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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Reflections on Thanksgiving
Leave Blank:Do Not Change:Your email: Every Thanksgiving I make a point of reflecting on the genocide that befell Native Americans when Europeans came to the Western Hemisphere. In Mexico alone, when Cortes arrived, it is estimated that there were approximately … Continue reading
Posted in Anecdotes & Adventures, Ideas & Opinions
Tagged AIM, American Indian Movement, Chalchiuhtlique, Columbus, Disney, Huitzilopochtli, Laura Molina, Mictlan Cihuatl, Mictlan Tecuhtli, Omecihuatl, Ometecuhtli, Ometeotl, Pocahontas, Quetzalcoatl, San Juan Capistrano, Tezcatlipoca, Tlaloc
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Arizona: To Boycott or Not to Boycott
I appeared yesterday on CBS Channel 9, KCAL television, representing the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) denouncing Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown, Jr., Governor Elect of California, for violating the boycott of Arizona. As time permitted, I made it … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas & Opinions
Tagged Angel Luevano, Arizona, Arizona Department of Education, California State University Northridge, CBS, Channel 9, Chicano Studies, CSUN, Edmund G. Brown Jr., Estela Ayala, Gil Cedillo, HB 2281, Heinrich Heine, Heywood Campbell Broun, ICCPR, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Jack London, Jan B. Tucker, Jerry Brown, Joe Arpaio, Justice for Janitors, KCAL, League of United Latin American Citizens, LULAC, Maria Elena Durazo, Mexican American Studies, MSNBC, Occupied America, Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Rudolfo Acuna, Rudy Acuna, SB 1070, scab, SEIU, strike breaker, The Newspaper Guild, Tlamatini, UNITE-HERE, United Farm Workers
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Happy Birthday to the Pieman (Aron Kay)!
Leave Blank:Do Not Change:Your email: Yesterday, November 14, was the birthday of my great old friend Aron Kay. Also known as “The Pieman,” Aron was famous for getting in the faces of the high and mighty, literally. He threw … Continue reading
Posted in Anecdotes & Adventures, Ideas & Opinions
Tagged Anita Bryant, Aron Kay, Cornbread Square Commune, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, E. Howard Hunt, Edmund G "Jerry" Brown, G. Gordon Liddy, Jan B. Tucker, John Erlichman, Nelson Rockefeller, Peace & Freedom Party, Peace and Freedom Party, PFP, Pieman, Randall Terry, Richard Nixon, Watergate, William F. Buckley, Yippies, Youth International Party
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Discrimination at Los Angeles Mission College
Leave Blank:Do Not Change:Your email: An MTF (Male To Female) transgender student at Los Angeles Mission College in Sylmar requested on the first day of her new class that the instructor call her by her newly adopted female name rather … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas & Opinions, Private Investigation Industry
Tagged ADA, Americans With Disabilities Act, campus rape, Daniel J. LaVista, discrimination, harassment, Jeff Spelatz, Julie Ruelas, LACCD, LAMC, Los Angeles Community College District, Los Angeles Mission College, Transgender, Transsexual
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City of Los Angeles Faces More Allegations of Discrimination
Leave Blank:Do Not Change:Your email: A series of meetings have taken place between Los Angeles City management and Personnel Department workers with representatives of civil rights organizations and African American employees seeking to redress and stop what they see as … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas & Opinions, Private Investigation Industry
Tagged AB 1617, ACJC, African American, Alameda Corridor Jobs Coalition, Antonio Villaraigosa, Cindy Montanez, City of Los Angeles, Congress On Racial Equality, CORE, Jan B. Tucker, Larry Frank, NAACP, private investigation, Rev. Leonard Jackson, workplace discrimination, workplace harassment, workplace retaliation
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Fred Martinez Jr.: Another Matthew Shepard
A Native American Matthew Shepard Fred Martinez, Jr. was a Navajo “nadleehi,” or male with a feminine spirit. In traditional Navajo and other Native American cultures, male and female are not the only genders; there are males with male spirits, … Continue reading
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani Face Death by Stoning in Iran
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani faces imminent death by stoning for a conviction by Iranian authorities of adultery. If you believe in basic human rights you should email, call, or fax the Iranian Mission to the United Nations with the following message: … Continue reading
Andy Furillo: a courageous reporter
Leave Blank:Do Not Change:Your email: The Sacramento District of the California Association of Licensed Investigators (CALI) will be hearing from Sacramento Bee reporter Andy Furillo on November 18, 2010 at 5:30 p.m. at the TRE restaurant, 1212 Howe Ave, Sacramento. … Continue reading
Posted in Anecdotes & Adventures, Ideas & Opinions, Private Investigation Industry
Tagged Andy Furillo, Bernie Sapiro, Bruce Corwin, CALI, California Association of Licensed Investigators, chemical poisoning, Chicago Outfit, City of Los Angeles, Confederacion de Trabajadores Mexicanos, CTM, Film Processing Company, Gary North, Graphic Communications International Union District Council 2, Ira Reiner, Jan B. Tucker, Joe Segura, Local 69, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Los Angeles Newspaper Guild, Mayor Bradley, Metropolitan Theaters Corporation, municipal corruption, NAFTA, rape, Sacramento Bee, sexual harassment, Sherrill Corwin, Sideny Korshak, Tom Bradley, union busting
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