California’s same-sex marriage ban, also known as ‘Prop. 8,’ has been ruled unconstitutional by a federal appeals court.
By Lisa Leff, Associated Press / February 7, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO
A federal appeals court on Tuesday declared California’s same-sex marriage ban to be unconstitutional, putting the bitterly contested, voter-approved law on track for likely consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that a lower court judge correctly interpreted the U.S. Constitution and Supreme Court precedents when he declared in 2010 that Proposition 8 was a violation of the civil rights of gays and lesbians. It was unclear when gay marriages might resume in California. Lawyers for Proposition 8 sponsors and for the two couples who successfully sued to overturn the ban have repeatedly said they would consider appealing to a larger panel of the court and then the U.S. Supreme Court if they did not receive a favorable ruling from the 9th Circuit.
It was unclear when gay marriages might resume in California. Lawyers for Proposition 8 sponsors and for the two couples who successfully sued to overturn the ban have repeatedly said they would consider appealing to a larger panel of the court and then the U.S. Supreme Court if they did not receive a favorable ruling from the 9th Circuit.
By: Reynold Mason
Reynold N. Mason
An unprecedented increase in the deportation of undocumented immigrants has left an estimated 5,100 children languishing in U.S. foster homes according to a November report from a New York-based advocacy group. The Obama administration deported 46,000 parents of children who are U.S. citizens in the first six months of 2011, the ARC report says. Government data shows a total of 397,000 deportations in 2011, with half involving people with criminal records.
“This means that almost one in four people deported is the parent of a United States citizen child;” Thousands of children enter the child welfare system and are often stuck there.” After parents are deported families remain separated for long periods, with child welfare agencies and juvenile courts often moving to terminate the parental rights of deported immigrants. Children who don’t have other immediate family are then put up for adoption.
Mother deported, children put in foster care
ABC News highlighted the problem of children of deported parents on February 2…. the police came for Amelia Reyes Jimenez in 2008 to arrest her for one count of child endangerment, a misdemeanor, because she had left her 13-year-old son Cesar, who is severely disabled, alone in her apartment. Jimenez says she thought that Cesar was with her two older daughters and their father, but he had taken the girls to the park and left Cesar home alone.
When she arrived home with baby daughter Erica in her arms, she found the police waiting. “The only thing they asked was if I was illegal and whether or not I had my papers,” she said. She told them she had no papers. She was handcuffed. Reyes Jimenez was sent to a detention center an hour outside Phoenix. It would be six months before she had any contact with her children, and nearly two years before she would see them again in person.
“I didn’t know anything about my girls; they didn’t give me any reasons,” she said. “I would ask about them and nobody would answer.” Reyes Jimenez, who pled guilty to the misdemeanor, then spent nearly two years fighting deportation. Ultimately, she was loaded onto a bus and deported. The children were lost in foster care.
The one stated goal on immigration law is family reunification. Immigration law has a tremendous effect on the family and the decision about where to live. But the goals of the family and the immigration law are often in conflict. When a parent is undocumented and the child is a US citizen it often results in wrenching heartbreak that no parent should have to endure.
The quota system keeps families apart
The snail’s pace of the quota system often results in families being separated for many years. Even for smaller Caribbean islands with short waiting lists, it can take up to 10 years to sponsor a brother or sister. Often keeping the family together can only be achieved in violation of immigration law.
The situation of the Jimenez family serves as a vivid example of the conflict between immigration law and family integrity. US born children have the legal right to remain but their parents who are illegal will be subject to deportation. No matter which side of the issue you’re on, we can all agree that there is something wrong with kicking American children out of their own country because a parent is undocumented.
Source: News.Journal.us
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) – The eastern Caribbean may soon have an inter-island ferry system.
A British investment company says it plans to lease a “wave-piercing” catamaran to Barbados-based Fast Caribbean Ltd., which hopes to transport people and goods between Barbados, Grenada, St. Vincent, St. Lucia and Trinidad.
