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BY MICHAEL TARM, AP Legal Affairs Writer
CHICAGO (AP) — A former Lithuanian judge and parliamentarian jailed in Chicago at her homeland's request says she fears death if she's extradited because she helped expose an alleged network of pedophiles.
Neringa Venckiene (VEHN'-key-ehn-nay) spoke to The Associated Press from a federal jail in Chicago in her first interview since becoming a fugitive. She fled to the U.S. from Lithuania in 2013 after receiving death threats.
Her allegations about a pedophile ring bitterly divided Lithuania. It also led to Lithuanian charges against her, including criminal slander.
Venckiene has for five years lived legally in the Chicago suburb of Crystal Lake with her teenage son. She worked as a nursing-home aide, then a florist.
She turned herself in on Feb. 13 after learning American authorities were seeking her arrest based on Lithuania's charges.
https:// www
.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2018-04-18/apnewsbreak-lithuanian-claims-pedophile-ring-in-extradition
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The survey released Wednesday by UC Berkeley's Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society shows that while residents of the country's only sanctuary state value diversity and inclusion on all fronts - from economic and racial justice to immigration reform - their viewpoints on politics, race
"It's a state whose progressive movement has grown and matured… and yet we're still seeing high levels of inequality across the state and other social justice issues that are problematic," said Olivia Araiza, director of the Haas Institute's Blueprint for Belonging project, which commissioned the survey. The group, which opposes Trump's policies, said it found some of the results unsettling.
About 24 percent of the survey's participants said it's "very important" for the U.S. to increase deportations of undocumented immigrants, while 35 percent said it's "somewhat important," according to the poll. That viewpoint even held true in the Bay Area, where 25 percent of those surveyed said increasing deportations is very important and 35 percent said it's somewhat important.
And about 49 percent of Californians support temporarily banning people from Muslim-majority countries, according to the poll. In the Bay Area, 44 percent of residents support the ban, the least out of any region in California.
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.dailydemocrat.com/general-news/20180418/poll-finds-half-of-californians-ok-with-travel-ban
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California’s taxpayer-subsidized University of California, Riverside campus is set to host a segregated LGBTQ conference at the end of this month.
BlaqOUT, the event in question, is a two day conference designed for people who identify as “Black/African American or of African descent that also identify as Same Gender Loving, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning or somewhere on the LGBT spectrum,” according to the event page.
While it’s relatively common to encounter on-campus events emphasizing or celebrating certain cultural groups or traditions, it is unheard of to deny someone admission to an event simply because they have a different skin color. Remarkably, this scenario appears to be exactly what BlaqOUT organizers are focused on establishing, as is explicitly listed in the event FAQ’s.
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