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Financed by<br />
Somali<br />
Intellectual<br />
League<br />
<strong>Nagaad</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
Tell: 612-805-2260 The Somali-American Mirrior<br />
YAA LA DOODI, YAA U DOODI ?<br />
Tuugo Ka Dilaacday Bangiga Wells Fargo<br />
Yuusuf Budle & Abdi-aar Abdi<br />
Minneapolis, MN<br />
<strong>Nagaad</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
Waxa la yaab leh in mid ka mid ah bangiyada ugu<br />
waaweyn ee ku yaala gobolkan Minnesota ay si<br />
xun uga dilaacdo tuugo cad oo aan geed ku<br />
gabasho lahayn.<br />
Maskaxdaadu ma sawiran kartaa adiga oo xoolahaagii<br />
ku aaminay acount bangi weyn oo caan<br />
baxay, kuna yaala dalka aduunka ugu horeeya,<br />
loola baxo si fudud adiga oo aan haba yaraatee wax<br />
ogolaansho ah lagaa codsan.<br />
Ma malayn kartaa adiga oo aan lacago badan kuu<br />
oolin bangiga, balse ku leh sumcad fiican (good<br />
credit), laguu furo aacount (adiga oo aan ogayn),<br />
kadibna laguu dalbo kaarka deynta (credit card),<br />
laguna deynsado lacag aanad weligaaba arag, kama<br />
hadlayno boqolaal doolar, kamana hadlayno<br />
kumanaan doolar: Waxa aan ka hadlayaa lacag<br />
tobanaan kun oo doolar ah.<br />
Ma u malaynaysaa in adiga oo leh xero xisaabeedka<br />
loo yaqaan “savings account”, oo haba yaraatee<br />
wax ku dhaca mooyee, wax ka baxaa jirin -<br />
Account si gaar ah u xiran (waa sida uu contractkaagu<br />
ahaaye), kana mamnuucay in wax khidmad<br />
ah, dul socod ah (interest) lagaa siiyo adiga oo<br />
ilaalinaya diintaada: Waxaas oo dhan waxba kama<br />
jiraan weeyi la yiri, lacagtaadiina lala baxay.<br />
Haa, intuba waa run waana dhacdooyin ka dhacay<br />
bangiga weyn ee loo yaqaano Wells Fargo Bank ee<br />
sida gaarka ah ugu caan baxay gobolkan<br />
Minnesota.<br />
Ilaa hadda lama hayo xaqiiqada bilowgii sheekada,<br />
iyo meesha ay ka bilaabantay, waxase hubaal ah,<br />
sida ay noo sheegeen qaar ka mid ah dadka arrinta<br />
sida gaarka ah ugu dhuunta daloolaa, in aanay<br />
ahayn arrin ku kooban hal qof oo ka mid ah<br />
shaqaalaha bangigan. Illaa hadda waxa ay diidan<br />
yihiin madaxda sare ee bangigan Wells Fargo in ay<br />
qirtaan in ay dhibaatadanu tahay mid gaarsiisan<br />
ugu yaraan dhawr qof oo ka mid ah shaqaalaha<br />
bangigan, oo mid ka mid ahi yahay amaba u<br />
dhashay qoomiyadda Soomaalida. Ilaa hadda waxa<br />
ay ku doodayaan “ Waa nin Soomaali ah oo dhacay<br />
Soomaali kale, arrintana anagaa baarayna”. Waxase<br />
hubaal ah in xaqiiqadu sidaas ka duwan tahay, kana<br />
weyn tahay.<br />
Mid ka mid ah dulmanayaasha lacagta laga dhacay<br />
ayaa noo sheegay in magaciisa iyo wixii la hal<br />
maala lagu isticmaalay in ka badan soddon kun oo<br />
doolarka maraykanka ah. Waxa dhacday in mid ka<br />
mid ah shaqaalaha bangiga wells fargo, laantiisa<br />
ku taala: 3030 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis, MN<br />
55408 (u dhow tukaanka K-Mart ee Lake Street),<br />
uu ku furay magaca dulmanaha account cusub oo<br />
leh waxa loo yaqaan “ Over-draft protection”,<br />
dabadeedna uu lacago badan marsaday Credit<br />
Card-kii isla dulmanahan. Waxa uu isla markiiba<br />
sameeyay haddana in dib u bixinta deynka lagu<br />
qaatay credit card-ka bil walba si toos ah (pay plan)<br />
loogala baxo account-kaas cusub oo haddii aanay<br />
lacag ku jirin la sii isticmaali karo over-draft protection-kaas.<br />
Intaas kuma aanu joogine waxa uu haddana qortay<br />
jeeg (check) uu isagu (ninkaas shaqaalaha bangiga<br />
ahi) ku saxeexay saxeex been ah oo u eg kan ninka<br />
dulmanaha ah.<br />
Kadib markii uu arkay dulmanuhu in wax badan ka<br />
qaldan yihiin xisaabaadkiisa, gaar ahaan credit<br />
card-kiisa ayaa waxa uu u tegay maamulka sare ee<br />
waaxda uu xisaabaadka ku lahaa, oo nasiib<br />
wanaag/nasiib darro ahayd isla waaxdaas (branch),<br />
wax laga farsamaystay. Jawaabtii waxa ay noqotay,<br />
beri ayaan saxaynaa iyo usbuuca dambe ayaan saxaynaa,<br />
ilaa markii dambe loo sheegay in maamul<br />
xumadiisa iyo xisaab fahan la’aantiisa ( waa sida<br />
loo sheegay dulmanaha’e) ay keentay in xisaabaadkiisa<br />
oo dhan ay khalkhalaan, xalkuna uu yahay in<br />
uu “ WIXII HORE ISKA WADA BIXIYO<br />
ACCOUNT CUSUBNA LOO FURO”. Su’aashu<br />
waxa ay tahay: Xaggee la joogaa?.<br />
Isla todobaadadaas ayaa mid ka mid ah macaamiisha<br />
Soomaaliyeed ee xiriirka fiican la leh, bangigan<br />
Wells Fargo uu dib u fiiriyay Account uu lacag<br />
ku xirtay muddo ilaa saddex sanno laga<br />
joogo.Lacagtaa oo uu saxeexay qofkanu in aan<br />
haba yaraato’e waxba laga saari karin wax lagu<br />
kordhiyo-mooyee. Macnaheedu waxa weeyi in sannad-sannad<br />
uu u xiro oo markaas uu xiray 12ka<br />
bilood ee soo socda aan haba yaraato’e waxba laga<br />
saari karin xataa haddii uu si degdeg ah ugu baahdo.<br />
Waxa kale oo uu qofkanu saxeeay heshis ah in<br />
si aan haba yaraato’e “interest uga fuulin lacagtiisa<br />
uu bixiyo lacag dheeraad ah (special fee).<br />
Waxa mar keli ah meesha laga waayay lacag ka<br />
badan sagaal kun oo doolarka maraykanka ah (US$<br />
9000). Kadib markii uu ku dacwooday madaxa sare<br />
ee laanta bangigaasna waxa loogu jawaabay “ don’t<br />
worry you’ll get it back in few weeks”. Waxa uu<br />
dulmanahanu la xiriiray qaybta dembi baaridda ee<br />
bangiga, kuwaas oo iyaguna yiri “ We could not<br />
find out how that money has been transferred from<br />
your account, but we’ll put it back”. Rumayso ama<br />
ha rumaysanine, lacagtii oo dhan waa lagu soo celiay<br />
account-kii, laakiin iyada oo laga soo shubay<br />
(transferred from) account kale oo cidda leh aanu<br />
garanayn dulmanuhu. Markii uu dood bilaabayna<br />
waxa lagu bilaabay cago juglayn iyo cabsi gelin.<br />
Qofkan oo aan marka horeba aqoon fiican u lahayn<br />
sharciyada dalka ayaa yiri: Ilaah ma iga soo nabad<br />
geliyay oo lacagtiisii oo dhan kala soo baxay<br />
accountkaas, kuna aaminay mid ka mid ah xawaaladaha<br />
Soomaalida ee Minnesota, si uu ugu dirto<br />
dhulkiisii hooyo.<br />
Ka fiiri bogga 2aad<br />
<strong>April</strong> 15th 2006<br />
Well Farbgo Bank-Branch<br />
3030 Nicollet Ave, Mpls MN
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<strong>Nagaad</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
The Somali-American Mirrior<br />
Address<br />
Minneapolis, MN 55404<br />
Tell: 612-805-2260<br />
Fax: 612-435-6655<br />
E-mail: nagaadtimes@aol.com<br />
Publisher<br />
Yuusuf Budle<br />
Editor in Chief<br />
Osman Ali (Mooyaale)<br />
Managing Editor<br />
Fatuma M. Hassan<br />
Funded By<br />
EAWCH &<br />
Somali Intellectual League<br />
Religion Advisor: Sh. Abdiqani Ali-Hagaa<br />
Political Advisor: Dr. Mohamed Hussein<br />
Legal Advisor: Steve Stoothoven<br />
Cultural Advisor: Sh. Mohamed Abdiwali<br />
Editorial Board Members<br />
Board Chair<br />
Anwar Cabdalla<br />
Members<br />
Ing. Ahmed Abdi-Dhanqool<br />
Sucaad Muuse<br />
Dr. Mohamoud Nur<br />
Fowsia Hussein<br />
Special Thanks<br />
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Specially Mr. Hassan Hersi (Manager)<br />
American Family Insurance<br />
Juba Travel<br />
Amana Money Transfer<br />
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70,000<br />
Ka yimid bogga 1aad<br />
Tuugada Wells Fargo Bank......<br />
Ninkan kale oo ka mid ah tukaanlayda gobolkan<br />
Minnesota ayaa isna sidoo kale lagu sameeyay<br />
dhac cad oo ilaa hadda ay kaga maqan tahay<br />
lacag aan la hubin tiradeeda oo go’an laakiin<br />
lagu qiyaasay labaatan ilaa soddon kun oo doolar<br />
(US$ 20,000 - US&$ 30, 000). Ninkan oo ah<br />
xoogsade aad u yaqaana samaynta lacagta, aadse<br />
uga liita xagga maal gelinta (investment) iyo<br />
xisaabinteeda ayaa ilaa hadda kala saari kari la’<br />
inta dhab ahaan looga dhacay iyo inta sumcadiisa<br />
dhibaato gaartay (bad credit).<br />
Haddaba in kasta oo ilaa<br />
hadda warka la qarqarinayo,<br />
bangiga Wells<br />
Fargo-na uu in badan<br />
isku deyay in uu dadkan<br />
la dhacay mid mid ula<br />
xaajoodo ayaa hadda u<br />
eg in ay arrintu faraha ka<br />
baxayso.<br />
Markii ugu horaysay ee<br />
uu warku na soo gaaray<br />
(<strong>Nagaad</strong> <strong>Times</strong> & Somali<br />
Life TV) waxa ay ahayd<br />
bishii January 2006, waxase<br />
aanu u qaadanay in<br />
ay tahay arrin uu si<br />
degdeg ah u xallindoono bangigu, isla markaana<br />
sharciga la marindoono ciddii dambigan<br />
samaysay, waxase hadda noo cadaatay in<br />
dhibaatadu ay intaas ka weyn tahay, lama<br />
huraanna ay tahay in aanu war gelino beesha<br />
Soomaaliyeed.<br />
Waxa ay ilaa hadda u eg tahay in ay sheekadan<br />
ka dambeeyeen ugu yaraan saddex qof oo<br />
shaqaalaha bangiga ah, ayna ka mid yihiin mid<br />
Soomaali ah iyo mid ka mid ah maamulka sare<br />
ee laantan, mase aha war ilaa hadda la xaqiijay.<br />
Qofka shaqaalaha ah ee Soomaaliga ah ayaa la<br />
sheegay in uu xoolahan ka gatay ugu yaraan<br />
halkii sanno iyo barkii ugu dambeeyay hal<br />
tukaan oo weyn, kuna yaala dhinaca koonfureed<br />
ee magaalada Minneapolis iyo ugu yaraan saddex<br />
guri. Ilaa hadda ma cadda cida ku qoran hantidi-<br />
isa, in uu ku qoray xubnaha qoyskiisa iyo in kale.<br />
Waxa ilaa hada hubaal ah in uu ugu yaraan isticmaalay<br />
hal qof oo kale oo soomaali ah si uu<br />
lacagta ku sii dhixiyo kadib marka uu account-ka<br />
qofka uu dhacayo ka shubo. Ma cadda in<br />
qofkanu uu yahay mid la ogaa falalka uu ku<br />
kacay wax dulmuhu, waxase la cadeeyay in ay<br />
lahaayeen xiriir aan la kala dhex mari karin.<br />
Ilaa hadda ma cadda sababta bangiga Wells<br />
Fargo ugu gudbin waayay dambiga noocan ah<br />
hey’adda qaabilsan ee loo yaqaan FBI-da.<br />
Caadiyan dembiga noocan ah waxa qasab ah in<br />
loo gudbiyo qaybta loo yaqaan “White Color<br />
Crimes Dept.” ee hey’adda<br />
FBI-da, maadaama uu<br />
yahay dembi qaran<br />
(Federal Crime). Ninka<br />
ugu aqoonta roon saddexda<br />
dulmane ee aan<br />
kor ku soo sheegnay<br />
ayaa yiri: Haddii habar<br />
(islaan) khimaar xirato<br />
FBI-du madax madax<br />
ayay dadka u soo gashaa,<br />
markase xoolahaaga la<br />
bursado waa…..<br />
Xqiiqadu waxa ay tahay<br />
in aan ilaa hadda la<br />
ogayn inta qof ee kale<br />
ee ay dhibaatadanu gaartay<br />
(la dhacay) iyo inta qof ee shaqaalaha bangiga<br />
ah ee isla ogaa, inkasta oo ilaa hadda fartu ku<br />
godan tahay ilaa saddex qof oo middi Soomaali<br />
yahay, labada kalena ayna Soomaali ahayn.<br />
Gebo gebo:<br />
Haddii aad la lahayd wax xiriir ah bangigan<br />
wells fargo, ilaa saddexdii sano ee ugu<br />
dambeeyay, fadlan si gaar ah u fiiri xisaabaadkaaga,<br />
lana tasho cid kaaga aqoon badan haddii<br />
aad wax fahmi weydo. Gaar ahaan haddii xataa<br />
hal maalinna ha ahaatee aad xiriir la yeelatay<br />
laanta ku taala 3030 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis<br />
MN 55408, tilifoonkooduna yahay: 612-667-<br />
1702. Gaar ahaan haddii aad leedahay mid la mid<br />
ah ganacsiyada kala ah: Tukaanle (nooc kasta),<br />
Home Care, Maqaaxi, iwm., waxa suurto gal ah<br />
in aan xisaabaadkaagu aanu nabdoonayn.<br />
VERSE OF THE MONTH:<br />
“GOD WILL BRING ALL THINGS TO ACCOUNT”<br />
"On Resurrection Day, We shall set up scales of justice so that no one will be dealt with<br />
unjustly in any way; even if someone has an act (of good or evil) as small as a grain of a<br />
mustard seed, We will bring it to account, and sufficient are We to settle accounts."<br />
The Holy Quran, 21:47<br />
Yuusuf Budle & Abdi-Aar Abdi
<strong>April</strong> 15th 2006 <strong>Nagaad</strong> <strong>Times</strong> Page 3<br />
Hordhac:<br />
Masaajidka Darul-Hijra<br />
Minneapolis: Masjidka Dar-Alhijra oo $400,000 kulasoo Wareegey<br />
Dhismihii Beeca ahaa<br />
Waxaa farxad u ah maamulka Masjidka Dar-Alhijra ee magaalada Minneapolis, USA in ay idinla<br />
socodsiinayaan in dhismihii beeca ahaa uu si rasmi ah ugu soo wareegey Masjidka maalintii<br />
Jimcadii oo Taariikhda Islaamku ahayd Rabiicul-Awal 9, 1427 (oo ku beegnayd <strong>April</strong> 7, 2006).<br />
Waana Allah mahadiis in arrintaas lagu guuleystey.<br />
Sh. C/Raxmaan Shariif oo ah iimaamka Masjirka Dar-Hijra ayaa SomaliTalk.com u sheegay: in<br />
bishii Agoosto ee sannadkii 1998 Masjidka laga furay dhismaha hadda sida rasmiga ah ugu soo<br />
wareegtey . Waxaana dhismahaasi uu beec ama iib noqday May 29, 2005. Markaas ayaa muslimiinta<br />
deggan Minnesota bilaabeen sidii ay dhismahaas ugu iibin lahaayeen Masaajidka. Waxaan<br />
arrintaas lagu guuleystey Jimce <strong>April</strong> 7, 2006 oo dhismihaasi uu si rasmi ah ugu soo wareegey<br />
Masjidka.<br />
Sh. C/Raxmaan Shariif waxa uu intaas ku daray in lacagta dhismaha masjidka lagula soo<br />
wareegey ay tahay $400,000 doollar. Lacagtaas oo ay tabarucaad u bixiyeen Muslimiintu.<br />
Sh. C/Raxmaan Shariif waxa uu hambalyo iyo duco u diray dhammaan intii gacan ka geysatey<br />
soo ururinta iyo deeqda lacagta masjidka loogu iibiyey dhismaha.<br />
Masjidka Dar-Alhijri waxaa lagala xiriiri karaa Tel: 612-339-4235.<br />
Cinwaanka Masjidku waa:<br />
Dar Al-Hijrah Cultural Center<br />
504 Cedar Ave. S<br />
Minneapolis, MN 55454<br />
(612) 227-3933<br />
(612) 558-5389<br />
www.daralhijrah.com<br />
Xuquuqda qoraalkan waxaa leh: SomaliTalk.com<br />
Daar Al-Hijrah Cultural Center waa xarun diineed, waxabarasho,<br />
dhaqan, iyo sadaqaysi oo canshuur cafis leh (Non-<br />
Profit Organization). Daar Al-Hijrah waxay u hagar baxdaa u<br />
adeegga bulshada Muslimiinta ee ku nool gobolka Minnesota.<br />
Xaruntu waxaa kale oo ay aad u soo dhawaynaysaa cid kasta<br />
oo rabta in ay wax ka barato Islaamka iyo dhaqankiisa.<br />
Xarunta Daar Al-Hijrah waxaa la aasaasay 1998 si ay u caawiso<br />
Muslimiinta ku soo badanaya gobolka Minnesota. Ilaa iyo<br />
intaas, Daar Al-Hijrah waxay ku caawinaysay bulshada adeegyo<br />
muhiim ah oo waafaqsan mabaadi'da Islaamka.<br />
Hadafka Daar Al-Hijrah:<br />
- Oogidda shacaa'irta Islaamka sida salaadaha, xafladaha,<br />
iyo ciidaha.<br />
- Waxbaridda Muslimiinta iyo dadka aan muslimiinta<br />
ahaynba si ay u ogaadaan Islaamka una fahmaan siduu u yahay<br />
hab nololeed dhamaystiran.<br />
- Iskaashiga hay'adaha muslimiinta ah si looga wada<br />
shaqeeyo waxyaabaha<br />
wanaagga ah oo danta ummadda ilaalinaya<br />
- Diyaarinta khidmooyinka aasaaska u ah Muslimiinta<br />
oo ay ka mid yihiin Masaajid iyo Iskuullo<br />
- Sara u qaadidda xiriirka iyo isfahamka ka dhexeeya<br />
muslimiinta iyo kuwaan muslimiinta ahayn<br />
- Diyaarin barnaamijyo bulsho iyo waxbarasho oo<br />
waxtar u leh jaaliyadda deggan Minnesota<br />
Wax Qabadka Masjidka:<br />
Waxayaabaha uu haatan masjidku qabto waxaa kamid ah<br />
Arimaha Diinta<br />
1. Salaadaha<br />
Shanta Salaadood, Ciida iyo Taraawiixda , iyo Salaada<br />
Jumcaha (1:00-1:30pm)<br />
2. Casharo iyo Muxaadarooyin joogta ah<br />
Jumcaha:<br />
Saxiix Al-Bukhaari (Tajriidd Sariix) 07:00 08:30pm<br />
Muxaadaro wayn oo dhalinyarada oo dhan ah; labadii biloodba<br />
Jumcaha ugu danbeeya (4:00-7:00pm)<br />
Wixii warbixin dheraad ah fadlan soo wac (612) 481-4423<br />
- Dugsiyo:<br />
Dugsiyada Daar Al-Hijrah waxaa dhigata arday isugo jira<br />
yaryar iyo waawayn. Manhajkooda waxaa ka mid ah xafidaadda<br />
Quraanka kariimka ah,, caqiidada, akhriska iyo qoridda<br />
carabiga, tarbiyada Islaamka, taariikhda Islaamka, sunnada<br />
nabiga (s.c.w), fiqiga, iyo xusuusta Alle.<br />
1. Dugsiga Salaaxudin<br />
Sabtida iyo Axada laga bilaabo 08:00am - 12:00pm<br />
Sabtida:<br />
Suwar min xayaati As-Saxaabah (Taariikhda Saxaabada);<br />
11:00-12:00pm<br />
Axada:<br />
Tafsiirka Quranka karimka ah; 8:30-9:30am.<br />
Qisasul Al-Anbiyaa (Taariikhda Nabiyada); 11:00-12:00pm<br />
Muxaadaro wayn oo dumarka oo dhan ah; bishiiba Axada ugu<br />
danbaysa(10:00-12:00pm)<br />
(Dugsigan wuxuu isticmaalaa Masjidka)<br />
Wixii warbixin dheraad ah fadlan soo wac (612) 227-8374<br />
2. Dugsiga Al-Xikmah<br />
Isniin - Khamiis laga bilaabo 03:30pm - 06:30pm<br />
(Dugsigan wuxuu isticmaala Dabaqa sadexaad ee Masjidka)<br />
Wixii warbixin dheraad ah fadlan soo wac (612) 298-2031)<br />
3. Dugsiga Al-Ixsaan<br />
Sabtida iyo Axada laga bilaabo 08:00 am - 12:00pm<br />
