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13 de Agosto, 2006
Unrelated Quotes, Part 1.
Categorized under Frontera , Globalización , Unrelated Quotes | Tags: border, bush, indigenous, NAFTA
Acknowledging the power of Regional Mexican Music, Billboard magazine this fall will hold its first Regional Mexican Music Summit. The summit, taking place in Los Angeles on Nov. 13-14, will be presented in association with Starbucks Coffee."
Billboard Launches First Ever Regional Mexican Music Summit
Although Starbucks likes to paint itself as being socially responsible, Global's Craig Adair thinks it can be more so. Starbucks, insists Global Exchange, should buy half the coffee it sells in Mexico from Indian farmers at fair trade prices; the mega-corporation has yet to respond to the demand."
"THE UNLOVING CUP," globalexchange.org
The massive tide of illegal immigration from Mexico is merely one symptom of an economic arrangement where human needs—not maximum profits-- are not the ultimate goal but a subject of neglect. Neither a massive, shameful barrier at the border nor a disposable guest-worker program will address the problems ignited by NAFTA."
Immigration flood unleashed by NAFTA’s disaster in Mexico
Under the bill, millions of illegal workers and immigrants who want jobs in the United States could eventually gain citizenship. Illegal workers in the United States would pay $1,000 each to apply for H-5B visas that would require them to work for six years before seeking permanent residency. Foreign nationals would pay $500 each and would have to prove that an employer has a job waiting for them. Both would be required to pass a battery of police background and medical checks.
Immigration Measure Introduced
The laws implicated by the Administration's actions include federal laws against making false statements to congress [sic]; federal laws and international treaties prohibiting torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment; federal laws concerning retaliating against witnesses and other government employees; Executive Orders concerning leaking and other misuse of intelligence; federal regulations and ethical requirements governing conflicts of interest; the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act; communications privacy laws; the National Security Act; and the Fourth Amendment.
Conyers Report on Potential Bush Crimes 07-31-2006
The playlist does reveal a rather narrow range of babyboomer tunes. Writing in the London Times, Caitlin Moran noted: "No black artists, no gay artists, no world music, only one woman, no genre less than 25 years old, and no Beatles.
Bush bares soul with 'iPod One'
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