CHIRLA just went from the old plain HTML
to this: (CivicSpace powered).
Someone in the staff is very, very adventurous.
[Tags]civicspace, website design, content management software[/Tags]
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Before hitting Wilshire and Western at 4:00 pm, we are sitting in the lounge watching Fox News, which is broadcasting live rallies in Downtown and Santa Ana. That looks pretty hard to match up. Then we think of our plan for today.
Ever heard CNN’s of live Gulf War broadcasting? Iraqui scud missile headquarters used CNN screens to fine-tune their targets.
[Tags]immigration, immigrant, protests, rally, may day, may 1, los angeles, california[/Tags]
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Government Sued over Failure to Implement Medicare Drug Law’s Protections for Low-Income People: Challenge Brought on Behalf of More than 6 Million Recipients
Oakland, CA; April 26, 2006–A class action complaint was filed today in the U.S. Federal District Court, Northern District of California to force the Secretary of Health and Human Services to ensure that the 6.4 million seniors and disabled individuals across the nation who receive both Medicare and Medicaid (“dual eligibles”) have effective, timely access to prescription medication under the new Medicare Part D prescription drug program.
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Ana put footnotes in Mac’s April 10 Immigrant Rights March flyer. omg.
Compare with Berkeley’s flyer.
[Tags]Immigration, Agitprop, Humor[/Tags]
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How to do it
- decide on at least 2 street segments you will be postering on
- suggested street segments are already posted at the sign-up sheet below, waiting for takers
- for postering purposes, a city (glendale, cerritos, northridge, torrance) counts as 1/2 street segment (see the K-Town markets excel sheet for markets outside K-Town.) We will most likely go to the cities for flyering instead of postering, so hold of from going to cities just for postering.
- decide on time
- Because our targets include restaurants, it may be more effective to schedule your postering around 9:00-10:00am or 2:00-3:00pm (dodge pre-meal rush hour)
- arrange your own transportation – talk directly to a car person etc
- write what you chose at the present web sign-up sheet
- click blue “edit” link in the desired date square and
- write your name and time next to street segment
- click “save page”
- grab agitprop stock
- you should find them in two boxes and a big paper envelope next to the desk between MJ and Irene’s office.
- Take at least 20 KL / 5 SL / 5 EL flyers per street segment. Don’t flyer them, but have them handy in case passersby request it from you.
- go postering
- Get a clipboard where you will write:
- how many flyers/posters were handed out, with a language breakdown
- names and addresses of businesses that requested the poster to be removed after event.
- Try to do most business complexes (located at major street corners). but if the street being intersected is already covered by another street segment (i.e. 8th and Western, Olympic and Vermont) do one every two business complexes you encounter.
- Get a clipboard where you will write:
- report back
- come back and write how many flyers & posters were handed out (with a language breakdown) next to your name in the web signup sheet
- record names and businesses that requested post-event poster removal
- return remainder to agitprop stock
지시 사항
- 포스터를 붙일 구역 최소한 2개 결정
- 권장 구역은 하단 sign-up sheet 에 붙어있음
- LA County 의 도시 (cerritos, glendale, torrance, northridge 등)에 포스터를 붙이러 갈 경우 이는 1/2 구역으로 계산됨. 관련하여 한인 마켓 excel sheet 참고할것. 나중에 이곳으로 전단지 뿌리러 갈터이니 되도록이면 가지 말것.
