La comunidad se moviliza en contra del odio

Transcripción

Oregon Senate and House
disagree on Real ID
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Hillary Clinton se abre
espacio entre los hispanos
Opinión: La ley de la selva
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Para la comunidad hispana
Volume XXVI
No. 23
Aniversario
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September
29, 2005
June 7, 2007
Anniversary
Founded 1981
M
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19 soldiers
jailed after
2 women,
3 children
killed
at army
checkpoint
La comunidad se moviliza
en contra del odio
Richard Jones
El Hispanic News Writer
Ioan Grillo
Associated Press Writer
Mexico City (AP) — Nineteen Mexican soldiers were
sent to a military prison
Monday after troops allegedly
killed two women and three
children whose vehicle failed
to stop at an army checkpoint, the Defense Department said.
The shooting in the Pacific
state of Sinaloa is the latest
case of suspected abuse by
soldiers deployed by President
Felipe Calderón in a national
offensive against powerful
drug cartels.
The family was traveling
to a funeral last Friday when
they were ordered to stop at
the checkpoint near the village of La Joya, according to
local media. When they failed
to stop, soldiers reportedly
opened fire on the van.
Police identified the dead
as Alicia Esparza Parra, 17;
Griselda Galaviz Barraza, 25,
and Galaviz Barraza's children Joniel, 7; Griselda, 4, and
Juana, 2. Three other civilians
in the van were wounded.
Mexico's Defense Department said in a news release
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Detienen a 19
soldados por
matar a mujeres
y niños
Ioan Grillo
Reportero de Associated Press
México (AP) — Diecinueve
soldados fueron encerrados
en una prisión militar, acusados de matar a tiros a dos
mujeres y tres niños que se
negaron a detenerse en un
retén, informó la secretaría de
Defensa el lunes.
El incidente en el estado
de Sinaloa es el caso más
reciente de una serie de presuntos abusos por parte de
los militares, que por orden
del presidente Felipe Calderón
libran una ofensiva contra los
cárteles de la droga.
La secretaría dijo en un
comunicado que tres oficiales
y 16 soldados fueron enviados a
la prisión en Mazatlán después
de la matanza del viernes cerca
de la pequeña población de La
Joya, Sinaloa. Otros tres civiles
resultaron heridos, según el
comunicado.
La familia se dirigía a un
funeral cuando los soldados
les ordenaron detenerse, según
informes de la prensa local.
La policía identificó a las
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Pedro José Greer
listens and learns
— and creates a
different model
of health care
Photo Richard Jones, El Hispanic News
Alberto Moreno (derecha), coordinador de salud para los migrantes del Departamento de Servicios Humanos, habla en la conferencia de prensa el pasado viernes. Marco Mejía (izquierda), Aeryca Steinbauer, y Mark Knutson cada uno expresaron sus sentimientos
acerca del ataque a dos latinos sin armas en Mulino, Oregon. Una cruz gamada de un vándalo (detrás de Mejía) estropea el mural de La Sirenita.
Julie Cortez
Reportera de El Hispanic News
Oregon City, OR — El mensaje en una conferencia de prensa en
Portland el pasado viernes y en una vigilia en Oregon City el domingo,
fue entregado apasionadamente orador tras orador: el ataque a dos
latinos en Mulino, Oregon, el 24 de mayo pasado fue un
ENG crimen de discriminación, no fue un incidente aislado, y
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la culpa no cae en los jóvenes atacantes solamente.
Hablando en Oregon City, Bruce Morris del Proyecto Rural Organizado llamó a los ataques “inevitables” cuando una minoría ruidosa
— como aquellos que etiquetan a los indocumentados como criminales y una amenaza para los trabajos de los americanos— apuntan a
un grupo, lo cual “rápidamente lleva a la demonización, y el camino
a la demonización termina en Mulino”.
Los crímenes de odio, dijo él, “son la retórica de la desigualdad
exteriorizada a través de actos de violencia”.
Edwin Gonzáles, de 28 años, y Alex Guzmán, de 26 años, fueron
atacados hace dos semanas en el pueblo de Mulino en el Condado
de Clackamas, por un grupo de adolescentes quienes según se
afirma gritaban” Regresen a México” a medida que golpeaban a los
dos hombres.
Reportes de noticia originalmente dijeron que entre 20 y 30 personas jóvenes estuvieron envueltos en el ataque, pero el detective
Jim Strovink, vocero del Departamento del Sheriff del Condado
de Clackamas le dijo al El Hispanic News que mientras que 30
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Antiguo jugador de la NFL listo para unirse a la Policía del Estado de Oregon
Salem, OR (AP) — Usted podría ser
hecho detener por el mejor pateador en
la historia de la NFL.
El antiguo pateador de la UniENG
versidad del Estado de Oregon
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Jose Cortez espera que el unirse a
Policía del Estado de Oregon le va a dar algo
que nunca encontró durante su carrera como
jugador, luego de salir del colegio universitario — seguridad de trabajo.
Cortez, de 32 años, pateó para Dallas,
Indianapolis, Minnesota, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, y Washington en
una carrera nómada con la NFL que empezó
luego de ser cortado por Cleveland durante
el campo de entrenamiento en 1999.
Él tuvo su mayor éxito en la NFL, lide-
rando la liga en puntaje en el 2001, su sola
temporada. Cortez fue el Jugador Más Valioso
del juego del campeonato, chutando cuatro
goles de campo cuando Los Angeles Xtreme
destruyeron a los San Francisco Demons.
Pero todo esto está detrás de Cortez, quien
actualmente esta ganándose $14 dólares por
hora como estibador.
La Policía del Estado de Oregon planea
contratar 100 nuevos patrulleros y uno de
ellos es Cortez, un nativo de El Salvador.
Cortez y otros nueve reclutas están programados para reportarse el 30 de julio para
entrenamiento previo a la academia.
“Nosotros estamos contratando 10 al
mismo tiempo, y se llevan 10 meses para
tenerlos listos para salir a la carretera”, dijo
el Capitán Walt Markee de la policía del
estado.
La legislatura aseguró 100 nuevas posiciones la semana pasada pasando el presupuesto de la policía estatal por $327 millones
de dólares.
Cortez aplicó para el trabajo de oficial
de policía del estado hace un año, pero
fue rechazado por falta de la ciudadanía
americana. Pero ahora que Cortez es ciudadano, ya paso el examen físico y tiene el
visto bueno en el examen sicológico y en la
revisión de sus antecedentes criminales. Él
va a tener un cheque de pago mientras gana
su certificación a través del Departamento de
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Scapoose project opens 22 apartments for farm workers
Richard Jones
Scapoose, OR — Starting this month, 22
farm workers will be much closer to their
jobs with the opening of 22 new apartments in the center of Scapoose.
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cutting ceremonies, Los Arboles
Apartments began taking applications
for an assortment of two, three, and four
bedroom units for farm workers and their
families.
Previously, Roz Barnes of the Oregon
Housing and Community Services (OHCS)
said, "A lot of them were driving over here
to work." Farms on nearby Sauvie Island
employ many agricultural workers.
Sponsored by the Housing Development Corporation of Northwest Oregon,
Los Arboles is the first farmworker housing project in Columbia County. The HDC
had previously built five other complexes
in Forest Grove, Cornelius, Aloha, and
Hillsboro between 1985 and 2002. These
projects provided 233 apartments for farm
workers.
In 2002, HDC co-founded the Essential
Health Clinic, the only clinic in Washington
County providing free services to the uninsured.
Rents at Los Arboles are set to be affordable for families earning 40 percent of the
area median income.
One of the tour leaders, Lisa Rogers, said
that rental assistance is available on 19 of
the 22 units. Rent, including utilities, she
said, will not cost more than 30 percent of a
family's gross income.
Some of the units are "town houses"
— two-story apartments.
Los Arboles offers a number of amenities
such as a playground for children, laundry
facilities in each apartment, and a community center for meetings. At one end of the
complex residents can grow their own fruits
and vegetables.
Geri Steward, representing the USDA,
noted, "On all projects they've done, they've
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Oregon and Southwest Washington’s Leading, Award Winning Bilingual Newspaper
Portland, OR — Joe Greer has
appeared on ABC, CBS, NBC, HBO,
PBS, and Fox Family television. He
has been an advisor to the
ESP
administrations of George
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H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
He has received three Papal medals.
Nonetheless, his focus is where it has
always been: the poor, the homeless,
and those without medical insurance.
Saturday evening, Dr. Pedro José
Greer appeared as the featured speaker
at a fund-raising dinner at Legacy
Emanuel Hospital in Portland. Wallace
Medical Concern in Gresham, a clinic
dedicated to serving the uninsured,
was the beneficiary.
Dr. Jim Reuler, founder of the Wallace organization, introduced Greer,
saying, "When Joe Greer enters the
halls of power, the feathers fly and the
pillars shake as he makes the case for
[health care] for the homeless and the
undocumented."
Greer, a charismatic speaker,
entranced an audience of 200 with his
self-deprecating humor and carefully
crafted stories of success in the face of
overwhelming odds.
Describing himself as Cuban-Irish,
Greer explained the similarities of his
two cultural backgrounds. Cubans light
a cigar; he noted. And with an apparent
reference to the Irish Republican Army,
he added, Irish light a fuse.
He described himself as a young
rebel — "I played football, not baseball.
Whoever heard of a Cuban football
player?"
His high school football team was
not very good — it had never won a
game. "We were so bad that the priest
before the game prayed not for victory.
He prayed for no injuries."
Greer said he prayed too — in
Cuban-accented Spanish. "It's much
quicker than English," he explained.
He described the closing minutes
of his most memorable game. His
team still had a chance to win. The
quarterback called a trick play — a
tackle eligible play — and Greer was
the tackle. He described in tense detail
every moment — running down the
field, the ball floating slowly in the
air, settling into his hands — and him
holding on to it.
His team had won its first game
ever.
In moments of hopelessness, he
said, "I remember that night."
The message? "Never give up."
A mission in life
"The world is ours to save," Greer
said. "If we won't, who else is going
to do it?"
A highway accident took the life
of his sister as she was driving to see
him. "I made a pledge to my sister that
if I became a doctor I would never let
anyone die alone."
His or iginal post-graduation
thoughts centered on going to Africa
to help the poor there. "I didn't realize
the poverty in the U.S."
When he did, he organized a clinic.
Greer remembers how he’d go "out
under the bridge and talk to the homeless."
Traditional views about health care
in the U.S. came in for examination
during his speech. "The question is not
how do you make health care cheaper,"
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The community mobilizes against hate
Photo Julie Cortez, El Hispanic News
“Such fear and hatred will not go unnoticed and will not go unchallenged in our community,” Rev. Dana Worsnop told the crowd at a vigil in Oregon City on Sunday. Worsnop, the Unitarian Universalist minister of Oregon City’s Atkinson Memorial Church,
was referring to the recent attack on two Latino men in Mulino, Ore.
Julie Cortez
PROJECT NO: 78,104
Oregon City, OR — The message at a
press conference in Portland last Friday
and a vigil in Oregon City on Sunday
was delivered passionately by
ESP
speaker after speaker: the attack
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on two Latinos in Mulino, Ore.,
on May 24 was a crime of hate, it was not
an isolated incident, and the blame does
not fall on the young attackers alone.
Speaking in Oregon City, Bruce Morris
of the Rural Organizing Project called
the attacks “inevitable” when a small
vocal minority — such as those who label
undocumented immigrants as criminals
and a threat to American jobs — targets a
group, which “quickly leads to demonization and the road to demonization ends
in Mulino.”
Hate crimes, he said, “are the rhetoric
of inequality acted out through violent
acts.”
Edwin Gonzáles, 28, and Alex Guzmán,
26, were attacked two weeks ago in the
Clackamas County town of Mulino, by
a group of teenagers who reportedly
chanted “Go back to Mexico” as they beat
the two men.
News reports originally claimed that
20-30 young people were involved in the
attack, but Detective Jim Strovink, spokesman for Clackamas County Sheriff's
Department, told El Hispanic News that
while 30 teenagers were reportedly present, the investigation has revealed that
fewer than that actually took part in what
he called an “alcohol fueled frenzy.”
"Less than half were directly involved
in the attack," Strovink said.
Last Friday Austin Greenwood, 18,
of Oregon City, faced criminal mischief
charges in court in relation to the case.
At this moment Greenwood has not been
charged with a hate crime, but Strovink
said this may change as other attackers are
identified and interrogated by officers.
"You have to be able to demonstrate
without a reasonable doubt that this is a
hate crime," Strovink said, adding that the
district attorney was not able to make that
claim to the grand jury.
Strovink added that verbal indications
are important in establishing if a hate
crime was committed. "When they were
being smothered by an assault, it was difficult for [Gonzáles and Guzmán] to know
who said what," he said.
Speakers at the Portland press conference and the Oregon City vigil — who
represented faith, immigrant, and other
activist communities — made it clear that
they believe the Mulino attack was indeed
a hate crime and one caused not merely
but the anger and racism of the attackers,
but also by the intolerance of our society.
Silvio Poot, a young social activist,
shared with the Oregon City crowd his fear
that he could also be attacked for being an
immigrant of color, and his fear that the
Mulino attackers would not be brought
to justice.
“It is important to understand this is
not an isolated incident,” Poot said in
Spanish as Marco Mejía of the American
Friends Service Committee interpreted
in English. The attack had “deep roots” of
hate and intolerance.
Poot denounced the immigration
reform bill currently being debated in Congress, saying it would “promote inequality
and xenophobia.” He called on legislators
to promote just and humane immigration
reform and look out for the well-being and
respect of all human beings.
Kayse Jama of the Center for Intercultural Organizing implored the United
States to recognize that its promise of “liberty and justice for all” truly does indeed
apply to all people.
“We are here,” Jama said, referring to
immigrants. “We love this county. We’re
your neighbors. We’re your classmates.
We’re your friends.”
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now protected as a state park. Constructed entirely with funds from the Oregon Lottery,
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30 years. It’s less than 30 miles from Portland and it opens July 2007.
With 80 campsites, 15 miles of trails for hiking, horseback riding and mountain biking,
a cabin village, a horse camp, a hike-in camp for backpackers, interpretive exhibits, a
sheltered picnic ground and a hill-top observation tower for sightseeing and stargazing,
Stub Stewart is an ideal place to escape into nature – whether you want to get away or
just hear yourself think.
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them and some were in danger of closing, which is why Oregonians voted to use Lottery
profits to support state parks. Today, Oregon is able to make investments in all of its parks
and is buying and developing new park land across the state because of the Lottery funding.
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A Somalian refugee, Jama said he knows
“what hate looks like. I also know what
caring and concern looks like.”
This country, he said, needs to “address
and deal with its racial issues.” Rather than
despising the young attackers, the community needs to recognize the role it has
played in creating them.
“They are a product of us, as a community,” Jama said. “They are tomorrow’s
Rush Limbaugh. They are tomorrow’s Lars
Larson.”
Randy Blazak of the Coalition Against
Hate Crimes, asked the crowd not to “hate
the hater” or “look down on them as evil
monsters.”
Often, young people are ignorant and
confused about their changing world,
and they lash out with hate. “They go for
the scapegoat,” he said. “They go for the
easy target.”
Blazak confessed that he was one such
“hater” as a teenager, but he overcame
that hate when someone “reached out to
me with love.”
Jama promised the crowd that the
Mulino incident would not be the last
attack on immigrants or other vulnerable
communities, and that a plan for response
and mobilization is needed.
“This [vigil] should not be the end,”
Jama said. “This should be the beginning.”
Strovink spoke at the vigil to assure
the crowd that the Mulino attack is being
investigated fully and responsibly by the
Clackamas County Sheriff’s Department.
He said he was inspired by the Oregon City
gathering and he wished the investigators
working on the case were there to see it.
Last Friday’s press conference in Portland was held in front of a mural at La
Sirenita restaurant on NE Alberta that
had recently been vandalized with spraypainted swastikas. At the gathering, an
artist painted over the swastikas in preparation for restoring the mural.
El Hispanic News writer Richard Jones
contributed to this report.
El
Hispanic News
June 7, 2007
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Former NFL kicker set to join Oregon State Police ¿Qué Pasa?
What’s Happening?
Salem, OR (AP) — You could soon be pulled over
by the greatest place-kicker in XFL history.
Former Oregon State University kicker Jose
Cortez hopes joining the Oregon State
ESP Police will give him something he never
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found during his post-college playing
career — job security.
Cortez, 32, kicked for Dallas, Indianapolis, Minnesota, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and
Washington in a nomadic NFL career that started
after he was cut by Cleveland during training camp
in 1999.
He had his greatest success in the XFL, leading
the league in scoring in 2001, its only season. Cortez
was the MVP of the championship game, booting
four field goals as Los Angeles Xtreme crushed the
San Francisco Demons.
But all of that's behind Cortez, who's currently
making $14 an hour as a dockworker.
The Oregon State Police plans to hire 100 new
troopers, and one of them is Cortez, a native of
El Salvador. Cortez and nine other recruits are
scheduled to report July 30 for pre-academy
training.
“We're hiring 10 at a time, and it takes 10 months
to get them out on the road,” said state police Capt.
Walt Markee.
The Legislature secured the 100 new positions
last week by passing a state police budget of $327
million.
Cortez applied for a state police job a year ago
but was turned down for lack of U.S. citizenship.
A naturalized citizen now, Cortez has passed the
state police physical and cleared the psychological
exam and criminal background check. He will draw
a paycheck while earning his certification through
Oregon's Department of Public Safety Standards
and Training.
State police are looking for recruits with rich life
experiences, good moral character, and the ability
to work alone, sometimes under extreme pressure,
Markee said.
Cortez fits that description. He survived El
Salvador's civil war, sneaked into the United States
through Tijuana, Mexico, at age 15, and settled in
a poor Southern California neighborhood thick
with gangs.
And Cortez, like most kickers, knows about working alone and working under pressure. But Cortez
said the type of pressure he dealt with in the NFL
won't compare with what he might face on Oregon's
highways.