Dugsigan wuxuu isticmaala dhismakale:<br />
Volunteers of America<br />
924 19th Ave South- Minneapolis, MN 55404<br />
Wixii warbixin dheraad ah fadlan soo wac (612) 296-7799<br />
-<br />
Xafiiska La talinta Qoysaska:<br />
Daar Al-Hijrah waxaa ay ka caawisaa bulshada la talinta<br />
arrimaha bulshada sida guurka, furitaanka, xallinta arrimaha<br />
qoyska, iyo baraarujinta guud ee bulshada<br />
Xafiiskan wuxuu furanyahay<br />
maalin walba laga bilaabo 11:00am - 06:00pm.<br />
Wixii warbixin dheraad ah fadlan soo wac (612) 226-5661.<br />
- Xarunta Dhallinyarada:<br />
Daar Al-Hijrah waxay leeydahay xarun dhallinyaradu isugu<br />
yimaadaan, fikradah isku wey daarsadaan, waxna ku bartaan.<br />
Dhallinyaradu waxay ku xiran yihiin xarunta si ay uhaystaan<br />
hiddaha iyo dhaqanka Islaamka.<br />
Xaruntan waxay furantahay Jumcakasta laga bilaabo 05:00 -<br />
09:00pm, iyo<br />
Sabti iyo Axad laga bilaabo 08:00 - 02:00pm.<br />
Wixii warbixin dheraad ah fadlan soo wac (612) 205-<br />
9078/227-7352<br />
- Shahaado Dugsi Sare:<br />
Daar Al-Hijrah waxaa kale oo ay Jaaliyadda ka caawisaa bixinta<br />
shahaadada dugsiga sare ooy iska kaashadaan Volunteers of<br />
America taas oo ay ardaydu qaadanayaan shahaado dugsi sare.<br />
Dugsingan sare wuxuu furanyahay maalmaha shaqada oo dhan<br />
laga bilaabo 02:00 - 10:00pm.<br />
Dusigan wuxuu isticmaalaa dhismakale:<br />
Volunteers of America<br />
924 19th Ave South<br />
Minneapolis, MN 55404<br />
Wixii warbixin dheraad ah fadlan soo wac (612) 272-6518
<strong>April</strong> 15th 2006 <strong>Nagaad</strong> <strong>Times</strong> Page 4<br />
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u habayn iyadoo lagu daray<br />
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geli karaa Websaydhka<br />
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qaaday Heshiis ay la galeen<br />
Ciidamada Mareykanka ee<br />
Saldhigoodu yahay Dalka Jabuuti<br />
Sabti, <strong>April</strong> 15, 2006(HOL): Ra'iisal Wasaaraha<br />
Xukuumadda Federaalka Soomaaliya Prof. Cali<br />
Maxamed Geedi oo maanta warbixin siinayay<br />
Golahiisa Wasiirrada ayaa shaaca ka qaaday in<br />
mudadii uu joogay magaalada Nairobi uu dowladda<br />
Mareykanka ka ogolaaday in ciidamadooda ku<br />
sugan dalka Jabuuti loo fasaxo dhamaan biyaha<br />
Soomaaliya, isagoo xusay in ay ciidamadaas la<br />
diriri doonaan Burcad Badeedda ka dilaacday<br />
Biyaha Soomaaliya.<br />
Ra'iisal Wasaaruhu wuxuu sheegay in Mareykanka<br />
aanu soo dhaafi doonin biyaha Badda, isla<br />
markaana ay iyaga ka dowlad ahaan gudaha<br />
Soomaaliya kula diriri doonaan maleeshiyooyinka<br />
Burcad Badeedka ah ee berriga jooga, isagoo<br />
xusay in uu Mareykanku siiyay ballanqaad taakuleyn<br />
ah oo ay arrintaas ka geysanayaan.<br />
Dhinaca kalena, wuxuu Prof. Geedi u sheegay<br />
golahiisa Wasiirrada in 18-ka ilaa 19-ka bishan uu<br />
magaalada Nairobi ka furmi doono shir ay ka qeybqaadanayaan<br />
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iyo Midowga Yurub, kaasoo looga hadlayo sidii<br />
xayiraadda hubka looga qaadi lahaa Soomaaliya,<br />
isagoo xusay in xiligaas ka hor looga baahan yahay<br />
Baarlamaanka Soomaaliya in uu ansixiyo qorshaha<br />
Amniga Qaranka ee la doonayo in kulankaas la<br />
geyo.<br />
Salaad Iidow Xasan (Xiis) Hiiraan Online<br />
sxiis@hiiraan.com<br />
Mogadishu, Somalia
<strong>April</strong> 15th 2006 <strong>Nagaad</strong> <strong>Times</strong> Page 5<br />
Warsame Shirwa<br />
Minneapolis, MN<br />
Successful, consecutive conventions for<br />
Praise is to God Almighty that has enabled us<br />
to accomplish two large conventions in<br />
Minnesota. Indeed, it is with a great pleasure,<br />
that I write this note. Minnesota Muslims can<br />
be proud of their accomplishments.<br />
Let me start with the Youth Convention that<br />
took place <strong>April</strong> second and third. This convention<br />
was predominantly meant for the<br />
youth, it has also attracted families and community<br />
members and the faithful from all<br />
walks of life.<br />
Organized by the<br />
Abuubakar<br />
Islamic Center in<br />
Minneapolis,<br />
Minnesota, the<br />
convention was<br />
attended by great<br />
numbers of<br />
Muslims and non<br />
Muslims from<br />
the State and the<br />
neighboring<br />
states. Pilgrims<br />
steadfastly held<br />
on to their seats<br />
for the duration<br />
of the convention.<br />
The Sheiks (religious<br />
scholars),<br />
that spoke at the<br />
gathering came<br />
from a distance<br />
from Minnesota.<br />
The Abuubakar<br />
Youth Center<br />
which was the<br />
main department<br />
at the center for the organizing of the event<br />
produced good speakers of their own, and well<br />
Muslims in Minnesota:<br />
spoken members who have tangible accomplishments<br />
in<br />
their<br />
lives I<br />
to<br />
would like to<br />
take ake this moment to<br />
thank the Sheikhs for<br />
the leadership role<br />
they demonstrate in<br />
our community.<br />
community<br />
serve as role models to others.<br />
Among member speakers were four undergrad-<br />
uate as well as<br />
graduate students<br />
of the<br />
University of<br />
Minnesota.<br />
They talked<br />
about their<br />
personal experiences.<br />
These<br />
speakers who<br />
inspired<br />
everyone in<br />
the audience<br />
mentioned how difficult it was to continue with<br />
education due to the<br />
circumstances of<br />
language barriers,<br />
lack of family support,<br />
peer pressure<br />
to fall off the boat,<br />
cultural and religious<br />
differences in<br />
the main stream<br />
society.<br />
Nonetheless, they<br />
came out winners by<br />
sustaining their values.<br />
The spring<br />
break recess was a<br />
weekend of learning<br />
and gaining power<br />
to inspire the<br />
American Dream.<br />
The themed religious<br />
gathering has<br />
proven useful to<br />
community members<br />
for contribution to<br />
causes worthwhile to<br />
Minneapolis.<br />
The second convention<br />
organized by the Muslim American<br />
Society (MAS) also drew a large number of<br />
Muslims from Minnesota and nearby states.<br />
Speakers at this three day convention of <strong>April</strong><br />
fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth came from<br />
out of state as well international visitors.<br />
Large bazaars were a delightful sight at the<br />
convention. Dialogues of political discussions<br />
were common in different lecture halls. There<br />
was an Islamic entertainment of sorts at the<br />
convention center. The Minnesota chapter of<br />
MAS officials was happy that the number of<br />
participants increased by 44% since last year.<br />
Both conventions had successful fund raisings<br />
for the cause.<br />
Now let me take this opportunity to first of all<br />
thank God for giving us the opportunity to<br />
come together and help our cause. Secondly, I<br />
would like to take this moment to thank the<br />
Sheikhs for the leadership role they demonstrate<br />
in our community. Lastly but not the<br />
least, let me express my gratitude to all the volunteers<br />
who have tirelessly helped in realizing<br />
the success of the conventions. God bless.
<strong>April</strong> 15th 2006 <strong>Nagaad</strong> <strong>Times</strong> Page 6<br />
Masaajidada Minnesota<br />
Dar Al-Hijrah (Riverside Islamic<br />
Center)<br />
504 Cedar Ave. S.,<br />
Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA<br />
Phone: (612) 332-9250<br />
Email:<br />
abdisalam.adam@spps.org<br />
URL: www.daralhijrah.com<br />
ABUBAKAR ISLAMIC CEN-<br />
TER<br />
1507 So. 5th St,<br />
Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA<br />
Phone: 612-436-0280<br />
Fax: 612.436.0259<br />
Email:<br />
webmaster@abuubakar.com<br />
URL: http://www.abuubakar.com<br />
Imaam Shaafici Mosque<br />
1507 South, 5th Street,<br />
Minneapolis MN,<br />
Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA<br />
Phone: 612-455-1147<br />
Email: masjid@abuubakar.com<br />
URL: www.abuubakar.com<br />
Masjid Al-Qanateen<br />
311 Cedar Ave.,<br />
Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA<br />
Phone: 612-339-5744<br />
Islamic Center of Minneapolis<br />
(Dinkytown Masjid)<br />
1128 6th St SE,<br />
Minneapolis, MN 55414, USA<br />
Masjid Omar Ibn-AlKhattab<br />
912 East 24 th Street,<br />
Minneapolis, MN 55403, USA<br />
Phone: 952-888-7974<br />
Email: abuusaalix@hotmail.com<br />
Oromo Muslim Community of<br />
The Twin Cities<br />
2223 E 35th Street,<br />
Minneapolis, MN 55407, USA<br />
Phone: 612 -724 -4433<br />
Fax: 651- 292 -8141<br />
Email:<br />
ayub_kawo@hotmail.com<br />
MAS, Islamic Information Office<br />
315 E Lake Street,<br />
Minneapolis, MN 55408, USA<br />
Phone: 612-823-1943<br />
Fax: 651-457-7190<br />
Email: info@masmn.org<br />
URL: www.masmn.org<br />
Masjid Ummat<br />
315 E Lake St, Minneapolis,<br />
Minneapolis, MN 55408, USA<br />
Masjid Dinky Town<br />
1128 6th St SE,<br />
Minneapolis, MN 55405, USA<br />
Masjid Tawfiq<br />
2900 N Lyndale Ave,<br />
Minneapolis, MN 55411, USA<br />
Masjid An-nur<br />
1729 Lyndale Ave, North,,<br />
Minneapolis, MN 55411, USA<br />
Islamic Center of Minnesota<br />
1401 Gardina ave N.E,<br />
Minneapolis, MN 55418, USA<br />
Phone: (612)571-5604<br />
Fax: 763-571-8989<br />
Email: icm@icmorg.com<br />
URL: icmorg.com<br />
Islamic Cultural Community<br />
Center (ICCC)<br />
2534 Central Ave NE,<br />
Minneapolis, MN 55418, USA<br />
Phone: 612-782-3883<br />
Fax: 612-782-3883<br />
Al Huda Center<br />
Al Huda Center<br />
2534 Central Ave,<br />
Minneapolis, MN 55418, USA<br />
Phone: (612) 782-3883<br />
Email: info@alhudacenter.org<br />
URL:<br />
http://www.alhudacenter.org<br />
Masjid Al-akbar Saint Paul<br />
1360 University Ave,<br />
Saint Paul, MN 55104, USA<br />
MASJID AT-TAQWA Saint Paul<br />
MASJID AT-TAQWA<br />
735 SNELLING AVE (NORTH<br />
OF I-94 AND UNIVERSITY<br />
AVE),<br />
Saint Paul, MN 55104, USA<br />
Phone: (651) 292-9675<br />
Email: hmohamud@midmnlegal.org<br />
ISLAMIC CENTER<br />
4056 7TH AVE. NE,<br />
Minneapolis, MN 55421, USA<br />
Columbia Heights Mosque<br />
Columbia Heights Mosque<br />
4056 7th Ave NE,<br />
Minneapolis, MN 55421, USA<br />
Phone: 763-571-5604<br />
Fax: 763-571-8989<br />
Email: icm@icmorg.com<br />
URL: icmorg.com<br />
Regions Hospital Jumaa Prayers<br />
640 Jackson Street,<br />
Saint Paul, MN 55101, USA<br />
Phone: 651-456-0672<br />
General Information: Mosque<br />
MCC - Masjid Ar Rehman<br />
MCC - Masjid Ar Rehman<br />
8910 OLD CEDAR AVE S,<br />
Minneapolis, MN 55425, USA<br />
Phone: 612 -883-0044<br />
Email: info@mccminnesota.org<br />
URL: http://www.mccminnesota.org<br />
The Islamic Center Of Minnesota<br />
1401 Gardena Ave Ne,<br />
Minneapolis, MN 55432, USA<br />
Phone: 763-571-5604<br />
Fax: 763-571-8989<br />
Email: icm@icmorg.com<br />
URL: www.icmorg.com<br />
AL-AMAL SCHOOL<br />
1401 GARDENA AVE NE,<br />
Minneapolis, MN 55432, USA<br />
Phone: 763-571-8886<br />
Fax: 763-571-1925<br />
Email: info@al-amal.org<br />
URL: www.al-amal.org<br />
Masjid As-Salaam<br />
1460 Skillman Ave.,<br />
Saint Paul, MN 55109, USA<br />
Islamic Adults Training Center<br />
4100 66th St. E.,<br />
Inver Grove Heights, MN 55076,<br />
USA<br />
Phone: 651-688-3380<br />
Muslim American Society<br />
Community Center<br />
4100 East 66th Street,<br />
Inver Grove Heights, MN 55076,<br />
USA<br />
Phone: 651 -457-7170<br />
Fax: 651-457-7190<br />
Email: info@masmn.org<br />
URL: www.MASmn.org<br />
Islamic Institute of Minnesota<br />
Eden Prairie, MN 55347, USA<br />
Email: info@iimsouthwest.org<br />
URL: www.iimsouthwest.org<br />
Friday Prayer Osseo<br />
12951 Weaver Lake Road, Maple<br />
Grove,<br />
Osseo, MN 55369, USA<br />
Phone: 763-712-5743<br />
Email: icube@comcast.net<br />
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ama hilmaanay<br />
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Khat Trade Rules in Somalia<br />
By Emily Wax<br />
Washington Post Foreign Service<br />
Sunday, <strong>April</strong> 2006<br />
WAJID, Somalia -- Before Somalia's government<br />
collapsed in 1991, Maryann Ali was an<br />
elementary school teacher who spent her days<br />
giving fifth-graders geography and math lessons.<br />
Now she earns a living dealing khat, a<br />
narcotic plant that when chewed yields a jittery<br />
high and feelings of invincibility that later melt<br />
and leave the user in a lethargic stupor.<br />
Educated Somali women such as Ali dominate<br />
the khat trade, a profession that is both<br />
admired and scorned here, and that<br />
offers one of the few remaining job<br />
opportunities in the country's<br />
moribund economy.<br />
"If the country was ever normal,<br />
I'd quit and return to teaching,"<br />
said Ali, 40, who guards<br />
her stash with an AK-47 and has a<br />
gold tooth that she says makes her<br />
appear "tough." "What else can I do to<br />
survive?"<br />
Somalia, a country of more than 8 million<br />
ruled by warlords, has the highest percentage<br />
of khat users in the world, researchers say.<br />
Scarred by violence and raised in anarchy, a<br />
generation of young Somalis say King Khat, or<br />
miracle miraa, as the drug is known, helps ease<br />
the pain.<br />
Researchers estimate that 75 percent of adult<br />
males use the drug. Every town has khat<br />
rooms, where men lounge for hours listening<br />
to blaring music and chewing wads of green<br />
leaves that ooze with saliva and stick between<br />
their teeth.<br />
The consumption of alcohol and most drugs is<br />
socially unacceptable in this Muslim country,<br />
but chewing and dealing khat are considered<br />
gray areas. So Ali, a mother of 10, peddles the<br />
narcotic, which she said enables her to earn<br />
money and abide by the philosophy of<br />
1-<br />
Xilkan lagugu daahiyo<br />
Xujo weeye derejadu<br />
Waxan aad damaaciday<br />
Waa xuquuq distooriya<br />
Adigoon dinaahyayn<br />
Doobta baarqab soo ridin<br />
Sida faras danaaniyin<br />
Ku durdurinin kooraha<br />
Darka ceelka dhooqayn<br />
Dumarkiyo agoomaha<br />
Adigoon danbaabidhin<br />
Ma ogtahay dariiqaa<br />
In dar horeba eedeen<br />
Afkana ciida loo daray<br />
kooras<br />
Hadaad diiday samihii<br />
Xeerarkiyo daliilkii<br />
Dalka iyo dadka u yiil<br />
Khat<br />
is legal<br />
in much of sub-Saharan<br />
Africa and enjoyed<br />
throughout the Horn<br />
of Africa<br />
Sharci kuma dabaalee<br />
Waxaad goysay dabarkii<br />
Adna dacar qadhaadhiyo<br />
Deebaaqda mililkii<br />
Way kuu danbaysaa<br />
Diiwaana kuu qoran.<br />
2-<br />
Dun carbeed siduu yidhi<br />
Hada diricna keligii<br />
Dagaal kuma libaystee<br />
Dadkaa geesi lagu yahay<br />
Adna doogta nabar kale<br />
Waad sii damqaysaa<br />
Dumaashana xilkeedii<br />
Malaa daacad kama tihid<br />
Way kugu dirqiyayeen<br />
Weligaa is diidsii<br />
Doc kastoo la eegaba<br />
UDUB dowladinamadii<br />
Somalia's tight-knit clans: "Above all, provide<br />
and protect."<br />
Khat is legal in much of sub-Saharan Africa<br />
and enjoyed throughout the Horn of Africa and<br />
in parts of the Middle East, especially in<br />
Yemen. It is illegal in several African countries,<br />
such as Tanzania and Eritrea, and in the<br />
United States and across Europe.<br />
In 1980, the World Health Organization<br />
declared khat a highly addictive drug, and East<br />
African leaders have campaigned against it,<br />
saying chronic use leads to high divorce rates,<br />
wife beatings and job loss. In Somalia, opponents<br />
call the habit a national epidem-<br />
ic and say men who use the drug<br />
neglect their families by spending<br />
huge amounts of cash and<br />
time on it.<br />
Khat crops have flourished in<br />
neighboring Kenya and<br />
Ethiopia, where farmers started<br />
uprooting their coffee plants and<br />
growing the leafy green plant when the world<br />
coffee market crashed in the 1990s and early<br />
2000s. Today, Kenya exports about $250 million<br />
of khat annually, beating out tea as one of<br />
the county's most lucrative exports, according<br />
to the Kenyan government.<br />
