Friday, May 24, 2013

La separación de iglesia y Estado es muy clara en nuestra Constitución, porque algunos no entienden esto? No pedimos nada, solo IGUALDAD.


La separación de iglesia y Estado es muy clara en nuestra Constitución, porque algunos no entienden esto? No pedimos nada, solo IGUALDAD.

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La separación de iglesia y Estado es muy clara en nuestra Constitución, porque algunos no entienden esto? No pedimos nada, solo IGUALDAD.  

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Archbishop who promoted homosexual civil union legislation "to allow people of the same sex who reside together to have rights of inheritance, hospital visits, and medical coverage... " | Mike Nova comments: Sounds like a good and reasonable proposal. However, what is wrong with the word "marriage", and why should it not be a complete equality, including the terms? If people are equal, why shouldn't be the words?


Gonzalez Nieves states that the accusations against him are based on four grounds: “1. Protecting pedophile priests, 2. Carrying out an investigation of the Rev. P. Edward Santana without jurisdiction, 3. The ‘Shared Residences,’ 4. The matter of the Altar of the Fatherland.” 

The “Shared Residences” is a reference to a controversial proposal by the archbishop to allow people of the same sex who reside together to have rights of inheritance, hospital visits, and medical coverage, without having the title of “marriage,” according to the Italian news service La Stampa.  Gonzalez Nieves has, however, opposed homosexual adoption, working in a coalition of religious leaders to oppose such proposals. 

Mike Nova comments: Sounds like a good and reasonable proposal. However, what is wrong with the word "marriage", and why should it not be a complete equality, including the terms? If people are equal, why shouldn't be the words?

Ex-Guatemalan President Extradited To U.S. On Money Laundering Charges - 5/24/2013 - AP | Obama Urges Military to Stamp Out Sexual Assaults - 5/24/2013 - Voice of America | #1321 - Straight out of Committee - 5/24/2013

Puerto Rico rejects its present colonial status; wants statehood

By José M. Saldana DMD, MPH and Norman Maldonado MD, MACP 05/24/13 05:30 PM ET

Three consecutive U.S. presidents have encouraged the people of Puerto Rico to make a permanent decision about our island’s political status. This has been the case ever since the Puerto Rico Status Task Force was established in the 1990s by President Clinton, followed by White House Task Force reports from President George W. Bush in 2005 and 2007 and President Obama in 2011. 

The most recent March 11, 2011, White House report clearly expresses the Task Force’s commitment to resolving Puerto Rico’s political status, including “moving resolution of the status issue forward in a meaningful way with the goal of resolving it on a short timetable.”

In this regard, the Task Force’s top two recommendations are as follows: 
  
1: “The Task Force recommends that all relevant parties-the President, Congress, and the leadership and people of Puerto Rico-work to ensure that Puerto Ricans are able to express their will about status options and have that will acted upon by the end of 2012 or soon thereafter.”
   
2: “The Task Force recommends that the permissible status options include Statehood, Independence, Free Association, and Commonwealth.”

“Do you agree that Puerto Rico should continue to have its present form of territorial status (Commonwealth)?” 

• Yes: 46 percent
• No: 54 percent
“Irrespective of your answer to the first question, indicate which of the following non-territorial options you prefer.” 
• Statehood: 61 percent                                                                       
• Sovereign Free Associated State: 33 percent 
• Independence: 5 percent
The Plebiscite’s results were ratified and accepted by the White House, and in April President Obama proposed that $2.5 million be appropriated to the Justice Department to be assigned to the Puerto Rico Elections Commission for the purpose of resolving Puerto Rico's status problem by consulting its voters on one or more status options that are compatible with the Constitution, laws and public policy of the United States. This time the vote would be under federal auspices so that the results cannot be disputed by any of the political parties on the island. 

While the results of last November’s Plebiscite are clear and were ratified by the White House, we would endorse the president’s call for another Plebiscite under federal auspices. However, we would reject the inclusion of the current territorial, colonial status in any future plebiscite given that the current status has already been resoundingly rejected by a clear majority of the people of Puerto Rico and does not provide a permanent resolution to the status problem because it itself is the problem.
 
