A film by YTC students at Youth Connections Leadership Academy. They participated YTC’s After School Matter’s film program - they were challenged to come up with a topic, to film and then edit. What you see below is the fruit of their labor!
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public,
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segregation,
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I finally figured out how to get videos recorded by Media Center onto my Zune! ZuneTVWatcher did the trick! So I loaded up the Zune with the last 3 weeks worth of Colbert Report and The Daily Show. I was watching this one on the way in to work today - was literally laughing out loud! 401-Que? Brilliant!
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Mom and Teresa have been working hard on “The Hall of Hungry Ghosts“ for over two years now! Their efforts bear fruit next week - catch the world premiere at the Next Theatre in Evanston!
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Crowd estimated at 150,000 in Chicago -CNN
The first picture of the album shows the view from my office, the amount of people was staggering! Of course, getting down into the crowd was even more overwhelming! At the same time it was peaceful - families, friends, neighbors… American flags everywhere! As I walked back to my office, first up Congress then up Michigan - both streets closed off for the march - I realized how lucky I am to live in this city! These are interesting times!
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Click here for Live ABC Coverage!
Its been one year since last year’s march - hard to believe! The chopper is taking live shots of the throngs of people crossing 90/94 on Washington as I write this! I’m planning on heading over myself in about 15 min to see and take part in what is going on!
The immigrant community has united again to march for:
- legalization and a path to earned citizenship for the undocumented.
- reunification of families divided by broken immigration laws
- a moratorium on the immigration raids separating families
- condemn President Bush’s anti-family “Z-visas”
ICIRR.org
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Katty’s first live studio interview on Telemundo Chicago the day after mid-term elections!
Another pre-taped interview on Univision
She will probably kill me for posting these but I just had to as I’m so proud of her for everything that she has done since she started at the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights - she did a fantastic job in both of these interviews and I couldn’t be more thrilled for her! Congratulations Katty!
As far as a transcript of said interviews - I think I’ll wait until Google Labs comes up with a live audio translation program!
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Voter #84 in my district. They were the paper ballots where you fill in the arrow. Go out and vote!
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I received a disturbing phone call from Katty this morning. Apparently Immigration and Customs Enforcement (aka ICE) detained a number of undocumented immigrants last night. The news itself was disturbing in light of the highly political climate just weeks before mid-term elections. But even more disturbing was the manner in which the suspects were detained. ICE officers entered a Chicago bound train car - at random - and started asking those who looked Latino and African for documentation. Those who were not able to provide documentation were detained until they could provide said information. This is wrong on so many levels I don’t even know where to begin! Who of us brings our passport everywhere they go? If the ICE officers thought that I looked Latino - I would have been detained! Since when can a federal US agency get away with such blatant discrimination!? How far are we from the point that all immigrants and visitors to our country will be required to wear some sort of identifying patch?!
ARRGH!! Am I the only one so incredible frustrated with the direction this country seems to be going?!
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I just happened upon Lou Dobbs’ commentary on CNN:
But there is additional uncertainty about the outcome of our elections that is intolerable and inexcusable, and which could make the contested 2000 presidential election look orderly by comparison. As of right now, there is little assurance your vote will count. As we’ve been reporting almost nightly on my broadcast for more than a year, electronic voting machines are placing our democracy at risk.
Across the nation, eight out of every 10 voters will be casting their ballots this November on electronic voting machines. And these machines time and again have been demonstrated to be extremely vulnerable to tampering and error, and many of them have no voter-verified paper trail.
There is simply no way in which election officials and their staffs of thousands of volunteers with limited experience and often poor training can possibly carry out reliable recounts.
…When voters lose confidence in our elected representatives, we can vote the bums out. But what is the recourse if American voters lose confidence in our electoral system?
Voting at risk? I should say so! Not that this is new news, but it is worth noting. What can we do about it? I’m not really sure. I’m still trying to figure out if Illinois has moved to electronic voting. For now I’m going to register to vote (as I just moved) and hope for the best.
A few links of interest:
Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine - Princeton University
Cracking a Diebold in 4 min with 12 dollars
For those video lovers out there!
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