“The NFL, it's just your job,” he said. “You get
released, you still go on with your life. Being a state
trooper, your life is at stake.”
Cortez says his ethnicity, immigrant roots, and
resistance to street gangs will help him carve a personal role for himself with the Oregon State Police
and serve as a role model, especially as Oregon's
Latino population increases.
Volcanoes Fiesta 2007: Fiesta de Béisbol, a salute to
Latino players in baseball, July 15; the stadium is located at exit 260 on
off I-5. Meet the whole Volcanoes family, along with your favorite KWIP
personalities, the consulate of Mexico, and KWIP’s special guest, Mexico
radio personality Antonio Zambrano “El Panda.” Festivities begin at 2
p.m. with Franz Bread’s free kids’ clinic for all ticket holders. The game
begins at 5:05 p.m. The Fiesta also includes ballet folklórico, Mariachi
Viva Mexico, and contests and prizes. Purchase tickets in advance to
save $1 on reserve or outfield seats. Call Greg Herbst at the Volcanoes,
503-390-2225 x 3013.
Spanish-language citizenship classes: In an
effort to assist Portland’s growing immigrant population, Portland Public
Schools’ Northside Family Support Center will offer a free citizenship
course for Spanish-speaking permanent residents preparing for the
United States citizenship test. June 7, 14, 21, and 28; 6 p.m.-8 p.m., at
Beach Elementary School library, 1710 N. Humboldt. Space is limited;
to register, call 503-916-5875. Childcare is available if requested in
advance. Depending on interest from the community, additional classes
may be added in the fall.
Job fair: The Portland Employment Guide’s General Job Fair will take
place June 13 at the Hilton, Portland & Executive Towers from 10 a.m. to
3 p.m. The event is free to jobseekers, and no registration is required.
Information: www.employmentguide.com and www.employment-expo.
com (click on the Job Fair link and select “Oregon”).
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JOSE CORTEZ:
MULINO: ‘Nosotros estamos aquí. Nosotros amamos este
“La NFL es solo
país. Nosotros somos sus vecinos. Nosotros somos sus
su trabajo. Usted compañeros de clase. Nosotros somos sus amigos’
es retirado, usted Viene de la página 1
todavía sigue
adolescentes fueron reportados como de Mulino no fueran traídos para nación, le pidió a los asistentes el “no
presentes, la investigación ha revelado hacer justicia.
odiar a los que odian” “o en no mirarcon su vida. Al
que realmente fueron menos, en lo
“Es importante entender que éste los con desprecio como monstruos
él llama “un frenesí activado por no es un incidente aislado”, dijo Poot malvados”.
ser patrullero del que
el alcohol”.
en español al tiempo que Marco Mejía
Con frecuencia, la gente joven
"Menos de la mitad estuvieron del Comité de Servicios de los Amigos es ignorante y confusa acerca de su
estado, su vida
directamente involucrados en el de América interpretaba al inglés. El mundo cambiante, y ellos la emprenataque”, Strovink dijo.
ataque tenia “raíces profundas” de odio den con odio. “Ellos van por el cordero
está en juego”.
El pasado viernes Austin Green- e intolerancia.
expiatorio”, dijo él. Ellos van por blanco
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Estándares de Seguridad Publica y
Entrenamiento de Oregon.
La policía del estado está buscando reclutas con experiencias
de vida enriquecedoras, buen
carácter moral, y la habilidad para
trabajar solo, algunas veces bajo
presiones extremas, dijo Markee.
Cortez llena esta descripción.
Él sobrevivió la guerra civil de El
Salvador, se entró a los Estados
Unidos a través de Tijuana, México,
a la edad de 15 años, y se estableció
en un vecindario pobre al sur de
California lleno de pandillas.
Y Cortez, al igual que muchos
pateadores, sabe como jugar solo y
bajo presión. Pero Cortez dijo que
el tipo de presión que el manejo
con la NFL no será comparable
con la que él puede enfrentar en
las autopistas de Oregon.
“La NFL es solo su trabajo”,
dijo él. “Usted es retirado, usted
todavía sigue con su vida. Al ser
patrullero del estado, su vida está
en juego”.
Cortez dice que su etnicidad,
sus raíces de inmigrante, y su resistencia a las pandillas callejeras le
ayudaran a él ha labrarse un papel
personal para él mismo con la
Policía del Estado de Oregon y ha
servir como un modelo, especialmente a medida que la población
latina de Oregon aumenta.
wood, de 18 años, de Oregon City,
enfrentó cargos por conducta criminal
en la corte en relación con el caso. En
este momento Greenwood no ha sido
culpado de un crimen de discriminación, pero Strovink dijo que ésto
podría cambiar a medida que otros
atacantes son identificados e interrogados por los oficiales.
"Usted tiene que ser capaz de demostrar sin una duda razonable que
éste es un crimen de discriminación",
Strovink dijo, añadiendo que el fiscal
del distrito no fue capaz de hacer tal
reclamación al gran jurado.
Strovink adicionó que las indicaciones verbales son importantes en
establecer si un crimen de discriminación fue cometido. "Cuando ellos
estaban siendo sofocados por el asalto,
[Gonzáles y Guzmán] no pudieron sabe
quien dijo que”, dijo él.
Oradores en la conferencia de
prensa de Portland y en la vigilia en
Oregon City — quienes representaban
la fe, inmigración, y otros activistas de
la comunidad — hicieron claro que
ellos creen que el ataque en Mulino
fue ciertamente un crimen de discriminación, y uno no solo causado por la
ira y el racismo de los atacantes, pero
también de intolerancia de nuestra
sociedad.
Silv io Poot, un joven activ ista
social, compartió con el grupo de
Oregon City su temor a que él también
sea atacado por ser un inmigrante de
color, y su miedo era que los atacantes
Poot denunció el proyecto de ley de
reforma a la inmigración actualmente
debatido en el Congreso, diciendo
que ‘promocionaría desigualdad y
xenofobia”. Él llamo a los legisladores
a promocionar una reforma a la inmigración justa y humana, y ha mirar por
el bienestar y el respeto de todos los
seres humanos.
Kayse Jama del Centro por la Lucha
de los Derechos Interculturales imploró
a los Estados Unidos a reconocer que
su promesa de “libertad y justicia para
todos” realmente aplica para todas las
personas.
“Nosotros estamos aquí”, refiriéndose a los inmigrantes. “Nosotros
amamos este país. Nosotros somos
sus vecinos. Nosotros somos sus compañeros de clase. Nosotros somos sus
amigos”.
Como refugiado de Somalia, Jama
dijo que él sabe como el odio se ve.
“También sé como se ven el cuidado y
la preocupación”.
Este país, dijo él, necesita “presentar y tratar con sus asuntos raciales”.
En vez de menospreciar a los jóvenes
atacantes, la comunidad necesita
reconocer el papel que ha jugado en
crearlos a ellos.
“Ellos son un producto de nosotros,
como una comunidad”, Jama dijo.
“Ellos son los Rush Limbaugh del
mañana. Ellos son los Lars Larson del
mañana”.
Randy Blazak de la Coalición en
Contra de los Crímenes de Discrimi-
fácil”.
Blazak confesó que él era uno de los
que “odiaba” cuando era adolescente,
pero se sobrepuso a ese odio cuando
alguien “alargó la mano hacia mí con
amor”.
Jama prometió a los asistentes que
el incidente en Mulino no seria el
último ataque a inmigrantes o a otras
comunidades vulnerable, y que un
plan de respuesta y de movilización
era necesario.
“Esta [vigilia] no debería ser el
final”, Jama dijo. “Ésta debería ser el
principio”.
Strovink habló en la vigilia a los
presentes para asegurarles que el
ataque en Mulino está siendo investigado profunda y responsablemente
por el Departamento del Sheriff del
Condado de Clackamas. Él dijo que
se sentía inspirado por la reunión en
Oregon City y que él deseaba que los
investigadores trabajando en el caso
estuvieran allá para ver ésto.
La conferencia de prensa el pasado
viernes fue llevada a cabo frente a un
mural en el restaurante La Sirenita
al noreste de Alberta que había sido
recientemente dañado con cruces
gamadas pintadas con spray. En la
reunión, un artista pintó sobre las
cruces gamadas en preparación para
la restauración del mural.
El escritor Richard Jones de El
Hispanic News contribuyó con este
reporte.
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parents of children with disabilities feel competent in addressing day to
day issues in their child’s life. The next parent support group meeting
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El
June 7, 2007
Hispanic News
Noticias Locales
Local News
Un proyecto de ley
sobre inmigración
pasa en la
Cámara, pero
otros permanecen “Todos nosotros que creemos en
El Senado y la Cámara están en desacuerdo
con la Ley de la Verdadera Identificación
Salem, OR (AP) — Los negocios que reciben fondos de la
agencia de desarrollo económico
del estado primero tendrán que
certificar que ninguno de sus
presentes o futuros empleados
van a ser inmigrantes indocumentados, bajo una ley que ha
pasado 57 a 1 el pasado jueves en
la Cámara.
Varios legisladores criticaron
la propuesta, diciendo que solo
mordisquea alrededor de las orillas
de los puntos más potencialmente
potente de la sesión: ¿Qué hacer
con los miles de inmigrantes
indocumentados que trabajan en
puestos a lo largo del estado?
“Ésto requiere una pequeña
agencia para obtener un pedazo
de papel de sus contratistas”, dijo
el representante Vicki Berger, RSalem. “De forma que no se vaya
a la casa y diga que usted hizo
algo acerca de la inmigración,
cuando lo que hizo fue crear más
burocracia. Ésto no es tratar con
la inmigración”.
Hasta el momento, grandes
proyectos de ley no han pasado
en ambas cámaras. El Senado
de Oregon ha votado el solicitar
prueba de residencia legal para
obtener la licencia para conducir,
un movimiento que podría negarle
los privilegios de conducir a miles
de trabajadores indocumentados.
Pero los prospectos del proyecto
de ley son inciertos en la cámara.
Oregon es uno de los ocho estados que no requiere que los conductores prueben ser ciudadanos
de los Estados Unidos o residentes
legales.
Otros proyectos de ley, incluyendo uno que requiere prueba
de ciudadanía para poder votar,
también ha languidecido en los
comités.
los derechos de los ciudadanos
en contra del poder del gobierno
federal necesitamos decir no, para
parar el desarrollo del sistema de
identificación nacional”.
Mitch Greenlick,
Representante D-Portland
Salem, OR (AP) — La Cámara de Oregon
votó el pasado viernes permitiéndole al
Departamento de Transporte de Oregon
(ODOT, por sus siglas en inglés) el empezar
a cumplir con la ley federal que requiere la
prueba de residencia legal antes que una
licencia para conducir pueda ser expedida.
Pero el proyecto de ley de la Cámara 2827
no obliga a ODOT ha actuar, ni autoriza
un costo aproximado de $11.4 millones de
dólares.
“Este proyecto de ley estaba muerto a
su llegada al Senado”, dijo el representante
Fred Girod, R-Lyons, quien votó por éste,
pero sugirió que simplemente pone a los
miembros de la Cámara en el record para
su campaña en el 2008.
El senado votó 27 a 1 el 15 de mayo para
rechazar la mayoría de los requisitos federales en el acto.
El senador Rick Metzger, D-Welches, dijo
después que el llamado Acto sobre la Verdadera Identidad levanta otros hechos.
Él dijo que es una “tremenda intrusión
federal en la privacidad y los derechos de
los estados”.
Pero el representante Terry Beyer, DSpringfield, dijo que Oregon necesita indicarle al gobierno federal que por lo menos
se está moviendo hacia el cumplimiento
de la ley.
“ODOT se ha movido lo más que se ha
podido mover sin la autorización legislativa”.
dijo Beyer, quien lidera el Comité de Transporte de la Cámara. “Ellos están solamente
esperando a que les demos la autoridad
para hacer los gastos con el fin de moverse
hacia adelante”.
La ley federal del 2005 le requiere a los
estados que estén en cumplimiento de la
misma para el 2010, o las licencias del estado
pierden el ser aceptables como identificación para abordar aviones comerciales
o entrar en edificios federales para mayo
del 2013.
Oregon expide licencias para conducir y
otras identificaciones en un ciclo de ocho
años, la ley federal requiere que se vuelvan
a expedir antes de mayo del 2013.
“Ésto no es estar contra la inmigración”,
dijo la representante Kim Thatcher, RKeizer. “Ésto es acerca de apoyar la ley, y que
todas las personas cumplan con los mismos
estándares que los ciudadanos americanos
tienen que cumplir”.
Pero el representante Mitch Greenlick,
D-Portland, dijo que el real interés de la
nación está en los estados que se resisten
a los requerimientos de la Verdadera Identificación.
“Todos nosotros que creemos en los
derechos de los ciudadanos en contra del
poder del gobierno federal necesitamos
decir no, para parar el desarrollo del sistema
de identificación nacional”, dijo él.
“Ésta es otra más de las herramientas
que la gente errada en el gobierno federal,
independientemente de su partido político,
puede usar como una potencia para un
poder extraordinario”.
Senate, House disagree on Real ID law
One immigration bill passes House, but others remain
Salem, OR (AP) — The Oregon
House voted last Friday to allow
the Oregon Department of Transportation begin complying with
a federal rule to require proof of
legal residence before a drivers
license could be issued.
But House Bill 2827 does not
compel ODOT to act, nor does it
authorize costs estimated at $11.4
million.
“This bill is dead on arrival in
the Senate,” said Rep. Fred Girod,
R-Lyons, who voted for it but
suggested it simply put House
members on the record for their
2008 campaign.
The Senate voted 27-1 on May
15 to reject most of the federal
requirements in the act.
Sen. Rick Metzger, D-Welches,
said afterward that the so-called
Real ID Act raises other issues.
He said it is a “huge federal
Salem, OR (AP) — Businesses
that get funding from the state's
economic development agency
will first have to certify that
none of their present or future
employees are undocumented
immigrants, under a bill that was
passed 57-1 by the House last
Thursday.
Several lawmakers criticized
the proposal, saying it only nibbled around the edges of one
of the most potentially potent
topics of the session: What to do
about the thousands of undocumented immigrants who work at
jobs across the state.
“This requires one very small
agency to obtain a piece of paper
from their contractors,” said Rep.
Vicki Berger, R-Salem. “So don't
go home and say you did something about immigration, when
what you did was create more
intrusion on privacy and states'
rights.”
But Rep. Terry Beyer, D-Springfield, said Oregon needs to indicate to the federal government
that it is at least moving toward
compliance.
“O D OT h a s m ov e d a s f a r
as it can go without legislative authority,” said Beyer, who
heads the House Transportation
Committee. “They're just waiting out there for us to give them
spending author ity to move
forward.”
The 2005 federal law requires
states to be in compliance by
2010, or lose state driver licenses
as acceptable identification to
board commercial airplanes or
enter federal buildings by May
2013.
Oregon issues driver licenses
and other identification on an
eight-year cycle; the federal law
would require reissuing them
before May 2013.
“This is not being anti-immigration,” said Rep. Kim Thatcher,
R-Keizer. “It is about upholding
the law and holding people to the
same standard that we as American citizens are held to.
But Rep. Mitch Greenlick, DPortland, said the nation's real
interest lies in states resisting Real
ID requirements.
“Those of us who believe in the
rights of the citizen against the
power of the federal government
need to say no to stop the development of a national identification system,” he said.
“It is one more tool that the
wrong people in the federal government, regardless of party, can
hold as a potential for extraordinary power.”
bureaucracy. This is not dealing
with immigration.”
So far, major immigration bills
have not passed both chambers.
The Oregon Senate has voted to
require proof of legal residence
to get a driver's license, a move
which could deny driving privileges to thousands of undocumented workers. But that bill's
prospects are uncertain in the
House.
Oregon is one of eight states
that do not require drivers to
prove they are U.S. citizens or
legal residents.
Other bills, including one
to require proof of citizenship
in order to vote, have also languished in committees.
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Hispanic News
5 PÁGINA : PAGE
Salud
Health
Pedro José Greer escucha y aprende — y crea
un modelo diferente de cuidados de salud
Una misión en la vida
“Dios lo deja a usted nacer; Dios lo deja morir”, el Doctor Pedro José “Joe” Greer comenta. “Lo que usted hace en el medio es lo que importa”.
Richard Jones
Reportero de El Hispanic News
Portland, OR — Joe Greer ha
aparecido en ABC, CBS, NBC,
HBO, PBS, y Fox televisión familiar.
Él ha sido un consejero
ENG de las administraciones
Page 1
in english
de George H. W. Bush
y Bill Clinton. Él ha recibido tres
medallas Papales. Sin embargo,
su enfoque es donde siempre ha
estado: el pobre, el que no tiene
casa y aquellos sin seguros médicos.
En la noche del sábado, el doctor
Pedro José Greer apareció como el
orador principal de una cena para
levantar fondos en Legacy Emanuel Hospital en Portland. Wallace
Medical Concern en Gresham,
una clínica dedicada al servicio
de los que no tienen seguro, fue la
beneficiaria del evento.
El doctor Jim Reuler, fundador de la organización Wallace, introdujo a Greer, diciendo,
"Cuando Joe Greer entra a los
corredores de poder, las plumas
vuelan y los pilares se estremecen
a medida que él argumenta sobre
[los cuidados de salud] para los
que no tienen casa y los indocumentados”.
Greer, un orador carismático,
hechiza a una audiencia de 200
personas con su auto-desaprobatorio humor y cuidadosamente
teje historias de éxito en la cara de
probabilidades abrumadoras.
Describiéndose a sí mismo
como un cubano irlandés, Greer
explicó las similitudes de sus dos
antecedentes culturales. Los cubanos prenden cigarros, él anotó.
Y con una aparente referencia al
Ejercito Republicano Irlandés, él
agregó, los irlandeses prenden
tacos de dinamita.
Se describe a sí mismo como un
joven rebelde — "Yo jugué fútbol
americano, no baseball. ¿Quién ha
escuchado de un cubano jugador
de fútbol americano?"