Lorraine Johns of London-based Montrose Global LLP said in an email Wednesday that they believe the service will have a “positive impact on travel and trade within the region.”
Johns says Fast Caribbean is working closely with Trinidad to determine the 112-meter (367-foot) vessel’s configuration.
Trinidad Transport Minister Devant Maharaj says the private ferry system will be based in Port-of-Spain. It’s not clear when the service might begin.
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UN AGENCY STEPS UP HELP AS RENEWED FIGHTING IN MALI UPROOTS 20,000 PEOPLE
New York, Feb 7 2012 11:10AM
The United Nations refugee agency has deployed staff to assist some 20,000 people who have been forced to flee fighting between Government troops and rebel Tuareg groups in Mali.
Most of those uprooted by the violence in the Azawad region of northern Mali that began in mid-January have fled to Niger, Burkina Faso and Mauritania, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
The agency said fighting between the Tuareg liberation movement MNLA (Mouvement National de Liberation de l’Azawad) and Government forces resumed on 17 January, breaking a 2009 agreement that had officially ended the Tuareg rebellion.
“In the past three weeks, at least 10,000 people are reported to have crossed to Niger, 9,000 have found refuge in Mauritania and 3,000 in Burkina Faso,” agency spokesperson Adrian Edwards told reporters in Geneva today.
Some of those who crossed into Niger have settled very close to the volatile border, he said. Many of the new arrivals are sleeping in the open and have little access to shelter, clean water, health services, and food.
While most of those who recently fled Mali are Malians, recent arrivals in Niger also include nationals of Niger who had been living in Mali for decades, Mr. Edwards noted. Many have been crossing the border between the two countries regularly to find grazing land for their cattle.
UNHCR is planning to send aid for 10,000 people from its stockpiles in the region, as well as additional staff to assist the displaced.
Meanwhile, the agency’s office in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, has reported the arrival of some 3,000 Malian Tuaregs following attacks on their homes and businesses in the Malian capital, Bamako, and in the nearby town of Kati last week.
Many of the new arrivals are staying with host families in Ouagadougou and Bobo Dioulasso, 320 kilometres south-west of the capital, while other new arrivals have been reported in the north-west of the country. An inter-agency mission, including UNHCR, is scheduled to go there by the end of the week to assess the needs of the people.
In addition, UNHCR has sent several missions to the Hodh el Chargi region of Mauritania, where over 9,000 people have arrived since 25 January. The mainly ethnic Tuareg Malian refugees come from the region of Léré on the other side of the border.
Mr. Edwards said the new arrivals told UNHCR that they fled fighting between Government forces and rebel Tuareg fighters, and feared retaliation by army troops.
The Mauritanian authorities, with UNHCR’s help, are taking care of the new arrivals, whose key needs include food, shelter and other basic items. The agency plans to field an emergency support team to boost its presence in the country.
WASHINGTON – The principal of a Costa Rican brokerage firm and a Las Vegas stock promoter were each convicted yesterday in the Southern District of Florida of all charges for their roles in a stock manipulation scheme that defrauded investors, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer of the Southern District of Florida, Chief Postal Inspector Guy Cottrell of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) and James W. McJunkin, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
Jonathan Curshen, 47, the principal of Red Sea Management and Sentry Global Securities, two companies located in San Jose, Costa Rica, that provided offshore accounts and facilitated trading in penny stocks, was found guilty of conspiracy to commit securities fraud, wire fraud and mail fraud; two counts of mail fraud; and conspiracy to commit international money laundering. Nathan Montgomery, 30, a Las Vegas stock promoter, was found guilty of conspiring to commit securities fraud and wire fraud.
The evidence at trial showed that in January and February 2007, Curshen, of Costa Rica and Sarasota, Fla., and Montgomery, of Las Vegas, were involved in a scheme to illegally manipulate the stock price of a company called CO2 Tech (ticker CTTD), which traded on the Pink Sheets, an inter-dealer electronic quotation and trading system.