Dozens of flights leave Nairobi's two major<br />
airports every day, transporting burlap sacks<br />
filled with khat to Somalia in a trade that is<br />
worth about $300,000 a day, according to<br />
Kenya's National Agency for the Campaign<br />
Against Drug Abuse.<br />
And like tobacco and alcohol, khat is a big<br />
business run by powerful people.<br />
Warlords control the khat trade and use the<br />
proceeds to buy weapons, which allows them<br />
to maintain control of their warring fiefdoms,<br />
according to a 2003 report of the United<br />
Nations Panel of Experts on Somalia.<br />
Source: Washington Post<br />
Xujo weeye Derajadu (hees Cusub)<br />
Hees cusub oo laga tiriyay maamul xumada ka taagan Somaliland<br />
Waaba uga sii daray<br />
Dalow baanu kala dhacay<br />
kooras<br />
Hadaad diiday samihii<br />
Xeerarkiyo daliilkii<br />
Dalka iyo dadka u yiil<br />
Sharci kuma dabaalee<br />
Waxaad goysay dabarkii<br />
Adna dacar qadhaadhiyo<br />
Deebaaqda mililkii<br />
Way kuu danbaysaa<br />
Diiwaana kuu qoran.<br />
Mubaarak Mohamed Nur<br />
Qoor u baxay
<strong>April</strong> 15th 2006 <strong>Nagaad</strong> <strong>Times</strong> Page 7<br />
Tilmaamaha Naarta iyo Cidda galaysa<br />
Waxaa diyaariyey:<br />
Cabdiqani M. Cali Qardhaawi<br />
qardhaawi@yahoo.com<br />
Marka u horaysa wuxuu ilaaahay (sw)<br />
quraankiisa ku leeyahay isagoo na tusaya<br />
maalinta aan u diyaar garoobayno<br />
Dadow waxaad ka baqdaan maalin aad u<br />
noqonaysaan ilaahay ka bacdina loo oofinayo<br />
(la siinayo) naf walba waxay<br />
shaqaysatay iyagoo aan la dulminayn.<br />
Waxaad ogaataan walaalayaal in naf walba<br />
ilaah hor tagayso kaligeed iyadoo ah oo ay<br />
waliba xambaarsan tahay oo ay dhabarka<br />
ku sido wixii dambi ay soo gashay (haddii<br />
aanay tawbad keenin).<br />
Xasanul-basri wuxuu yiri:<br />
Nafta yididiiladeeda ayaa in badan oo dadka ah<br />
halaagtay, iimaan aan raad lahayn, qawl aan camal<br />
lahayn, waxaad arkaysaa rag laakin arki maysid<br />
dad wax garanaya, waxad maqlaysaa sarqan laakin<br />
wax wehel ah ma jiro, way garteen xaqii ka dibna<br />
way ankireen, xaaraan wixii ahaan way<br />
xalaashadeen, hadaba kuwaasi ma rumeeyeen<br />
maalinta xisaabta? May wallee may way beeniyeen<br />
maalinta qiyaame iyo waliba way beeniyeen<br />
boqoka maalinta qiyaame.<br />
Walaalyaal janad ma galo illaa qof u rajaynaya oo<br />
u camal falay maahee, naartana kama badbaado<br />
illaa qof ka baqa maahee.<br />
Wuxuu allaah quraanka ku yiri:<br />
Qof dadka ka mid ah ma jiro ilaa wuxuu ku<br />
aroorayaa naarta jahanamo, waa arrin rabbi<br />
gooyey oo la xukumay oo la xukumay, waxaan ka<br />
badbaadinaynaa kuwa ilaah ka baqay, waxaan<br />
dhexdeeda uga tagaynaa kuwa daalimiinta ah iyagoo<br />
ku fadhiya jilbah.<br />
Xasan-basri (ilaah ha u naxariistee wuxuu yiri:<br />
Ilaah baan ku dhaartaye adoonku ma rumeeyo<br />
naarta ilaa waxaa ciriir ku noqda dhulki awal<br />
waasaca ahaa, qofka munaafaqa ah haddii ay naartu<br />
dhabarkiisa tahay ma rumaynayo (oo xumaantiisa<br />
ayuu sii wataa) ilaah uu ku dhaco ilaa gunteeda.<br />
Adoonka loogama digin wax ka wareer badan<br />
naarta.<br />
<strong>Nagaad</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
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Or<br />
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Ka dib wuxuu<br />
aqriyey ilaahay<br />
hadalkiisii<br />
ahaa:<br />
Waxaad idiinka<br />
digayaa naar<br />
lagu hoobto,<br />
ma galaya<br />
naarta illaa qof<br />
ayaan daran<br />
maahee, kaasoo<br />
xaqa<br />
beeniyey oo ka<br />
jeestay. Isagoo<br />
haddalkii sii<br />
wata xasan<br />
wuxuu yiri "waa naarta saciira ninkii raba inuu ka<br />
cararo ma seexdo oo hurdo ma qabato, janatu fardawsana<br />
ninkii raadiyaa ma seexdo oo hurdo ma<br />
ledo".<br />
Walaalayaal naartu waa guri shar iyo dhib badan,<br />
aad u kulayl badan, gunteeda aan la gaari Karin,<br />
waxaa qofka la la dhacaa dubayaal naar ah, sidii<br />
nabigu sheegay dhagaxii lagu tuuray wuxuu socday<br />
todobaatan sano mana gaarin gunteeda.<br />
Haddaba yaa loogu tala galay inay galaan oo<br />
buuxiyaan, ka feker walaal sidii aad uga baxsan<br />
lahayd.<br />
Umadaha dhamaantood maalinta qiyaamaha<br />
waxay ku fariisanayaan jilbahooda, iyo suga<br />
xukunka allaah, dadka daalimiinta ah waxa u<br />
muuqanaya meesha la galinayo, waxaa lagu<br />
oranyaa:<br />
Gala albaabada jahanama idinkoo ku waaraya,<br />
waxaa xumaaday meesha ay kuwa xaqa iska kibriyaa<br />
galaayaan. Markay galaan ayaya waxay<br />
bilaabayaan inay qayliyaan oo ay ka<br />
qoomameeyaan waxay samayn jireen, markaasay<br />
ilaah waydiisnayaan in loo cesho aduunka si ay<br />
camal fiican u sameeyaan, ilaahay isagoo nooga<br />
waramaya ayuu yiri:<br />
Iyagoo naartii ka dhex qaylinaya aya leeyihiin<br />
ilaahayow naga saar aan soo sameynee camal<br />
wanaagsan oo ka duwan kii aan hore u soo samaynay,<br />
ilaah markaas ayuu leeyahay "miyaanan idin<br />
siin cimri uu ku fakaro mid fekera oo idiin iman<br />
mid idiin diga, daalimiintu ma laha wax u gargaara".<br />
Markii ay naarta ku bislaadaan<br />
oo ay si fiican u<br />
gubto jirkoodu ilaahay<br />
ayaa jirkoodii soo celinaya<br />
si uu markale<br />
cadaabka u dhandhamiyo,<br />
wuxuu yiri<br />
allaah:<br />
Mar kasta oo uu jirkoodu<br />
bislaado waxaan ku bedelaynaa<br />
jir kale si ay u<br />
dhan dhamiyaan cadaabka.<br />
Waxay jeclaysanayaan in<br />
ay dhintaan oo ay<br />
halaagsamaan si ay uga<br />
nastaan cadaabka, laakin<br />
maxaa loogu jawaabayaa:<br />
Waxay ud dhawaaqayaan<br />
ilaalada naarta is si ilaah<br />
uu u xukumo oo ay u<br />
geeriyoodaan, waxaa la<br />
yiri waa laga aamusayaa,<br />
muddo ka bacdi ayaalagu oranyaa "waad ku<br />
jiraysaan oo waad dhex fadhiyaysaan naarta, waxaan<br />
idiinla nimi xaq laakin badankiin xaqa waad<br />
diideen".<br />
Dabadeed waxaa ka tira badanya kulaylka iyo<br />
cadaabka neefta iyo hinraaga markay arkaan inaan<br />
loo imanayn ayay oranayaan:<br />
[Waa isuga kaaya mid haddii aan qaylino oo aan<br />
argagaxno iyo haddii aan u dulqaadano naarta, ma<br />
helayno meel aan uga baxsano.]<br />
Haddaba walaalayaal waxaa jira dad loo diayariyey<br />
oo nabiga(scw) uu noo sheegay in haddii<br />
qofka laga helo calaamadahaas ay naarta galayaan<br />
haddii aanay ka toobad keenin waxaa ka mid ah:<br />
1. Qofkii qof walaalkiis ah maalkiisa xaq darro ku<br />
qaata:<br />
[Wuxuu nabigu yiri qofkii qof walaalkiisa ah<br />
maalkisa ku qaata dhaar been ah naarta boos ha ka<br />
diyaarsado.]<br />
2. qofkii khayaama cid uu masuul ka yahay<br />
Qofkii khayaama raciyadiisa wuxuu galayaa naar<br />
3. qof kasta oo ku cayila xaaraan:<br />
wuxuu yiri nabigu {Qof kasta oo jirkiisu ku baxo<br />
xaaraan waxaa jirkaa xaq u leh naar}<br />
4. haweenka is qaawiya:<br />
wuxuu nabigu(scw) yiri {Laba nooc oo dadka ka<br />
mid ah waxay ka mid yihiin dadka eh,lu narka ah,<br />
waxaa ka mid ah haweenka qaawan oo debada u<br />
baxa iyagoo is moodaya inay dhar qabaan, madaxoodana<br />
aad moodo kuruska geela, ma helayaan<br />
janada riixdeeda mana galayaan janada.}<br />
5. Ninkii dadka caaya:<br />
wuxuu yiri nabigu (scw) {Ilaahay agtiisa waxaa<br />
dadka u shar badan qofkii ay dadku ka taqaan iyagoo<br />
ka baqa af xumadiisa.}<br />
6. qofka weelasha dahabka iyo qalinka isticmaala:<br />
wuxuu yiri nabigu (scw)<br />
Qofkii weelasha dahabka iyo qalinka wax ku caba<br />
wuxuu calooshiisha ku shubayaa naarta jahanama.<br />
7. ragga jiida Marada (sida surweelka, khamiiska)<br />
wuxuu yiri nabigu (scw) Wixii ka hoos mara canqawga<br />
naarta ayaa iska leh ( waa ragga saraawiishooda,<br />
khamiisyada, ama macawiisaha dhaafsiiya<br />
canqowga)<br />
8. dadka sawirada qaada:<br />
wuxuu yiri nabigu (scw) Laba kooxood maalinta<br />
qiyaamaha waxay galayaan cadaab aad u daran,<br />
kuwa wax sawira oo shabahaya khalqiga ilaahay,<br />
iyo ku wa dadka ku cadiba dunida<br />
Walaalyaal ugu dambayntii ilaahay isagoo tilmaamaya<br />
naarta wuxuu yiri:<br />
Markasta oo ay naartu dento waxaan u siyaadinaynaa<br />
saciira.<br />
Inataas oo aayaad ah iyo axaadiis waxay na<br />
tusayaan in cadaabka ilaahay uu aad u daran yahay<br />
oo la doonayo inaynu ka fekerno sidii aynu uga<br />
badbaadi lahayn.<br />
Naftiina iyo naftaydaba waxaan u dardaarmayaa<br />
cabsida ilaahay, taas ayaa ah tan looga badbaado<br />
cadaabka ilaaahy.
<strong>April</strong> 15th 2006 <strong>Nagaad</strong> <strong>Times</strong> Page 8<br />
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Maanta waxaa loo kala baxay bur iyo biyo.<br />
Waxaa soo ifbaxaysa in dhaqankii<br />
wanaagsanaa ee ay Soomaalidu lahaan jirtay<br />
aan wax badan laga haysan oo ay bedeleen<br />
kuwa aan la garaneyn cid maanta ku dhaqanta.<br />
Waxaa dunida la yaab ku ah maanta in<br />
Soomaalidu aysan haysan dhaqan aan la<br />
garaneyn cid ay ka dhaxleen iyo cid ay kaga<br />
daydeen iyo cid ku dhaqanta oo aan iyaga<br />
ahayn. Waxaa aayaha danbe iyo mustaqbalka<br />
Soomaaliya iyo sharafteeda iyo dhaqan<br />
wanaageeda uu u hadhi doonaa dadkii asalka<br />
ahaa ee dhulka loogu yimid: Boon, Midgaan,<br />
Yibir, Tumaal iwm. Waxaan walaalayaal idiin<br />
sheegayaa haddii aynu dhaqankii Soomaalida<br />
hayno sidii aynu taariikhdeedaba u haynay<br />
inaanu noqon doono dad ka tilmaaman<br />
Soomaalida inteeda kale. Waxaa dhab ah in<br />
aanu noqonayno wakhti aan fogeyn bartilmaadeed<br />
iyo matxaf soconaya oo nool oo aan<br />
cid kale la wadaagin waxa ay haystaan. Sida<br />
maanta Saxarahan qalalani uu beri barwaaqa u<br />
ahaa, mar kalena uu u barwaaqoobi doono oo<br />
cagaar uu u noqon doono mustaqbalka ayaa<br />
waxaa dhab noqon doonta in Ajigu uu ka xuubsiiban<br />
doono dhaqankii asalka u ahaa<br />
Soomaalida oo aad haddii aad dedaashaan aad<br />
idinku hayn doontaan. Waxaana sababaya<br />
arrintan oo fududeynaya takoorka iyo cunsuriya<br />
uu Ajigu ku hayo Midgaanka taasoo<br />
keeneysa inuu Midgaanku is ururiyo oo uu<br />
hayo dhaqankii asalka ahaa. Ajigu isagoo<br />
ilbaxnima raadis ah ama Midgaan ka<br />
carar ah ayuu ka dhacayaa boholaha<br />
xargago, markaasuu dhaqama kale iyo<br />
ummado kale dhex dabaalanayaa<br />
kuna waayayaa wixii sooyaalka<br />
ahaa. Bal aynu isla eegno sida loo<br />
ilbaxay anigoo soo koobaya:<br />
Waar heedhaha Soomaaliyey carruurtiina<br />
ceshta. Waar carruurtu<br />
meel ay qabato garan meysaan.<br />
Waar waxay idiinku sheekeysaa<br />
iskoolkaan ku harnaa si wax<br />
naloogu akhriyo. Waar deriskaanu<br />
aadnaa bay idinku yiraahdaan.<br />
Ereyadaasi waxay ka soo burqanayeen<br />
Wadaad ka mid ahaa wadaadada ka hadlayey<br />
Shirweynihii muslimiinta ee uu soo<br />
abaabulay Abuubakaru Saqiiq. Dhego badan<br />
looma dhigeyn, laakiin markii uu Wadaadku<br />
hadalkiisii sii watay ayaa sidii deerada mar<br />
keliya dhegaha la taagay. Waar heedhaha<br />
waxaa jira nin laga soo weriyey in ay dumarka<br />
la qabo, kuwa yar yar iyo wiilashuba ay saf<br />
usoo galaan oo Daarahan dhaadheer ku nool!.<br />
Ninkaasi wuxuu sheegay inuu qadyaan ka taagan<br />
yahay Soomaalida oo ay albaabkiisa si aan<br />
kala go’ lahayn usoo garaacaan iyagoo aan la<br />
xisaabin karin. Wuxuu sheegay inuusan weligii<br />
arag dad bini’aadam ah oo sidaa daacad ugu ah<br />
in la isticmaalo! Yaxyax iyo dhakafaar weynaa!<br />
Akhristow, tolow ma madiido miyaa lagu<br />
akhriyey! Waxaanba soo xasuustay dhaqanka<br />
aan marna laga goon karin hablaheena ee ay<br />
caan ku yihiin hablaha xunxun ee dunida<br />
daafaheeda ku nool. Weli ma u fiirsateen meesha<br />
nalaga hayo! Haddiiba dumarkeenu ay<br />
isticmaalayaan dabeecadaha lagu yaqaan naagaha<br />
jirkooda gada iyagoo u yaqaana in ay<br />
dhaqan tahay ama aynu weligeen soo isticmaali<br />
jirnay sow la yaab maaha in dunida cusub ee<br />
aynu nimid ay u yaqaanaan<br />
dhaqankaas wax xun.<br />
Sow dow maaha in<br />
dumarkeenu ay iska<br />
gooyaan dhaqanka xun<br />
ee ay dhaxleen ama soo<br />
isticmaali jireen oo ninkii<br />
arkaaba markiiba ku soo<br />
leexanayo iyagoo moodaya<br />
qolyihii wax iibin<br />
jirey. Maxaan ka hadlayaa?<br />
Bal u fiirso sida ay<br />
hablahayagu u sheekeeyaan<br />
ama u socdaan.<br />
Xagga sheekadu waa<br />
qosol badan oo beenbeen ah oo aad moodaysid<br />
inay wax kaa baadhbaadhayso iyo gacan wada<br />
socda. Is marmarooris badan iyo gacmahoo<br />
layku garaaco ama bowdada lagu garaaco.<br />
Gacantoo ninkiiba lala soo aado iyadoo qosol<br />
ku daraysa oo leh: “ naga dhaaf yaakhee!, waa<br />
iga qoslinee no! maxaa dhahdayna iwm!.<br />
Xagga<br />
Calaf<br />
allow cajab caawa iyo<br />
juq-aa!.<br />
Dumaashigaa daba llooma diidee, inta la deymoodaa<br />
la damuuqsadaa!. Hee! meel laga kaadsho<br />
maan nin reg ah u diidaa! Dhaxan xunaa jirta,<br />
dhaxan xunaa jirta ma diidi, garka iyo gomoda in<br />
laysku geyn ma diidi, geedku inuu gadaal mari ma<br />
diidi, in lagu bililiqaysan ma diidi!<br />
Bal ka fikir ereyga Daba gur! Meelaha ay degto<br />
Soomalidu qaar ka mid ah ayaaba la sheegayey<br />
in ninku markuu safro guriga hortiisa laga<br />
hor taago waran si uu u ogaado haddiiba<br />
uusoo noqdo in islaantiisii laga<br />
shaqaynayo!.<br />
socodkana<br />
waaba is<br />
malmaluuq, daba wareejis iyo hareera eeg<br />
badan iyo gacantoo la saydhayo! Waar tolow<br />
dumarkayagu maxcay iibinayaan! Qofkii arkaaba<br />
wuu isaga soo leexanayaa markaasaa<br />
halkaas waxaa ka bilaabmayaa sheekooy<br />
sheeko iyo qosolkii aanu caanka ku ahayn!<br />
Waxaa la yaab leh sheekooyinka aanu isku<br />
maaweelino oo ay ka buuxaan faaxisho iyo<br />
ereyo aan habooneyn inay carruurtu maqlaan.<br />
Bal adiguba akhri hal heysyada iyo halku dhe-<br />
gyada aanu ku sheekeysano kuwa ugu ceebta<br />
yar:<br />
Calaf allow cajab caawa iyo juq-aa!.<br />
Dumaashigaa daba llooma diidee, inta la deymoodaa<br />
la damuuqsadaa!. Hee! meel laga<br />
kaadsho maan nin reg ah u diidaa! Dhaxan<br />
xunaa jirta, dhaxan xunaa jirta ma diidi, garka<br />
iyo gomoda in laysku geyn ma diidi,<br />
geedku inuu gadaal mari ma<br />
diidi, in lagu bililiqaysan ma<br />
diidi! Bal ka fikir ereyga Daba<br />
gur! Meelaha ay degto<br />
Soomalidu qaar ka mid ah ayaaba<br />
la sheegayey in ninku markuu<br />
safro guriga hortiisa laga hor<br />
taago waran si uu u ogaado haddiiba<br />
uusoo noqdo in islaantiisii<br />
laga shaqaynayo!.<br />
Halku dhegyadaas iyo kuwa ka<br />
sii daran ayaa waxaa lagu soo<br />
barbaariyey carruurta yar yar oo<br />
ay mar walba dhegahooda maqli<br />
jireen. Hooyada, Aabaha iyo<br />
dhamaan qoyska inta uu ka kooban yahayna<br />
waxayba ku wardiyi jireen ereyga “was”.<br />
Waxaad maqleysaa aabahaa was!, hooyadaa<br />
was!, adiga iyo waxaad tahayba was! Aabahaa<br />
ku was! Wejigaaga was! Midgaankaa tahay<br />
was! Fool xumahaa tahay was! Kelebkaa tahay<br />
was! Qaxootigaa tahay was! Eelaygaa tahay<br />
was! Qaldaankaa tahay was! Jareerkaa tahay<br />
was iwm!, Ereygu meel walba wuu galaa sidii<br />
magacii Illaahay, kii Rasuulka iyo Diinta la<br />
caayi jirey ay meel walba u geli jireen!.<br />
Dhegaha carruurta ayuu ka batay<br />
iyagoon fahansaney micnaha ka<br />
danbeeya laakiin u yaqaanay in<br />
la yiraahdo marka la xanaaqo<br />
si loo ciil baxo. Laakiin<br />
maxaa naga qabsaday<br />
markii uu ilmuhu soo<br />
qaangaaray ee uu fahmay<br />
macnaha ka danbeeya ee<br />
ereygii loogu soo wanqalay<br />
yaraantiisii. Waxaa<br />
isbiirsaday ereygii oo<br />
maankiisa ka batay oo uu<br />
u yaqaanay ciil bixid, iyo<br />
macnihiisa dhabta ah oo uu<br />
haatan bartay markii uu weynaaday<br />
markaasaa waxay<br />
dhaleen erey cusub oo la yiraahdo<br />
tijaabin!. Waa waxa maanta<br />
naga haysta daafaha dunida ee meel<br />
walba laga yaaban yahay! Waa waxa<br />
naloo moodo in aynu ahaan jirnay maxbuus<br />
laga soo furay xarig iyo xero ay ku oodnaan<br />
jireen. Waa waxa laga yaaban yahay meesha ay<br />
ka baxday diinta iyo dhaqanka wanaagooda<br />
laga sheekeeyo. Waa waxa Wadaadka ka<br />
qaylisiiyey intii wax isku falaysayna ay<br />
madaxa hoos u laalaadisay ama dhinacyada u<br />
ruxday! Laakiin Beyzaanigii baa ku leh: “ iska<br />
caadi waaye no! zigtaa lee maahoo!”<br />
Beyzaaniyow ba’!<br />
Waa socotaa ee ila soco………….
