what america, gringo?
Posted on 10/07/2007 12:30:46 PM PDT by AuntB
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Latino Congreso, meeting in Los Angeles this weekend, has unanimously passed one of two resolutions presented by representatives of the Kucinich for President campaign and will consider a second one today.
The Congreso, expected to draw upwards of 2,000 Latino elected officials, community leaders, and activists from across the country, is developing a political and social action agenda for the coming year, and hopes to have a major impact on the 2008 Presidential election campaign.
The campaign of Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich is the only Presidential campaign that is officially sponsoring the Congreso.
Kucinich will be the keynote speaker Sunday morning at a breakfast sponsored by the Latino Vote Caucus. Today (Saturday), Rep. Kucinich's wife, Elizabeth, will address a luncheon meeting on "America & the World in the 21st Century."
The resolution approved Friday night calls for the Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff's Department to shut down a telephone hotline set up to encourage people to report the whereabouts and activities of persons the callers suspect of being in the country illegally. The Congreso resolution says the hotline encourages "racial profiling and promotes discrimination of the Latino community of Maricopa County."
The second resolution deals with the "Minuteman Project," a group of individuals who patrol the U.S. border with Mexico to discourage crossings. The group is all volunteer, raises its funds from private sources, and, while heavily armed is undocumented as being a bona fide law enforcement agency.
The Congreso resolution finds that the Minuteman Project "promotes violence, hatred, racism and discrimination which are not representative traits of the honorable and just American society that has a rich legacy of immigration and inclusiveness."
On Saturday, a group supporting the Minuteman Project will picket outside of the Sheraton Los Angeles Hotel where the Congreso is being held. The protestors claim they will be peaceful, although one pro-Minuteman Internet blog on Friday discussing the Congreso included the comment "Target rich environment...I suggest we treat the event like a M.O.V.E. house in Philadelphia..." The blog referred to an incident in Philadelphia on May 13, 1985, when police dropped an incendiary device on a row house after being fired upon when attempting to serve arrest warrants on four of the occupants. The resulting fire from the device burned down 50 houses, killing six people and leaving another 200 neighborhood residents homeless.
Kucinich staffers from California, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona are participating in the Congreso.
Last year the marchers in our streets told us they have ' a nation within a nation'
Looks like we now have a government within our government.
Congressman Billybob
Latest article, "A Toe-Tapping Good Time"
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what america, gringo?
If the “Congreso” likes it, it’s a pretty clear indication that I shouldn’t.
I know it sounds biggoted, Billybob, but cultures who don't have representative government/rule of law and have never fought to protect it basically have no use for it. The alien crowd has aligned itself with ANSWER, socialist workers parties, communists, Islamists and everyone that is not AMERICAN.
The illegal aliens and the space alien unite. It’s a wonderful country.
In other words, their first resolution is to try to prevent law enforcement in the country.
But I thought they were all just trying to be good, law abiding Americans? Isn't that what we've been told over and over again?
Let's take a look at this... First off, the beginning is nothing more than an illegitimate, lying rant to defame, and therefore marginalize, the Minuteman Project. The key part is the very true part that immigration was and is a very important part of what makes the USA the country that it is. What they leave out is the fact that it's LEGAL immigration AND ASSIMILATION that has made the USA what it is... It's the assimilation that was the "melting pot" analogy that this country used to be.
On the other hand, this group and others like it are supporting and encouraging ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION and the balkanization of America, which does nothing but hurt the country and the people here legally.
Mark
Agreed!
He would support ANYTHING that creates more government dependents, and targets for wealth-redistribution.
He's always assaulted successful enterprises and individuals, trying to target them to take their money and hand it out to selected classes. (That's how he bankrupted the City of Cleveland as Mayor).
His voterbase is DU and Daily Kuss, and every moonbat and loonie you can find.
My dear friends..............
PUKEMAO!
We get the scum.......Calderon keeps the cream!
QUISLING: a synonym for traitor, someone who coll
U.S. Constitution, Article 4 Section 4:
"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,
1. The act of invading; the act of encroaching upon the rights or possessions of another; encroachment; trespass.
aborates with the invaders of his country.
...no comment....:<)
Perfect!!
