_labor_rights_violations_in_co" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana; "><em>“Obama Poised To Give Presidential Seal of Approval To Gross Labor Rights Violations in Colombia,”</em></a> WOLA provides further details on the Colombian government’s shortcomings on worker rights and the Labor Action Plan.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="line-height: 20px; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; ">Five members of the House of Representatives Colombia Monitoring Group, Rep. George Miller (D-CA), Rep. James McGovern (D-MA), Rep. Rosa Delaura (D-CT), Rep. Mike Michaud (D-ME) and Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA)diplomatically signaled their dissatisfaction with the Colombian government's compliance with the Labor Action Plan in <a href="http://upsidedownworld.org/files/Congressional%20Letter%20to%20Colombian%20Labor%20Minister.pdf" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana; ">an April 10, 2012 letter to Labor Minister Rafael Pardo</a>. After praising the government for steps it has taken, the letter asks a series of pointed questions about emblematic cases (e.g. Pacific Rubiales) and overarching issues (e.g. impunity) that highlight specific problems as well as the failure of the Colombian government to provide recent evidence of compliance on key issues like impunity.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="line-height: 20px; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; ">Once the Obama Administration allows the FTA to “enter into force,” U.S. leverage to secure significant advances on worker rights in Colombia will drop dramatically. Trade leverage will default to the labor provisions contained in the agreement itself. While these labor provisions represent an improvement over those in the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), they are a far weaker source of leverage than delaying the agreement itself.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="line-height: 20px; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; ">The President’s announcement is expected to be made at this weekend’s Summit of the Americas meeting in Colombia.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="line-height: 20px; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; "><strong>Trans-Pacific Partnership National Briefing, April 13</strong></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="line-height: 20px; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; ">Coupled with a big push on <a href="http://www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/trade-policies/tpp-potential-trade-policy-problems/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana; ">Trans Pacific Partnership</a> negotiations for the biggest U.S. trade agreement in over 20 years, the move to implement the Colombia trade agreement continues the Administration’s extension of big business’s free trade and investment agenda, subjugating respect for worker rights and a level playing field for workers in the global economy to the relentless push by big business to make “free” trade and investment easier for companies.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="line-height: 20px; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; ">Activists concerned about the TPP negotiations, which have been shrouded in secrecy, can participate in a national briefing call set for Friday, April 13, 1 pm Eastern time with the AFL-CIO, Global Trade Watch and others. To receive the call-in number, please RSVP online at:<a title="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGdYQlhNbkFqZ2hxZEVzZURpSk50d3c6MQ#gid=0" href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGdYQlhNbkFqZ2hxZEVzZURpSk50d3c6MQ#gid=0" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana; ">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGdYQlhNbkFqZ2hxZEV...</a></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="line-height: 20px; font-size: 12pt; "><br></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/154930/wealth_defense_industry%3A_the_real_reason_america%27s_oligarchs_can_squeeze_the_rest_of_us?akid=8566.16102.MAIMB_&rd=1&t=5">http://www.alternet.org/story/154930/wealth_defense_industry%3A_the_real_reason_america%27s_oligarchs_can_squeeze_the_rest_of_us?akid=8566.16102.MAIMB_&rd=1&t=5</a>
</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/17910?akid=8566.16102.MAIMB_&t=4" target="_blank" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><img src="http://images.alternet.org/images/managed/storyimages_koch.jpg_150x107" alt="" width="150" height="107" border="0" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; "></a><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></span><p class="ecxheadline2" style="line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/17910?akid=8566.16102.MAIMB_&t=5" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">Wealth Defense Industry: The Real Reason America's Oligarchs Can Squeeze the Rest of Us</a></p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">How the richest of the rich stay on top. <a class="ecxreadmore" href="http://act.alternet.org/go/17910?akid=8566.16102.MAIMB_&t=6" target="_blank" style="line-height: 11px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; font-size: 9px; letter-spacing: 0.1em; ">READ MORE</a></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="line-height: 13px; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: x-small; "><em>Jeffrey A. Winters / In These Times</em></span></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="line-height: 13px; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 8pt; "><em><br></em></span></p></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/879802/forced_labor%3A_how_a_utah_rehab_center_exploited_patients/#paragraph2">http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/879802/forced_labor%3A_how_a_utah_rehab_center_exploited_patients/#paragraph2</a>
