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Posted Friday, August 26, 2011
Hispanic Cultural Leaders Memorialize Miguel Luna
The presidents of the two Hispanic cultural organizations with major festival events during Councilman
Miguel Luna’s brief illness both spoke at the Memorial Service for Luna at the Roger Williams Park Casino
in Providence . Both festivals had kept Miguel in their prayers, and the Puerto Rican Festival had a moment
of silence during the festival to remember the fallen councilman. Marilyn Cepeda Sánchez, President of
Quisqueya en Acción and Vivian Moreno, President of the Puerto Rican Cultural Festival & Parade of RI
both ... More on the story here:
Posted Thursday, August 25, 2011
RI Puerto Rican Festival is Huge Success
Culture, Arts and Puerto Rican Pride take Center Stage
(Providence, Rhode Island, USA) The Puerto Rican Cultural Festival and Parade of Rhode Island
held their 26th
parade to their festival at Roger Williams Park last Sunday with a record crowd,
plenty
of cultural music, dance, a salsa dance contest and respect for the passing of
Councilman Miguel Luna
with a festival moment of absolute silence and black
ribbons worn in the parade.
The parade stepped off with Mayor Taveras’ Official Car leading the way followed by...
More on the story here:
Posted Saturday, May 24, 2010
UPR Strike in its 33rd Day
Student Run Radio (www.radiohuelga.com) Continues to
Broadcast
(San Juan, Puerto Rico) The unprecedented strike at the University
of Puerto Rico which began at the main
Rio Piedras campus has swept over to 10 of the university's 11 campuses,
cost one campus rector her job
and landed the student negotiating committee in court. It is now in its
33rd day .
After a student protest on Thursday against Gov. Luis Fortuño ended with
injuries, arrests and pepper spray,
hundreds of students rallied at Plaza de las Americas, San Juan's largest
shopping mall on Saturday while
more than 1,000 faculty have voted to continue the strike should
university officials end it by using police force
against students. Faculty also called for the president and board
chairwoman's ousters.
More on the story
here:
Posted Saturday, May 15, 2010
Student Strike escalates
at Largest Caribbean University
Now
in its 24th day
(Puerto Rico, USA) A student strike at the largest University
in the Caribbean, the University of Puerto Rico (UPR)
now in its 24th day is escalating with a university shutdown, students being
ordered to leave their on-campus residences,
police riot squads called in and surround the campus, a parent manhandled
by police and a judge ordering that food
and water must be allowed in to the campus. More on the story - Click
Here.
Posted Tuesday, April 20, 2010
National Arts Club Roundtable
Exhibition 2010
Nearly
50 Artists Shine
(New York, NY) Individual artists sponsored by National Arts Club members
exhibited their work at the private club
on Monday, April 19th. Founded in 1898, the club membership has boasted
a number of celebrities including
Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. As the Art Club of record,
the Club's archival records from 1898 to1960,
are housed at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington,
D.C..
More on the Roundtable Exhibit
- & Photo Gallery - Click here:
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Club member Guy Frazer is wowed by |
Club organizer & artist Kathy Anderson |
The Plaque says it all |
Posted Sunday, April 18, 2010
RI News of Puerto Rico
birth certificates
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(Providence, Rhode Island) Providence Journal reporter Donita Naylor
interviewed Luis Balzac for the latest piece in the ProJo Sunday paper.
This is such an important issue in the Latino community throughout
New England that we have provided links to the ProJo story here: PR Birth Certificates Story in ProJo - April 18th, 2010
RI WJAR-10 News Story by Bill Rapleye here (March 26th, 2010):
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Posted Friday, April 9, 2010
Artist Christina Bolinger
to exhibit at NY Arts Club
Invited for third encore at
National Arts Club Roundtable
Exhibition
(New York, NY) Christina Bolinger, formerly of Moosup Ct and Providence
RI will exhibit at the New York
National Arts Club Roundtable Exhibition on April 19th in Manhattan.
This will be the third consecutive year
Christina has been invited to exhibit her work as one of 50 exhibitors.