Su equipo de fútbol americano
no era muy bueno — nunca gano
un juego. "Nosotros éramos tan
malos que el sacerdote antes del
juego no rezaban para obtener
la victoria. Él rezaba para que no
hubiera lesiones”.
Greer dijo que él también rezaba
— en español con acento cubano.
"Es más rápido que en inglés”,
explico él.
Él describió los últimos minutos
de su juego más memorable. Su
equipo aun tenía la posibilidad
de ganar. El líder del equipo dio
instrucciones sobre una jugada
engañosa — una persona a quien
se le tira la pelota — y Greer fue
esa persona escogida. Él describe
con tenso detalle cada momento
— corriendo a lo largo del campo,
la pelota flotando lentamente en
el aire, acomodándose entre sus
manos — y él agarrándose a ella.
Su equipo ganó por primera y
única vez.
En momentos de desesperanza,
él dijo “,Yo recuerdo esa noche”.
¿El mensaje? "Nunca se de por
vencido”.
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Belt or Booster?
Kids need booster seats until they Õre 4Õ9Ó.
Until 4’9”, kids need booster seats to lift them up so adult safety belts fit correctly — flat
across the collarbone and low over the hips, not across the neck or riding up over the
stomach. Kids who ride without booster seats in poorly fitting safety belts can be seriously hurt in a crash. So play it safe. Keep your kids in booster seats until they’re 4’9”.
Buckle Up. The Way to Go.
For more information, call the Child Safety Seat Resource Center at 1-800-772-1315.
"El mundo es nuestro para
salvar”, Greer dijo. "Si nosotros
no lo hacemos,¿Quién lo va ha
hacer?"
Un accidente de autopista le
quito la vida a su hermana que
estaba conduciendo para irlo a
ver a él. "Yo le hice una promesa a
mi hermana, que si me convertía
en doctor no iba a dejar a nadie
morirse solo”.
Sus pensamientos originales
luego de la graduación de centraron en ir al África a ayudar a
los pobres allá. "Yo no me había
dado cuenta de la pobreza en los
Estados Unidos”.
Cuando él lo hizo, organizó una
clínica. Greer recuerda como él
se iba “debajo de los puentes ha
hablar con los que no tiene casa”.
Visiones tradicionales acerca
del cuidado de salud en los Estados
Unidos vinieron a ser examinadas
durante su discurso. "La pregunta
no es como usted presta los cuidados de salud más baratos”, dijo él.
"Es como hacer a la gente de este
país más sana”.
Dietas insanas y falta de ejercicio
en combinación con tabaco, alcohol, y abuso de drogas se aumentan a una población insana.
Nosotros y ellos
"Todos nosotros hemos sido
puestos en la tierra por Dios”, Greer
dijo, ingeniosamente recordándole a la gente que todas las gentes
están relacionadas. "¿Por qué
nosotros tenemos que mirar a [la
gente] como ‘nosotros’ y ‘ellos’?"
"Cuando nosotros vemos a
una persona que se ve distinta,
caminamos en el otro lado de la
calle”.
Greer recuerda discusiones
acerca de darles asignaciones a los
doctores. Alguien le dijo a Greer
JOSE GREER página 6
GREER ‘What can you learn
from people who have less
than others? You can learn
how to be human’
Continued from page 1
he said. "It's how to make people
in this country healthier."
Unhealthy diets and lack of
exercise in combination with
tobacco, alcohol, and drug abuse
add up to an unhealthy population.
Us and them
"We all are placed on earth by
God," Greer said, subtly reminding the audience that all people
are related. "Why do we have
to look at [people] as ‘us’ and
‘them’?"
"When we see somebody that
looks different," he said, "we walk
on the other side of the street."
Greer remembered discussions
about giving doctors assignments.
Someone told Greer he would be
great working in a Latino neighborhood.
Greer bristled. "All doctors have
to treat all people," he said. "Do I
get the barrio and [an Anglo] gets
Wall Street?"
Greer related a story of a prematurely-aged, poorly-dressed
woman who came into his clinic
one night.
His assistant tried to interview
her, but he could get no response.
Greer began talking to her as
a person — not as a patient. "We
[have to] listen to other people
and we have to do it with respect,"
he said.
She opened up and told Greer
that she had been raped.
"Why didn't you go to a rape
center?" Greer asked.
"I couldn't take the comments
they would make," she said,
referring to her worn and faded
clothes.
Greer summed up his point. "It
doesn't matter about the clinic —
whether it's new or old, whether it
has good or bad equipment. What
matters is the care you give."
The human mandate
Greer related another story
about a Salvation Army worker
who brought two children to his
clinic. Greer watched a small boy
take a bite from a sandwich. One
bite. The boy then put the sandwich in a plastic bag and put it
back into his pocket.
Puzzled, Greer could find no
rational answer for the boy's
action. So he asked why.
The boy looked up at Greer. "It's
for my brothers," he said simply.
"What can you learn from people
who have less than others?" Greer
asked rhetorically. He answered his
own question. "You can learn how
to be human."
Greer acted on this insight to
open Camillus Health Concern in
Miami. His ideas, as good ideas do,
took roots in other states.
This would explain the actions
of the Portland doctors and nurses
who staff the Wallace Medical
Concern on Monday, Wednesday,
and Thursday evenings from 7 p.m.
until 10 p.m. You see, these are the
hours after 230 medical volunteers
finish their regular daytime jobs at
other clinics and hospitals.
During these limited hours,
2,000 people without health insurance receive free medical attention
every year.
For more information about the
clinic and how to donate on-line,
visit www.wallacemedical.org.
The site will soon have a Spanish
language page.
One can also mail donations to
Wallace Medical Concern, P. O. Box
3506, Gresham, OR 97030.
Coming soon: El Hispanic News
visits Wallace Medical Concern.
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El
June 7, 2007
Hispanic News
Educación
Education
El proyecto de ley sobre la inmigración
podría ayudar a los estudiantes en su
búsqueda de la ciudadanía
Nancy Zuckerbrod
Reportera de Associated Press
Washington, D.C. (AP) — A sus 23 años de
edad, Mariana debería estar despreocupada.
Ella está terminando su licenciatura en la
Universidad de California, en Los Angeles, y ha
sida aceptada para un programa de maestría
en la escuela de educación de la Universidad
Harvard.
Pero la vida no es simple para Mariana,
quien insistió en que solo su primer nombre
fuera publicado porque ella es ilegal en los
Estados Unidos y le preocupa que pudiera ser
deportada a Guatemala, donde nació.
“Yo incluso tengo miedo de comerme una
manzana en la librería, porque tengo miedo
de ser pillada”, dijo ella.
Mariana también se preocupa respecto
a cómo va a pagar su pensión y qué tipo
de trabajo obtendrá luego que termine la
escuela. “¿Qué va a pasar a continuación? Si
un permiso de trabajo, ¿Cómo va ella a ejercer
su carrera?” dijo ella durante una entrevista
reciente.
Mariana está entre un estimado de 50.000
estudiantes indocumentados en los colegios
universitarios de los Estados Unidos hoy.
Estos estudiantes podrían estar entre la gente
quienes se beneficiarían de una parte de un
proyecto de ley sobre la inmigración que el
Senado planea continuar trabajando esta
semana.
Los hijos nacidos en los Estados Unidos de
padres indocumentados tienen la ciudadanía
automáticamente. Una sección de la nueva
legislación, trata con los inmigrantes indocumentados que llegaron a los Estados Unidos
cuando eran niños. Ellos podrían ganar estatus legal temporal cuando se gradúen de la
preparatoria, siempre y cuando acuerden en
matricularse en un colegio universitario, o se
enlisten en las fuerzas armadas.
Ellos serian puestos en una línea rápida
de tres años hacia la obtención del estatus de
residente permanente y de sus tarjetas verdes.
Mientras que esperan ésto, los estudiantes
serían elegibles para préstamos estudiantiles
federales y podrían trabajar legalmente — una
opción no disponible para ellos ahora.
El proyecto de ley en su totalidad podría
ayudar a 12 millones de inmigrantes indocumentados. Para muchos, ésto les tomaría un
mínimo de ocho años para obtener la tarjeta
verde. El grupo mayor también tendría que
pagar multas que no serian impuestas a los
graduados de la preparatoria quienes vinieron
a los Estados Unidos cuando niños.
En total, cerca de un millón de personas
actualmente en el país se podrían potencialmente beneficiarse de las provisiones dirigidas
a los niños. Éstas incluyen estudiantes actualmente en las escuelas elementales y secundarias. Actualmente las leyes les permiten a los
niños que son ilegales en los Estados Unidos
la educación gratuita del kindergarten hasta
el grado 12. Ellos pueden ir a la mayoría de
los colegios universitarios si pueden pagar
para hacerlo.
Los inmigrantes quienes se podrían beneficiar con estas provisiones deberían haber
tenido 15 años o menos de edad cuando llegaron a los Estados Unidos y debieron haber
llegado antes del primero de enero de este año.
Las personas mayores de 30 años, cuando esta
ley sea promulgada no se beneficiarían.
Mientras que el proyecto de ley es sujeto
de un amplio debate, la provisión relacionada
con los estudiantes es estimada. Quienes
abogan dicen que ellos están tratando de
adicionar ésto a otros proyectos de ley que se
están moviendo a través del Congreso, si la ley
sobre la inmigración no pasa.
“Yo voy a buscar cada oportunidad que
pueda encontrar para hacer esto una ley”, dijo
el senador Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, el mayor
partidario de la idea.
“Lo que estamos diciendo es que estos
niños se merecen una oportunidad”, dijo él.
“Ellos no decidieron venir a América. Sus
padres lo hicieron”.
Una de las estudiantes más insistentes
Immigration bill would help
students with citizenship quest
Nancy Zuckerbrod
AP Education Writer
que abogan por la ley es Marie González, de
21 años de edad, en su último año en Westminster College en Missouri. Ella ha hecho
diferentes viajes a Washington para contar
su historia.
Sus padres fueron deportados a Costa Rica
hace dos años. González, cuya deportación
fue aplazada, dice que puede ser enviada de
regreso a su país el próximo año.
Ella dijo que la despedida con sus padres
fue horrible. “No hay palabras para describirla.
Eso ha sido absolutamente terrible. Yo soy la
única hija. Ellos son mis mejores amigos”,
dijo ella.
Pero ella dijo que no contempla la idea de
salir de los Estados Unidos para Costa Rica, un
país que dejo cuando tenía 5 años de edad. “Yo
he pensado en ir a visitar, pero no en volver a
vivir allá”, dijo ella. “Esto seria como la ruptura
de mis sueños”.
Los estudiantes que abogan dicen que
la mayoría de sus compañeros se salieron
de la preparatoria porque los inmigrantes
indocumentados típicamente solo obtienen
los trabajos para los trabajadores con menos
habilidades.
Pero la provisión está motivando a algunos
de los estudiantes a continuar con sus estudios, dijo Tam Tran, de 24 años de edad, quien
acaba de graduarse en UCLA.
“La idea que esta ley pueda pasar algún día
— que ellos puedan ser capaces de usar su
licenciatura para obtener un trabajo — ésto
impulsa a la gente”, dijo Tran, quien nació en
Alemania de padres vietnamitas refugiados.
Ni Alemania ni Vietnam la reconocen a
ella como ciudadana, de forma que ella se
considera sin estado en algunas cosas y una
americana típica en otras, dijo Tran.
Ella agregó que ha tratado de no darle
vueltas a sus estatus y al de muchos de sus
compañeros.
“Ésto es como una forma de rechazo”, dijo
ella. “Nosotros no podemos participar en lo
que hemos trabajado duro para llegar a ser
parte”.
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que el estaría perfecto para trabajar en un vecindario latino.
Greer se erizó. "Todos los doctores tienen que tratar a toda la
gente”, dijo él. "¿A mí me toca el
barrio y a [un anglosajón] le toca
Wall Street?"
Greer cuenta la historia de una
mujer prematuramente envejecida, pobremente vestida quien
vino a su clínica una noche.
Su asistente trato de entrevistarla,
pero él no obtuvo respuesta.
Greer empezó a hablar con
ella como persona — no como
paciente. "Nosotros [tenemos]
que escuchar a las personas y lo
Washington, D.C. (AP) — At 23,
Mariana should be carefree. She
is finishing up her undergraduate
degree at the University of California, Los Angeles, and has been
accepted to a master's program
at Harvard University's education
school.
But life is not so simple for Mariana, who insisted that only her first
name be published because she is
illegally in the United States and
worries she could be deported to
Guatemala, where she was born.
“I'm even afraid of eating an
apple in the library because I'm
afraid of getting caught,” she
said.
Mariana also worries about
how she will pay her tuition and
what kind of work she will get
after she completes school. “What
happens next? Without a work
permit, how do you exercise your
degree?” she said during a recent
interview.
Mariana is among an estimated
50,000 undocumented students in
U.S. colleges today. These students
would be among the people who
would benefit from a part of an
immigration bill that the Senate
plans to resume work on this
week.
Children born in the United
States to undocumented parents are granted citizenship
a u t o m a t i c a l l y. A s e c t i o n o f
the new legislation deals with
undocumented immigrants who
came to the U.S. as children.
They would gain temporar y
legal status when they graduate from high school as long as
they agreed to enroll in college
or enlist in the military.
They would be put on a fast,
tenemos que hacer con respecto”,
él dijo.
Ella se abrió al dialogo y le contó
que había sido violada.
"¿Por qué no fue a un centro
donde atienden personas violadas?" Greer preguntó
"Yo no podría soportar los
comentarios que ellos harían”,
dijo ella, refiriéndose a sus ropas
usadas y desteñidas.
Greer resumió su punto. "No
importa la clínica — ya que sea
nueva o vieja, o si tiene equipo
bueno o malo. Lo que importa es
el cuidado que usted da”.
El mandato humano
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three-year path toward getting
their permanent resident status
and their green cards. While waiting for that, the students would be
eligible for federal student loans
and could work legally — options
not available to them now.
The overall bill would help
roughly 12 million undocumented
immigrants. For most, it would
take a minimum of eight years to
get a green card. The larger group
also would have to pay fines that
would not be imposed on the highschool graduates who came to the
U.S. as kids.
In all, about 1 million people
now in the country illegally could
potentially benefit from the
provision aimed at children.
Those include students currently
in elementary and secondary
schools. Current law allows children in the U.S. illegally to get a
free K-12 education. They can go
to most colleges if they can pay
their way.
The immigrants who would
benefit from the provision must
have been age 15 or younger when
they were brought to the U.S. and
must have arrived before January
of this year. People older than 30
when the law is enacted would
not benefit.
While the bill is the subject of
widespread debate, the provision
addressing students is popular.
Advocates say they will try to add it
to other bills moving through Congress if the immigration legislation
does not pass.
“I'm going to look for every
chance I can find to make this the
law,” said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.,
a chief supporter of the idea.
“What we're saying is these kids
deserve a chance,” he said. “They
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acerca de un trabajador de Salvation Army quien trajo a dos hijos
a la clínica. Greer miro al más
pequeño darle un mordisco a un
sándwich. Un mordisco. El niño
entonces puso el sándwich en una
bolsa plástica y después lo guardo
en el bolsillo.
Perplejo, Greer no pudiendo
encontrar una explicación racional
a la acción del niño. Entonces él le
preguntó el porqué.
El niño miró a Greer. "Es para mis
hermanos”, el simplemente dijo.
"¿Qué puede usted aprender
de la gente que tiene menos que
otros?" Greer preguntó retóricamente. Él respondió a su propia
pregunta. "Usted puede aprender
ha como ser humano”.
Greer actuó en la idea de abrir
Camillus Health Concern en
Miami. Sus ideas, como lo hacen
las buenas ideas, tomaros raíces
en otros estados.
Esto podría explicar las acciones de los doctores y enfermeras
quienes atienden Wallace Medical Concern los lunes, miércoles
y jueves por la noche desde las
7 p.m. hasta las 10 p.m. Ustedes
ven, estas son las horas en que
los 230 voluntarios médicos
terminan sus trabajos de día
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Durante estas horas limitadas,
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Labor divided over farm guest-worker
program in immigration bill
“If they're going to have braceros
again, well, they need protection.
They can't just leave them to sleep
in the middle of the fields and drink
from puddles, like they did with us.”
Agustín Oropeza,
82-year-old from Zamora, Mexico, who picked oranges, lemons,
lettuce, and tomatoes in California in the 1940s and ‘50s
Garance Burke
Sanger, CA (AP) — In the 1960s, farm labor
leader César Chávez rallied fieldhands to
speak out against a guest worker program that
recruited millions of Mexicans to pick crops at
low wages.
Today, farmworker advocates are reversing their long-standing opposition to the
idea and embracing a Senate proposal that
would bring thousands of laborers to the
fields but offer no chance of putting down
roots in the U.S.
The United Farm Workers say it is their best
shot at improving working conditions in fields
nationwide, and especially in California, where
92 percent of workers are foreign-born.
Activists complain that immigrant farmworkers are sometimes underpaid, not paid at
all, overworked, exposed to pesticides, given
poor housing, or subjected to other abuses.
Some aging members of the last temporaryworker push — the Bracero Program, which
operated from 1942 to 1964 — worry the plan
could repeat past indignities.
“If they're going to have braceros again, well,
they need protection,” said Agustín Oropeza,
an 82-year-old from Zamora, Mexico, who
picked oranges, lemons, lettuce, and tomatoes
in California in the 1940s and ‘50s. “They can't
just leave them to sleep in the middle of the
fields and drink from puddles, like they did
with us.”
The proposed AgJobs program brokered
between growers and the UFW over the past
decade would open the way to legal status for
those who have worked in U.S. agriculture for
at least 150 days over a two-year period ending
Dec. 31, 2006. The program would be capped
at 1.5 million.
After that, new farm laborers would be
recruited in their home countries and brought
to the U.S. under an existing guest worker
program, but would be able to stay for only 10
months at a time. They would not automatically
qualify for citizenship and would have to wait
an estimated eight years just to get on line.
