Tuesday, October 16, 2012

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Oct-12-2012 10:15

Texas Schools Punish Students who Refuse to be Tracked with Microchips

Salem-News.com

Students who refuse to walk the school halls with the card in their pocket or around their neck claim they are being tormented by instructors, and are barred from participating in certain school functions.

AFP Photo/Philippe Marle

(SAN ANTONIO RTV) - A school district in Texas came under fire earlier this year when it announced that it would require students to wear microchip-embedded ID cards at all times. Now, students who refuse to be monitored say they are feeling the repercussions.

Since October 1, students at John Jay High School and Anson Jones Middle School in San Antonio, Texas, have been asked to attend class with photo ID cards equipped with radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips to track every pupil’s location. Educators insist that the endeavor is being rolled out in Texas to stem the rampant truancy devastating the school's funding. If the program is judged successful, the RFID chips could soon come to 112 schools in all and affect nearly 100,000 students.

Andrea Hernandez, a sophomore at John Jay, said educators have ignored her pleas to respect her privacy and told her she cannot participate in school elections if she refuses to comply with the tracking program.

Hernandez said in an interview with Salon that subjecting herself to constant monitoring through an RFID chip is like being branded with the “mark of the beast” – a reference to the Bible's apocalyptic Book of Revelations. When she reached out to WND with the school’s response, though, she said that she was threatened with not being allowed to vote for her school's homecoming king and queen for disobeying the student ID rule.

"I had a teacher tell me I would not be allowed to vote because I did not have the proper voter ID," Hernandez told WND. "I had my old student ID card which they originally told us would be good for the entire four years we were in school. He said I needed the new ID with the chip in order to vote."

After Hernandez refused to wear an RFID chip, WND reported that Deputy Superintendent Ray Galindo issued a statement to the girl's parents: “We are simply asking your daughter to wear an ID badge as every other student and adult on the Jay campus is asked to do.” If she is allowed to forego the tracking now, the repercussions will be harsher than just revoking voting rights for homecoming contests once the school makes location-monitoring mandatory, he argued.

“I urge you to accept this solution so that your child’s instructional program will not be affected. As we discussed, there will be consequences for refusal to wear an ID card as we begin to move forward with full implementation,” Galindo wrote.

The girl’s father, Steve Hernandez, told WND that the school was somewhat willing to work with his daughter, but said that the family is unwilling to “agree to stop criticizing the program” and publically endorse it.

“I told him that was unacceptable because it would imply an endorsement of the district’s policy and my daughter and I should not have to give up our constitutional rights to speak out against a program that we feel is wrong,” Mr. Hernandez responded.

The Northside Independent School District expects to collect upwards of $2 million in state funding by reversing its poor attendance figures, with the RFID program costing around one-quarter of that sum to initiate and another $136,005 in maintenance. The new funding may not offset the other damages that could arise: Heather Fazio of Texans for Accountable Government told WND that she filed a Freedom of Information Act request for $30 and received the names and addresses of every student in the school district.

“Using this information along with an RFID reader means a predator could use this information to determine if the student is at home and then track them wherever they go. These chips are always broadcasting so anyone with a reader can track them anywhere,” she said.

Kirsten Bokenkamp of the ACLU told the San Antonio Express-News earlier this year that her organization expected to challenge the board’s decision to use the tracking system, but the school went ahead with the program undeterred. Steve Hernandez told WND that he approached the ACLU abour representing his daughter’s case, but Rebecca Robertson of a local branch of the organization said that, “the ACLU of Texas will not be able to represent you or your daughter in this matter,” saying the case did not meet the group's criteria.

Special thanks to Russia TV

Source: http://rt.com/usa/news/texas-school-id-hernandez-033/

WOW!

Pueblo County deputy arrested in hostage case

Posted: 10/03/2012 09:56:53 AM MDT
Updated: 10/03/2012 10:02:48 AM MDT

The Associated Press

PUEBLO, Colo.—A Pueblo County deputy is facing charges after his ex-girlfriend said he held her hostage. Detention deputy Randal Scott Alire is accused of menacing and domestic violence after his ex-girlfriend said he held her at gunpoint during a six-hour ordeal on Monday.
The unidentified woman said Alire drove her around in a car while pointing a gun at her.
According to KRDO-TV ( http://tinyurl.com/8mp73jh), the deputy later gave back the car keys and said she was free to go.

