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Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:25:03 +0000

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Budapest Street Directory #14: Lajos Kossuth/Kossuth Lajos utca

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This is the eleventh piece of a 14-part series, utilizing the 14 statues featured on the two quarter-round colonnades of Hősök tere/Heroes’ Square Millenium Memorial. Since all of the protagonists are major and significant figures in the history of Hungary, some Budapest streets are named after them here and there. The primary aim of this series is not to introduce the statues or characters (all are commonplaces frequently featured in touristic photoguides), but roads, squares and public spaces bearing their names.

Kossuth Lajos utca is a relatively short, though highly significant section of the main east-west street of the city, between Ferenciek tere and Astoria crosspoint, changing to Rákóczi út leaving Astoria, but unlike that, all of it belongs to the innermost district of Budapest. Kossuth Lajos street is always a heavy duty, frequently jammed spot of the city, and since it is packed with small shops on both sides, also a favorized destination of pedestrians. One of the favourite venues of my childhood, a cinema named after the Russian poet, Pushkin, though converted into a modern cultural complex, still exists there; the other fav, Úttörő Department Store (meaning "pioneer") has been demolished since then. – The second choice is Kossuth Lajos tér in front of the building of Hungarian Parliament, as a matter of fact the Parliament Square of Budapest. – Further 17 streets/roads/squares are named after Kossuth Lajos throughout the city.

This is the day, 15th of March, a national holiday, anniversary of the overture of the 1848/49 Revolution & War of Independence I must upload him, though Kossuth (1802-1894) didn’t play an important role on the actual day. As a lawyer and journalist, and later a politician, he was among the spiritual forerunners of the revolution, and as an active politician from the March of 1848, an extraordinary orator and talented agitator he held significant positions in subsequent times of the war of independence against the Habsburg rule. He was the Minister of Finance in the first responsible Hungarian government, President of Committee of National Defence (from the autumn of 1848, actually the leader of the country). On 14th April 1849 he was elected as regent/governor of the country by the Debrecen diet (a governor like János Hunyadi 300 years before), and issued the Hungarian Declaration of Independence at the same time. After the fall of the revolution he fled to Turkey first (a fate he shared with Rákóczi), and spent the rest of his life in immigration, the most in Torino, Italy; he was becoming a respected national hero who died far from his home-land; a carreer not so rare in modern Hungarian history. His legend has grown large even during his lifetime; and still is high in contemporary Hungary.

The story of this statue is the most interesting among the pieces of Millenium Monument statuary, since it replaces a statue (or rather two) of Emperor Franz Joseph, his fiercest political enemy and final defeater. The very first statue of the Emperor, designed by Richárd Füredi, was erected in 1905 (and inaugurated by the Emperor himself); this had been destroyed in 1919, and was replaced by a new statue made by György Zala and re-erected in 1929. In the fifties the statue of Franz Joseph was removed again, and since 1955 this one sculpted by Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl is being displayed there.

These parts of this series are available now.

William Walker, “President” of Nicaragua, 1856-1857

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In 1854 Walker signed a contract with the rebels in Nicaragua’s current civil war and in May 1855 sailed from San Francisco with the first contingent of fifty-seven men to support this cause. . . . With financial support from Cornelius Vanderbilt‘s transit company, Walker’s filibusters and their rebel allies defeated the "Legitimists" and gained control of the government. Walker appointed himself commander in chief of the Nicaraguan army as Americans continued to pour into the country – two thousand by the spring of 1856. President Pierce granted diplomatic recognition to Walker’s government in May.

. . . While much of the northern press condemned Walker as a pirate, southern newspapers praised him as engaged in a "noble cause. . . . " Proponents of slavery expansion recognized the opportunities there for plantation agriculture. . . . Of course the Central American republics had abolished slavery a generation earlier. But this was all the better, for it would allow southerners to establish slave plantations without competition from local planters. " A barbarous people can never become civilized without the salutary apprenticeship which slavery secured," declared a New Orleans newspaper that urged southern emigration to Walker’s Nicaragua. "It is the duty and decreed perogative of the wise to guide and govern the ignorant . . . through slavery, and the sooner civlized men learn their duty and their right, the sooner will the real progress of civilization be rescued."