<strong>April</strong> 15th 2006 <strong>Nagaad</strong> <strong>Times</strong> Page 9<br />
Warbixin ku Saabsan 3-da Soomaalida ah ee Sida Xaqdarrada ah ugu<br />
Xiran Dalka Thailand<br />
Qore: Xasan Cubeed Aadan (Seed)<br />
Nabbadon@hotmail.com<br />
Tel. 45-20456217<br />
Denmark<br />
Waraysi laga Soo Qaaday 3-da Soomaalida ah<br />
ee ka tirsan Ciidanka Daraawiishta Puntland ee<br />
iyagoo wata hawshii Dowladdu u Xilasaartay<br />
la qafaashay....<br />
ACWW. Salaantaas islaamka kadib, waxaan<br />
ilaahay oogabaryayaa inuu ragaan aan<br />
kasheekeynayo ee hoos kuqoran kasoo daayo<br />
gacanta cadawga eey kujiraan (amiin).<br />
Walaalayaal waxaan idiinsoo gudbinayaa<br />
wareysigii sadexda darwish ee ku afduuban<br />
Thailand:<br />
Nimanka xirnaa waxay ku xiran yihiin<br />
Bangkok caasimadda Thailand, waxaa<br />
nimankaas la soo afduubay 17 Maarso, 05kii,<br />
nimankaas waxaa laga soo qabtay xeebaha<br />
Boosaaso ayaga oo la socda doon kaluumaysi<br />
ah oo laga leeyahay dalka Thailand oo heshiis<br />
la gashay niman ilmo cali taar<br />
layirahdo, nimankaas waxaa<br />
doonta awal saaray oo waardiye<br />
uga dhigay ilmo cali taar,<br />
nimanku waa saddex nin oo<br />
kala ah:<br />
1-Yuusuf Aaden-seed samatarcadde<br />
2-Maxamuud Cabdullaahi<br />
Jaamac<br />
3-Xuseen Cabdullaahi Aaden<br />
Waxaa isku dhacay nimankii<br />
doonta wadey iyo 3da Askari,<br />
sabaabto ah Markabka<br />
Thailandeska ah wuxuu ku tuntay<br />
heshiis ahaa in xeebta aan<br />
loo soo dhaafin masaafo cayiman,<br />
si loo badbaadiyo shabaagaha<br />
ay dhigtaan Danyarta<br />
Soomaaliyeed oo kaluumaysatada ah iyo ayagoo<br />
ku xadgudbay kallunkii aan loogu talagalin<br />
in eey qataan iyo ugxan farabadan.<br />
Markii aan niri ka durka meeshaanna waa ay<br />
diideen kaddib waxaanu la hadalay ninka la<br />
yiraahdo xiif cali taar oo ah ninkii na saaray<br />
doonta oo na xukumay fadhigiisuna ahaa<br />
Bosaaso, markii aanu usheegnay sida wax<br />
usocdaana waxaa uu yiri edeb ku saaraada<br />
meesha haddii kale waan idinka dajin waxaa<br />
khaldanaa wixii idin saaray markii horaba,<br />
dabadeed waxaan ka codsanay in nalageeyo<br />
dakadda Bosaaso kadibana nalasiiyo mushhaarkeeni<br />
oo naga maqnaa 7 bilood.<br />
Intaa kaddib waxaa dhacday in nalala aaday<br />
meesh ala yiraahdo Suqadara, waa jasiirad ay<br />
leedahay Yamantu. Haddii waagu baryey<br />
ayaanu aragnay anagoo ag taagan Suqadara<br />
meshaan sugeeynay in Bosaaso nalageeyo,<br />
waxaan oganay markaas in nala afdubay, kadib<br />
waxaan lahadalnay kabtankii markabka oo an<br />
kacodsanay inuu doonta dib u celiyo ama noo<br />
waco maamulka Puntland si naloo soo doono.<br />
Intaa kaddib waxaa bilaawday wadahadal<br />
dhexmarayay kabtankii iyo shaqaalihi markabka<br />
ee Thailandeska ahaa oo aan dareenay in<br />
wax nalaladamacsan yahay, wadahaadlkoodi<br />
kaddib waxaa biloowday weerar nalagusoo<br />
qaday oo gacanta lagudhigay ninka layirahdo<br />
Xuseen Cabdullahi Adan, oo la iskudayeey in<br />
Markabka lagatuuro ayagoo qorshahooda ahaa<br />
in ninba mar laga tuuro markabka, maadama<br />
mushaarka aan kuleenahay uu badnaa iyo<br />
hoowsha badda kasocota oo aan oganay.<br />
Intaa kabacidi waxaan maqalnay qeylada<br />
Xuseen waan kusoo oradnay kaddibna waxaa<br />
nadhexmaray dagaal, dagaalki kaddib anagii<br />
baa kala wareegnay majarihii markaan aragnay<br />
in nala maaggan yahay, oo Boosaaso soo qabad<br />
siinay. Haddii aanu in doora soo soconay<br />
waxaa na soo weeraray Maraykan oo wata hellikobtarro<br />
oo yiri isdhiiba, waanu isdhiibnay<br />
kaddibna sidaas ayay nagu soo kaxaysteen, isla<br />
markiiba waxaa noo yimid Xiif Cali Taar oo<br />
wata doon, waanu la hadalay oo waxaanu ku<br />
niri sidaas ayay wax udhaceen ee la hadal<br />
nimankaan oo naga reeb, asna waa naga diiday<br />
Xaggee kala xiriiri kartaa safaarada Boqortooyada Thailand ee<br />
dalka aad joogtid...<br />
Linkigan: www.thaiembassy.org<br />
Xafiiska guud ee arrimaha dibada ee dawladda<br />
Thailand u qaabilsan xiriirka dadweynaha waxaalagala<br />
xiriiri karaa:<br />
Foreign Office, The Government Public<br />
Relations Department, Bangkok, Thailand,<br />
Tel: (66-2)618-2323 ext. 1700,<br />
Fax: (66-2)618-2358,<br />
E-mail: prforeign@prd.go.th<br />
Website: http://thailand.prd.go.th/index.php<br />
Xafiiska Ra'iisul wasaaraha Thailand<br />
THAKSIN SHINAWATRA<br />
EMail: webmaster@thaigov.go.th<br />
wuxuuna noogu cagajugleeyaay inuu<br />
naciqaabidoono ciqaab anaan waligeen arag,<br />
markuu nagatagay kaddib waxaa noo yimid<br />
sarkaal Mareykan ah oo noosheegey inuu kaxunyahay<br />
inuu xoriyadeena naga qaado balse<br />
eey tahay amar ugayimid madaxdiisa iyo<br />
madaxa shirkada Samcon oo ah Xiif Calitar<br />
sidaas daraadeed unoo kaxeendono saldhig eey<br />
kuleyihiin Cumaan.<br />
Haddii muddo Maraykanku nahayay oo<br />
nabaarayeey waxaa usoo baxday in aan nahay<br />
niman iska caadi ah, kanatirsanaa cidamada<br />
Puntland markaa Mareykenka waxeey noo<br />
shegeen in Xiif calitar kuyiri waa burcad oo u<br />
uyeeray ayaga, sidaas daradeed ineey asaga<br />
gacanta naga galinayaan maadama u asagu<br />
shirkadii aan u shaqeyneenay madax uyahay.<br />
Kaddib waxeey kacodsadeen xaggee kugu<br />
keena nimankaan wuxuuna dalbaday Cumaan<br />
oo Soomaaliya ay baddu udhaxayso, markii<br />
Cumaan meel kamid ah nalageeyaay waxaa<br />
nagu sugayaay Cabdiwali Calitar oo soo kaxeeyay<br />
safaarada Thailand dad kasocda kulano<br />
soo heshiiyay inuu noo gacan galiyo<br />
nimankaas, kaddibna wuxuu nagu wareejiyaay<br />
Xafiiska Wasaarada Caddaalada Thailand:<br />
Email: ojawebmaster@moj.go.th<br />
safaaraddii Thailandiisku ku lahaa halkaas,<br />
kaddibna waxaa nalooqaday Bangkok.<br />
Si naloo duudsiiyo xaqii aan kulaheen iyo<br />
inaanan dadka usheegin waxa kasocda badaha<br />
Somaaliyeed, waxaa kaloo jirta in nimankaas<br />
afdubnaa la'la'aa mudo dhan 3 bilood oo ilmo<br />
calitarna eey ogayeen una sheegin eheladooda<br />
iyo caruurtada iyo maamulka Puntland intaba<br />
ayagoo ugu talagalay inaan raq iyo rux midna<br />
laheliin, nimankaas sidaas ayaa xaalkoodii<br />
ahaa.<br />
Isku soo duubo nimanka waxaa xaqiiqo noqotay<br />
in xiif cali taar udhiibay Maraykanka warqaddii<br />
uu ugu dhiibayna waa la hayaa, waxaa<br />
kaloo xaqiiqo ah oo aan laisku inkirsaneen in<br />
Xiif Caliyar uu ugu yeeray cidamada<br />
Marekanka. Waxaa cadeen kufilan in uu ugu<br />
yeeray cidamada marekaanka rag uu isagu<br />
xukumo shaqalahiisna ah kuna cinqaabikaro<br />
inuu kaceeyriyo shaqada hadaan macnuhu<br />
aheen, sirbeey ogadeen iyo yeeysan helin<br />
musharkooda intababa. Calaakulixaal<br />
nimankaas waxay mareen maxkamadii saddex-<br />
aad oo la saaray waxaana<br />
ugu danbeeyay<br />
15/3/06 waxayna<br />
hadda uballan sanyihiin<br />
maxkamad 24/4/06,<br />
waxaanu uqabanay<br />
looyar, waxaa<br />
markhaati loo keenay<br />
nimankii markabka<br />
saarnaa oo ineey tuuraan<br />
damcay qaar ka<br />
mid ah, iyo qoraal la<br />
leeyahay waa qirteen<br />
mar ay uturjuntay sida<br />
eey sheegen qof<br />
dumar ah oo Samcon<br />
ushaqaysa oo ugu tagtay<br />
markii la geeyey<br />
meesha, arintaas waa<br />
ay diideen oo waxay dheheen waxba kama<br />
jiraan oo qoftii nagaturjuntay ayaa wax aanaan<br />
dhihin u shegaty boliska Thailand, looyarkiina<br />
waxaa uu yiri mar haddii aysan looyarba<br />
haysan markii wax laga qorayaay waxaas<br />
looma qaban karo, waxaa kaloo layaab ah in<br />
Samcon oo xiray nimankaan hadana ukeneen<br />
turjubaan ayaga ushaqeeya si eey isu raaciyaan<br />
howshooda intii kadhineed, waxaa kaloo kasii<br />
daran in doowlad goboleedka Puntland usan<br />
kawarqabin ciidankiisii u shaqada udiray oo<br />
afduubka lagu kaxeestay, iyo eheladii<br />
nimankaas intba.<br />
Xabsiga ugu weyn Thailand waxaa la yiraahdaa<br />
Bangkwang http://www.bangkwang.net/<br />
Safaaradaha iyo Qunsuliyadaha Boqortooyada Thailand<br />
www.thaiembassy.org<br />
Ugudanbeen waxaan cidkasta oo kaalmo<br />
kageeysan karta siideynta raggaas geerida<br />
loogu talagalay kacodsanayaa ineey gurmad<br />
ufidiyaan maal iyo muruqba ah, Ilahayna waxaan<br />
ooga baryayaa inuu kasoodaayo xabsiga<br />
lagu afduubtay amiin.<br />
Hassan Cubed, Somalitalk<br />
Nabbadon@hotmail.com<br />
Tel. 45-20456217<br />
Denmark
<strong>April</strong> 15th 2006 <strong>Nagaad</strong> <strong>Times</strong> Page 10<br />
Minnesota Dialogue on Africa<br />
African Immigrant and Refugee<br />
Youth: Acculturation and<br />
Community Impact<br />
Sponsored by the Center for Policy,<br />
Planning and Performance;<br />
Leadership Empowerment and<br />
Development Group; and Minnesota<br />
Council of Nonprofits<br />
Join us for the next Minnesota<br />
Dialogue on Africa as Dr. Leon<br />
Rodrigues, Associate Dean for<br />
Diversity and Community at Bethel<br />
College, leads a panel and discussion<br />
addressing the issue of acculturation<br />
among African immigrant and<br />
refugee youth and its impact on families<br />
and communities. Participants<br />
will leave this session with an<br />
enlightened sense of what issues<br />
need to be addressed to improve<br />
African immigrant and refugee<br />
youth acculturation, and how we can<br />
Minnesota Dialogue on Africa<br />
Youth Acculturation and Community Impact<br />
address them.<br />
Dr. Rodrigues will be joined by the<br />
following panelists:<br />
*Ibrahim Ayeh, English Language<br />
Learners Coordinator, Washburn<br />
High School<br />
*Tsehai Wodajo, School Success<br />
Community Coordinator, Hennepin<br />
County<br />
*Miamen Wopea, parent<br />
*Clare Rodrigues, youth<br />
Questions the panelists will respond<br />
to include:<br />
*How are immigrant and refugee<br />
youth adjusting to new communities<br />
and new systems (including the educational<br />
system)?<br />
*What kinds of conflicts exist for<br />
youth and families as they acculturate?<br />
*What is the relationship between<br />
immigrant and refugee youth acculturation<br />
and “at-risk” youth?<br />
*What is the role of parents, organizations,<br />
and communities to reduce<br />
immigrant youth “at-risk” behavior?<br />
*What do we need to be thinking<br />
about to improve the lives of immigrant<br />
youth and their families?<br />
DETAILS:<br />
Minnesota Dialogue on Africa<br />
African Immigrant and Refugee<br />
Youth: Acculturation and<br />
Community Impact<br />
Wednesday <strong>April</strong> 26 2006<br />
1 – 3 p.m.<br />
New Federal Grant Opportunities & other Resources<br />
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR ANNOUNCES COMPETITION FOR $4 MILLION IN<br />
FUNDING FOR GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS<br />
The U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) Employment and Training<br />
Administration (ETA) announces a $4 million grant competition for grassroots<br />
faith-based and community organizations to help underserved populations prepare for<br />
and succeed in employment opportunities. Applicant organizations are<br />
expected to create their program in conjunction with their local One-Stop Career<br />
Center.<br />
Applicants must provide a Letter of Intent or Memorandum of<br />
Understanding signed by the One-Stop articulating the anticipated partnership.<br />
These grants will become part of DOL's ongoing effort to partner its<br />
existing programs with effective faith-based and community organizations<br />
to better serve the needy. ETA expects to award between 60 and 70 grants of<br />
$50,000-$75,000 each through this $4 million competition. This will<br />
amount to four times the funding given in 2005.<br />
This competitive solicitation for grant applications can be accessed<br />
online through www.doleta.gov/sga/sga.cfm or www.grants.gov. The competition<br />
for grants will close May 2, 2006. "Frequently Asked Questions" regarding<br />
this competition will be posted at<br />
www.doleta.gov/usworkforce/documents/misc/fbo-cbo.cfm by March 29, 2006,<br />
and will be updated periodically.<br />
Lee Egerstron, St. Paul Pioneer Press<br />
The Minnesota Public Safety Department awarded a $250,000 grant to<br />
the St. Paul Police Department and partnering organizations for an outreach<br />
program with Muslim and Somali communities.<br />
Police will work with the St. Paul Intervention Project and the<br />
Minnesota Chapter of the Muslim American Society of America to<br />
develop the program, which will address issues like domestic assault<br />
and challenges facing women. Police Chief John Harrington announced<br />
the outreach program Friday morning.<br />
The project is an outgrowth of a master's thesis by Assistant Chief<br />
Dennis Jensen titled "Enhancing Homeland Security Efforts by Building<br />
Stronger Relationships Between the Muslim Community and Local Law<br />
Model Cities Brownstone Room<br />
834 University Ave. W., St. Paul,<br />
Enforcement."<br />
55104<br />
Free parking is available in lots next<br />
to the building as well as on the<br />
street<br />
This Dialogue is free and open to<br />
the public. Please RSVP to<br />
Stephanie Haddad at<br />
stephanie@mncn.org or 651-642-<br />
1904x227 if you plan to attend.<br />
Thank you!<br />
Stephanie Haddad<br />
Program Director<br />
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits<br />
2314 University Ave. W., Ste. 20<br />
St. Paul, MN 55114<br />
Tel: 651-642-1904 x227<br />
Fax: 651-642-1517<br />
stephanie@mncn.org<br />
GENERAL MILLS FOUNDATION<br />
PROGRAM TITLE: Celebrating Communities of Color<br />
Grants Program<br />
DEADLINE: September 1, 2006<br />
AMOUNT: The grants, totaling $500,000, will be<br />
awarded to nonprofit<br />
organizations in Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN, that serve<br />
communities of color. Fifty project grants of $10,000 each<br />
will be awarded during the year.<br />
ELIGIBILITY: Non-profit organizations, health departments,<br />
government agencies, schools and school districts,<br />
and Native American Tribes.<br />
DESCRIPTION:<br />
The Celebrating Communities of Color program focuses on<br />
four areas: Social Service (i.e., programs that strengthen<br />
families and promote a safe, nurturing environment for<br />
children and youth); Youth Nutrition and Fitness (innovative<br />
programs that help improve nutrition and fitness<br />
behaviors); Education (efforts that emphasize student academic<br />
achievement, particularly at the K-12 level); and<br />
Arts and Culture (organizations that are leaders in their<br />
field as evidenced by the innovation and quality of their<br />
programs and their contribution to the community).<br />
WEB ADDRESS:<br />
http://www.generalmills.com/corporate/commitment/communities_color.aspx<br />
POLICE TO O REACH OUT TO O MUSLIMS, SOMALIS<br />
Its goals include boosting immigrant understanding of the criminal justice<br />
system and increasing the Muslim community's role in "affecting<br />
positive change" in various ways, such as reporting crimes, seeking protection<br />
and intervention by police, volunteer community policing and<br />
through battered women's advocacy and support services.<br />
They’re here illegally, but they work<br />
much harder than we do<br />
They may not speak English, but they’re<br />
sure not stupid.<br />
Or lazy and if there’s an immigration
<strong>April</strong> 15th 2006 <strong>Nagaad</strong> <strong>Times</strong> Page 11<br />
For Immigrants, Life in America Far Outstrips Sweden and Europe<br />
Referring to themselves as 'flies under glass,' immigrants<br />
that move to Sweden find it almost impossible to<br />
get a foothold. But according to this op-ed article from<br />
Sweden's Sydsvenskan Dagbladet newspaper, those<br />
that find themselves in the U.S. are far better off, and<br />
deeply appreciate what America has to offer.<br />
Column written by Per T. Ohlsson<br />
Toward the end of last year – following the riots in<br />
France's immigrant-populated suburbs - something happened:<br />
discussions about Europe's "social model" grew<br />
quiet, very quiet.<br />
Just a few months earlier, when<br />
Hurricane Katrina had struck New<br />
Orleans, European media and politicians<br />
were wallowing in schadenfreude (taking<br />
pleasure in the misfortune of others). The<br />
U.S. was called a "developing country,"<br />
unable to protect its own citizens, and<br />
thus a world away from a Europe of solidarity<br />
and compassion.<br />
But then the fires began in Paris, Lyon<br />
and Marseille. And an embarrassed<br />
silence settled in.<br />
The American societal model, with its wide disparities<br />
and gaping safety net, is something that few in Europe<br />
wish to emulate. There is, however, quite a bit to learn<br />
from it. One example is the assimilation of immigrants<br />
into the labor market.<br />
Europe's serious problems in this sphere are documented<br />
in numerous studies by the Organization for Economic<br />
Cooperation and Development (OECD). Sweden is a<br />
very good case in point, since there is a 15 percent<br />
employment disparity between the native and foreignborn.<br />
When Somalia collapsed at the beginning of the 1990s,<br />
hundreds of thousands of Somalis fled the country.<br />
Those who reached Sweden had almost no chance of<br />
finding work: In 1997 only 10 percent were employed.<br />
Currently, the number has risen to some 30 percent,<br />
which is long way off the national level of 77 percent.<br />
Benny Carlson, Associate Professor of Economic<br />
History at Lund University, has together with ZUFI, a<br />
think tank in Malmoe, put out a thought-provoking publication<br />
"Somalis in Minneapolis: a Dynamic Deal."<br />
The Proprietor of Karmel Square, the Mall of Somalia in<br />
Minneapolis,<br />
Minnisota.<br />
A lot of Somalis who<br />
wound up in the U.S.<br />
migrated to Minnesota,<br />
more specifically to<br />
Minneapolis-St. Paul,<br />
the Twin Cities, a metropolitan<br />
area with a<br />
population of roughly 3<br />
million. There are an<br />
estimated 25,000<br />
Somalis in Minnesota,<br />
and in Minneapolis they have congregated along Cedar<br />
and Riverside Avenues. The area has always attracted<br />
immigrants, and 100 years ago that mainly meant<br />
Swedes. Cedar Avenue was known as Snoose Boulevard,<br />
as in snus tobacco [editor's note: this snuff tobacco, or<br />
chewing tobacco, remains very popular in Sweden].<br />
According to Benny Carlson, Somalis are "not a prosperous<br />
group, but they are a working group, and one that<br />
is likely developing dynamically, at that."<br />
The employment rate lies between 55 to 60 percent.<br />
Thus it is twice as high as in Sweden.<br />
Entrepreneurship constitutes the first - and likely the<br />
most important - explanation. There are around 800<br />
Minneapolis businesses run by Somalis. That number is<br />
growing rapidly. In 2003, there were 38 Somali entrepreneurs<br />
in all of Sweden.<br />
The second explanation, which is partly connected to the<br />
first, is that the Minneapolis Somalis have created an<br />
(ethnic) "enclave economy." People with a common ethnicity<br />
engage in economic activities to support themselves,<br />
to support each other - and later on, this branches<br />
out and becomes part of the surrounding community.<br />
Corner stores become supermarkets. Holes<br />
in the wall become real restaurants. Taxi<br />
drivers join forces and launch their<br />
own carriers.<br />
At the Safari Restaurant, Benny<br />
Carlson meets Jamal Hashi, who<br />
runs the place<br />
with his brother.<br />
Initially,<br />
they only<br />
catered to their<br />
compatriots and<br />
didn't even have a<br />
menu. Now they<br />
not only have a menu<br />
but also a non-Somali<br />
clientele. They have thirteen<br />
employees: six Mexicans,<br />
four Ethiopians and three Somalis.<br />
Business is good: "There's opportunity<br />
here." The brothers have ambitious plans about building<br />
an African fast-food chain. There may, says Jamal,<br />
even be a restaurant in Sweden, a country he describes<br />
by quoting a friend who lives there:<br />
"There you are like a fly trapped under a glass turned<br />
upside-down. You can feel that your dreams are being<br />
smothered."<br />
Hussein Samatar arrived in Minnesota<br />
in 1994. At the time, he spoke no<br />
English. Now he heads an entrepreneurship<br />
center, stating that "the dollar<br />
is green, not black or white." Omar<br />
Hassan, who was an accountant back<br />
in Somalia, runs a multi-service business<br />
that provides help with tax<br />
returns, applications and travel documents.<br />
And while he works very hard,<br />
he is also in his own words "the top<br />
man on the market."<br />
The elder and religious leader Shejk<br />
Sàad Muse holds a mini-lecture about<br />