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Posted Sunday, March 27, 2010
All Puerto Rico birth
certificates will be invalid on July 1st 2010
Director corrects media
mis-information, calms Puerto Rican' anxiety and fear
(Pawtucket,
Rhode Island) 'All Puerto Rico birth certificates will be invalid on July
1st 2010,' Luis Balzac, Director of Puerto Rico Federal Affairs for the NY
Region made clear at a Public News Conference at
Iglesia Getsemani Church Public News Conference on Friday,
March 26th.
Balzac was flanked by RI Representative Scott A. Slater who plans to introduce
a resolution for a grace period to accept Puerto Rico birth certificates
beyond July 1st in Rhode Island. Scott was joined by Joel S. Almeida,
Peter F. Kilmartin and RI Senator Juan M. Pichardo who share Slater's view
on the impact on Rhode Island and its citizens, making Rhode Island the first
State to consider this action. They were joined by Providence Councilman
John Lombardi, Brenda Burgos, Ivette Solivan & Harry Ruiz of the Puerto
Rican Heritage Committee of Rhode Island, Vivian Moreno, Carmen Bucholz,
Cynthia Velez, and Doris Hernandez of the Puerto Rican Cultural Festival
and Parade of Rhode Island, and representatives of other latino organizations
including Gabriel Martinez and Alexander Parmenidez of the Colombian American
Cultural Society. The event was moderated by Manolo Pazos, well known
to the latino community in New England, New York and Latin America.
The complete un-edited news conference footage is here:
http://www.files1.cjb.net/prguynow/Newsconf032610/prconference/prnewsconf.html.
Balzac spoke completely in English, while some questions, comments and moderator
Pazos spoke in English and Spanish.
A dubbed cross-language copy will be made available shortly.
Posted Sunday, March 24, 2010
Dr. Manolo Pazos to Moderate News Conference
for Puerto Rico Birth Certificates
Iglesia Getsemani Church on 38 Park Street
in Pawtucket, Rhode Island on Friday, March 26th at
1:30pm.
(Providence, Rhode Island) Doctor Manolo Pazos, international radio personality
and the "Voice of America" familiar to many latinos in New England, New York
and Latin America has been chosen by the Puerto Rican Cultural Festival and
Parade of Rhode Island, the Puerto Rican Heritage Committee of Rhode Island
and others to moderate a public news conference at the Iglesia Getsemani
Church on 38 Park Street in Pawtucket, Rhode Island on Friday, March 26th
at 1:30pm.
Additional information for Reporters
here: Other Background info
here
Posted Sunday, March 15, 2010
Rhode Island Rep Scott A. Slater to
Assist Puerto Rican born US
Citizens
(Providence, RI) Scott A. Slater will be proposing a resolution
in the Rhode Island house to extend the revocation of Puerto Rican Birth
Certificates from July 1st 2010 until October 1st 2010 to ease the strain
on United States Citizens who are also Rhode Island Residents that were born
in Puerto Rico.
In a letter Press Dept News obtained addressed to Luis M. Balzac, Director
of the New York Regional Office of the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs
Administration, Slater represented that he would be holding a news conference
to announce his intention to file a resolution in the Rhode Island house.
As part of a crackdown on identity fraud, the Puerto Rico Legislature revoked
all birth certificates regardless of age or health. All Puerto Rico
Birth certificates dated prior to July 1st 2010 will be void and a new one
must be obtained. Additional info for
reporters here: .
Posted Sunday, January 3rd,
2010
Cianci Rumor: Congressman Kennedy's
Seat
(Providence, RI) Twice Former Mayor, Convicted Felon and
celebrity talk show host Vincent "Buddy" Cianci has been making calls for
support in a bid for US Congressman Patrick Kennedy according to sources.
The calls began shortly after Cianci hosted Rhode Island's Catholic bishop
the Most Rev. Thomas J. Tobin on his radio show.
Citadel Broadcasting, the parent company for WPRO-AM where Cianci's show
originates filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in mid-December, freeing it to
renegotiate existing contracts like Cianci's. WLNE aka ABC6 (where
Buddy is their Chief Political Analyst) like many media in Rhode Island is
also perceived to have financial woes.
