tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post115206907377549052..comments2024-01-13T00:27:20.813-08:00Comments on Mayor Sam's Sister City - Home of Los Angeles Politics: LA 32 Jumps Into Semillas IssueMayor Samhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16280670018437708708noreply@blogger.comBlogger133125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-40046187326091666532007-05-01T00:06:00.000-07:002007-05-01T00:06:00.000-07:00As a newly elected board member to the LA-32 NC I ...As a newly elected board member to the LA-32 NC I am grateful to have for the first time a youth (Ari Ruiz) serve as a representative. He beliefs in Social and Educational Justice and fully epresents all students in El Sereno!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-1152398695602741742006-07-08T15:44:00.000-07:002006-07-08T15:44:00.000-07:00Me three!Me three!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-1152367260373509112006-07-08T07:01:00.000-07:002006-07-08T07:01:00.000-07:00Me too, Carmelita!Me too, Carmelita!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-1152309008718998592006-07-07T14:50:00.000-07:002006-07-07T14:50:00.000-07:00Closing time, last call, cut-and-paster. Call your...Closing time, last call, cut-and-paster. Call yourself a cad!<BR/><BR/><I>"It's a quarter to three, <BR/>There's no one in the place <BR/>except you and me, <BR/>So, set 'em up Joe, <BR/>I've got a little story <BR/>you ought'a know, <BR/>We're drinking my friend, <BR/>To the end of a brief episode,<BR/>Make it one for my baby<BR/>and one more for the road."</I>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-1152308804147995602006-07-07T14:46:00.000-07:002006-07-07T14:46:00.000-07:0012:43Tell it to "Kareem Abdul Jabar" and "Muhammad...12:43<BR/><BR/>Tell it to "Kareem Abdul Jabar" and "Muhammad Ali" (Two other RACIST anti-Americans)<BR/><BR/>HA!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-1152303097894383662006-07-07T13:11:00.000-07:002006-07-07T13:11:00.000-07:00Bustamante Villaraigosa Cedillo Nunez want Casinos...Bustamante Villaraigosa Cedillo Nunez want Casinos in Los Angeles.<BR/>Mexica uprising set in place<BR/>Marcos Aguilar easily funded by NCLR, American Indian Movement. It's all about Money! Villaraigosa control of schools, control of gambling, control of $$$$. Can we say si se puede with a smile.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-1152302885595750032006-07-07T13:08:00.000-07:002006-07-07T13:08:00.000-07:00Villaraigosa wants Academia Semillas to succeed. H...Villaraigosa wants Academia Semillas to succeed. He then has Marcos aguilar and peoples of El Sereno claim to sovereignty. Guess what happens next? City of Los Angeles can pimp off tourism and Casinos in El Sereno. What better way to replicate other leading gambling $$$$ states. And we can say it all started with one WACKO called Marcos Aguilar. Breed hatred and nationalism=claim to sovereignty.<BR/><BR/>Are you ready LA32 NC?<BR/>Ready to be called Reservation El Sereno Council?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-1152302540575102062006-07-07T13:02:00.000-07:002006-07-07T13:02:00.000-07:00Aguilar seems to want more than cultural identity;...Aguilar seems to want more than cultural identity; he seems to reject American history and law pertaining to educationAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-1152302445017019512006-07-07T13:00:00.000-07:002006-07-07T13:00:00.000-07:00According to the Great Schools website, 96 percent...According to the Great Schools website, 96 percent of the students at Academia are Hispanic, 2 percent are Native American or Alaskan Native, and 2 percent are African American. The enrollment is 253 students. Regarding teachers, 8 percent are fully credentialed, 42 percent are pre-intern or intern, and 42 percent are emergency credentialed or waivered (an emergency credentialed teacher is usually a substitute teacher who is hired full-time due to a lack of fully credentialed teachers). Twenty-five percent of the teachers are in their first year of teaching. The average is 4 years of teaching experience with 2 years in LAUSD. <BR/><BR/>Academia was founded in 2002 by Marcos Aguilar. Academia is funded by the Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development, the National Council of La Raza, the Raza Development Fund, and the California Department of Education. According to World Net Daily, Academia is also backed by the Pasadena City College chapter of MEChA, or Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan. It seems that MEChA is in favor of non-violently reconquering the southwestern United States in order to restore Atzlan, an area which they consider the birthplace of the Aztecs and which others consider fictitious. <BR/><BR/>My concern is with Aguilar's philosophy and focus, rather than with his teaching methods. I would like to address Aguilar from a common concern for the children and the people. My preference is that these children