Puerto Rico’s Resident Commissioner, Pedro Pierluisi has just introduced a bill in Congress — H.R. 2000 — which should resolve our status predicament of being the oldest colony in the world. It provides “for a federally authorized ratification vote in Puerto Rico on the admission of Puerto Rico into the Union as a State and if a majority of voters ratify Puerto Rico’s desire for statehood, to describe the steps that the President and Congress shall take to enable the admission of Puerto Rico as a State of the Union.” 
 
Puerto Rico deserves to become the 51st State of the Union with the same rights that legislation pending in the U.S. Senate would grant to 11 million of undocumented immigrants in this country. After all, we have been American citizens since 1917 and more than 200,000 of us have honorably served in the U.S. Armed Forces and have fought and died for our democratic way of life.
 
It would be a very unfair and undemocratic act of prejudice on the part of Congress to ignore the plight for equality of 3.7 million of American citizens.


Saldana and Maldonado are former presidents of the University of Puerto Rico.


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Ricky Martin Takes to Twitter to Ask for Help

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We’ve told you how Ricky Martin often uses his fame to bring awareness to important issues via social media. This week, the Boricua superstar took toTwitter to ask his Puerto Rican fans to petition members of his native island’s House of Representatives.
The reason?
To try to approve Senate Bill 238, which would end legal discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
“My people, I ask that you go to the following Facebook pages and ask these representatives of to support PS238….” read part of Martin’s tweet, along with the names of select representatives: Brenda López de ArrarásVictor 'Cacho' Vassallo,Armando FrancoEfraín De Jesus, andCésar Hernández.
Earlier that morning, 41-year-old Martin tweeted in Spanish: “Extraño mi isla [I miss my island.”

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Puerto Rico approves anti-discrimination bill - AP

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Legislators in Puerto Rico have approved a bill that outlaws employment discrimination based on gender or sexual orientation.
Opponents of the bill prayed on the steps of the seaside Capitol building on Friday as lawmakers voted on the measure, which was widely rejected by religious organizations in the conservative U.S. territory.
The original measure was broader and would have also banned discrimination involving commercial transactions, property rentals and public transportation, among others. It's a step that about half of U.S. states have taken.
That original measure was approved 15-11 by the U.S. territory's Senate last week, but the House of Representatives amended the bill.
Legislators also approved a separate bill that extends a domestic violence law to gay couples.
The governor is expected to sign both bills.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Legislators in Puerto Rico have approved a bill that outlaws employment discrimination based on gender or sexual orientation. Opponents of the bill prayed on the steps of the seaside Capitol building on Friday...

