Shining Beacon of Apartheid
Right now we are seeing a monumental shift in the discourse around Israel/Palestine in this country. Our collective efforts are breaking down the myths that have underpinned the United States' unconditional military and diplomatic support for Israel’s denial of human rights and equality to the Palestinians.
Even policymakers are beginning to notice.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently remarked that Israel’s newly enacted discrimination laws remind her of Rosa Parks, and would be better suited for Iran.
The business community quietly came out against U.S. funding cuts to UNESCO. After the failure of the deficit super-committee, AIPAC has been reticent to oppose the automatic $250 million cut to military aid to Israel.
And even senior military officials, including former Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Gen. David Petraeus have questioned the wisdom of unconditional U.S. support for Israel.
Closer than ever is the dramatic policy change that we have all been working for. But as MLK taught us “change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.”
In the last decade we have strengthened and expanded the struggle to change U.S. policy in support of Palestinian human rights. We have grown from a handful of individuals to a coalition of more than 380 organizations and 51,500 individual supporters.
We are working with people in 49 states and 900 cities to mobilize a now unstoppable grassroots movement. We are closer than ever to making U.S. support for Israeli apartheid a thing of the past and we need your help to translate this dramatic discourse shift into real policy change.
Your support now will pay peace dividends for years to come.
Sincere thanks for all of your support,
Mike Coogan, Manager of Finance & Administration / Legislative Coordinator
After years of anti-immigrant zealots dominating state legislatures and passing draconian immigration laws, people are fighting back – and winning!
The voters of Russell Pearce’s Senate district (one of the most conservative districts in the state) sent the message loud and clear: attacking immigrants and terrorizing their communities is not only bad policy, but also bad politics.
We need to make sure that message resonates throughout the country -- particularly in Alabama, where a recently passed bill, HB 56, allows law enforcement to question anyone suspected to be in the country without papers, and detain them in jail without bond. No other state in America has a law this strict -- not even Arizona.
That’s why we’re trying to grow our movement to fight back against these policies.
Adam Luna
QUOTE: “Today more than half of all removals are people with criminal records.” Cecilia Muñoz – director of intergovernmental affairs at the White House 1
FACT: According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) own numbers, 79% of deportees under Secure Communities (S-Comm) had no criminal records or had been picked up for low-level offenses such as traffic violations. This means thousands of innocent people have been picked up and deported. 2
The rampant racial profiling associated with Secure Communities (S-Comm) has also meant that the number of Latinos in federal prison has skyrocketed to accommodate the record-breaking deportations under this administration. 3
Under grassroots pressure, the administration issued a change in policy that would cancel the deportation of people deemed “low priority,” such as DREAM Act students and family members of US citizens. According to reports across the country, border agents, police officers and judges are not taking this directive seriously and continue to arrest DREAMers, pregnant women and others. 4
MYTH: Obama administration says S-Comm does not force local police to enforce immigration law.
QUOTE: “Secure Communities does not require in any way for state and local law enforcement officials to be immigration agents. They don’t ask immigration status.” Cecilia Muñoz – director of intergovernmental affairs at the White House 5
FACT: Governors and voters in Massachusetts, Illinois and New York tell us otherwise. In the last year all three of these states withdrew their participation in S-Comm precisely because local police officials complained that community members have been afraid to cooperate with police.
A statement from NY Governor Cuomo’s office said there was “mounting evidence” that the program, called Secure Communities, had not only failed to meet its goal of deporting the most serious immigrant criminals but was also undermining law enforcement and compromising public safety. 6
Now President Obama is forcing these states to comply with S-Comm even though they have proven it is ineffective and have tried to opt out.
MYTH: Obama: It’s all Congress’ fault; I can’t do anything about it.
QUOTE: “Sometimes when I talk to immigration advocates they wish I could just bypass Congress and change the law myself, but that’s not how democracy works.” President Barack Obama 7
FACT: Ultimate responsibility for the U.S.’s broken immigration system does lie with Congress, but Congress did not tell President Obama to increase the deportations, nor did Congress tell President Obama to make the dangerous S-Comm program mandatory everywhere by 2013. We’re not asking President Obama to change the laws himself, just to stop wasting valuable resources in this time of economic crises by deporting people who only seek a better life for themselves and their families.
