Concrete Information about the Coronavirus from John Hopkins University

In our community chat, here, they sent this excellent summary to avoid contagion. I share it with you because it is very clear:

(From Arnaldo Gonzalez, MD, a long time friend  of Frank Velgara, Co-founder of the organization ProLibertad: Free All Political Prisoners Campaign...also a close friend of mine.)

* The virus is not a living organism, but a protein molecule (DNA) covered by a protective layer of lipid (fat), which, when absorbed by the cells of the ocular, nasal or buccal mucosa, changes their genetic code.  (mutation) and convert them into aggressors and multiplier cells.

* Since the virus is not a living organism but a protein molecule, it is not killed but decays on its own.  The disintegration time depends on the temperature, humidity and type of material where it lies.

* The virus is very fragile;  the only thing that protects it is a thin outer layer of fat.  That is why any soap or detergent is the best remedy because the foam CUTS the FAT (that is why you have to rub so much: for 20 seconds or more, to make a lot of foam).  By dissolving the fat layer, the protein molecule disperses and breaks down on its own.

* HEAT melts fat;  this is why it is so good to use water above 25 degrees Celsius for washing hands, clothes and everything.  In addition, hot water makes more foam and that makes it even more useful.

* Alcohol or any mixture with alcohol over 65% DISSOLVES ANY FAT, especially the external lipid layer of the virus.

* Any mix with 1 part bleach and 5 parts water directly dissolves the protein, breaks it down from the inside.

* Oxygenated water helps long after soap, alcohol, and chlorine, because peroxide dissolves the virus protein, but you have to use it pure and it hurts your skin.

* NO BACTERICIDE SERVES.  The virus is not a living organism like bacteria;  they cannot kill what is not alive with antibiotics, but quickly disintegrate its structure with everything said.

* NEVER shake used or unused clothing, sheets or cloth.  While it is glued to a porous surface, it is very inert and disintegrates only between 3 hours (fabric and porous), 4 hours (copper, because it is naturally antiseptic; and wood, because it removes all the moisture and does not let it peel off and disintegrates).  ), 24 hours (cardboard), 42 hours (metal) and 72 hours (plastic).  But if you shake it or use a feather duster, the virus molecules float in the air for up to 3 hours and can lodge in your nose.

* The virus molecules remain very stable in external cold, or artificial as air conditioners in houses and cars.  They also need moisture to stay stable, and especially darkness.  Therefore, dehumidified, dry, warm and bright environments will degrade it faster.

* UV LIGHT on any object that may contain it breaks down the virus protein.  For example, to disinfect and reuse a mask is perfect.  Be careful, it also breaks down collagen (which is protein) in the skin, eventually causing wrinkles and skin cancer.

* The virus CANNOT go through healthy skin.

* Vinegar is NOT useful because it does not break down the protective layer of fat.

* NO SPIRITS, NOR VODKA, serve.  The strongest vodka is 40% alcohol, and you need 65%.

* LISTERINE IF IT SERVES!  It is 65% alcohol.

* The more confined space, the more concentration of the virus there can be.  The more open or naturally ventilated, the less.

* This is super said, but you have to wash your hands before and after touching mucosa, food, locks, knobs, switches, remote control, cell phone, watches, computers, desks, TV, etc.  And when using the bathroom.

* You have to HUMIDIFY HANDS DRY from so much washing them because the molecules can hide in the micro cracks.  The thicker the moisturizer, the better.  * Also keep your NAILS SHORT so that the virus does not hide there.

Professor, Activist, and Community Organizer: Dr. William Guzman

In the late fall of 2019, I met Professor William Guzman at a jazz event being held in the Miller Branch Library – Cultural Arts Center, Jersey City, New Jersey. Guzman, a Professor of Pan-African and Latin America studies who once taught at NJCU is still a very active community organizer. After speaking with him briefly at the jazz event, I do not doubt that Professor Guzman has the level of knowledge and understanding of conditions that have historically affected all people of color are powerful. In my opinion, he has the tools that allow him to serve as a direct liaison to our community.
I had no idea that NJCU has made a grave mistake in letting go of a brilliant and passionate man who has given so much to the school and the local community. As I read more about Guzman’s rebuttal statement on the issue of NJCU not giving him tenure and why ultimately he resigned, I have to question the motivations of President Sue Henderson’s decision of letting him go.

