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A Good Memory Today
A good memory today. Fully appreciate the consistent organizing, scholarship, and community engagement work of Professor Georgina Guzman and the Chicanx Latinx Faculty, Staff, and Students at Cal State University Channel Islands
NY Times:“billionaire Trump” is out of touch with the economic conditions of everyday workers”
While Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is sent out as this crooked administration’s “peace envoy” and negotiating billions of dollars in financial deals in the Middle East for his private equity firm, Affinity Partners and with profits being made by Billionaires who are profiting from an unending and unjustified war – the NY Times reports that the “billionaire Trump” is out of touch with the economic conditions of everyday workers:
Running 5K In Pasadena Senior Games
As I do every year running 5K in Pasadena Senior Games – qualifying for the nationals. All the proceeds go to Senior Center Programs. Continue reading
Celebrating Pitzer Commencement
Celebrating Pitzer Commencement with students Luna Romero and Isabel Pan (who took my class in their first year and participated in the next four years in organizing with farmworkers, day laborers, immigrant rights marches, and park restoration projects); with renowned political activist and Professor Angela Davis (whom I had met back in the early civil rights movement); Continue reading
Share Video From Greeley of Magdaleno
Teresa McNeill, long-time organizer from Greeley, sent this short video to share of Magdaleno helping to lead one of his favorite movimiento songs – last August at the 50th anniversary reunion of key supporters and friends from the Colorado UFW boycott and strike days – held at the Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center in Denver, Co. A memorial gathering is now being planned in Denver on July 25. Continue reading
Never In My Life To A Hockey Game
Never in my life to a hockey game or soccer game so, as gifts, son Chris and grandson Joey took me to an L. A. Kings hockey game and this last week – son Joaquín – took me to an L. A. Football Club soccer game. Thank you to Chris, Joey, and Joaquín – for these new experiences in “the youth of my old age.” Continue reading
Magdaleno Speaking In Greeley, Colorado, In the Early 1970’s
Magdaleno speaking in Greeley, Colorado in the early 1970’s before one of our marches. He and a group of striking farmworkers from Center, Colorado joined us when we marched seventy miles to the state capital in Denver – in support of Chicano education programs and opening the doors of Higher Education for Our Chicano students.
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More Pictures of Magdaleno FB Portraits
More Pictures that came up today on FB “Portraits” – of our good friend Magdaleno Rose Ávila and his influence in our local area and in the last Pitzer Alternative Spring Community Engagement Break Project in La Paz and Delano (where he trained the students for their “teatro” presentations to the farmworker community and staff).