learn to live productively and happily in the mosaic of American society, and I fear that Academia promotes a counterproductive separatism . Specifically, I will question the teaching of Nahuatl, the objection to "outsider" teachers, and the disagreement with Brown vs. Board of Education. <BR/><BR/>What does "the house of higher learning for the seeds of our people" mean? Who are our people? The American people? The Hispanic peoples? The Mexican American people? The Mexican people? Perhaps it is only a coincidence, or perhaps the answers can really be found in a MEChA document known as "El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan." Regarding the word academia: "Education must be relative to our people, i.e., history, culture, bilingual education, contributions, etc. Community control of our schools, our teachers, our administrators, our counselors, and our programs." Another document, known as "Philosophy of MEChA," states, "M.E.Ch.A. is committed to ending the cultural tyranny suffered at the hands of institutional and systematic discrimination that holds our Gente captive." Also from the same document: "We recognize that without a strategic use of education, an education that places value on what we value, we will not realize our destiny." <BR/><BR/>Regarding the word semillas: "We are free and sovereign to determine those tasks which are justly called for by our house, our land, the sweat of our brows, and by our hearts. Aztlan belongs to those who plant the seeds, water the fields, and gather the crops and not to the foreign Europeans. We do not recognize capricious frontiers on the bronze continent." Regarding the word pueblo: "Before the world, before all of North America, before all our brothers in the bronze continent, we are a nation, we are a union of free pueblos, we are Aztlan." Both the above quotations were taken from "El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan." <BR/><BR/>Aguilar was an Education Committee Coordinator for MEChA from 1989 to 1991. He participated in and was arrested during a 50-day student takeover of the Faculty Lounge at UCLA in 1993. The protesting students caused $50,000 worth of damage which UCLA absorbed. The students were demanding that UCLA offer a Chicano studies major. Aguilar graduated from UCLA in 1994. Again, maybe it is just a coincidence, but Aguilar's philosophy of education seems to reflect MEChA's principles, goals and objectives. The people could be the indigenous peoples of Mexico, parts of America, and other followers who adopt the principles of the Chicano movement; they consider themselves sovereign; they are against assimilation into American society; and they claim the southwestern United States as their territory. <BR/><BR/>A little more detective work might help to further understand the educational program at Academia Semillas del Pueblo. There is a focus on foreign language learning. Obviously, students must learn English to function in America. If Spanish is their native language, then retention of Spanish will enrich their cultural and academic experiences. If they are also studying Chinese, then this will give them a global advantage in today's troubled economy. But why learn Natuatl? Aguilar states, "They will be able to understand our own ancestral culture and our customs and traditions that are so imbued in the language." Is this not an assumption that all children attending Academia are descendants of the Aztecs? What about the non-Hispanic children? <BR/><BR/>The Natuatl dialect complex is spoken by approximately 1.5 million people in Mexico. These modern dialects have been influenced by Spanish, and none of them is exactly the same as Classical Natuatl. Most Natuatl speakers in Mexico also speak Spanish or another indigenous language. Natuatl has contributed some words to English: tomato, chocolate, avocado, coyote, chili, tamale, and chiclets. Beyond this interesting fact, what usefulness does Natuatl have for American children? In Mexico, some speakers of the varieties of Natuatl cannot understand each other. Classical Natuatl was used only for administrative issues in the Aztec empire. So, which dialect is being taught at Academia and why?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-1152301846922886542006-07-07T12:50:00.000-07:002006-07-07T12:50:00.000-07:0012:42 PM I LOVE ACADEMIA SEMILLAS DEL PUEBLOS MY ...12:42 PM <BR/><BR/>I LOVE ACADEMIA SEMILLAS DEL PUEBLOS MY NINO GOS TO SCHOOL EVERYDAY AND HE LIKES IT ALLOT. ID DIDN'T GO TO LLAUSD STUDENT AND I'M FROM SONORA MEXICO BUT i WENT TO THE NITE SCHOL AT LINCON FOR 8MTHS AND I KNOW I SPELL BAD BUT I TRIED HARD. I DO HATE RUIZ BECAUSE SHE IS NOT TELING THE TRUTH. MARCOS IS A GOOD MAN AND MY LITTLE MAN LEARNED NAHUAT FAST.