- 시간 결정
- 식당 영업을 고려해 점심/저녁 시간을 제외하는 것이 유리
- 교통 수단 확보
- 결정 내용을 이 웹 sign-up sheet 에 기록
- 날짜마다 붙어있는 파란색 “[edit]” 링크를 클릭
- 구역 옆에 이름과 시간 기록
- “Save page” 클릭
- 선전선동물 확보
- 명주/방원씨 사이에 있는 책상 옆에 있음
- 구역 별로 최소한 20우리말/5개 스페인어/5개 영어의 전단지 (포스터 말고) 준비. 뿌릴 필요는 없으나 포스터 붙이는 도중 누가 이를 요청할 경우 주면 됨
- 포스터 붙이기
- 클립 보드를 준비하여 다음을 기록
- 언어별로 몇개 붙엿는지, 전단지 몇개 뿌렸는지
- 행사 끝난 후 포스터 떼어줄것을 요청한 비즈니스 주소와 이름
- 비즈니스 복합건물을 할 것. 다른 구역과 교차하는 교차로일 경우 (예: 8th & Western 등) 2개마다 1개 구역에 포스터 붙일 것
- 클립 보드를 준비하여 다음을 기록
- 보고
- 언어별로 몇개 붙엿는지 웹에 자신의 이름 옆에 기록할것
- 포스터 제거 요청한 비즈니스 주소와 이름 여기다 기록
- 남은 선전선동물은 stock 으로 되돌릴 것
Thur 3/16
- Poster & Flyer Drop-Off: Irene 11:30am-12:00pm
- Poster & Flyer Pickup: Shannon 1:30-2:00pm
- KIWA Korean History Group: Yongho – Outcome: 8 Flyers (5K 2E 1S), 3 Posters (2K 1S)
Fri 3/17
- Wilshire Bl, North Side (Hobart-Vermont) : Sehwan 15:00-17:00
- Wilshire Bl, South Side (Hobart-Vermont) : Sehwan 15:00-17:00 visited 10 office buildings, 0 posters
Sat 3/18
- BRU Mtg/Anti-War Rally: Yongho 11:00am-3:00pm. Outcome: 30 E/S flyers
- Glendale: Shannon
Sun 3/19
- Church: Yongho 25 K flyers, 1 EP 1KP
Mon 3/20
- Wilshire Bl, North Side, Wilton-Hobart YK 2:00-3:15pm
- Wilshire Bl, North Side, Hobart-Vermont : YK 3:15-4:00pm
- Wilshire Bl, South Side, Western-Wilton YK 4:00-4:30pm
- outcome: Flyers: 27 E/K, 6 S/E, Posters: 12K
- Wilshire Bl, North Side, Wilton-Western: SH 2:00-2:15pm
- Wilshire Bl, South Side, Western-Vermont : SH 2:15-4:00pm
- outcome: posters : (6K), flyers : (6k-e, 6k)
- Western Ave, East Side (Beverly-Wilshire): SP & SH 5:45-7:15pm
- Western Ave, West Side (Beverly-Wilshire): SP & SH 5:45-7:15pm
- outcome: 30-40 poster
- Olympic Ave, Western-Irolo, North Side: JC & TY 5:45-7:15pm
- Olympic Ave, Western-Irolo, South Side: JC & TY 5:45-7:15pm
- outcome: 40 posters
- Olympic Ave, Irolo-Vermont, North Side: YM & MH 5:45-7:15pm
- Olympic Ave, Irolo-Vermont, South Side: YM & MH 5:45-7:15pm
- outcome: Flyer: 11S, 14E, 30K. Poster: 9K, 1S (23 places, 3 bus stops, 13 hand outs)
- Western Ave, Wilshire-Olympic, East Side: JC& TY
- Western Ave, Wilshire-Olympic, West Side: JC & TY
- Sunset and Alvarado: Shannon (2 Asian Markets)
- will do both flyering and postering
- 8th St, Western-Normandie/Irolo, north & south:
- 8th St, South Side, Irolo-Vermont:
- Olympic Ave, North Side (Crenshaw-Western) YM
- Olympic Ave, South Side (Crenshaw-Western) YM
- Vermont Ave, East Side (Wilshire-Olympic)
- Vermont Ave, West Side (Wilshire-Olympic)
- Torrance/Gardena:
- Cerritos/Norwalk:
- decide on at least 2 street segments you will be postering on
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Leavitt says that Medicare Part D was a success because “Around 90 percent of Medicare beneficiaries have enrolled” (DHHS Press Release, 4/4/06) to Part D. This statement is repeated in his Three-Month Progress Report (PDF)
“[Seniors] have enrolled” is not the exact phrasing I would use. “[Seniors] have been enrolled” is more accurate. Let’s take a quick look at the numbers.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p_DwZ2rHBsQirV7FyDb4RBQ&hl=en
Source: CMS (web link and direct link to Total Medicare Beneficiaries with Drug Coverage Data (v04.18.06) [Excel.zip, 3KB], Kaiser has a web version of the numbers
Leavitt includes all kinds of non-voluntary enrollment, and even non-enrollment information into his 27 million figure.
