Magdaleno

Dear Friends…

 

I believe that we can do a lot to change the world…we just have to take a moment and do something to help others..do something to make sure that the right people get elected this November…

 

NOW FOR MY VIEW OF THE NEWS

a. stay the course…or not

b. Sister Helen Prejean

c. Support Claudia Kauffman

d. Burke Museum

e. Cultural Center

f. Refugee All Stars

g. National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

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STAY THE COURSE

 

On a Sunday morning news program I actually heard President Bush say that he had not used the phrase STAY THE COURSE….excuse me…but his has been his mantra for years…and any good journalist can Google the thousands of times he has said things like WE WILL NOT CUT AND RUN..WE WILL STAY THE COURSE…

 

We all knew that the phrase STAY THE COURSE was wrong.. Now their polling asks that they use a new phrase…and they are scrambling to find a softer way to say their message and continue on in Iraq killing and maiming…

 

The media should be throwing up at this notion that they now say that they never used the phrase STAY THE COURSE…..they are trying to re-write history…

 

Right Wing Radio and Television talk show hosts have had special meetings with Bush and Rove in order to get their new talking points…you would think that these folks would get tired of being a lap dog for this administration. .If they want to be true conservatives then they should defend conservative values…and not be prostitutes to political expediency…

 

 

Sister Helen Prejean in Portland

          Please go to hear her speak.

 

Helen will be in Oregon on Sunday, Oct. 29 at Maryhurst University.  The contact person there is Andrea Richardson 503-699-6307.  Give her a call to find out exactly where the talk will be located.

 

Also,  Helen’s public calendar can be found by going to her website www.prejean.org.  On the left hand side you will see a list of links.  CALENDAR is one of them.  Just click on that it will take to her calendar.

 

And if you get a chance to say hello to Sister Helen then tell her you know LENNY…that’s what she calls me…and calls me by other names when she is upset at me ..ha ha ..so to some of you

 I am magdaleno or leno ..to Helen I am Lenny.

 

Sister Helen is a wonderful person and gives a good message for all. Unfortunately I will still be back east and will miss her talk.

 

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Support Claudia Kaufman

          For the Washington State Senate

Can you volunteer to wave signs for her on any of these days??

Fri, Oct 27

Mon, Oct 30

Wed, Nov 1

Fri, Nov 3

If anyone would like to join call Jeremy..

Jeremy Oslund
Field Organizer
Claudia Kauffman for State Senate – 47th District
(253) 854-0304 office
(360) 513-4601 cell
www.claudiaforsenate.com

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BURKE MUSEUM…a good Dia De Los Muertos Display

Tuesday night I went to a wonderful event for the Women’s Funding Alliance which was held at the Burke Museum at the University of Washington. I thought that the display was very wonderful and suggest that you go take a look for yourselves..

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Cultural Center presents …

 

5th Annual

Dia de los Muertos

“Mujeres de Ciudad Juarez”

 

When: November 02, 2006

Where: Jerry M. Brockey (JMB) Room A

Time: 1:00-2:00 pm

* There will be light refreshments such as sweet bread and Mexican hot chocolate.

 

        All Campus Community members, students, and staff are invited to join us for our 5th Annual Dia De Los Muertos. We are privileged enough to have a great speaker Magdaleno Rose-Avila, the Executive Director of the Northwest Immigrant Right Project (NWIRP). Mr. Rose-Avila will be speaking of an important issue, “Las Mujeres de Ciudad Juarez”, the 427 women of the city of Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico that have been killed in the past years without any justice served to their families.

 

For more information please contact:

Alexandra Espinoza or Alejandra Martinez, C/H/L Commissioners

6000 16th Ave SW, JMB 146

Seattle, WA 98106

(206) 764-7969

E-mail: ssccchlcommissioner@sccd.edu

 

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The Refugee All Stars

This wonderful group of Musicians will return to Seattle in November. The Northwest Immigrant Rights Organization will co-sponsor their concert and will sponsor a viewing of the documentary film about their story. Go to nwirp.org to get the details.

FILM SHOWING Nov. 2^nd

Concert ..Show box Nov .12^th

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NATIONAL COALITION TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY

          30^th anniversary of human rights work. 26-29

 

SHARE A STORY

When you have a moment you should share one of your stories with one of your friends or ask them to tell you one of theirs….we have a lot to learn from each other…more than what we will get out of books…

I am putting my stories into a second book…and hope to share them with you soon.