Read more: Pueblo County deputy arrested in hostage case - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/pueblo/ci_21688449/pueblo-county-deputy-arrested-hostage-case#ixzz29V54Tzkn
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Two Puebloans join Mrs. Obama for lunch

Hannah Romero and Marissa Guerrero were invited to first lady's mentoring initiative kickoff.

By GAYLE PEREZ
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN

What's it like to have the nation's first lady be your mentor?

"It was really cool," Hannah Romero, 17, said Friday. "She was a good speaker, very energetic and she really meant what she was talking about.

Hannah, a Dolores Huerta Preparatory High senior, and Marissa Guerrero, a senior at East High School, were among 80 teenage girls who were invited to lunch with first lady Michelle Obama on Monday in Denver as Mrs. Obama launched her new mentoring initiative.

The first lady chose Denver to kick off her nationwide program aimed at keeping kids in school by stressing the importance of mentoring education. Hannah, the daughter of Samuel and Resa Romero, said she was one of only five Girl Scouts in the state invited to attend the luncheon.

Marissa could not be reached for comment on Friday.

The girls were feted to lunch at the governor's mansion, which included talks by Mrs. Obama and Colorado's first lady Jeannie Ritter.

Hannah, 17, said she was inspired by what Mrs. Obama and Mrs. Ritter had to say.

"She talked to us about mentoring other students so we can be mentors," she said. "They told us to think about our futures and where we want to go."

In addition to the speeches by Mrs. Obama and Mrs. Ritter, there were other female mentors seated at the tables with the students to offer them advice and mentoring instruction.

Among those who attended were actress Susan Sarandon; Kathleen Sebelius, secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services; Hilda Solis, labor secretary; astronaut Ellen Ochoa and EPA administrator Lisa Jackson.

Friday, October 10, 2008

Cannon Game Reaches Full Recognition (50 Year of battle)

East (4-2) at South (6-0), 7 p.m. today, Dutch Clark Stadium

WHEN SOUTH HAS THE BALL . . .

SOUTH OFFENSE

No.	Pos.	Name	Yr.	Ht.	Wt.
5	QB	Kameron Wilhite	Sr.	6-2	200
26	RB	R. Bowen-Jimenez	Sr.	5-10	180
33	FB	Devin Hart	Sr.	6-0	210
1	WR	Jordan Ruiz	So.	5-5	150
21	WR	Riley Smith	Sr.	5-10	180
15	TE	Kivon Cartwright	Jr.	6-4	225
54	LT	Sam Collins	Sr.	6-4	220
57	LG	Ronnie Gutierrez	So.	5-7	180
53	C	Stephen Munoz	Jr.	5-9	215
55	RG	Drew Salazar	Sr.	6-0	225
59	RT	Kenny Harriman	Sr.	6-3	280

EAST DEFENSE

No.	Pos.	Name	Yr.	Ht.	Wt.
11	CB	Josh Sandoval	Jr.	5-10	137
15	CB	Dre Hall	Jr.	5-10	152
7	S	Spencer Torrez	Jr.	5-11	146
12	OLB	Keith Martin	Sr.	5-9	193
44	ILB	Josh Valdez	Sr.	5-5	177
34	ILB	Nick Taibi	Sr.	6-2	215
22	OLB	Ryan Garcia	Sr.	5-9	170
28	DE	Est. Fernandez	Sr.	5-9	190
68	DT	Ashton Pratt	Sr.	5-9	273
70	DT	Leo Ybarra	Jr.	6-1	220
13	DE	Misha Milovidov	So.	6-1	176

WHEN EAST HAS THE BALL . . .

EAST OFFENSE

No.	Pos.	Name	Yr.	Ht.	Wt.
8	QB	Jordan Ward	Sr.	6-3	185
27	RB	Don Martindale	Sr.	5-11	184
4	WR	Armando Chavez	Sr.	5-8	144
11	WR	Josh Sandoval	Jr.	5-10	137
7	ST	Spencer Torrez	Jr.	5-11	146
34	TE	Nick Taibi	Sr.	6-2	215
70	LT	Leo Ybarra	Jr.	6-1	220
56	LG	Trevor Woolley	Jr.	6-1	240
63	C	Steve Gomez	Sr.	5-6	192
78	RG	Pat Smith	So.	6-1	282
50	RT	Eddie Willits	Sr.	6-2	180