- First, 30 million is 69% of total Medicare beneficiaries, not 90%.
- Second, 10 million seniors/disabled out of these 30 million have not enrolled to Part D at all. They have had drug coverage all along (Already w/Creditable Coverage), and they should not be included in a report that measures CMS’s success in implementing Medicare Part D. They are beneficiaries to the Employer Retiree Drug Subsidy (RDS) and Federal FEHB and TRICARE programs.
- Third, you can’t attribute “Automatic Enrollment” numbers to CMS’s merits. There’s two subcategories, so let’s take a closer look:
- Medicare-Medical Dual Eligibles: these are low-income seniors/disabled who were forcibly enrolled to Part D in January 1 2006, and went through all sorts of hardships while coping with the insurance companies’ neglect towards them. MediCaid sent them a NOA in late 2005 telling them that their MediCaid prescription drug benefits were being terminated, and Medicare just enrolled them to a randomly selected plan in December 31, 2005. Yes. RANDOM. Formulary and Pharmacy Network hell ensued.
- Medicare Advantage (HMO, Part C): they were also forcibly enrolled to an HMO-subsidiary PDP from their own HMO by January 1, 2006. They can’t opt out for another plan, because then they lose their entire HMO benefit. They never filled a form requesting Medicare Part D. How can you call that “the senior enrolled”?
- Therefore 43 million should not be the 100% standard for counting enrollees, because 20 million out of those either do not have to enroll to Part D (and indeed they haven’t) or cannot enroll to it because they have been enrolled forcibly. The 100% goal should be 21 million
- And out of those, only 8 million have enrolled to this date. That’s why CBOs and CMS are scrambling to get the remaining 13 million enrolled before the May 15 2006 deadline.
Let’s stand corrected. The real enrollment of seniors/disabled who chose to enroll to Medicare Part D because they looked at their options and made a rational choice (a capitalist economy ideal, no?) is 8 million out of 21 million, which is a whoopping 38%. Not 90%.
[Tags]Medicare, Medicare Part D, Prescription Drug Plan, Enrollment, Numbers, Statistics, DHHS[/Tags]
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Consider this a front-line ethnographic report on translator-original text producer split of a phenomenon that also occurs in the programming front with i18n’s
when you step down from the MTA bus, you can see at the exit a sign that reads
Wait for green light, then step down
and also right below it
Espere por la luz verde antes de pisar abajo
Which is translated wrong. It should say “antes de bajarse” (“before getting out of the bus”, not “bejore standing under” – under what?). This problem, though, is way too easy to spot, and it’s unlikely that this glitch is the translator’s fault (such as the other more common ad mistakes which employ the wrong verb conjugation or an inconsistent usted/tu word play).
Most likely MTA had hired a single interpreter to do jobs in a batch process to save costs, and the translator was isolated from the actual material setting where the interaction betwen sign and reader was taking place – thus was completely unaware of what “stepping down” implied. (It’s fairly obvious once you see the actual stairs that lead you to the back door of the bus, but not if the translator is sitting at the office typing in a Word document at 11pm)
Some bureaucrats will never comprehend this, however.
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Two and half years ago, our ethnographic interviewing methods professor walked us through what was to come, towards the end of the semester:
… What other classes your could take to complement ours? Hmm, I’d say, take statistics. No! Don’t take it here. No need to waste your tuition dollars on an introductory math course. Take a summer course at your community college. With the training you all have had this semester, you are all set up for graduate level research (or in a commercial setting), and usually they’d require you to have an M.A. to back it up, but a Masters is too expensive, not quite worth it, and you have the skills now.. so just get one or two years doing more field research, and get that stats course done. You won’t *actually* be doing any stats though, there will be experts with Ph.D. in stats doing the actual analysis. They won’t let you touch the database, they are very picky and don’t trust anyone else… If you don’t stay alert, you might forever staying behind the clipboard and asking “so did you mean ‘a lot’ or ‘lot’?”. How to get out of that cycle.. hmm (typical S smile), you figure it out.