</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/17919?akid=8566.16102.MAIMB_&t=32" target="_blank" style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Forced Labor: How A Utah Rehab Center Exploited Patients</a><br style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="line-height: 14px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); ">By McCarton Ackerman | The Fix</span>
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</div><div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></span></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><pre style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Library Workers Will Not Be Shushed<br>April 10, 2012<br><a href="http://www.afscme.org/blog/library-workers-will-not-be-shushed" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">http://www.afscme.org/blog/library-workers-will-not-be-shushed</a><br><br>We will not be shushed!<br>Carl L. Sorrell is president of<br>AFSCME Local 1215 in Chicago, Ill. <br>AFSCME is fighting toprotect our nation's public <br>libraries, and stop privatization efforts that will <br>cut jobs and public resources. Sign the petition to <br>protect 25,000 library workers and the thousands of <br>libraries that will be destroyed by corporate greed at<br><a href="http://www.afscme.org/shush" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">http://www.afscme.org/shush</a>.<br><br>It's National Library Workers Day, a time to recognize<br>the importance of libraries in our communities and all<br>that librarians and staff do to keep them running. But<br>this year, with systems facing budget cuts across the<br>country, it's also a time to recognize that employees<br>play a crucial role in protecting libraries, preserving<br>services, and getting the public involved to defend<br>them.<br><br>Here in Chicago, there was a big outcry last fall when<br>Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced plans to cut $10 million<br>from our library budget and lay off 363 employees. Even<br>with all the negative talk about public employees and<br>government spending, some people still were surprised<br>about the drastic cuts. But my co-workers and I knew how<br>much people depend on our branches and staff for so many<br>things. We see people lining up to get in in the<br>morning, waiting to use the computers to apply for jobs.<br>Parents tell us how much their kids look forward to<br>storytime. The libraries are a safe haven for everyone<br>from senior citizens to high school students.<br><br>When our local union heard about the proposed cuts, we<br>knew we needed to make sure the mayor heard those same<br>voices that library employees hear each day. We started<br>organizing, and on Halloween, we held storytime in front<br>of the mayor's office. Hundreds of people showed up,<br>including kids in costumes, people with handmade signs,<br>and of course library staff leading the story hour and<br>delivering petitions signed through our website by more<br>than 5,000 Chicago residents.<br><br>The mayor responded and much of the funding was<br>restored.<br><br>But in January he began closing libraries completely on<br>Monday. Once again our local union got the word out,<br>both to our members and to library users. We held<br>"People's Library Hours" in front of the closed library<br>branches. And we started a letter-writing campaign to<br>the mayor.<br><br>Here's what one sixth-grader wrote:<br><br>I love the library. I always have since I was a<br>toddler. Although I mainly use it for reading just for<br>fun, the libraries are extremely important for doing<br>schoolwork. With the recent cuts to the library, I am<br>having trouble getting to my branch library...Without<br>the [library] pages, books I order take far more than a<br>week to be delivered.<br><br>Another library lover wrote:<br><br>The library is an avenue of hope in tough economic<br>times, and is there, like a friend, in good and bad<br>times. To take it away in any respect is to destroy a<br>priceless treasure.<br><br>After that, the mayor backed down further. But our 76<br>neighborhood branch libraries are still closed most<br>Monday mornings, and all the library pages -- about 100<br>people total -- have been laid off. So our campaign<br>continues with call-in days, more letters and actions at<br>the mayor's office. We're going to keep at it until we<br>get the hours and staffing fully restored.<br><br>We will not be shushed.<br><br>____________________________________________<br><br>PortsideLabor aims to provide material of interest to<br>people on the left that will help them to interpret the<br>world and to change it.</pre><pre style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></pre></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><h1 style="line-height: 23px; font-size: 21px; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><i style="line-height: 27px; "><span style="line-height: 35px; font-size: 20pt; color: rgb(0, 32, 96); ">The Stylus<u></u><u></u></span></i></h1><h1 style="line-height: 23px; font-size: 21px; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="line-height: 19px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(192, 0, 0); "><u></u> <u></u></span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 23px; font-size: 21px; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><i style="line-height: 27px; "><span style="line-height: 37px; font-size: 22pt; color: rgb(192, 0, 0); ">"After I Pick Up The Fruit" Documentary Explores Lives of Migrant Workers<u></u><u></u></span></i></h1><div style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style-position: initial; "><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><b><span style="line-height: 31px; font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 255); ">By</span></b><b><span style="line-height: 31px; font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 255); "> <a href="http://www.thestylus.net/search?q=Jennifer%20C.