Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Let's not be fooled...Re: [NetworkAztlan_News] Not good time for imm. reform: BIDEN

3-31-2009 @8:48 PM - PST

Gracias ~ Remember to try to put the websource link on the top in your post or somewhere on your post! I think this was posted earlier... anyways....

I think it would be good if those of us who are more knowledgeable about the main issues related to immigration reform and immigration legislation wrote up position papers that we could agree on and attempt to lobby to the Powers that Be and explain these position papers to our own gente.

I am not an expert in this area, that is, how to draft and propose immigration legislation, but I believe that with all the people that we have in this Group and the Network Aztlan Matrix that we could come up with something solvent we could agree on and propose for just, fair and humane immigration legislation, proposed legislation that is clear, concrete and comprehensive.

I myself believe in a General Amnesty for those who are already here inside the United States with an emphasis on families either here or in Mexico. Yes, those who are of Indigenous Native Ancestry should have an automatic General Amnesty.

It is a cruel joke of history that the descendants of a people who were originally foreign invaders of these lands and stole these lands from us ~ stole Aztlan! ~ have the Power of Decision as to who goes and who stays through their elected representatives when we of La Raza Cosmica are not even consulted as to our opinions on these matter because we are not on the main Governing Board enough to have a heavy immediate impact under the Obama Administration!!! AND I DON'T MEAN TOKENS WITH SPANISH-SURNAMES!

In the long range, the whole immigration rights issue is related to established international law and its bearing on U.S. jurisprudence. Does the U.S.A. feel bounded legally and morally by the accepted norms of international law?

Hell, the government of the U.S.A. did not even go by established international laws and standards of the Geneva Convention when its military forces and mercenary personnel engaged in torture in Iraq, committed renditions (kidnappings) and got away with other high crimes. We do not even know all that still goes on in the darkness!

ICE has been operating as a fascist goon squad for the government and though its fangs may be hidden and withdrawn for now they are still there sharp and poised. Even the term 'ICE' was meant to instill fear and paranoia in its targets. Our People!

A true humane legislation may not even be possible under the present power structure! Are we ever going to get rid of all national borders and really work together for the general peace and properity of all peoples of Mother Earth?!?!?

I will stop here. I am not the expert nor pretend to be. I know I am ignorant of all that I do not know. Those who have the real comprehensive answers and solutions to these critical immigration issues need to come up with them, share them with us at the website, establish a common agenda together with all of us and let us be able to point to a basic Plan of Action which we can work on together to educate the people, raise consciousness and seek to propose for immigration legislation to the Powers-that-Be!!!

If laws are unjust and unfair, at what point will we reconcile ourselves with being outlaws in relation to unjust anti-humane laws and repressive public policies?!?! Where are our sacred sanctuaries!!!???

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Subject: [NetworkAztlan_News] Not good time for imm. reform: BIDEN

from reuters yesterday... . ... so lets not be fooled.
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) - The economic slump and soaring
unemployment in the United States mean this is not a good time to push
immigration reform, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told Central American
leaders on Monday.

"It's difficult to tell a constituency while unemployment is rising,
they're losing their jobs and their homes, that what we should do is in
fact legalize (illegal immigrants) and stop all deportation, " Biden
told a news conference in the Costa Rican capital.

President Barack Obama said during his election campaign that he
supported comprehensive immigration reform, as countries like Mexico
have been urging for years.

Some 12 million illegal immigrants live in the United States, many from
Mexico and Central America. The economic crisis has made many U.S.
workers more hostile to legalizing those without papers.

"We believe, the president and I, that this problem can only be solved
in the context of an overall immigration reform," Biden said, asked
about the chances of extending temporary migrant protection programs.

"We need some forbearance as we try to put together a comprehensive
approach to deal with this."

Biden was in Costa Rica to meet Central American leaders at an informal
regional summit.

