Por Paco Zavala
En este mes
de Julio la joven municipalidad de Tijuana, Baja California celebra
la fecha de la fundación de esta progresista y pujante
ciudad.
Durante todo el mes en curso habrá festividades que se han organizado por este motivo y los organizadores de tanto jolgorio y alegría han sido el 16avo H. Ayuntamiento, el Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura IMAC, Tijuana 2000 "De corazón unidos al milenio" y el Instituto Municipal del Deporte de Tijuana IMDET.
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Horrific Dragging Death of Mexican Migrant
Four Other Migrants Attacked by Neo-Nazi Skinheads
San Diego, Ca. — Mexican migrant farmworkers found
the battered body of another worker this past Sunday, July 2,
2000, in a ravine near the intersection of Black Mountain and
Carmel Valley Roads in northern San Diego County and within the
city limits of San Diego. San Diego police detective Dave Cohen
confirmed that the undocumented workers was beaten about the head
and dragged on his face along the roadway. The yet unidentified
victim was approximately 25 years old and was wearing working
boots and blue jeans.
$15,000 Reward Offered for Information on Migrant
Bashers!
Latino leaders are posting a $5,000 reward for information leading
to the arrest of those responsible for assaults and injuries to
migrant workers at a Carmel Valley encampment July 5th.
They will be joined at a 12 p.m. press conference by representatives
of the Anti-Defamation League, who are matching the original $5,000
reward.
Noticias de México...
Habrá eclipse el domingo y será visible desde
BC
Al amanecer del próximo domingo ocurrirá un
eclipse total de Luna, del cual en Baja California sólo
será visible la fase parcial de ingreso, ya que la Luna
se oculta en el horizonte antes de iniciar la totad. El fenómeno
empezará a las 03:46:38 horas de la madrugada del domingo,
cuando la porción Suroeste del disco lunar disminuya su
luminosidad al iniciar la fase penumbral. A las 04:57:16 hora
el mismo sector de la Luna comenzará a desaparecer al iniciarse
la fase de parcialidad.
Living as a neo-Hispano-Americano, work helps
Lopez rediscover his heritage
By Michael Hurley
On October 21 Danny Lopez will have accomplished two things.
First, he will see his work as a project manager at the National
Hispanic Cultural Center come to fruition. On that day the Center
will open to the public for the first time.
Productos Inadquiribles, el Gas Doméstico
Por Paco Zavala
Mientras que los salarios sufren incrementos anuales mínimos,
que distan mucho de estar en concordancia con la escalada de precios
que cada año se dá a los productos de consumo, consideramos
que es sumamente notoria la disparidad diferencial entre salarios
y precios, pues relacionando a unos con los otros es cada vez
más difícil comprar lo necesario para poder subsistir
o simple y sencillamente, como lo dice el pueblo "Hay que
amarrarse la tripa y no comprar nada".
HHS Awards Nearly $3 Million for HIV/AIDS Care
Along U.S.-Mexico Border
WASHINGTON, July 11 -- HHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala
today announced Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency
Act first-year funding of nearly $3 million to support five community-based
health care organizations and one center for improving and evaluating
early detection of HIV and use of health care services for people
with HIV disease living in the 2,000 mile U.S.-Mexico border region.
A total of $14.3 million will be awarded during the five-year
program.
Conflictos En La Industria Tequilera De México
Aumentan Los Precios al Consumidor
MÉXICO, D. F. (NOTIAMERICA) - Ante la falta de producción
de plantas de agave azul en los próximos años y
el crecimiento espectacular de las exportaciones, los precios
del tequila en el mercado interno han tenido alrededor del 30
por ciento en el último mes y que podría repercutir
muy pronto en el extranjero.
Encienda
Una Vela
Padre Thomas J. McSweeney
Lecciones de la Escuela de Mamá
Community Notes
South County Courthouse Hosts Art Exhibit
Capitalizing on success of their family history photo exhibit,
Chula Vista courthouse employees will showcase the travel photography
of South County artist Denise M. Luna from July 14 through August
14 in the courthouse lobby.
U.S. Cruiser and Chilean Frigate Open For Tours
The general public will have the opportunity to tour two
ships at Naval Station this weekend. The guided-missile cruiser
USS PRINCETON (CG-59) will be open for general public visiting
on Saturday and Sunday, July 15 and 16 from 1 to 4 p.m. at Naval
Station's Pier 7.
EDITORIAL:
White America Has Lost Its Way
America is finding it difficult to live up to the precepts
of the founding fathers, which are included in the Declaration
of Independence, the Preamble of the Constitution of the United
States of America and its attendant Articles, as well as the Amendments
to The Constitution commonly known as the "Bill of Rights."