My smile for all of you

leno

Dear Sisters and Brothers

Today we must open up our arms to others in our community. ..We must connect our movements, our dreams and our work. ..We must build bridges between us and find ways to work together in behalf our community. We must find a way to work with in coalitions.

NOW FOR MY VIEW OF THE NEWS

a.      Violence Invades the Amish

b.      Re-hab

c.       Stay the Course

d.      Chicano in the Gym

e.       Speaking Schedule

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VIOLENCE INVADES THE HUMBLE AMISH

There has been a lot of violence in the schools and no one calls for more control of weapons….The NRA the national rifle association continues to intimidate law makers from taking a bold step forward.

The Amish community in Pennsylvania has received a lot of attention and many financial donations as a result of five of their young students being killed….They did not ask for the money and are probably uncomfortable with these unexpected funds. It is said that they are taking some of the money to help the family of the man who shot and killed their children.  The Amish community has involved itself in reaching out to the family of Carl Roberts Rodgers IV who shot and killed there loved one. They understand that we must all heal and that the family of the shooter is not guilty of the crime of their family member. In addition some of them went to the funeral of Mr. Rodgers.

The Bush administration is calling a special conference on school violence…I would suggest that they go to the Amish Community and learn lessons there, not from the NRA (The National Rifle Association)..

RE-HAB (rehabilitation)

It seems that any politician who is caught lying, committing crimes or moral indiscretions can now blame alcohol and go into rehab…Congressman Ney and Congressman Foley both ran from the media and the truth by running to rehab.

Flip Wilson a black comic some years ago used to joke that when he did some thing wrong he would say …THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT…

This devil seems to have been very very busy these days…

The republicans try to blame anyone but them selves….

Well when you can’t blame the Devil you can always blame the democrats or you can blame Bill Clinton or George Soros or the Victims…

If you watch Fox News long enough you will see their fingers and stories pointing towards any one but the party in power.

STAY THE COURSE …AND SEE MORE MISTAKES

George Bush continues to stay the course ….and we continue to lose our soldiers and make more enemies …how many have to die before we say enough is enough…we need to continue to make this issue a key issue in this election cycle… we need to raise our voices and votes against this war.

It’s weird that the Bush administration has budgeted $20 million to celebrate the victory in Iraq…that is a very strange thing to have in the budget when everything is going wrong with this awful war. There is nothing to celebrate…

Remember that you need to do all in your power to get everyone out to vote. We need to send a clear message to all politicos about this war.

 

A CHICANO TRYING TO STAY ALIVE

I have joined a GYM…yep a place with three floors of equipment, saunas, whirlpools and work out areas…a lawyer friend of mine Paul Soreff convinced me that I should join..

At first I did not want to hear that I needed help and worse… that I needed to spend some of my hard earned cash on this endeavor ….

I joined got a personal trainer who measured and weighed me…most embarrassing…then went on to introduce me to an exercise routine…

Soon I was going in five days a week and doing other exercises at home on off days…the results are not easy to obtain but come slowly….I have long days of work and have to figure in some odd hours for this exercise routine….so far the results are that I found some muscles on my legs…and beginning to find some muscles on my back and biceps…also I have lost 12 pounds …mostly quesadillas and tamales that were hanging on to my body…so if I can lose a pound a week then it will be fine and worth all the effort and money…

WHO GOES TO THIS GYM?…It is filled by people of all colors, sizes, shapes and income levels….yes there are some there with bodies like mine working out and trying to get in shape…but the bulk of the people there already  have good looking bodies …some with bulging muscles…most men and women there work out with more weight than what I can tackle…some are grunting and sweating for long periods of time and seem very happy with this process….then there is leno with a simple but interesting work out routine…

The peer pressure is to get the right stuff to wear in this gym …so that it looks as if you are serious about working out…on one floor the walls are windows and people walking by can look in and watch us working out. I am close to having the right clothes and bag…and almost ready for public scrutiny. You also must have a good looking water bottle…when you are working out you need to drink plenty of water….

You have to learn to stretch before, during and after your work out…even stretching has an art to it and you must look good when you are stretching…it is not polite to stare at others…so often I close my eyes….and pretend that I am in the gym alone..

