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  • Video sobre redistricting

    Traducción Español

    La forma de gobierno en Estados Unidos es una república democrática. A través de las elecciones, “contratamos” a personas para que nos representen en los varios niveles de gobierno. Ellos trabajan por nosotros, desde los concejales hasta el congreso federal.

    La representación es esencial.

    Las personas debieran sentirse representadas, o al menos que tenemos el mismo poder al decidir quién nos estaría representando.

    Bajo esta forma de gobierno, nuestro mayor desafío es la tarea de dividir los votantes en distritos

    Lo primero es que los distritos deben tener un número casi igual de personas.

    No sería justo para las personas en el distrito si hubiera una gran diferencia de población entre un distrito congresional y otro.

    Hay otras leyes: la Ley de Derechos de Voto, por ejemplo, prohíbe la discriminación contra las minorías. Si hay un barrio que es mayoría población negra, no se puede dividir la comunidad demasiado hasta el punto en la que sería difícil organizar la comunidad para tener representación en el congreso.

    El distrito también debe mantener la integridad geográfica de las ciudades, condados, barrios y comunidades con un interés común. En California, los distritos deben ser “compactos”. No pueden tener una forma tan inusual que parecieran tener brazos y piernas. 

    Pero las personas también se mudan a otras regiones. Cada 10 años, el gobierno hace un censo para llevar un conteo.

    En California, una comisión independiente, bipartisana, y diversa tiene que analizar los datos y los borde s, y escuchar a la gente para trazar los nuevos bordes de distritos que cumplan con todos los requisitos.

    En el 2010, por ejemplo, la ciudad de San Diego agregó un distrito de concejal número 9. El nuevo distrito combina el área de clase alta de Kensington con City Heights, la cual es una comunidad muy diversa con altas tasas de pobreza, 

    Y transfirió el centro de la ciudad desde el Distrito 2 al Distrito 3. Esto resultó en un nuevo centro urbano dentro del Distrito 3, y el Distrito 2 se transformó esencialmente en un recinto costero.

    Se necesitó mucha discusión y varios mapas para llegar a esta decisión.

    Este año, con el nuevo dato del censo, y los Demócratas siguen ganando ventajas, el proceso para crear los nuevos distritos es menos partidaria. Pero eso no significa que tendremos menos desacuerdos sobre los distritos.

    Habrán muchas conversaciones sobre cómo los nuevos bordes, incluyendo distritos escolares, concejales, y el congreso, tienen que ponerse en el interés de las comunidades con intereses y contextos sociales compartidos, y tienen que mejorar la representación en el gobierno, porque la representación es lo más importante de nuestra república y eso empieza con los áreas que nuestros representantes en el gobierno representan.

    English Original

    we live in a Democratic Republic the ideas that we hire people through Democratic elections to represent us in every government that serves us from the city council to the US Congress

     representation is key

    people must feel like they’re being truly represented or that they at least have an equal say in who should represent them 

    the most basic Challenge and responsibility, then, in this form of government, is the act of dividing us up into districts that should be represented 

    first the districts must have roughly the same number of people 

    it just would not be fair to one person if his congressional district had far more people than another person and there are other laws: the federal Voting Rights Act for example, prohibits discrimination against minority communities. if there’s a neighborhood that is primarily black for example it can’t be divided too much so that it is harder to organize for representation 

    the district should also preserve the geographic Integrity of cities counties neighborhoods and communities of Interest 

    In California districts are supposed to be compact. if they’re not drawn so weirdly that one neighborhood is in a different District than one right next to it but then a farther one is in the first one’s District.

    But people move. every 10 years the federal government does a Census count to track that.

     in California bipartisan independent redistricting commissions are required to appoint a diverse group to look at the data and potential maps and listen to people so that they can come up with new District that follow all this criteria.

    back in 2010 for example the city of San Diego added a 9th city council District 

    it is of combining the affluent area of Kensington with City Heights an Incredibly diverse Community with high rates of poverty 

    and it moved downtown from the district 2 representation to District 3 in created in urban Core in District 3 and a coastal neighborhoods district for district 2 

    this required a lot of new maps and discussion 

    this year as the new Census count comes to an end and Democrats continue to gain an advantage, redistricting is becoming less partisan. that does not mean though arguments about redistricting will stop. 

