Remembering Joaquina Rodriguez, the common roads that we walked together- – and the history that she, Pedro, and her familia helped to create in Northern Colorado. 2026
Remembering the contributions of Joaquina and Pedro Rodriguez in Northern Colorado (here with a poem framed and read by Bowdie Hernandez on behalf of Familia Rodriguez at Al Frente de Lucha 47 year commemoration). Continue reading
Visit to Wounded Knee cemetery and memorial site – with monument reading “This monument is erected by surviving relatives and other Ogallala and Cheyenne River Sioux Indians in memory of the Big Foot Massacre Dec. 29, 1899.” Continue reading
At beginning of Poor People’s Campaign march and rally in Pomona with Rev. Gene Boutilier. In addition to a history of civil and human rights organizing for decades, Rev. Boutilier and I have the commonality of being part of Poor People’s Campaign marches back in 1968 – he in the actual march in Washington D. C. and I in a Solidarity march as a college student. Continue reading
A memory today. In May of 1970, I helped lead a strike of students at the University of Colorado in protest of the killing of four Kent state students against the war (on May 4th) and the killing of Black students at Jackson State . Continue reading
Don’t mourn, organize. Continue reading