When I can’t work up a good sweat I run into the bath room and spray water on the right places on my shirt, face and neck ….then I run out and get on a treadmill and push myself a little ..Those around me I know are impressed with my efforts and all the sweat that seems to show on me……there I am leno sweating with the best of them…

I am learning the right way walk after a work out…I have to make it look as if my muscles are tight and that I am in control of this new body…

Most of the trainers there know me and call out HEY LENO HOW YA DOING TODAY…some actually stop by to tell me how to get the most out of a particular routine… and there is a lot of encouragement…since I started I have run into other friends, staff and one of my board members there. Not as private as I would like.

 

LENO’S SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

October 13^th 

Latina/o National Student Bar Association

National Conference

9:00 am. Seattle University Key note Speaker

Seattle, University

 

October 13-15^th

Amnesty International Western Regional Conference

Speaker on Panel on Border Issues on the 15th

Tucson, Arizona

October 27-29

National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

MC for Awards Banquet

OTHER HONORED

This past week I got to see many honored included my own organization at a variety of Annual Dinners. It is good to recognize local groups and individuals because of their work and their dreams. But I must remind you that there are many other worthy individuals and groups who may never be recognized . These folks continue to do the work because it is right and just. So we must honor all who work in behalf of our communities. You can honor them by personally thanking them for their work…This will help to keep them moving forward and struggling for justice.

My best

leno

Dear Sisters and Brothers

I am urging all of you to get involved in your local and national elections. You can not sit this one out …Support your candidates with all that you have and work to make change in this country of ours…You can help to make a difference …take comp time, vacation time, sick leave but get out and work this election cycle.

NOW FOR MY VIEW OF THE NEWS.

 

1. Warning for Rice
2. Cafferty on CNN
3. Rep. Mark Foley Resigns.
4. Open your heart to the homeless

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Two Months Before 9/11, an Urgent Warning to Rice

WASHINGTON (Washington Post) – On July 10, 2001, two months before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, then-CIA Director George J. Tenet met with his counterterrorism chief, J. Cofer Black, at CIA headquarters to review the latest on Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda terrorist organization.

Black laid out the case, consisting of communications intercepts and other top-secret intelligence showing the increasing likelihood that al-Qaeda would soon attack the United States. It was a mass of fragments and dots that nonetheless made a compelling case, so compelling to Tenet that he decided he and Black should go to the White House immediately.

Tenet called Condoleezza Rice, then national security adviser, from the car and said he needed to see her right away. There was no practical way she could refuse such a request from the CIA director.

For months, Tenet had been pressing Rice to set a clear counterterrorism policy, including specific presidential orders called “findings” that would give the CIA stronger authority to conduct covert action against bin Laden. Perhaps a dramatic appearance — Black called it an “out of cycle” session, beyond Tenet’s regular weekly meeting with Rice — would get her attention.

Tenet had been losing sleep over the recent intelligence he’d seen. There was no conclusive, smoking-gun intelligence, but there was such a huge volume of data that an intelligence officer’s instinct strongly suggested that something was coming. He and Black hoped to convey the depth of their anxiety and get Rice to kick-start the government into immediate action.

He did not know when, where or how, but Tenet felt there was too much noise in the intelligence systems. Two weeks earlier, he had told Richard A. Clarke, the National Security Council’s counterterrorism director: “It’s my sixth sense, but I feel it coming. This is going to be the big one.”

But Tenet had been having difficulty getting traction on an immediate bin Laden action plan, in part because Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld had questioned all the National Security Agency intercepts and other intelligence. Could all this be a grand deception? Rumsfeld had asked. Perhaps it was a plan to measure U.S. reactions and defenses.

Tenet had the NSA review all the intercepts, and the agency concluded they were of genuine al-Qaeda communications. On June 30, a top-secret senior executive intelligence brief contained an article headlined “Bin Laden Threats Are Real.”

Tenet hoped his abrupt request for an immediate meeting would shake Rice. He and Black, a veteran covert operator, had two main points when they met with her. First, al-Qaeda was going to attack American interests, possibly in the United States itself. Black emphasized that this amounted to a strategic warning, meaning the problem was so serious that it required an overall plan and strategy. Second, this was a major foreign policy problem that needed to be addressed immediately. They needed to take action that moment — covert, military, whatever — to thwart bin Laden.

The United States had human and technical sources, and all the intelligence was consistent, the two men told Rice. Black acknowledged that some of it was uncertain “voodoo” but said it was often this voodoo that was the best indicator.