Commentary
Brave New Mundo — The Cactus Wall
Has Fallen on Both Sides of the Border
By Richard Rodriguez
Last week, after Mexicans elected Vicente Fox their new president,
a U.S. journalist gushed: "The Cactus Wall has fallen."
Commentary
America's National Culture on the Border
by Jacob G. Hornberger
People who rail that America's "national culture"
is threatened by immigrants never explain which national culture
they are referring to.
Commentary
La Cultura Nacional Estadounidense
en la Frontera
por Jacob G. Hornberger
Aquellos que lamentan la amenaza que dizque constituye la
inmigración a la "cultura del país," nunca
explican cuál cultura es que la que tienen en mente.
Commentary
Vigilantism at the US/Mexico Border May
Spread Northward
"Society's had their chance. I'm going hunting. Hunting
humans."
--James Oliver Huberty, San Ysidro, California 1984--
by Hector Carreon
When Richard Scott Baumhammers went on a killing spree of
immigrants recently, he did not ask them for a "green card."
Neither did James Oliver Huberty when he targeted Mexicans and
massacred 22 at a McDonald's Restaurant at the border in San Ysidro,
California in 1984.
Opinion
Watch Out For The Fox In The Hen House
By Saul Landau
US pundits and government figures gush over Vicente Fox's
victory last Sunday as if Mexicans had elected Abraham Lincoln's
reincarnation as their new president. Fox represents the right
of center PAN, National Action Party. He stands for NAFTA, corporate
globalization and extending the invasion of foreign capital into
Mexico. PAN contains religious Catholics and a Falangist wing
as well - a clone of Francisco Franco's gang in Spain. The different
sectors agree only that the egregious corruption that has characterized
Mexico for seven decades under the PRI, the Institutional Revolutionary
Party, must go.
Opinion
The State of Race Relations Keeps Us Going
by Theodore M. Shaw
This year the NAACP Legal Defense Fund is celebrating its
60th anniversary. As the country's oldest civil-rights law firm,
actually we would like to go out of business. Unfortunately, we
can't.
TEZOZOMOC SPEAKS
No se deje Gente, the Corporate Utility Barons
are ripping you off with their rate hikes!! One of the reasons
vital utilities where regulated, initially, is for exactly what
is occurring now CORPORATE GREED!! The people are at the mercy
of the profit oriented Barons who CARE LITTLE ABOUT THE WELFARE
OF THE PEOPLE!
THE RAINBOW CHRONICLES
Chapter VII
By Jeannine Diego
A rustling sound came from behind the front door. Another
flyer for some incredible deal on pizzas, just as long as you
ordered some inedible amount, he thought; he ought to go outside
and ask this guy to stop leaving these things under his door,
explain that it was a waste because he was never going to eat
that much, that he lived alone, etcetera, etcetera.
CLICK... DE LOS ESPECTACULOS
Por Lucero Luna Campos
El Mundo De La Farándula Se Encuentra Consternado Por El
"Diabolico" Caso Del Clan Trevi-Andrade
Emilio Estefan Jr. Honored as Laras Person of
the Year 2000
Santa Monica, CA — Entrepreneur, producer and music industry
leader Emilio Estefan Jr. will be honored as the 2000 Latin Academy
of Recording Arts & Sciences Person of the Year, it was announced
today by Michael Greene, President/CEO of the National Academy
of Recording Arts & Sciences, and Mauricio Abaroa, Senior
Vice President and Executive Director of the Latin Academy. The
honor marks the first to be bestowed by the Latin Academy and
recognizes Estefan's professional and philanthropic accomplishments.
Calendar of Events...
by Berenice Cisneros
Bill Virchis OnStage
Claire Pratt, of Chula Vista's OnStage Playhouse, has long
harbored the hope of being able to reach out to South Bay's Hispanic
community with a play that would reflect the culture of concerns
of that community. This goal was echoed by southwestern College's
Bill Virchis who, as it happens, directed a play for OnStage during
its first season 15 years ago.
Smithsonian Latino Virtual Gallery Opens With
Online Photographic Exhibition
The Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives recently opened
its Latino Virtual Gallery —latino.si.edu/virtual-gallery—
featuring the online exhibition "Revealing Personal Identity:
The Indigenous Vision of Manuel Carrillo." "Revealing
Personal Identity" is an exhibition about photography presented
from a literary and artistic perspective. It brings Carrillo's
own identity quest to life through the interpretation of his photographs.
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