A comprehensive overhaul of immigration laws -- including plans for a
guest worker program -- was killed off by Republicans in the U.S.
Senate in 2007, although many Central Americans have been able to stay
in the United States under the Temporary Protected Status, or TPS,
system.

(Reporting by John McPhaul; Editing by Eric Beech)

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Biden says U.S. economy key to Central American recovery

http://www.ticotimes.net/dailyarchive/2009_03/0331091.htm

Biden says U.S. economy key
to Central American recovery

By Patrick Fitzgerald
Tico Times Staff | editorial@ticotimes.net

U.S Vice President Joe Biden promised to listen to the region's concerns, but did not budge on two issues of importance to Central America – immigration and Cuba – in a meeting with President Oscar Arias and other Central American leaders in San José on Monday.

Speaking to the press after what he called a refreshingly honest, "worthwhile" discussion at the Casa Presidencial with Costa Rica President Oscar Arias, Biden said the United States would support initiatives to bolster the staggering economies of the region but stressed that the biggest hurdle would be to get the U.S economy back on track.

"It cannot work for Latin America unless our economy begins to grow," Biden said, asking for "patience and forbearance" from Central American leaders.

The economy overshadowed many of the other issues that the leaders discussed, including immigration and drug trafficking.

Still, Biden promised an increase in funding for Central American nations under the anti-drug Merida Initiative from $65 million to $110 million, but said immediate action on immigration would be politically difficult under current economic conditions.

On Cuba, the vice president stopped short of condoning an end to the U.S.'s 47-year-old trade embargo on the island nation, but said the United States would enter "a period of transition" in its relations with Cuba.

"We take responsibility for our own future," said the former chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, continuing, "We take responsibility for knowing that our own actions drastically impact – disproportionably impact, sometimes – what happens in Central America."

Arias, who opened the press conference by saying that the Obama administration appeared to be putting together a "Good Friend Policy" toward Latin America – a hallmark to former U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's regional "Good Neighbor Policy" – smiled when a reporter from the business daily La República asked Biden if the Costa Rican president was becoming something of a spokesman between Central America and the United States.

But Biden, who said his government was "in listening mode," said the United States was seeking strong bilateral ties with every country in the region.

"We don't need any interlocutor," Biden said. "We want direct, immediate and personal contact with each of the leaders, each of the countries in the region."

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Netanyahu takes reins as Israel’s prime minister+

http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/03/31/netanyahu-takes-reins-as-israels-prime-minister/

Netanyahu takes reins as Israel's prime minister

By Joshua Mitnick | Correspondent 03.31.09

Tel Aviv – It's official.

Benjamin Netanyahu was sworn in as Israel's prime minister late Tuesday – for his second go-around – after the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, voted 69-45 to confirm his coalition government. No big suprise there. Thus ends an eight-month lame-duck period and freeze in diplomacy after Ehud Olmert resigned because of corruption charges.

In presenting his government – a mashup of the settler right, the ultra-Orthodox, and the leftist Labor party – Mr. Netanyahu confirmed his foreign policy priorities: stopping Iran's nuclear program and working on Arab-Israeli peacemaking.

He cited the spread of "extremist Islam" throughout the Middle East as Israel's chief security crisis and a threat to to the rest of the world.

The crisis "is rooted in the rise and spread of extremist Islam in our region…. The biggest danger to humanity, and to our state, Israel, stems from the possibility that a radical regime will get nuclear weapons," he said.

In an interview with The Atlantic shortly before the speech, he expanded on how he sees the threat. The comments are revealing (though I couldn't find where exactly was what the Atlantic hyped as Netanyahu's "stark" message warning of an Israeli unilateral attack).

As for Arab-Israeli peace, he said that Israel seeks a "full peace" with the entire Arab and Muslim world, and insisted that moderate Arab states were just as threatened by "extremist Islam" as Israel.