Tenet and Black felt they were not getting through to Rice. She was polite, but they felt the brush-off. President Bush had said he didn’t want to swat at flies.

As they all knew, a coherent plan for covert action against bin Laden was in the pipeline, but it would take some time. In recent closed-door meetings the entire National Security Council apparatus had been considering action against bin Laden, including using a new secret weapon: the Predator unmanned aerial vehicle, or drone, that could fire Hellfire missiles to kill him or his lieutenants. It looked like a possible solution, but there was a raging debate between the CIA and the Pentagon about who would pay for it and who would have authority to shoot.

Besides, Rice seemed focused on other administration priorities, especially the ballistic missile defense system that Bush had campaigned on. She was in a different place.

Tenet left the meeting feeling frustrated. Though Rice had given them a fair hearing, no immediate action meant great risk. Black felt the decision to just keep planning was a sustained policy failure. Rice and the Bush team had been in hibernation too long. “Adults should not have a system like this,” he said later.

The July 10 meeting between Tenet, Black and Rice went unmentioned in the various reports of investigations into the Sept. 11 attacks, but it stood out in the minds of Tenet and Black as the starkest warning they had given the White House on bin Laden and al-Qaeda. Though the investigators had access to all the paperwork on the meeting, Black felt there were things the commissions wanted to know about and things they didn’t want to know about.

Philip D. Zelikow, the aggressive executive director of the Sept. 11 commission and a University of Virginia professor who had co-authored a book with Rice on Germany, knew something about the July 10 meeting, but it was not clear to him what immediate action really would have meant. In 2005 Rice hired Zelikow as a top aide at the State Department.

Afterward, Tenet looked back on the meeting with Rice as a tremendous lost opportunity to prevent or disrupt the Sept. 11 attacks. Rice could have gotten through to Bush on the threat, but she just didn’t get it in time, Tenet thought. He felt that he had done his job and had been very direct about the threat, but that Rice had not moved quickly. He felt she was not organized and did not push people, as he tried to do at the CIA.

Black later said, “The only thing we didn’t do was pull the trigger to the gun we were holding to her head.”

Editor’s Note: How much effort the Bush administration made in going after Osama bin Laden before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, became an issue last week after former president Bill Clinton accused President Bush’s “neocons” and other Republicans of ignoring bin Laden until the attacks. Rice responded in an interview that “what we did in the eight months was at least as aggressive as what the Clinton administration did in the preceding years.”

© 2006 The Washington Post Company
Sunday, October 1, 2006; A17

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Cafferty tells the truth

 

Cafferty from CNN…this is worth the watch…take a moment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoRjbIQMXGQ

Rep. Mark Foley

WHEN DID THE REPUBLICAN HOUSE LEADERSHIP KNOW AND WHAT DID THEY DO

Now just a reminder of the theatrical moral outrage of Rep. Mark Foley said about Clinton’s indiscretions…

It’s vile,” said Rep. Mark Foley, R-West Palm Beach. “It’s more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual addiction.” -1998 about Clinton

INTERESTING!!!

Recently Rep. Foley resigned his position in congress when it was revealed that he was sending e mails to pages that had sexual implications. This is a man who co-chaired a special committee that has over sight on internet predators…BAD REPUBLICAN DECISION TO PUT THE FOX IN THE HEN HOUSE.

There needs to be a full, immediate and independent investigation of this incident. The Speaker of the House knew months ago as did other republican leaders and they did nothing… we should all press for the truth and to know if there is a cover up…were the republicans just trying to hold on to their majority in the house and is that why they were silent ????… Those who knew of this situation and took no action should also be asked to resign…immediately.

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Open up your hearts to the homeless

Went to the Doctor…

The doctor came into the small room and asked WHY ARE YOU HERE?…UUH I AM SICK I RESPONDED……after many questions and many probes into my ears, throat and nose…she confirmed that I was sick…and proceeded to give me the proper prescriptions… the last two times that I have gone to the doctors I have had to get undressed and with this chubby body it is most embarrassing…but I will do what it takes to get healthy…my advice to you is to see your doc..check out what is bothering you..

NO THERE IS NO MEDICINE FOR GETTING PRESIDENT BUSH OUT OF OUR SYSTEMS OTHER THAN VOTING AND DEMONSTRATING….so for almost everything else see your medical provider…and eat more raw vegetables, fruit and remember to drink your water…and exercise….

My best

leno