Open Thread for Tuesday
The Declaration of Independence is the document in which the Thirteen Colonies in North America declared themselves independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain and explained their justifications for doing so. It was ratified by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. This anniversary is celebrated as Independence Day in the United States. The handwritten copy signed by the delegates to the Congress is on display in the National Archives in Washington, D.C.(Source: Wikipedia)
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 7/04/2006 12:00:00 AM
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Can you forward this post to Mr. Marcos "Zapatista" Aguilar who resides in Alhambra?
Where can I get a copy of LA 32 agenda? Or just post it here anon!
Each speaker -- Elizabeth Alamillo, (chair, UCLA MEChA), Daveed Castro (organizer of a 1981 symposium on origins/migrations), Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz (author, "Roots of Resistance"), Antonio Rios Bustamante (CSU Stanislaus), Martha Ramirez (Nahuatl University), Juan Gomez Quinonez (UCLA), Irene Vasquez (East L.A. College), Joanna Mixpe Ley (Cesar Chavez Center, UCLA), and community scholars Acamapixtli of Mexico, Tata Cuaxtle (Felix Evodio), and Marcos Aguilar of XinaxCalmecatl -- gave more than historic seminars. Author Alfredo Figueroa spoke of his research that pinpoints the Colorado River basin as the cradle of Aztlan. Petuuche Gilbert spoke of Acoma stories regarding Montezuma and of Acomas that to this day live somewhere in Mexico.
Each contributed to the narrative of the continent, to rescuing its ancient history and affirming the connectedness of all indigenous peoples. In fact, elder Pope of New Mexico affirmed that contrary to what society teaches us, we are all one, we're all brothers and sisters. Even beyond that, there was a consensus -- as expounded by Yaqui scholar Yolanda Broyles Gonzales (UC Santa Barbara) -- that the responsibility of indigenous peoples goes beyond shaping the continent. It also includes shaping the future of humanity -- which means not simply creating peace, but becoming peace.
http://www.voznuestra.com/Americas/_2004/_MAY/21
Thursday, June 01, 2006
The Reconquista Myth?
Update at the end of the post.
Academia Semillas del Pueblo Charter School is located in LA. Their donors and supporters, besides taxpayers, include:
National Council of La Raza Charter School Development Initiative
Raza Development Fund, Inc.
Glendale Nissan/Infinity, Inc.
California State University, Los Angeles
Pasadena City College - MeCHA
The Latino Museum of History, Art and Culture
Some folks believe that those who want to claim U.S. territory are just some radical fringe group. Now this radical fringe group has a taxpayer-financed school that is supported by the racist organization, La Raza (The Race) and the Aztlan-reconquista organization, MeCHA.
It's mission:
Academia Semillas del Pueblo Charter School is a kindergarten through eighth grade public school dedicated to providing urban children of immigrant native families an excellent education founded upon their own language, cultural values and global realities.
Its History:
Ancestral Mexican schooling ethos embodied social ideals and appreciations intended to develop the child as a complete person. The indigenous heart of our vision is a repossession of an identity denied from our children in standard schools.
http://the-plumber.blogspot.com/2006/06/reconquista-myth.html
More news from ABC affiliate KABC7 in LA. Click on "A Volitile Situation" on the sidebar to see video.
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=local&id=4228642#
XINAXCALMECATL (The school's real name)
4736 Huntington Drive South, Los Angeles CA 90032 (323) 225-4549 Email: info@dignidad.org www.dignidad.org 501(c)3 California Public Charter
Join the Zapastista's New Initiative
If you are interested but cannot make this gathering...Please specify your availability so that we ensure your participation.
THE ZAPATISTAS 6th DECLARATION
&
LA OTRA CAMPANA
www.ezln.org.mx
As the Zapatistas move forward in this new initiative, they have officially invited all Xican@s and Mexican@s to join in the process. They have asked that we share our struggles, dreams and ways of Resistance.
Join us at the Eastside Cafe this coming...