I think we’ve got the Ph.D. in question. I’m glad we’ve got one though.
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This stuff doesn’t show up on their website anymore nor the Internet Archive, but it’s still on google cache.
Senate approves nomination of Mark McClellan for CMS administrator
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I got an email on the Report Back from the LA delegation to WTO on Jan18. Check out WTO, Food and Dirt, Hong Kong and Koreans from the US, a blog apparently run by several people, including some from the LA delegation. The PDF flier attached to the original email is here.
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despite how much i hate liberals, this is … satisfying
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(22:16:58) Yongho_Kim: y tú, qué onda? cómo anda el invierno en stgo?
(22:17:04) Yongho_Kim: ah verda el verano
(22:17:14) Vicheaux: invierno mis polainas, estamos comenzando el verano
(22:17:20) Vicheaux: 😉
(22:17:24) Vicheaux: caluroso lamentablemente
(22:18:22) Yongho_Kim: y cómo se copan uds? y tú vicheaux?
(22:18:33) Vicheaux: copan?
(22:19:00) Yongho_Kim: copan con el calor..
(22:19:05) Yongho_Kim: oink
(22:19:22) Yongho_Kim: cómo equivan el calor, cachai
(22:20:05) Vicheaux: jeje
(22:20:17) Vicheaux: ahora te cacho
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WordPress 2 (the pseudo official version.. not RC, available under /downloads, but unannounced as of yet under /blog ) bugs/malfunctionings found so far:
- When clicking previously saved draft posts, the screen moves automatically to /text/?p=POSTID which obviously doesn’t exist yet, and so it shows an error message.
- The new permalinks structure (neat small .htaccess!) seems to be unable to process nested categories as independent categories. Previously, all /de /en /cr /es , all nests of /a (as in ( /c/a/en ) were accessible at /c/en , which now returns There is no “” category (which is funny, as it should at the least show “there is no “en” category”) but they are now only accessible under the logically correct (/c/a/en ) category permalink.
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Approximately 8,000 koreans gathered in Crenshaw Christian Center Faith Dome (scroll left) in an event called LA Holy City Convention 2005 (성시화 대회) during October 7-9 under the catchphrases “Whole Church, Whole Gospel, Whole LA!”, “Love Jesus Love LA!” etc. The dome’s capacity is 15,000, which I heard was the original aim of the convention.
It’s basically an evangelization drive, from how people are portraying it. It was three days of regular worship in korean language, and from what I see in their schedule, the special gatherings for pastors and college students, respectively, have seminar/workshop components on past work and what actions to actually take. I only went to their Friday worship, which was the first night.
Participants had to sign up beforehand, and apparently there was an admissions fee – which apparently was paid for by our church for the five of us who went there. Staff youth were checking each individual for passes at the entrance of the dome and giving out the schedule, a glossy paper 27-page introduction to the purpose of the drive and schedule for the 3 days. The friday worship overlapped with the young adults (청년) worship, so that’s the group that went.
In a video presentation, sponsoring parties introduced basic concepts and past work under a similar concept. Strangely, 이명박’s giving Seoul to God was not mentioned as part of the overarching movement of 성시화 (did his work also get a bad reception in the christian community?), but 춘천 (1974? was that right?) and 포항 in 2004 were presented as cases of successful 성시화 evangelization drives. The historic model was Calvin’s mayoral ruling in Genova.
In discussing the work of 성시화 in 포항, presenters used the word “공장 노동자”. Usually 박정희 supporters prefer the term 근로자, “hard worker”, so that was strange. They also showed some 달동네 scenes from the city, I don’t know what the purpose of that may have been.
