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Sotomayor Nomination Hearing Set for July 13th |
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 NILP FYI
The
confirmation hearing
before the Senate Judiciary Committee for the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to be an Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States is scheduled for Monday, July 13th. The
Committee's website contains a wealth of information on Judge Sotomayor. There are also documents
from the Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund (PRLDEF) during the 1980s when
she was a member of its Board of Directors. To access, go to the following links:
Guidelines
for Public Attendance at hearing of Sonia Sotomayor [click here]
Judge Sotomayor's Answers to the Judiciary Committee's Questionnaire [click here]
Letters of Support and Documents from LatinoJustice PRLDEF [click here]
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Demand release of the humanitarian activists detained by Israel |
Former U.S. Representative Cynthia McKinney among
activists captured while transporting vital supplies to Gaza
A ship carrying desperately needed humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza was attacked and boarded by Israeli forces today. Former U.S. Representative Cynthia McKinney was among the 21 humanitarian activists on board of the “Spirit of Humanity.”
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UN Condemns Coup in Honduras |
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On Tuesday, United Nations adopted a draft resolution requested by Honduras condemning the coup that has interrupted the democratic order in that country. On Sunday June 28th,masked and armed soldiers seized the government and kidnapped the president who moved to Costa Rica. Honduras is the second poorest country in Latin America.
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6 Puerto Rican activists barred from US Capitol |
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Associated Press
2009-06-30 07:17 AM
 Six Puerto Rican independence activists arrested last month for
demonstrating inside the U.S. House chamber are barred from the Capitol
for nine months unless invited in writing by a lawmaker or the White
House.
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Great Depression Avoided For Now |
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 By Andrés Torres
The last time I wrote in this
space the big question about the economy was: are we headed for a repeat
of the Great Depression of the 1930’s? Since then events seem
to indicate that this is not going to happen, mainly because of major
state intervention pushed by the Obama administration.
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Senate Apologizes For Slavery |
by David Welna June 18, 2009
The U.S. Senate apologized Thursday for slavery and for the segregationist Jim Crow laws, 144 years after the Civil War and 45 years after passing the Civil Rights Act.
The action came in a nonbinding resolution adopted unanimously by voice vote. The
Senate chamber was nearly empty as Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin rose to
call for a measure that he said was long overdue for the descendants of
4 million blacks who were enslaved in the U.S.
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Special Committee on Decolonization Urges U.S. Allow Puerto Rico Self-Determination |
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The SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON DECOLONIZATION APPROVEd a Resolution CALLING ON US TO EXPEDITE SELF-DETERMINATION PROCESS FOR PUERTO RICO.
The
UN resolution also requested that the Obama administration release all
Puerto Rican political prisoners serving sentences in the US.
The resolution was petitioned by Ecuador, Venezuela and Cuba and sponsored by Puerto Rican political organizations.
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Puerto Rico Has High HIV Infection Rate: Study |
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According to the most current data available (2006), the rate of new HIV infections in Puerto Rico was 45 per 100,000 people, two times higher than in the 50 states and Washington, D.C. A recently published study reports injection drug use was the primary cause of transmission among the 1,440 people in Puerto Rico newly infected with HIV. The infection rate was 2.1 times higher among males than females. Persons ages 30-39 had the highest infections rates, said researchers from the Puerto Rico Department of Health and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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Congressional Hearing on Plebescite Bill |
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June 24. The US House Committee on Natural Resources held a hearing on the bill for a plebescite on the political status of Puerto Rico. It was poorly attended even though the bill has 150 co-sponsors. Most Committee members did not listen to testimony given by Puerto Rico’s Governor or Popular Democratic Party and the Puerto Rico Independence Party representatives. The White House did not send any representative.
What's your opinion - on this bill or on plebiscites, period?
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