He also sought to extend his hand to the Palestinians, suggesting that progress toward peace was possible on three simultaneous tracks: economic, security, and politics. But Netanyahu doesn't envision a swift accord, and warned that taking "shortcuts" to peace like previous negotiating efforts will be self-defeating. (For the Monitor's story on Netanyahu's outlook as he takes office, click here.)

The Palestinians, for their part, have said they won't negotiate with Netanyahu until the new Israeli government explicitly endorses a two-state solution to their conflict and stops settlement expansion.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0331/p06s10-wome.html

An Israeli watched Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to parliament on Tuesday. Mr. Netanyahu begins his second tenure as Israel's leader this week.
Dan Balilty/AP

Netanyahu: Israel is serious about peace

The hawkish prime minister, who presented his new government Tuesday, shows a distinct change in style and tactics – though not substance – since his 1996-99 term.

By Josh Mitnick | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

from the March 31, 2009 edition

Tel Aviv

This week, Benjamin Netanyahu begins his second tenure as Israel's leader. Will this time be different?

Nearly a decade after his rocky stint as prime minister ended in a landslide defeat, his inaugural speech Tuesday evening completed a comeback. But Israel's leader is still dogged by a legacy of diplomatic stagnation that unnerves both the international commuinty and Israelis – a legacy he sought to overcome in his address to parliament.

"Israel aspires to a full peace with the Arab world," he said, as he presented his new right-wing government. "I say to the Palestinians, 'If you really want peace, we can achieve peace.... We will conduct continuous negotiations.' "

Netanyahu's shift in emphasis from criticism of the peace process to stressing his desire to "engage" with new ideas stems in part from an ill-fated first go-round as premier, which observers say chastened the man known for his hubris.

The change, however, is more a function of style and tactics rather substance, say many analysts. While they say his worldview is still that of a pragmatic hawk who is skeptical about making concessions to Israel's Arab neighbors, observers point to a mellowed political style and a more carefully considered tactician.

"Netanyahu is still a very strong idealist," says Aviv Bushinsky, who served as Netanyahu's top media advisor during his first term. "I think he will be more cautious before making decisions. Even if he reaches the same decisions, he'll prepare the ground better."

Last time: a wunderkind bent on opposing peace

When Benjamin Netanyahu became Israel's youngest prime minister in 1996, he had a reputation as a brash political wunderkind bent on putting the brakes on the Oslo peace process adopted by the administration of former US President Bill Clinton.

Despite that tension, Netanyahu compounded the strained relations with Israel's all-important ally by publicly meeting with Christian-right evangelicals like Jerry Falwell – prominent opponents of Israeli concessions to the Palestinians – on a US visit in 1998 aimed at advancing the peace process.

The contrast in his approach to relations with the Obama administration has been telling. Recognizing that in order to confront Iran he cannot afford another rift with the White House, he has stressed his desire to "engage" with new ideas. And though he doesn't see eye to eye with Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on the urgency of resolving the Palestinian conflict, Netanyahu has sought to smooth over those differences by stressing the points in common with the Obama administration.

But Netanyahu comes into office at a time when Iran's growing regional influence and nuclear aspirations figure just as high on Israel's regional agenda – if not higher than – Arab-Israeli peace.

Identifying the spread of "extremist Islam" as the source of Israel's security "crisis," Netanyahu addressed Iran directly in his speech Tuesday: "We won't let any person or state to put a question mark over our existence."

Zalman Shoval, a former Israeli ambassador to the US and foreign policy adviser to Netanyahu, argues that containing Iran has become a precondition for progress on the peace process.

"There's a close relationship. If Iran was allowed to have nuclear weapon, then the whole nature of the peace process will change," he says. "The moderates will be the losers" and peace-process opponents like Hamas will grow stronger.

Common ground with US on Arab-Israeli peace

Though Netanyahu doesn't see eye to eye with Obama and Secretary of State Clinton on the urgency of resolving the Palestinian conflict, he is seeking to smooth over those differences by stressing the points in common with the US administration.

