41st Annual Chicano Park Day Celebration
Saturday, April 23, 2011 – 10am to 5pm
The 41st annual Chicano Park Day celebration is this Saturday, April 23, 2011, in historic Chicano Park, located in the Barrio Logan community, south of downtown San Diego, under the San Diego-Coronado bridge. This family event is always free and open to the public.
The theme for the 41st anniversary celebration is “Education and Knowledge: Our Key to a Better Future.”
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<p> La crucifixión y la muerte de Jesús el Nazareno, durante el dominio del Imperio Romano, es uno de los episodios más comentados de la historia de la humanidad.</p>
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<p> In the mid-sixties, I attended a lecture by Dr. Ernesto Galarza. Someone in the audience asked him why politicos and those in social movements didn’t care about Mexican Americans. Galarza responded that most elected officials that were Democrats cared about Mexican Americans but that we were never their number one priority or even close to it on their do list.</p>
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<p> Reflecting on the 2010 Census results and the dramatic increase in the U.S. Latino community, I ask myself how we once again find ourselves in the same predicament as ten years ago, with no national sense of urgency to fix Latino education when it has significant implications for our future workforce.</p>
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<p> Thousands of Mexicans took to the streets last week to protest violence related to drug trafficking and the Mexican government’s inability or unwillingness to prevent it. U.S. and international activists who want to show solidarity with the people of Mexico must recognize that the most effective step we can take is to bring the war on drugs to an end.</p>
Redistricting being manipulated by a few
If you attended the [re-districting] meeting last night (April 19) at the Malcolm X Library – tell me, was not the behavior of those holding political and economic power in City Council District 4 not illustrative of institutionalized racism?
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