During 1856, hundreds of would-be planters took up land grants in Nicaragua. . . . The other Central American countries had formed an alliance to overthrow Walk. They were backed by Vanderbilt, whom Walker had angered by siding with an anti-Vanderbilt faction in the Accessory Transit Company. The president of Nicaragua defected to the enemy, whereupon Walker installed himself as president in July 1856. . . . Realizing that southern backing now represented his only hope, Walker . . . revoked Nicaragua’s 1824 emancipation edict and legalized slavery again.

. . . A cholera epidemic ravaged Walker’s army even as the Central American alliance overwhelmed it in battle. On May 1, 1857, Walker surrendered his surivors to a United States naval commander whose ship carried them back to New Orleans.
~ Battle Cry of Freedom, James M. McPherson

William Walker (May 8, 1824– September 12, 1860) was a US lawyer, journalist and adventurer, who organized several private military expeditions into Latin America, with the intention of establishing English-speaking colonies under his personal control, an enterprise then known as "filibustering." Walker became president of the Republic of Nicaragua in 1856 and ruled until 1857, when he was defeated by a coalition of Central American armies. He was executed by the government of Honduras in 1860.

. . . In the summer of 1853, Walker traveled to Guaymas, seeking a grant from the government of Mexico to create a colony that would serve as a fortified frontier, protecting US soil from retaliations by Native Americans. Mexico refused, and Walker returned to San Francisco determined to obtain his colony, regardless of Mexico’s position. He began recruiting from amongst American supporters of slavery and the Manifest Destiny Doctrine, mostly inhabitants of Kentucky and Tennessee. His intentions then changed from forming a buffer colony to establishing an independent Republic of Sonora, which might eventually take its place as a part of the American Union (as had been the case previously with the Republic of Texas).

On October 15, 1853, Walker set out with 45 men to conquer the Mexican territories of Baja California and Sonora. He succeeded in capturing La Paz, the capital of sparsely populated Baja California, which he declared the capital of a new Republic of Lower California, with himself as president and his partner, Watkins, as vice president; he then put the region under the laws of the American state of Louisiana, which made slavery legal.

Lack of supplies and unexpectedly strong resistance by the Mexican government quickly forced Walker to retreat. Back in California, he was put on trial for conducting an illegal war, in violation of the Neutrality Act of 1794. In the era of Manifest Destiny, his filibustering project was popular in the southern and western United States and the jury took eight minutes to acquit him.

In 1854, a civil war erupted in Nicaragua between the Legitimist party (also called the Conservative party), based in the city of Granada, and the Democratic party (also called the Liberal party), based in León. The Democratic party sought military support from Walker who, to circumvent U.S. neutrality laws, obtained a contract from Democratic president Francisco Castellón to bring as many as three hundred "colonists" to Nicaragua.

On September 4, during the Battle of La Virgen, Walker defeated the Legitimist army. On October 13, he conquered the Legitimist capital of Granada and took effective control of the country. Initially, as commander of the army, Walker ruled Nicaragua through puppet President Patricio Rivas. During Walker’s rule, the country became known as "Walkeragua."

Walker took up residence in Granada and set himself up as President of Nicaragua, after conducting a fraudulent election. He was inaugurated on July 12, 1856, and soon launched an Americanization program, reinstating slavery, declaring English an official language and reorganizing currency and fiscal policy to encourage immigration from the United States. Realizing that his position was becoming precarious, he sought support from the Southerners in the U.S. by recasting his campaign as a fight to spread the institution of black slavery, which many American Southern businessmen saw as the basis of their agrarian economy. With this in mind, Walker revoked Nicaragua’s emancipation edict of 1824. This move did increase Walker’s popularity in the South and attracted the attention of Pierre Soulé, an influential New Orleans politician, who campaigned to raise support for Walker’s war. Nevertheless, Walker’s army, weakened by an epidemic of cholera and massive defections, was no match for the Central American coalition. On December 14, 1856 as Granada was surrounded by 4,000 Salvadoran and Guatemalan troops, Charles Frederick Henningsen, one of Walker’s generals, ordered his men to set the city ablaze before escaping and fighting their way to Lake Nicaragua.