how Somalia lies strategically on the<br />
Horn of Africa, and how Somalis are<br />
therefore used to traveling, trading and adapting: "We<br />
can be Somalis, Muslims and Americans at the same<br />
time."<br />
Carlson's main purpose was not to compare Minnesota<br />
and Sweden, but he does write that there are likely<br />
"aspects here that should serve as eye openers on our<br />
side of the Atlantic."<br />
Indeed. His short tract, 74 packed pages, should be circulated<br />
within the Swedish government as well among<br />
the municipal power-brokers in Malmoe, Gothenburg<br />
and Stockholm [Editor's Note: Sweden's three largest<br />
cities in ascending order]. Entrepreneurship, both your<br />
own and that of others, is the key to successful assimilation.<br />
Hassan Ali Mohamud Recieves His Law Degree From<br />
William Mitchell College of Law in 2002. He Was<br />
the First Somali to Do So in Minnesota.<br />
Every fifth new business in Sweden is started by a foreign<br />
born person. These entrepreneurs are well-educated:<br />
some 44 percent have a university degree. In the public<br />
at large, 29 percent have the same level of education.<br />
But there could have been more - and more prosperous -<br />
immigrant entrepreneurs if they were offered better conditions:<br />
* 33 percent of the foreign-born would prefer to be<br />
entrepreneurs, compared with 26 percent of the nativeborn.<br />
* Four out of ten foreign-born entrepreneurs believe that<br />
the Swedish authorities lack a positive attitude toward<br />
small businesses. Nearly half consider that the rules, reg-<br />
ulation, and requirements stunt growth.<br />
* 84 percent of the foreign-born entrepreneurs wish to<br />
expand their activities, compared with<br />
63 for the Swedish-born.<br />
Malyun Ali<br />
came to the U.S., via a refugee<br />
camp, in 1997 and now runs a little<br />
store in Minneapolis while also working<br />
in home care.<br />
* Six of ten foreign-born<br />
entrepreneurs feel that<br />
Sweden is xenophobic.<br />
As a consequence of<br />
all this, Sweden has<br />
more than a little to<br />
learn from<br />
Minnesota and the<br />
U.S. There, as is<br />
clear in the<br />
Minneapolis case, the<br />
service sector plays a<br />
key role as an (assimilation)<br />
gateway. The fact<br />
that Sweden and other<br />
European countries have a<br />
smaller (private) service sector than<br />
the U.S. helps explain why unemployment<br />
remains stuck at high levels: when jobs disappear in<br />
manufacturing, there are not enough new businesses and<br />
job opportunities being created in the service sector.<br />
Those most vulnerable on the labor market are the ones<br />
then most affected.<br />
"Life is tough in the U.S., but it's good. If<br />
you have a dream, you can realize it,"<br />
she tells Benny Carlson. She herself is<br />
dreaming of an even larger store,<br />
and of employing staff.<br />
Europeans Can Learn a Thing or Two from Their<br />
Relations<br />
Across the Atlantic When it Comes to Assimilating<br />
Immigrants.<br />
A recent study by the Swedish<br />
Center for Business and Policy<br />
Studies (SNS) demonstrates that<br />
Sweden, with its regulations as<br />
well as the public sector<br />
monopoly on services, is the<br />
OECD country with the weakest<br />
long-term link between<br />
growth and employment.<br />
The Americans understand -<br />
and celebrate - the social and<br />
economic significance of the<br />
immigrant businesses. This is in<br />
relation to both the immigrants<br />
themselves and the society as a<br />
whole. In a country like<br />
Sweden, however, entrepreneurial individuals are not<br />
seen as motors of progress. This role is reserved for the<br />
benevolent systems of the state.<br />
But even here entrepreneurs from abroad have historically<br />
been very important: Carnegie, Bonnier, Bukowski,<br />
Becker, Mazetti, Zoéga, Felix. {editorial note: these are<br />
all the names of large Swedish companies founded by<br />
immigrants. Their focus ranges from publishing<br />
(Bonnier), auctioneering (Bukowski), paint (Becker) to<br />
coffee (Zoéga) and chocolate (Mazetti)}. At the beginning<br />
of the 19th century, a British immigrant named<br />
Samuel Owen was the founder of the (subsequently very<br />
successful, e.g. Volvo, Saab, Electrolux) Swedish engineering<br />
industry. How many Chilean, Lebanese, Iranian<br />
and Somali equivalents have we deprived ourselves of?<br />
Malyun Ali came to the U.S., via a refugee camp, in<br />
1997 and now runs a little store in Minneapolis while<br />
also working in home care.<br />
"Life is tough in the U.S., but it's good. If you have a<br />
dream, you can realize it," she tells Benny Carlson. She<br />
herself is dreaming of an even larger store, and of<br />
employing staff.<br />
Sure it sounds somewhat idyllic. Not everyone makes it.<br />
Life as a poor immigrant in the U.S. is tough, just as<br />
Malyun says. Attitudes towards Muslims have been<br />
affected by the September 11th terrorist attacks.<br />
But it is also tough being smothered by good intentions.<br />
To labeled hopeless from the outset. To be a fly under<br />
the glass.
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<strong>April</strong> 21st<br />
Human Trafficking Workshop<br />
R. Mark Frey<br />
Attorney at Law<br />
Please circulate<br />
The Human Rights Program at the University of Minnesota, in collaboration<br />
with the Human Rights Center at the University of Minnesota Law<br />
School,<br />
present:<br />
United Front for Children:<br />
Global Efforts to Combat Sexual Trafficking in Travel and Tourism<br />
Keynote Speaker: Ann Veneman, Executive Director of UNICEF<br />
Friday, <strong>April</strong> 21, 2006<br />
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.<br />
Coffman Union Theatre - University of Minnesota<br />
http://www.hrusa.org/workshops/trafficking<br />
Tourism is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. One of the<br />
consequences of easy and cheap global travel is an increase in the reported<br />
sexual exploitation of children in tourist destinations.<br />
On Friday <strong>April</strong> 21, 2006, the international conference will<br />
explore the relationship between tourism and<br />
child sex trafficking and to address the human rights implications of this<br />
nexus. The conference will engage leading experts in four sectors that<br />
have<br />
critical roles in preventing sexual exploitation of children:<br />
non-governmental organizations (NGOs), academia, government agencies<br />
and<br />
corporations. Among the concrete outcomes we hope to achieve at this<br />
conference are a critical look at existing norms, a commitment from new<br />
business partners to make the issue a priority through implementation of<br />
Codes of Conduct and other means, identification of research priorities<br />
and<br />
the support of student initiatives in U.S. colleges and universities.<br />
Other featured presenters include:<br />
Professor Vitit Muntarbhorn, Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale<br />
of<br />
Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography<br />
Marilyn Carlson Nelson, Chairman and CEO of the Carlson Companies<br />
Ambassador John Miller, U.S. State Department Office to Monitor and<br />
Combat<br />
Trafficking in Persons<br />
Melanne Verveer, Board Chair, Vital Voices Global Partnership<br />
Lyndall De Marco, Director, International Tourism Partnership Director<br />
The conference is free, but registration is required as space is limited.<br />
For more information or to register online, please visit our website at<br />
http://www.hrusa.org/workshops/trafficking or contact<br />
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Discrimination Against African Nursing Students<br />
African Nursing Students Go To Court Against Anoka College<br />
From: Liberian Human Rights and Refugee Welfare Organization<br />
Subj: Academic Discrimination Against African Immigrant Nursing Students<br />
at Anoka Technical College.<br />
The Liberian Human Rights and Refugee Welfare Oranization, which chairs<br />
the African Consortium research team at colleges providing nursing courses<br />
will be meeting the Anoka College to complain of academic discrimination<br />
against African immigrant students. We have evidence from our two years of<br />
research work against Hennepin Technical College and Anoka for discrimination<br />
in their nursing departments against African immigrant students.<br />
Thanks,<br />
Kirkpatrick Weah, Executive Director Liberia Human Rights Org,<br />
Chair African Consortium<br />
763-566-1662<br />
lihrrwo@yahoo.com<br />
Save the Date<br />
African Women in the Diaspora Conference June 22 2006<br />
AFRICAN WOMEN IN THE DIASPORA CONFERENCE 2 –<br />
Empowering African Women, Ensuring Africa’s Future<br />
The MN African Women's Association<br />
(MAWA) and her collaborators present<br />
the second bi-annual African Women in<br />
the Diaspora conference in MN entitled<br />
African Women in the Diaspora:<br />
Empowering African Women, Ensuring<br />
Africa’s Future.<br />
The conference will be held on June 22,<br />
2006, at the University of MN's Mondale<br />
Law Center, 229 19th Ave. So.<br />
Minneapolis, MN 55455.<br />
This will be a wonderful opportunity for<br />
those in the health, social work, education,<br />
legal and law enforcement fields to<br />
learn about working with New<br />
Americans from Africa. Continuing<br />
Education credits will be sought for a<br />
couple of fields.<br />
The keynote address will be given by the<br />
Judge and Prosecutor from the 2005<br />
Cannes Film Festival Award winning<br />
documentary Sisters In Law – Judge<br />
Beatrice Ntuba and Prosecutor Vera<br />
Ngassa from Cameroon. Breakout sessions<br />
will give opportunities to focus on<br />
African immigrant and refugee issues,<br />
local demographics, youth and education,<br />
HIV/AIDS and other health and<br />
cultural challenges, and leadership<br />
development. This year features the<br />
Africa Oboso Awards for African women<br />
and friends of Africa in five categories<br />
including: Clearing the Way,<br />
Accentuating the Positive, Staying the<br />
Course, and Friend of Africa for those<br />
who work to promote African women’s<br />
courses. Awardees come from other<br />
States, Africa and Europe.<br />
Seeking information on traffic stops of immigrants<br />
As part of a Humphrey Institute Seminar on<br />
Immigration and Social Justice my students are<br />
looking into possible civil rights violations of<br />
immigrants.<br />
If you have information on either of the following<br />
questions, please send me an email at<br />
ennelly@hhh.umn.edu. At this point we are not<br />
ready to<br />
contact individuals, but are just trying to learn<br />
whether you or your organization know of specific<br />
examples of immigrants who have been unfairly<br />
pulled over while driving. All information will be<br />
strictly confidential.<br />
1. We know that in some other states there have<br />
been charges that law enforcement officers have<br />
pulled over drivers for no other reason than that<br />
they were suspected of being foreign-born. If you<br />
know of individuals who<br />
have had this happen, please send me an email.<br />
2. We have heard of a number of incidents in which<br />
Border Patrol guards have been called in to translate<br />
for police or sheriff's departments who have<br />
More details to follow. You can check<br />
for details later MAWA's website:<br />
www.mawanet.org or e-mail MAWA’s<br />
Executive Director Nyango Melissa<br />
Nambangi at mawa0302@yahoo.com or<br />
call MAWA at 612-302-3400.<br />
Please share this information with others<br />
who will find it of value. Thank<br />
you.<br />
Ms. M. N. Nambangi, Executive<br />
Director<br />
Minnesota African Women's Association<br />
- MAWA<br />
1201 37th Avenue North, Minneapolis,<br />
MN 55412<br />
Ph: 612/302-3454; Fax: 612-522-4503<br />
mawa0302@yahoo.com<br />
www.mawanet.org<br />
Home of the African Girls'<br />
Initiative for Leadership &<br />
Empowerment, AGILE)<br />
Mission: Promoting the health<br />
and well-being of African<br />
women and their families<br />
through research, education,<br />
advocacy and programming.<br />
pulled over drivers. If you know of specific cases in<br />
which this has<br />
occurred, please send me an email.<br />
Thanks very much,<br />
Katherine Fennelly<br />
Professor<br />
Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs<br />
301 19th Ave. South<br />
Minneapolis, MN 55455<br />
tel: 612-625-6685
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Job search:<br />
Executive Director Center for Cross Cultural Health<br />
Date: 3/30/2006 11:10:24 AM Pacific Standard<br />
Time<br />
From: Kfennelly@hhh.umn.edu<br />
To: LWalkerKMI@aol.com<br />
Executive Director Job Description<br />
Organizational Development<br />
* Evaluate program development and growth<br />
of Center<br />
* Develop a strategic plan with the Board of<br />
Directors<br />
Financial Management<br />
* Prepare annual budget in consultation with<br />
Finance Committee for Board approval<br />
* Provide overall financial management<br />
Administration<br />
* Provide oversite management and supervision<br />
of personnel functions<br />
* Provide appropriate staff development<br />
* Plan, organize, direct and evaluate administrative<br />
function of the organization<br />
* Understand negotiations and management<br />
of contracts with consultants and organizations<br />
Public and Community Relations<br />
* Interpret organization's function to all<br />
aspects of the community<br />
* Maintain and build appropriate relationships<br />
with national, state and local groups<br />
Board Relations<br />
* Provide orientation to new Board members<br />
* Attend regular Board and committee meetings<br />
* Act as agent of the Board as designated<br />
Fund Development<br />
* Create fund development plan in conjunction<br />
with Development Director/Fund<br />
Development Committee<br />
* Maintain existing funding relationships and<br />
requirements<br />
* Seek new funding opportunities<br />
Programs<br />
* Understand overview of components of<br />
consultation, training,<br />
programmatic and organizational development<br />
work carried out by staff<br />
* Conduct speaking activities as needed<br />
Katherine Fennelly<br />
Professor<br />
Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs<br />
301 19th Ave. South<br />
Minneapolis, MN 55455<br />
612-625-6685
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Faces of the illegals<br />
At the heart of a debate that has captured the nation’s<br />
attention, an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants span<br />
the economic and social spectrum. Here are the voices of<br />
some former or current illegal immigrants in Minnesota.<br />
Carlos, Margarita and Juan agreed to be interviewed only<br />
if their true names were not disclosed, because of fears<br />
they would be deported if identified.<br />
Jean Hopfensperger, Star TribuneLast update: March 31,<br />
2006 – 8:54 AM<br />
Raul Negrete, with wife, Bridget, and their daughter, Eva:<br />
Once illegal, he became a U.S. resident last year. Even<br />
though there are plenty of jobs and employers willing to<br />
hire, “there is no way to work here legally,” he said.<br />
Juan is fresh from Mexico, still a bit shaken over his runin<br />
with immigration last month. Carlos and Margarita are a<br />
well-educated suburban couple who've been here five<br />
years.Jacobo Montero is the son of a U.S. citizen. Raul<br />
Negrete managed a fast-food restaurant staffed mainly by<br />
illegals like him.<br />
The term "illegal alien" conjures up images of people lurking<br />
on society's edge. But in reality, the situation is far<br />
more complex.<br />
Many illegals are community and business leaders, even<br />
lobbying Congress and serving on government committees.<br />
Others fit the stereotype of the manual laborer. Some<br />
arrived last week, some arrived decades ago. Some fly<br />
here on tourist visas; others sneak across the U.S. frontier.<br />
And if you've ever had your roof repaired, your yard landscaped<br />
or your newspaper delivered, chances are some of<br />
them have worked for you.<br />
An estimated 50,000 to 85,000 strong, they're the people at<br />
the heart of clashes unfolding this week in Congress and<br />
Minnesota's Legislature. The stories of these individuals<br />
reveal the enormous challenges of regulating the nation's<br />
immigration system.<br />
Raul Negrete: Basking in a new respectability<br />
Once illegal, he became a U.S. resident last year. Even<br />
though there are plenty of jobs and employers willing to<br />
hire, “there is no way to work here legally,” he<br />
said.Elizabeth Flores, Star Tribune<br />
Dressed in suit and tie, Raul Negrete arrives home from<br />
work each afternoon to his wife and daughter and counts<br />
his newfound blessings.Last year at this time, Negrete<br />
would walk through the front door after 3 a.m., blearyeyed<br />
and smelling of grease. He worked at a fast-food<br />
restaurant, a place where customers often assumed he was<br />
stupid, he said, and management often treated workers as<br />
dispensable.<br />
Those are the work conditions of many illegal workers,<br />
said Negrete, a 25-year-old from Lauderdale."I was afraid<br />
to speak up, afraid that I might lose my job," he recalled,<br />
sitting at his kitchen table recently with his wife, Bridget,<br />
and their 2-year-old daughter, Eva.<br />
"I was expected to work whenever they needed me. It took<br />
my life." Negrete was 18 and working at his parents' hardware<br />
store in the border town of Nuevo Laredo when he<br />
decided to visit a relative in Minnesota. He flew here with<br />
a tourist visa, returned to Mexico as scheduled, then came<br />
back to the United States on another tourist visa in 2000.<br />
That time, he stayed.Getting a fake Social Security card<br />
was just a matter of talking to friends.<br />
His relative lined up a job at the fast-food restaurant where<br />
she worked. It was there that Negrete learned that employers<br />
sometimes use the illegal status of their workers<br />
against them.For example, Negrete recalled, a co-worker<br />
once slipped inside a walk-in cooler and slowed down her<br />
work pace. She was told she had to leave "because her<br />
papers weren't in order," he said.<br />
Negrete, who taught himself to speak English fluently,<br />
rose to become an assistant manager. His wages climbed<br />
to $10.50 an hour. But he still didn't have health insurance<br />
or money to treat his constant allergies, which left him<br />
with debilitating headaches. The silver lining was that he<br />
met his future wife, Bridget, at the restaurant. After their<br />
marriage, he filed a petition to become a U.S. permanent<br />
resident in January 2005. Negrete got a temporary work<br />
permit last May and became a permanent resident by the<br />
year's end.<br />
It was lightning speed by immigration standards. And<br />
because Negrete had entered the U.S. legally, he did not<br />
have to return to Mexico and wait for his petition to be<br />
approved. Now Negrete can drive. He applied for a new<br />
job -- and got it. He spends nights home with his wife and<br />
daughter. He's not afraid of being carded at a restaurant or<br />
bar."It's amazing what a piece of paper can do," he said.<br />
Juan: Trail from Mexico leads to Minnesota<br />
Last month, Juan boarded a bus in his hometown of<br />
Puebla, Mexico, with his father. The pair stepped off the<br />
bus in Tijuana and set forth -- on foot -- over the dry, hilly<br />
stretch that separates Mexico from California.<br />
They slipped across the border. But immigration agents<br />
nabbed them near Los Angeles. After an anxious 24 hours<br />
in a detention cell, father and son were deported to<br />
Mexico.<br />
Two days later, the nervous travelers snuck into California<br />
again. A Minnesota friend met up with them and drove<br />
them to the Twin Cities, where Juan's uncle and his family<br />
welcomed them.<br />
It's a pattern repeated over and over in Minnesota -- at<br />
least for illegals from Latin America, who account for<br />
nearly 80 percent of illegal immigrants in the United<br />
States, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.<br />
"The first day I got here I slept," Juan said last week,<br />
relaxing in his uncle's small apartment in Richfield. "The<br />
second day, I started work."<br />
Juan had no trouble getting false identification and landing<br />
