The
City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture (Commission)
will present Callaloo 2000, a community convocation
for folk and traditional artists from 8:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m.,
Saturday, April 15, 2,000. The conference will be held in conjunction
with the 27th Annual Adams Roots Festival in Normal Heights. Workshop
topics will cover nuts-and-bolts information for visual and performing
artists interested in reaching new audiences, sharing their culture
with more people and earning a living with their art. Representatives
from local, state and national agencies will also be on hand to
discuss grants and other funding opportunities. In addition to
the workshops, Callaloo 2000 will feature world
music and dance and the Callaloo marketplace at
the Roots Festival. The costs for the entire workshop is $20 for
those who pre-register and $25 at the door. Scholarships are available
for those unable to pay the workshop fee. Callaloo 2000
is supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for
the Arts, California Arts Council and the Fund for Folk Culture.
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No More "Mexican Wage" — Hunger
Strikers Win a Contract At
Spanish-Language TV Station
By David Bacon
FRESNO, CA — After not eating for 43 days, workers at
KFTV Channel 21 and their supporters finally swallowed a little
fish soup on March 31. Their fasting made language discrimination
in television a national issue, and helped them obtain a union
contract that would help eradicate discrimination.
First
Person
Pinochet's Trial and Tribulations in Chile
— The Murderer Returns
to the Scene of the Crime
By Tito Tricot
VALPARAISO, CHILE — The murderer returned to the scene
of the crime walking — even though the British authorities
found him too sick to face trial. Augusto Pinochet arrived on
a sunny morning, smiling and saluting his supporters, walking
unaided — once again laughing at the world and making a mockery
of international law as he did all throughout his 17 year-long
dictatorship.
Mexicano Ecologista, Prisionero Recibirá
el Premio Ambiental
Goldman Valorado en 125 Mil Dólares
Mexico, D.F. — Rodolfo Montiel Flores, de 44 años,
valeroso líder de la Organización de Campesinos
Ecologistas de la Sierra de Petatlán y Coyuca de Catalán
A.C., prisionero desde mayo del año pasado, recibirá
el Premio Ambiental otorgado por la Fundación Goldman,
la cual conlleva el monto de $125 mil dólares, equivalente
de más de un millón de pesos. El premio será
otorgado en forma simbólica durante una conferencia de
prensa en la capital mexicana el miércoles 5 de abril.
Escuela de Amor
"Brindamos educación católica gratuita a familias
de bajos recursos económicos"
Por Iván Barrera
"Me tocó visitar un hogar en donde el papá
era adicto a las drogas y al alcohol", comenta la Madre María
Saavedra, directora de la escuela Santa Rosa de Lima localizada
en la colonia conocida como Reacomodo Sánchez Taboada,
en una de las colonias más pobres de la ciudad de Tijuana.
Muchas de las familias viven en los cerros, algunas en condiciones
muy precarias.
Noticias de México...
Defienden agua con cartas a EU
Empresarios, senadores y autoridades municipales de Mexicali
envían cartas a las autoridades estadounidenses para entrar
a un diálogo y evitar el encementado del canal Todo Americano,
en Calexico.
Editors Honor Publisher Who Went to Jail to
Protect Sources
SACRAMENTO, March 31: The recipient of the 2000 Bill Farr Award
from the California Society of Newspaper Editors (CSNE) is Tim
Crews, a publisher who served a 5-day jail sentence rather than
reveal sources. The award will be presented during the CSNE/Associated
Press News Executives Council Convention in Los Angeles at the
Sheraton Universal Hotel on May 5 by Mark Vasché, president
of CSNE and editor of the Modesto Bee.
INS: servicio medieval para el siglo XXI
Por Carlos Ball
Miami — En su reciente reportaje publicado en el New
York Times, la periodista Sara Robinson muestra cómo
el Servicio de Inmigración (INS) le dificulta a la industria
de la información, a los creadores de la Segunda Revolución
Industrial y responsables del auge económico de Estados
Unidos, la contratación del personal requerido para seguir
avanzando. Y a los técnicos nacidos en el extranjero, quienes
en parte motorizan esa industria, el INS les impone reglas absurdas
que chocan de frente con los requerimientos del mercado y con
sus intereses personales.
LULAC Supports Workers Rights
Boston, MA — Regla González, LULAC National Vice President
of the Northeast express the organization's support of the complainants
on a discrimination case affecting Latinos in Massachusetts. Over
one hundred Department of Transitional Assistance a.k.a. Welfare
Dept. employees of Latino heritage working as Spanish-English
bilingual social workers filed a racial discrimination lawsuit
complaints with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination
alleging that the Department has discriminated against them.
Sulpizio Family Gift Supports Cal State San Marcos
Center For
the Study of Books in Spanish
The Cal State San Marcos Center for the Study of Books in Spanish
for Children and Adolescents will be renamed following a $100,000
gift from the family of Gaby and Richard Sulpizio. The Center
will be named the Barahona Center for the Study of Books in Spanish
for Children and Adolescents, in honor of Flora and the late Francisco
Barahona, Mrs. Sulpizio's parents. Mrs. Barahona lives in San
José, Costa Rica.