%20Colvin%20The%20Stylus" target="_blank" style="font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana; "><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); text-decoration: none; ">Jennifer C. Colvin</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></b></p></div><div style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style-position: initial; "><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><b><span style="line-height: 24px; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); ">Published: </span></b><span style="line-height: 24px; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); ">Tuesday, April 10, 2012<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><b><span style="line-height: 24px; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); ">Updated: </span></b><span style="line-height: 24px; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); ">Tuesday, April 10, 2012 13:04<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="line-height: 24px; font-size: 14pt; "><a href="http://www.thestylus.net/documentary-explores-lives-of-migrant-workers-1.2843346" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana; ">http://www.thestylus.net/documentary-explores-lives-of-migrant-workers-1.2843346</a> </span><span style="line-height: 24px; font-size: 14pt; "><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><span style="line-height: 14px; font-size: 8.5pt; "><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Filmmaker Nancy Ghertner presented her fourth showing of her documentary <b><i><span style="color: rgb(192, 0, 0); ">After I Pick the Fruit</span></i></b><span style="color: rgb(192, 0, 0); "> </span>in the Union Ballroom Wednesday, April 4. The documentary spans the course of nine years in the lives of five female immigrant farm workers: Maria, Soledad, Vierge, Elisa and Lorena.<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><div style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Ghertner first began filming this documentary in her hometown Sodus, N.Y., in 2000, after living alongside the fruit and vegetable farms of Sodus for 30 years. The migrant workers who toiled across the fields, orchards and vineyards were an integral part of the economy in Sodus, but remained in the shadows, invisible and silent.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Soledad was from Pueblo, Mexico, and first appeared in Sodus in the early 90s. In Mexico, she was forced to leave school at age 12 when her parents could no longer afford it.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Her new life in America began with her selling crackers to support herself while her husband searched for work for them both. The pair ended up working in a fruit farm near Sodus.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Vierge hailed from Haiti. She fled by boat with thousands of other Haitians to escape political persecution in 1991 and began to establish a life for herself in Florida through apple picking.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">She sent back part of her wages to Haiti to support her mother and eight siblings, who were unable to leave Haiti or find work.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Her livelihood and the livelihood of her two children are determined by the number of oranges and/or apples she can pick. A bin of oranges often goes for $7 and $15 for a bin of apples. On a good week, Vierge can make up to $140, but she usually makes less.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Maria traveled from Mexico with her husband, who was given amnesty by the 1986 Reagan Immigration Plan. She was provided with a green card and allowed to work legally. Like Vierge, Maria and her husband make a seasonal trip between Florida and New York to find work.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">When they first arrived in Sodus, they were unable to find work or even a place to live. A friend set them up with a contractor, who placed them in a trailer with a “bunch of drunken men.”<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Maria, scared for the lives of her children, searched for an alternative and was introduced to a farm owner named Ken, who provided her and her husband with work and a safer environment for their children.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Elisa also journeyed from Mexico to the U.S. in 1990 within an established immigrant community in the Finger Lakes. She acted as an advocate for farm workers and spoke up for proper sanitation and drinking water on work sites.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Improvements were not made to provide farm workers with clean drinking water until 1996, and it took another two years for proper changes to the sanitation issue.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Prior to Sept. 11, Elisa was able to travel between her family’s home in Mexico and her work in the United States. After Sept. 11 the tightening of border security prevented Elisa from returning home to see her family.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">The economy is so bad in Mexico that Elisa knows she would be unable to find work there or even “survive” there with her children. In late October 2006, Elisa’s husband was taken by Border Patrol while he was waiting outside a supermarket for a friend. He was deported two weeks later and she had to live in fear that she would also face deportation and be separated from her children.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Lorena made her way from Mexico City with her husband to the U.S. and began working in the vegetable fields of western New York. She started a family with her husband, and they became heavily involved with their community as a part of the Hispanic Catholic Community and the Farm Worker Women’s Institute.