Senate Panel to Review Plebiscite 

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The U.S. Senate committee responsible for the status of the U.S.’ territories will hold a hearing June 11th on Puerto Rico’s political status plebiscite last November.
The hearing will focus on the Obama Administration’s response to the plebiscite as well as on the vote itself.
Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) has invited a White House representative and the heads of Puerto Rico’s three political parties to testify. The party leaders are Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla of the “commonwealth” party, Resident Commissioner in the U.S. Pedro Pierluisi of the statehood party, and former Senator Ruben Berrios of the Independence Party.
A spokesperson for the option of nationhood in a free (non-binding) association with the U.S., which obtained a third of the vote in the plebiscite, has not yet been invited.
Although Puerto Rico is often popularly — but misleadingly — called a “commonwealth”, it is actually a territory of the U.S., according to all three branches of the Federal government. The “commonwealth” party contends that it is not. So, it also does not appear that there will be an advocate for   the islands’ current status, which got 46% of the vote in the plebiscite, in the hearing.
The “commonwealth” party advocates an unprecedented governing arrangement for the islands that Federal officials say is impossible. It would be permanently binding on the U.S. and give the insular government an additional subsidy and power to veto the application of Federal laws and court jurisdiction and to enter into international agreements and organizations as if Puerto Rico were a sovereign nation.  At the same time it would  continuing the grant of citizenship to individuals born in Puerto Rico and current Federal assistance to Puerto Ricans.
A spokesman for President Obama said that the plebiscite demonstrated that Puerto Ricans want to resolve the question of the territory’s ultimate status, a majority of the vote was for statehood as the alternative to the current status, and the Obama Administration would work with Congress on the issue.
The Obama Administration has also responded to the plebiscite by proposing legislation for another plebiscite. Under the U.S. Justice Department proposal, the Federal government would provide $2.5 million for a vote on options proposed by Puerto Rico’s Elections Commission found by the U.S. attorney general to not conflict with the Constitution, laws, and policies of the U.S.
This would exclude the “commonwealth” party’s non-territory definition of the current status as well as its proposed new “commonwealth status.”
The Obama Administration proposed an additional plebiscite to confirm last November’s self-determination decisions of Puerto Ricans because Gov. Garcia and the Puerto Rico legislative majority narrowly elected to office at the time of last November’s plebiscite dispute the vote.
The White House feared that this would prevent action in Congress on the plebiscite. It reasoned that a plebiscite under Federal auspices could not be disputed with any credibility by ‘commonwealthers.’
The plebiscite rejected Puerto Rico’s current status by 54% and chose statehood as the alternative by 61.2%.
The Governor and ‘commonwealthers’ in the legislature contend that the status option for which they urged votes, the current status, was rejected by 51.7% instead of 54%, and that statehood won 44.4% of the vote instead of 61.2%.
The plebiscite results were determined by the Puerto Rico Elections Commission with the support of its “commonwealth” party representative. But Garcia and his legislature allies argue that Commission should have included ‘votes’ not cast in the percentage results contrary to the law for the plebiscite, Puerto Rico election law, and general election practice.
Res. Comm. Pierluisi, who serves in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he can only vote in committees of which he is a member, and 49 other House members have sponsored a bill that also recognizes the results of the plebiscite. It would require the president to submit legislation to enable Puerto Rico to become a State after a phase in of equal treatment in Federal tax and program laws. Puerto Ricans confirming their desire for statehood in a referendum would trigger the submission. The bill would also commit the Congress to pass statehood transition legislation.
The Senate Committee’s House counterpart has also said that it will hold a hearing on the plebiscite but no plans for the hearing are known yet.

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PR economy shrinks for fourth month

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Puerto Rico's Colonial Status and the US Invasion - Center for Research on Globalization

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Puerto Rico's Colonial Status and the US Invasion
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Puerto Rico was a Colony of the Spanish Empire for more than 400 years. After the Spanish-American War of 1898 instigated by the 'Remember the Maine' incident, the United States declared Puerto Rico, Hawaii, the Philippines and Guam as its territories.
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Puerto Rico approves anti-discrimination bill
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Legislators in Puerto Rico have approved a bill that outlaws employment discrimination based on gender or sexual orientation. Opponents of the bill prayed on the steps of the seaside Capitol building on Friday as lawmakers ...