It's a shame and quite honest I feel embarrassed as a student at NJCU that the board members at the university would allow this to happen.

But I guess that is the life of an activist, especially when a professor speaks truth to power and give voice to the ones who are voiceless. Speaking at the NAACP's 98th annual Freedom Fund Banquet in Bayonne where he and others were honored said the following:

“Often times when you're an activist, you’re toiling in the vineyards and it feels like you're alone. When these types of events come up, it gives the community an opportunity to recognize the work of so many people."

-William Guzman

I say thank you, Dr. Guzman, for being a real inspiration and hope that we can one day work together on continuing to educate and build a better world.

Check out his latest lecture below:

He is currently residing in the state of Texas and will be giving a talk this coming month of
February 1, 2020 at the Family Life Center, Fourth Avenue Church of Christ

The End of US Failed Puppet: Juan Guaidó

By César Omar Sánchez

In the spring of 2019 at the Second Annual Lati Colloquium event at NJCU (New Jersy City University), I gave a presentation on US Imperialism and the role it played throughout Latin America. Giving the circumstance occurring in Latin America, I felt it was necessary to try bringing this out onto the discussion table for everyone to participate in. On one of the slides of my presentation, I gave a strong argument against US Interventions and possibly military attack strikes in Venezuela.

Flyer designed (front side)

by César Omar Sánchez

So, who is Juan Guaido, the so-called "interim president" of Venezuela?

Juan has graduate degrees from prestigious DC university George Washington, where he studied under a former IMF (International Monetary Fund) director, as well as attended private business school in Caracas, Venezuela. Yes, no doubt an elitist who surrounds himself with rich powerful individuals in the United States. However, he was better known on US soil than he was in his home country of Venezuela.

Guaido’s roots are in the militant right-wing of the opposition as an organizer in the violent street protests known as Guarimbas. These fascist protestors were responsible for numerous deaths, especially burning alive a black Venezuelan which resulted in his death.

Deeply connected to US regime change front groups like USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy, Juan Guaidó mission was to overthrow the socialist government by any means necessary. By 2010, international agencies were generously pouring up to 50 million dollars per year into funding the Venezuelan opposition movement. It sounds like a pretty open and shut case of a US/CIA regime change plot. All their rhetoric is about the “restoration of democracy”, the same narrative the mainstream media continues to repeat.

Sanctions on Venezuela, but why?

Flyer designed (back side)

by César Omar Sánchez

One part of my PowerPoint presentation I talked about the illegal and unethical sanctions against the sovereign country of Venezuela. These sanctions imposed by the United States and its junior partners against countries that resist their agendas. They are a weapon of Economic War, resulting in chronic shortages of necessities, economic dislocation, chaotic hyperinflation, artificial famines, disease, and poverty. In every country, the poorest and the weakest – infants, children, the chronically ill and the elderly – suffer the worst impact of sanctions.

Jeffery Sachs who is a leading economist and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University said the following regarding the sanctions on Venezuela: 

“More than 40,000 people have died in Venezuela since 2017 as a result of U.S. sanctions”

Juan Guaidó approved these same US measures (sanctions) against his own people in Venezuela. 

Venezuela’s Oil

Since the illegal invasion of Iraq predicated on lies from our government and the cheerleaders at FOX, CNN, MSNBC and basically all mainstream media, we now know it was all about the oil. Like Iraq, Venezuela has a huge oil reserve which the United States will do anything to take control of it. After a failed coup (attempt overthrow of a government) in 2002 which the US was trying to oust out the democratically elected leader Hugo Chavez, US top officials are still trying to get their hands on Venezuela’s Black Gold...Oil

US Puppet “Juan Guaidó” Failed Miserably.