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">While she was working, her husband was chosen by the AgriBusiness Day Care to represent parents in a convention in Philadelphia. In a manner similar to Elisa’s husband, Lorena’s husband was picked up by Border Patrol, and then detained, simply for boarding a bus.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">After the viewing of the film, Maria, Elisa and Lorena spoke behind a curtain to symbolize their invisibility.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Speaking in Spanish, and translated by a Spanish-English translator, Maria introduced herself and talked about the poor treatment migrant workers like her face every day. <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">She brought up the issue of Border Patrol’s actions and described the police as “acting as if they are immigration officers,” and she admitted that “we are more afraid of them [than] we are afraid of criminals.”<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">The crackdown of immigrants by Border Patrol is a serious problem; some immigrants are even afraid to attend their church because they know Border Patrol could drive by and pull them right from the pews.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Almost every family in the immigrant community in or near Sodus has had a family member taken from them by Border Patrol, according to the film. Lorena described how she suffered a stroke and when she returned to work several weeks later, she was denied, despite working for them for the past 11 years.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">Elisa faced the same treatment after hurting her back and needing surgery. When she returned, her employers turned her away and she was forced to find new work. </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><br></p></div></div></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="top" style="line-height: 19px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(25, 14, 2); "><table width="580" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="line-height: 18px; "><tbody><tr><td style="line-height: 19px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(25, 14, 2); "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><img width="580" height="88" src="https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/625/images/header.gif" alt="Latin American Working Group" style="line-height: 18px; "></td></tr><tr><td style="line-height: 19px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(25, 14, 2); "><table width="580" cellspacing="10" cellpadding="0" border="0" bgcolor="#ace1f4" style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(172, 225, 244); "><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="line-height: 19px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(25, 14, 2); "><h1 style="line-height: 16px; color: rgb(73, 61, 49); font-size: 16px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 5px; "></h1><i style="line-height: 18px; "><b>Promote Justice for Mexico and the Borderlands</b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="580" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" class="ecxcontent" style="line-height: 18px; "><tbody><tr><td width="15" valign="top" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="line-height: 19px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(25, 14, 2); text-align: left; padding-top: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 0px; "></td><td align="left" width="565" valign="top" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="line-height: 19px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(25, 14, 2); text-align: left; padding-top: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 0px; "><table align="right" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="line-height: 18px; "><tbody><tr><td style="line-height: 19px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(25, 14, 2); text-align: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 20px; "><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="15" border="0" bgcolor="#fff5d3" style="line-height: 18px; "><tbody><tr><td style="line-height: 19px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(25, 14, 2); text-align: left; "><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#e2ecef" class="ecxmod" style="line-height: 15px; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(68, 59, 49); width: 221px; height: 266px; "><tbody><tr><td align="left" bgcolor="#ba5700" style="line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(186, 87, 0); "><h3 style="line-height: 14px; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Help us stop Border Patrol abuse against migrants. Tell Secretary Napolitano to ensure human rights advocates have access to Border Patrol Facilities.</h3></td></tr><tr><td align="left" style="line-height: 16px; text-align: left; "><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Wb1oSvTkY2WpxfWzLDFghQHFg6nO42RI" target="_blank" style="line-height: 15px; color: rgb(186, 87, 0); cursor: pointer; "><img width="208" height="156" src="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/625/images/No More Deaths2.jpg" alt="" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; "></a><br style="line-height: 15px; "></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Dear John, <br style="line-height: 18px; "><br style="line-height: 18px; ">Have you ever been inside a U.S. Border Patrol detention facility? I haven’t. But every year, thousands of migrants, many from Mexico and Central America, are held in these centers. Many have reported that <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=lM3Vk1oBPNGVB/NRmEQTJAHFg6nO42RI" target="_blank" style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(186, 87, 0); cursor: pointer; ">their basic human rights were violated while in U.S. Border Patrol custody</a>. Sadly, U.S. tax dollars are funding this humanitarian rights crisis at our Southwest border, and we need your help to stop it. First, let me tell you a few <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HatubNWzdtEPviczNwj1XAHFg6nO42RI" target="_blank" style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(186, 87, 0); cursor: pointer; ">stories</a>: <br style="line-height: 18px; "><br style="line-height: 18px; "><i style="line-height: 18px; ">After walking through the desert for three days, <b>Gerardo </b>was detained at a U.S Border Patrol detention center in southern Arizona. His feet were severely blistered, but when he requested medical attention, he was only told, “Later” and never did receive any care. Traumatizing songs about people dying in the desert were played over the loudspeakers 24 hours a day at high volume, and every two hours guards came in shouting at the detainees, requiring them to line up for inspection. <b>Jorge </b>said that agents threw out any food the detainees had and provided none even when it was requested; over the course of three days, they received only packets of crackers. </i><br style="line-height: 18px; "><br style="line-height: 18px; ">And of course, mistreatment doesn’t end with Gerardo and Jorge. Humanitarian aid organizations at the U.S.-Mexico border, including <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ecpqDl0bQa1Eg2Js7aFQ8AHFg6nO42RI" target="_blank" style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(186, 87, 0); cursor: pointer; ">No More Deaths</a> and a network of<a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=gGLymea%2BYARHrd3k/9wKZAHFg6nO42RI" target="_blank" style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(186, 87, 0); cursor: pointer; ">migrant rights centers and shelters in Northern Mexico</a>, have spoken to thousands of migrants who reported cases of abuse while in Border Patrol custody. <br style="line-height: 18px; "><br style="line-height: 18px; ">These disturbing accounts demand a response. In late February, Border Patrol Chief Michael Fisher <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=aH/OWF26h55fU/7Df/oG/gHFg6nO42RI" target="_blank" style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(186, 87, 0); cursor: pointer; ">testified before Congress</a> and stated that complaints of misconduct by the Border Patrol are turned over to the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for investigation. This is necessary, but ensuring accountability also requires independent, ongoing scrutiny of the agency from <u style="line-height: 18px; "><i>outside </i></u>the Department of Homeland Security, where Border Patrol is housed. A first step? Allowing human rights organizations <u style="line-height: 18px; "><i>into</i></u> Border Patrol’s detention facilities. <br style="line-height: 18px; "><br style="line-height: 18px; "><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=kDyuY3wd3tq48Tlv68cPewHFg6nO42RI" target="_blank" style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(186, 87, 0); cursor: pointer; "><b>Click here to urge Department of Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano to ensure human rights monitors have regular and meaningful access to Border Patrol facilities. </b></a><br style="line-height: 18px; "><br style="line-height: 18px; ">Frustrated that complaints regarding abuses against migrants were going unheeded, human rights groups from both sides of the border came to Washington, DC last month to <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=zhQXWNVRh7uddLmhAykTvgHFg6nO42RI" target="_blank" style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(186, 87, 0); cursor: pointer; ">testify before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights</a> (IACHR) on these issues. All pushed for improvements to ensure that migrants were protected, including strengthened oversight and accountability for the Border Patrol. They made the case for human rights advocates to monitor detention conditions first-hand, and urged the IACHR to conduct its own investigation into abuses against migrants at the United States Southwest border. <br style="line-height: 18px; "><br style="line-height: 18px; "><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ui%2Bpa4IGQq3R0VCYbNw4UQHFg6nO42RI" target="_blank" style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(186, 87, 0); cursor: pointer; "><b>Click here to urge Department of Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano to ensure human rights observers have access to Border Patrol facilities. </b></a><br style="line-height: 18px; "><br style="line-height: 18px; ">Groups from both sides of the border reveal widespread and systematic human and civil rights abuses - separation of families, mistreatment in detention, <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=j7hbTzhx/HytCnArYwRT4wHFg6nO42RI" target="_blank" style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(186, 87, 0); cursor: pointer; ">excessive use of force</a> – abuses that demand action. The opportunity for independent human rights groups to access Border Patrol facilities is an important first step. <br style="line-height: 18px; "><br style="line-height: 18px; ">Thanks for everything you do to ensure that these abuses are not swept under the rug. <br style="line-height: 18px; "><br style="line-height: 18px; ">Best,<br style="line-height: 18px; "><br style="line-height: 18px; ">Jenny, Ben, and Amy, <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=J3wSjU3rJZ/pTjJ3kLWk0gHFg6nO42RI" target="_blank" style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(186, 87, 0); cursor: pointer; ">LAWG’s Mexico/Border Team</a> <br style="line-height: 18px; "></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="580" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="line-height: 18px; "><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="line-height: 19px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(25, 14, 2); padding-top: 15px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="line-height: 15px; 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