    There will be many conversations about how new boundaries for everything from school districts to city councils to Congress should better serve communities with common interests and backgrounds and improve representation in government because representation is the heart of our Republic and it starts with what specific area government leaders actually represent

    Traduccion Video2

    Cuando miras este imagen, ¿qué ves?

    Un caballito de mar? Un fantasma? Un boomerang?

    Este es el distrito congresional número 7 de Massachussetts. Y estos otros.. son otros pequeños monstruos. Perdón, distritos.

    Los distritos congresionales son áreas geográficas representados por un miembro de congreso.

    Gerrymandering ocurre cuando el partido político que controla el gobierno manipula los distritos para asegurar las reelecciones de candidatos que ellos quieren que gane.

    Para lograr esto, crean un distrito que consista de una mayoría de votantes que probablemente votarán por su partido. También dividen poblaciones que votarían en su contra, lo cual resulta en esta forma de Estegosaurio.

    Esta práctica, Gerrymandering, lleva el nombre de Elbridge Gerry, quien era un político y uno de los fundadores de Estados Unidos. Se pronuncia Gary.

    Gary era miembro del Congreso Continental en 1775, y fue uno de los firmantes de la Declaración de Independencia. También estuvo muy involucrado en crear la constitución, pero no lo firmó porque con su ideología anti-federalist, estaba opuesto a un gobierno federal con mayor poder. Según Gary, la constitución no presentaba un balance correcto de poder. El gobierno federal tenía demasiado poder, pensaba.

    Gary se unió al partido Demócrata-Republicano. Sí, en ese entonces había un partido con ese nombre. En 1810, Gary fue electo como gobernador de Massachusetts. 

    En estos años, Estados Unidos estaba a punto de entrar en guerra con Gran Bretaña. El partido de Gary creyó que era posible que los federalistas traicionaran la patria, y decidió manipular las elecciones para reemplazar todos los federalistas electos con un candidato del partido Demócrata-Republicano. Esto incluía manipular los distritos de Massachusetts. Los bordes originalmente coincidían con los condados, pero los cambiaron para beneficiar a su partido.

    Un comentarista político dibujó una sátira política donde uno de los nuevos distritos creados por Gary, que parecía tener patitas, aparecía como una salamandra. “Es una gerry-mandra”, o gerrymander en inglés, dijeron.

    El dibujo apareció en el diario local de Boston el 26 de Marzo de 1812. Desde entonces, Albert Garry sería conocido no como uno de los firmantes de la Declaración de Independencia, ni el arquitecto de la constitución, ni por ser el quinto Vicepresidente de los Estados Unidos. (Sí, también llegó a ser vicepresidente). Pero el legado de Garry terminó siendo la polémica práctica de distritos que lleva su nombre, aunque hoy en día lo pronunciamos como Jerrymandering, no Gerrymandering.

    English Original

    when you look at this picture, what do you see?

     disoriented seahorse a ghost woman, a boomerang 

    this is actually Massachusetts 7th congressional district and these are… some other creatures, I mean districts 

    congressional districts are Geographic voting areas represented by a single member of Congress 

    gerrymandering happens when a political party in-charge carefully slices off voting districts so that the representatives they want to win, win 

    They do this by drawing a district around the populations most likely to support them or splitting up populations less likely to support them making this outline of a Stegosaurus 

    the practice is named for Massachusetts politician and Founding Father you’ve likely never heard of Elbridge Gerry 

    yes it’s pronounced Gary 

    elected to the Continental Congress in 1775 Gary signed the Declaration of Independence 

    He was also very involved in shaping the Constitution but he didn’t sign that because as an anti-federalist he opposed a stronger federal government believing the Constitution got the balance of power all wrong 

    Gary thought the federal government had way too much of it. 

