Category Archives: Community

Slow and Low: Keeping the Lowrider Tradition Alive

Slow and Low: Keeping the Lowrider Tradition Alive Many believe lowriders cruised their way to Los Angeles from El Paso, Texas, and still others will tell you they came from the other side of the Mexican border in Cuidad Juarez, … Continue reading

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Discovering Chicano/a Literature

For some reason I’ve had Chicano/a literature on my mind lately. I keep thinking back to my first experience coming across an author that had a “Mexican-sounding” name. This was back in my junior year of high school. Our English … Continue reading

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Noche de Conciencia y Resistencia on April 25th at CSULA

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What is Chicano to a Non-Chicano?

Chicano is an act of defiance-Tino Villanueva I spent a lot of time thinking about this quote after I read it on Aztlán Reads. I wondered what it meant exactly. But most importantly I wondered what my relation was to … Continue reading

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Harvest of Loneliness presented by MEChA de CSULA on April 15

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MEChA de CSULA Food Truck Renegades Fundraiser (2/25/13)

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Mike the Poet with “The Oral Tradition” at CSULA (1/24/13)

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Los Angeles the Land of a 1000 Dances poem by Mike the Poet

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1st Annual Noche de Poesia y Resistencia

Estimada Gente de Aztlán & Beyond, In recognition of the 165th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo on February 2, 1848, MEChA de CSULA recognizes all the women and men who have resisted colonization and have continuously … Continue reading

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Noche de Poesia y Resistencia on February 5, 2013 at Cal State L.A. (6-8:30pm)

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Politics is the Art of Compromise?

The most overused saying among liberals is that politics is the art of compromise, and it gripes me to no end. Liberals repeat it with such smugness as if they were sages. I find it so pretentious — to the … Continue reading

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Black Panthers

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Chevy Classic in Boyle Heights

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Boyle Heights Sunset

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