Sources:
1. "In the Debate Over Immigration and Deportations, the Facts Matter," The White House Blog, 8/16/11 http://1.usa.gov/r7vFpm
2. "Documents Show ICE Misled California Officials about Secure Communities," America's Voice Online, 4/18/11 http://bit.ly/nxPNdH
3. "Hispanics new majority sentenced to federal prison," Associated Press, 9/6/11 http://onforb.es/omygAa
4. "Immigration Shift Hasn't Trickled Down to Border Patrol," The Texas Tribute, 9/7/11 http://bit.ly/qFgrKA
5. "Fernando Espuelas Interview Cecilia Muñoz White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs," Espuelas.com, 8/15/11 http://bit.ly/nH3xPy
6."Cuomo Ends State’s Role in Checking Immigrants," New York Times, 6/1/11 http://nyti.ms/r4eqwi
7. "Remarks by the President on Comprehensive Immigration Reform in El Paso, Texas," The White House Office of the Press Secretary, 5/10/11 http://1.usa.gov/pLMvtR www.presente.org
One strike; infinite consequences
Right now, 45,000 Verizon workers are on strike, because Verizon is trying again—despite Verizon's record profits—to eliminate the healthcare coverage putting these workers in the one percent of all American workers who receive company-paid medical benefits. They earned this through collective bargaining.
If these workers were in Canada or the UK, healthcare wouldn't even be an issue up for negotiation. In those countries, everyone is provided healthcare coverage by their governments.
Trying to justify themselves citing "Obamacare's" so-called "Cadillac Provision," Verizon argues that the CWA and IBEW members striking to maintain their contracts should lose their hard-fought and hard-won healthcare benefits.
The Verizon workers, Progressive Democrats of America (PDA), and our coalition partners know that our government and Verizon's management have it all backwards: We all need to have full medical benefits—through expanded and improved Medicare for all. Verizon has joined the pack of corporatists that are taking the race-to-the-bottom approach that is devastating the lives of public and private workers around the country.
Tim Carpenter, national director PDA
Despite
widespread support the Obama administration is still set on deporting Elier
Lara
Elier had court this past Friday 20, 2011, there, despite President Barack Obama repeatedly saying he does not want to deport DREAM-eligible youth, Elier was told by ICE that they planned on pushing forward with his deportation case.
We know stopping one deportation here and there is not enough, in order to help DREAMers everywhere we need President Obama to once and for all issue deferred action for all DREAMers.
Mohammad Abdollahi,
co-founder DreamActivist.org
Financial Incentives for Cotsco
It is my opinion that the tax incentives proposed by Augusta government for the development of a Costco retail store at the Village at Riverwatch in the vicinity of I-20 and Riverwatch Parkway needs meaningful review, oversight and public discussion in view of a relative lack of transparency, hurried review by the Augusta Commission, and lack of details in the media.
A Tax Allocation District has been proposed for development of this site. Two attorneys addressed a retreat of the Board of Education about this concept as reported in the Augusta Chronicle. This issue does not appear in the minutes of the monthly meetings of the Richmond County Board of Education, a possible violation of an announced open meeting requirement. The purpose of a Tax Allocation District according to the Georgia Code emphasizes redevelopment and revitalization in poorer areas. Attached is the relevant Georgia Code.
A Tax Allocation District and its relevance to the Richmond County Board of Education is described in the attached article in the November 13, 2010 Augusta Chronicle. It is unclear to me how this would benefit Richmond County public schools in a period of declining tax revenues and a reduction in services, school days and teachers. It appears to me that a Tax Allocation District would accelerate the pay down of development costs incurred by Costco, other potential tenants and the land owner/developer MGHerring Group, a shopping center developer in Texas.
Costco is a multinational corporation with 581 sales locations (as of January 2011) with locations including Puerto Rico, Mexico, Canada, the United Kingdom, Taiwan, Korea, Japan and Australia. Although the business is called Costco Wholesale, it is referenced as retail stores. It is a membership (members only) store. Its annual revenue in the period ending August 29, 2010 was over $77 billion.
Costco plans to sell and install tires, provide an internet service for purchase of automobiles, and sell insurance. It appears that sales tax reductions to Costco are essentially a government subsidy that are not provided to similar businesses in the community, an economic disadvantage to other retailers.