Even then, they would have little chance
of winning permanent residency, because a
new point system would give higher priority
to people with education and skills.
Farmers who claim labor shortages left fruit
rotting on the ground last summer say it is a fair
agreement. Union leaders are dismayed newer
recruits will not get a pathway to citizenship.
But “we're willing to work through the process so we're at the table,” said Diana Tellefson,
executive director of the UFW Foundation, a
nonprofit organization linked to the union.
“We're going to fight tooth and nail to make
sure that workers have the protections they
need.”
The AFL-CIO and the Laborers’ union
oppose the broader immigration bill, arguing
that workers here on a temporary basis are
more vulnerable to labor violations. The AFLCIO contends some pickers will stay in this
country illegally rather than go home when
their time is up — something that happened
under the Bracero Program, too.
Lulu Valdez, a young mother in Porterville,
said her relatives in Mexico who work in the
sugarcane harvest would willingly come to the
U.S. for just a few months each year. But she
added: “I just think a broader amnesty would
be a lot better.”
The old Bracero program brought some 4.6
million Mexicans to the U.S. to work on farms
and in railyards, easing the labor shortages
that developed on the homefront during World
War II.
Chávez spoke out frequently against the program in the 1960s, which he believed exploited
Mexican workers and kept down wages for
domestic farmworkers. At the time, about half
of the farm labor consisted of U.S. citizens. Now
the bulk of the force is foreign-born.
Russel Efird, who heads the Farm Bureau
Federation in Fresno County, which produced
$4.85 billion in crops and livestock last year,
said he cannot be assured he can harvest his
plum orchard unless AgJobs passes.
“We know it's a fact that we have undocumented workers working in our fields,”
Efird said. “But if we can't get our crops
harvested then where is our food going to
come from?”
Controversia en EEUU por programa de trabajadores temporales
Garance Burke
Sanger, CA (AP) — En la década
de 1960, el líder agrícola César
Chávez organizó a los jornaleros
para que protestaran contra un
programa de trabajadores invitados que reclutó a millones de
mexicanos para que recogieran
cosechas a cambio de salarios
bajos.
En la actualidad, algunos defensores de los trabajadores agrícolas
están aplicando su influencia
para respaldar una propuesta en
el proyecto de reforma migratoria
que actualmente se encuentra en
el Senado, la cual traería a miles
de trabajadores a los campos más
productivos del país pero prácticamente no les daría oportunidad
de establecerse a largo plazo en
Estados Unidos.
El grupo United Farm Workers
(Trabajadores Agrícolas Unidos)
dice que es la mejor oportunidad
de mejorar las condiciones de trabajo en los campos de cultivo de
todo el país, y especialmente en
California, donde el 92 por ciento
de los jornaleros son extranjeros.
Los activistas se quejan de que
en ocasiones los trabajadores agrícolas inmigrantes reciben salarios
bajos o de plano no se les paga, se
les obliga a laborar en exceso, están
expuestos a pesticidas, se les da
vivienda de mala calidad o se ven
sujetos a otro tipo de abusos.
La central sindical AFL-CIO
y el sindicato de trabajadores se
oponen al proyecto de reforma
migratoria, pues consideran que
los trabajadores agrícolas que se
encuentran temporalmente en el
país son más vulnerables a sufrir
violaciones a sus derechos laborales. También argumentan que
algunos jornaleros se quedarán
ilegalmente en Estados Unidos en
lugar de volver a su país de origen
cuando haya vencido su visa, algo
que también ocurrió bajo el Programa Bracero, el último programa
de trabajadores temporales.
Algunos miembros de este programa — que operó de 1942 a 1964
— temen que el plan pueda repetir
ultrajes cometidos en el pasado.
“Si van a tener braceros de
nuevo, bueno, necesitan protegerlos”, dijo Agustín Oropeza, de
82 años y residente de Zamora,
México, que recogía naranjas,
limones, lechugas y jitomates en
California en la década de 1940 y
1950. “No pueden dejarlos a que
duerman en medio de los campos
y beban de charcos, como hicieron
con nosotros”.
El programa AgJobs acordado
entre los agricultores y el UFW
(siglas en inglés del grupo agrícola) durante la década pasada le
permitiría obtener estatus migratorio legal a los que han trabajado
en la agricultura estadounidense
durante cuando menos 150 días a
lo largo de un período de dos años,
el cual concluyó el 31 diciembre
del 2006. El programa sería sólo
para 1,5 millones de personas.
Después de esa fecha, podrían
reclutarse nuevos jornaleros agrícolas en países extranjeros y ser
traídos a Estados Unidos bajo un
programa de trabajadores invitados ya existente, pero sólo podrían
quedarse durante 10 meses cada
vez que vinieran. No podrían ser
candidatos a la ciudadanía en
forma automática y tendrían que
esperar aproximadamente ocho
años tan solo para ubicarse en lista
de espera.
Costo de ‘tarjeta verde’ superará 1.000 dólares
Suzanne Gamboa
Washington, D.C. (AP) — El
primer paso para convertirse en
ciudadano de Estados Unidos
— o b t e n e r l a “t a rENG
jeta verde” — pronto
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aumentará a más de
1.000 dólares, un precio que representará un problema para muchas
familias de inmigrantes.
Un trabajador que gane el salario mínimo de 5,15 dólares la hora
tendría que ahorrar cada centavo
que gane durante cinco semanas
para poder pagar la tarjeta, que
se otorga a los residentes legales
permanentes. Los inmigrantes
que lleguen a Estados Unidos
deben tener este estatus durante
cinco años antes de poder convertirse en ciudadanos por naturalización.
Los nuevos precios, que no
requieren la aprobación del Congreso, entrarán en vigor el 30 de
julio.
Una tarjeta verde costará 930
dólares, más 80 adicionales para
la toma obligatoria de huellas
digitales, lo cual da un total de
1.010 dólares. El precio actual es de
entre 395 y 325 dólares, más 70 por
las huellas. A los niños de 14 años
y menores y a la gente de 79 años
o mayor se les cobrará menos y no
se les tomarán sus huellas.
Los grupos defensores de los
derechos de los indocumentados
y algunos inmigrantes consideran
que los aumentos son muy drásticos. El costo de una tarjeta verde
es sólo una parte de los gastos que
tienen que solventar los inmigrantes que desean obtener la ciudadanía u otros beneficios.
“Se están aprovechando del
hecho de que la gente pagará lo
que sea con tal de convertise en
ciudadano”, dijo Unyoung Lee, de
24 años, quien intenta presentar su
solicitud antes de que los precios
suban.
Lee llegó a Estados Unidos
junto con sus padres y hermano
en 1992. Debido a los altos costos,
su familia se turnó para presentar su solicitud de naturalización.
La madre de Lee lo hizo primero
y luego siguió su hermano. Su
padre iba a hacerlo después, pero
con el aumento en las cuotas
decidieron que mejor debía presentarla Lee.
Lee, licenciada universitaria
con un sueldo de unos 26.000
dólares anuales, trabaja en el
Korean American Resource and
Cultura l Center (Cent ro Cult u ra l y de Recu rsos Corea no
Estadounidense), donde ayuda
a otros inmigrantes a sortear el
proceso de ciudadanía. También
está pagando los préstamos que
recibió para estudiar su carrera
y ay uda a sus padres, con los
que vive.
“Acabo de ahorrar dinero suficiente y voy a solicitarla la próxima
semana”, señaló. “Mi papá tendrá
que esperar a que aumenten las
cuotas”.
Emilio González, director del
Servicio de Inmigración y Naturalización, dijo que los aumentos
son necesarios “porque necesitamos el dinero”, y las cuotas dan
flexibilidad para ajustarse a la
carga de trabajo en el número de
solicitudes.
“No hacer nada es invitar a que
haya un desastre organizativo
porque simplemente no estamos
cubriendo los costos de operación”, señaló.
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LA mayor's Clinton endorsement spotlights importance
of Hispanic vote in U.S. presidential race
Hillary Clinton se abre espacio
entre los hispanos
Michael R. Blood
Michael R. Blood
Los Angeles, CA (AP) — El apoyo
del alcalde de Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, a Hillary Clinton
parece otorgarle a la candidata
demócrata una temprana ventaja
frente a sus rivales en la búsqueda
del ansiado voto
hispano.
Villaraigosa
es un astro
en ascenso
en el ámbito
político nacional demócrata
y uno de los más
importantes
funcionarios
electos latinos.
Antonio Villaraigosa, alcalde
Se espera que
de Los Angeles
impulse vigorosamente la candidatura de Clinton
entre los hispanos en California,
uno de los estados capaces de
decidir las elecciones presidenciales del 2008.
La población hispana de California se acerca al 36 por ciento,
más del doble que el promedio nacional. Y aunque el poder
político de los hispanos no se
corresponde con su porcentaje real — pues muchos son
demasiado jóvenes para votar, no
están empadronados para emitir
el sufragio o simplemente son
indocumentados — la situación
está cambiando.
En 1992, sólo un 8 por ciento
de los hispanos sufragaban en el
estado. En el 2006, la cifra fue del
14 por ciento, según cifras com-
piladas por el Instituto de Política
Pública de California.
Y el impacto es mucho más
vigoroso entre los demócratas.
Uno de cada cinco votantes del
partido en California es de origen
hispano.
Tanto los demócratas como los
republicanos tratan de conquistar
el voto hispano, aunque en los
últimos años, los hispanos han
comenzado a observar con recelo
a los republicanos, pues éstos han
propuesto una serie de proyectos
de ley para frenar el flujo de inmigrantes ilegales y para sancionar
a empleadores que contratan a
indocumentados.
El republicano Mitt Romney
cuenta con un asesor de prensa hispano en Florida. El demócrata Bill
Richardson, cuya madre es mexicana, ha hecho frecuentes llamados
a los votantes hispanos e inclusive
anunció su postulación a la presidencia en inglés y en español.
El senador Barack Obama y el
ex candidato a la vicepresidencia
por los demócratas, John Edwards,
figuran entre los postulantes que
dedican parte de sus portales de
acceso en la internet a los hispanoparlantes.
“Como lo hemos visto en las
últimas elecciones, el voto hispano
se ha convertido en una parte
... fundamental de la coalición
republicana”, dijo Alex Burgos,
asesor de Romney. Y debido a que
existe una fuerte presencia hispana en poderosos estados como
Nueva York, California y Florida,
“eso adquiere aún más importancia”, añadió.
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Los Angeles, CA (AP) — Democratic Sen.
Hillary Rodham Clinton's political courtship
of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
landed her an early, influential endorsement
last week that highlights the intense competition among U.S. presidential candidates for
support within the growing Hispanic population.
Candidates in both major parties are reaching out to Hispanic voters with an intensity that
speaks to the importance of America's largest
and fastest-growing minority group in the 2008
campaign.
Republican Mitt Romney has hired a Spanish-language media adviser in Florida. Democrat Bill Richardson, whose mother is Mexican,
has made overt appeals to Hispanic voters,
including announcing his candidacy in English
and Spanish.
Sen. Barack Obama and John Edwards are
among the candidates devoting parts of their
Web sites to Spanish speakers. And next week,
Sen. John McCain will travel to Miami to deliver
a speech on immigration, a site chosen in part
because of the city's large Hispanic population.
“As we've seen in the last few elections, the
Hispanic vote has become a critical ... part of
the Republican coalition,” said Romney aide
Alex Burgos. With large Hispanic populations
in early voting states like Florida, California and
New York, “it takes on even more importance,”
he said.
Hispanics tend to lean Democratic in
national elections, but President George W.
Bush showed in 2004 that Republicans have
much at stake. Bush captured about 40 percent
of the Hispanic vote that year, the most ever
for a Republican presidential candidate. His
Democratic rival, John Kerry, won 53 percent,
down from the 62 percent former Vice President
Al Gore garnered in 2000.
Immigration reform is a touchstone issue
for many Hispanics in the U.S., particularly in
cities like Los Angeles, which has strong cultural
and economic ties to Mexico. California has as
many as 3 million illegal immigrants, the most
of any state.
Villaraigosa's support for Clinton rested
in part on their agreement on the need for a
federal law that would include a pathway to
citizenship for many of the estimated 12 mil-
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s bid for the Democratic presidential nomination got a boost recently due to an endorsement from LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
lion illegal immigrants in the U.S., among other
provisions.
The debate in the U.S. Congress over legislation has sharply divided candidates, particularly Republicans. Hard-line conservatives
are demanding stronger border security while
looking skeptically on proposals to offer citizenship to millions who entered the country
illegally.
Villaraigosa, a potential candidate for
California governor in 2010, is one of the most
recognized U.S. Hispanic politicians. He is
expected to serve as a strong advocate for Clinton among Hispanics, particularly in vote-rich
Southern California.
California's Hispanic population is nearing
36 percent — more than double the U.S. average. However, Hispanics historically vote in
numbers well below their share of the population, in part because many are either too young
to vote, unregistered or foreign citizens.
But as the Hispanic population increases in
the state, so has voting participation.
In 1992, Hispanics accounted for about 8
percent of Californians going to the polls; in
2006, the figure hit 14 percent, according to
figures compiled by the Public Policy Institute
of California.
Their impact is strongest on the Democratic
side of the ticket — one of every five party voters
in the state is Hispanic.
In the national midterm election in 2006,
Democrats recaptured a large part of the Hispanic vote — nearly seven in 10 Hispanic voters
supported Democratic congressional candidates, exit polls found. But Republicans in several key states also did well, suggesting Latinos
could be important swing voters in 2008.
Hispanics could play important roles in
potential battleground states like Nevada,
Colorado, and Arizona, which have large Latino
populations.
“John, you're about four and
a half years late on leadership
on this issue.”
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Manchester, NH (AP) — Democratic presidential candidates
clashed on Sunday over whether
the Bush administration had made
the country safer from terrorism
after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Former North Carolina Sen.
John Edwards called President
Bush's global war on terrorism
a “political slogan, a bumper
sticker, that's all it is” in the second
televised debate pitting the eight
Democratic contenders.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton,
who is the front-runner in national
polls, said she did not agree with
Edwards characterization of the
war on terrorism.
As a senator from New York, “I
have seen first hand the terrible
damage that can be inflicted on
our country by a small band of
terrorists.”
Still, she said, “I believe we are
safer than we were.”
Illinois Sen. Barack Obama said
that the administration's war in
Iraq had detracted from efforts to
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world partly as a consequence of
this president's actions,” Obama
said.
The candidates sought to highlight their own differences on the
war in Iraq.
Obama told Edwards, who
voted in October 2002 to authorize
the war in Iraq but now says that
the vote was a mistake: “John,
you're about four and a half years
late on leadership on this issue.”
Obama was not in the Senate at
the time of the vote but had voiced
opposition to the war resolution at
the time.
Edwards conceded, “He was right,
I was wrong” on opposing the war
from the beginning. And Edwards
sought to highlight his change of
heart on his vote with Clinton's continuing refusal to disavow her vote for
the war resolution.
Said Clinton: “That was a sincere vote.”
She again declined to say her
vote was wrong.
Both Edwards and Clinton
agreed that they voted for the war
resolution in 2002 without reading
an intelligence report on Iraq that
was available to them. Both said
they sought other information
and believed they were thoroughly
briefed.
Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich said
the war on Iraq should not just be
blamed on Bush, but on the Congress that authorized it.
U.S. troops “never should have
been sent there in the first place,”
he said. Rather than debate timeta-
bles and benchmarks, the Democratic-controlled Congress should
“just say no money, the war's over,”
he said.
Kucinich called on other debate
partners who were members of
Congress to remember that voters
had given Democrats control
of both House and Senate last
November largely in response to
opposition to the war.
To a question on whether English should be the official language
in the United States, only former
Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel raised his
hand in the affirmative.
But Obama protested the question itself, calling it “the kind of
question that was designed precisely to divide us.” He said such
questions “do a disservice to the
American people.”
The candidates squared off as
a new national poll found Clinton
maintaining a significant lead
over her rivals. The Washington
Post/ABC News poll found the
former first lady leading the field
with 42 percent support among
adults, compared with 27 percent
for Obama and 11 percent for
Edwards.
The debate took place in the
first primary state.
The Iraq war was the main
focus, as it was during Democrats' first debate, in late April in
Orangeburg, S.C. Polls show the
war has become deeply unpopular among voters and especially
among Democratic activists, who
vote heavily in primaries.
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National
Green card cost surging to more than $1,000
Candidatos demócratas debaten sobre terrorismo e Irak
Beth Fouhy
“They are taking advantage of
the fact that people will pay
anything to become a citizen.”
Unyoung Lee,
A college graduate who is trying to file her citizenship
application before the prices go up
Suzanne Gamboa
Washington, D.C. (AP) — The cost of the
fi rst step toward citizenship — obtaining a
green card — will soon surge to more than
$1,000, a price tag certain to be
ESP
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families.
A laborer earning the minimum wage of
$5.15 an hour would have to save every penny
earned for five weeks to pay for the card,
which is issued to permanent legal residents.
Immigrants to the U.S. must hold this status
for five years before they can become naturalized citizens.
The new prices, which do not require congressional approval, take effect July 30.
A green card will cost $930, plus an extra
$80 for mandatory fingerprints, a total of
$1,010. That's up from $395 — $325 plus $70.
Children 14 and under and people at least 79
years old would be charged less and would not
be fi ngerprinted.
Advocacy groups and some immigrants
say the increases are too drastic. The cost of
a green card is only a portion of the expenses
CITIZENSHIP QUEST
didn't decide to come to America.
Their parents did.”
One of the most vocal student
advocates is Marie González, a
21-year-old junior at Westminster
College in Missouri. She has made
numerous trips to Washington to
tell her story.
Her parents were deported to
Costa Rica two years ago. González,
whose deportation was deferred, said
she could be sent back next year.
borne by immigrants seeking citizenship or
other benefits.
“They are taking advantage of the fact that
people will pay anything to become a citizen,”
said Unyoung Lee, 24, of Northbrook, Ill., who
is trying to fi le her citizenship application
before the prices go up.