    Gary Eventually joined the democratic-republican party. yes that was a real thing.

     in 1810 at age 65 Gary was elected governor of Massachusetts.

     around this time the United States was edging toward war with Great Britain. Concerned that the Federalists might betray the country Gary’s party decided to find ways to replace every possible Federalist in office with a democratic-republican.

     this included changing Massachusetts districts from reflecting county lines to ones benefiting the Democratic Republicans.

     in the grand tradition of political satire an illustrator drew a picture of one of Gary’s new districts depicting it as a monster that supposedly looked like a salamander. no.. a gerrymander.

     the drawing ran in the Boston Gazette on March 26th 1812. from that year onward Elbridge Garry would be known not for signing the Declaration of Independence or helping to frame the Constitution or for being the fifth Vice President of the United States. yeah he did that too. Gary would instead be known for the controversial redistricting practice that bears his name even though we now pronouncement gerrymandering

  • Mr Pizza Hours and Menu

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  • Transitions – I've Got the Light of Freedom

    transitions-ive-got-the-light-of-freedom.doc

    Payne, Charles M. 1995 Transitions In I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle. Pp. 284-316. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press.

    I’ve Got the Light of Freedom

    the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle

    Chapter Ten

    Transitions

    Before the summer project last year we watched five Negroes murdered in two counties in Mississippi with no reaction from the country. We couldn’t get the news out. Then we saw that when three civil rights workers were killed, and two if them were white, the whole country reacted, went into motion. There’s a deep problem behind that, and I think if you can begin to understand what that problem is-why you don’t move when a Negro is killed the same way you move when a white person is killed-then maybe you can begin to understand this country in relation to Vietnam and the third world, the Congo and Santo Domingo.

    BOB MOSES
    1965

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  • "Mac vs PC" vs "Mex vs BC"

    Mac vs PC

    Mex vs BC – Travel
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  • Wartime victim makes heartfelt plea for redress

    Wartime victim makes heartfelt plea for redress
    Korean woman visits the Southland to build support for a House resolution urging Japan to apologize for sexual slavery in World War II.
    http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-beliefs21jul21,1,1188885.story?ctrack=1&cset=true
    By K. Connie Kang, Times Staff Writer
    July 21, 2007

    Carefully walking up to the podium, Yong-Soo Lee, a former sex slave for the Japanese Imperial Army in World War II, faced American church leaders at Wilshire Presbyterian Church.

    She bowed deeply to pay her respects.

    Then Lee, immaculate in white Korean attire of ramie, gave a capsule testimony of her abduction during the war, when she was 16, and the unspeakable pain and degradation she suffered.

    More than 100 Presbyterian pastors, elders and other church officials attending the July 14 meeting in Los Angeles of the Pacific Presbytery listened with rapt attention. The presbytery is a regional governing body of the 2.3-million-member Presbyterian Church (USA). (more…)

  • Park Noja's Class Note Files on Korean Modern Political Economy History

    Professor Park, Noja (Vladimir Tihonov), who teaches Korean Studies at the Oslo National University, uploaded in February of 2007 a complete set of class notes for an introductory lecture course on Korean Modern History (starting with Japanese colonial occupation) with a focus on the interpenetration of world capitalism, military dictatorships and nationalism on his blog: blog.hani.co.kr/gategateparagate/ I have uploaded the files as direct links and as Google documents (plain HTML) to facilitate access to these valuable materials. He also attached one line descriptions for each class note – they are listed along with their english translations:

    한국 전통 시대 정치 제도
    외국 학생들을 위해서 한국 전통 시대 정치사의 근본을 요약한 강의 노트입니다.
    Chapter 1: Political History during the traditional period of Korea.
    http://blog.hani.co.kr/gategateparagate/4733
    http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgfxf4f5_125cqtb5g
    koreas-historie-lecture-1-political-system-of-traditional-korea.doc

    한국사 강의 노트-2: 일제시기 조선, 대만 경제성장의 문제
    외국 학생들을 상대로 해서 일제 시대의 한국, 대만 경제사 및 사회사의 여러 논점을 논합니다.
    Ch. 2: The Problem of Korean and Taiwan’s Economic Development Under Colonialism
    http://wnetwork.hani.co.kr/gategateparagate/4734
    http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgfxf4f5_95hr6nhn
    koreas-historie-lecture-2-korea-taiwans-economical-development-under-colonialism.doc