In addition to the issues of financial incentives, which are essentially tax reductions for wealthy business organizations, there are environmental issues dealing with parking lot runoff from the Village at Riverwatch properties which are adjacent to the Augusta Canal and the Augusta Canal National Heritage Area and approximately one half mile above the Pumping Station, the main source of drinking water for Augusta. Gasoline powered boats are not allowed in the Augusta Canal, and the Petersburg boats have expensive electric powered motors.
Thanks.
William M. Johnson, M.D.
Comment by Denice Traina: What would taxpaying parents say about education funds going toward a business endeavor when they are furloughing teachers and cutting back on after school programs? Did the BOE agree because they will benefit down the road and they have no other sources of new funding coming down the pike? (thinking outside the box?) We should ask our reps....mine is Venus Caine...I wonder if they will use a permeable surface on the parking lot and or consider greening ...with plants to absorb and trap water...
"Two KKK Rallies: One in GA Mountain town and One in the State Capitol"
The Joke Is On Taxpayer
Do you wonder (like I do) what the tax accountants and executives are doing over at GE this weekend? Frantically rushing to fill out their IRS returns like the rest of us?
Hardly. They're taking the weekend off to throw themselves a big party and have a hearty laugh at all of us. It must really crack them up to see us like suckers scurrying around to make sure we report everything to Uncle Sam—and even send him a check, if necessary.
The joke's on us, folks. GE and tons of other corporations will have a tax bill for 2010 of ZERO. GE had $14.2 billion in profits in 2010. Yet they will contribute NOTHING to the federal government while every last dime is soaked from us.
In the latest budget deal, our politicians could have tackled the deficit by stopping the flow of these ill-gotten billions to corporations. Instead they cut billions from "wasteful" programs that do "wasteful" things, like create new jobs, drive economic growth, and help the needy and our nation's children. It's Democracy in reverse and it sickens me.
GE spends $20 million a year to lobby Congress to throw themselves this party. But do you know what speaks louder than $20 million? 20 million votes! 20 million people, and more, standing together and taking to the streets. That starts now, with you.
Monday, April 18 is Tax Day—and that's the day when "we the people" will demand our country back from these corporations in events all across the country. The folks at MoveOn tell me that the nearest event to you is in Augusta. I hope you'll be there.
Michael Moore
Uprising in Wisconsin
The Dems and the labor bureaucracy are going to sell out public workers and services. As Obama said last week, "We all agree we have to cut spending," meaning both halves of the two-party system of corporate rules. Watch for the Dems and labor bureaucracy to declare "victory" for cuts in social spending and concessionary contracts that cut public worker wages and benefits in exchange for eliminating some of the union-busting measures that undermine collective bargaining and for some token gestures at more progressive taxation.
The Greens need to distinguish our position by saying the deficits are not caused by excessive social spending or public worker wages and benefits, but rather by tax cuts for the rich, excessive military spending, and the recession (in that order of impact). The Green solution is progressive taxation, demilitarization, and counter-recessionary public investment in WPA-style public jobs and in social spending that indirectly create more private jobs.
In the long run, privatized health care is driving up public "entitlement" costs as well as private insurance, drug, and provider costs. Single payer with its administrative efficiency (30% savings), bargaining power (drugs, etc.), and global budgeting is the way to control costs and give everybody first-rate medical care.
Here's some more perspective I put in a post to NY Green lists:
Madison Revolt: Popular Movement vs. Democratic Party
Many people are asking as the pro-democracy revolts spread across North Africa and the Middle East: Why don't Americans also revolt?
Ordinary Americans are getting hammered by the militarism, tax cuts for the rich, and austerity budgets for the people we are getting from both major parties. Why don't we revolt?
The revolt in Madison may indicate the rise of a new workers movement in response to draconian state budgets cuts, demands for concessionary contracts from public workers, and the union-busting assault on workers' collective bargaining rights (which is not limited to Wisconsin Republicans; just listen to Gov. Cuomo and Democratic Mayors and County Execs around New York State).
The Madison revolt also indicates some of the dynamics we can expect as the budget and contract battles march through the states:
- The fiscal crisis is contrived: In Wisconsin, the Dems could have approved contracts before the Republicans took over. The Republicans gave away corporate welfare to turn a projected surplus into a projected deficit that is used to justify the union-busting assault on collective bargaining rights as well as the austerity budget. See: Capitol Times, "Walker gins up ‘crisis’ to reward cronies," Feb. 16, http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/editorial/article_61064e9a-27b0-5f28-b6d1-a57c8b2aaaf6.html. In New York State, the top 1% now takes home 35% of income yet pays a lower rate of state and local taxes than any other income cohort.
