Four Lives Lost – The innocence and wrongful convictions of 4 Texas woman

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2012/01/16  No Responses »
Jan 162012
 
Four Lives Lost - The innocence and wrongful convictions of 4 Texas woman

San Antonio, Texas – In September 1994 allegations of aggravated sexual assault on a child were brought against Elizabeth Ramirez (19) and three of her friends – Anna Vasquez (19), Cassandra Rivera (19) and Kristie Mayhugh (21). The complainants in the case were nine-year-old V.L. and seven-year-old S.L., nieces of Elizabeth Ramirez. The girls claimed that on two successive days during a week-long visit with their aunt Elizabeth, she and her three friends held them down and sexually assaulted them. Elizabeth Ramirez was tried in February of 1997 and sentenced to 37-and-a-half years. In February of 1998 the other three women were tried together and sentenced to 15 years for the same alleged crimes. No physical or corroborating evidence was MORE

Undocumented Student Activists who went head to head with ICE, tell their story

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2011/12/09  No Responses »
Dec 092011
 
Undocumented Student Activists who went head to head with ICE, tell their story
http://vimeo.com/33189634

On November 10, 2011, two undocumented student activists from California, Isaac Barrera, 20, and Jonathan Pérez, 24, took the journey of their lives and landed in a Louisiana detention facility to draw attention to the disparate treatment immigrant face in United States. They purposely entered a border patrol agency in Mobile, Alabama as part of a direct action to prove that immigrants are currently undergoing punitive treatment by ICE and state officials. Border patrol agents placed Isaac and Jonathan in custody for not having identification or papers proving their legal residency or citizenship. While in the Louisiana detention facility, they spoke with other immigrants who had been forcibly detained and placed in the detention facility. Barrera and Perez, while in MORE

Racist talkers “John and Ken” and their Misguided Fury on Immigration

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2011/10/01  2 Responses »
Oct 012011
 
Racist talkers "John and Ken" and their Misguided Fury on Immigration

Jorge-Mario Cabrera How far will conservative talk radio shock jocks go to incite hate, division, and resentment against immigrants while debasing anything and anyone supportive of immigrant rights? Will these so-called populists, experts at spreading fear and loathing stoop so low as to invade a private citizen’s privacy, publicly disclose private facts, and risk placing him in the crosshairs of angry and tormented souls like them? Meet disc jockeys John Chester Kobylt and Kenneth Robertson Chaimpou, better known as John and Ken, hosts of a four-hour weekday radio show, The John and Ken Show, on KFI AM640. Last week I got a real taste of how far these low-brow instigators will go and how low they will stoop to “stimulate” political discourse. MORE

Who in the hell is Miguel Perez – Latino Rights Activist or Republican Stooge?

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2011/09/17  2 Responses »
Sep 172011
 
Who in the hell is Miguel Perez - Latino Rights Activist or Republican Stooge?

Does the name “Miguel Perez” ring a bell with anyone? What about a group called “Chicanos Unidos Arizona”. Anyone? No one? Then perhaps you’ve heard of a group that calls themselves “Take Back Aztlán”? Nothing there? Let’s try one more.  “Nuestros Reconquistos”.  Nothing there either eh? Didn’t think so, and neither have we because the latter three groups apparently don’t exist except in the mind of a coconut calling himself “Miguel Perez”. Perez, who writes for the website Examiner.com and bills himself as the “Phoenix Civil Rights Examiner”, is apparently a fraud and possibly a plant by far right wing Tea Baggers to further smear and besmirch the Hispanic population in our country, joining the likes of FAIR, NUMBERSUSA and MORE

Poor persecuted wingnut William Gheen uses more lies to justify his call for armed revolt

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2011/08/27  1 Response »
Aug 272011
 
Poor persecuted wingnut William Gheen uses more lies to justify his call for armed revolt