Tuesday, March 21st, 2006 @ 7:30 p.m...
...as we discuss La Otra Campaña, how it relates to us and how we walk together with the Zapatistas, from our own communities and our own realities!
It is our responsibility to call all organizers, artists, small business owners, individuals, collectives, housewives, children, elders, danzantes, of all backgrounds who are in struggle and with the Zapatistas. It’s time to present to ourselves, the Zapatistas, Mexico and the rest of the world, who we are and what we do.
EASTSIDE CAFE located @
5469 Huntington Drive, El Sereno (North East L.A.), CA 90032
This is your struggle...we want to create a good vibe and give way to this process. Please bring some snacks and lets walk together!
Hugo Garcia Marcos Aguilar created El Sereno zapatistas
Another NCLR supported school
Milagro Charter Elementary School
New Designs Charter School
Academia Semillas Del Pueblo
Learning Academy of Excellence Charter School
How much $$$$$$ did NCLR rake in
The following speakers addressed the Board on the communications:
Ms. Miki Jordan, representing Para Los Niños
Mr. Hector Luis Ramirez, representing Para Los Niños
Ms. Jacqueline Duvivier Castillo, representing Para Los Niños
Ms. Elizabeth Douglass, representing Para Los Niños
Ms. Jacqueline Duvivier Castillo is everywhere there is need to support Mechista schools.
Mr. Marcos Aguilar regarding Academia Semillas del Pueblo Charter Petition
Ms. Minnie Ferguson regarding Academia Semillas del Pueblo Charter Petition
Ms. Irene Vasquez regarding Academia Semillas del Pueblo Charter Petition
Ms. Erika Ramirez, representing Congresswoman Roybal Allard, regarding Academia Semillas del Pueblo Charter Petition
Dr. Juan Gomez Quinones regarding Academia Semillas del Pueblo Charter Petition
Ms. Jacqueline Duvuvier Castillo regarding Academia Semillas del Pueblo Charter Petition
Mr. Reynaldo Macias regarding Academia Semillas del Pueblo Charter Petition
President Young announced:
The Board will take final action to either approve or deny the charter requests at the Board meeting on December 11, 2001. Should the charter requests be denied, the petitioners may submit the petitions directly to the Los Angeles County Office of Education or directly to the State for action.
Be careful. Don't post LA32 Agenda. Hidden crypto keys purposely in each doc find mayor sam LA32 posters.
Did you receive 1, 2,or 3 copies of same agenda. Why more than one copy Hugo?
Here's some more info re Aguilar....
He is the only person listed on TITLE. All mail for the school goes to Aguilar's home address in Alhambra. LA RAZA Development Corp. borrowed $185,000 on the property on Huntington Dr. South last year.
The property was purchased in 2001 for $800,000. It was an ALL CASH purchase from a Mr. Vasguez. Vasquez only owned this property for 6 MONTHS, AND HE ONLY PAID $250,000 for it!!!!!!!
Vasquez made a tidy profit of $550,000 IN A PERIOD OF SIX MONTHS.
This school bears further investigation. An audit must be one because it looks like some heavy duty embezzeling is taking place. We have to follow the money trail, and you can bet it will lead to Aguilar's best friend, AV. Not to mention Jose Huizar.
POCKETS ARE BEING LINED, MY FRIENDS. AND IT WILL BE A SHOCKER!
THIS IS SO BIG IT WILL BRING VILLARAIGOSA DOWN, ALONG WITH ALL THE MEXICAN MAFIA.
STAY TUNED.
The property was purchased in 2001 for $800,000. It was an ALL CASH purchase from a Mr. Vasguez. Vasquez only owned this property for 6 MONTHS, AND HE ONLY PAID $250,000 for it!!!!!!!
WHY A SCAM?
WHO IS MR VASGUEZ AND IS HE RELATED TO IRENE VASQUEZ ACADEMIA'S BOARD ADVISOR.
WHO BENEFITS?
Marcos Aguilar is a communist, pure and simple.
