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Thread ID: 9571 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2003-09-06
2003-09-06 11:52 | User Profile
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California gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwartzenegger has danced all over the immigration issue, and now - an explosive find - links him to the notorious advocacy group: Mexican American Legal Defense & Education Fund (MALDEF) through wife, Maria (Shriver) Schwartzenegger.
Shriver-Schwartzenegger's father is a partner in the law firm, Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson. Since 1995, the firm has been providing MALDEF with free legal services through a multiple-year "Fellowship", where FFHS&J lawyers work for MALDEF as "pro bono" attorneys -- that is, paid for by FFHS&J -- which likely takes a tax deduction for all expenses (salary, benefits, etc.) while supporting this "raza" advocacy group. Further, the firm's partner Joseph A Stern serves as Chair of MALDEF.
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Joseph Stern Re-elected Board Chair of MALDEF
MALDEF Approves Five-Year Goals, Elects Nine New Board Members at Annual Meeting
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, May 1, 2003ââ¬âLatinos should be better represented in high-quality pre-school programs, in public sector employment and in government through better voting systems for citizens, agreed the MALDEF board when it approved five-year goals at its annual meeting, and the national Los Angeles-based civil rights organization also elected nine new members to its board of directors this weekend in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The representational issues were just three of 21 goals the MALDEF board approved for three of its five major program areas, education (11 goals), employment (5) and political access (5), covering the fiscal years of 2004 through 2008 (see "MALDEF Goals Executive Summary" below). Last year, the five-year goals were set for the other two program areas, immigrants' rights and public resource equity (fair share of services).
The roster of new board members includes two Fortune 500 company vice presidents, an NBC/Telemundo television executive and the former California Speaker of the Assembly. They replace six members who reached term limits, and they include one additional board member to the panel. (see "MALDEF Board" below). In addition, Joseph Stern, partner in the New York-based law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, was re-elected to serve another one-year term as chair of the board.
"MALDEF's new members are an extremely capable group, and we are very pleased to have them on board," said MALDEF President and General Counsel Antonia Hernández (Jewish connection mentioned in another OD thread). "They join an already impressive group of experts whose counsel we are very privileged to have."
Added Stern: "I am honored to be re-elected and look forward to working with the other members of the board on MALDEF's important mission."
MALDEF is a national nonprofit, civil rights organization that protects and promotes the civil rights of Latinos through advocacy, community education and outreach, leadership development, higher education scholarships and, when necessary, through the legal system.
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NOTE: The fact sheet posted on the law firm's website detailing pro bono (free, tax-deductible) work states: QUOTE: As further evidence of our commitment to pro bono, in 1995 and 1997, respectively, Fried Frank founded the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Fellowship Programs. Each Fellow spends two years in Fried Frankââ¬â¢s New York litigation department, and then, depending upon the fellowship, spends two years as a staff attorney with either LDF or MALDEF. Upon successful completion of the four-year Fellowship, Fellows may return to Fried Frank with full seniority.
Fried Frank has been seriously committed to pro bono service for decades. Our wide-ranging program helps deserving individuals and not-for-profit organizations both nationally and locally. Our New York pro bono and Washington, DC pro bono programs are each administered by a senior attorney dedicated primarily to handling and administering pro bono matters, and each of these offices has a committee that meets regularly to ensure the intake of appropriate matters and maximum participation by interested attorneysââ¬âboth partners and associates. Our Los Angeles pro bono activities include a host of litigation and transactional mattersââ¬âlarge and smallââ¬âon behalf of those in need.
Our strong commitment to pro bono causes is exemplified by the awards the firm has received over the years. Our New York office received the 1998 Thurgood Marshall Award from the Association of the Bar of the City of New York for its work in connection with death penalty cases. The Washington office received an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Asylum and Refugee Rights Law Project of the Washington Lawyersââ¬â¢ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs for three consecutive years from 1996 through 1998, was named the 1998 Pro Bono Law Firm of the Year by the DC Bar Association and was nominated for the American Bar Association Litigation Sectionââ¬â¢s John Minor Wisdom Public Service and Professionalism Award in 1999. In 2001, the Washington office received an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Public Education Project of the Washington Lawyersââ¬â¢ Committee, and, in 2002, it was honored by the Washington Council of Lawyers. In 2003, the Washington office was one of only seven firms recognized at the ââ¬Å40 at 50ââ¬Â breakfast honoring those firms where more than 40% of the attorneys individually met or exceeded the 50-hour guideline adopted by the DC Circuitââ¬â¢s Judicial Conference.