Lee came to the U.S. with her parents and
brother in 1992. Because of the high cost, her
family took turns applying for naturalization.
Lee's mother went fi rst, then her brother. Her
father was to go next, but with the fee increases
they decided Lee should apply instead.
A college graduate earning about $26,000
a year, Lee works at the Korean American
Resource and Cultural Center, where she helps
other immigrants navigate the citizenship
process. She also is paying off student loans
and helps her parents, with whom she lives.
“I just saved up enough money and I'm
going to apply next week,” Lee said. “Dad is
going to have to wait for the fee increase.”
Under the current fee structure, the cost
for all four family members to naturalize was
$1,600. Under the new structure, Lee's father
would pay $595, plus the $80 for electronic
fi ngerprints.
There also is a renewal fee.
Immigrants also must pay to get necessary
documents from their home countries or local
courthouses, and to get that paperwork translated and notarized.
Democrats in Congress have criticized the
fee hikes. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Rep.
Luís Gutiérrez, D-Ill., introduced legislation
seeking to ease the increases by having Congress allocate money to the federal agency.
Emilio González, Citizenship and Immigration Services director, said the fee increases
She said saying goodbye to
her parents was awful. “There's
no words to describe it. It's been
absolutely terrible. I'm an only
child. They're my best friends,”
she said.
But she said she cannot contemplate departing the United
States for Costa Rica, a country
she left when she was 5. “I've
thought about visiting, but not
going back to live there,” she said.
“That would be like a crashing of
my dreams.”
Student advocates say many
of their peers drop out of high
were needed instead “because we need
the money” and the fees allow flexibility in
adjusting to the application workload. “To do
nothing is to invite organizational disaster
because we are just not covering the cost of
doing business,” he said.
The agency expects the increases in green
card and other fees to generate an extra
$1.1 billion annually, raising its overall fee
collection to about $2.35 billion a year. The
money would be used to hire and train 1,500
employees, to pay for new or renovated offices,
and to streamline application processes for
legal permanent residency, naturalization,
immigrant worker petitions, and green card
renewals.
Jay Marks, an immigration attorney in
Silver Spring, Md., said one of his clients, a
legal permanent resident seeking citizenship,
wants to bring his wife and four children from
Mexico.
To do so, the client, whom Marks declined
to identify, must fi le petitions that are going
up in price from $190 to $355. Marks said he
advised his client to fi le two sets of petitions,
plus the citizenship application, before the
fee hikes kick in.
The cost for that, roughly $1,350 now, would
rise to $2,450 after July 30. The client, Marks
said, earns $12 to $15 an hour as a landscaper,
a job he's worked for 20 years.
It is unfair, Marks said, for the immigration
agency to put its administrative costs “on the
backs of folks who are already paying taxes
in order to get these benefits, many of them
working two jobs.”
Immigration officials set a $600 fee for
green cards for children under 14 who apply
with a parent. They pay $225 now.
school because undocumented
immigrants typically only get jobs
for low-skilled workers.
But the provision is motivating
some students to stick with their
studies, said Tam Tran, 24, who just
graduated from UCLA.
“The idea that it might pass
someday — that they might
be able to use their college
degree to get a job — that drives
people,” said Tran, who was
born in Germany to Vietnamese
refugees.
Neither Germany nor Vietnam
recognizes her as a citizen, so she
considers herself stateless in some
ways and a typical American in
others, Tran said.
She said she tries not to dwell
on her status and that of many of
her friends.
“It's like a form of rejection,”
she said. “We can't fully participate
in what we have worked hard to
become a part of.”
Manchester, NH (AP) — Los candidatos presidenciales demócratas
debatieron el domingo en cuanto a
si el gobierno del presiENG dente George W. Bush
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había logrado garantizar
la seguridad del país de los atentados terroristas tras los atentados del
11 de septiembre del 2001.
El ex senador por Carolina del
Norte, John Edwards, calificó la
guerra mundial del presidente
Bush contra el terrorismo de “eslogan político, sólo una frase, eso es
todo lo que es”, en el que fue el segundo debate por televisión entre
ocho contendientes demócratas.
Por su parte, la senadora Hillary Rodham Clinton, favorita en
las encuestas nacionales, señaló
que no estaba de acuerdo con
la manera como Edwards había
definido a la guerra contra el terrorismo.
Como senadora por Nueva York
“he visto de primera mano los terribles daños que pueden infligirle a
nuestro país una pequeña pandilla
de terroristas”.
Sin embargo, concedió que
“creo que estamos más seguros
que antes”.
Por su parte, el senador de Illinois, Barack Obama, indicó que la
guerra que mantiene el gobierno
estadounidense en Irak ha generado resistencia a los esfuerzos
para erradicar al terrorismo.
“Vivimos en un mundo más
peligroso en parte como consecuencia de las acciones de este
presidente”, señaló Obama.
Los candidatos buscaron subrayar sus propias diferencias en
torno a la guerra en Irak.
Obama criticó a Edwards, quien
votó en octubre del 2002 en favor
de la guerra en Irak y que ahora
considera como un error, al decirle
que “John, tienes un atraso de
aproximadamente cuatro años y
medio en este tema”.
Obama no había sido elegido
para ocupar un escaño en el Senado
cuando se llevó a cabo la oposición, pero siempre ha difundido
su oposición a la decisión tomada
entonces de ir a la guerra.
Edwards reconoció que “él
tenía razón y yo me equivoqué” al
haberse opuesto a la guerra desde
un principio. Además, Edwards
trató de formalizar su cambio de
opinión con la negativa reiterada
de Clinton de retractarse de su
voto en favor de la guerra.
Clinton indicó: “Fue un voto
sincero”.
Ella nuevamente se negó a decir
que su voto estaba equivocado.
Edwards fustigó a Clinton y a
Obama por esperar hasta el último
momento para emitir su voto
en contra de una ley que ofrece
fondos a las fuerzas armadas
porque carecía de una fecha límite
para el retiro de los soldados.
Tanto Edwards como Clinton
estuvieron de acuerdo en que
votaron en favor de la resolución
para ir a la guerra en el 2002
sin haber leído previamente un
informe de inteligencia sobre
Irak que estaba a su disposición.
Ambos aseguran que buscaron
otra información y consideraron
que recibieron bastante.
Por su parte, el representante
Dennis Kucinich señaló que la
guerra en Irak no debería ser achacada únicamente a Bush, sino al
Congreso que la autorizó.
Los soldados estadounidenses
“jamás debieron haber sido enviados allá desde el principio”, indicó
Kucinich. En vez de discutir fechas
de retiro de tropas y fijar límites
de fondos, el Congreso, dominado
por los demócratas “debería decir
no hay dinero, se acabó la guerra”,
agregó.
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Bachelet pide
independencia de
investigadores de
la ONU
Living off immigrant money sent home from
U.S., young Guatemalans don't want to work
“In many communities in Mexico and
Central America, remittances have
prompted a healthy competition among
employers who offer better salaries
because of the scarce work force, but
dependence on remittances has also
slowed local economic growth.”
Eliseo Díaz,
“Durante esos días, los más sombríos
de Chile, la comunidad internacional
siempre nos respaldó”.
Michelle Bachelet
Frank Jordans
Ginebra, Suiza (AP) — La presidenta de Chile Michelle Bachelet
pidió el lunes que el Consejo de
Derechos de las Naciones Unidas
proteja la independencia de sus
investigadores, dos semanas antes
de un voto de importancia sobre el
futuro del organismo.
En un discurso en una sesión
especial del consejo, formado
por 47 países y con sede en Ginebra, Bachelet recordó su propia
experiencia de arresto y torturas
durante la dictadura del general
Augusto Pinochet, entre 1973 y
1990.
“Nunca olvidaré la situación
que pasé”, dijo Bachelet. Elogió
luego la tarea del precursor
del consejo, la Comisión de
Derechos Humanos, que criticó
los maltratos sufridos por los
chilenos a manos de su propio
gobierno.
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Researcher with the Tijuana, Mexico-based
Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Juan Carlos Llorca
Salcaja, Guatemala (AP) — Working and
going to school have become optional in
this highland Guatemalan town, thanks to
a flood of U.S. dollars sent home
ESP by migrants living in the United
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States.
The family-run mills that produce
brightly colored, hand-woven traditional
fabrics have fallen quiet as their potential
work force — mostly young men — hang
out at the town's pool halls or video game
salons, living off remittances and waiting to
make their own journeys north.
“Kids have easy money, and the only
thing they know how to do is spend it on
video games,” complained Salcaja Mayor
Miguel Ovalle. “In this town, school attendance has fallen in part because many go to
the U.S., and also because those who stay
don't want to go to school.”
Some 48,000 Guatemalans left between
2005-2006, almost all to the U.S., according
to the Geneva-based International Immigration Organization, which also found that
more than 1 million Guatemalans between
the ages of 10 and 20 years old were getting
U.S. remittances last year.
Last year, Guatemalans in the U.S. sent
home more than $3.6 billion, of which $300
million went to some 300,000 people in the
province of Quetzaltenango, home to Salcaja. That's a substantial cash flow in a $35
billion economy with an industrial output
of just $6.7 billion last year as measured by
gross domestic product.
Similar challenges are evident in other
parts of Latin America, where remittances
have made low-wage labor increasingly
undesirable. In some places, local employers
are being forced to raise salaries. In others,
traditional industries are simply being
abandoned.
“In many communities in Mexico
and Central America, remittances have
prompted a healthy competition among
employers who offer better salaries because
of the scarce work force, but dependence on
remittances has also slowed local economic
growth,” said Eliseo Díaz, a researcher with
the Tijuana, Mexico-based Colegio de la
Frontera Norte.
In many Mexican communities, small
businesses like auto and tire repair shops
and plumbing services are disappearing.
“For many people, it's much easier to spend
the money they receive than go look for
it, and when this happens, productivity is
reduced, affecting their local economy,”
Diaz said.
During the 1980s and part of the 90s,
almost every household in Salcaja had at
least one loom, and weaving the fabric used
for traditional Mayan skirts was the first way
young men earned their own money.
Now, some mill owners have moved their
looms to remote, rural villages with little or
no migration, where people will work for
a salary of 900 quetzales, or about $120 a
month.
“The thing is that this work is really hard,
and you earn very little,” said Secundino
Taracena, the owner of one mill. “It's easier
for a young person to sit back and receive
money” from the United States.
About 1,000 families in this town of
12,000 people receive their remittances
through a finance and credit cooperative
called Salcaja, R.L., which encourages the
development of small businesses under its
“More than Remittances” program.
“We want to foster investment, instead
of consumption,” said the cooperative's
general manager, Romualdo Pizabaj.
But for many, like Franklin Robles, 32,
who lived in Chicago and Trenton, N.J., for
10 years, wages will always be too low in
Guatemala.
“None of the young guys are going to
work for the 1,400 quetzales [$200] that you
earn in a month,” said Robles, currently
unemployed. “And why would they study
when someone who goes to school doesn't
earn any more than that?”
Many simply bide their time until they
can head north themselves, paying smugglers as much as $7,000 to guide them into
the United States. Most migrants from Salcaja end up in Trenton or Chicago. Some are
lucky enough to have parents who can bring
them in legally.
“I don't want to study. It's boring,” said
Nery Raúl Rodas, 14. “I'm just waiting for
my dad to fix my papers so that I can go to
the U.S. to work.”
Guatemalan Deputy Foreign Relations
Secretary, Marta Altolaguirre, acknowledged
that many towns struggle to compete with
remittances, but the government isn't overly
worried about it.
“It's the least of our problems,” she said.
“The positive outweighs the negative.”
Chilean president appeals for independence of U.N. rights investigators ahead of key vote
Frank Jordans
Geneva, Switzerland (AP) —
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, who was imprisoned and
tortured during the dictatorship of
Gen. Augusto Pinochet, urged the
top U.N. human rights monitoring
agency to preserve the independence of its investigators in a key
upcoming vote.
Bachelet addressed a special
session of the 47-nation U.N.
Human Rights Council ahead of
the June 18 vote on several internal
issues, including how its investigators are appointed.
African and Muslim countries
have proposed that the experts
be bound by a code of conduct,
and that members of fact-finding
missions to beleaguered parts of
the world be elected rather than
appointed by the council's president.
Human rights groups have
opposed those changes, saying
they would compromise the independence of the investigators and
prevent them from responding
quickly to reports of abuses.
Bachelet echoed that view and
said the council's “system of special procedures and early warnings
are key to preventing” isolated
abuses from growing “to gross and
systematic atrocities.”
She recalled the abuses she suffered during Pinochet's 1973-90
dictatorship and praised the work
of the U.N. rights body which the
council replaced last year.
“What I went through there I
will never forget,” she said. “During
those darkest days in Chile the
international community was
always beside us.”
Chile's government says at least
3,197 people were killed for political reasons and thousands more
tortured during Pinochet's rule.
The U.N. council was estab-
lished last year to replace the
Human Rights Commission,
which had become discredited
because rights-abusing countries
gained membership and built alliances to shield each other from
criticism.
Critics of the new body —
including the United States, which
is not a member — say it has continued the commission's practice
of singling out Israel while preventing proper scrutiny of human
rights in countries such as Sudan,
China, Cuba, and Belarus.
Bachelet urged the council to
establish regular reviews of all
countries' human rights records —
but with input from independent
experts and NGOs, a move fiercely
resisted by some members.
The council has no power
beyond drawing international
attention to rights issues, but
countries such as China and
Russia lobby hard to avoid censure.
SOLDADOS
víctimas como Alicia Esparza
Parra, de 17 años; Griselda Galaviz Barraza, de 25, y los hijos de
ésta: Joniel, de 7; Griselda, de 4, y
Juana, de 2.
El gobernador de Sinaloa, Jesús
Aguilar, deploró las muertes el
lunes, pero dijo que el ejército
permanecerá en el estado para
“sakvaguardar la seguridad de sus
ciudadanos”.
Calderón ha enviado más de
24.000 efectivos del ejército y la
policía federal a combatir a las
pandillas fuerte armadas, a las
que se atribuyen más de un millar
de muertos este año, entre ellos
decenas de personas a las que
han decapitado para exhibir sus
cabezas en lugares públicos.
Los pistoleros narcos también
han atacado a los militares. El mes
pasado emboscaron y mataron
a cinco soldados en el estado de
Michoacán.
Se ha acusado a los militares
de tomar represalias contra civiles
inocentes, además de traficantes.
En los días siguientes a la
emboscada, se acusó a los soldados de secuestrar a cinco niñas
adolescentes de una aldea vecina y
violar y golpearlas, según la Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos, dependiente del gobierno.
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that three officers and 16 enlisted
personnel were being held Monday
at a prison in the city of Mazatlan
pending an investigation by military and civilian authorities into
the killings.
Sinaloa Gov. Jesus Aguilar on
Monday lamented the shooting,
but said the army will remain in
the state “to safeguard the security
of its citizens.”
Calderón has sent more than
24,000 soldiers and federal police
to battle heavily armed drug gangs
blamed for more than 1,000 deaths
this year, including dozens of victims who have been decapitated
and had their heads displayed in
public places.
Drug gunmen have also hit the
military, ambushing and killing five
soldiers in coordinated attack last
month in Calderón's mountainous
home state of Michoacan.
In the days following the
ambush, soldiers were alleged to
have held four teenage girls from a
nearby village hostage as they beat
and raped them, according to the
government-run National Human
Rights Commission.
The Defense Department said it
will cooperate in an investigation
into that incident.
On Sunday, soldiers shot dead a
27-year old man after he refused to
stop at a military checkpoint near the
border city of Nuevo Laredo, across
from Laredo, Texas, police said.
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Remesas desalientan ingreso de jóvenes al mercado laboral
y otros más viven ese compás de
espera para que llegue el tiempo
de irse a Estados Unidos.
Los padres que viven en Estados
Unidos suelen exigir que sus hijos
terminen la secundaria y cumplan
la mayoría de edad, 18 años, antes
de viajar a ese país. Aunque hay
casos en que logran obtener una
visa o los progenitores ya tienen
residencia estadounidense, la
mayoría tiene que reunir entre
6.000 y 7.000 dólares para que un
coyote los lleve a reunirse con sus
padres.
Nery Raúl Rodas, un adolescente
de 14 años, vive esa situación. “Yo
no quiero estudiar, no me gusta.
Lo que estoy esperando es que mi
papá arregle los papeles [migratorios en Estados Unidos] para irme
a trabajar allá”, comentó.
La Organización Internacional
para las Migraciones (OIM) estimó
que unos 48.000 guatemaltecos
salieron de Guatemala entre 2005
y 2006. Casi la totalidad de los que
residen fuera están en Estados
Unidos.
De acuerdo con una encuesta
de 2006 hecha por la OIM, más de
un millón de jóvenes de entre 10
y 20 años reciben remesas procedentes de Estados Unidos.
En Quetzaltenango, la región a
O n
t h e
O r e g o n
presentarán el caso de RCTV ante
el Consejo de Derechos Humanos
de la Organización de Naciones
Unidas, el Consejo de Europa y la
Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos de la OEA.
Reporteros sin Frontera elaboró
el informe luego de una visita que
realizaron miembros de la organización a Venezuela entre el 24 y
28 de mayo para observar la salida
del aire del canal.
RCTV, el canal privado más
antiguo del país, cesó sus transmisiones el 27 de mayo luego
que el presidente Hugo Chávez
acordó no renovarle la licencia
de transmisión argumentando
que promovió el fallido golpe del
2002 y conspiraciones contra el
gobierno.
Los directivos de la televisora rechazaron el señalamiento
y denunciaron que la medida
gubernamental respondía a una
represalia política por la postura
crítica que mantuvieron contra el
gobierno.
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Acusan a Chávez de impulsar ‘hegemonía
mediática’ en Venezuela
Caracas, Venezuela (AP) — La
organización Reporteros Sin Frontera denunció el martes que el
presidente Hugo Chávez negó
la renovación de la licencia del
canal privado Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV) como parte de un
plan para lograr una “hegemonía
mediática” en Venezuela.