    한국사 강의노트-3: 일제의 준중심부에의 “진출” 과정
    일본의 명치 시대와 그 후의 자본주의 발전을 세계체제론적 시각에서 논하는 강의 노트입니다.
    Ch. 3: Meiji Japan’s Ascension as a Semi Core Power in the Capitalist World System.
    http://wnetwork.hani.co.kr/gategateparagate/4735
    http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgfxf4f5_107gw4d3h
    koreas-historie-lecture-3-meiji-japans-ascension-to-the-semi-core-status-in-the-capitalist-world-system.doc

    한국사 강의 노트 – 4: 전후 일본의 중심부 “진출”과 한국의 준중심부화
    역시 세계체제론적 시각으로 1945년 이후의 동북아의 개발의 코스를 조감하는 강의록입니다.
    Ch. 4: Japan’s Post-War Ascension to the Core ans the Semi-Core-ization of Korea and Taiwan.
    http://wnetwork.hani.co.kr/gategateparagate/4736
    http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgfxf4f5_1132v89cb
    koreas-historie-lecture-4-post-war-japans-ascension-to-the-core-status-and-s-korea-taiwans-semi-corization.doc

    한국사 강의 노트 – 5: 1945년 이후 한국 개발에 있어서의 식민지적 “유산” (유제)
    일제 시기가 무엇을 남겼는가 라는 문제를 외국인 학생들이 이해하기 쉽게 정리했습니다.
    Ch. 5: Colonial Legacies in South Korea’s Post-Colonial Development
    http://wnetwork.hani.co.kr/gategateparagate/4737
    http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgfxf4f5_128cphq43
    koreas-historie-lecture-5-colonial-legacies-in-south-koreas-post-colonial-development.doc

    한국사 강의 노트 – 6: 남한의 “개발”에 있어서의 동북아 시장과 미국 시장
    세계체제론적, 지역 패권 체제론적 관점에서 남한의 “초고속 개발”의 “비결”들을 논합니다.
    Ch. 6: Role of Northeast Asian and U.S. Markets in the “Development” of South Korea.
    http://wnetwork.hani.co.kr/gategateparagate/4738
    http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgfxf4f5_137v2kxxf
    koreas-historie-lecture-6-regional-and-american-markets-in-koreas-growth.doc

    한국사 강의 노트 – 7: 한국적 개발 독재의 “상대적 자율성”의 문제
    박정희주의적 국가의 “embedded autonomy” 문제를 논하는 강의록입니다.
    Ch. 7: The Developmental State and the problem of its “Relative Autonomy” in South Korea.
    http://wnetwork.hani.co.kr/gategateparagate/4739
    http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgfxf4f5_146cxkbc9
    koreas-historie-lecture-7-the-developmental-state-and-its-relative-autonomy-in-korea.doc

    한국사 강의 노트 – 8: 한국적 개발 독재 모델에 있어서의 노동계급의 구조적 배제 문제
    저임금 노동을 집중적으로 착취하면서 노동자들에게 독자적인 정치, 사회적 영역을 거부하는 박정희주의적 국가의 구조적 특징을 논합니다.
    Ch. 8: The Developmental States and the Political Exclusion of the Working Class in South Korea.
    http://wnetwork.hani.co.kr/gategateparagate/4740
    (Google Documents for this file is not available as there are too many images included)
    koreas-historie-lecture-8-the-developmental-state-and-the-exclusion-of-working-class-in-korea.doc

    한국사 강의 노트 – 9: 한국적 급진 사상 – “민중 이데올로기”
    1980년대 식의 “민중주의적 민족주의”를 쉽게 이야기해주는 강의록입니다.
    Ch. 9: South Korean Radicalism: “Minjung” Ideology in the ’80s
    http://wnetwork.hani.co.kr/gategateparagate/4741
    http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgfxf4f5_147f8hgh8
    koreas-historie-lecture-9-the-minjung-ideology-south-korean-radicalism.doc

