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Latino Americans’ views on Biden, Trump, and immigration in new poll https://ift.tt/jrsNYhn A new Axios/Ipsos poll conducted with Noticias Telemundo reveals that Latino Americans hold unfavorable views of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, Ipsos reported on Tuesday. The new poll suggests that younger Latinos feel less optimistic about the future of the US. While preferences vary by issue, with Trump favoring the economy, crime, and immigration and Biden on abortion, younger Latinos express less optimism about achieving the “American Dream” and the country’s future. Ipsos’ online report offers four points of interest which were inferred from the collected data. The first is that “Latinos in general have somewhat low favorability ratings of major political figures, including President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.” A large percentage of Latinos hold an unfavorable view of President Biden (41% favorable, 47% unfavorable,) with former President Trump seen even less favorably (32% favorable, 56% unfavorable,) according to the poll. Concerns among Latinos mostly revolve around inflation (53%,) followed by crime and gun violence (34%) and immigration (28%,) while fewer prioritize political extremism or polarization (16%.) The second notion that can be understood from Ipsos’ new poll is that “Latinos are somewhat mixed between Republicans and Democrats when it comes to issues like the economy and immigration. However, they are less likely to see Biden as a champion on key issues than the Democratic Party itself.” Latino views on immigration Latinos generally favor the Democratic Party over the Republican Party, with higher percentages believing it represents them (36% vs. 16%,) cares about their community (34% vs. 12%,) and shares their values (32% vs. 17%.) However, while older Latinos prefer Biden over Trump, Biden’s performance lags behind that of the Democratic Party overall. Latin american jewish children 521 (credit: ROI COMMUNITY) For instance, while the Democratic Party has a 20 percent advantage over Republicans in representing people like them, Biden holds only a 5 percent advantage over Trump. Additionally, opinions are split on which party is good for the US economy, with Trump favored by 42% of Latinos compared to 20% for Biden. The third thing that the poll highlights is that “Latinos are somewhat mixed when it comes to immigration.” While a majority of Latino Americans believe that the US government should prioritize the improvement of border security, most “support providing a path to US citizenship,” even for those who entered and/or stayed illegally. Latino perspective on immigration reveals that roughly two-thirds support providing a path to US citizenship for undocumented people (65%) and allowing asylum for refugees fleeing Latin American crime and violence (59%,) figures largely unchanged since December 2021 (68%, 60% respectively.) However, 64% are in ...

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Morning Briefing: U.S. White Supremacist groups are 'manipulating events and societal developments' for the purpose of 'radicalization, recruitment and offline mobilization of the public,' according to a new report.

International issues are not usually number ones in US elections. Bread and butter or "culture wars" (gender, "book bans" and "cancel culture", abortion, etc.) are. This year however the results will be partly determined by a foreign policy issue: the war in Gaza. And by immigration, especially by the situation at the US-Mexican border, a "glocal" issue, will be used by Trump's campaign to harass the Democrats. To have a better sense of what's going on at the border and understand the political battles in Washington I advise you to read the recent essay by New Yorker journalist Jonathan Blitzer. In "Everyone Who is Gone is Here", he examines the historical roots of the crisis. It is a particularly good reminder that the wars in Central America, in the 1970-1990s, which were among the last battles of the Cold War, really never ended, in spite of peace deals. Migration from the Northern Trinagle (El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala) to Mexico and the US, as well as re-migration from Latino neighborhoods in California to the Triangle via the maras (the "tattoed" criminals gangs), have an outsize political impact.