La organización, basada en
Pa r ís, Fra ncia, seña ló en u n
informe que la medida administrativa que tomó el gobierno
venezolano contra RCT V está
inscrita “en una amplia toma del
control del espacio público por
parte del poder”.
“El cierre de RCTV, y la recuperación de su canal hertziano en
beneficio del nuevo canal público
Televisora Venezolana Social
(Tves), se decidieron al margen
de cualquier procedimiento judicial regular y despreciando la
jurisprudencia de la Organización
de Estados Americanos (OEA)”,
agrega el comunicado.
La organización indicó que
donde pertenece este municipio
son unas 300.000 personas las que
mes a mes reciben dinero de sus
familiares en ese país. De los 3.600
millones de dólares por remesas
que ingresaron a Guatemala en
2006, más de 300 millones fueron a
dar a la zona de Quetzaltenango.
En El Salvador, Honduras y
Nicaragua, las remesas familiares
desde Estados Unidos representan
un importante ingreso de divisas,
arriba de los principales productos
de exportación.
La viceministra de relaciones exteriores para el tema de la
migración, Marta Altolaguirre,
explicó “es una realidad que hay
cierto acomodamiento entre la
gente joven al recibir una renta sin
haberla trabajado, pero es la menor
de las consecuencias. El balance es
más positivo que negativo”.
El director de la firma encargada
de hacer los estudios sobre remesas para el Banco Interamericano
de Desarrollo, Sergio Bendixen,
aseguró que aunque existen casos
en que los jóvenes deciden no
estudiar ni trabajar, “es evidencia
anecdótica. He estudiado el tema
y he hecho grandes esfuerzo para
encontrar gente que no le interese
y puedo decir que es un porcentaje
pequeño”.
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Salcaja, Guatemala (AP) — Recibir una renta constante en casa
gracias al envío de remesas de
Estados Unidos ha proENG vocado que algunos
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jóvenes en poblaciones
rurales pierdan el interés en estudiar o trabajar en Guatemala.
“L os muchachos t ienen el
dinero fácil y lo único que saben
es gastarlo en juegos de video. En
este municipio ha caído la escolaridad en parte porque muchos
se van a Estados Unidos y porque
los que se quedan no quieren
estudiar”, dijo a la AP Miguel
Ovalle, alcalde de esta localidad
ubicada a unos 200 kilómetros al
oeste de la capital.
En Guatemala no ha sido necesario, como en otros países Centroamericanos, suplir operarios
o peones agrícolas con trabajadores procedentes de naciones
vecinas.
“Aquí es muy grande la cantidad
de personas subempleadas y eso
hace que siempre haya guatemaltecos para llenar los puestos
de trabajo”, explicó el economista
Juan Alberto Fuentes Knight, director del Instituto Centroamericano
de Estudios Fiscales y ex coordinador del informe de desarrollo
humano de Naciones Unidas para
Guatemala.
Un estudio hecho por la Organización Internacional del Trabajo en 2004 indicó que el 16% de
la población económicamente
activa, equivalente a unas 813.000
personas, está subempleada y
trabaja menos horas de las que
podría o gana menos de lo que
necesita.
En Salcajá es difícil conseguir
jóvenes que quieran tejer, siendo
que las telas que usan las mujeres
en sus faldas tradicionales hicieron
famosa esta localidad, y ganar
unos 900 quetzales (120 dólares)
mensuales.
“Se gana muy poco y para un
joven es más fácil sólo recibir”, dijo
Secundino Taracena, propietario
de un telar y a quien se le ha sobrecargado el trabajo ante la ausencia
de jóvenes tejedores.
La mayoría de telares han sido
desmantelados y llevados a zonas
rurales donde el desempleo es más
elevado.
Por lo menos unas 1.000 familias de esta comunidad de 12.000
personas reciben remesas a través
de la Cooperativa Salcajá R.L., dijo
el gerente general de esa entidad,
Romualdo Pizabaj.
“Tuvimos que crear un programa llamado “más que remesas”
porque queremos promover la
inversión en lugar del consumo. En
especial queremos ayudar a crear
microempresas entre los jóvenes
que no ven incentivo en trabajar
o estudiar”, agregó.
Franklin Robles, un joven que
vivió diez años en Trenton, Nueva
Jersey y Chicago, no ve motivos
para trabajar en Guatemala. “Por
los 1.400 quetzales (unos 200
dólares) que se ganan al mes, no
van a trabajar los chavos [jóvenes]
y ¿para qué van a estudiar? si
aunque estudie uno no gana más
que eso”, dijo en su casa de esta
comunidad.
Robles no tiene un empleo fijo
y su último trabajo fue vender un
vehículo aunque eventualmente
atiende la tienda de abarrotes que
su familia tiene en casa.
Junto con él, decenas de jóvenes
se reúnen en el billar de la localidad o en la sala de videojuegos
para pasar el tiempo por las tardes.
Algunos trabajan, otros estudian
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Reporters Without Borders condemns Chávez's
push for media ‘hegemony’ in Venezuela
The organization said Chávez's
decisions “were conducted outside
of all regular legal channels and
in defiance of the jurisprudence
established by the Organization of
American States.”
It said it will refer the case to
the Inter-American Commission
on Human Rights, the Council
of Europe and the U.N. Human
Rights Council, which is meeting
in Geneva this week.
Chávez accused RCTV of backing a failed 2002 coup and violating
various broadcast laws. His move
against the leading oppositionaligned channel sparked protests,
as well as counter-demonstrations
by his supporters.
It also drew condemnation from
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice, who on Monday traded broadsides with Chávez's foreign minister
at an OAS meeting in Panama.
Most of the Venezuelan news
media are in private hands, including many newspapers and radio
stations that remain critical of
Chávez. The only other major
opposition-sided TV channel is
Globovision, and it is not seen in
all parts of the country.
“It was a political move, one that
establishes government hegemony over
the broadcast media and constitutes a
grave danger for editorial pluralism.”
Reporters Without Borders
Caracas, Venezuela (AP) — The
press freedom group Reporters
Without Borders on Tuesday condemned Venezuelan President
Hugo Chávez's removal of an
opposition TV station from the
airwaves, accusing him of seeking
to tighten his grip on the media.
Chávez forced Radio Caracas
Television off the air on May 27 by
refusing to renew its license. He
defended the move as democratizing the airwaves by turning over
the signal to a state-funded public
broadcasting station.
Reporters Without Borders called
it a push by Chávez to expand control of the broadcast media.
“It was a political move, one that
establishes government hegemony
over the broadcast media and constitutes a grave danger for editorial pluralism,” the Paris-based group said.
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Housing
LOS ARBOLES
been skimpy on landscaping, [but]
no on this one!"
Los Arboles comes with grass,
shrubs, and young trees. The kitchens feature not only ranges and
refrigerators, but high-end cabinet and drawer hardware. Rogers
noted that these apartments were
built to last.
One handicapped accessible
unit features closet shelves placed
low enough to be convenient for
wheelchair users.
During the opening ceremonies, HDC officer Robin Smith
called Los Arboles a place "where
farm workers can live and form a
beautiful community."
Peter Hainley of CASA noted,
"This is our fifth project with
HDC." He says he looks at it as
"an opportunity to provide housing for those who put food on our
tables."
Barnes said that over the last
fou r yea rs 2,400 new fa r mer
worker housing units have been
built in the region. However, she
said, "We're still far short."
C ont r ac tor Ste ve S e a b old
modestly def lected praise for
Seabold Con st r uc t ion's pa r t
in Los A rboles. "Building the
building is the easy part," he
said. "The hard part is getting all
the [paper work and] financing
together."
The 1.13-acre property included
two old houses. These houses
served one final purpose. The
Scapoose Fire Department used
them in their "Burn to Learn"
program.
Ma rk McCaslin of Sterling
Sav i ngs Ba n k sa id, "We'd be
happy to do more of these projects."
Smith promptly responded,
"Good!"
Sterling Savings Bank, along
with CASA, USDA, and OHCS,
co-sponsored the project.
Los Arboles Apartments are
at 33445 SW Sycamore Street in
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about apply ing for a n apa r tment, call 503-543-4017.
Un proyecto abre 22 apartamentos
para trabajadores del campo
Richard Jones
Reportero de El Hispanic News
Scapoose, OR — Empezando
este mes, 22 trabajadores del
campo estarán mucho más cerca
de su trabajo, con la
ENG apertura de 22 nuevos
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apartamentos en el
centro de Scapoose. Empezando
la semana pasada con las ceremonias del corte de las cintas,
los Apartamentos Los Árboles
empezaron a tomar aplicaciones
para una selección de unidades de
vivienda de dos, tres, y cuatro cuartos para trabajadores del campo y
sus familias.
Previamente, Roz Barnes de
los Servicios de Vivienda y Comunidad de Oregon (OHCS, por sus
siglas en inglés) dijo, "Muchos de
ellos estaban conduciendo para
venir aquí a trabajar”. Fincas
localizadas cerca de Sauvie Island
emplean muchos trabajadores
agrícolas.
Pat rocinada por la Cor poración de Desarrollo de Vivienda
(HDC, por sus siglas en inglés) del
noroeste de Oregon, Los Árboles
es el primer proyecto de vivienda
para trabajadores del campo en
el Condado de Columbia. HDC
has construido previamente otros
cinco complejos habitacionales
en Forest Grove, Cornelius, Aloha,
y Hillsboro entre 1985 y el 2002.
Estos proyectos proveyeron 233
apartamentos para trabajadores
del campo.
En el 2002, HDC cofundó la
Clínica Esencial de Salud, la única
clínica en el condado de Washington proveyendo servicios de salud
gratuitos para los que no tienen
seguro de salud.
Las rentas en Los Árboles están
establecidas para ser asequible
para las familias ganando un 40
Los Apartamentos Los Arboles en Scapoose ofrecen vivienda asequible para 22 trabajadores del campo y sus familias.
por ciento del ingreso medio del
área.
Una de las encargadas de la
visita guiada, Lisa Rogers, dijo
que la ayuda para el pago de la
renta está disponible en 19 de las
22 unidades. La renta, incluyendo
los servicios públicos, dijo ella, no
costará más del 30 por ciento del
ingreso bruto familiar.
Algunas de las unidades son
“casas unifamiliares” — aparta-
mentos de dos pisos.
Los Árboles ofrecen un número
de comodidades tales como patio
de recreo para los niños, instalaciones para el lavado de la ropa,
y un centro comunitario para las
reuniones. Al fi nal del complejo
los residentes pueden cultivar sus
propias frutas y vegetales.
Geri Steward, representando
a USDA, anotó, "En todos los
proyectos que ellos han hecho,
han sido muy parcos con los jardines, [pero] no en este!"
Los Árboles vienen con prados,
arbustos, y árboles jóvenes. Las
cocinas ofrecen no solo hornos
y refrigeradores, sino gabinetes
de lujo y cajón para las herramientas. Rogers anota que los
apa r ta mentos f ueron hechos
para durar.
Una unidad que es accesible
para personas en sillas de ruedas,
tiene estantes en los armarios lo
suficientemente bajos para que
sean convenientes para los usuarios de sillas de ruedas.
Durante las ceremonias de
apertura, uno de los funcionarios de HDC Robin Smith llamó
Los Árboles un lugar "donde los
trabajadores del campo pueden
vivir y formar una linda comunidad”.
Peter Hainley de CASA anotó,
"Éste es nuestro quinto proyecto
con HDC”. Él dice que ve este
proyecto como "una oportunidad
de proveerle vivienda a aquellos
que ponen la comida en nuestras
mesas”.
Barnes dijo que en los últimos
cuatro años 2.400 unidades de
vivienda nuevas para trabajadores
del campo han sido construidas en
la región. Sin embargo, dijo ella,
"Nosotros estamos todavía muy
cortos”.
El contratista Steve Seabold
modestamente desvió los elogios
por el papel de Seabold Construc-
tion en Los Árboles. "La construcción de los edificios es la parte
más fácil”, dijo él. "La parte difícil
es la de obtener todos [los papeles
y poner] la fi nanciación junta”.
La propiedad de 1.13 acres
incluía dos casas viejas. Éstas
sirvieron su último propósito. El
Departamento de Bomberos de
Scapoose las usó en su programa
"Quemar para Aprender".
Mark McCaslin de Sterling Savings Bank dijo, "Nosotros estaremos felices de hacer más de estos
proyectos”.
Smith rápidamente respondió,
"¡Bueno!"
Sterling Savings Bank, Junto con
CASA, USDA, y OHCS, fueron los
copatrocinadores del proyecto.
Los Apartamentos Los Árboles están en 33445 SW Sycamore
Street en Scapoose. Para mayor
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Blatter reelecto presidente de la FIFA
Bolivia's president mocks soccer's
altitude ban with game at 17,300 feet
Erica Bulman
Zurich, Suiza (AP) — Joseph Blatter
fue reelecto el pasado jueves como
presidente de la FIFA para otro término de cuatro años.
Blatter fue el único candidato al
puesto.
El directivo de 71 años fue seleccionado a viva voz por las 207 asociaciones
nacionales presentes en el congreso de
la FIFA en Zurich. Blatter permanecerá
en el cargo hasta el 2011.
En abril, 66 asociaciones de las seis
confederaciones mundiales nominaron a Blatter para su tercer término
como presidente de la FIFA.
Blatter dijo que siente “una gran
felicidad, una felicidad profunda”.
“Acepto este mandato”, indicó Blatter. “Gracias por su confianza y gracias
por ponerme de nuevo a la cabeza de
esta institución”.
Blatter fue electo presidente por
primera vez en junio de 1998, después
de 17 años como secretario general de
Joao Havelange. Cuatro años después
fue reelecto en Seúl.
La FIFA decidió en el 2003 extender
ese mandato de cuatro a cinco años
para que la elección presidencial se
realice el año después de la Copa del
Mundo.
Blatter señaló que se siente especialmente emocionado porque “estamos en Suiza, en mi país. Estamos en
Zurich, la ciudad de la FIFA”.
El suizo, quien comenzó a trabajar
en la FIFA en 1975 y se convirtió en
secretario general seis años después,
ascendió rápido en las filas de la
institución. Como secretario general y
luego presidente, ha estado a la cabeza
de grandes cambios en el organismo.
Blatter solía bromear que cuando
llegó a la FIFA en 1975, él era el
undécimo miembro de la administración y que su llegada “completó
el equipo”. En 1981, cuando se convirtió en secretario general, el cuerpo
administrativo consistía de unas 20
personas.
Ahora, esa cifra llega a los 280 y la
FIFA acaba de inaugurar una nueva
sede en Zurich a un costo de 220 millones de dólares.
Al igual que Havelange, Blatter ha
sido acusado de ser un líder autoritario.
Hace cinco años fue blanco de críticas cuando, semanas antes de la elección presidencial, Blatter suspendió
una pesquisa sobre las finanzas de la
FIFA tras el colapso de su socio comercial ISL/ISMM.
Blatter también está encontrado
con el G-14, el organismo que agrupa
a los principales clubes europeos.
Aunque no teme criticar a los
clubes y ligas, Blatter ha sido ridiculizado por algunas de sus expresiones,
como cuando dijo que las futbolistas
mujeres deberían utilizar pantalones
más cortos y ajustados.
El próximo congreso de la FIFA
será del 28 al 30 de mayo en Sydney,
Australia.
Photo Dado Galdieri, AP
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales, top right of field, takes part in a soccer match on Chacaltaya mountian on the outskirts of La Paz, June 1. Morales vowed to fight FIFA’s ruling to ban games played above 2,500 meters (8,200 feet) which would exclude much of Bolivia
as well as parts of Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Chile, and Mexico.
“Here we play in ‘altura,’ and we
play with much ‘altura. Those who
fear ‘altura’ have no ‘altura.’”
Evo Morales,
Bolivian President
Dan Keane
Chacaltaya, Bolivia (AP) — President
Evo Morales took his battle to overturn a
ban on international high-altitude soccer
games to new heights last Friday, playing
a match at a lung-bursting 17,300 feet up
in the Andes.
Morales scored four goals in the 30-minute
game played before reporters, scientists, and
a few dazzled tourists on small gravel field
at the Chacaltaya Observatory. The research
post lies at an altitude more than twice the
8,200-feet ceiling announced late last month
by world soccer authority FIFA.
FIFA officials said their ruling was based
on concerns for players' health and the home
advantage high-altitude teams have over
visiting lowland rivals.
But the ruling has been met by howls
of protest from fans, soccer officials, and
politicians in excluded cities such as La Paz
and four others in Bolivia, the capitals of
Colombia and Ecuador, and cities in Peru,
Chile, and Mexico.
Last Friday's game was played in the
shadow of the rapidly shrinking Chacaltaya
Glacier 16 miles north of La Paz, with the
craggy, snow covered Andean peak of Huayna
Potosi looming overhead.
Morales and his team of presidential
staffers and retired Bolivian soccer greats
defeated a squad of university students 10-3,
in a match halted occasionally when a ball
kicked out of bounds would roll down the
steep mountainside.
Swarmed by reporters after the final whis-
tle, a winded but grinning Morales repeated
the line that has become the slogan of his
campaign to overturn the ban.
“Here we play in ‘altura,’ and we play with
much ‘altura,’” he said, using a Spanish word
that can mean “altitude” or “dignity.” “Those
who fear ‘altura’ have no ‘altura.’”
Bolivia's neighbors have also opposed
the ruling, with the Ecuadorean government
issuing a statement decrying the “discriminatory” ban that would outlaw international
games in the capital of Quito.
Peruvian President Alan Garcia called
FIFA'S ruling a “Eurocentric decision” last
Thursday. “Those who made the decision
see the world as if it was their own country,”
he said.
Others have pointed fingers at South
American soccer powerhouses Argentina
and Brazil, where teams weary of Andean
road games have applauded the ban. One
official at the Brazilian club Flamengo even
hailed the rule as “a victory for humankind.”