Congressman Kennedy's First Congressional District includes Providence where
"Buddy" still enjoys support, and the Federal Office does not come under
the RI Constitutional Amendment of 1986 which states a convicted felon cannot
run until three years after his probation ends (2012).
Kennedy's public conflict with Bishop Tobin is well known, and Kennedy is
up for relection in 2010.
Cianci photo courtesy of WLNE Kennedy photo from Official Site
Posted Sunday, January 3rd,
2010
United Kingdom National Security Services:
MI5 Knew Jet Bomber's UK Extremist Links for 3 Years
(London, UK) British Security Services knew three years ago that
the Detroit bomber had "multiple communications" with Islamic extremists
in Britain. Counterterrorism officials said Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
was "reaching out" to extremists whom MI5 had under surveillance while he
was studying at University College London. None of this information
was passed to American officials, which will prompt questions about intelligence
failures prior to the attack. British officials have now passed a file to
their US counterparts on Abdulmutallab’s activities in Britain while
he was a student from 2005 to 2008. It shows his repeated contacts with MI5
targets who were subject to phone taps, email intercepts and other forms
of surveillance.
More at:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6973954.ece
Posted Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
Lombardi to decide on Mayoral Race by February
17th
(Providence, Rhode Island) John J. Lombardi, Providence Ward 13
Councilman has announced he will make a formal announcement regarding his
personal political future by February 17th stating that "The long,
dark night of Providence without leadership soon will be
over."
More at:
http://lombardiforprovidence.com
Related PROJO STORY:
Lombardi likes poll numbers for run against Cicilline
Related Blog on RI FUTURE:
http://rifuture.org/myblog/john-lombardi-one-step-closer-to-a-mayoral-run.html
Posted Friday, December 25th,
2009
More on the
OBAMA Health Care
Bill
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Medicare Advantage, an important program for 10 million elderly, will be
gutted and replaced
by Medigap insurance, which is more limited in coverage, higher
in cost and more profitable
to the AARP.
- Medical
devices -- from pacemakers to automated wheelchairs -- will
still be taxed, and
sick
people will be forced to pay higher taxes and deduct fewer
of their medical costs.
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Reimbursements under Medicare are likely to continue to drop,
forcing more and more
providers to refuse to treat patients under the program.
- An individual mandate penalty that could go as high as $1,900.
- The IRS can take legal action against those who fail to pay the mandate
penalty.
- In the House version(HR
3962), penalites
imposed would range from a year in jail or a $25,000 penalty.
(Sourced from Thomas Barthold, chief of staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation
handwritten note
to Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev.)
Posted Thursday, December 24th,
2009
Carcieri Letters to Whitehouse
and Reid:
OBAMA Health Care Bill not good for Rhode Island
Governor Donald L. Carcieri has written letters to U.S. Senators
Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse
urging them to oppose the most current version of national health care reform
legislation. The Governor
warns that the bill is too costly, and will have an immediate and adverse
impact on our already
struggling state economy.
Click letter pictures to read each letter
Posted Wednesday, December 23th, 2009
Basciano Tradition Continues . .
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Times Square Christmas Eve Dinner Event Slated
Since 2006, Richard Basciano, found of Times Square Arts Center
has again continued the tradition
started with Richard and Jamie Masada of Laugh Factory fame to hold a Christmas
Dinner Event with all the trimmings on Christmas Eve from 1 pm to 6 pm for
needy families, veterans, servicemen and anyone alone this holiday season.
As always, Santa and his elves will be on hand and each child accompanied
by their parent will receive a Christmas Toy. Joe Franklin and the
USO are also part of this event.
All are invited for this festive celebration of food and fun for this fourth
annual event. Dinner will be provided from 1pm to 5:30 pm
on Christmas Eve. The Times Square Arts Center is at 669 8th Ave. between
42nd & 43rd St. Times Square.
Posted Wednesday, December 23th, 2009
CARCIERI:
What did RI Congressman Patrick Kennedy & Jim Langevin or
Senators Jack Reid & Sheldon Whitehouse bring back to Rhode Island?
