August 14, 1998
Gee Whiz La Prensa Exposed another Scandle!
Congratulations on breaking the story about County School Board member Aguilar's trip to Cuba! Apparently Channel 10 has picked up on your lead......SDUT still sound asleep!
The county school board meeting ought to be a corker! I hope to be able to make the meeting.
V. Montroy
Escondido, Ca.
(Comment: Aguilar just the tip of the iceberg. Looking at the tapes of the Board meeting it is quite clear that Trustees Tom Davies nor Jim Kelley had no objections to paying two grand to Aguilar and the Mrs. Surprising being they are the "fiscal conservatives on the board. More surprising these two gentlemen are no lovers of Communism, Socialism, Castro, Guerverra, etc…yet not a peep out of them in the public meeting! Have Tom and Jim changed their political stripes? Tune in later..I'm sure the Right-wing wackos will try to make political hay on the ignorance of Mr. Aguilar.)
Hispanos Invitados A Reuniones Del Capitulo Hispano de Amorc
I have been reading your newspaper for many years. I congraulate you for the services you provide to the Spanish community of San Diego. I have been recently appoined Master of the Chapter Amore in San Diego, "Capitulo HispanoSan Diego Amore. I wish to reach a greater segment of our members through yuour newspaper.
Capitulo Hispano San Diego Amorc, les invite a sus reuniones Del mes de agosto, los domingos 16 y 23, desde las 10am en su domicilio de calle 23a, #732 (Templo Masonico) en Chula Vista, Ca.
Ma. Carmen Lopez
Chapter Master
Bishop story not yet ended
The July 24 story concerning the Bishop being "strip searched" at the Calexico/Mexico border crossing got lots of attention. I doubt that his story has seen the end of the matter.
Ray Garner
San Diego
(No the Bishop story has not gone away despite efforts to brush it under the rug. Senator Barbara Boxer's office called CCR Chairman Herman Baca and informed him that their office will be looking into the complaint. And at La Prensa we have been getting a lot of calls in regard to the strip search, many in support of the fighting editor at the Calexico Chronicale.)
National LULAC Opposed to nuclear dump in Texas
LULAC was very disappointed when the US House of Representatives passed the Texas-Maine-Vermont Compact that would bring a nuclear dump to Sierra Blanca. We are working hard in our Washington office to alert our membership across the country about environmental justice and Sierra Blanca.
We are asking all LULAC members and friends to write their Senators, asking them to oppose the legislation. We want the US Senate to be aware of the amount of opposition the Compact has across the country and within the Latino community.
Senator Paul Wellstone of Minnesota has pledged to lead the opposition to the Compact when it comes to the floor of the Senate for debate in early September.
We encourage you ... to write [a] letter to your Senators asking them to vote no on the Conference Committee Report for the Texas-Maine-Vermont Radioactive Waste Compact.
Thank you for your support
Cuauhtémoc Figueroa
National LULAC
Walking the picket line
This letter is written after spending Tuesday, August 11, 1998 on the picket lines on HW101, with the United Farm Workers Union. The result is my asking three basic questions:
1. Why don't the D'Arrigo Bros. Co. campesinos (farm workers) deserve a labor contract after 20 plus years of struggle?
2. Why does the UFW struggle get so little attention, give the importance of agriculture and the Latino community to Monterey County and California?
3. Why does Monterey County subsidize D'Arrigo Bros. Co. by assigning the Monterey County Sheriff's Dept. the duty of guarding D'Arrigo's property?
My first point deals with the feeling of humanity, family, and hard work. I felt during my day long stay with UFW protestors. Second, other than a small article in the August 11, 1998 issue of the Monterey County Herlad, I was unaware that the UFW, Ceasar Chavez's legacy, still existed.
Finally, I was told by some of the MCSD deputies that D'Arrigo's and Monterey County pay them just to stand on the other side of a ragged barbed wire fence to watch peaceful Latinos march and sing, protesting D'Arrigo's unwillingness to neotiated a contract.
Concerned
Albert Palma
Monterey, CA.
(For those readers who wish to answer this young's questions please mail or email your responses to La Prensa San Diego and we will forward them to Mr. Palma.)
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