a job in Minnesota. A relative in California had scored a<br />
fake Social Security card for $50; another relative here<br />
had lined up work.<br />
Today, the former construction worker is preparing meals -<br />
- the likes of which he'd never tasted before last month -for<br />
customers in Edina. Working part time, he earns about<br />
$100 a week. That's twice as much as he earned in a<br />
month swinging hammers and lugging two-by-fours in<br />
Mexico, he said.<br />
"The reason people come here is to earn money, to save<br />
money to buy a little house or start a little business [in<br />
Mexico]," said Juan, wearing jeans and a T-shirt with his<br />
restaurant logo. "Some go back home. Some stay.<br />
"It's practically impossible for nonprofessional workers to<br />
get a work visa. Fewer than 1 percent of employmentbased<br />
visas granted each year go to unskilled workers.<br />
Coming here was not a deliberate act of defiance, Juan<br />
said, but simply what the young and ambitious do in<br />
Puebla -- a major source of illegal immigrants in<br />
Minnesota. Juan said he wasn't particularly nervous, in<br />
part because his father had made the journey before him.<br />
"I kind of knew what to expect," he said.<br />
Today Juan divides his time between work, hanging out at<br />
his uncle's apartment and crashing at night in a suburban<br />
rambler shared by eight other illegal workers. "Next," he<br />
said, "I want to find a second job."<br />
Jacobo Montero: For a U.S. citizen's son, a long wait ends<br />
Jacobo Montero was 24 when he walked into a Los<br />
Angeles immigration office and grabbed an application to<br />
gain permanent residency. His mother is a U.S. citizen, but<br />
he was born in Mexico.<br />
Thirteen years later, the government approved his request.<br />
Montero's situation is not unusual. Adult Mexican children<br />
of U.S. citizens typically wait more than a decade to<br />
become legal. Sisters and brothers of U.S. citizens wait<br />
longer.<br />
"There'd be a lot less problems [with illegal immigration]<br />
if the process was faster," said Montero, who has worked<br />
underground as a chef, landscaper, apartment cleaner and<br />
factory worker over the years.<br />
Montero talked about his immigration journey on a recent<br />
Sunday morning at his mother's house in St. Paul. The<br />
aroma of warm enchiladas hung in the air. Outside the<br />
kitchen stood an altar topped by candles and statues of<br />
saints where Esperanza Montero used to pray she'd be<br />
reunited with her son.<br />
Ironically, Esperanza was deported from Mexico 15<br />
years ago because she was an illegal U.S. immigrant.<br />
Mexican authorities ordered her to leave after she sought<br />
permission to visit Minnesota to see her oldest son, who<br />
held a professional work visa here. She now is able to<br />
visit Mexico regularly.<br />
Montero didn't have a college degree or a company to<br />
sponsor him. He came to the United States in 1992,<br />
sneaking across the border into California to join his<br />
girlfriend. After applying for residency, he was supposed<br />
to return home and wait for its approval. He didn't.<br />
Assuming a false name, Montero lived in California and<br />
then joined his mother in St. Paul. With dark brown hair<br />
and serious eyes, he blended into the large Latino community.<br />
But he took precautions: On the streets, he paid<br />
close attention to traffic signs and the presence of police<br />
cars. On the job, he said, he worked hard and didn't<br />
complain. "Other than that, it was a normal life," he<br />
said. "We went to dances, to the movies."<br />
His routine wasn't much different from what it is today.<br />
He'd be up at 5 a.m., pulling on his white chef's shirt<br />
and clean black slacks. By 7 a.m., he'd be standing in a<br />
kitchen preparing Mexican foods. At midafternoon, he'd<br />
drive to his second job -- this time cooking pasta and<br />
pizza. He'd get home after 11 p.m.<br />
Now that he's legal, Montero hopes his days of being a<br />
chef's assistant are numbered. He wants to attend chef<br />
school. Said Montero: "Now I can move ahead."<br />
Carlos and Margarita: For this couple, success is fragile<br />
Carlos and Margarita are the picture of middle-class living.<br />
They have a comfortable suburban home with a big<br />
back yard, two sweet young children and high hopes for<br />
their kids' future.<br />
Carlos owns a small business. Margarita works as a<br />
receptionist. Both are college graduates. But they carry a<br />
secret that haunts and embarrasses them -- they joined<br />
the ranks of illegal immigrants when their visa expired<br />
in 2000.<br />
"Our biggest fear is of being deported," said Carlos, sitting<br />
in a living room decorated with pink balloons from<br />
his daughter's birthday party.<br />
"Everything we have we could lose in a snap of a finger.<br />
You always have this on your mind.<br />
"The couple flew to Minnesota from South America to<br />
visit family on a six-month tourist visa. They hoped to<br />
earn some money during their stay, and they kept their<br />
options open.<br />
Within days, a friend of a friend handed them the telephone<br />
number of a guy who forged Social Security<br />
cards, as well as the name of a temp agency that would<br />
hire them. "It was so efficient," marveled<br />
Margarita.Carlos, a thoughtful, soft-spoken man, was<br />
working in a warehouse within a week. Margarita later<br />
found a job as a receptionist. A relative helped them buy<br />
a used car.<br />
"Everything was coming like magic," recalled<br />
Margarita, a talkative, outgoing woman. "We thought,<br />
why return home?"<br />
But their road to the American dream has been bumpy.<br />
For starters, the couple always felt nervous applying for<br />
jobs. And they were jolted when their employers, on two<br />
occasions, discovered problems with their Social Security<br />
numbers and asked them to quit.<br />
They still struggle financially. And they cannot visit<br />
home again, even for a parent's death. Because they<br />
overstayed their visas, they would have to wait 10 years<br />
before they could apply for another.<br />
And then there's the social isolation: "Our family was<br />
always close," Margarita said. "Here everyone lives in<br />
their own world." But the couple are reluctant to move<br />
back to their native country. They said they have invested<br />
so much of their lives here, and they want their children<br />
to have opportunities they never had. Said Carlos: "It's<br />
not an easy decision."
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SOMALIAND CITIZENS RIGHTS VERSUS ABUSERS OF<br />
OFFICE POWER.<br />
TO: Mr.Dahir Riyaale Kahin,<br />
H.E.The President of Somaliland.<br />
Since this topic is not in my area of expertise, I yet I have been compelled to<br />
express my opinion on a disgusting cynic politics initiated by one of the many<br />
UGLY ministers of Mr.Riyaales Government. These days, our mass-media<br />
were overwhelmed by a bizaar story that took place between an International<br />
NGO called CARE INTERNATIONAL and one of our many Ministers (50). I<br />
do not think that I will be wrong to assume that the minister involved believes<br />
that he is above the law of Somaliland; as a result of the fact his UNCLE happens<br />
to be H.E.Mr Dahir Riyaale Kahin. The way the minister in question<br />
instigated the case between CARE and that lovely lady WARRIS, makes me<br />
believe that he has a wrong impression about the state of affairs of Somaliland<br />
and most probably he has no clue the art of government as a whole. In the art<br />
of government you can not launch a fictitious investigation case<br />
on the INTENT of wrongly or rightly implicating an<br />
innocent citizen to loose a deserved privilege,<br />
evaluate the findings by yourself and at<br />
the same time conclude the verdict .<br />
Even in places where ugly Dictators rule<br />
or some of S.Somalia War-lords do constitute<br />
a body that approves whatever the boss<br />
wants and that is called RUBBER STAMP FUNC-<br />
TION and this is more rational than what this young minister<br />
did. This again makes me believe that he can not distinguish between countries<br />
where RULE of law is mandatory and in such circumstances no one can be<br />
above the law including the chief Executive and other countries where junglelaws<br />
are still in practice in the same way that Somaliland used to be administered,<br />
before liberators of SNM dismantled the Regime of Genocide and<br />
destruction in May 1991. Personally, I have no grudge for the Minister?s<br />
immoral and distasteful behavior, but I have a grudge for you as my Elected<br />
President in appointing such a neurotic character with very poor background of<br />
education and experience to one of the most challenging responsibilities of the<br />
Ministry of Planning for a country recovering from multitude of traumas,<br />
destruction from dirty civil-wars, failed state anarchy related social and economic<br />
upheavals, uncertainties and just about to complete peace building<br />
processes and rehabilitation activities with a populations who lost their educated<br />
persons to the outside world to fend for themselves and remit remaining<br />
savings back to their relatives and friends back-home. This reminds me Mr.<br />
President, a saying from former colonial Governor of British Somaliland? it<br />
will not be easy to expect or transform someone with a modest background of<br />
experience of managing a butcher-shop to become effective in shouldering the<br />
demanding responsibilities of a King?. As his uncle you could have helped him<br />
in many others ways, instead of overloading him with responsibilities that he<br />
could not accommodate on the grounds of his limited capacity and vision in<br />
absorbing or understanding what you have asked him to deal with.<br />
I do really feel sorry for your pathetic situation, because I do not believe that<br />
your INTENT was to abuse your official power as Minister of Planning to<br />
infringe constitutional and human rights of your fellow citizens, but most probably<br />
your INTENT was to damage the political good-will of one of your<br />
Uncle? opponents. Assuming that my gut-feeling is correct, you are absolutely<br />
wrong in believing that you could achieve something beneficial to your cause.<br />
As a matter of fact the political good-will of the husband of your victim has<br />
risen to an abnormal level, as a result of our peoples disgust with your mean,<br />
degrading, un-gallantry and insulting behavior to lovely lady, wife, sister,<br />
mother and one of the fist-patch of highly educated Somaliland women who<br />
happen to be also among the most-highly respected individuals in our country<br />
and among the ROLE MODELS of my golden girls i.e. ayniho.<br />
This case should be dealt in a legal system where fair-trial in a court of true<br />
justice and not in a court of the blind/or black-market justice that you & your<br />
fellow other UGLY ministers would have loved to install, if our parliamentary<br />
elections were not conducted peacefully in multi-party democratic system.<br />
However, prior to the process of the case between the parties in conflict, your<br />
constitutional immunity as The Minister of Planning should be removed by the<br />
President of Somaliland on the merits of Article of<br />
our constitution????, after consulting his chief Legal Advisor i.e. Office of the<br />
Attorney General of Somaliland. Your Excellency, I have been informed that<br />
some of your other ministers were also involved. In<br />
similar deplorable behavior against our civilians and<br />
in one case to a minor, please do not re-appoint them to your new cabinet<br />
team, unless their respective cases are re-activated and equitable punishments<br />
have been served against them in accordance with our laws.<br />
Your Excellency, please do not let this brotherly advice be misinterpreted by<br />
some of our colleagues, who always like to benefit from un-decisive government<br />
business that get bogged down to confrontational tugof-<br />
war like year 2004 & 2005, in which we wasted precious time on 3 simple<br />
issues that was notabsolutely worth more than 10% of the resources we have<br />
spent. This incident was absolutely un-called for<br />
in a country recovering from unhealed wounds as a result of the unfortunate<br />
dirty civil-wars that costed us loss of lives, properties and un-imaginable psychological<br />
traumas. This act was very irresponsible, idiotic and its manifestations<br />
demonstrated very bitter and physical hatred, which can easily attract an<br />
equal manifestation of hatred from another irresponsible person from the supporters<br />
of the defensive side for the HECK of it like an idiot who is not using<br />
his brain, but using well his muscle like BULL. As you are aware Your<br />
Minister was involved into many ugly and un-popular corruptive activities<br />
from the he returned to his lovely mother country, which I am sure have<br />
embarrassed you as the President of the nation and of course as a relative of<br />
yours. On the basis of the grounds stated in this article, I am requesting your<br />
honor that you initiate the most equitable action on this unacceptable case at<br />
your earliest opportunity, so as to curtail unnecessary developments<br />
including personal securities, since he behaved like<br />
I believe Mr. President, you & I,<br />
should behave within the frame work of<br />
the laws of our country in an equal<br />
manner & terms<br />
thuggish war-lord.<br />
With due respect to our differences of<br />
opinion, I believe Mr. President, you &<br />
I, should behave within the frame work<br />
of the laws of our country in an equal<br />
manner & terms. If you are not in dispute with<br />
this<br />
statement, please process required official procedures as the chief executive of<br />
this nation in letting your nephew face the music of the RULE OF LAW for<br />
his miss-carriage of the law and abuse of his official<br />
capacity as Minister of Planning. Please be assured your Excellency, my highest<br />
consideration to at most times, with the exception when I believe that some<br />
of your actions are not in compliance with laws of our<br />
country and also not serving the interests of our citizens. Let us hope for the<br />
best and let us always wish that Justice & Truth Triumphs and let us fight<br />
blind-justice. May Allah guide us all to the right direction?<br />
By Mr.Ahmed M.Gedi (sanjab),<br />
Secretary General,<br />
SLD Justice & Welfare Party (UCID).<br />
Taxes: Legal Aid Once Again Open to Provide<br />
Free Tax Case Help<br />
As you may know, Legal Aid stopped accepting new tax cases last summer<br />
after we were swamped with new cases stemming from the IRS tax<br />
preparer investigations. I am happy to announce we have funding for a<br />
new tax clerk, and found the money for additional interpreter time<br />
(thanks to both IRS and the Minnesota State Bar Association Tax<br />
Section). We are now accepting new tax cases.<br />
To qualify for free legal assistance for a tax case, the taxpayer must<br />
have a controversy with the IRS - such as an audit or collection issue.<br />
The tax project represents a wide range of taxpayers - from people who<br />
just need advice to people needing to sue the IRS. The taxpayer must<br />
also be under 200% of the federal poverty guideline:<br />
200% FPG for a family of:<br />
1 person - $19,600/year<br />
2 people - $26,400/year<br />
3 people - $33,200/year<br />
4 people - $40,000/year<br />
If someone you know needs assistance, please refer them to our intake<br />
line at 612-334-5970 OR 1-800-292-4150. The taxpayer must live in<br />
Minnesota to qualify for assistance.<br />
Please do not refer taxpayers to my direct phone number - they must<br />
call the intake line to request assistance. If you have a question about<br />
the tax project or would like to arrange for an educational presentation<br />
on low income taxpayer issues, then please call my direct line - 612-<br />
746-3777.<br />
Christina L. Cook, Attorney<br />
Legal Aid Society of Minneapolis<br />
Mid-Minnesota Legal Assistance<br />
430 First Avenue North, Suite 300<br />
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401
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General Information<br />
<strong>April</strong> Event<br />
Balancing the Demographics<br />
Wednesday, <strong>April</strong> 19th 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM<br />
Science Museum of Minnesota, 120 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul Argon Room, Level 6<br />
Myron Orfield, director of the University of Minnesota’s Institute on Race and Poverty, will join experts and community leaders in<br />
a panel discussion on the changing racial composition of schools in St. Paul and the U.S.<br />
Is desegregation a broader issue than previously understood?<br />
Are we talking only about race? Or are we talking about economic integration?<br />
How might such policy changes affect where parents choose to send their children to school?<br />
Panelists joining Dr. Orfield: Kwame McDonald, Center for School Change, Jacquie Thomas, public school parent and advocate<br />
for African American families, Isabel Chanslor, Associate Community Liaison at the Northwest Area Foundation, Eric Jolly, president<br />
of the Science Museum of Minnesota.<br />
This discussion precedes an upcoming Science Museum national exhibit entitled “Understanding Race and Human Variation,” opening<br />
on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in 2007.<br />
Spanish, Hmong, and Somali interpreters will be available. Click here to download or print flyers in these languages and/or<br />
English. For more information, contact Julie Schultz Brown at julke@comcast.net or 651.222.2844.<br />
Free Tickets to Museum: Contact Kathy Klumb, k_klumb@yahoo.com, if you'd like free tickets for your children to visit the<br />
Science Museum while you attend the forum. Young children (parental discretion, under age 12 suggested) must be accompanied<br />
while visiting the museum.<br />
FBI Townhall Meeting - On CNN and MSNBC<br />
Dear Friends:<br />
A historic FBI Townhall Meeting was conducted<br />
today by the Council on American-Islamic<br />
Relations (CAIR) for broadcast on Bridges TV.<br />
This is a first-of-its-kind town hall meeting<br />
between the FBI and 10 million Arab and Muslim<br />
Americans on national television.<br />
You can catch news coverage of this historic event<br />
tonight on:<br />
> CNN: The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer at<br />
5pm & 7pm ET on Thu Apr 13th.<br />
> MSNBC: The Situation with Tucker Carlson at<br />
11pm ET / PT on Thu Apr 13th.<br />
This FBI Townhall Meeting by CAIR will be televised<br />
nationally on Mon May 15th at 8pm ET /<br />
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in May 2006 by Bridges TV in cooperation with<br />
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This month Bridges TV expanded from less than<br />
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THIRD THURSDAY GLOBAL ISSUES FORUM<br />
Free and open to the public.<br />
When? Thursday, <strong>April</strong> 20, 7:00 – 9:00 pm.<br />
Where? Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church,<br />
511 Groveland Avenue, Minneapolis (at Lyndale & Hennepin).<br />
Free parking in church parking lot.<br />
<strong>April</strong> 20: INTERACTIVE DISCUSSION:<br />
MEDIA DEMOCRACY: WHAT IS IT? HOW DO WE SECURE IT? WHO IN THE<br />
WORLD HAS IT?<br />
On the premise that a democratic society cannot exist without a democratic media, we will profile<br />
what "the media" is in an era of rampant technological expansion and commercial concentration,<br />
define what "media democracy" is in such a context and what’s required to secure it, and<br />
examine the state of "media democracy" in nations and regions of the world—with a special<br />
focus on the expanding “digital divide” between the technological “haves” and “have-nots” of<br />
our world’s societies. Discussion attendees will also receive a comprehensive set of resources on<br />
these and other media issues.<br />
Presenter: RICHARD L. (LEE) DECHERT. Lee is a longtime staffer at tpt, Twin Cities Public<br />
Television, with a broad background in broadcast technology and the funding, producing, promoting<br />
and providing of program and outreach services. For many years he has been active with<br />
organizations like the Resource Center of the Americas, WAMM (Women Against Military<br />
Madness), and Friends for a Non-Violent World. He has been a researcher, writer, organizer and<br />