Health Bill Concessions granted by
Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid to Senator Ben
Nelson(D-NE) to remove antitrust regulations for Blue Cross and others,
Senator Blanche Lincoln(D-AR) for more time to review and ask for
favors later, and Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) got $300 million for Louisiana
- more than 20 times what was paid for that state. RI Governor Carcieri
asked rhetorically, "What did Rhode Island get? Where was OUR
representation with 73,000 Rhode Islanders out of work and a project Rhode
Island Deficit of over $415 million in 2011?" Others echoed, "What
is Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse doing for Rhode Islanders? Where
was Patrick Kennedy and Jim Langevin? Who is looking out for Rhode
Island?"
Posted Wednesday, December 19th,
2009
United States Congress - Health Care Bill:
- $1000 fine if you don't buy Health Insurance
- Insurance is anticipated to cost up to $1,500 per year
- Federal Subsidies can be requested after you first spend 15% of your
paycheck
- Congress taxes pacemakers and wheelchairs
- Jail or a $25,000 fine can be assessed against those who do not pay the
mandate penalty
for not getting insurance.
Click picture to see video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCG08EoNvoA&feature=player_embedded#
Posted Thursday, December 8,
2009
ABC Networks blocks League of American Voters ad
In a quiet fight over airtime, the League of American Voters claims ABC has
refused to air
it’s “anti-Obamacare” ad, but most media outlets haven’t
taken notice. The ad exemplifies
how the war of words over health care reform has made the senior vote the
major
battleground with ads like this one by The League of American Voters.
This one focused on seniors.
Click picture to see video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdgeSw3QqYk&feature=player_embedded
Posted Wednesday, December 6th, 2009
Parrandón Navideño Christmas
Success
Heritage Committee event attracts many
(Providence, Rhode Island) Rhode Island's first "Parrandón
Navideño" put on by The Puerto Rican Heritage Committee & Parade
of Rhode Island featured Christmas Festivities of traditional music, food,
folklore, rhythms, dance and fun at the Cranston Portuguese Club last Saturday
night. Despite the cold snap with snow and icy driving conditions,
the event was packed . Photos at
www.prhcpri.com
Posted Wednesday, December 2nd,
2009
Puerto Rican "Parrandón
Navideño"
Christmas Festival Slated
Heritage Committee makes all RI Youth a priority
(Providence, Rhode Island) The Puerto Rican Heritage Committee & Parade
of Rhode Island will host their first cultural "Parrandón Navideño"
with Christmas Festivities of traditional music, food, folklore, rhythms,
dance and fun on Saturday, December 5th at the Cranston Portuguese Club.
The event will feature Latino Caribbean traditions that commemorate
the birth of Jesus and an opportunity for all Rhode Islanders to fellowship
and develop an awareness, understanding, and appreciation for our Latin cultures
during this Christmas holiday celebration. The newly formed Puerto
Rican Heritage Committee will also formally announce its dedication to family
and social issues with goals of helping and challenging all Rhode Islanders
to work together and achieve a real future by staying in school, out of the
streets and away from the gangs.
More at www.prhcpri.com
Posted Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Existing ACORN Contracts still being
honored
The Justice Department has instructed federal agencies to honor
contracts with ACORN that
were signed before Congress banned the community advocacy organization from
receiving
any further government funding earlier this year. In an opinion issued in
late October and released
on Friday, the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel determined that
lawmakers were
unclear on whether agencies should terminate pre-existing contracts with
ACORN, which stands
for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
More on ACORN Contracts
which Congress suspended here:
Posted Monday, November 9, 2009
OBAMA / Pelosi House Bill:
No Insurance? Go to JAIL !
Dave Camp (R-MI), Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee released
a letter
from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that
noncompliance with the
individual mandate to buy health insurance (contained in the Pelosi health
care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended))
could land people in jail. The JCT letter states clearly that Americans
who do not maintain “acceptable
health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s
new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous
civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000
and imprisonment of up to five years.