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“We’re not the sex police”: Here’s what intimacy coordinators actually do on film and TV sets https://ift.tt/LTuD1K9 More than 70% of Americans say a rewarding career or job is extremely important for them to live a fulfilling life — more important than family, friends or wealth. CBS News interviewed a broad array of workers who chose unique jobs, for a series we call: Unique jobs, extraordinary lives. Have you ever heard of an intimacy coordinator? Most people don’t know they are the professionals who help bring intimate scenes to life on screens.   “We are there to help coordinate any scene with simulated sex acts, nudity, or vulnerable scenes,” explained Amy Northrup, a New York City-based intimacy coordinator for film and television. Intimacy coordination is a relatively new and growing field. The first production to hire and credit a designated intimacy coordinator was HBO’s “The Deuce,” starring James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal, which premiered in 2017 and depicted the porn industry in 1970s New York City.  There are more than 100 certified intimacy coordinators working on film and television sets today. Their pay is roughly in line with that of stunt coordinators, whose minimum rates the union sets are about $1,500 a day. They make, on average, between $60,000 to $90,000 per year.  In its latest union contract, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) stated that productions must make a good-faith effort to hire intimacy coordinators when necessary. According to the Motion Picture Association, the film and television industry employs 2.74 million people and pays more than $242 billion in wages annually to everyone from stunt performers to hair and makeup artists across domestic productions.  Northup told CBS News she gets frequent questions about the career path she took to instruct a pair of actors to “make love” based on a script that offers few other descriptive details. She said intimacy coordinators need to bring a variety of skills to set in order to make actors feel comfortable performing such scenes.  “We’re not the sex police” The perception of what intimacy coordinators do on set has evolved too — producers and directors have come to lean on them for guidance to realistically depict “vulnerable” moments on screen. “Vulnerable” scenes can also include an actor depicting someone giving birth or someone in a wheelchair being bathed. A scene with breastfeeding or that shows a gynecological appointment would qualify too.   “Anything asking people to put their bodies in a hyper-exposed, vulnerable state is where intimacy coordinators can be effective team members,” Northrup told CBS News.  Actor Zendaya recently spoke publicly about how working with an intimacy coordinator on scenes filmed for director Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers,” whose story follows a love triangle, made her feel safe and comfortable while filming intimate scenes with her co-stars. Zendaya said a...

Reviewing ‘Safe Haven’ by Jon Silverman, Robert Sherwood https://ift.tt/UsrPSJQ The book Safe Haven is one that should attract several diverse audiences of readers. Former BBC reporter Jon Silverman, who covered the British Nazi War Crimes Act issue from beginning to end, and his co-author Robert Sherwood, an expert on the post-World War II prosecution of Nazi war criminals, have written an excellent history of the fate of the legislation passed in the British Parliament in Spring 1991 to enable the prosecution of Holocaust perpetrators living in the United Kingdom. Theirs is a cautionary tale regarding an important and highly justified judicial initiative, launched to prosecute Nazi war criminals who had illegally immigrated to Great Britain, which in practical terms (only one individual was convicted and punished, out of many clearly guilty perpetrators) was a miserable failure but ultimately had a positive impact on Holocaust consciousness in the United Kingdom. The authors explain the practical “failure” of the bill in great detail, and point out how quite a few more mass murderers could have been convicted, had the British legal bureaucracy been more flexible, and had there been greater political will to convict and punish these Eastern European Nazi collaborators. Thus this story is not only about the Holocaust, or post-World War II justice, but also about how governments function and how justice is or isn’t achieved in a leading Western democracy. An important chapter in the fight to prosecute Nazi criminals On a personal level, the book also deals with an important chapter of the efforts of the Simon Wiesenthal Center to help facilitate the prosecution of Nazi criminals. In 1986, I was hired by the center to open an office in Jerusalem, which would focus on Eastern European Nazi collaborators who had immigrated to Western democracies. By this point, it was common knowledge that all the major Anglo-Saxon democracies which had fought against the Nazis had admitted at least dozens, if not hundreds, of the worst of Hitler’s henchmen as refugees. (The only exception was South Africa, which was closed hermetically to immigration in those years.) Canada and Australia had already been alerted to the problem and were discussing possible steps to take, but Great Britain and New Zealand ostensibly had no indication that they also had the same problem. On October 22, 1986, however, the Wiesenthal Center submitted a list I compiled of 17 Latvian and Lithuanian Nazi collaborators living in Great Britain to Donald Ballentine, the British consul in Los Angeles, which marked the beginning of the process that led to the War Crimes Act. We subsequently sent 50 more names to the British authorities and did our best, together with the local supporters of the initiative, to convince the government to pass the bill and maximize its impact. In Britain’s first war crimes trial at the Old Bailey in 1999, Anthony Sawoniuk was given two life sen...