The rationale for the need of such a drive was the spread of “crime”, “tatoos” and “drugs” in the community. Presenters emphasized that such strongholds of christianity as LA, which produced the great envangelizers Billy Graham and Bill Wright (CCC), could not cross arms and sit back when there was a need for God.
Someone else also said that the US was the new Rome of the world, and that Rome was the center of classic meditarranean multiculturalism, peoples from many races and lands coming together, which was won over by christians and the fact of Rome as an imperial power became an advantage for christianity. Since there is an english hegemony in the world, where people are pushed to learn it as a matter of remains of colonialism, economic survival, or social arribismo, koreans in LA were in a comfortable position to make use of that position and start evangelizing. There was also mention of doing media work with newspapers.
There was a mention of praying for that korean congressman who was involved in the 폭탄주 사건. Little Arnold and Antonio Villaraigoza were present in the worship, and even some black folks, and they were given headphones by the event staff. Generally it was not very accessible for english speakers, though.
One way of introducing the relevance of this to the context of LA was that LA was “Los Angels” and that it meant to be the city of angels -_- which historically incorrect. The main noun in the original city name was “pueblo” (village) – “Village of Our Lady the Queen of Angels at the Porciúncula River”.
All income generated during the convention was to be spent in future evangelizing work, as well as establishment of church-sponsored scholarships for latino and black students.
During the worship, this was how people were arranged. Generally, there was a lack of attendants in churches located in white suburbia.
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I often try to avoid recognition/downplay their weight, in reaction to how much generally (older) people I know seem to have come to cherish recognition to the level of fetish.
When the OITs gave the BRU campaign award, I realized that despite my efforts, recognition was successful in stirring my emotions (ie: I couldn’t control my face expressions), which could become problematic in later, smaller meetings. So maybe it’s better for my long-term growth to just admit that I have a person/al part that desires recognition and accept/enjoy recognition when coming from our side of the trench. Repressed desires can become a major vulnerability, esp. if outsiders find out.
So enjoying recognition may be a viable tactic (short-term plan) with the ultimate goal of preserving a stable/immune personality.
Similarly, I may sometimes get swayed more easily by political touting, because I chose to not identify as anything ethnic. (I don’t have a problem with labeling myself with the biological/political “asian”) In other words, there may be psychological grounds for which I started name-dropping with people, who partially got the point that I am prone to an environment of confabulation. My intellectual background is weak in anything beyond non/lean-ideological direct action, so it works a lot more in the direction of “oh, you are red too! ho ho!” than an actual discussion.
Because I have more grounds to start with (cultural and racial) when I pick up “korean”, and won’t feel as insecure with even something like “activist”, I may be taking the right steps towards making myself less vulnerable to ideological play. I mean, as long as I can swallow all or part of the nationalistic bullshit that comes along. (It’s faster to take part of it for granted, than to trying to prove wrong to those who claim I’m not “korean” because I don’t do X or believe Y) . Which path, it doesn’t really matter.
Because after being in the field a few years, I’ll drop the korean; that’s why it’s (personally) tactical.
But naturally I won’t be the same person a few years from now.
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So on channel USA (DirecTV #242), Leptoprin (obesity pills) ads claim that this is a “USA-patent backed product”.
Now, a patent can’t “back” a drug. The FDA “backs” (approves/proves) drugs. All a patent does is assuring the pharmaceutical corporation has exclusive rights over the drug as an intellectual property. You can’t get away that easy, na na.
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sticking around a house with no heating in the middle of LA winter may be the shortcut to tuberculosis. it’s in my best interests to run away to my uncle’s. soon.
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A: Teacher what’s this paper?
YoKim: it’s the circle of holiness. Who can recall what 전도사님 talked about today?
T: Oh me me!
YoKim: no someone else besides T… hmm E can you tell everyone what was the message today?
E: Nah..
YoKim: ok then let’s have T answer it. Silence! Everyone listen to T.
T: she showed how our heart gets dirty with sins, and that Jesus’s blood makes us clean.