"He'll emphasize close cooperation with the US, and this also reflects on the peace process," says Mr. Shoval. "In the same way that Hillary Clinton put it, the Palestinians should run their own lives."

While Netanyahu has remained a critic of peace negotiations with the Palestinians, he has proposed a different approach to peace: an economic one.

Peace negotiations will come to fruition only after the US-backed Palestinian Authority is strong enough to assume control over the West Bank, and only after control of the Gaza Strip is wrested from Hamas, say Netnayahu's aides.

So instead of pushing talks on the thorny final status issues like the future of Jerusalem, Netanyahu has promoted an "economic peace" in the West Bank, suggesting that support for militants will drop if Israel and the international community can spearhead business and investment. But there are doubts about the effectiveness of this approach. "The global economic situation is such that nobody has money to make investments, and if they did have money, why would they come to the West Bank," says Gershon Baskin, head of the Israel-Palestinian Center for Research and information. "It's difficult for me to see how he can make progress."

Breakthrough for regional diplomacy?

Whether Netanyahu will just bide his time or is interested in a breakthrough in regional diplomacy is a subject for debate. Some believe that along with Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Netanyahu is likely to revisit peace negotiations with the Syrians.

"We see a full peace with the Arab world," Netanyahu said in his remarks. "I wanted to isolate extremist Islam from the rest of the Muslim and Arab world, which is also threatened."

During his first term in office, Netanyahu conducted secret talks with the Syrians via US businessman Ron Lauder, and discussed giving up parts of the Golan Heights. Many analysts think that a deal with Syria would help the US and Israel turn the tables on Iran, but Netanyahu is almost sure to encounter fierce political opposition from coalition partners and his own party.

But Bushinsky noted that this time around, Netanyahu is liable to be looking for a place in Israel history rather than being remembered as having tried twice and come up with no results.

"It's like an American president in his last term," he said. "If he won't do anything, he won't do anything, and it will be the end of his career. I think he will be braver than before."

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Monday, March 30, 2009

Welcome New THIRD-WORLD-NEWS member + Statement from Group Manager: Peta-de-Aztlan!

3-30-2009 @8:07 PM / PST
Welcome Companero / Comrade / Brother!!!

If you please feel free to share a brief introduction of yourself. This is a simple Yahoo Group that anyone with an Internet connection is free to join without worry about getting Messages censored at all. Unless, someone gets stuck on stupid. I am the Manager for a few other Yahoo Groups but this is one of my favorites because it is close to my heart. We see that the Third World is largely neglected by corporate-controlled Western media powers, though this is changing ever so slowly for the better.

As our Group's Home Page declares, the majority of the world's peoples live in the Third World, that is, Latin America, Africa and Asia. I watch CNN a lot and it is one of the best, despite its own prejudices and subtle political stances that fortify an unjust order. I wish I could get Al-Jazeera News on TV here in Sacramento, California.

I strongly believe that it is important for us to have a wide diversity of News Sources. I am thankful that the Internet helps us to do just that and that we have little obvious censorship, though sometimes Google Maps has some strange omissons in certain Hotspots ~ I am with a small Dell Laptop here at my 'casa' ~ home in English and I do not have Vista on this one, though I do at my regular work site.

I believe we need to help others get computers, repair computers and get more and more people on the Internet so they can have access to the unlimited wealth of information that is one the Internet.

Sometimes some Yahoo Groups are 'Moderated' by control freaks who must approve all postings before they are allowed to post or they are limited at first until the New Group Member is trusted by the subjective opinion of the Moderator.

My main Yahoo Group is the Humane-Rights-Agenda, which has a related Blog. Plus go to the Third-World-News Yahoo Group and you can spy a connect to its Third-World-News Blog.
Sometimes having an Open Policy can result in a new Group Member posting some silly stuff about joining a motorcycle club or a sex-page link up, but these events are so rare that it is not worth the censorship to limited a Group's Settings.