Every time somebody uses the words “imperialist (in all its forms), neo liberal or neo liberalism” is a give-away of their political belief being even more extreme than simple liberalism. Keep working on telling the parents of the potential students about these beliefs. Hopefully a few of them do want to join this great nation.
I’m glad I did.
Of his ass he made a trumpet: Marcos Aguilar
Published by Eleazar ben Yair.
"Ultimately the White way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our own destruction. And so it isn’t about an argument of joining neo liberalism, it’s about us being able, as human beings, to surpass the barrier."
-Marcos Aguilar, founder and principal, La Academia Semillas del Pueblo, a charter school in El Sereno, CA (yes, he's allowed to teach children).
"Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor. "
Mark Helprin
WHAT HAPPENED TO MY GIRLFRIEND
JENNIFER SOLIS?
I MISS HER FINE ASS.
You see the idiots you've gained on this site for all the threads. There is so much more news out there and you continue to post the same boring crap.
How about the gang accused of conspiring to Kill Blacks in Highland Park? Federal Porsecutors allege members of Avenues in LA plotted to committ violence against African Americans. Their trial will begin and to read the story and know that this exists in this day and age is scary. Of course we know this is coming out of the jails.
Video Dedicated to Hugo Garcia Marcos Aguilar (2 Videos)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8kh4e7hezY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkaGbQRTuWM
Speakers named LA32 agenda= ALL AV Supporters
Antonio Villaraigosa kiss asses and retards support Marcos Aguilar.
Argentina:Social Movements and Alternative Media
by Grupo Alavío Monday, May. 08, 2006 at 3:59 PM
alaviocine@yahoo.com.ar
Join Marie Trigona at the East Side Cafe for a look at alternative media in Latin America, Argentina’s occupied factory movement and the challenges posed by current “progressive” governments in Latin America.
Argentina:
Social Movements and Alternative Media
Join Marie Trigona for a look at alternative media in Latin America, Argentina’s occupied factory movement and the challenges posed by current “progressive” governments in Latin America.
Marie Trigona is an independent journalist and a member of Grupo Alavío, which has participated in working class struggles and supported them with audio-visual materials for over 15 years. Alavío just launched the internet community TV station, http://www.agoratv.org
Wednesday, May 10, 2006 @ 8pm
EASTSIDE CAFE
5469 Huntington Drive in El Sereno 90032
Session 1-2: Indigenous Responses to Colonization Room 208D Havasupia
Sirena Pellarolo, “Out of the Ivory Tower: the Zapatista’s Call to Globalize A Grassroots
Global Agenda for Justice”
Abstract: In this paper I reflect on the phenomenon of transnational Zapatismo as a force of resistance and an alternative to global capitalism and on the challenges this movement poses to academics and activists throughout the world. Many critics agree that the anti-globalization movement originated in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, with the neo-Zapatistas, indigenous peasants of Mayan descent who created de facto autonomous communities and advocated for a return to ancient traditions. Their example was adapted by grassroots organizations in the Americas including Brazil’s Landless Peasant Movement, Mujeres Creando in Bolivia, and several Zapatista-inspired spaces in the U.S. such as the Los Angeles-based Eastside Café, Casa del Pueblo and the South Central Farmers. Last summer the Zapatistas launched “La otra campaña” (the other campaign) for organizations and individuals in México and around the world who believe that the creation of a just world is possible. This call poses a challenge to U.S. academics who have been following the Zapatista movement--it pushes them to develop an engaged scholarship as participant observers in this globalized social movement and may lead some to question the limitations of allegedly non-Western theoretical conceptualizations originated within U.S. academia (for example, Latin American Postcolonial and Subaltern Studies, “border thinking” and Post-Occidentalism). Such scholarship will result in an exploration of practices of action research, so widespread in the fields of Ethnic and American Indian Studies.
