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LOS ANGELES, (BUSINESS WIRE) — X-Change Corporation, An emerging hip-hop entertainment conglomerate, is pleased to announce that negotiations are currently underway with a number of major distributors to have a put deal to distribute their music label’s albums. Old West Entertainment, which is headed by iconic West Coast hip-hop legend, Kid Frost, is planning to have a deal secured by the first quarter of 2012. At the moment, Old West Entertainment has build up a library of 10 albums that are ready to be distributed into market. “We have a strong library which is ready to be presented to the public, most of our artist have a strong following already”, says Arturo Molina aka Kid Frost.

Universal Music Group is currently the largest global record company to date. UMG owns and operates labels such as, Interscope Geffen A&M, The Island Def Jam Music Group, Universal Republic Records, Universal Music Group Nashville, Decca Label Group, The Verve Music Group, Show Dog — Universal Music, Universal Music Enterprises, Universal Music Latin Entertainment, and A&M/Octone. Working in concert with all of the company’s record labels, they provide a frontline approach to catalog management, a concentration of resources, a greater emphasis on strategic marketing initiatives and opportunities in new technologies such as the Internet. Universal Music Group consists of many major artists like, Rihanna, Akon, Amy Winehouse, Avant, Baby Bash, Babyface, Lil Wayne, Blackstreet, Boy II Men, Busta Rhymes, Diana Ross, DJ Khaled, Jay Z, Justin Beiber, Rick Ross, and so much more. UMG covers genres, pop, rock, rap, R&B, country, jazz, classical and Latin music.

Sony Music Entertainment is the second largest global record company in the world today, and is wholly owned subsidiary of “Sony Corporation of America”. The company that evolved into Sony Music was founded in 1929, as the “American Record Corporation”. Through merger of several smaller companies, the Columbia Broadcasting System acquired the American Record Corporation in 1938. Through the years of evolution, in 1991, the record label was renamed “Sony Music Entertainment”. Sony now owns and operates many record labels such as, American Recordings, Arista Nashville, Battery Records, Beach Street Records, BNA Records, Columbia Nashville, Columbia Records, Day 1, Epic Records, Essential Records, Flicker Records, LaFace Records, Legacy Recordings, Masterworks, Polo Grounds, RCA Records, RCA Nashville, RCA Red Seal, RCA Victor, Reunion Records, Roc Nation, Sony Classical, Sony Music Latin, Star Time International, Verity Gospel Music Group, and Volcano Entertainment. Today Sony Music Entertainment has many great artists like, Michael Jackson, Aaliyah, Alicia Keys, Aerosmith, Avril Lavigne, J. Cole, Beyonce, Britney Spears, Chris Brown, Daddy Yankee, DMX, Jennifer Lopez, Toni Braxton and tons more. Sony Music is home to premier record labels representing music from every genre.

Old West Entertainment is also making their library available on iTunes for digital downloads, according to a new report from research analysts. Global Equities Research has revealed that Apple’s iTunes platform, including music, films, iBooks and the App Store, will grow at a rate of 39% over the next three years to contribute $13 billion in revenue in 2013. The group’s research indicates that more publishers are supporting Apple’s iBook format over Amazon’s Kindle platform, with it believed that Apple’s design and finishing has begun to tempt users way from the Kindle. “We are excited to have our library available on iTunes in 2012 for digital downloads, and hopefully we are able to close a put deal with a major like Sony, Universal, Warner, etc.”, added Old West CEO, Arturo Molina.

Old West Entertainment Corp.

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A pair of Phoenix police officers contacted Ernest Atencio, the man who died last month after an altercation with sheriff’s detention officers, two times in short order on his last night of freedom.

During the first contact, outside a convenience store, officers noticed Atencio was acting erratically and told him to go home.

Moments later, the officers received a call about a man who was kicking at a woman’s apartment door in the 2800 block of West Laurel Lane. The officers recognized Atencio as the man they had just encountered outside the convenience store, according to police documents. With the victim requesting prosecution of Atencio, the officers took the 44-year-old Phoenix resident into custody.

Atencio would die within days, after Phoenix police officers struggled with him in a jail booking area and Maricopa County sheriff’s officers joined in the scrum. According to a hospital report, Atencio was stunned with a Taser six times. Then, he was left naked in a safe cell.

The sheriff’s investigation of Atencio’s death is ongoing, and it could be months before the Medical Examiner’s report identifying the cause of his death is complete.

Atencio’s family has threatened to sue the Sheriff’s Office over the incident.

According to Michael Manning, the family’s attorney, the police report and independent toxicology results confirm what Atencio’s family members already believed: Atencio should have been on medication to help him with his psychological issues, but he was not under the influence of any drugs or alcohol at the time he was involved in the jail altercation.