Go take you BP meds and read this one:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1907936/posts
US to launch $1bn ‘Plan Mexico’
Resolutions passed by the Latino Congreso
Sheraton Los Angeles Downtown
Oct 5th-9th 2007
2007 APPROVED RESOLUTIONS
Resolution 5.01 - Voter Empowerment Resolution
Author: Mr. Antonio Gonzalez
Organization: Southwest Voter Registration Education Project (SVREP)
Resolution 5.03 - Ask the California Governor to Sign AB 1294
Author: Mr. Steve Chessin
Organization: Californians for Electoral Reform
Resolution 5.04 - A Resolution to Promote a More Inclusive and Racially Just Democracy
Author: Ms. M. Aurora Vasquez
Organization: Advancement Project
Resolution 5.05 - Instant Runoff Voting for the City of Los Angeles
Author: Mr. Gautam Dutta
Organization: New American Foundation
Resolution 5.06 - Restoration of Voting Rights
Author: Mr. Justin Levitt
Organization: Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law
Resolution 5.07 - RESOLUTION on Rights for Open and Honest Elections and against Corporate Secret Vote Counting
Author: Ms. Judith Alter
Organization: Protect California Ballots
Resolution 5.09 - Resolution supporting the incorporation of unincorporated East Los Angeles
Author: Mr. Tomas Gonzales
Organization: Long Beach LULAC Council 3088
Resolution 5.11 - Resolution on the 2010 Census
Author: Mr. Steven Ochoa
Organization: William C. Velasquez Institute (WCVI)
Resolution 5.12 - Resolution on Redistricting Reform
Author: Mr. Steven Ochoa
Organization: William C. Velasquez Institute (WCVI)
Resolution 5.13 - Unconstitutional Towing and Driver’s License Resolution
Author: Honorable Gilbert Cedillo
Organization: The Honorable Gil Cedillo, Senator, California State Senate
Resolution 5.14 - Cesar E. Chavez National Holiday Action 2007 & 2008
Author: Ms. Evelina Alarcon
Organization: Cesar E. Chavez National Holiday
Resolution 5.15 - SUPPORTING SENATE BILL 327 & HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES BILL 359 TO CONDUCT A SPECIAL RESOURCES STUDY OF SITES ASSOCIATED WITH THE LIFE OF CESAR ESTRADA CHAVEZ AND THE FARM LABOR MOVEMENT
Author: Mr. Joshua Stark
Organization: National Parks Conservation Association
Resolution 5.16 - Sheriff’s Hotline
Author: Mr. Yuri Jimenez
Organization: Kucinich For President 2008
Resolution 5.17 - Resolution Supporting Hungry For Respect
Author: Ms. Cynthia Aragon
Organization: Somos America Coalition, Arizona
Resolution 6.01 - Stop the War- End the Occupation
Author: Mr. Rosalio Munoz
Organization: Latinos for Peace
Resolution 6.02 - Resolution on Luis Posada Carriles
Author: Ms. Alicia Jrapko
Organization: International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five
Resolution 6.03 - Resolution to Overturn Unconstitutional Family Travel Restrictions to Cuba
Author: Mr. Alvaro Fernandez
Organization: Comision Cubana-Americana Por Derechos Familiares, Inc.
Resolution 6.04 - Resolution to Support Humanitarian Mediation In Colombia by The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Author: Mr. Roberto Vargas
Organization: William C. Velasquez Institute (WCVI)
Resolution 6.05 - RESOLUTION ON POLICY CHANGE: U.S.- CENTRAL AMERICAN RELATIONS
Author: Mr. Robert Vargas
Organization: William C. Velasquez Institute (WCVI)
Resolution 6.06 - Closure of the School of the Americas (SOA)/WHINSEC
Author: Ms. Sandra Sunshine Williams
Organization: Committee to Close the SOA
Resolution 6.07 - Support for Puerto Rico Self Determination
Author: Mr. Pablo Martinez
Organization: League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
Resolution 6.08 - Oppose Expansion of NAFTA/CAFTA
Author: Mr. Oscar Chacon
Organization: National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities (NALACC)
Resolution 6.09 - A Call to Humanism and Respect for Independence and Sovereignty
Author: Mr. Ricardo Zelada
Organization: Latinos Por La Democracia Participativa
Resolution 6.10 - Resolution on the Five Cuban Political Prisoners
Author: Ms. Alicia Jrapko
Organization: International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five
Resolution 6.11 - Fair, Humane and Rational Immigration Reform
Author: Mr. Nativo Lopez
Organization: Mexican American Political Association (MAPA)
Resolution 6.12 - Resolution to Urge Congress to Repeal 287 (g) and Restructure Federal Funding to Target Drug Enforcement Operations and Place a Civilian Oversight Committee
Author: Mr. Pablo Martinez
Organization: New Mexico LULAC
Resolution 6.13 - Resolution to Urge the Bush Administration to Halt Immigration Raids
Author: Mr. Pablo Martinez
Organization: New Mexico LULAC
Resolution 6.14 - Resolution to Urge the Bush Administration to Halt Modern Day Concentration Camps, Restructure Immigration Detention Center Policies and to Consider Parole of Immigrants with US Born Children
Author: Mr. Pablo Martinez
Organization: New Mexico LULAC
Resolution 6.15 - No Human Being is Illegal
Author: Mr. Raul Anorve
Organization: Instituto de Educacion Popular del Sur de California
Resolution 6.16 - Formal Position and Statement Denouncing Vigilantism of the “Minutemen Project”
Author: Mr. Yuri Jimenez
Organization: Kucinich For President 2008
Resolution 6.17 (Floor Resolution) - Resolution in Support of Day Laborers
Author: Mr. Pablo Alvarado
Organization: National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON)
Resolution 6.18 (Floor Resolution) - Resolution supporting the UFCW lawsuit re: ICE Swift Raids
Author: Mr. Fernando Rodriquez
Organization: Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA)
Resolution 6.19 (Floor Resolution) - Withdraw of United Nations Troops in Haiti
Author: Mr. Jean-Robert Lafortune
Organization: Haitian-American Grassroots Coalition
Resolution 6.20 (Floor Resolution) - RESOLUTION TO RESPECT THE SOVEREIGNTY OF BOLIVIA AND ITS DEMOCRATIC PROCESS
Author: Mr. Rosalio Munoz
Organization: Latinos for Peace
Resolution 6.22 (Floor Resolution) - RESOLUTION TO DEMAND THAT THE U.S. SUPREME COURT HEAR THE CASE OF THE U.S. CITIZEN CHILDREN OF UNDOCUMENTED PARENTS
Author: Mr. Emma Lozano
Organization: National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON)
Resolution 6.23 (Floor Resolution) - Restore the Fairness Doctrine Act
Author: Ms. Lydia Guzman
Organization: Somos America Coalition, Arizona
Resolution 6.24 (Floor Resolution) - Decreasing the National Hispanic Dropout Rate Supporting the DREAM Act
Author: Mr. Luis Avila
Organization: Somos America Coalition, Arizona
Resolution 6.25 (Floor Resolution) - Enforcing Real Estate Fraud Laws
Author: Mr. Francisco Mendoza
Organization: Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA)
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