Then some Groups have a kind of politically correct policy that is not always spelled out and clarified for Group Members. Even if someone posts a reactionary off-the-wall vulgar post it does give us an indication of the kind of insane folks who are crusing the Internet (not to even go into child perverts and other Evil Ones). Nevertheless, it is always important for us to keep in mind our basic humane rights, including the right to freedom of speech, though that freedom comes with its inherent accountability and responsibility for the one who exercises that FREEDOM OF SPEECH and FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION!

I am my Personal Computer set up so that when I post this Email I can also simultaneously post onto the related Blog. If you do not always, you may try to experiment with creating your own blog.

If and when you post please be sure to include the related website at the top of the given post so that there can be some verification of the content of the given post related to Third World News.

I am almost always busy doing one kind of activity or another so my welcoming a New Group Member is kind of a rarity. I just feel in the mood and spirit to do so.

If you need to do so you can contact me privately. My nickname is Peta, so you can put Private Peta on the Subject line in the hope that it will catch my eye. I have a regular job, to to college part-time and am involved in other local community activities, including helping homeless addicts get involved in what I term progressive recovery. Plus, I try to keep a balance in my life and take time for my own prayers, meditations and studies. So I am usually online posting, offlne writing or inline with what is happening in my personal private life.

I strongly believe in the Power of the Internet for expressing ourselves, for sharing information and for raising consciousness. I encourage you to do the same.

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Sunday, March 29, 2009

Reports: Cyberspy network targets governments ~ CNN - London

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/29/ghostnet.cyber.espionage/

Reports: Cyberspy network targets governments

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Nearly 1,300 computers in more than 100 countries have been attacked and have become part of an computer espionage network apparently based in China, security experts alleged in two reports Sunday.

The network was discovered after computers at the Dalai Lama's office were hacked, researchers say.

Computers -- including machines at NATO, governments and embassies -- are infected with software that lets attackers gain complete control of them, according to the reports. One was issued by the University of Toronto's Munk Centre for International Studies in conjunction with the Ottawa, Canada-based think tank The SecDev Group; the second came from the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.

Researchers have dubbed the network GhostNet. The network can not only search a computer but see and hear the people using it, according to the Canadian report.

"GhostNet is capable of taking full control of infected computers, including searching and downloading specific files, and covertly operating attached devices, including microphones and web cameras," the report says.

The discovery of GhostNet grew out of suspicions that the office of the Dalai Lama had been hacked.

His staff sent a foreign diplomat an e-mail invitation to meet the Tibetan spiritual leader, but before the Dalai Lama's people could follow up with a phone call, "the diplomat's office was contacted by the Chinese government and warned not to go ahead with the meeting," according to the Cambridge report.

An investigation resulted in both reports. Both found links to computers in China, but the researchers did not conclude who they thought was behind the "malware," or malicious software.

"Chinese cyber espionage is a major global concern ... [b]ut attributing all Chinese malware to deliberate or targeted intelligence gathering operations by the Chinese state is wrong and misleading," according to the Canadian report titled, "Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network."

"The sheer number of young digital natives online can more than account for the increase in Chinese malware," it adds.

But the report also points out that China is among a handful of countries, including the United States, Israel and United Kingdom, that are "assumed" to have considerable computer espionage capabilities.

Attempts by CNN to contact the Chinese government in Beijing and its American embassy and consulate offices were unsuccessful on Sunday, as the offices were closed.

However, a spokesman for the Chinese consulate in New York dismissed the idea China was involved when speaking to The New York Times.

"These are old stories and they are nonsense," Wenqi Gao told the Times. "The Chinese government is opposed to and strictly forbids any cyber crime."

Hackers gained access to computers in the Dalai Lama's office by tricking computer users into downloading e-mail attachments that had been carefully engineered to appear safe, according to the authors of the Cambridge report, titled, "The Snooping Dragon: Social-malware Surveillance of the Tibetan Movement."