The toxicology screening, conducted when Atencio was admitted to St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center the day after his arrest, showed negative results for alcohol and a host of drugs including cocaine and methamphetamine.

The toxicology results confirm the suspicions of the two Phoenix police officers who encountered Atencio twice on the evening of Dec. 15 and wrote in their reports that while Atencio was behaving erratically, they did not believe he was on drugs.

“He showed no signs of being a danger to himself or others, he simply appeared to be not medicated and engaged in very random conversation,” Officer Sarah Roberts wrote of her first encounter with Atencio that night. “He was not violent at all toward any officer or civilian present. Atencio stated that he lived down the street and as we had no crime he was instructed to return to his home.”

The call from the apartment complex came a short time later and the responding officers found Atencio “aggressively pointing his cell phone” at the victim. The officers later learned that Atencio was kicking the woman’s apartment door. When the woman walked out into the parking lot, Atencio walked up to her “and stopped only an inch away from her face and began yelling at her.”

“But after a few minutes of yelling at her, Atencio then got distracted by a car and began chasing it,” officers wrote.

The behavior – consistent through both encounters – led the officers to believe Atencio was experiencing mental-health issues, according to the report.

“He was not exhibiting any symptoms of drug use. His eyes appeared normal, he was not sweating profusely, he was not twitching, his speech was normal … he was alert and would respond to questions,” Roberts wrote. “However would get easily distracted and speak of random and odd things.”

Video taken from jail surveillance cameras showed Atencio’s struggle with police and sheriff’s detention officers occurred about 90 minutes after he arrived at the Fourth Avenue Jail.

In the video, a Phoenix police officer can be seen placing his arm around Atencio’s upper chest or neck before Atencio is taken to the floor and surrounded by officers. Atencio kicks and struggles on the floor, wrestling with as many as 10 officers before an unidentified sheriff’s deputy deploys a Taser in an effort to defuse the situation.

The video later shows eight sheriff’s officers surrounding Atencio in a padded cell, where they dragged the Gulf War veteran after he was subdued. Once in the cell, the sheriff’s officers continue to struggle with Atencio, although the crowd in the small room makes it difficult to see Atencio, who is on the floor.

A sheriff’s spokeswoman said when Phoenix police officers took Atencio to the floor, sheriff’s detention officers went to help as they would with any altercation in the jail-booking area.

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2012/01/10/20120110phoenix-inmate-dies-police-report-sheds-light-on-condition.html#ixzz1jCLqFimm

Sixteen Latin American and Caribbean countries have asked to join in the Justice’s Department’s lawsuit against South Carolina’s new illegal immigration law, citing concerns for their citizens. Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico and other countries filed papers Tuesday, asking to join the litigation in Charleston. The law would require law officers who make a traffic stop to call federal immigration officials if they suspect that someone is in the country illegally. Opponents say the measure would encourage racial profiling. The countries say the law would lead to state-sanctioned discrimination against their citizens.

Conservative Arizona State Sen. Russell Pearce lost a recall election Tuesday evening, with Republican challenger Jerry Lewis taking 54 percent of the votes. The recall drive in Maricopa County serves to some degree as a referendum on Peace’s aggressive stance on immigration. As a state senator for the last 10 years, Pearce has pushed for laws to crack down on illegal immigration, and was catapulted to the national political stage when he spearheaded the passage of SB 1070 — a law that would give police greater authority to demand proof of legal residence from people they stop, among other provisions. The law was not fully implemented, due to a legal challenge from the Justice Department. Lewis, who favors a more moderate line on immigration, was supported by immigrant rights activists in the recall election as an alternative to Pearce.

Source: http://latindispatch.com/2011/11/09/immigration-russell-pearce-loses-recall-election/

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by Joe Ortiz

The tape contains music and interviews with Chicano rock pioneers TIERRA, YAQUI, Mark Guerrero and Chicano rock music producer, Art Brambila, which aired 40 years ago on KLOS-FM in Los Angeles, CA. Memories, precious memories! Joe Ortiz, 1st Mexican American to host a talk show on an English-language, commercial radio station on KABC AM Radio in 1971.

Read more: http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/10217418-rare-tape-of-a-radio-show-on-the-evolution-of-chicano-rock-music-found-after-40-years

by Joe Ortiz

Who is La Raza, What is a Chicano and What is Reconquista?
There is a big hue and cry (mostly from radical white Anglos-Saxon nationalists’ camps), that Mexicans are bent on conquering the United States (through a Reconquista) and want to reclaim what they believe is land that originally belonged to Mexico. These folks charge both Mexican nationals as well as many Mexican American (who were born in the United States) are secretly developing a plan to take back (at least) portions of the US (such as California, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, parts of Florida and a big chunk of Nevada. Their clarion call heard often on talk radio and on the Internet is that the Mexicans’ call for Reconquista has been launched.
This audacious rant has been ignited mostly from the incendiary seeds planted by Christian xenophobes like Eric John Phelps, author of Vatican Assassins and also by once Presidential candidate and political commentator, Patrick Buchanan, who charged thus in his 2006 book, State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America:
“Paralyzed by guilt, we are inviting La Reconquista, the reconquest of the Southwest by Mexico, even as Ferdinand and Isabella affected La Reconquista of Spain in 1492 from the Moors who had invaded eight hundred years before. What Mexico’s elites have in mind, what they are systematically pursuing, is a sharing of sovereignty in these lost lands and their ultimate recapture, culturally, linguistically, by Mexico, no matter which nation holds title to them.” (State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America).