Evidence at trial showed that Curshen’s and Montgomery’s co-conspirators controlled the outstanding shares of CO2 Tech, which were used in the stock manipulation scheme. Montgomery and his conspirators engaged in coordinated trades in conjunction with the issuance of false and misleading press releases that were designed to artificially inflate the price of CO2 Tech shares to make it appear that it had significant business prospects. According to these press releases, CO2 Tech purported to have a business relationship with Boeing to reduce polluting gases emitted from airplanes, when in fact CO2 Tech never had any business or relationship with Boeing.
According to the evidence at trial, Montgomery and his co-conspirators, Robert Weidenbaum, Timothy Barham Jr., Ryan Reynolds and others fraudulently “pumped” the market price and demand for CO2 Tech stock through these press releases and coordinated trades of shares of CO2 Tech stock in order to create the appearance of legitimate buying interest by legitimate investors. The evidence showed that as Montgomery and his conspirators pumped the price of the stock, Curshen and his conspirators facilitated the “dumping” of shares through the trading desk at Red Sea and Sentry Global Securities by selling the shares at the direction of their conspirators to the general investing public. The evidence showed that these shares, which became virtually worthless, were purchased by unsuspecting investors, including investors in the Southern District of Florida. The evidence showed that Montgomery, Weidenbaum, Reynolds and Barham were paid approximately $1 million in cash by their conspirators to participate in sham stock trades of CO2 Tech. The cash was delivered to Miami via a private jet from an airport outside New York.
The evidence further showed that, from approximately 2003 through 2008, Curshen operated Red Sea as a money laundering hub in Costa Rica that established bank accounts and brokerage accounts in the United States and Canada under false pretenses and through nominee owners. The evidence further showed that Curshen and his co-conspirators laundered the proceeds of the stock fraud from accounts in the United States to an account in Canada, all in an effort to conceal and disguise the nature and source of the proceeds.
At sentencing, Curshen faces a sentence of up to five years in prison on the conspiracy to defraud count, and up to 20 years on each count of mail fraud and money laundering conspiracy. Montgomery faces a sentence of up to five years for the conspiracy to defraud count. The defendants are scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Richard W. Goldberg on May 11, 2012.
Stock promoters Weidenbaum, Barham and Reynolds, who were also charged in this case, previously pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit securities fraud, wire fraud and mail fraud. They also will be sentenced by Judge Goldberg on May 9, 2012. Michael Simon Krome, a securities attorney from New York, who participated in the conspiracy and evaded federal securities registration requirements in order to provide co-conspirators with millions of unregistered and “free trading” shares of CO2 Tech that were used to execute the stock manipulation, also pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit securities fraud, mail fraud and wire fraud.
The case was investigated by the FBI’s Washington Field Office and the USPIS. The case is being prosecuted by Trial Attorneys N. Nathan Dimock and Rina Tucker Harris of the Fraud Section in the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida provided significant assistance in this case. The Department of Justice acknowledges the significant assistance of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in its investigation. The SEC has a pending parallel civil case. The Criminal Division’s Office of International Affairs and Costa Rican authorities also provided assistance.
This prosecution is part of efforts under way by the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force. President Obama established the interagency Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force to wage an aggressive, coordinated and proactive effort to investigate and prosecute financial crimes. The task force includes representatives from a broad range of federal agencies, regulatory authorities, inspectors general, and state and local law enforcement who, working together, bring to bear a powerful array of criminal and civil enforcement resources. The task force is working to improve efforts across the federal executive branch, and with state and local partners, to investigate and prosecute significant financial crimes, ensure just and effective punishment for those who perpetrate financial crimes, combat discrimination in the lending and financial markets, and recover proceeds for victims of financial crimes.