- Once active and in motion, the grassroots movement pushes the labor bureaucracy and Democrats much further than they intended to go.
- The Dems and the labor bureaucracy will try and channel the movement back into "proper channels." The course of events in Madison show how the "progressive" Democratic side of the two-party system of corporate rule will try to co-opt to revolt into a "victory" for partisan gain that is really a defeat. Specifically, the likely "victory" will be a "compromise" imposes an austerity budget and public worker wage and benefit concessions in new contracts in exchange for dropping the union-busting, anti-collective bargaining parts of the GOP legislation. The Democrats and the union bureaucracy will then claim victory as they join the Republicans in imposing the austerity budget and contract concessions. In New York, this "victory" may take the form of a watered-down extension of the "Millionaire's Tax" that will enable the Cuomo and the Dems to say "everyone" is sacrificing as their austerity budget devastates schools, health care, environmental protection, etc. and unions' acceptance of concessionary contracts.
These links on the home page of the socialist organization, Solidarity, provide the best coverage and analysis of the Madison revolt I have seen:
Dan La Botz, "A New American Workers Movement Has Begun." Feb. 17, http://solidarity-us.org/current/node/3159
Nick, "Report from the Battle for Wisconsin," Feb. 18, http://solidarity-us.org/current/node/3160
-- Howie Hawkins
Greetings,
In order to be more effective in service to one another, and more importantly in service to the cause of justice, we must recognize some cardinal principles as it relates to this honorable cause.
First of all, let it be understood that we in the Nation of Islam want justice applied equally to all, regardless of creed or class or color.
Having said that, we believe that we must rethink the old slavemaster-slave relationship.
Oppressed people (meaning people of color and poor whites) feel the need to justify their God given existence in the world, while the oppressor ("privileged" whites) feel an entitlement to their esteemed position, at the expense and to the detriment to the poor.
We must take the "civil rights" struggle to another level. This does not entail begging or protesting to others. At this juncture, we should be thinking in terms of self determination and independence.
We certainly have no business going to corporate America asking for support, when the vested interest is keeping poor people subjugated.
A capitalist society cannot exist unless there is an underclass or slaves, if you will. Translation: Blacks, Latinos, Natives, Asians, poor Whites.
Therefore, we do not have confidence in a political system that is diametrically opposed to freedom, justice, and equality.
The so-called fore fathers of this country (who were criminals inside British prisons) did not sing "We shall
overcome" to England. They did not protest. They killed, plundered, and kidnapped in the name of independence. In other words, no matter how terrible, graphic, and heinous, they rolled up their sleeves and built a reality for themselves.
Of course I am not advocating that we kill and enslave like the settlers. However, I am saying it is time to get up and stop begging others to do for us what we have the power to do for ourselves!
The establishment does not fear unity alone. It fears unity along with organization, and tangible programs outside the confinement of its slave making institutions.
As citizens of the Nation of Islam, we believe it is absolutely futile in trying to make this system do what it was never designed to do. It was never intended to provide justice for its poor and oppressed.
Rest assure, we have a plan for our liberation. However the slave must be willing to leave the plantation.
Warmest regards,
Charles Muhammad
Dear Anibal,
Tonight (9-8-10), the Jewish year of 5770 will come to an end, and a new year will begin.
One of the most beautiful elements of Jewish tradition is the opportunity during this time to look back and look forward - to acknowledge our wrongs of the year past, to honestly assess our actions, to think about what our hopes are for the next year, and how we will try to fulfill them.
We invite all of you - Jews and non-Jews alike - to take a moment, reflect, and share with us your hopes, dreams, and promises for the future on our website, This Is My Promise.
Our promise to you this year is to be more powerful, more courageous, and more effective in building a fierce and fearless movement for justice for all peoples in Israel and Palestine.
That's why we are so deeply gratified to start the year with such extraordinary news.
One, we are greatly honored that Rabbis Brant Rosen and Alissa Wise will be the co-chairs of Jewish Voice for Peace's new Rabbinical Council. You can learn more about the Council here, and download prayers and reflections that you can use during this holiday. We know they will help you spark a dialog and raise awareness.