PUBLIC INFORMATION
LA-32 NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL
AD-HOC SOCIAL JUSTICE COMMITTEE MEETING REPORT
CITY OF LOS ANGELES
SOCIAL JUSTICE COMMITTEE
JESSE GRANADOS
CHAIRPERSON
VACANT
MEMBER
HUGO GARCIA
MEMBER
CALIFORNIA 90032 Communities
EL SERENO
EMERY PARK
HILLSIDE VILLAGE
ROSE HILLS
SIERRA PARK
UNIVERSITY HILLS
Friday, January 27, 2006 – 5:00PM
(Old) El Sereno Library
4990 Huntington Drive South
Los Angeles, CA 90032
1. Call to Order: 5:15PM
2. Roll Call: Committee members present: Jesse Granados (Chairperson) & Hugo Garcia (Member), Stakeholders present: Marcos Aguilar, Elva Yanez, Alana Yanez, Maria Villamil
3. Welcome to Guests and Elected Officials: None
4. Public Comment: None
OLD BUSINESS
5. Committee Discussion on Native Ways Learning Center Project Community Forum
Committee member Hugo Garcia reported that the LA-32 Executive Board, at their meeting of Thursday, January 26, 2006, approved an action item that states: “Motion in support of the Ad-Hoc Social Justice Committee to co-host an informational community forum in support of the Native Ways Learning Center Project”. This motion will be on the agenda for the LA-32 GB meeting of Feb.1, 2006, and will replace the original motion that the AHSJC recommended in our committee report of January 21, 2006.
The committee continued discussion on conducting a community forum and associated costs.
6. Tax Honesty and Education Project
Committee member Hugo Garcia reported that the motion that the AHSJC recommended in our report of January 21, 2006, is on the agenda for the LA-32 GB meeting of Feb 1, 2006.
7. Committee Discussion on Disposition of Housing on Proposed 710 Freeway Corridor
Committee member Hugo Garcia reported that the LA-32 NC Executive Board, at their meeting of January 26, 2006, determined that it was unnecessary for the AHSJC to request an action item in order to initiate a meeting with CD14 Councilmember Jose Huizar to discuss disposition of Caltrans owned housing stock along the proposed 710 Freeway Corridor. Therefore, the committee will withdraw our recommended action item that the AHSJC recommended in our committee report of January 21, 2006, and will initiate contact with CD14 offices.
8. Housing Rights Center (HRC) Request for Presentation
Committee member Hugo Garcia reported that the Housing Rights Center presentation recommended by the AHSJC has been scheduled for the General Board meeting of Feb. 1, 2006.
9. Next Meeting: Date and time TBD
10. Adjournment: 6:00PM
Respectfully submitted by Hugo Garcia, AHSJC Recording Secretary
LA-32 NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL
AD-HOC SOCIAL JUSTICE COMMITTEE MEETING REPORT
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 – 6:15PM
Hecho en Mexico Restaurant
Los Angeles, CA 90032
1. Call to Order: 6:15PM
2. Roll Call: In Attendance:Jesse Granados, Hugo Garcia, Mick McGuire, Marcos Aguilar, Maria Villamil
3. PUBLIC COMMENT – None
4. AGENDA
6. Committee Discussion on Semillas Del Pueblo’s Native Ways Learning Center Project (Stakeholders Maria Villamil and Marcos Aguilar)
After listening to representatives from Semillas and engaging in dialogue our committee concluded the following:
a. Recommend a motion that the LA-32 NC Board vote in support of the Semillas Del Pueblo Native Ways Learning Center Project at Debs Park. Also, that an LA-32 NC letter of support be drafted and forwarded to CD14 Councilmember Jose Huizar and CD Councilmember Ed Reyes.
b. Recommend that the Social Justice Committee work with Semillas
and other community organizations to develop and present a
neighborhood forum in March/April, 2006 for community discussion
on the Native Ways Learning Center Project. The committee also
recommends that LA-32 co-sponsor the forum and consider funding
it as well.