Don Cornelius, who with the creation of Soul Train helped break down racial barriers and broaden the reach of black culture with funky music, groovy dance steps and cutting edge style, died early Wednesday of an apparent suicide. He was 75.
Soul Train was one of the first U.S. shows to showcase African-Americans, and it introduced television audiences to such legendary artists as Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye and Barry White.
Officers responding to a report of a shooting found Cornelius at his Mulholland Drive home at around 4 a.m., police said. He was pronounced dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at 4:56 a.m. at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, said Los Angeles County Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter.
“I am shocked and deeply saddened at the sudden passing of my friend, colleague, and business partner Don Cornelius,” said Quincy Jones. “Don was a visionary pioneer and a giant in our business. Before MTV there was Soul Train, that will be the great legacy of Don Cornelius. His contributions to television, music and our culture as a whole will never be matched. My heart goes out to Don’s family and loved ones.”
The Rev. Al Sharpton said he was shocked and grief-stricken.
“I have known him since I was19 years old and James Brown had me speak on Soul Train,” Sharpton said in a statement from New York. “He brought soul music and dance to the world in a way that it had never been shown and he was a cultural game changer on a global level.”
Soul Train began in 1970 in Chicago on WCIU-TV as a local program and aired nationally from 1971 to 2006.
It introduced television audiences to such legendary artists as Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye and Barry White and brought the best R&B, soul and later hip-hop acts to TV and had teenagers dance to them. It was one of the first shows to showcase African-Americans prominently, although the dance group was racially mixed. Cornelius was the first host and executive producer.
“There was not programming that targeted any particular ethnicity,” he said in 2006, then added: “I’m trying to use euphemisms here, trying to avoid saying there was no television for black folks, which they knew was for them.”
Soul Train, with its trademark opening of an animated chugging train, was not, however, an immediate success for Cornelius, an ex-disc jockey with a baritone rumble and cool manner.
Only a handful of stations initially were receptive.
“When we rolled it out, there were only eight takers,” he recalled in a 2006 interview with The Associated Press. “Which was somewhere between a little disappointing and a whole lot disappointing.”
The reasons he heard? “There was just, ‘We don’t want it. We pass,’” he said, with race going unmentioned. “No one was blatant enough to say that.”
Audience reaction and the high-powered talent the show attracted helped it spread. Over the years, Soul Train showcased some of R&B’s biggest stars, including Gaye and Brown, as well as crossover white artists. In later years, it featured rap stars, although Cornelius acknowledged that he was no fan of the genre or the racier dance moves that younger teens had embraced.
The show’s highlight was a dance line. Teens strutted and pranced their way between two lines of dancers awaiting their turn to show off. Over time, the dance line worked its way into American culture and is now an integral part of wedding receptions and parties.
Cornelius, who was inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame in 1995 and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, said in 2006 he remained grateful to the musicians who made Soul Train the destination for the best and latest in black music.
“I figured as long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for Soul Train,” Cornelius said.
The series spawned a franchise that includes the Soul Train Music Awards, the Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards and the Soul Train Christmas Starfest.
Cornelius stepped down as Soul Train host in 1993. The awards returned to the air in 2009 after two-year hiatus. Last year’s awards were held on Nov. 27 in Atlanta, with Earth Wind & Fire receiving the “Legend Award.”
In his later years, Cornelius had a troubled marriage. In 2009, he was sentenced to three years’ probation after pleading no contest to misdemeanor spousal battery. In his divorce case that year, he also mentioned having significant health issues.
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Associated Press writers Nekesa Mumbi Moody in New York and Robert Jablon and Lynn Elber in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
Grandmaster Maurice Ashley
We at GFBC are happy to launch our 2nd Annual Black History Month Salute. Everyday we will feature African, Caribbean, African-Americans, and Caribbean-Americans who have contributed greatly to advancement of our people. Every month essentially should be “Black History Month”; however it is up to us to make a valiant effort to keep the fire blazing, and pass the torch to our children. Ask yourself what contributions were made and efforts were selflessly made for you to achieve your goals? Who do you admire most? Who has made such an impact in your life that makes you proud to be a person of color? Regardless, of what you consider yourself, African-American, Black, African, West Indian, Caribbean, Kittian, Bajan, Jamaican, Antiguan, or Trinidadian. What part of African culture resonates in your daily life, whether music, dance, or food.