Two, a brave group of Israeli actors, writers, playwrights and directors recently declared that they would not cross into the West Bank to perform in an illegal settlement. You could think of it as their promise for the year. They were immediately vilified by Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and countless others and asked us for support.
We went to our friends in the arts world and the amazing happened: more than 150 of the bright lights in American film and theater stood up to support these artists of conscience, including people like Stephen Sondheim, Hal Prince, Tony Kushner, Julianne Moore, Mira Nair, Cynthia Nixon, Mandy Patinkin, Ed Asner, Wallace Shawn, Jennifer Tilly, Eve Ensler, Vanessa Redgrave and so many more.
No matter what happens next, this is already a breakthrough in shining a bright light on the illegality of the Israeli settlements, and the necessity of taking a stand for human rights and international law. And because it is happening now, at the New Year, I can't help but consider the meaning of standing up for what is right in this world - and that for our brothers and sisters in Palestine, the consequences of speaking their conscience is so much greater.
And so...I'm making a promise this year: To remind the world to fight for justice for Palestinian prisoners of conscience. To continue to stand in solidarity with the brave Israelis who are speaking out. To do everything we can to continue to build a movement that fights for equal rights - nothing more, nothing less - for everyone, Palestinian or Israeli.
Shanah Tovah - Happy New Year - may it be a year of sweetness, peace, and justice for you, your family, your loved ones, and the world.
And to our Muslim friends Ramadan Kareem and Eid Mubarak.
Rebecca Vilkomerson - Jewish Voice for Peace
PS. Like you, we are deeply alarmed by growing anti-Muslim hatred across the U.S. In this time of reflection, we urge you to read Muslim Community Center? Why Not? Why Should Jews Care? by our friends at JewsonFirst.org.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Angel Francisco Castro Torres, who was riding his bicycle in Smyrna when he was stopped by Cobb County police officers Jeremiah M. Lignitz and Brian J. Walraven. According to their own account, the officers, who are the named defendants in the complaint, stopped him after observing his race. The officers immediately demanded Castro’s identification and questioned his immigration status. He was also beaten, resulting in a broken nose and eye socket, and arrested.
“This case is just the latest in a string that demonstrate that racial profiling is the standard mode of operation in Cobb County, Georgia,” said Sam Brooke an attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center. “The federal government must put an immediate stop to these civil rights abuses by ending this program.”
The officers attempted to cover up the attack by transporting Castro to the Cobb County Jail, which has a 287(g) agreement that feeds arrested individuals into the federal immigration system.
Since July 2007, Cobb County has participated in the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) 287(g) program, which authorizes local law enforcement to enforce federal immigration law.
In the first two years of implementing the program, nearly 6,500 suspected undocumented immigrants have been detained.
“The 287(g) program is a national disgrace,” said Paromita Shah, associate director of the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild. “It is incomprehensible why the Obama administration continues to support and expand this fatally flawed program when dozens of reports demonstrate that the program creates a culture of unchecked police power that fosters discrimination and abuse.”
Despite DHS’s attempts to modify the program’s guidelines last year in an “effort” to reduce racial profiling, a report released by the department’s inspector general identified ongoing, alarming problems including, lack of communications, inadequate training and supervising of the local law enforcement members and few protections against racial profiling and other civil rights abuses.
“These officers stopped Mr. Castro for no other reason than the color of his skin,” said Brian Spears, civil rights attorney and co-counsel. “Riding a bike while not being white is not a crime.”
After being held for four months, Castro was released last week when the two officers named in the lawsuit failed to appear at a hearing regarding the charges they brought against him. He required surgery to repair the damage to his eye.
“The discrimination and abuse that Mr. Castro suffered is far too common in Cobb and other 287(g) counties in the Atlanta area,” said Adelina Nicholls, executive director of GLAHR. “We hear about and document similar abuses every day, but today is different, because we are standing with Mr. Castro and with SPLC and NIPNLG to fight back. We must end these abuses by ending this program.”