Phelps, on his Vatican Assassins web site, is more salacious in describing this so-called conspiracy as he posted a picture of young angry Mexican protesters flipping the bird at those detractors who were taunting them from the sidewalks, and implies that this demonstration is a preview of a reconquista plan being orchestrated by Jesuit Catholics:
“These insulting, arrogant, Alien Roman Catholic Mexican invaders will be registered to vote for the Democratic Party(the Order’s “Social Justice” Communist Party) in Rome’s plot to drive all Whites into the arms of the Jesuits ruling the Republican Party (the Order’s anti-Communist, anti-Black, anti-Jew, White Fascist Party).
Hatefully Racist Alien Roman Catholic Mexican Invaders Occupied with Fighting and Fornicating, Southwest US, 2010.
As you can see via the attached picture, these uncivilized, crude and lewd, Alien….

Read More: http://itseemstomebyjoeortiz.blogspot.com/2011/08/are-mexicans-planning-to-conquer-united.html

Police arrested immigration activist Salvador Reza on suspicion of trespassing Thursday after he refused to leave the state Senate, and another activist could face assault charges stemming from a suspected shoving match with an officer.

Reza and Anayanse Garza were booked into Maricopa County’s Fourth Avenue Jail about 5 p.m., marking six arrests during a highly charged week at the Capitol.

The pair walked into the Senate lobby about 2 p.m. Department of Public Safety officers told Reza he was banned from the building, with approval from Senate President Russell Pearce. Records show that when Reza refused to leave, he was handcuffed, and taken into a nearby room, with Garza trailing behind, according to police reports.

Records show that when an officer told Garza to leave, she pushed him in the chest. The two scuffled in the hallway, and Garza was arrested in connection with aggravated assault on a police officer, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct, according to the report.

Sen. Steve Gallardo, D-Phoenix, said he saw police arrest Garza. He accused Pearce of singling out Reza, who was among protesters at Tuesday’s marathon committee hearing.

“We’re not just going to let him pick and choose who he wants in the building,” Gallardo said.

Pearce said Thursday evening that he’s left it to officers to decide who’s allowed in the Senate. If people have been disruptive, he said, officers are within their rights to keep them out.

“We’re not going to put up with people who come down here and commit disorderly conduct and interfere with other people’s rights,” Pearce said.

Capitol police arrested four people Tuesday, including radio host Carlos Galindo, on suspicion of disorderly conduct charges after they were accused of disrupting a news conference.

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/02/24/20110224salvador-reza-arrest-protests-abrk.html#ixzz1Ex5JTWtP

left to right- Mark Guerrero, Andy Tesso (formerly of The Romancers), Louie Durazo, Chan Romero, John Perez (of The Premiers), Billy Cardenas, and Willie Mondragon)

A special group of pioneering musicians who laid the foundation to what is called the “Eastside Sound” in the Chicano music genre, are gathering together in a performance that will benefit former members who recently passed away.

The event, which will be held on Sunday, March 20th, 2011 at the legendary Paramount Ballroom,( 2708 E. Cesar Chavez Ave., East Los Angeles, 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.) will feature many of these dedicated musicians including members of The Premiers (“Farmer John”), Mark Guerrero & the Escorts (“Get Your Baby”), Chan Romero and Eastside Revue (“Hippy Hippy Shake”), The Jags (with members of The Jaguars), Max Uballez of The Romancers (“My Heart Cries”), The Heartbreakers (“Cradle Rock”), The Storytellers, and The In Crowd, and a special appearance by Robert “Rabbit” Jaramillo- last surviving original member of Cannibal & the Headhunters (“Land of a Thousand Dances”).

There will be a $10 charge at the door of which the donation will go to the families of Frank Zuniga, original bassist of The Premiers, and Annie Perez, the wife of lead guitarist of The Premiers, Lawrence Perez. Frank Zuniga and Annie Perez passed away in December 2010.

For more information call Billy Cardenas, (626) 332-0864 or 

Mark Guerrero 760-902-7474.

Writen by Joe Ortiz – Source: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Geww_YDiBbWyYqe-a39jxkQb7Vn8arbe7ZEAZP8LEGo/edit?authkey=COXTs8ID#