Morales reta veto de la FIFA desde un nevado
La Paz, Bolivia (AP) _ El presidente boliviano Evo Morales jugó
un partido de “futbolito” el pasado
viernes en un nevado a 5.270 metros
de altitud como parte de su campaña
de protesta por el veto de la FIFA a los
partidos internacionales en canchas
situadas a más de 2.500 metros sobre
el nivel del mar.
El encuentro se desarrolló en una
pequeña cancha de tierra en el nevado
Chacaltaya y con la vista de fondo de
los nevados de los Andes. El mandatario y sus colaboradores enfrentaron
a un equipo de estudiantes de un
laboratorio de Física de la Universidad
Mayor de San Andrés, que tiene su
base en el glaciar.
“Tengo esperanza, Bolivia no va
a ser excluida, estamos explicando,
informando para no ser marginados
del fútbol mundial”, dijo a los periodistas que lo acompañaron al glaciar.
Morales fue aplaudido y se fotografió con un grupo de turistas que
visitaban el nevado, entre ellos algunos brasileños que portaban la bandera de su país. Convirtió tres goles,
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Opinion
La ley de la selva
Los pulmones de nuestro planeta tienen un cáncer que año
tras año va corroyendo estos
imprescindibles ecosistemas. Este
cáncer se llama la explotación irracional de los bosques tropicales,
en donde demasiados confunden
su color verde con el color del
dinero.
Sólo en el Amazonas brasileño,
desde 1970 a 2005, este cáncer ha
destruido 720,000 millas cuadradas de bosque ancestral, una
superficie comparable a la de
México.
Esta calamidad no sólo acaba
con ecosistemas irremplazables y
cantidades astronómicas de diversidad animal y vegetal. También
arrasa con culturas milenarias que
durante siglos han compartido el
bosque sustentablemente.
Este es el caso también en el
vecino Perú, en la región de Madre
de Dios, la cual abarca algunos
de los rincones más remotos
del Amazonas. Innumerables
mafias madereras — armadas con
una codicia insaciable y absoluta
impunidad — invaden territorios
de tribus que jamás han estado
expuestas al mundo exterior.
“Esto ha causado confrontaciones e incluso muertes”, dice Julio
Cusurichi, un ecologista y líder
comunitario de la etnia Shipibo
que lleva décadas defendiendo los
bosques. “Cuando hay choques
contra estos grupos indígenas aislados, nunca sabemos cuántos
de ellos mueren. Sólo oímos de
los leñadores porque son los que
regresan”.
Finalmente en 2002, el gobierno peruano convirtió la región
que protege Cusurichi en reserva
natural, pero las mafias siguen
explotando los bosques.
“Esto que llaman desarrollo a
nosotros sólo nos empobrece”,
acusa. “No nos oponemos al desarrollo, nos oponemos al pillaje de
nuestros recursos”.
En esta pelea desigual, Cusu-
Julio Cusurichi,
Photo Tom Dusenbery
Julio Cusurichi es un ecologista y líder comunitario de la etnia Shipibo que lleva décadas defendiendo los bosques.
richi y sus compañeros se juegan
literalmente la vida.
“Me han incendiado la casa,
nos amenazan con cortarnos el
cuello, pero a mi no me intimidan”,
advierte.
Es este coraje lo que le ha valido
el reconocimiento internacional y
el Premio Medioambiental Goldman para Centro y Suramérica
de 2007, conocido como el Nóbel
de la ecología, el cual recibió en
Nueva York el mes pasado.
“Yo lucharé hasta el último día
de mi vida”, dice animado por
el apoyo internacional que ha
logrado. “Este es mi reto y voy a
seguir adelante con la frente alta
y la mente limpia”.
Pero este cáncer se extiende
mucho más allá del Amazonas.
En Guatemala, la tala ilegal se ha
cobrado el 60 por ciento de sus
bosques ancestrales en 15 años,
incluyendo 750,000 hectáreas de la
Reserva de la Biosfera Maya, según
el grupo ecologista Trópico Verde.
Dos de sus miembros, Carlos
Albacete y Piedad Espinosa, llevan
13 años combatiendo el pillaje de
los tesoros naturales guatemaltecos y la inacción y complicidad
gubernamental.
“El mayor reto al que nos hemos
enfrentado es la absoluta impunidad en que se quedan los delitos
medioambientales en Guatemala
así como la corrupción incrustada
en el aparato del Estado”, dice
Albacete.
Y agrega que en su país pocas
veces se detiene a sospechosos de delitos de tala ilegal, y
cuando ocurre, culmina con la
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“This has caused confrontations
and even deaths. When there
are confrontations with these
isolated indigenous groups, we
never know how many of the
indigenous peoples have been
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loggers, because they are the
ones who come back.”
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absolución de los acusados.
Durante estos años los dos
han estado viviendo “al filo de la
navaja”. Y lo que ambos temían
ocurrió tras meses de denuncias
contra la destrucción de terrenos
públicos en la Biosfera Maya.
En enero, al regresar de un viaje
al extranjero, un carro adelantó el
taxi en el que se dirigían a su casa,
les cerró el paso, y cuatro de sus
ocupantes, vestidos con chalecos
antibalas y gorros negros, comenzaron a disparar contra ellos.
“Si nos salvamos fue gracias
a que el taxista pudo seguir conduciendo y a un cúmulo de casualidades que hicieron que ninguna
de las balas que impactaron el
vehículo nos diera de lleno”, recuerda Albacete.
Tras una investigación de los
hechos, los dos concluyeron que
los criminales pertenecían a la
policía y a la inteligencia militar. Después de otros incidentes
menos graves, decidieron exiliarse
a Estados Unidos y más tarde a
España ya que sus vidas corrían
grave peligro en Guatemala.
Estos dos héroes del medio
ambiente también se merecen
un premio, pero Albacete insiste
en que la cura contra este cáncer
radica en que los países importadores de maderas preciosas, como
Estados Unidos, “tomen medidas
eficaces contra la tala ilegal y la
corrupción de las autoridades
locales”.
En los últimos meses, el Representante demócrata Earl Blumenauer ha presentado un proyecto
de ley que criminalizaría las actividades que nuestros héroes están
combatiendo. Asimismo, la propuesta de comercio libre entre
Estados Unidos y Perú ayudaría a
detener el flujo de exportaciones
madereras ilegales.
Mientras tanto, en los bosques
ancestrales del mundo no debería
seguir vigente la ley de la selva.
Javier Sierra
Columnista del Sierra Club
Our planet’s lungs have a cancer
that year after year is corroding
these indispensable ecosystems.
This cancer is the irrational exploitation of the tropical forests, where
too many believe that green is
just the color of
money.
In the Brazilian Amazon,
from 1970
to 2005, this
cancer has devastated 720,000
square miles of
old-growth forests, an area the
Javier Sierra, Columnista del
size of Mexico.
Sierra Club
This calamity is not only leveling irreplaceable ecosystems and astronomical
diversity. It is also decimating
ancestral cultures who for centuries have shared the forest sustainably.
This is also the case in neighboring Peru, in the Madre de Dios
region, one of the most remote
corners of the Amazon. Many logging mafias — armed with insatiable greed and absolute impunity
— invade territories of tribes who
have never been exposed to the
outside world.
“This has caused confrontations and even deaths,” says Julio
Cusurichi, an ecologist and community leader from the Shipibo
tribe who defends the rain forest.
“When there are confrontations
with these isolated indigenous
groups, we never know how many
of the indigenous peoples have
been killed. We only hear about the
loggers, because they are the ones
who come back.”
Finally, in 2002, the Peruvian
government turned the region
Cusurichi protects into a natural
reserve, although the exploitation
continues.
“This so-called development
is only making us poorer,” he
accuses. “We don’t oppose development. We oppose the pillage of
our resources.”
In this unfair fight, Cusurichi
and his colleagues literally put
their lives on the line.
“They have burned down my
home, they have threatened to cut
our necks, but they don’t intimidate me,” he warns.
This courage is what has granted
him international recognition and
the 2007 Goldman Environmental
Prize for Central and South America, also known as the Nobel Prize
for ecology, which he received last
month.
“I will fight until the last day of
my life,” he says, encouraged by
the international support he has
garnered. “This is my challenge
and I will go on with my head
raised and my mind clean.”
But this cancer has spread far
beyond the Amazon. In Guatemala, illegal logging has destroyed
60 percent of its old growth forests in 15 years, including more
than 1.8 million acres of the Maya
Biosphere Reserve, according to
the environmental group Trópico
Verde.
Two of its members, Carlos
Albacete and Piedad Espinosa,
have been fighting the pillage
of Guatemala’s natural treasures
and the government inaction and
complicity for 13 years.
“The biggest challenge we
have faced is the total impunity
these environmental cr imes
are dealt with in Guatemala
and the corruption embedded
in State institutions,” Albacete
says.
And he adds that in his country
very few illegal logging suspects
are detained, and when they are,
the defendants are finally freed.
Through the years, they both
have been practically living
“at knifepoint.” And what both
feared finally took place after
months of exposing the destruction of public lands in the Maya
Biosphere.
In January, on their return from
an overseas trip, a car passed
their taxi, blocked their way, and
from it jumped four men wearing
bullet-proof vests and black caps,
who opened fire on them.
“We escaped the attack because
the taxi driver had the presence
of mind to drive on and because
of many fortunate circumstances
that kept the bullets from hitting
us,” recalls Albacete.
After they investigated the
attack, they concluded that the
criminals were members of police
or military intelligence. Following
other harassment incidents, they
finally decided to go into exile in
the United States and later Spain
because their lives were in severe
danger in Guatemala.
These environmental heroes
also deserve a prize, but Albacete
insists that the cure for this
cancer lies in the will of importing countries, such as the United
States, “to take effective measures
against illegal logging and local
official corruption.”
In the past few months environmental champion Earl Blumenauer from Oregon has introduced the Legal Timber Protection Act, which would make it a
crime to knowingly import, sell,
buy, or transport illegally-sourced
plants and wood products.
In addition, some positive
steps have been taken to stop
trade in illegally harvested timber
through the proposed Peru – U.S.
Free Trade Agreement. While
there is still much work to do,
this marks a new era of dealing
with the demand side of illegal
logging.
In the meantime, the law of the
jungle should not continue to rule
the world’s ancestral forests.
Javier Sierra
Sierra Club columnist
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time. Rental Range from $0 to $923 If
subsidized units are not available at this
time, qualified applicants will be placed
on a waiting list. Guardian management
LLC is committed to “EQUAL HOUSING
OPPORTUNITY” “This institution is an equal
opportunity provider”
INDIAN CREEK COURT
1615 9th court
Hood River, Oregon 97031
Phone: (541)386-6607
Fax: (541)386-9102
DD/TDY# 1-800-735-2900
Subsidized units may be available at this
time. Rental Range from $0 to $797 If
subsidized units are not available at this
time, qualified applicants will be placed
on a waiting list. Guardian management
LLC is committed to “EQUAL HOUSING
OPPORTUNITY” “This institution is an equal
opportunity provider”
06/07/2007
DEPARTAMENTOS DISPONIBLES PARA
TRABAJADORES EN AGRICULTURA Y SUS
FAMILIAS
Affordable Housing!
Are you looking for HUDsubsidized housing for
low-income seniors and
disabled persons? We are
accepting applications for
our studio and onebedroom waiting lists.
Please apply at:
Park Tower Apartments,
731 SW Salmon St.,
downtown Portland.
503-227-3367.
NOTICIAS PUBLICAS
City Of Portland
Mt. Tabor/Washington Park Interim Security
and Deferred Maintenance Project
Bids Due: June 19, 2007, by 10:00 AM
Non- Mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting:
May 31, 2007, at 9:00 AM
At OAME - 4134 N. Vancouver,
Portland, OR, 97217
Plans available May 21, 2007, at the OAME
Plan Center, Daily Journal of Commerce,
Ford Graphics, and McGraw-Hill Plan Center
Scope includes: Survey, Arborist, Temporary
Restroom Facilities, Trucking, Traf fic
Control, Site Security, Temporary Fencing,
Demo/Saw Cutting, CCTV (Sewer), and
Dewatering.
Contact: Scott Austin at (503) 769-1969
or [email protected]
•DISPONIBLES INMEDIATAMENTE EN
FOREST GROVE Y SCAPPOOSE
•REDUCCIONES EN LA RENTA DISPONIBLE
•PARA INFORMACION DE COMO CALIFICAR
LLAMAR AL 503-359-4532
•HABLAMOS ESPAÑOL
HOUSING AUTHORITY OF
PORTLAND, OREGON
Notice of Intent No. N060705
Prevention Services for Youth
Statements of Interest Due: Friday, June
22, 2007 at 2:00 pm.
Statements of Interest received will not be
publicly opened and read aloud.
The Housing Authority of Portland (HAP)
is seeking a qualified organization to
provide prevention services to children and
families in low-income housing. Statement
of Interest should be sealed in its entirety
and clearly marked with the Sender’s
name, address and notice number.
Responses will be received until, but not
after, 2:00 p.m.(DST), Friday, June 22,
2007 and should be address to:
Housing Authority of Portland
Attn. Cinna’Mon Williams, CPPB
Contract Specialist
Purchasing Department
135 SW Ash St., Fifth Floor
Portland, OR 97204
Copies of the solicitation package can be
downloaded by accessing the following
web site:
h t t p : / / w w w. h a p d x . o r g / B u s i n e s s /
solicitations.html
or, can be picked up at the Housing
Authority of Portland office at the address
below, Monday through Friday, between
8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Proposers who
download a copy of the NOI should contact
Purchasing to be added to the planholders
list and receive any addenda.
The Housing Authority of Portland is a
public corporation serving all Multnomah
County. HAP provides housing and
housing-related services to those who
face barriers due to income or disability.
HAP’s housing and rent assistance
programs serve 33,000 residents throughout
the county. A citizen commission, with
volunteer members recommended by the
City of Portland, the City of Gresham, and
Multnomah County, and approved by the
Portland City Council, governs HAP.
The Housing Authority is an Equal
Employment Opportunity Employer and
strongly encourages minority-owned and
women-owned businesses and emerging
small businesses to submit proposals or
to participate as subcontractors and
suppliers on this and all HAP contracts.
06/07/2007
APARTMENTS AVAILABLE FOR
AGRICULTURAL WORKERS AND
THEIR FAMILIES
• AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY IN FOREST
GROVE AND SCAPPOOSE
• RENT REDUCTIONS ARE AVAILABLE
•CALL 503-359-4532 FOR INFORMATION
TO QUALIFY
• WE SPEAK SPANISH
For contracting opportunities with the City of Portland,
please log on to the Bureau of Purchases Web Page
www.portlandonline.com/omf/purchasing
City of Portland
Bureau of Purchases
1120 SW Fifth Avenue, Room 750 • Portland, Oregon 97204 • 503-823-6855
We are an equal opportunity employer and
request sub-bids from all interested firms,
including, minority, women, emerging small
business enterprises and disabled veterans.
OR CCB # 157045
06/07/2007
Subsidized units may be available for
persons 62 years of age or disabled
regardless of age
SE RENTAN APARTAMENTOS
EN ALOHA
De 1 y 2 recamaras estamos ubicados a un
lado de Safeway, Rite aid, Walgreens,
Hollywood video, cercas de restaurante y a
un lado la parada del bus este es un lugar
tranquilo. Nosotros le ofrecemos los
mejores precios que en cualquier lugar.
Se habla español para mas información
llame al #503 649-4693
PUBLIC NOTICES
You don’t have to be perfect to be a perfect parent.
There are thousands of teens in foster care who would love to put up with you.
1 888 200 4005 • adoptuskids.org
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HELP WANTED
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HELP WANTED
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SUB-BIDS REQUESTED
Alex Mac Properties Inc. 503-618-9404
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503-228-3139
SUBCONTRACT AND SUPPLY BIDS
ARE REQUESTED FOR
City of Yachats
Wastewater System Improvements
Prime Contractor Bids are Due
June 13 at 2:00 PM
PleaseEMPLEOS
submit bids well ahead of the bid
time to:
WILDISH BUILDING CO. CCB# 34429
P.O. Box 7428, Eugene, OR 97401
Phone: 541-485-1700
[email protected]
Fax: 541-683-7767 and 7722
Contact Bob McDonald with questions and
to express your interest. We are an equal
opportunity employer and are requesting
proposals from Oregon Certified MBE, WBE,
and ESB firms. This is a CWSRF funded project
using federal funds.
06/07/2007
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HELP WANTED
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SUPPLY ASSISTANT-PT
Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue is accepting
applications for a 20-hr/wk Supply Assistant
to provide multipurpose assistance in a
warehouse environment. Req: current valid
Oregon DL, acceptable driving record, exc.
communication skills both verbally & in
writing, computer skills, strong customer
service skills, and ability to adapt to changes
in schedules & job priorities. $14.58
- $19.73/hr; prorated benefits. Job
description and required application
available from 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM Mon-Fri
at TVF&R, 20665 SW Blanton St., Aloha, OR
97007, by calling 503-649-8577 or via our
web site at www.tvfr.com. Closing date is
Friday, June 15, 2007, at 4:30 PM. The
recruitment may close earlier if a sufficient
number of applications are received. No
faxes. Equal Opportunity Employer.
06/07/2007
CONSTRUCTION LABOR
Jobs in Portland Area. Must have work boots.
Call 503-232-0759. 9am-4pm.
06/07/2007
SUN SITE MGR
@ Clark Elem: FT w/ben $33,173-$36,491,
BA or equiv; 4 years exp prog dev &
curriculum dev, 1 yr supervisory exp. Email
online application (www.portlandimpact.org)
and resume to:“[email protected]”
No phone calls please. EOE.
06/07/2007
FITTER/WELDER TRAINEE
Become a welder while getting paid! Desired
skills include a strong work ethic, mechanical
inclination, ability to take verbal direction
and willingness to work out in the weather.
Successful candidates will be required to
complete a pre-employment drug screen
and physical. Apply in person at 4350 NW
Front Avenue Portland OR 97210, Monday
– Friday 7AM-3PM. Gunderson is an equal
opportunity employer and offers competitive
wages and excellent benefits.