In 2008, SPLC published a report, Under Siege: Life for Low-Income Latinos in the South, which documents systemic discrimination against Latinos in the region that constitutes a civil rights crisis that must be addressed. One of the examples of the injustices that confront Latino immigrants as they struggle to gain a foothold in the South is the use of these programs that cause widespread fear of the police by all immigrants and Latinos regardless of status. www.splcenter.org
Your office has a long history of standing up for the rights of the poor and minorities and is committed to jobs, peace and justice. I want to make you aware of an injustice that is taking place in our local community and ask for your assistance in rectifying this wrong. Because “Justice delayed is justice denied.”
It was alleged that DSC Logistics has violated several major federal labor laws. According to a federal lawsuit filed in November 2009 in the United States District Court of the Northern District, DSC Logistics and Smucker’s denied employment to hundreds of qualified applicants based solely on their criminal records. With unemployment rates at such high levels, how can we allow this company to deny applicants jobs solely on their criminal records? The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ruled that, “the use of arrest records as an absolute bar to employment has an unequal impact on some protected groups, and as a result, employers cannot exclude applicants based solely on their arrest record.”
I have exciting news, and an urgent request for help.
You may have heard that THE COVE is now a finalist nominee for an Oscar for Best Documentary.
And now word is out that the Japanese company Medallion Media has signed on to release the Japanese subtitled version of THE COVE throughout Japan this April.
The Oscar nomination is a tremendous testament to the skill and art of the filmmakers of THE COVE. It will also shine a huge spotlight on the actions of the government of Japan in covering up the dolphin slaughter and poisoning of Japanese people with mercury-laced dolphin meat.
The March 7th broadcast of the Oscar presentations will reach nearly a billion people around the world. It is the most-watched television show in Japan. And the release of THE COVE in Japan will allow the Japanese public to learn the terrible secret of the Taiji slaughter for the first time.
Most Japanese have no idea that the cruel dolphins slaughter takes place and how toxic the dolphin meat is. The few Japanese citizens who have seen the film have been shocked and horrified. If millions see it and learn the truth, the pressure to end the slaughter could be unstoppable.
Help me spread the word in Japan, encourage the Japanese public to see the film, intensify press coverage of the ongoing slaughter, force the Japanese government to release the hidden information regarding the mercury testing of Taiji residents, and keep up our monitoring and investigations at the cove in Taiji.
A donation of $500 helps us get 100 or more people in Japan into the theaters to see The Cove and take action.
A donation of $100 allows us to print thousands of cards and other educational outreach pieces in Japan.
We have to raise a minimum of $50,000 for outreach efforts in Japan before the film comes out in Japan. A donation of any size is greatly appreciated.
https://secure.acceptiva.com/?cst=59a67b
I also need your help to get the million signatures on our Facebook Causes Petition to present to the Japanese Embassy in Washington, DC in March and to the Fisheries Ministry in Japan in April. We have nearly 700,000 signatures, so we’re getting close, but we need your help to reach our goal – so please sign on and tell your friends and contacts to sign on, too, at:
http://apps.facebook.com/causes/petitions/252?m=66f6b5fd
Thanks for all your efforts to help us save dolphins. I know we can end this slaughter, if we work together and get the people of Japan to see THE COVE.
Thanks for all your help.
Ric O’Barry
Dear Friend,
With much anticipation, I am proud to announce that as of March 1, 2010, CETPA will start the first Play Therapy Program in Spanish in Georgia. This new program is our next step in the creation of a more complete menu of services provided by CETPA with the intent to help our clients. With the help of veteran Play Therapist, Mary Flynt, LPC, CETPA has built a Play Therapy room on-site with all of the equipment and toys necessary for this program. Mrs. Flynt, a licensed therapist who is certified in "Play Therapy" programs, will begin training two additional staff members from our team for this magnificent program.
More information: www.cetpa.org
Con mucho orgullo y anticipación les informo que a partir del primero de marzo del 2010, CETPA comenzará el primer Programa de Terapia Lúdica en Español en Georgia. Este programa, conocido como "Play Therapy" en inglés, es nuestro próximo paso en la creación de un menú de servicios más completo para ayudar a nuestros clientes. Con la ayuda de Mary Flint, LPC, una experta en este tipo de terapia, CETPA ha construido un Salón de Terapia Lúdica en nuestras oficinas el cual cuenta con todo el equipo y los juegos necesarios para proveer este servicio. La Sra. Flynt, una terapista licenciada y certificada en Terapia Ludica, también va a capacitar a dos miembros de nuestro equipo de consejeros para esta magnifico programa.
Sincerely/Sinceramente,