consultant for local and national media organizations. And he’s currently an advisory board<br />
member of the Twin Cities Media Alliance and a Board member of the Minnesota Chapter of<br />
Citizens for Global Solutions<br />
Two job openings<br />
International Institute<br />
of MN<br />
We currently have two job openings<br />
listed on our website:<br />
www.iimn.org<br />
One is for an Employment<br />
Counselor working 3 days per<br />
week.<br />
And the other is for Operations<br />
Manager/Grantwriter (full-time.)<br />
Deadline for both is May 5, 2006.<br />
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International Institute of<br />
Minnesota<br />
Please send your info to:<br />
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Starting the Dialogue About<br />
Racism<br />
Facing Race Initiative<br />
Racism is not a thing of the past. Discrimination is<br />
still a fact of life for many people of color and<br />
immigrants, especially in housing, employment and<br />
education. Disparities in income, education,<br />
achievement and representation in the criminal justice<br />
system have been created and are maintained<br />
by the complex set of conditions and relationships<br />
that result in institutional racism.<br />
One way of taking the first steps in creating a community<br />
where everyone feels safe, valued and<br />
respected is by starting dialogue about race and<br />
racism. The New Conversations About Race and<br />
Racism DVD/VHS tool helps to increase community<br />
dialogue about race and racism and helps individuals<br />
increase their comfort level in addressing<br />
issues of racism in their own lives. New<br />
Conversations is available free of charge to individuals<br />
and organizations who live or work in the<br />
East Metro area (Dakota, Ramsey and Washington<br />
counties).<br />
New Conversations is part of the Facing Race<br />
We're all in this together(tm) initiative launched by<br />
The Saint Paul Foundation. Facing Race is a<br />
multi-year initiative that addresses racism at the<br />
individual and institutional levels. Over the next<br />
two years, we hope to raise awareness of how<br />
racism affects our community by encouraging<br />
1,000 groups to take part in New Conversations.<br />
To order New Conversations, learn more about<br />
Facing Race and to find other resources on diversity<br />
and racism, please visit www.FacingRace.org<br />
or call<br />
651.325.4265.<br />
Rowzat M. Shipchandler<br />
Project Manager, Facing Race Initiative<br />
The Saint Paul Foundation<br />
Phone: 651.325.4270/800.875.6167<br />
Fax: 651.224.8123<br />
www.saintpaulfoundation.org
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SAVE THE DATE<br />
JUNE 22, 2006<br />
Minnesota African Women's Association<br />
Promoting the health and welfare of African women, girls &<br />
their families in the Twin Cities<br />
AFRICAN WOMEN IN THE DIASPORA CONFERENCE 2<br />
Empowering African Women, Ensuring Africa's Future<br />
The MN African Women's Association (MAWA) and her collaborators present<br />
the second bi-annual African Women in the Diaspora conference in MN entitled<br />
African Women in the Diaspora: Empowering African Women, Ensuring<br />
Africa's Future.<br />
The conference will be held on June 22, 2006, at the University of MN's<br />
Mondale Law Center, 229 19th Ave. So. Minneapolis, MN 55455.<br />
This will be a wonderful opportunity for those in the health, social work, education,<br />
legal and law enforcement fields to learn about working with New<br />
Americans from Africa. Continuing Education credits will be sought for a couple<br />
of fields.<br />
The keynote address will be given by the Judge and Prosecutor from the 2005<br />
Cannes Film Festival Award winning documentary Sisters In Law - Judge<br />
Beatrice Ntuba and Prosecutor Vera Ngassa from Cameroon. Breakout sessions<br />
will give opportunities to focus on African immigrant and refugee issues,<br />
local demographics, youth and education, HIV/AIDS and other health and cultural<br />
challenges, and leadership development. This year features the Africa<br />
Oboso Awards for African women and friends of Africa in five categories<br />
including: Clearing the Way, Accentuating the Positive, Staying the Course,<br />
and Friend of Africa for those who work to promote African women's courses.<br />
Awardees come from other States, Africa and Europe.<br />
More details to follow. You can check for details later at MAWA's website:<br />
www.mawanet.org or e-mail MAWA's Executive Director Nyango Melissa<br />
Nambangi at mawa0302@yahoo.com or call MAWA at 612-302-3400.<br />
Please share this information with others who will find it of value. Thank<br />
you.<br />
GRAND OPENING INVITATION<br />
Join us for the grand opening celebration of the<br />
Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center for Community Building<br />
SATURDAY <strong>April</strong> 29, 2006<br />
2:00-3:00 Volunteer recognition<br />
3:00-4:15 Wellstone building dedication<br />
Evelyn Rosenberg public art unveiling<br />
4:30-7:00 Donor recognition & named room dedications<br />
SUNDAY <strong>April</strong> 30, 2006<br />
12:30 All are welcome to gather at Roosevelt<br />
Elementary School for a parade to<br />
Neighborhood House. Dress in the clothing<br />
that your immigrant ancestors would have<br />
worn upon their arrival in America.<br />
1:00-2:00 Arrival celebration, blessing, ribbon cutting,<br />
short program<br />
Craig David public art unveiling<br />
2:00-6:00 Free ice cream social<br />
Cultural performances/food vendors<br />
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www.neighb.org<br />
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NAGAAD TIMES<br />
The Somali-American Mirrior<br />
Beth Freed, Dallas Morning News, 4/6/06<br />
Even though the Islamic Association of Collin<br />
County did not use the word "diversity" to<br />
describe its open house, it showed up in true<br />
form.<br />
"We hope this will be a beneficial, informative<br />
exercise," said Abdul Khan, an organizer of the<br />
open house.<br />
The Sisters Committee greeted visitors and<br />
provided a plastic bag for the removal of shoes.<br />
Removing one's shoes satisfies two purposes in<br />
Islamic worship. First, worship requires ablution,<br />
or self-cleansing. Muslims typically wash<br />
their face, hands, arms and feet before praying<br />
so that they are rid of any impurities in the<br />
presence of Allah (God). Second, the removal<br />
of shoes also protects the plush carpet of the<br />
prayer rooms, which have no seats or pews to<br />
disguise tread on the floor.<br />
FIRST FEMALE MUSLIM TAKES<br />
THE BENCH<br />
Arab American News, 4/10/06<br />
DETROIT - As the first Arab American to sit on the 3rd Circuit Court of Wayne<br />
County, Charlene Mekled Elder knows she plays an important role. Not only does<br />
she carry the weight of serious decision making, but she serves as a role model<br />
for Middle Eastern women around the globe.<br />
Appointed to the Wayne County 3rd Circuit Court by Michigan Governor Jennifer<br />
Granholm, Elder embarks on a new phase in her career at the age of 36 - marked<br />
by a balanced commitment to her profession, her family, and her community.<br />
Also, she is the first Arab-American female judge in this circuit to speak Arabic<br />
fluently.<br />
Elder's press release says she is also the first female Muslim to hold a judicial<br />
position in the country.<br />
Judge Elder brings to the bench a solid legal background and a diverse upbringing.<br />
Wayne County has the largest concentration of Arab Americans outside the<br />
Middle East, roughly 350,000 and Michigan is home to approximately 400,000<br />
citizens of Muslim faith.<br />
Known to many as a high achiever, Judge Elder never opted for the easy road. At<br />
the prime age of 22, Elder set out to have a career, a marriage and children.<br />
Today, she has all three as a judge, wife to the deputy CEO of Wayne County,<br />
Azzam Elder, and mother of four children, Madina 12, Nozmi 10, Yasmine 9, and<br />
Adam 7.<br />
When off the bench, she coaches her youngest son's soccer team and participates<br />
in the sporting events of her other three children. She volunteers time for various<br />
notable civic organizations including but not limited to the Dearborn Rotary Club,<br />
the Girl Scouts of America and the Islamic Center of America.<br />
"In an era where society struggles to raise good kids, and many have to choose<br />
between careers and family, or raising a family or getting an education, Judge<br />
Elder seems to have found a way to do it all," said Wayne County Executive<br />
Robert Ficano. . .<br />
Governor Granholm believes in principled candidates who bring strength and<br />
diversity to the bench. As the first female Governor of the State of Michigan,<br />
Governor Granholm believes in actions to inspire and empower woman all around<br />
the world. The appointment of Judge Elder was an easy decision because of all<br />
the hard work and yes, it's also nice to make history. . .<br />
[Investiture of Judge Elder with Governor Jeniffer Granholm will be held on <strong>April</strong><br />
12, 2006, at 4pm, at the Fordson High School auditorium in Dearborn.]<br />
MUSLIMS OPEN DOORS TO SHARE THEIR FAITH<br />
Visitors toured the facility, which features calligraphy<br />
of Quranic phrases painted on the<br />
walls, arabesque domes and decorated arches.<br />
Islam forbids representations of Allah or his<br />
prophet Muhammad, because Muslims distinguish<br />
between worshipping the creator and the<br />
creation. In Islam, men and women worship<br />
separately. Separate kitchens, bath areas and<br />
classrooms also accommodate this practice.<br />
Muslims believe that men and women both<br />
have power and responsibility, but that it differs,<br />
said Noor Sadeh, who presented a lecture<br />
titled "Women in Islam" and participated in the<br />
panel discussion. She said most Muslim<br />
women do not feel inferior to their husbands.<br />
They are educated, work and have their own<br />
money, which their husband is not entitled to.<br />
Ms. Sadeh said many Muslim women do not<br />
feel oppressed by their traditional dress - the<br />
hijab or headscarf and covering clothing - but<br />
they feel reassured that a man talks to them<br />
because of how they think, not how they look.<br />
Khalil Meek , who presented "The<br />
Commonalities of Religions," grew up planning<br />
to be a Baptist preacher, which his presentation<br />
style reflected. In his talk, Mr. Meek<br />
detailed that Muslims believe in such biblical<br />
figures as Adam, Noah and Jesus.<br />
He said the goal of his talk was to "break the<br />
ignorance that feeds negative stereotypes."<br />
A question-and-answer session followed the<br />
presentations. Some visitors came to the table<br />
with serious concerns about violence in the<br />
world.<br />
All of the speakers expressed the sentiment<br />
that some Muslims can twist their faith to validate<br />
their actions, but that terrorists around the<br />
world are not practicing the faith as it should<br />
be.
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No one killed in Puntland operations,<br />
Range insists<br />
Things are going well or terribly - it all depends on who you ask.<br />
If Somali sources are to be believed, about 10 people<br />
have died in a clash between soldiers loyal to<br />
Puntland's president and a regional clan opposed to<br />
the Australian company's exploration project.<br />
Those same soldiers have been escorting Range<br />
geologists and workers around the mini-state. But<br />
according to Range's executive chairman, Mike<br />
Povey, no one has died as a result of his company's<br />
exploration in the state.<br />
"The Government always makes sure a company is<br />
protected," Povey says. "They use their troops …<br />
[which] would be armed."<br />
Range pays the Government $US200,000<br />
($274,725) a month as part of its exploration deal.<br />
But Povey says that, to his knowledge, the biggest<br />
incident was an attempted robbery of a supply<br />
truck.<br />
"Everything that you've read has been highly exaggerated,"<br />
he says.<br />
In Range's case, like many other mining companies<br />
with disputed sites in far-flung corners of the<br />
world, it is very difficult for investors to verify the<br />
situation on the ground.<br />
Instead, it's often the word of the company versus<br />
the word of the locals or non-governmental organisations.<br />
In Range's case, a lot of ink has been shed on both<br />
sides of the Indian Ocean since it signed a landmark<br />
deal in October, giving it the right to 50.1 per<br />
cent of all of the minerals and petroleum in<br />
Puntland. It was a company-making deal for Range<br />
and immediately attracted attention from a large<br />
group of investors - many of them day traders - in<br />
Australia.<br />
After all, Range claimed petroleum exploration by<br />
US oil company Conoco and others had shown a lot<br />
of potential before Somalia's civil war necessitated<br />
a hasty exit in 1991.<br />
Range shares shot up 70 per cent in the days after<br />
the deal was announced. Although there have been<br />
no commercial oil finds in the past, Range believes<br />
the under-explored area could contain billions of<br />
barrels of oil - and its executives portrayed the deal<br />
as a major coup for such a tiny company.<br />
But at the same time, the agreement had a lot of<br />
Puntlanders - and even the central government of<br />
Somalia - questioning how a tiny Australian company<br />
managed to snag exclusive exploration rights<br />
to 212,500 square kilometres of land.<br />
Soon after the deal was announced, the Somali<br />
Prime Minister, Ali Muhammad Gedi, sent a letter<br />
to the Australian Stock Exchange questioning its<br />
validity. He argued that only the transitional<br />
Federal Government of Somalia had the right to<br />
sign away mineral rights. Although Puntland is<br />
semi-autonomous, it is still recognised internationally<br />
as a part of Somalia - including by the<br />
Australian Government.<br />
Within weeks, the spat with the Somali<br />
Government was somehow settled and Gedi wrote<br />
Range a letter to that effect which was soon posted<br />
on the company's website.<br />
And by February, Range was all set to begin its<br />
ambitious exploration program. Povey relocated<br />
from Perth to Dubai to be closer to Puntland.<br />
The company cut a deal with Middle East<br />
Petroleum Services giving it 15 per cent of the oil<br />
rights in exchange for access to a team of petroleum<br />
experts and funding for wells. MEPS is run by<br />
Tasmania's Ken Fellowes, who previously headed<br />
high-flying but ultimately failed listed oil explorer<br />
Coplex in the late 1990s.<br />
Range also hired an Australian geologist with<br />
African experience, Geoff Blackburn, OAM, to<br />
lead the minerals exploration team.<br />
Before Range sent its teams in, the Government of<br />
the neighbouring nation of Somaliland put out a<br />
harsh statement, warning that if the company's<br />
teams crossed into disputed border territory it could<br />
"jeopardise the peace and stability of the entire<br />
Horn of Africa".<br />
Despite that, the initial reports out of Puntland<br />
seemed promising. In a release to the ASX in early<br />
March, Range noted it had visited sites with either<br />
old mines or the potential for new ones filled with<br />
coal, lead, silver and gold.<br />
And although the Department of Foreign Affairs<br />
and Trade warns against all travel to Puntland and<br />
other parts of Somalia and no embassy is maintained<br />
by the Australian, American or British governments,<br />
Range reported its team had "no difficulty"<br />
with access, security or logistics.<br />
"There is not, from a company perspective, a 'violent'<br />
border dispute between Puntland and<br />
Somaliland," the statement added.<br />
But within a few weeks of that announcement,<br />
Somali news websites started to report on a violent<br />
dispute - not between Puntland and Somaliland, but<br />
between Puntland forces protecting Range operations<br />
and a clan living on the border.<br />
On March 29, Reuters said at least six people had<br />
died in a mortar battle in the Majayahan village<br />
near the Puntland-Somaliland border. The fight was<br />
apparently between Puntland security forces and<br />
the Warsangeli clan, which has ties to some<br />
Somaliland ministers and is known to oppose<br />
Range's right to explore in Puntland.<br />
On <strong>April</strong> 3, the Puntland news website Garowe<br />
Online reported that three more people had died<br />
when clan militias attacked Puntland security forces<br />
protecting a team of Range scientists in the same<br />
zinc-rich area.<br />
And on <strong>April</strong> 9, Garowe Online reported that at<br />
least one member of the Puntland militia was killed<br />
and five others wounded when a landmine hit a<br />
truck near the same village. "Reliable sources" told<br />
the website the Warsangeli clan had mined the road<br />
as part of its strategy to keep the Puntland militia<br />
and Range out of the region.<br />
Range's Povey says it is possible there was an incident<br />
with a landmine, although he doesn't have any<br />
direct knowledge of it. The Puntland Government<br />
warned his exploration team that landmines were a<br />
problem in some areas.<br />
But Povey says he wasn't aware of any local<br />
infighting. After a site visit last week, he claims<br />
Puntland is a great environment for exploration.<br />
Range took a team of unarmed risk assessment professionals<br />
from Australia along for the ride to produce<br />
an independent report on the security situation<br />
which has not yet been released.<br />
"We were greeted very warmly," Povey says.<br />
"There was no evidence of trouble."<br />
As part of Range's exploration agreement, it is paying<br />
the Government $US200,000 a month and has<br />
offered to help build an airport in the state's capital,<br />
Garowe. "We believe it is a place where it is safe to<br />
invest," Povey says. "We've put our money where<br />
our mouth is."<br />
Short of ignoring DFAT's travel advisory and visiting<br />
the Puntland region, independent confirmation<br />
of the supposed battles at Majayahan is difficult to<br />
obtain.<br />
But the executive director of Puntland State<br />
University in Gorawe, Muhammad Sheikh Hamid,<br />
told the Herald that, as far as he knew, at least five<br />
people had died in the conflict over mineral rights.<br />
"I think this tribe wanted to get some benefit from<br />
the agreement," he said in an email.<br />
The dean of Puntland State University, Abdi Samad<br />
Ibrahim Jama, agrees there were some skirmishes<br />
between clan and militia forces but adds "the problem<br />
is calm now after finalising a proper solution<br />
with the local people by the Puntland authorities".<br />
Mohammed Elmi, a resident of the regional capital<br />
of Bosasso, Puntland, wrote to a Somali website<br />
asking for the Range agreement to be reassessed by<br />
the Puntland Government to end the conflict.<br />
"Both forces are mobilising their militias and<br />
preparing for war. Apparently it has to do with the<br />
team of experts from Range in the area," he said in<br />
an email to the Herald earlier this month. "The<br />
Governor has been accused of being a corrupt<br />
leader who want[s] forcefully to exploit the<br />
resources of a country under the customary jurisdiction<br />
of the clan that reside there.<br />
"The Warsangeli clan, the clan that resides in the<br />
area, does not object to the exploration and extraction<br />
of minerals but they insist everything be done<br />
with their approval."<br />
Povey toured the area in dispute - about 40 kilometres<br />
from Bosasso - as part of his visit to Puntland<br />
last week.<br />
He says there are no villages or local inhabitants in<br />
the area - simply a mining camp that Bulgarians<br />
abandoned about 30 years ago. "It's a hilly, deserted<br />
region," he says.<br />
Povey believes as few as 20 people in Puntland<br />
actually oppose the Range agreement. "There will<br />
always be a small minority that might object for<br />
various reasons," he says. "Their motives are often<br />
not progress and sometimes just plain money."<br />
Range is expected to release more details of its<br />
recent exploration program - perhaps including an<br />
update on the political situation - to the ASX today,<br />
ending a trading halt it called last Wednesday.