SOUTH DEFENSE

No.	Pos.	Name	Yr.	Ht.	Wt.
2	CB	Mario Garcia	Sr.	5-7	165
87	CB	Aaron Bosley	Sr.	5-10	160
7	FS	Brody Lockett	Sr.	6-0	190
39	SS	Brandon Kliesen	Sr.	5-10	200
54	ILB	Sam Collins	Sr.	6-4	220
8	ILB	Josh Dome	Sr.	6-2	190
33	OLB	Devin Hart	Sr.	6-0	210
52	DE	Spencer Hawkins	Sr.	6-2	240
71	DT	John Garza	Sr.	5-9	225
58	DT	Jordan Cartmell	Sr.	5-9	220
56	DE	Matt Taibi	Sr.	6-0	200

Ful Story

Monday, October 06, 2008

Pueblo Community College begins its training program for Vestas Wind Systems early next year

CHIEFTAIN PHOTO/MIKE SWEENEY -- Instructor Bill Hartwick (center) shows students Matthew Mascarenas (left) and Salvatore Giannetto how to navigate the user interface of the Haas VF-3 computer numerical controlled milling machine at the Gorsich Technology Center's machine shop at Pueblo Community College.
PHOTO/MIKE SWEENEY --

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

MUSIC VIDEO ABOUT PUEBLO, COLORADO

Mi Pueblo

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Author of: WHERE WE COME FROM, AN ARCHULETA SPECIAL COLLECTION BOOK…..

Dec. 24,2007 Transborder Library Forum

I hope you will find the following information worthy of being published on the Sunday News Publication, What most people don’t know, A bit of History…..

American Citizens of Spanish Ancestors who are in part the oldest and original Americans who came here and established the very first colonies in what is now the United States of America….this said I want to mention many of the contributions made by the Spanish when America did not exist and later in it’s infancy.

The Spanish are not given recognition or credit, but it was the Spaniards who introduced Steel, the horse wagons, horses, sheep, Cattle, and goats to the virgin land we now call “America” and left a tremendous LANDMARK of Cities, Towns, Villages, Rivers, Mountains and Missions that still continue to exist, all in Spanish and throughout the Spanish West, from California to La Florida, including Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Texas, and Louisiana.

Thousands of Spanish troops allied with the Continental Army fought against the British in the Spanish declared War of 1779.

There were 7000 prisoners of war who died in English prison ships in the New York Harbor; 4000 of them were Spanish Soldiers fighting for American Independence.

Hispanics from Spain, the present day USA, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Santo Domingo,
Venezuela and Costa Rica fought with the Continental Army against the British.

Spanish Ports in Europe and the Caribbean were safe havens for harassed American Ships.
The battle of York Town was planned by a Military Strategist, Captain Francisco de
Saavedra, which was the turning point of the war for Independence.

During the revolutionary War of (1746 – 1786) General Bernardo de Galvez commanded the Spanish troops composed of Puerto Ricans, Venezuelans, Dominicans, Salvadorans, Nicaraguans, and Mexicans during this Revolution. In this war, Galvez also provided guns, clothing, gunpowder, and medicine to the American troops, by flying the Spanish flag enabling them to pass through the British fortifications unimpeded.

In 1785 George Washington, wrote a thank you letter to “Carlos III, King of Spain”, for his generous fledging support to the United States in which the King of Spain had donated 1,000,000 pounds to the Continental Congress towards the defeat of the

British at York Town
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For at least five years, Spain had sent more supplies and money then had been requested, to help America succeed.

The American Revolution used funds collected from Spanish people already living in the present States of what is now California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, with a substantial support originated in New Spain what is now Mexico.

Hispanics served in Confederate Units, such as the, Benavides Regiment Commanded by Colonel Santos Benavides and the 10^th Texas Calvary and Commanded by Major Leonides M. Martin; many Hispanics also served in the 6^th

Missouri Infantry and the Chalmetle Regiment of Louisiana Infantry and also the

2^nd Texas Mounted Rifles. Other units with a large number of Hispanics were the

Vigils Independent Companies, and Calvary in the Louisiana Zouaves, 1^st Florida Calvary, The Spanish Legion, the Spanish Guard of Mobile Alabama, and four independent New Mexico Militia Companies known by their Commanders names

( Gonzales, Martinez, Tafoya and Perea).

American Citizens of Spanish Ancestry have fought in all USA conflicts with high honors, prestige, and distinction and for which they deserve some kind of MEMORIAL which we the present American Hispanics should undertake…..

Many of our Citizens of Spanish Descent have been outstanding for their contributions to the culture of our Nation in Medicine, the Arts, Science and Philosophy. Example: Rear Admiral Luis de Florez –organized a Naval Aviation Instruments Division in WWI and WWII, Doctor C.H. Mayo founded the Mayo Health Clinic in Rochester. Juan de Oro was a specialized Bio-chemist in Houston.

