By: Herman Baca
Fifty years later, I can still vividly remember what happened to me personally and politically in Los Angeles, California on August 29, 1970.
At the time, I was 27 years old, today I’m 77.
Herman Baca
In those 50 years, many persons I knew that marched in the Chicano Moratorium are no longer with us. In other words,
“An era is slowly, but surely coming to an end.”
In 1970 unlike 2020 La Raza was a minute minority, known to U.S. institutions as the,
“Forgotten, silent & invisible minority,” today we number 70 million Chicanos/Mexicanos/Latinos.
In 1970, thirty to forty thousand Chicanos from throughout the U.S. marched in the streets to protest and call for an end to the war in Vietnam. A war, like Afghanistan today, that was destroying our most precious legacy, our youth.
Yard signs at polling place in South Phoenix. Credit: Peter Costantini.
PHOENIX, Arizona, Jan 12 2021 (IPS) - The Valley of the Sun is a vast, flat stretch of Sonoran Desert, etched by arroyos and studded with small, jagged peaks. It spans about 50 miles (80 kilometers) west to east and 40 miles (64 kilometers) north to south in south-central Arizona (the state that borders southern California to the east). After cruising through southward on one of the tangle of freeways that vein the expanse, we can leadfoot it another 100 miles (161 kilometers) southeast to Tucson across much the same hardscape, only gradually gaining elevation. The saguaro cacti grow more thickly, but the higher cordilleras maintain a discreet distance most of the way.
San Antonio-area dad building his own escaramuza arena for his Mexican rodeo-loving daughters in Floresville
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Jimmy Ayala (center), poses with his daughters Emely (from left) and Jackie. He is building his own escaramuza arena on his Floresville ranch.Kin Man Hui /Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Jackie, right, and Emely Ayala practice in the arena built by their father. Eventually, the complex will host full charreadas and seat up to 300.Kin Man Hui /Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Jimmy Ayala (right), chatting with his daughters (from left) Emely and Jackie, said he expects to spend about $20,000 on his escaramuza arena, and up to $60,000 to complete his planned event center for weddings, quinceñeras and similar festivities.Kin Man Hui /Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
It seems like almost every Tucson wall tells a story.
Some of them involve the Virgen de Guadalupe and others involve a man s skull shooting colorful beams of light into the ether.
Here s just a little selection of some of our favorites seen around town. Tucson s muralists continue to be hard at work during the pandemic creating images that are both hopeful and thought provoking.Â
UPDATE: Now with 12 more murals that you can find all around Tucson and Sahuarita.Â
Tucson Medical Center Mural
This mural at Tucson Medical Center was painted by Joe Pagac, Katherine Joyce Lester and Arielle Pagac-Alelunas in March 2021. Veronica M. Cruz
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