06/07/2007
PROMOTIONS ASSISTANTS
PART TIME
KLTH has immediate openings for part time
Promotions Assistants. Candidates should
be outgoing, organized and able to execute
station events. Must be flexible, personable
and able to set up and execute station events.
Hours vary week to week, available to work
nights and weekends. Radio experience
preferred, but not required. Please send
resumes by 6/15/07 to Jeff Basham, CBS
Radio, KUPL 222 SW Columbia, Suite
EMPLEOSOR 97201 or email jobs@
350, Portland,
cbsportland.com. No phone calls! CBS
Radio is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
PORTLAND DEVELOPMENT
COMMISSION
The Urban Renewal Agency for the
City of Portland, Oregon
Portland is internationally recognized for its
quality of life, distinctive neighborhoods,
and robust transit system. Playing a key
role in keeping Portland, Oregon, one of
America’s most livable cities is the Portland
Development Commission’s mission. PDC
is the City’s urban renewal agency, charged
with bringing together resources to achieve
Portland’s vision. We’re currently looking
for qualified individuals to complement our
workforce for the following positions:
Associate IT Technician – Student
GIS Support-Student
Programmer Analyst II
Chief Financial Officer
Senior Project Coordinator-Economic
Development
We offer a generous host of benefits as part
of our efforts to keep PDC a positive, healthy
and productive place to work. PDC values
diversity in its work force
Eland is committed
to Equal Employment Opportunity and
Affirmative Action.
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Clasificados 06/07/2007
Apply online at www.pdc.us/jobs
Portland Development Commission,
222 NW 5th Ave., Portland, OR 97209
Jobline: 503.823.3463
06/07/2007
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HELP WANTED
EMPLEOS
ADMINISTRATIVE PROGRAM
MANAGER (FINANCE SPECIALTY)
Required Skills and Experience:
• Experience with contract compliance.
• Experience with generally accepted
accounting procedures.
• Ability to develop and monitor budgets.
• Good general office skills, including
considerable pubic contact.
• Experience with office and building
systems management.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Two years professional experience as an
office manager, office systems supervisor,
clerical or office specialist.
• Familiarity with non-profit financial
management policies, procedures and
legal requirements.
• Information and referral experience.
• Project or program management
experience; ability to work well
independently and to manage multiple
projects.
Education
Education:
• High school diploma or equivalent
education.
• Business school or college coursework
in business occupations or business
office practices is preferred.
Other combinations of education and
experience demonstrating the knowledge,
skills and abilities required to perform the
work will also be considered.
Special Requirements:
• Dependable transportation and valid
insurance and driver’s license.
• Occasional evening and/or weekend work.
Salary/Benefits:
Annual salary range: $32,000 —$42,000.
Full-time, exempt position. Benefits include
vacation and sick leave, medical, dental, life
insurance, tax-sheltered annuity.
To Apply:
Send a resume and cover letter no later than
5:00 pm, Monday, June 11, 2007 to: SEUL/
Administrative Program Manager Search
Committee 3534 SE Main Portland, OR
97214. No email or fax submissions.
Neighborhood Sustainability Coordinator
(Americorps Member)
The AmeriCorps member will focus on
community organizing with sustainability
and environmental action committees in
eight neighborhoods in Southeast Portland.
The member will devote time to developing
and implementing a volunteer management
plan, with steps for recruitment, retention
and appreciation for neighbor hood
sustainability and environmental action
committees. The member will be working
directly with community members to build
capacity and bridge existing sustainability
and environmental action committees
throughout the coalition area. The AmeriCorps
member will assist neighborhoods with
project planning and assistance on
service learning projects and large-scale
sustainability events.
Preferred Qualifications:
1. Interest and experience with environmental
sustainability at the local level.
2. Experience with volunteer management,
event planning, public speaking and group
facilitation.
3. Demonstrated excellence in written, oral
and visual communication skills.
4. Strong leadership and interpersonal skills.
5. Awareness and sensitivity to working with
cross cultural groups.
Member Benefits Include:
1. A taxable, monthly living allowance (before
taxes, approximately $1009).
2. Upon successful completion of a term of
service, eligible members/leaders receive an
education award of $4,725.
3. Loan forbearance af ter successful
completion of a term of service.
4. Basic medical insurance (covers members
only, not dependents; vision and dental not
included).
5. Child care allowance for those who qualify.
6. Monthly/annual transit passes are
available for service activities, and will be
provided
by the project sponsor.
To apply:
Send a resume and letter of interest,
including the names and contact information
for three references to: SEUL/Neighborhood
Sustainability Coordinator/Americorps
Search, 3534 SE Main Street, Portland, OR
97214 or by email to: gary@southeastuplift.
org
Application materials will not be accepted
after 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, June 14, 2007
Southeast Uplift is an Equal Opportunity
Employer. For a complete job descriptions
and more info about SEUL:
www.southeastuplift.org
06/07/2007
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
The Port of Portland is a regional government
operating airports, marine terminals and
industrial parks in the greater Portland
metropolitan area, to fulfill its mission of
providing competitive cargo and passenger
access to world markets while enhancing
the region’s quality of life.
To view current job openings and to access
the application form, visit the Por t’s
website at www.portofportland.com or call
(503) 944-7400.
The Port of Portland is an AA/EEO employer
committed to workforce diversity and
affirmative action.
06/07/2007
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HELP WANTED
EMPLEOS
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY
ASBESTOS COORDINATOR
Portland State University seeks motivated,
self-star ting Asbestos Coordinator to
be responsible for managing asbestos
abatement pr ojects on campus in
coor dination with small and lar ge
construction and renovation projects on
campus. Major responsibilities include
design, planning and coor dination
ser vices of asbestos areas in
university owned or leased facilities, in
conjunction with Facilities Construction
Project Managers and architects. Required
skills include5 year s management/
supervision experience providing oversight
to asbestos abatement crews/firms;
must have proven experience managing
compliance issues relating to asbestos
management (all applicable City, State, and
Federal contract laws); Bachelor’s degree in
chemistry, environmental science or related
science field; ability to coordinate asbestos
abatement work as part of larger construction
projects; proven knowledge of environmental
laws pertaining to asbestos abatement and
management; excellent customer service;
written and verbal communication skills;
possess a valid Oregon driver’s license; have
computer skills including Microsoft Project
Management and AutoCAD; must have
proven experience managing multiple
projects at one time; must have sound
judgment, anticipatory skills, confidentiality,
negotiation, problem solving, excellent
organization, communication, and customer
service skills; must be able to lift at least
50 pounds, and may be required to work
swing shift or week ends when needed to
meet the project schedule. For complete
announcement details see website www.hrc.
pdx.edu. Salary range $50,000 to $57,000.
Excellent benefits package, including
reduced tuition at Oregon University System
institutions for employee or a dependent.
Application review process will continue
until finalists are identified. PSU is an
AA/EO institution and, in keeping with the
President’s diversity initiative, welcomes
applications from diverse candidates
and candidates who support diversity.
Application review process will begin
June 1, 2007 and the position will remain
open until finalists are identified.
To apply, send the following to the email or
address below:
1) a letter of interest 2) a resume with the
names, addresses and phone numbers of
three references that can speak to the
candidate’s ability to meet the requirements
stated above, 3) salary requirements, and 4)
required supplemental information: current
salary, reason for leaving and explanation
for gaps in employment. The letter, resume,
and references and required supplemental
information should be limited to no more than
five pages. Please submit the completed
application materials as follows:
Preferred method for submitting application
is an email message to recruit2-fap@lists.
pdx.edu with items 1, 2, 3, and 4 attached
as one file.
Mailing address:
Chair, Asbestos Coordinator
Search Committee
Portland State University,
Facilities & Planning
PO Box 751-FAP
Fax number: 503-725-4329
06/07/2007
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HELP WANTED
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AMERICORPS VISTA MEMBER
CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
COORDINATOR
Kidco Head Start, a local non-profit preschool
program ser ving low-income families,
is looking for a highly motivated, service
minded team player to coordinate activities
involved in carrying out a capital campaign
to build a facility housing the Lebanon center
and program-wide administration office.
Duties include: participating in strategy
planning and organizational meetings;
work cooperatively with staff and campaign
committee to plan public relations campaign;
update campaign website link on program
website; create, produce and assemble
materials for mailing, presentation etc.
Benefits: Through AmeriCorps members
receive $833 per month, choice of end of
service $4725 education award or $1200
cash stipend, student loan forbearance,
child care and relocation assistance,
if eligible, paid vacation and sick time and
health/RX coverage.
Send resume and cover letter to Tifani
Erpelding, (541) 758-2641 or terpelding@
csc.gen.or.us.
06/07/2007
OUTREACH WORKER
Legal Aid Services of Oregon seeks bilingual
person for outreach to farm workers. Position
involves client interviewing, educational
presentations to groups of farm workers,
visits to migrant labor camps, and legal help
to clients under attorney supervision. Salary
DOE, excellent benefits. Cover letter and
resume to Janice Morgan, LASO, 397 N. 1st
St., Woodburn, OR 97071.
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HELP WANTED
EMPLEOS
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HELP WANTED
EMPLEOS
LABOR RELATIONS COORDINATOR
QUALITY MANAGER
(Office of Management and Finance - Bureau
of Human Resources) Recruitment
No. 07-142
Approximate Monthly Salary:
$4,763 - $6,359
Fast growing Tualatin electronics mfg co
seeks a Quality Manager. This position requires
4 year BA/BS degree in Engineering or
Business, 10 years professional experience
with 5 of those years recently working in
product quality, and experience in leading
ISO certification process. Send resume
with cover letter explaining qualifications to
[email protected]. Phone inquiries
not accepted. EEO-M/F
06/07/2007
The Labor Relations Coordinator is
responsible for providing advice and
assistance to City bureaus on labor relations
issues, including interpreting contract
provisions, and representing the City in
responding to and resolving grievances and
difficult employee relations issues. Duties
include negotiating collective bargaining
agreements for specific assigned bargaining
units, interpreting labor contract terms
and provisions, administering employee
disciplinar y action and ser ving as a
representative to assigned bureaus in cases
of mediation and interest and grievance
arbitration. Additional duties include
developing and conducting training on labor
relation issues and topics and assisting in
the resolution of disputes. The Labor
Relations Coordinator must function as an
effective member of the Labor Relations
team and carr y out their individual
responsibilities with initiative, independence
and creativity while exercising sound
professional judgment and problem-solving
skills.
See complete job announcement
for requirements and application at
www.ci.portland.or.us/jobs/ Completed
applications must be received by 4:30 p.m.,
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
YOUTH, FAMILY AND STATEWIDE
PROGRAMS TEAM LEAD
Cascade AIDS Project (CAP), the leading HIV
prevention, education, housing, advocacy
and services organization in Oregon, seeks
a Team Lead (1.0 FTE) to supervise staff
and coordinate programs targeting HIV
infected and affected youth. Please refer to
www.cascadeaids.org for full posting.
06/07/2007
OPEN MEADOW HIGH SCHOOL
SCIENCE TEACHER/ADVOCATE
Develop curriculum, instruct classes, support
and mentor advocate group. BS required.
Oregon teaching license preferred. Experience
with disconnected youth. 40 hrs/wk,
10 mos/pa. $2,375-$3,150 + benefits. Start
8/20/07. Resume to [email protected].
Ref 2007-14SK. EEO Employer.
HELP WANTED
EMPLEOS
GRAPHIC DESIGN
AND PRODUCTION
Portland State University Extended Studies
seeks experienced freelance graphic
designers to create both print and web
materials using current Macintosh OS
and related Adobe software. Application
deadline: June 18, 2007. For contract and
application information go to www.extended.
pdx.edu/pawgcontract
PSU is an affirmative action/equal
opportunity institution
06/07/2007
STRUCTURAL STEEL SHOP
Now hiring Crane Operators. Rough terrain
40-50 ton hydraulic crane operator for
structural steel fabrication shop. 5 yrs.
experience required. Resume’ with job
history required. Mandatory physical & drug
screen. Union wage and benefit package.
Apply in person between 8am & 4pm.
Canron Western Constructors 4600 NE
138th Ave., Portland, OR Equal Opportunity
Employer
06/07/2007
06/07/2007
The City of Portland is an Equal Opportunity
Employer
06/07/2007
06/07/2007
PACIFIC NW COLLEGE OF ART
EVENT CUSTODIANS
Associate Director of Annual Giving needed
to complete an energetic Advancement team.
Full details at www.pnca.edu/employment.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Portland Expo Center. Multiple part-time
regular positions available. Entry pay: $9.70/
hour. Assures that rest rooms, lobbies, open
floor spaces and other public/non-public
areas are clean, orderly and properly
maintained.
06/07/2007
MID-DAY ANNOUNCER
KINK in Portland has a rare opening for mid
-day announcer. Applicants should have at
least five years professional on-air large
market radio experience. Conversational
on-air style and music knowledge are
advantageous.
Description of duties: Live on-air daily
mid-day airshift; digital editing on VoxPro,
Adobe Audition and/or ProTools; working
with AudioVault digital software; writing
and managing website content; working
with alternate digital media including sidechannels; and involvement with station
promotions.
To apply for this position, please forward
audio samples of your on-air work with a
resume by June 15 to Dennis.Constantine@
CBSradio.com. Please include a cover letter
that outlines your radio philosophy as well as
references. No calls please. CBS Radio is an
Equal Opportunity Employer.
06/07/2007
To access the complete job announcement
and required application materials, visit our
website at www.metro-region.org/jobs or
pick up a complete packet at Metro Human
Resources, 600 NE Grand Ave., Portland.
AA/EEO Employer
06/07/2007
¿INTERESADO EN TRABAJAR EN
EL COLEGIO COMUNITARIO DE
MT HOOD?
Se requiere que domine en ingles.
Para más información sobre
oportunidades de empleo en
MHCC visite nuestro sitio web
www.mhcc.edu
o llame al 503-491-7200.
MHCC es un empleador de igualdad de
oportunidades que apoya activamente
la diversidad en el trabajo.
Llene los cuadrados vacíos en la cuadrícula,
asegurándose que cada fila, columna y caja de
3x3 incluye todos los dígitos del 1 al 9.
Visite www.elhispanicnews.com para encontrar
la solución al rompecabezas de esta semana.
Fill in the blank squares in the grid, making
sure that every row, column and 3X3 box
includes all digits 1 through 9.
Visit www.elhispanicnews.com for the
solution to this week’s puzzle.
EMPLOYMENT
The State of Opportunity.
These are just a few of the current job openings available with the State of Oregon. A more
complete announcement listing, application forms, and additional job information are
available at: a) local Employment Department field offices, or b) the Oregon jobs page at:
www.oregonjobs.org. The State of Oregon offers employees competitive
salaries and comprehensive benefits that includes employer paid health
insurance; paid holidays, vacation, sick and personal leave; membership in the
Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan (OPSRP); and opportunities to
participate in the Oregon Savings Growth Plans. The State of Oregon and all
its divisions are proud to be equal opportunity employers.
OREGON BUREAU OF
LABOR & INDUSTRIES (BOLI)
Wage & Hour Compliance Specialist
Bilingual (Spanish/English)
Salary: $2,771 - $4,032/month
This full-time position is located in Medford and will
investigate allegations of unlawful practices related
to wages, working conditions, the employment of
minors, and/or licensing requirements through
interviews, on-site investigations, evidence
evaluation, and fact-finding. Responsibilities also
include preparing investigative reports and
enforcement remedies, negotiating settlements,
working with the Oregon Department of Justice to
prepare cases for administrative hearing or court
of law, and providing technical information/
interpretation of laws, rules, and regulations
governing wages and working conditions to
individuals and groups. The ability to speak, read,
and write in Spanish and English is required. For
Announcement #LE070191A and application
materials, call (971) 673-0783 (Portland) or visit
www.oregonjobs.org. Closing date for all applications
is Monday, June 25, 2007.
OREGON DEPARTMENT OF
TRANSPORTATION (ODOT)
ODOT People drive Oregon’s Department of
Transportation. If great benefits, a professional
work environment, job innovation, and career growth
opportunity drive you, then come to ODOT.
ACCOUNTING/FINANCIAL/PROCUREMENT
• Motor Carrier Auditor
Salary: $3,044 - $4,437/month
Announcement #OCDT7244 Portland
• Contract Coordinator
Salary: $3,672 - $5,365/month
Announcement #OCDT7130A Bend
ADMINISTRATIVE/CLERICAL
• Outdoor Advertising Program Specialist
Salary: $2,119 - $3,044/month
Announcement #OCDT7266 Salem
• Program Support Coordinator
Employment Opportunities - Job Search Tips
Education & Training - And More
Salary: $2,119 - $3,044/month
ENGINEERING/ENVIRONMENTAL
• Environmental Project Manager
Salary: $3,809 - $5,713/month
Announcement #OCDT6467B Salem
• Project Geologist
Salary: $2,980 - $4,470/month
• Project Inspector
Salary: $2,839 - $4,263/month
Announcement #OCDT7017A Beaverton
MANAGEMENT/PROFESSIONAL
• Western Oregon Field
Mechanic Supervisor
Salary: $3,039 - $4,705/month
ODOT…
Building Careers, Bridging the Future.
Detailed job announcements include qualifications,
requirements, and instructions on how to apply for
these jobs. Go to www.odotjobs.com for a complete
copy or call 503-986-4030 [TTY 503-986-3854] to
request by mail. ODOT is proud to operate as an
equal opportunity, affirmative action employer.
Announcements will be made available in
alternate format upon request: (503) 378-6202,
TTY 1-800-993-8898.
w w w . O r e g o n J o b s . o r g
RESERVE YOUR
AD SPACE
Space reservation deadline:
June 28, 2007
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES SPECIAL EDITION
Published: July 26, 2007
6700 N New York Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97203 [office] P.O. Box 306, Portland, Oregon 97207-0306 [mailing] 503.228.3139 [tel.] 503.228.3384 [fax] www.elhispanicnews.com [web]
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