Typical of Alipac “President” William Potter Gheen III, when caught in one of his lies, he goes on a rant blaming the “left wing illegal alien Amnesty supporting organizations and blogs” of lying to our readers, when the truth of the matter is we are all reporting what Gheen said on the Janet Mefferd radio show. Everytime Gheen is exposed for the spiteful little homophobic racist that he is, usually by his own words, he tries to shift the blame to everyone else. Fortunately, this time, Willy Gheen is ass deep in his own shit, and he forgot his waders. We’re talking of course about his apparent “agitation” over President Obama issuing to directives to the DHS to prioritize deportation proceedings MORE

ALIPAC President William Gheen put in his place by DREAMER Viridiana Martinez

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2011/04/13  9 Responses »
Apr 132011
 
ALIPAC President William Gheen put in his place by DREAMER Viridiana Martinez

Viridiana Martinez, co-founder and community organizer for the  N.C. Dream Team, debated the nativist President of ALIPAC, William Potter Gheen III on North Carolina Public Radios WUNC and John Stasios “The State of Things” and it was a massacre. Think Hillary Clinton debating Jethro Bodine. Martinez was one of the three NC DREAM Team members who conducted a 13-day hunger strike in Raleigh last summer during a campaign to convince Congress to pass the DREAM Act and recently was arrested along with 7 others at a protest on the Georgia State University campus in Atlanta. They were all released on April 7 with no deportation process initiated. The debate is over two bills currently in the NC Legislature which would MORE

LISTEN TO THE CHILDREN – Conversations with Immigrant Families

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2011/03/01  No Responses »
Mar 012011
 
LISTEN TO THE CHILDREN - Conversations with Immigrant Families

At a time when the immigration debate is raging, and elements of the nativist fringe in this country are doing their best to portray immigrants from Mexico and Central America as sub human criminals and worse, a book came across my desk that puts a human face on the unndocumented in this country. And it is a book both timely and very relevant to the times LISTEN TO THE CHILDREN or ESCUCHEMOS A LOS NINOS is a book written by Elizabeth Conde-Frazier who is the Dean of Esperanza College of Eastern University in Philadelphia Pennsylvania who has been ministering to the needs of the Hispanic Community most of her life. She is intimately familiar with the trauma of transition that MORE

“Cycle of Fences”, by Belgian indie filmmaker Sebastien Wielemans, returns

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2011/02/22  Comments Off
Feb 222011
 
"Cycle of Fences", by Belgian indie filmmaker Sebastien Wielemans, returns
http://www.vimeo.com/20137911

Cycle of Fences, a mini documentary by Belgian Filmmaker Sebastien Wielemans is available for public viewing after being removed from YOUTUBE for copyright violations by Laine Lawless and her crew at JusticeforShawnaForde.com In October 2008, Wielmans met Minuteman Shawna Forde in the desert around Tucson Arizona and shot a couple of hours of video, some of which became this film. Efforts to obtain more was interrupted by her arrest for the murders of 9 year old Brisenia Flore and her father Raul, a double murder she was convicted of on February 14, 2011. Weilmans provided copies of his film to the parties involved, and CJSF illegally ripped, edited and posted their version on Youtube and the website justiceforshawnaforde, to make MORE

National Hispanic Group Calls for “Brisenia’s Law” To Fight Domestic Terrorism

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2011/02/14  12 Responses »
Feb 142011
 
National Hispanic Group Calls for “Brisenia’s Law” To Fight Domestic Terrorism

For Immediate Release Phoenix, Arizona – We are pleased to hear that the Pima County jury convicted Shawna Forde today of two counts of first-degree murder in the May 30, 2009 deaths of Arivaca residents Raul Junior Flores and his 9-year-old daughter, Brisenia. As a result of the conviction, we are asking Congressman Peter King, Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, to conduct hearings and a thorough investigation on domestic terrorism by border vigilantes. It’s time for a congressional investigation into this epidemic of domestic terrorism by vigilantes along our border, to disarm the Minutemen, Nativists, and Neo-Nazis at the border.

ABC News coverage of Shawna Forde Murder Trial

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2011/02/01  Comments Off
Feb 012011
 
ABC News coverage of Shawna Forde Murder Trial
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