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-1152301415458293202006-07-07T12:43:00.000-07:002006-07-07T12:43:00.000-07:00Two UCLA students, Marcos Aguilar and Balvina Coll...Two UCLA students, Marcos Aguilar and Balvina Collazo, and one high school student, Norma Montanez, adopted Azteco-babble names;Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-1152301358693950942006-07-07T12:42:00.000-07:002006-07-07T12:42:00.000-07:0012:07 You need to "pay" for some remedial English ...12:07 <BR/><BR/>You need to "pay" for some remedial English and spelling classes. Sorry they made you go through the "regular" LAUSD schools in ES, and you became an "Americanized" Latino... born and bred and kept just stupid enough that you wouldn't mind working on city crews or flipping burgers between "tequila and tagging" weekends.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-1152299254494531592006-07-07T12:07:00.000-07:002006-07-07T12:07:00.000-07:00IS IT TRUE THAT MS.RUIZ IS A GOD MOTHER TO ONR OF ...IS IT TRUE THAT MS.RUIZ IS A GOD MOTHER TO ONR OF HIS KID'S OR IS IT THE OTHER WAY AROUND.AND ALSO IS THIER A FAMILY MEMBER THAT ALSO SIT'S ON THE LA-32 NC. BOY THIS REALLY SMEALL'S LIKE PAY TO PLAY.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-1152299218473456452006-07-07T12:06:00.001-07:002006-07-07T12:06:00.001-07:00HEY RICK WHO EVER DOSE YOUR HAIR AT LEASE DOSEN'T ...HEY RICK WHO EVER DOSE YOUR HAIR AT LEASE DOSEN'T HAVE ADV LIKE MS.RUIZ HAIR PERSON JUST LOOK AT THE POOR GIRL'S HAIR 4 INCH BLACK ROOT'S THEN WHAT EVER COLOR DYE WAS ON SALE AT THE 99 CENT STORE..<BR/><BR/>YOU REALLY SHOULD GET A MEDAL FOR THE FINE JOB YOU DID IN BRING THIS ISSUE OPEN SO WE CAN ALL SEE HOW THE ALLIANCE WORK'S OR IS DOSEN'T WORK. IS THIER SOMETHINK WRONG WITH THE WATER IN YOUR COMMUNITY CAUSE FROM WHAT I SEE ALL YOUR NC HAS ADV....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-1152299169523637182006-07-07T12:06:00.000-07:002006-07-07T12:06:00.000-07:00I heard that Rick Acosta, Manny Hernandez, Terry V...I heard that Rick Acosta, Manny Hernandez, Terry Valdez, and Yolanda Chavez met in El Sereno last week. Hmmm, interesting group of people to be meeting. If that's the case, I can see why Rick Acosta doesn't want Cynthia Ruiz around any table of influence. I mean, he can't even get a hair stylist who can handle his weave.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-1152299098668834602006-07-07T12:04:00.000-07:002006-07-07T12:04:00.000-07:00Both Noah Modiset and Cynthia Ruiz should resign -...Both Noah Modiset and Cynthia Ruiz should resign - although Noah Modiset is the villain in this piece. Cynthia has to go because of Modiset's political naivete.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-1152298963505007462006-07-07T12:02:00.000-07:002006-07-07T12:02:00.000-07:00C'mon. Why won't anyone come out and just say it a...C'mon. Why won't anyone come out and just say it already. Cynthia R is a Tony V. groupie and has been for a while. Have you ever seen Cynthia when Tovy V's around. The cloudy eyes with the euphoria swagger. She's in love with him and I hear that they have had some serious "policy" discussions in "closed door" meetings.<BR/><BR/>Maybe Tony V is setting up another one of his baby's mommas'.<BR/><BR/>Go Tony....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-1152298822377274822006-07-07T12:00:00.000-07:002006-07-07T12:00:00.000-07:00From: "rick acosta" To: "BillC" CC: "BRADLEY" Subj...From: "rick acosta" <BR/>To: "BillC" <BR/>CC: "BRADLEY" <BR/>Subject: Formal Complaint East La/ South Area Representative<BR/>Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 21:42:19 -0800<BR/><BR/>Dear Mr. Bill Christopher, <BR/>This is a formal request and complaint to remove Cynthia Ruiz as the East LA/ South area representative for the following reasoning.<BR/><BR/>1. She is a family member of a mayoral candidate Councilmen Antonio Villaraigosa.<BR/>2. She is working on his mayoral campaign.<BR/>3. She is involved in fund raising for the Villaraigosa mayoral campaign. <BR/>4. You have placed Ms. Ruiz in a position that compromises the integrity of the Mayoral debates with her ability to provide insider information to one of the candidates, such as what questions will be asked and to which candidate , which N.C. Representative will be asking the question and to which candidate. This was not the intentions of CBS and the Alliance which would lose all credibility.<BR/>5. Ms. Ruiz has set up her own standards as to who will attend the mayoral debate.<BR/>6. Ms. Ruiz has not participated in an Alliance meeting.<BR/>7. Ms. Ruiz was part of a group of board members of the LA-32 NC that sent a letter to the Alliance criticizing the Alliance on the Mayoral Debates.<BR/>8. Ms. Ruiz has shown partiality over candidates, with comments made in reference to Mayor Hahn, (She was glad to leave a sinking ship, after she was dismissed as commissioner.)<BR/>9. Ms. Ruiz was not asked to fill in at a meeting by the assigned East LA/South area representative Robert Jimenez as stated by the Alliance. <BR/>10. Ms. Ruiz was not asked by the East LA/South area representative to replace him as the current representative.<BR/>11. The Current East LA/South area representative Robert Jimenez is supporting me as his replacement.