YoKim: good! It’s also important to remark that Jesus’ blood makes us holy, because we are all holy persons to start with, so when our sins are forgiven, we become holy again. Here we have… the circle of holiness! We’ll all go around and talk about our sins from last week or the week before that. Alright? Let me give you two examples. Hey A! Stop yelling at J.
YoKim: So I like playing computer games. Last saturday, the one before yesterday, I was playing a game and I was so excited that
P: what’s the game’s name
YoKim: oh it’s in korean so you may not know – it’s 대항해시대, you travel in ships and to trade and stuff. Anyway saturday morning I was so excited about the game that first thing after I got up was to run to the computer. And I should have had a time for God, like praying and reading the bible, but I didn’t!
T: Is the game fun?
YoKim: Yeah real fun. Now why was what I did a sin?
J: because you didn’t have breakfast.
YoKim: No, not having a breakfast is generally not good for you.. but it’s not a sin. I sinned because I put the game before Jesus! That’s why it’s a sin. Silence! T stop cussing at A.
T: but she started it!
A: No you started! u-g-l-y ugly!
E: u-g-l-y ugly!
T: you are stupid!
E: ugly!
YoKim: hey guys, stop! Ok let me give you the second example. You all know President Bush, right?
T: oh he’s a failure~
YoKim: you all know he started a war with Iraq, right? He says he sent troops to help the Iraqi people out, but we all know that’s a lie! He wanted the oil, and because it’s so expensive, he wanted all the oil for himself. E, quiet! So why is the Iraq War a sin?
J: because he went for the oil
YoKim: exactly! He put the oil above Jesus, and went into war without really asking God what she wanted him to do!
P: Hey teacher do you like Bush?
YoKim: no, that’s not what we are talking about right now. So let’s go back to my sin – I think my sin can be summed up as “game addiction”, that’s the core of my sin. Now for Bush, his sin can be summed up as “capitalism”! Got it? Now let’s go around and tell our sins from last week.
T: well last week I..
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I like my design. A lot. In particular there are some gimmicks here and there I could use for various related (but not the same) purposes – some of them are technically possible, some of them are possible but not semantically correct (from the point of view of WordPress PHP flow) and some just don’t work. Yet.
On the top left corner I’ve got a position:fixed; DIV item that shows the “post” icon and “Private Notes” link (when logged in) plus the left arrow and right arrow to turn pages while browsing categories. This section is outside the loop. When viewing individual posts, I would like these arrows to instead function as the next post, previous post links (and have the post title as ALT) that currently sit on the bottom of the left column, which are kind of ugly right now.
Also, I would like a tiny print icon for printing mode, when the post is a “paper” category. (shows an alternate CSS set with double spacing etc, which I used for actual papers later in my senior year)
But both features need to lie within the loop.
One way of making it work would be handling separate sidebar.php files depending on is_single() but that will be a heck lot of work, and most importantly, it’s not elegant and any changes in the future will cost tons of time.
Hmm.
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there were at least 5 groups sellings newspapers and handing out flyers at tonight’s gulf coast resistance movements solidarity fundraising.. wow. One guy handed me this flyer about an event this saturday afternoon (Rally to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, Lynne Stewart, and Assata Shakur, Imma Presb Church 4pm) and I heard Mumia’s name before, probably from Joy James or andrè carrington. I felt so sorry to the white dude talking to me while I was skimming the flyer and thinking about where I had heard of Mumia, because he was going 180km/h about communism and revolutionary internationalism and the prisons and this and that and I was paying scanty attention.. but sir, you need to wait a bit while I’m not looking at you! Anyway, towards the end of it I heard something to the order of the USSR communist experiment having failed because it had stayed isolationist, satisfied at the revolution within the nation (Stalin’s line), so I commented, “but on the other hand they relied too much on state power to bring about the revolution”, and he went on about states being necessary to fend off imperialist aggression, so I asked him if he belonged to CPUSA, and he goes no, they betrayed the revolutionary marxist analysis a while ago, so maybe it’s a branch of the SWP? and he goes no, we split from them a while ago.. so who are these guys? and how can trotskyists or any branch thereof argue in favor of state-based defense against imperialism?