On January 5th, 2019, the Venezuelan National Assembly gave Juan Guaidó the final blow which ultimately was removed as president of the Venezuelan National Assembly. Even among his opposition party threw him under the bus after Juan Guaidó is being charged with numerous corruption allegations. These series of scandals include his role in the alleged embezzlement of “humanitarian aid” and links to Colombian paramilitaries. On the day of the vote at the National Assembly, Guaido never entered the legislative palace, claiming he was barred from doing so by security forces. A video circulated on social media even showed the opposition politician making a dramatic scene by trying to climb over the secured gates.  

However, his version of events has been called into question by other opposition deputies, who did take part in the session and suggested Guaido could have simply walked through the front door. AD Deputy William Davila, a staunch Guaido loyalist, was seen freely entering the chamber, and later told reporters that all but a handful of lawmakers were allowed to do so with NO PROBLEM. This is just another pathetic last attempt to try to win over his supporters in Venezuela.

This can possibly be the beginning of the end for Juan Guaidó, but make no mistake, the US Empire has many tricks up their sleeves.

North of Havana...A must read!

By César Omar Sánchez

This past holiday season, I met and spoke with author, lawyer Martin Garbus on his new recent book “North of Havana: The Untold Story of Dirty Politics, Secrets Diplomacy, and The Trial of The Cuba Five”. The book exposes the lies, deceptions, and ongoing Anti-Castro propaganda that still exists today in Miami and throughout the US. It tells the story of how since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, Cuban exiles and the US have not forgiven Fidel Castro and the people of Cuba to retake what was rightfully theirs…their own country.

Fidel Castro passed away in 2016 and his brother Raul Castro who stepped down as president, and yet many Anti-Castro extreme right-wing Cuba exiles are continuing to destabilize the country using all types of methods for so long now. 

Martin mentions how the mainstream media, along with the US Government continues to fund journalists to undermine Cuba's government by distorting the facts about US secret involvement in Cuba. He also exposes the US support of terrorist individuals like Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch who were responsible for many deaths, especially a bombing of an airliner. All this information was taken from CIA’s own heavily documentation which broke the story to the public. Other methods of undermining the Cuba Revolution are the funding of organization like CANF (Cuban American National Foundation) that continues to use their financial power to influence the US government to impose an illegal economic blockade. At the time CANF pressured both political parties, Republicans and Democrats on tightening up the economic Illegal blockade like the Helms-Burton act with hopes the people of Cuba will rise-up and overthrow their socialist government out of desperation, but their plan failed. 

Other terrorist organizations like the Alpha 66 who were constantly attacking Cuba from the coast of South Florida also failed as well. It is important to point out, as Martin Garbus’s book brilliant does, it is that over the years militant exiles have been linked to everything from downing other airliners to hit-and-run commando raids on the Cuban coast to hotel bombings in Havana. They've killed Cuban diplomats and made numerous attempts on Castro's life in the past.

Martin Garbus speaking at the People's Forum at the anniversary and celebration of
the freedom of the Cuban Five

Flyer designed by César Omar Sánchez

Other organization provocateurs like “Brothers to the Rescue” led by Cuban exiled José Basulto was used to provoking the Cuban Government after illegally flying into Cuban Airspace. This provocation was against International Law that ultimately led to the shootdown of two of his aircraft by the Cuban Government who were just defending their nation. 

The Cuban Five, who were sent by the Cuban government to spy on these organizations based in Miami were arrested in September 1998 from US officials. The story of the Cuban Five by Martin Garbus is, in my opinion, is close and accurate of what occurred during the trial of these five brave souls who were defending their country from US Imperialism. 