Painter – Artist named Salvador Dali, the famous Pianist-conductor Jose Iurbe, the great Historians like Javier Malago and Guillermo Cespedes, and many more prominent Hispanics are found in the books of “Cerebros Espanoles en USA (Spanish Minds in USA) by Alfredo Gomez Gil.

Many of the legends left by the Spaniards, continue to exist today, such as the Civil Code 1825 related to the famous “Quinta Partida” (15^th book of Law),” the Recopilaciones de Castile” (Compilations of Castile), “Autos Acordados” (Judicial

Decrees), “Lees de Toro” (Tort Laws).

What most people don’t know, including politicians, and national leaders and those who dislike the word “Spanish”, so they use the term LATIN or Latino to classify a people of Spanish origin…in doing research I could not find a “NATION STATE LATIN”, and therefore I consider it to be a “MISNOMER”. I further asked the Library of Congress the following question:

***Wherte is Latin America??? I am unable to find a Latin Nation State!!! My findings are that “Latin “ comes from the ancient Latium made up by Italy ,France,

Spain and Portugal established by the Roman Catholic Church. Why do so many

Politicians use the Latin term to classify people???

*** Response from the Library of Congress!!!

Dear Roy A. Archuleta: Yes you have a point . English is sometimes a very vague language and people use “bucket terms” to arbitrarily classify countries, and Geographic regions for various purposes. The following article, written by David Dressing in the Encyclopedia of Latin America may help classify the term:

*** LATIN AMERICA, term commonly used to describe South America, Central America, Mexico, and the Islands of the Caribbean. As such, it incorporates numerous Spanish Speaking Countries, Portuguese-speaking Brazil, French speaking Haiti and the French West Indies, and usual implies countries such as Suriname and Guyana, where romance languages are not spoken. The term Latin America originated in France during the reign of Napoleon III in 1860s, when the country was second only to England in terms of industrial and financial strength. The French political economist Michel Chavalier, in order to solidify the intellectual underpinnings of French overseas ambitions, first proposed a “Pan-Latin foreign policy in the hopes of promoting solidarity between Nations whose languages were of Latin origin and that shared the common cultural tradition of Roman Catholicism. Led by France, the Latin peoples could reassert their influence throughout the world in the face of threats from both the Slavic peoples of eastern Europe (led by Russia) and the Anglo-Saxon peoples of northern Europe (led by England) in the western hemisphere, pan-Latinists distinguished between the Anglo nor th and the Latin south, which they gradually began to refer to as America Latina. From the French I’Amerique latine. The term came into general use in other languages….Sincerely yours/Hispanic Reference Team. LOC.

As I study the old History of our Conquistadores, and Colonizers, our Ancestors had been in the New World some 225 years before the creation of the USA; at which time in its infancy, America wanted to populate the few States. When America opened it’s doors of immigration, England at the time had an overpopulation of thieves, peasants, murders, tramps and undesirables, which the authorities rounded up in masses and were the first to be shipped to the American New World and which pleased the English Elite.

The individual family names like Aragon, Archuleta, Baca, Calderon, Chavez, Hidalgo, Rodriguez, Trujillo, Valdez etc., etc. are some of the oldest dating back to the 1500s… This said, it was in 1598 When Don Juan de Onate, ventured in the long journey from Nueva Spania what is now Mexico, to colonize Nuevo Mejico (New Mexico) Onate had 129 Spanish Soldiers and their families, including babies, a total of some 500 people with some, servants, packers, and a few slaves. Some were Mestizos, some were Mulattos and some Indians. They brought 83 covered –horse wagons with supplies, and steel farming equipment, 1000 goats, 2000 sheep, 1000 cows, horses and mares, a total of 7000 head of stock. They were practically out of water when they reached the junction of the Conchos and the Rio Grande west of El Paso where they rested for a week, with a thanksgiving celebration among friendly

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Indians (Mansos) and from there they moved the herds and the people north to san Juan Bautista ( the first Capital in New Mexico) arriving on July 11,1598. The Capital later was moved to San Gabriel in 1600. In 1610 Onates successor, Don Pedro De Peralta moved the State Capital to the present Santa Fe, where Colonies were already established…

We need to not only remember the Don Juan de Onate long and harsh journey of our Ancesters who opened the doors to the New World, But we should also pay tribute to the brave men and women who came here to the vast open territory and nothing but faith and trust in the leadership of the Governador Adelantado and the Soldiers, for if it had not been for them, we ourselves would not be here…..