Note: BE CAREFUL of results from Google searches with above text. ~ PSL

"The attackers took the trouble to write e-mails that appeared to come from fellow Tibetans and indeed from co-workers," according to the report, authored by Shishir Nagaraja and Ross Anderson. Once the attackers gained an initial foothold, "they also stole mail in transit and replaced the attachments with toxic ones," the report adds.

The Dalai Lama investigation led to the discovery of hundreds more infected machines in locations from The Associated Press in Britain and Deloitte and Touche in New York, to the ministries of foreign affairs in Indonesia, Iran and the Philippines. The office of the prime minister of Laos was also snared, as was a single non-secure computer at NATO, according to the Canadian report. Infected computers "checked in" with control servers as early as May 2007 and as recently as March 12 of this year, the report adds.

Attempts by CNN to verify the reports' allegations with NATO, the Laotian government and the Dalai Lama's organization in India were not immediately successful on Sunday.

The attack has broader implications, Nagaraja and Anderson warn, since a single person could carry out a similar one.

"Even a capable motivated individual could have carried out the attacks we describe here," they say.

The computer systems of businesses are almost certain to be hacked by similar means, if they have not been already, the experts claim.

"Social malware will be used for fraud, and the typical company really has no defense against it," since it is so expensive and inconvenient, for example, to keep sensitive information or processes on computers with no Internet access. "We expect that many crooks will get rich before effective countermeasures are widely deployed."

The Information Warfare Monitor Web site, where the Canadian report was released, was down Sunday afternoon.

GhostNet is not affiliated with GhostNet Inc., a business technology company.

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FYI: South Sudan: Urgent Action Needed to Avert Collapse

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From: Refugees International <RefugeesInternational@mail.democracyinaction.org>
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Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:47:15 PM
Subject: South Sudan: Urgent Action Needed to Avert Collapse

A POWERFUL VOICE FOR LIFESAVING ACTION

March 26, 2009
Contacts: Andrea Lari and Melanie Teff
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SOUTH SUDAN:
Urgent Action Needed to Avert Collapse

View the entire report at www.refugeesinternational.org.

International engagement is urgently needed to rescue south Sudan from the brink of an unfolding crisis. The perilous situation is being ignored amid the focus on the indictment of President Al-Bashir by the International Criminal Court. Approximately two million people have returned to south Sudan since 2005 to extreme poverty. Social services and livelihood opportunities for communities remain minimal while tribal tensions and localized conflicts are on the rise. South Sudan is also facing an economic crisis due to the drop in oil prices, creating the potential for new insecurity. If these threats are not addressed, the implosion of the south will shatter any realistic prospect for peace in Sudan as a whole, including the Darfur region.

Policy Recomendations

The U.S. Government should urge the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) to devise and fund a reintegration strategy that addresses needs for basic social services and livelihoods. The U.S. and other donor governments should increase funding for reintegration and maintain existing humanitarian funding levels.
UNMIS and UNHCR should shift their focus from assisting returns to supporting reintegration activities and protection of returnees. They should also draft and implement a clear protection strategy to make the GoSS more capable of protecting its own people.
The U.S. Government should lead the international effort to identify an appropriate emergency package to address the current budget shortfall of the GoSS to avoid security consequences.
International NGOs should dedicate resources to women's programs in south Sudan and the Three Areas. Donor countries should support GoSS Ministry of Gender initiatives to protect women's rights and increase funding to the United Nations Population Fund.

Melanie Teff, Andrea Lari, and members of Refugees International's Board of Directors assessed the humanitarian situation in south Sudan in February 2009.

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Friday, March 27, 2009

Biden Travels to Latin America

http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-03-26-voa22.cfm

Biden Travels to Latin America
By VOA News 26 March 2009

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (file photo)

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden leaves Thursday for a four-day visit to Chile and Costa Rica, where he will consult with Latin American leaders ahead of next month's Summit of the Americas.