There is so much information on this book I just don’t want to give it away. This new year take a trip to your local bookstore or simply just download the digital book. No doubt, this is a book worth reading!

by César Omar Sánchez. Community organizer, New York/New Jersey Cuba Si Coalition, Advisory Board Member of ProLibertad: Free All Political Prisoners Campaign.

New Year's Resolution for 2020...Climate Crisis, Cost of College, and WARS! Time to Take Action!

By César Omar Sánchez

Happy New Year everyone! It’s finally here, 2020!

Sorry guys, the party is over and it’s back to school again.  As most people are going back to their daily routine life, I felt that are a few things that we all need to keep in mind this new year.

As a student at NJCU, many of us are committed to continually improving our grades and hit those high GPA number figures. Obviously, we all want to graduate and get those jobs once we receive our college degree. However, I feel that this year should be a time of clarity and a new different approach to tackling many issues we are all facing today. From climate crisis to higher tuition to the forgotten wars we are no longer hear about on mainstream media, 2020 is the year of being social-conscious on what is occurring around us.

The ongoing danger of climate crisis is a global threat. We must be educated enough to understand that this is something we should all be alarmed about. Here are a few steps for us to take action.

One: Unite with bold climate, environmentalist activists to force our government and corporations to stop financing these fossil fuels and old agriculture methods of growing our food which is so unhealthy and dangerous.

Two: Use energy wisely such as switching to energy-efficient light bulbs, unplug computers and other electrical devices when not in use, wash clothes in cold or warm weather, and try to keep cool without using an air-conditioner. Yeah, yeah, I know the last one is a bit of a challenge, but if you can drink plenty of water and invest in a ceiling fan, it will work just as good.

Three: Eat more meat-free meals, don’t waste food, buy organic and if possible, grow your food.

THE COST OF HIGHER EDUCATION:
When it comes to higher education in the United States, the cost is significantly rising at a staggering rate which makes some students feel hopeless about how to repay this loan back. Let's face it, the current system we are in simply does not provide good and affordable education to us all. It is time for a new shift of paradigm and advocate for free college accessible to everyone, so we won't need to take out excessive loans. We have the resources and financial backing to make this happen, unfortunately, all the wealth is being allocated to other useless resources; such as investing in the military complex, bailing out bankers, and supporting puppet dictators in Latin America to serve US interest.

COST OF IMPERIAL WARS:

The United States of America is currently in ongoing wars such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and now possibly with Iran. The mainstream media along with the U.S. government continues to hide the truth about the all the current wars we are engaged in. When you think about how many people have been massacred and forced to migrate to other countries due to our hegemonic global domination, it’s no wonder why many countries see the US as a threat. All the money that is being pumped into the military-industrial complex can easily be used to provide every US-Non-Citizen access to free public college and more! Let’s not forget our Brothers and Sisters who being misled on continuing to fight these unnecessary wars, it's time to bring them back home.

So yes, 2020 is the year that we must fully engage and revitalize some sort of student grassroot movement to bring change not only on campus by within our local community.

by César Omar Sánchez. Community organizer, New York/New Jersey Cuba Si Coalition, Advisory Board Member of ProLibertad: Free All Political Prisoners Campaign.

Freedom is Moving Target

By César Omar Sánchez

“We are “free” only as long as we play our assigned parts. Once we call out power for what it is, once we assert our rights and resist, the chimera of freedom will vanish. The iron fist of the most sophisticated security and surveillance apparatus in human history will assert itself with a terrifying fury.”

-Chris Hedges

Contemporary American People Mindset

We live in a world where apathy and ignorance are running rampant and is highly contagious in our society. Like a virus, it spreads throughout our community and the entire nation with no limitation and continues to poison the minds of both youth and adults. We are currently living in two societies; on one side we have a minority that is aware of the current status we are all facing when it comes to ongoing systemic racist mechanisms towards African Americans, Latino, and people of color to this present day. On the other side, the majority, where spectacles triumph over literacy and continue to choose comfort over struggle.