7. Adjournment: 7:45PM
Respectfully submitted by: Hugo Garcia, Committee Secretary
LA-32 NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL
SOCIAL JUSTICE COMMITTEE MEETING
Thursday, May 25, 2006 – 9:00PM
Antigua Cultural Coffee House
4836 Huntington Drive South
Los Angeles, CA 90032
REPORT
1. Call to Order: 9:10PM
2. Committee Roll Call: Present: Sadra Larsen & Hugo Garcia, Absent: Jesse Granados
3. Welcome to Guests and Elected Officials: Guest: Marcos Aguilar, Semillas Del Pueblo
4. Public Comment: None
5. Discussion on Native Ways Learning Center Project & Community Forum
Marcos Aguilar of Semillas Del Pueblo reported on some new developments affecting the Native Ways Learning Center Project and the community forum. Mr. Aguilar related that although the City Charter allows for joint-use projects on Parks and Recreation property, joint-use school projects may be excluded. City planners and the LAUSD are actively investigating school-park, joint-use possibilities. Semillas is considering other possible alternative locations. These sites include the 2608 N. Eastern Ave. property that is located at Eastern and Lombardy (across from Farmdale Elementary) extending south and ending across the street from El Sereno Park.
On another note, Mr. Aguilar and the Social Justice Committee discussed the possibility of instead of an educational facility, why not develop a nature/cultural/recreational center that is educational at the same time. A facility of this type would be consistent with the promise to the community contained in the Debs Park Framework. The Social Justice Committee believes that this concept deserves further exploration. After all, a quick glance at neighboring communities reveals that they have cultural/nature facilities while El Sereno doesn’t. Lincoln Heights has Plaza de La Raza, Highland Park has the Lummis Home and the Arroyo Seco, Montecito Heights has the “now-threatened” American Indian Museum, Eagle Rock has The Center for the Arts, ELA and Boyle Heights have numerous cultural/recreational facilities. What does El Sereno have? Today’s ASNC Alert points to current community activities occurring in those communities. Where can we put on a cultural festival like "Lummis Day: The Festival of Northeast Los Angeles" that will take place on Sunday, June 4, and will begin with poetry readings at Lummis Home, 200 E. Avenue 43, before moving at noon to Sycamore Grove Park for music, dance and art events. On June 10th, 2006, 3pm-8pm, The Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock is hosting an Art Sale. Proceeds from this sale will be used to support the summer programs in Eagle Rock, El Sereno and Boyle Heights. On Saturday, June 3, 2006, We Tell Stories, the iconic, multi-ethnic children's storytelling theatre troupe welcomes summer with fast paced, comedic performances that are fun for the whole family. Their 2nd annual outdoor storytelling festival "La Casita Verde Summertime Storytelling Festival" will be held at the Sycamore Grove Park Bandshell in Highland Park. This festival marks a first-time partnership between Mount Washington Preschool and Child Care Center (MWPCCC) and We Tell Stories. Both non-profit organizations are long-time residents of Northeast LA. Founded in 1991, MWPCCC is a community-based organization dedicated to promoting optimal development of children and enhancement of family life in the communities they serve through childcare centers and family support services. We Tell Stories, Celebrating its 25th anniversary, is dedicated to nurturing and educating youngsters of all ages through theatre and arts education. La Casita Verde Summertime Festival is funded in part by the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles. La Casita Verde Summertime Storytelling Festival is at the Sycamore Grove Park Bandshell at 4702 N. Figueroa between Sycamore Park Drive and E. Ave 50 in Highland Park.
This is but a very cursory sample of the activities going on in neighboring communities on a consistent basis. It is crystal clear that El Sereno does not have the infrastructure to consistently facilitate substantive gathering of community for cultural and nature activities as those described above. As community we have to ask ourselves these important questions:
1. Is our community deserving of a cultural/nature/recreational facility that is educational?
2. If Lincoln Heights can build a similar facility of this type (Plaza de La Raza) on Recreation and Parks property why can’t we?
3. Can Deb’s Park or El Sereno Park effectively facilitate these types of activities? Will the new Constituent Center or the Ascot Park (passive park space) be able to accommodate them?