<strong>April</strong> 15th 2006 <strong>Nagaad</strong> <strong>Times</strong> Page 22<br />
By David Lieberman<br />
USA TODAY<br />
NEW YORK — Forget the Internet for a moment. One of<br />
the most intriguing new developments in media is taking<br />
place in a part of the industry that many executives used to<br />
dismiss as a backwater.<br />
Call it the year of ethnic media, the vast collection of<br />
mostly tiny broadcasters, cable channels, newspapers and<br />
magazines that target Hispanics, Asians and other audience<br />
niches. Advertisers who once deemed ethnic audiences too<br />
small, too poor or too old to take seriously are looking at<br />
them anew as immigration rates soar.<br />
With minority markets now accounting for nearly a third<br />
of U.S. buying power, pitching to these audiences “is no<br />
longer the nice thing to do, or the social thing to do. It's<br />
about business,” says Gwen Kelly, senior ad specialist for<br />
American Family Insurance.<br />
Spanish-language media are getting the most attention.<br />
The 2000 Census found that 12.5% of the U.S. population<br />
of more than 280 million was Hispanic — a bigger market<br />
than all of Canada — and projects the share to be nearly<br />
18% by 2020.<br />
Last year, Spanish-language TV's ad sales rose 16.9%,<br />
according to Nielsen Monitor-Plus, making it No. 2 in ad<br />
market growth after the Internet.<br />
And there's still plenty of running room. Spanish-language<br />
media accounted for just 4% of the $106.5 billion advertisers<br />
spent on TV, local newspapers and national magazines<br />
last year. That's one reason Kagan Research forecasts<br />
spending on Hispanic broadcast and cable networks will<br />
grow 16.4% a year through 2009, surpassing English-language<br />
counterparts' forecast of 9.4% a year.<br />
Such numbers have pushed companies that have successfully<br />
appealed to Hispanic audiences to look for opportunities<br />
to reach other ethnic groups. Cable and satellite<br />
companies in particular are scrambling for deals to retransmit<br />
shows from China, South Korea, the United Arab<br />
Emirates, Russia, Poland, Greece, Israel, Italy, Vietnam<br />
and elsewhere.<br />
Among other factors that could make this ethnic media's<br />
breakout year, ad and audience surges in ethnic media are<br />
expected in June and July during soccer's quadrennial<br />
World Cup championship.<br />
And Wall Street's estimation of ethnic media could rocket<br />
depending on the outcome of Univision's current search<br />
for a buyer. Investors already value the USA's largest<br />
Spanish-language broadcaster — with 62 TV stations on<br />
the mainland and in Puerto Rico along with other networks<br />
and media properties — at more than $10 billion.<br />
“Despite all of the activity in this market, we're just in the<br />
top of the second inning, maybe the bottom of the first,”<br />
says John Paton, CEO of ImpreMedia, the largest Spanishlanguage<br />
newspaper publisher.<br />
Ethnic media still typically can't command the ad rates and<br />
revenue that mainstream rivals enjoy.<br />
Many marketers fear their pitches might unwittingly<br />
offend people from other cultures. Some demand proof in<br />
advance that their efforts to reach diverse audiences will<br />
pay off in sales.<br />
“You don't get proof beforehand in the general market, so<br />
there's a different paradigm being applied,” says Deborah<br />
Gray-Young of ad agency E. Morris Communications.<br />
“Basically, it's a risk. A lot of times, the marketer doesn't<br />
want to invest in the research.”<br />
Nielsen Media, which supplies TV ratings, has been criticized<br />
for surveying too few people for the company to be<br />
M E D I A<br />
Media tune in to ethnic audiences<br />
As immigration rates soar, broadcasters, cable channels,<br />
newspapers, magazines take notice<br />
able to break out a statistically valid picture of ethnic consumers'<br />
habits.<br />
“The media cartel has run a business based on the Ozzie<br />
and Harriet general market,” says Jo Muse, chairman of ad<br />
agency Muse Cordero Chen & Partners.<br />
The situation may be changing, though. Univision and its<br />
top competitor, NBC Universal's Telemundo, just signed<br />
up to the same Nielsen ratings service that measures all<br />
viewers — not just Hispanic ones. That should make it<br />
easier for them to compete for ads with mass networks<br />
ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC.<br />
In addition, TV stations that appeal to Hispanic and Asian<br />
viewers expect good news from Nielsen's new local people<br />
meters in use in the nine largest markets. The meters automatically<br />
register all year what shows are watched by the<br />
people being surveyed — unlike Nielsen's traditional<br />
method involving paper diaries filled out by surveyed families<br />
during a handful of so-called sweeps months.<br />
The major media, meanwhile, continue to expand ethnic<br />
appeals:<br />
•Cable and satellite. Ethnic programming is emerging as a<br />
key battleground. EchoStar and DirecTV each have about<br />
a million subscribers who take one or more foreign-language<br />
channels — compared with just another million for<br />
the entire cable industry.<br />
EchoStar's Dish Network was the first into this market in<br />
the mid-1990s. Lacking DirecTV's popular array of NFL<br />
games and other sports programming, Dish offered channels<br />
for viewers from the Middle East, Greece and Italy.<br />
“It was low-hanging fruit,” says Michael Schwimmer, who<br />
oversaw EchoStar's international programming until he<br />
became CEO of SiTV last year. “Immigrant consumers are<br />
starving for entertainment from their home country.”<br />
DirecTV began to challenge EchoStar for ethnic viewers<br />
after Rupert Murdoch's global News Corp. bought a controlling<br />
stake in 2003. He added shows from Puerto Rico,<br />
Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina and Peru to the Mexicanoriented<br />
service in Spanish. Now DirecTV is beefing up<br />
its WorldDirect offerings of shows from Europe, the<br />
Middle East and Asia.<br />
“There's been phenomenal growth in the last year and a<br />
half,” says DirecTV's international programming chief<br />
Aaron McNally.<br />
Satellite companies want to exploit an edge they have on<br />
cable: A satellite channel for viewers from, say,<br />
Bangladesh, can pay off because the channel reaches nearly<br />
all U.S. households. A local cable franchise with its limited<br />
area, however, might consider it inefficient to commit<br />
a channel to such a narrow interest.<br />
“For a long time, Comcast had no Polish programming in<br />
Chicago, the largest Polish population outside of Poland,”<br />
Schwimmer says.<br />
Operator perceptions changed, though, as they realized<br />
they'd begun to lose subscribers to satellite. “Those (ethnic)<br />
customers were going to satellite before, and we didn't<br />
even know it,” says Cox Communications President<br />
Patrick Esser. “Now they come to us.”<br />
Many have added offerings and rethought rates.<br />
“A lot of (cable operators) overpriced their ethnic packages,”<br />
says Kagan Research's Deana Myers. “But they're<br />
getting on board now.”<br />
Video on demand, which satellite can't easily provide, also<br />
gives cable a place for ethnic programming.<br />
In a few years, “We'll be able to offer everything the satel-<br />
lite guys do, and then some,” says David Jensen, who handles<br />
international programming at Comcast.<br />
The No. 1 cable operator also is also making sure it has<br />
channels: A subsidiary, International Networks, is developing<br />
ethnic services such as AZN Television, a channel for<br />
Asian-Americans that has been beefed up.<br />
Yet cable may soon face competition from video over<br />
broadband — a popular service among immigrants already<br />
using low-cost broadband phone services such as Vonage<br />
and Skype to call home.<br />
“Existing ethnic media delivery vehicles try to be all<br />
things to a lot of people,” says Kaleil Isaza Tuzman of<br />
JumpTV, which offers overseas channels through the<br />
Internet. “The next level in TV is specificity. Why would I<br />
watch anything but exactly what I want?”<br />
•Print. New money is moving into the oldest medium to<br />
serve immigrants, making it more competitive and professional.<br />
Over the last two years, ImpreMedia, backed by private<br />
investment firms, has snapped up seven of the USA's top<br />
Spanish-language newspapers — including New York's El<br />
Diario, Los Angeles' La Opinion and Chicago's La Raza<br />
— giving national advertisers an easy way to buy space in<br />
all the dailies.<br />
With one order, “Best Buy can hit our five key markets,<br />
which represent 37% of the Hispanic population,” says<br />
Paton. “That's something they couldn't do before.”<br />
Mainstream newspaper chains also have moved in. In the<br />
USA's three biggest cities, ImpreMedia competes with<br />
Tribune, which since 2003 expanded its New York-based<br />
daily Hoy to Chicago and Los Angeles.<br />
Meanwhile, the Texas market is turning into a slugfest. For<br />
example, in Dallas/Fort Worth, Belo's Al Dia faces Knight<br />
Ridder's Diario La Estrella. Now they and other Spanishlanguage<br />
publications in Texas face a new chain of dailies<br />
called Rumbo from Meximerica Media, a company formed<br />
in 2003 with backing from private investors and a subsidiary<br />
of Pearson Group.<br />
Big magazine publishers also are jumping. For example,<br />
last year Meredith launched Siempre Mujer (always<br />
woman). ESPN introduced a Spanish edition of ESPN The<br />
Magazine while Time Inc. scored SI Latino.<br />
•Broadcast TV. Ethnic programming is one of the few<br />
bright spots in this struggling business.<br />
Univision says it attracted its highest ratings ever in 2005<br />
and that ad revenue has leapt 44% since 2000, while the<br />
rest of the industry was up just 7%.<br />
“It's an accelerating process, and it feels like we're at a tipping<br />
point where it's almost impossible for clients to<br />
ignore this audience,” says Univision's Network Sales<br />
President Tom McGarrity.<br />
Telemundo also boasts that in January and February it had<br />
its highest ratings in its target audience of adults younger<br />
than 50.<br />
Univision says that 55% of Hispanics 18 to 49 now watch<br />
Spanish-language TV in prime time, up from 47% in 2001.<br />
Meanwhile, the two most prominent TV stations with<br />
Asian programming, San Francisco's KTSF and Los<br />
Angeles' KCSI, frequently beat local rivals that air mainstream<br />
network shows.<br />
That's why some executives expect a lot more ethnic channels<br />
as stations switch from analog to digital transmissions,<br />
which will allow each station to broadcast as many<br />
as six signals in its channel's airspace.<br />
“Soon there'll be multiple streaming, and they can target<br />
specific audiences,” says Ernest Bromley, CEO of ad<br />
agency Bromley Communications. “I can see a day when a<br />
station in Los Angeles would have four channels. One<br />
would be in Spanish. One would be in Korean. And so<br />
on.”
<strong>April</strong> 15th 2006 <strong>Nagaad</strong> <strong>Times</strong> Page 23<br />
Public Announcemnts<br />
Action Alert: Seeking Information on Immigrants in Suburbs<br />
I'm writing a chapter for a book on immigration<br />
in the suburbs, and am looking for information<br />
on employers in, or close to suburban<br />
MN cities who have jobs that have attracted<br />
immigrants.<br />
We are looking at the 13 MN suburban cities<br />
that have at least 8% foreign-born residents,<br />
If you have any information on what has<br />
attracted Latinos, Africans, Asians or other<br />
immigrants to these communities, and whether<br />
there are particular companies that employ<br />
immigrants there, could please email me at:<br />
fennelly@hhh.umn.edu?<br />
Any other information on particular immigrant<br />
groups and associations<br />
in these places would also be very helpful.<br />
www.helpmnsave.org<br />
<strong>April</strong> 2006<br />
For low-income and minority families, homeownership<br />
is one of the most effective ways to<br />
build assets. This month’s update focuses on<br />
resources for direct service staff to help their<br />
clients prepare for and attain homeownership.<br />
Topic of the Month: Homeownership<br />
Visit the Budgeting, Building Good Credit and<br />
Debt Reduction sections of<br />
www.helpmnsave.org for more information on<br />
helping clients develop and practice the financial<br />
management skills necessary for successful<br />
homeownership.<br />
Get public education resources from the Don’t<br />
Borrow Trouble campaign aimed at stopping<br />
predatory lending practices.<br />
Visit Minnesota’s Homeownership Center site<br />
to locate local support and services for<br />
Minnesotans interested in becoming homeowners.<br />
Learn more about Home Stretch, a pre-purchase<br />
education program designed to take the<br />
mystery out of the home buying process and<br />
prepare first-time homebuyers to make the<br />
important choices related to homeownership.<br />
Learn more about Minnesota Housing Finance<br />
Agency products and services to help<br />
Minnesotans buy and fix up their homes<br />
through low interest rate loans and assistance<br />
programs.<br />
Visit the Fannie Mae Foundation for tools on<br />
saving and buying a home.<br />
New Resources:<br />
New Fact Sheet: Home Repair Scams: How to<br />
Avoid Them<br />
Training Opportunities<br />
<strong>April</strong> 17-18, 2006 Four Cornerstones of<br />
Financial Literacy Training for Coaches &<br />
Case Managers – St. John’s University,<br />
Collegeville, MN. Free two-day "train-the-<br />
The cities are:<br />
Brooklyn Center<br />
Brooklyn Park<br />
Columbia Heights<br />
Eden Prairie<br />
Falcon Heights<br />
Hopkins<br />
Jackson<br />
Lauderdale<br />
Lilydale<br />
Little Canada<br />
Louisville Township<br />
Richfield<br />
St. Louis Park<br />
Thanks very much!<br />
Katherine Fennelly<br />
Professor<br />
Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs<br />
301 19th Ave. South<br />
Minneapolis, MN 55455<br />
612-625-6685<br />
Help Minnesota - Save Update<br />
trainer” workshop on the Four Cornerstones of<br />
Financial Literacy curriculum. Training on the<br />
learning circle method and 4 keys areas of<br />
financial literacy: Money Management, Debt<br />
Reduction, Credit Reports and Consumer<br />
Protection. For registration, contact: Becky<br />
Wochnick - becky.wochnick@state.mn.us or<br />
(651) 431-3812.<br />
In the News<br />
Minnesota’s Emerging Markets<br />
Homeownership Initiative: Launched in 2004,<br />
this initiative focuses on increasing homeownership<br />
in communities of color across the state<br />
by 2010. Learn more<br />
Financial Services in Low-Income<br />
Neighborhoods: In a presentation at the<br />
University of Delaware, Matt Fellowes shows<br />
how rising immigration and the 1996 welfare<br />
reform law have spurred demand for high-cost<br />
financial products that hinder wealth building<br />
in low-income neighborhoods. Learn more<br />
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Department of Human Services<br />
Urgent:<br />
Advice Needed to Help Defuse Racial<br />
Tension in New Ulm<br />
Conversation regarding race relations?<br />
A CALL TO COMMUNITY:<br />
We received a call from a resident of New Ulm, MN<br />
(Sibley County) who in the last 2 days felt she and her<br />
children have been affected by some form of<br />
bias and discrimination related to school incident that<br />
happened to another family.<br />
It involves a 9th and 10th grade students in the Riverbed<br />
Area Learning Center, 210 20th , New Ulm, MN 56073.<br />
Parents have spoken to the principal, Synova Nelson,<br />
about an incident that happened a couple of days ago,<br />
where 2 students were talking in Spanish<br />
during lunch break and got suspended. The principal<br />
sustained the suspension and explained to parents that<br />
they couldn't have student speaking<br />
another language because they could be sharing answers<br />
or talking about the teacher. Needless to say the parents<br />
are not understanding that decision<br />
and feel their civil rights have been violated.<br />
Things have escolated today, 4/05, to the extent that<br />
Latino and White students are fighting. An advocate<br />
and the police were called today for school<br />
fights. Parent feels that now her kids are being targeted<br />
based on this early incident even though her kids were<br />
not the ones suspended but tension<br />
is high and emotions are running rampant.<br />
Any ideas on how to resolve this? We are placing calls<br />
to MN Dept of Human Rights and maybe Attorney<br />
General?<br />
Noemi Alcocer (noemi.alcocer@co.hennepin.mn.us)<br />
Supervisor<br />
Administrative Services Area<br />
/ Office of Multi-Cultural Services (MC 635)<br />
(612) 596-7483 office<br />
(612) 317-6115 fax<br />
The African Summit<br />
2006<br />
FYI, The African Summit 2006 will take place<br />
on <strong>April</strong> 21st from 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at the<br />
Center for Families, located at: 3333 4th St.<br />
North in Minneapolis. The Summit will be<br />
focused on culturally competent strategies for<br />
the delivery of mental health services to<br />
African immigrant and refugee children and<br />
their families. See attached flyer for more<br />
information.<br />
Emily Li-wen Wang, MPH<br />
Community Initiatives<br />
Minneapolis Department of Health and Family<br />
Support<br />
250 South 4th St., Room 510<br />
Minneapolis, MN 55415<br />
(612) 673-2144<br />
Fax: (612) 673-3866<br />
<strong>NEAT</strong> EVENTS<br />
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