Hispanics/Latinos Home and Abroad

As a brown skin Latino with indigenous ancestry background, I am aware of our history when it comes to colonialism and religious persecution, we too also understand what it means to fight for freedom. Freedom for us is still a constant struggle, we are still going through ongoing fight not only in the United States but back in Latin America countries like Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Brasil, …etc. In Eduardo Galeano's’ book Open Veins of Latin America, he exposes how Oligarchs, Corporations and Venture Capitalists have extradited so much wealth from these countries and how they became so powerful in the global financial market. Uruguayan author gives his assessment of Latin America:

“Latin America is the region of open veins. Everything from the discovery until our times has always been transmuted into European--or later--United States-- capital, and as such has accumulated on distant centers of power. Everything: the soil, its fruits, and its mineral-rich depths, the people and their capacity to work and to consume, natural resources and human resources.” ― Eduardo Hughes Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

The Illusion of Freedom within an Empire of Illusion

 To obtain absolute freedom, we must acknowledge that both the political apparatus and the socio-economic system we are currently in must be eradicated. Those in power will tell you and me that we live in the greatest country on earth and that freedom is guaranteed.  Marketing Strategists, Advertisers, and Public Relations agencies use their talent non-stop on selling you that we have "Freedom" in our political and economic paradigm. With the constant 24-hours, 7 days of the week of propaganda on mainstream media, its no wonder US Citizens are so confused.  These same individuals will continue to say that we must continue to vote and to trust these fat cat oligarchs that continue to profit off other people's misfortunes and even deaths. Many politicians today will lie in our face and say that these multimillionaires, banks, corporations, and the military-industrial complex are here to protect our freedom. This is only a façade and the capitalist system has been exposed to the American public of not being democratic and not allowing freedom of speech, freedom of expression and freedom of beliefs that question those in power.

For African American people, unfortunately, freedom is limited to them and their voices have been suppressed for decades now. These mechanisms like voter suppression laws, mass incarceration, job discrimination is just some of the components that make African-Americans discourage and tries to break down their spirits, but it won't work, it never did and never will. 

This past week I attended the BAAFSSO (Black Alumni, Administrators, Faculty, Students and Staff Organization) meeting where many issues were being addressed to the current NJCU President, Sue Henderson. And I thought I felt inspired by many of my classmates voicing their concerns so passionately, I still felt a sense of hopelessness as I know that those in power will not take any actions to improve these conditions. Students and Faculty members should have the freedom to address their grievances without the fear of retribution from their peers or higher ranks within the executive board. The question becomes the following; are we truly living in a free society?

We can no longer continue in this fantasy world where we are sleepwalking towards oblivion. Our freedom is slowly being taken away and many of us have fallen asleep behind the wheel. I cannot sit back and see our black brothers and sisters continued being gunned down in every major city in this nation. I cannot just turn a blind eye while police are being militarized and are granted immunity for the slaughter of black youths. Again, I must ask the question, the word “freedom” …what does it signify in the United States of America for Blacks, Latinos, and people of color?

My Encounter with The Central Park Five

                Mass incarceration of black people in the United States is staggering and shocking.  Far too long black youth and men had their freedom taken away from a racist judicial court system. Two cases come in my mind, one was the injustice arrest and jail sentencing of five youths from New York City. They were known as the Central Park Five which was arrested for allegedly raping a white woman in the middle of the night at Central Park in 1989. A few years back I met with two of The Central Park Five, now The Exonerated Five, Raymond Santana and Yusef Salaam at John Jay College where I was preparing a speech on political prisoners. As I sat down with both Raymond and Yusef, they both described their horrible experience on how they were coerced during an exhausting police integration tactic. This quasi evidence of a confession from them is what helped the prosecutors sentence all innocent young youths to jail. They explain how quickly one’s freedom can be taken away so easily just because of their socio-economic status and the color of their skin.