4. Can you, as a stakeholder in the community, picture a daylong event in a band-shell park space? Can you visualize several organizations coming together, working together, building community? Can you imagine an event that brings together youth, parents and seniors in our community to be educated about our history, current issues, to promote culture and diversity or to engage interactively in art projects?
These are some of issues to be considered. The Social Justice Committee will further explore and consider the issue of the need for a cultural/nature/recreational facility - that is educational, in our community of El Sereno.
6. New Business: None
7. Adjournment: 10:30PM
Respectfully Submitted: Hugo Garcia
BOARD MEETING
April 5, 2006 – 6:00PM
Sereno El Senior Center
4818 Klamath Place
Los Angeles, CA 90032
(b) Action Item: The LA-32 Neighborhood Council, in recognition of the tremendous contributions of the legendary, former President of Mexico – Benito Juarez, supports changing the name of the El Sereno Library to the Benito Juarez Library of El Sereno.”
LA-32 NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL
AD-HOC SOCIAL JUSTICE COMMITTEE MEETING REPORT #6
Wednesday, March 22, 2006 – 6:00PM
Semillas Del Pueblo
4990 Huntington Drive South
Los Angeles, CA 90032
1. Call to Order: 6:05 PM
2. Roll Call: Committee members present: Jesse Granados (Chairperson) Sadra Larsen & Hugo Garcia. Stakeholder/s present: Marcos Aguilar
3. Welcome to Guests and Elected Officials: None
4. Public Comment: None
OLD BUSINESS
5. Committee Discussion on Native Ways Learning Center Project Community Forum
Marcos Aguilar (Semillas) reported that the project continues moving forward. Discussions are ongoing with the City of LA Parks Department and the City Attorney. The project will also be discussed with LAUSD. Thus far the Mayor’s office and CD14 have indicated support. The committee continued discussion on conducting a community forum. Rescheduled community forum target date: Sat., May 20, 2006.
NEW BUSINESS
6. Renaming of El Sereno Library to Benito Juarez Library of El Sereno – H. Garcia
After committee and stakeholder discussion the committee unanimously decided to recommend that the LA-32 Neighborhood Council support a change in the name of the El Sereno Library to the Benito Juarez Library of El Sereno. Following are some of the reasons: Benito Pablo Juarez Garcia was born in Oaxaca, Mexico, in a pueblo called San Pablo de Guelatao. He was a poor, humble Zapotec Indian who was self educated. Eventually, he became the twenty-seventhth President of Mexico. He is believed to be the first indigenous person ever to become President of a country in the Western Hemisphere. He outlawed slavery in Mexico and for that reason has been called the “Abraham Lincoln” of Mexico. El Sereno contains a significant Zapotec and Tongva indigenous population as well as a large Mexican and other Latino population. March 21, 2006 marked his two hundred year birthday anniversary. The committee felt that it would be appropriate and timely to honor the legacy of Benito Juarez and engage in efforts to change the library to his name. Therefore, the Social Justice Committee recommends the following:
Action Item: The LA-32 Neighborhood Council, in recognition of the tremendous contributions of the legendary, former President of Mexico – Benito Juarez, supports changing the name of the El Sereno Library to the Benito Juarez Library of El Sereno.”
7. H.R. 4437 – Sensenbrenner Immigration Legislation – H. Garcia
Briefly discussed, tabled to subsequent meeting
8. LAUSD Construction: High School #1 Recommended Name: Ed Roybal High School – H. Garcia
Briefly discussed, tabled to subsequent meeting
9. LAUSD Construction: High School # 10 Recommended Name: Miguel Contreras High School – H. Garcia
Briefly discussed, tabled to subsequent meeting
10. Recognition of Historical/Cultural Sites Within El Sereno – S. Larsen
Briefly discussed, tabled to subsequent meeting
11. Next Meeting: Date and time TBD
12. Adjournment: 6:50 PM
Respectfully submitted by Hugo Garcia, AHSJC Recording Secretary
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