    한국사 강의 노트 – 10: 근대에 있어서의 한국 유교의 문제
    근대 한국에 있어서 과연 “유교”가 어떻게 기능해왔는가를 논하는 강의록입니다.
    Ch. 10: Confucianism’s Role in Modern Korean Society.
    http://wnetwork.hani.co.kr/gategateparagate/4742
    http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgfxf4f5_153gcd6m5
    koreas-historie-lecture-10-confucianism-and-modern-society.doc

    한국사 강의 노트 – 11: 기독교와 진보 사상
    근대사에 있어서의 기독교의 역할과 “좌파적” 사상의 역할을 외국인이 알아듣기 쉽게 논합니다.
    Ch. 11: Christianity and Progressive Ideologies in South Korean Modern History.
    http://wnetwork.hani.co.kr/gategateparagate/4743
    http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgfxf4f5_161c7sgps
    koreas-historie-lecture-11-christianity-and-the-progressive-movements-in-south-korea.doc

    한국사 강의 노트 – 12: 남한의 대중 문화사 개략
    남한 대중 문화의 간단한 역사를 서술하고, 그 정치, 사회적 역할을 논합니다.
    Ch. 12: Survey of Modern South Korea’s Popular Culture
    http://wnetwork.hani.co.kr/gategateparagate/4744
    http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgfxf4f5_164g2cfhk
    koreas-historie-lecture-12-popular-culture-in-modern-south-korea.doc

    한국사 강의 노트 – 13: 남한 문학에 있어서의 민족주의의 문제
    남한 문학의 “민족주의적” 내용들을 쉽게 이야기해주는 것입니다.
    Ch. 13: Nationalism in Modern South Korean Literature.
    http://wnetwork.hani.co.kr/gategateparagate/4745
    http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgfxf4f5_172dpnpsh
    koreas-historie-lecture-13-nationalism-in-literature-in-modern-south-korea.doc

    한국사 강의 노트 – 14: 결론 부분
    한국 근대에 있어서의 이데올로기적 상부 구조의 문제를 집중적으로 논합니다.
    Ch. 14: Summary and Discussion on Ideological Superstructures in Korean Modernity.
    http://wnetwork.hani.co.kr/gategateparagate/4747
    http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgfxf4f5_174fmsd2g
    koreas-historie-lecture-14-summary.doc

  • Undocumented Asians rarely considered in immigration issues

    Undocumented Asians rarely considered in immigration issues
    Alondra Hernandez
    Issue date: 5/9/07 Section: News

    The struggle for immigration reform is not one that is exclusive to immigrants from Latin American countries.

    This hot-button issue also affects immigrants from Asian countries. And while some people would never think to consider Asians as being undocumented or illegal, many still strive to have their voices heard. (more…)

  • March 25th Action for Comprehensive Immigration Reform

    March 25-eng

    We Marched! We Voted!
    Justice for Our Families!

    Sunday March 25th, 2007
    10:00 am to 3:00 pm
    Los Angeles Sports Arena, 3939 South Figueroa St, Los Angeles CA 90037

    Focused on Four Issues:

    • A Just and Humane Immigration Reform Legislation
    • No to the Naturalization Fee increase
    • Healthcare Reform that Covers all Californians
    • An Immediate Stop to all Raids and Deportations

    FREE! Only the cost of a postal stamp of 39 cents.

    A Family Event with the Performance of Musical Groups:
    Mariachi Sol de Mexico, Graciela Beltran, Trueno Norteño, Carmen Jara, and much more!

    For more information, visit march25.org or call 866-77-COFEM, CARECEN 213-385-7800 x167, CHIRLA 213-353-1333, HMN 213-745-5222

  • Education a top priority for Asians

    Education a top priority for Asians
    After-school tutoring in demand as parents aim high
    BY CONNIE LLANOS, Staff Writer
    Los Angeles Daily News
    Article Last Updated:11/05/2006 06:58:32 PM PST

    SANTA CLARITA – For most kids, the school day is over by 3 p.m.

    But for many Korean-American students, that is when the real learning begins.

    “Hagwon” schools are traditional Korean after-school institutes that have migrated to the United States along with Korean immigrants.

    Now, with first- and second-generation Koreans migrating to Santa Clarita, more and more hagwons are opening their doors locally. (more…)

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