At GFBC it is our intent to enlighten, entertain, and empower. We humbly invite you to tune in daily, and join us this month as we celebrate Black history firsts, little known facts, inventions, and record breaking precedents set by people of color.
Today’s first salute goes to Jamaican born Maurice Ashley, who became the first Black Grandmaster in 1999. Later that same year, he opened the Harlem Chess Center, where he began coaching young chess players.
Harlem Chess Center
Maurice Ashley is the first and only African-American to attain chess’ highest title of International
Grandmaster (GM). He has been an ardent spokesman and advocate of the intellectual and
character building effects in young people for over 15 years. GM Ashley is the world’s premier
and live chess commentator for ESPN. He is a renowned speaker and consultant who has
spoken to several universities and professional organizations nationally. GM Ashley has received
multiple community service awards from city governments, universities, and non-profit groups for
his work. His book, Chess for Success (2005, published by Broadway Books), crystallizes his vision
of using chess to help at-risk youth. GM Ashley (2007) signed a deal with HBO to make a movie
about his Harlem team’s victory at the National Junior High School Championships.
Here’s a look at his impressive resume.
Source: Maurice Ashley.com
SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCES BY DR. MICHELLE, DR. TARTT, RAPPERS DON TRIP (“LETTER TO MY SON”) AND TRAY CHANEY (“FATHERHOOD”)
On Monday, January 30, “106 & PARK” will air a special episode dedicated to young parents titled “Young, Single & Parenting.” The live, 90-minute special will deal exclusively with issues affecting young parents focusing specifically on the realities of African American youth.
Hosted by Terrence J and Rocsi, “106 & PARK Presents: Young, Single & Parenting” will speak directly to youths in the trenches – young people who are currently parents and those expecting. Participants will be informed of the responsibilities they can expect, the resources available and their rights as parents.
“We are proud of our place as the only daily source of Black Youth culture on television and we know it’s about more than music, celebrities and fun,” said Stephen Hill, BET’s President of Music Programming and Specials. “On 106 & PARK, we’ve taken the time to discuss relationship violence, teen body image issues, AIDS prevention and other topics relevant to our audience. Many in our audience are young parents and need more information and guidance than they’re getting about how to work through certain issues; not the least of which is working on the relationship with the other parent for the benefit of the child. It’s our hope that this special edition of 106 & PARK will help strengthen young families,” said Hill.
On “Young, Single & Parenting” viewers will hear live testimonials from young, single parents in our studio audience. Rappers Don Trip and Tray Chaney, both young parents, will join the show to discuss their videos – Trip’s “Letter to My Son” feat. Cee-Lo Green and Chaney’s “Fatherhood.” In-studio experts, Dr. Michelle (www.drmichelle.com) and Dr. Tartt (www.drtartt.com), will be on hand to answer questions submitted via a live online chat on BET.com/YSPTips.
In addition to answering questions live, viewers can join the conversation by logging on to BET’s multiple social media platforms:
— On Facebook by liking the fan page at facebook.com/BET106andPark
— On Twitter by using hash tags: #YoungSingleParent; follow the show for
all updates @106andPark and @BET.
— On Google plus at bet.us/gplus106
On mobile, users can join this interactive experience through BET’s106 & Park Appon their mobile devices. For more information on “106 & PARK Presents: Young, Single & Parenting,” visit BET.com/106Cares. “106 and PARK Presents: Young, Single & Parenting” airs LIVE, Monday, January 30th at 6:00PM*.
*All times ET/PT.