<BR/>12. Ms.Ruiz failed to work only with the President of the LA-32 but did notify all other board members via e-mail as to who was on the list. This was not the intention of the alliance in setting up the guest list from each NC. <BR/>Sincerely<BR/>Richard Acosta<BR/>LA-32 NC PresidentAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-1152298624447909902006-07-07T11:57:00.000-07:002006-07-07T11:57:00.000-07:00Ok I'm lost. I thought the LA32 board were Antonio...Ok I'm lost. I thought the LA32 board were Antonio's campaign people like Alvin Parra, Cynthia Ruiz and the likes of all those horrible people who waste community time fighting. Could the LA32 board changed that quickly.<BR/>I have never seen CD14 so political.<BR/>Don't you get it yet? Chamber of Commerce exPresident is future President of Jupiter. He campaigns, fundraisers and makes money off of this. He is bloody pathetic. His demeanor is horrible and Cynthia Ruiz is related to Villaraigosa, both these individuals were in the neighborhood council LA32 but switch positions to their convenience.<BR/><BR/>You know, today I am president of this for him and tomorrow I am president of that for him...blah, blah, they are the scoundrels biting for leftoversAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-1152298273149513892006-07-07T11:51:00.000-07:002006-07-07T11:51:00.000-07:0090032 Neighborhood CouncilMarcos Aguilar's puppet ...90032 Neighborhood Council<BR/><BR/>Marcos Aguilar's puppet show.<BR/>Meeting was a total joke!<BR/>OHHH PlZZZ Cynthia "the hood dyke" Ruiz showed up? Her attendance track record is shameful unless she's doing political favor. <BR/><BR/>Give me da list of 90032 NC or LA 32 NC membersAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-1152297729256082082006-07-07T11:42:00.000-07:002006-07-07T11:42:00.000-07:00It is one thing for schools such as this one to ex...It is one thing for schools such as this one to exist in an American city. <BR/>And another altogether for it to be funded in part by public monies.<BR/>If it were to exist at all it SHOULD ONLY be privately funded!<BR/><BR/>Although one of the private contributers is National Council of La Raza<BR/><BR/>“La Raza” translated as “the race.” The Latino race, to be more exact. <BR/>MeCHA is the group that believes <BR/>the US southwest is actually Mexican territory. <BR/><BR/>So what does this all mean? Well Dear Americans it may mean that they <BR/>are now establishing thier own schools where they will proceed to instill thier <BR/>cultural/racist(?) philosophies to the children that attend.<BR/>Academia Semillas del Pueblo may as well be in Mexico. There isn't any difference...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-1152297687751251172006-07-07T11:41:00.000-07:002006-07-07T11:41:00.000-07:00I came across this quote on the Seventh Generation...I came across this quote on the Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development, Inc. website<BR/><BR/>Academia Semillas del Pueblo – Southern CA<BR/>This school’s mission is to provide urban children from immigrant Native families in k-8th grades an education based on their own language and cultural values to fulfill a commitment to justice, freedom & dignity in education. They strive to provide holistic learning opportunities to overcome barriers faced by immigrant families. The school has become a center of community regeneration, hosting ceremonies and festivities for students and adults forced to leave their homelands.<BR/><BR/>SO MARCOS FLED TO PREPPY MIDDLE CLASS ALHAMBRA AND FOUND REFUGE.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-1152296797489462432006-07-07T11:26:00.000-07:002006-07-07T11:26:00.000-07:00Marcos Aguilar & Osam Bin LadenPut someone like Ma...Marcos Aguilar & Osam Bin Laden<BR/><BR/>Put someone like Marcos Aguilar through about 30 years of battle stress and change the headdress...same folks.<BR/>Different style.<BR/><BR/>AND...essentially the same war.<BR/><BR/>Just different battles.<BR/><BR/>What IS this war?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-1152294545983354922006-07-07T10:49:00.000-07:002006-07-07T10:49:00.000-07:00F'n redneck cut and paster. Anon's right, watch u...F'n redneck cut and paster. Anon's right, watch ur mama and uncle married in vegas (you right wing racist mfucker)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-1152293230236091032006-07-07T10:27:00.000-07:002006-07-07T10:27:00.000-07:00(psst. cut-and-paster... Nobody's listening anymor...(psst. cut-and-paster... Nobody's listening anymore, if they ever were). Hope it was cathartic and will keep your xenophobic, intolerant ass from shooting up co-workers at the post office, or committing rage.<BR/><BR/>You can stop now and come out of the basement. Go watch the big screen in Mom's bedroom again. She and your latest "uncle" are off to Vegas for a quickie marriage and divorce.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com