"N.Y. fire kills boy, 8; hurts 5 other children
A fast-moving fire tore through a home as families celebrated a Jewish holiday, killing an 8-year-old boy and injuring five other children.
Things like that I never wish upon anyone.
Director of Jewish agency takes N.Y. post
Departing agency leader shaped agenda for Jewish community
Group will give Jewish families $2.1m for kindergarten
Hebrew College says deal will cut $32m debt
The mixed legacy of 1492
Yeah, I know the Jews have always had it worse, etc, etc.
Actually, the Native American Holocaust dwarfs the Jews claims of 6 million.
More than five centuries after he strode ashore in the Bahamas, the complicated legacy of Christopher Columbus continues to be divisive.
A specialty of my morning jewspaper.
Yesterday morning, at the North End park named in his honor, the explorer was embraced as a symbol of Italian achievement. But in the afternoon, outside the Suffolk County House of Correction in Roxbury, he was demonized during a protest against the detention of hundreds of undocumented immigrants there.
The protest contrasted sharply with the festive mood that permeated Christopher Columbus Park four hours earlier....
“It’s very important that we pay respect to Christopher Columbus and what he meant to America,’’ Mayor Thomas M. Menino said. “Too often in our world today, we don’t remember the past. The past created the opportunities we have today.’’
I don't often agree with you, Mayor; however, 9/11, 9/11, 9/11 -- and ALL the REST of HISTORY!
Related: My 9/11 Investigation
It Wasn't Muslims
Israel did 9/11
CUI BONO from HISTORY and the WAY it is TOLD in AmeriKan schoolbooks and newspapers?
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The protesters, however, had a different opinion of the famed explorer.
“We are taught to honor this man, Columbus, who represents the worst of humanity,’’ said Alex Papali, an organizer with Resist the Raids, an advocacy network that is critical of immigration enforcement. “We are doing the right thing by standing against 500 years of mind control.’’
Actually, I WAS MORE CONCERNED about the HERE and NOW -- you know, SOMETHING we can DO SOMETHING ABOUT!!
Instead of the daring adventurer who opened the New World, critics say, Columbus opened the way to the enslavement and death of millions of indigenous people in the Americas.
They called it the Columbian exchange in my history books.
Gave the holocaust a whole sentence (spent sections on Germany and the Jews).
Papali was cheered by about 100 protesters, who carried signs with slogans such as “Columbus was Undocumented’’ and “No Human Being is Illegal,’’ after they marched to the jail from Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard.
Avi Chomsky, a Salem State University professor who is the daughter of political activist Noam Chomsky, criticized the Obama administration for continuing an “enforcement-only’’ approach to immigration that the president had pledged to change during the 2008 campaign.
Related: The Chomsky Controversy
Chomsky is No Expert
Also see:
Clear the Court: Boning Immigrants
Immigration Incarceration
The Illegal Immigrant Imprisonment Industry
Obama Administration to Ignore Immigration Enforcement
Hitching a Ride With Homeland Security
Had enough with the agenda-pushing games yet?
And yet this nation is lecturing others about human rights?
The protesters then walked to a nearby bridge where undocumented immigrants inside the jail could glimpse the demonstration.
Dozens of detainees who are awaiting deportation or other immigration proceedings raised their fists in solidarity and pounded against the windows.
“We want to call attention to the cruel and unusual punishments that have become part of the immigrant enforcement policies in this country,’’ said Alexandra Pineiro-Shields, who attended the protest with her 4-year-old daughter, Isabella.
What about the ongoing wars that have murdered millions?
In 2009, a Dominican national awaiting deportation died while in the custody of the jail. In August, Suffolk County Sheriff Andrea J. Cabral told the federal government in a scathing letter that she would terminate the contract to hold undocumented immigrants at the House of Correction, citing a litany of complaints that included the government’s public release of a report on the death of Pedro Tavarez, 49, before it was provided to the sheriff.
Related: Detained to Death
Cabral, who had accused US Immigration and Customs Enforcement of a “staggering lack of communication and respect,’’ later said that she intended to talk with the agency in an effort to resolve her concerns.
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Related: Cabral’s successes yet to silence critics
Singing the Suffolk County Jail Blues
As the American Bankers Association kicked off its annual convention in Boston yesterday, scores of protesters demonstrated outside the John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center to criticize bank foreclosure policies and demand a halt to foreclosure proceedings nationwide.
A crowd of about 100 people marched down Boylston Street last night. Many of the demonstrators were homeowners facing foreclosure.
Raul Casanova, a 38-year-old Dorchester landlord, said the three-decker he bought in 2005 is facing foreclosure, even after he worked out a loan modification program with his bank....
They are JUST TAKING the STUFF, readers!
They DON'T CARE about YOU -- and NEVER DID!
They are BANKERS and ALL THEY CARE ABOUT is THEIR OWN POCKETS and HOW FULL THEY can STUFF THEM!!
Yesterday’s protest followed a move by several large lenders, including Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and GMAC Mortgage, to halt foreclosure proceedings in many states after revelations that some bank executives were routinely signing large numbers of foreclosure documents without verifying the information.
And that is called FRAUD!!!!!
Related: Bank of America, GMAC say they’re ready to resume foreclosures
Also see: Foreclosures reach a record high
Wall St. against foreclosure halt
Isn't it nice to see banks and government work together to illegally seize assets, AmeriKan?
One gets the feeling Americans are going to soon see a hell they have never seen.
Without proper documentation, many foreclosures could be subject to legal challenges, and people who have purchased foreclosed homes could find their ownership claims contested, bank officials said.
Who has money to hire lawyers?
Edward L. Yingling, president and chief executive of the American Banking Association, said he was sympathetic.
Yeah, as sympathetic as a vulture, vampire, and crocodile all rolled into one.
“While we may not agree with the protesters’ point of view, we recognize their right to free expression, and we know they are frustrated,’’ Yingling said in a statement to the Globe last night....
“Foreclosures are difficult for everyone — for borrowers, for banks, and for the economy itself.’’
Yeah, the POOR BANK now getting that HARD ASSET instead of those increasingly worthless pieces of pretty paper they give you at the bank.
Just WRITE OFF those BILLIONS in BOTTOM-LINE BALANCING TAX LOOT and the RECORD BONUSES this year!!
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Also see: Boston Globe Protecting Jewish Mafia