Students Discover, Math Is Fun
More than 70 Sweetwater district middle school students competed
in the "Mad Hatter Marathon" and "Math Bowl"
during the district's first annual Math Field Day events held
recently.
Library Student Essay Contest Winners Announced
Joint Project of City Schools,
Library and Library Friends Group
Culminating another major "Write for Literacy' effort,
San Diego City Schools and San Diego Public Library announced
the 12 grand prize winners of their citywide annual essay contest.
ESSAY:
"A Man I Shall Never Forget"
Written by: Argentina Maria Mendieta - Otero
Can you please tell me where Dario City is? The man in the
olive green uniform asked me as I was about to cross the highway
that divided the sleepy town of "Las Maderas."
Chula Vista Resident Roberto Reyes is USIU
Alumni Volunteer of the Year
Roberto Reyes, executive director of CRECE, the Baja California
Competitive Center, is United States International University's
Alumni Association Volunteer of the Year.
AmeriCorps' National Civilian Community Corps
Comes to Smythe Elementary
A team of ten AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps
members have come to work at Smythe Elementary School for eleven
weeks. AmeriCorps is a community-based residential volunteer program
for young people between the ages of 18 and 24. Before coming
to San Ysidro, this team was working at a botanical garden in
Silverton, Oregon on a wetlands project.
Community Notes:
Original members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Don Diego
Post, 1955
Opinion:
Two Steps Backward, One Step Forward
By Raoul Lowery Contreras
When then-Governor Pete Wilson and Ward Connerly attacked
California affirmative action in 1995, observers suspected that
minority student enrollment would plummet at the University of
California when the Wilson/Connerly cabal succeeded. They were
right.
Opinion:
Latino Vote May Turn on Media Message
By Jerome DeHerrera
For the men and women of the Gore-for-president campaign,
there is no rest for the weary. Just days after he was assured
of his party's nomination, Vice President Al Gore he was meeting
here in Washington and in Nashville with campaign officials to
plot his electoral strategy.
El Foro Público... ....The Public Forum
GAG RULE IMPOSED ON SCHOOL BOARD!
Up to now, I understood that requests from board members for
information were to be honored, and that a report of the request
should be made to the superintendent (Bersin).
BOOK REVIEW
A History of Latinos in America
by Daniel L. Muñoz Sr.
HARVEST OF EMPIRE
A HISTORY OF LATINOS IN AMERICA
El
Don Giovanni de Mozart en Escena
Por Paco Zavala
La Compañía de Opera de San Diego, está
presentando en escena la ópera de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"Don Giovanni" (Don Juan), obra que se divide
en dos actos y en diversos cuadros.
Calendar
of Events..
by Berenice Cisneros
Guatemalan Weaver
Rafaela Godinez, a noted Guatemalan weaver who uses
an ancient technique dating back to pre-Hispanic times, will appear
at the San Diego Museum of Man, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday,
April 8 through Saturday, April 15, for a special exhibition,
demonstration and sale.
FOODPAGE
It's Going to Be an Oh-So Sweet Spring
This Year!
Liven up your meals with these taste-tempting, healthy sweet
onion recipes all year long.
New Line Preps Latino Pix
By Charles Lyons
HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - Bolstering its commitment to Latino-themed
films, New Line is developing two projects with `'Selena'' director
Gregory Nava.
Recording Academy Announces Venue for Inaugural
Latin Grammy Awards
The Recording Academy has selected STAPLES Center in Los Angeles
as the site for the inaugural Latin GRAMMY Awards, it was announced
jointly today by Michael Greene, President/CEO of The Recording
Academy and Timothy J. Leiweke, President of STAPLES Center. The
show's date has been changed to September 13.
"El ¡Béisbol!: Es Una Pasión
Latina" Se Transmite El 8 De Abril En NBC
Siguiendo la Celebración del Mes de las Américas
del Béisbol de Grandes Ligas, honrando a su rica herencia
latina, esperando las series de la temporada 2000, NBC
transmitirá el programa de televisión "Béisbol:
Una Pasión Latina," producido por la Major
League Baseball Productions, el día 8 de abril
en NBC, de 2:30-3:30 p.m. EST. El programa estará disponible
en español a travéz de SAP (Secondary Audio Programming).
NBC
Signs Cantor For First English Broadcast Scores `GOOOAL' for
Olympic Soccer Coverage
Andres Cantor, whose `GOOOAL' call helped bring the sport
of soccer to national consciousness during the 1994 World Cup,
will call soccer during NBC's coverage of the 2000 Olympic Games,
Dick Ebersol, Chairman, NBC Sports and Olympics, announced today.
This marks the first time in his career that Cantor will call
games in English.
Gulls Announce Taylor Cup Playoff Dates
The San Diego Gulls have announced two playoff dates for
the first round of the 1999-2000 Taylor Cup Playoffs. The first
round of the playoffs will begin on Friday, April 14.
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