In Chile, Biden will attend a conference of progressive, or center-left, leaders, hosted by Chilean President Michelle Bachelet. The meeting is expected to focus on crafting solutions to the world economic crisis.

Also slated to attend are the prime ministers of Britain Gordon Brown and Norway Jens Stoltenberg and the presidents of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay.

Vice President Biden then travels to Costa Rica for a meeting with Central American leaders, hosted by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias.

The Summit of the Americas will take place in mid-April in Trinidad and Tobago.

Biden's visit also comes before a gathering next month of G20 industrialized and developing nations in London.

Organizers of the progressive governance meeting in Chile hope some of the ideas formulated at the gathering can be presented at the G20 summit.

They say they will try to find ways to "fill an ideological vacuum" as faith in global markets crumbles.

Biden's wife, Jill, will travel with him to Latin America.

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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Re: [THIRD-WORLD-NEWS] Salt of this Sea at 7th Al-Awda Convention

Gracoas Companero Zahi ~ This looks like it could be a great enlightening film. I will pass on information about it! Thanks for posting to Third World News!

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From: Zahi Damuni <zdamuni@sbcglobal..net>
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Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 5:54:18 AM
Subject: [THIRD-WORLD-NEWS] Salt of this Sea at 7th Al-Awda Convention

The Seventh Annual International Al-Awda Convention presents...
(http://www.al-awda.org/convention7/index.html)

Salt of this Sea
Feature film by Annemarie Jacir
Starring Suheir Hammad and Saleh Bakri
Palestine 2008
104 minutes
In Arabic and English

Soraya, born in Brooklyn in a working class community of Palestinian
refugees, discovers that her grandfather' s savings were frozen in a bank
account in Jaffa when he was exiled in 1948. Stubborn, passionate and
determined to reclaim what is hers, she fulfills her life-long dream of
returning to Palestine. Slowly she is taken apart by the reality around her
and is forced to confront her own internal anger. She meets Emad, a young
Palestinian whose ambition, contrary to hers, is to leave forever. Tired of
the constraints that dictate their lives, they know in order to be free,
they must take things into their own hands, even if it's illegal.
The story of young Palestinians in search of a Palestine they were robbed
from.

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"Annemarie is the Palestinian Jim Jarmush. She has developed her own cinema
language, stubborn acting style and unconventional story telling, disobeying
all the rules of traditional cinema." - Hany Abu-Assad, Director Paradise
Now

"This film is my personal voice, intimate,... it's the voice of my family,
of my village, of my people. It's the voice of every refugee searching for
his rights.." - Saleh Bakri, actor

. CANNES - OFFICIAL SELECTION, 2008
. FIRST PRIZE - BEST FILM, Sguardi Altrove Film Festival, Italy 2009
. INTERNATIONAL CRITICS AWARD FIPRESCI PRIZE
. RANDA CHAHAL PRIZE, Journées cinématographiques de Carthage, 2008
. BEST SCREENPLAY, Dubai International Film Festival, 2008
. SPECIAL JURY PRIZE, Osians Asian & Arab Film Festival, 2008
.PALESTINE'S OFFICIAL OSCAR ENTRY
FOR BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM, 2008
. SOPADIN FINALIST, Grand Prix Best Screenplay, 2007
. CINEMA IN MOTION AWARDS, San Sebastian Film Festival, 2007

Official site: http://www.philistinefilms.org

Facebook Page:
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For all other 7th Al-Awda convention info, please visit:
http://al-awda. org/convention7/ index.html and keep revisiting that page as
it is being updated regularly.

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Tel: 760-918-9441
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Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition (PRRC) is the largest
network of grassroots activists and students dedicated to Palestinian human
rights. We are a not for profit tax-exempt educational and charitable
501(c)(3) organization as defined by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of
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