Posted Saturday, October 31,
2009
Sen. Harry Reid wishes ill for Nevada's largest Newspaper
Senator Harry Reid, at a Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce Luncheon,
advised Bob Brown, the Las Vegas Review-Journal's Director of Advertising,
during the simple process of handshaking that "I hope you go out of
business." Later, in his public speech, Senator Reid said he wanted
to let everyone know that he wants the Review-Journal to continue selling
advertising because the Las Vegas Sun is delivered inside the
Review-Journal. In response, Publisher Sherman Frederick posted an
Op-Ed column in which he called Reid's tactics childish, ugly, boorish, creepy,
and asinine and ends with "...we serve notice on Sen. Reid that this creepy
tactic will not be tolerated." Reid is up for election in 2010.
More on this story here:
http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/56171937.html
Posted Thursday, October 29, 2009
National Health Care
"OPT OUT" rather than "OPT IN" designed to FAVOR FED PUBLIC
OPTION
Senator Harry Reid has announced that the current health care
bill version will include an "opt-out public option" so while the government-run
plan for every citizen will be available, their state government can choose
to opt out of the program by 2014 or they become part of the national health
program.
By creating an "opt-out" rather than an "opt-in" provision, it allows one
part of each of the 24 "mixed government" states to hold out through filibuster
or delay until the 2014 deadline when the plan goes into effect forcing that
state into the public plan option. The Health Plan votes seem to run
along party lines with Democrats for and Republicans against.
There are 24 states where Democrats and Republicans share control of government
among the legislative and executive branches which mean likely disputes forcing
them into the plan, and 17 states where the governor is a Democrat and both
houses of the legislature are controlled by Democrats totalling 41 states.
Republicans control 9 states including Texas, Utah, South Carolina, South
Dakota, North Dakota, Missouri, Idaho, Florida, and Georgia which represent
about 25 percent of the U.S. population. (Nearly all of that is from Texas
and Florida).
Posted Thursday, August 13, 2009
Christina Bolinger Works to Exhibit in NYC
(Moosup, CT & New York, NY) Abstract artist, painter
and Connecticut native Christina Bolinger has been selected to appear with
some of her works at an art and fashion event hosted by Eccoci in New York
City. Other artists appearing with Christina during the three hour
event will be noted landscape photographer Mario Newball, custom handbag
designer Jeff Poulin, fashion sketch artist and painter Maria Delpointe and
Couture Jewelry Designer Alicia Piller.
News Reporter info page here
Posted Thursday, August 13, 2009
Hope City Homeless to get Jobs, a Place to Stay & Movie Documentary
(Providence, Rhode Island) Local contractor
Jim Rienke, Chief Wilfred Greene with Germaine Greene of the Seaconke Wampanoag
Tribe, Reverend Mary Margaret Earle of McAuley House, David Angell of LexFilm
Productions, Bill Scott & Cendy Gonzalez of Amos House and Jo Jo Gator
of the WALE990am Mid Day Madness show announced their plans to help the Hope
City Tent City Homeless today with jobs, a place to stay and a documentary
movie.
News Reporter info page here
Posted Thursday, July 11,
2009
(New York, NY) Laugh Factory, Inc., Jamie Masada, Times Square Arts
Center
and Richard Basciano recently announced that they have reached an
agreement,
resolving a lawsuit that claimed Times Square Arts Center and Richard
Basciano
infringed the Laugh Factory trademark and logo.
Jamie Masada, who initiated
the action has withdrawn the allegations made in the lawsuit and apologized
for the misunderstandings that led to the complaint.
News Reporter info page here
Posted Thursday, June 11,
2009
Providence Native Vivian Moreno featured in United Way
of America Video
Providence, RI VIVIAN MORENO of Providence has been chosen by the UNITED
WAY OF AMERICA to be featured in a 30 promotional video. MORENO, who runs
a volunteer tax-preparation site for the Internal Revenue Service is known
locally for expertise in helping poor people qualify for the earned-income
credit, an income tax break intended for the working poor.
Moreno is CEO of THE INTERPRETERS NETWORK INC, a firm that provides interpreting
and translation services. The video is now available at
WWW.WALE990.com.
Posted Friday, March 13,
2009
Artist Christina Bolinger works to Encore at NYC
Exhibit
Moosup, CT, & New York, NY) The works of Connecticut Artist and Moosup
native
Christina Bollinger will encore at the National Art Club in New York City.
The exhibit
will open with an open reception on April 6th from 6-8pm.
News Reporter info page here. Eng