After writing an account of his Central American campaign (published in 1860 as War in Nicaragua), Walker once again returned to the region. British colonists in Roatán, in the Bay Islands, fearing that the government of Honduras would move to assert its control over them, approached Walker with an offer to help him in establishing a separate, English-speaking government over the islands. Walker disembarked in the port city of Trujillo, but soon fell into the custody of Captain Nowell Salmon (later Admiral Sir Nowell Salmon) of the British Royal Navy. The British government controlled the neighboring regions of British Honduras (now Belize) and the Mosquito Coast (now part of Nicaragua) and had considerable strategic and economic interest in the construction of an inter-oceanic canal through Central America. It therefore regarded Walker as a menace to its own affairs in the region.

Rather than return him to the US, Salmon delivered Walker to the Honduran authorities in Trujillo, who executed him near the site of the present-day hospital by firing squad on September 12, 1860. Walker was 36 years old.

Cool Immigration Lawyer images

Sat, 28 May 2011 12:05:05 +0000

A few nice Immigration Lawyer images I found:

Family Starbucks stop

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We had some time to kill today while we waited for the lawyer to finish getting some paperwork at immigration, so we went to Starbucks.

Here’s a glimpse.

Karcher Block

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Built during Pierre’s second building boom, the Karcher Block was one of the first brick commercial buildings in the city. Commissioned by Henry Karcher and constructed in 1884, the block is in the popular Commercial style with Italianate features. Karcher was instrumental in providing permanency to the present downtown business district of Pierre.

At the time, it was unclear whether the center of the business community would be in East or West Pierre. According to Karcher’s diary, Mr. Wells, who owned most of what was then called East Pierre, offered Karcher ,000 not to erect his “mammoth double brick building” in West Pierre. Karcher rejected this offer, and West Pierre went on to become the center of the business community.

The Karcher Block provided for two retail spaces on the main floor, including a post office, and a second floor used as a public hall. Construction of the Karcher Block and the Central Block, another major downtown building, at the same time guaranteed that West Pierre would be the focus of the business district. The Karcher Block was considered one of the most desirable business locations in the city because of its central location on the northeast corner of Pierre Street and Dakota Avenue. In continual use since its construction, the building served as the home for many thriving downtown businesses including retail stores, doctors and lawyers offices, real estate agencies, an immigration and employment bureau, the Dakota Poster newspaper, and the Pierre City Railroad Company. The block stayed in the Karcher family until 1989.–Description from the United States National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

Tory poster parody

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saw on the tube. On the right it lists all the things the lawyers cover, ending with, ‘oh yes, and immigration’.

Stacy Tolchin and Ahilan Arulanantham

Thu, 26 May 2011 19:40:35 +0000

A few nice Immigration Lawyer images I found:

Stacy Tolchin and Ahilan Arulanantham

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ACLU of Southern California staff attorney Ahilan Arulanantham, right, with attorny Stacy Tolchin at the 15th Annual Law Luncheon, hosted by the ACLU/SC Foundation. Tolchin was presented with the Equal Justice Advocacy Award for her work on cases challenging immigration raids, including National Lawyers Guild v. Chertoff and in re: Perez-Cruz.

Laurence Banville and Mairead Conley

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Two of the three Irish Echo "40 Under 40" winners from the Philadelphia area.

Banville, an attorney who was born in Wexford, Ireland, is general counsel and partner in the firm Alliance Equals LLC in Philadelphia, president of Irish Network-Philadelphia, and sits on the board of Irish Network USA. He has also been named to the Irish Legal 100, an annual publication that recognized Irish and Irish-American lawyers.

Conley is the reigning Philadelphia and Mid-Atlantic Rose of Tralee. She is also deputy director of community programming at the Irish Immigration Center of Philadelphia, treasurer for Irish Network-Philadelphia, and active in the Reform Immigration for America campaign. She is a member of the selection committee of the Inspirational Irish Women awards, a joint program of the Irish Center and the Irish Immigration Center.

Drexel Law Volunteers

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These budding lawyers help with legal consulting at the Irish Immigration Center in Upper Darby. They are, from left, Kevin Rowe, Lauren Carey, and Kaitlyn Cahill.

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