We Want Freedom

The second case that comes to my mind is a prolific writer and probably the world’s most famous Long Distant Revolutionary political prisoner still being held in the United States’ prison said the following:

“Conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires, but what history really shows is that today's empire is tomorrow's ashes; that nothing lasts forever, and that to not resist is to acquiesce in your own oppression. The greatest form of sanity that anyone can exercise is to resist that force that is trying to repress, oppress, and fight down the human spirit.”

― Mumia Abu-Jamal

The time to fight for freedom is now!  Freedom for All!

Why is it important to understand the Black Experience in America?

More than 30 years ago on the streets of Philadelphia, a Black Revolutionary Movement called MOVE was brutally suppressed by the State of Pennsylvania using terrorist methods to neutralize and kill many members of the organization. I remember as a child many of people around the Black and The Latino community spoke with outrage about the massacre that occurred on May 13th, 1985. MOVE was a Black Revolutionary group that challenged the establishment’s economic and political system within the United States of America. Unfortunately, many members of the MOVE organization were killed when the Mayor at the time Wilson Goode and Police Commissioner George J. Sambor ordered to drop a C-4 Plastic Explosive device from a helicopter on top of the MOVE Organization’s home. On the day of the police’s terrorist attack, many men, women, and children were killed and burned alive. The killing of MOVE was used as an example to silence any dissidents and other Black Liberation Movement that was critical of the way Black Community were being treated.

In my opinion, we must and continue to study, learn and speak about the Black Experience in America with accurate details of the historical context that happened decades and centuries ago.  I feel that we have the lost the way and many blacks and people of color from all religious and ethnic background has been silenced, been miseducated, misinformed, or simply has forgotten about Black Struggle and Revolutionary Movements only what they see in movies.   Though I find many politicians and even so-called scholars’ has simply watered down the black experience history to push their political agenda, many have been complacent to undermining the entire Black Experience History in the US and choose not to speak truth to power to those that continue to oppress the black community.

In the past, we had powerful Black leaders that revolted against all odds to fight against an Imperialist, Oppressive, Racist and Undemocratic Ideology in the United States. Our dear brothers and sisters like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, W.E.B Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Fred Hampton, Stokely Carmichael, Patrice Lumumba, Nelson Mandela, and many other Black Leaders and Revolutionary Figures worldwide are hardly mentioned in mainstream media anymore. This is why we must continue to talk and learn about the black experience to try to understand the circumstances that are occurring today. From Mass Incarceration to the killing of unarmed Black American youth in the streets throughout this nation by racist police officers.

           Malcolm X said it best:

The thing that I would like to impress upon every Afro-American leader is that no kind of action in this country is ever going to bear fruit unless that action is tied in with the overall international struggle. (1)

As we are nearly one year away from the election primaries, we must take into account that politically, black people in the United States has been disenfranchised and voter’s suppression regulations have been in place to push away, black voters. In the past, the Communist Party in the United States were practically the only ones that stood in solidarity with the Black Community.

On the other hand, in their experience with the Communist party in the United States, black people were able to apprehend some of the greatest strengths and weaknesses of black-white alliances in the struggle for justice. (2)

As a Latino, I recognize the importance of learning about the Black Experience not only in this country but all over the world where many have been murdered and their ancestry history wiped off the face of the earth due to European Imperial Conquest. We must understand the current mechanism in this country that constantly tries to push important historical facts aside only for you to purchase a product in the store or online. We must acknowledge the fact that the triumph of spectacles is supreme, and literacy has been marginalized for the last 10 to 15 years.

We are currently living in two society; on one side we have a minority that is aware of the current status we are all facing when it comes to Black History Experience both past and present. The other side, the majority, continues to choose comfort over struggle.

by César Omar Sánchez. Community organizer, New York/New Jersey Cuba Si Coalition, Advisory Board Member of ProLibertad: Free All Political Prisoners Campaign.

Works Cited

1.      Spellman, A.B. By Any Means Necessary, Malcolm X. New York: Pathfinder Press, 1992

2. Harding, Vincent. Prologue: We the People. The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader. Penguin Books, 1991