About BET NetworksBET Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), is the nation’s leading provider of quality entertainment, music, news and public affairs television programming for the African-American audience. The primary BET channel reaches more than 98 million households and can be seen in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom and sub-Saharan Africa. BET is the dominant African-American consumer brand with a diverse group of business extensions: BET.com, a leading Internet destination for Black entertainment, music, culture, and news; CENTRIC, a 24-hour entertainment network targeting the 25- to 54-year-old African-American audience; BET Digital Networks – BET Gospel and BET Hip Hop, attractive alternatives for cutting-edge entertainment tastes; BET Home Entertainment, a collection of BET-branded offerings for the home environment including DVDs and video-on-demand; BET Event Productions, a full-scale event management and production company with festivals and live events spanning the globe; BET Mobile, which provides ringtones, games and video content for wireless devices; and BET International, which operates BET in the United Kingdom and oversees the extension of BET network programming for global distribution.
Source: BET NETWORKS
The Security Council has strongly condemned the multiple terrorist attacks that occurred in Kano, Nigeria, in recent days, causing numerous deaths and injuries, and underlined the need to bring the perpetrators to justice.
The 15-member body expressed its deep sympathy and condolences to the victims of these “heinous crimes” and their families, and to the people and Government of Nigeria, in a statement issued to the press last night.
Multiple attacks across Kano last week resulted in large-scale casualties and massive destruction to property, with media reports saying that some 150 people were killed during a series of explosions targeting police buildings and immigration centres around the northern city.
“The members of the Security Council reaffirmed that terrorism in all its forms and manifestations is criminal and unjustifiable, regardless of its motivation, wherever, whenever and by whomsoever committed, and should not be associated with any religion, nationality, civilization or ethnic group,” said the statement.
“The members of the Security Council underlined the need to bring perpetrators, organizers, financiers and sponsors of these reprehensible acts of terrorism to justice, and urged all States, in accordance with their obligations under international law and relevant Security Council resolutions, to cooperate actively with the Nigerian authorities in this regard.”
Jan 26 2012 11:10AM
GRENADA, Jan 24 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Ministers attending the Seventh Ministerial United Kingdom-Caribbean Forum have agreed an Action Plan, which recognises the right of self determination for the Falkland Islanders.
The meeting, held in Grenada, was held under the theme “Prosperity Towards Sustainable Growth” and was attended by the UK Government and members of the Caribbean Community organization (CARICOM).
Numerous Caribbean Heads of Government and Ministers attended the meeting, with the UK represented by the Foreign Secretary William Hague and Overseas Territories Minister Jeremy Browne as well as Home Office Minister James Brokenshire and Minister of State for International Development Alan Duncan.
The forum agreed an Action Plan containing agreements on a range of issues from climate change to sustainable development.
Of great significance to the Falkland Islands, the Forum agreed: “To support the principle and the right to self determination for all peoples, including the Falkland Islanders, recognising the historical importance of self-determination in the political development of the Caribbean, and its core status as an internationally agreed principle under the United Nations Charter”.
Member of the Legislative Assembly Jan Cheek said: “We are delighted to have our rights recognized by our friends in the Caribbean. We have much in common with island states all around the world, and we have long maintained our right as a people to determine the future of our home and country. This basic right is what the Argentine Government is trying to deny us.”
The Action Plan endorses the position of the Falkland Islands people, who have chosen to retain their status as a British Overseas Territory. The Argentine Government claim sovereignty of the Falkland Islands, and have adopted a policy of isolating the Falkland Islands from South America. — NNN-MERCOPRESS
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Lloyd Brevett, founding member of The Skatalites, passes away aged 80
Lloyd Brevett, the Skatalites’ inimitable double bass player, has died following complications from a recent stroke. As The Washington Post report, Brevett fell ill in March following the murder of his son in Kingston. Anyone lucky enough to have seen The Skatalites live will be able to testify to Brevett’s remarkable charisma. His on-stage presence [...]
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