As further evidence of our commitment to pro bono, in 1995 and 1997, respectively, Fried Frank founded the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Fellowship Programs. Each Fellow spends two years in Fried Frankââ¬â¢s New York litigation department, and then, depending upon the fellowship, spends two years as a staff attorney with either LDF or MALDEF. Upon successful completion of the four-year Fellowship, Fellows may return to Fried Frank with full seniority.
Last updated: May 1, 2003. Copyright é 2000-2003 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson.
2003-09-06 11:56 | User Profile
ADL leaders hear Hispanics saluted as American force By John Berhman San Diego Union Tribune September 28, 1997
Hispanics are among the hardest working people in this country, are patriotic, represent a growing economic and political force, and yet are the most discriminated against. That was the assessment delivered yesterday at the annual Anti-Defamation League National Commission meeting here by Raul Yzaguirre, president of the National Council of La Raza. "This is a group that is the hardest working population in this country," Yzaguirre told more than 200 people gathered for a luncheon meeting at the Hyatt Regency Hotel downtown. "We live out the American ethic of work," he said. Yzaguirre, who works in Washington, said La Raza "is not an immigration rights organization, but a civil rights organization."
He was the featured speaker at the ADL's afternoon session yesterday. The ADL -- which fights anti-Semitism -- concluded its three-day 84th annual meeting here yesterday, the first time it has met in San Diego. This also marked the 20th anniversary of the ADL's San Diego office.
More than 475 people registered for the conference, according to Morris Casuto, director of the local ADL office. Yzaguirre told the luncheon gathering he is "a Hispanic Jew. So we are part of the same familia." He said
The Economist magazine recently reported that Hispanics fill 40 percent of all jobs created in the country in the past year. "If they hadn't taken up this slack, the country would not be enjoying the good economy and low inflation rate it currently has," he said. He also said Hispanics represent a $360 billion market, "which is the fastest growing in this country . . . and which is now being more targeted. "We also have a growing middle class." Hispanics accounted for 27 percent of the casualties in the Vietnam War, while making up only 5 percent of the nation's military force. "We are patriotic," he said.
Despite all these pluses to the country, Yzaguirre said, Hispanics still face strong discrimination. Discrimination hurts Hispanics in applying for better jobs, housing and education, Yzaguirre said. He said Hispanics have less chance of getting bank loans than the general population. "I urge you to better understand our community and to help build the bridges for them that you are so good at doing," Yzaguirre told the ADL members.
His message drew a standing ovation and a statement by new ADL national Chairman Howard Berkowitz of New York that "we pledge that assistance to you."
The morning session included a panel discussion that featured U.S. Attorney Alan Bersin; Sergio Feria, past president of the San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association; Kenji Ima, a San Diego State University professor; and Joel Kotkin of Pepperdine University. About a half-dozen pickets stood in front of the hotel yesterday morning, one of them holding a sign that read, "ADL Discriminates Against Christians." Casuto said white supremacist Tom Metzger of Fallbrook attempted to distribute literature to ADL members Friday but was asked to leave and did. Berkowitz called the three-day meeting "one of the best national conventions we've had."
Copyright 1997 Union-Tribune Publishing Co.
2003-09-06 16:13 | User Profile
If they hadn't taken up this slack, the country would not be enjoying the good economy and low inflation rate it currently has," he said
Damn! I'd sure hate feel the effects of a bad economy!
Hey Tex! When are we going to get a smiley face with a sombrero? I know that the turban of dung is quite appropos, but it is a little vulgar (and reminds me of Indian women for some reason).
2003-09-06 23:54 | User Profile
Newbies: note how Jews aid minority groups, whether Black or Mexican. Also known as: Jews doin' the Jew.
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