Enfilan cañones a legisladores del PNP para que voten a favor del 238… 

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activistas_derecho_gay_noticelPor Manuel Ernesto Rivera
Noticel
La actriz Johanna Rosaly, quien dijo en rueda de prensa que tiene un hijo homosexual y un hermano, fue recibida por la portavoz de la delegación novoprogresistaa, Jenniffer González, y allí le reclamó que ejerciera su liderato para que los azules voten a favor de la equidad.
Previo a reunirse con González, la única PNP que votará a favor del 238, Rosaly dijo a NotiCel que es hora ya de que se respete la humanidad de los homosexuales y lesbianas.
“Les voy a reclamar que es justicia y que es estar del lado correcto de la historia. Ya logramos la igualdad de las personas de la raza negra, ya las mujeres han alcanzado posiciones cimeras y hoy tenemos que lograr que las personas con una esencia lésbica, homosexual, bisexual, transexual y transgénico logren los mismos derechos que tenemos los heterosexuales”, sostuvo la actriz en entrevista con este diario digital.
Otra que tronó contra los novoprogresistas fue Alicia Burgos, una estadista que ha trabajado en el Capitolio, reclamó a los legisladores del PNP que voten a favor del 238. Destacó que el discrimen es obvio y las redes sociales dan cuenta de eso. Reclamó que crió a sus hijos en un hogar heterosexual de valores y defendió a su hijo Pedro Julio Serrano con uñas y dientes.
“Nosotros hemos pasado mucho y espero que no tengamos que seguir pasando por esto. Pedro Julio escogió su lucha y nosotros la escogimos con él. Yo trabajé en el Capitolio, yo conozco muchos de esos legisladores, esos legisladores me conocen a mí, conocen a mis hijos, conocen como yo los crié y mi esposo, en un hogar de mamá y papá. Y porque Pedro Julio ame a otro hombre no deja de ser un ser humano, no deja de ser mi hijo, el amigo de Uka, el hermano de Héctor”, indicó Burgos en una rueda de prensa conjunta.
“No vengan a decir que no hay discrimen. Hay discrimen, se necesita equidad para todos”, apuntó.
Indicó que lo menos que le han dicho por las redes sociales es que ella y su esposo necesitan ir a siquiatría.
“Les quiero decir que estamos bien sanos, nuestra mente está clara y nuestro amor es constante”, destacó la madre del activista gay.
Héctor, padre de Serrano, cuestionó el reclamo de igualdad que los novoprogresistas exigen en el gobierno estadounidense cuando aquí son incapaces de estar a favor de la igualdad de derechos para todos los seres humanos.
“Si usted no puede darle la igualdad, no puede darla la suprema condición de hombre y mujer a los que residen en Puerto Rico, usted no tiene la fuerza moral para ir a pararse frente a los portones de Casa Blanca y exigir la igualdad. No tiene esa moral”, dijo el padre de Serrano.
Criticó que ahora no estén a favor del 238 cuando en el pasado favorecieron el 1725. Reclamó que “le hagan honor a todos esos votos que dieron en aquel momento y que por razones puramente político partidistas no se lo están dando el día de hoy”.
“Este no es momento de hacer política, este es momento de hacer patria”, sostuvo.
La publicista Uka Green también reclamó la aprobación de la legislación que ya pasó el cedazo del Senado.
“El que la comunidad LGBTT tenga que estar reclamando sus derechos demuestra lo mal que estamos como sociedad. Esos derechos deben estar dados”, sostuvo Green.
El líder comunitario Papo Christian presentó los proyectos 1725 y 238 y aseguró que no son distintos, por lo que se unió al reclamo grupal para que se de paso a la igualdad.
Burgos cuestionó qué van a hacer los legisladores estadistas si en junio el Tribunal Supremo de los Estados Unidos declara inconstitucional que no se permita a las parejas del mismo sexo contraer matrimonio.
“¿Qué van a hacer? Se van a eñangotar. Yo ceo en la estadidad, yo creo en esa Constitución (de EEUU), yo creo en la democracia, yo creo en los derechos y yo entendía que ellos también creían lo mismo que yo”, cuestionó la madre de Serrano.
“Es hipocresía y politiquería… el que quiere buscar excusas las busca donde quiera. Para mí es inexplicable por qué si votaron anteriormente, por qué no votan ahora. ¿Por qué? Porque ahora está el Partido Popular. Realmente no entiendo”, sentenció Burgos.

 
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La cultura, puente al desarrollo socioeconómico

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La cultura, puente al desarrollo socioeconómico

María Elba Torres Muñoz (Profesora universitaria de la UPR)
El principal patrimonio de la humanidad son sus culturas. Las culturas tienen una infinita capacidad para tender puentes, integrar memorias, crear identidades compartidas, inve

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A varios meses de haber iniciado el nuevo cuatrienio, con un nuevo gobierno, los puertorriqueños se estarán preguntando: ¿qué rayos hicimos en noviembre? Votamos por un cambio

Hace tres años que trabajo en la Escuela Segundo Ruiz Belvis de Mayagüez y no puedo quedarme de brazos cruzados viendo diferentes situaciones que afectan a los estudiantes y maestros. Así como los niños en la navidad le hacen una carta a Santa Claus y a los Tres Reyes Magos, así mismo hago esta cartita con mis peticiones para el próximo año escolar.