On the street outside MACLA (some Spanish acronym that boils down to Center for Latino American Arts) there was a professional screen printing setup that was putting "the art of politics" on any shirt that people walking by wanted to volunteer. I gave them the shirt off my back. They took it and told me to "go inside and make a donation to the lady with a cash box and look around for about five minutes." Wandering around inside the building I saw pieces designed to bring attention to a lot of Latino issues. Check out my favorites below.

     

Keiko Bonk introduced me to the Hawaiian struggle. She was the first Green Party member to get elected to partisan office in the USA. I met her in early 1993. For some years I subscribed to this newspaper that told me a lot about that story. They have even voted against the treaty that binds them to the USA without getting relief.

  

The words that dog is barking were "Abu-Ghareb, Torture, Guantanamo" and so forth.

  

Those helicopters are expensive. You gotta be on good terms with Uncle Sam or some big time oil Sheik to get them.

  

Yup, in 2010 it's been 518 years since 1492. I remember when they were bragging about 500 years of resistance. Seems like just yesterday.

  

  

I managed to go through Arizona both ways on I-10 without spending a single dollar in the State going to my sister's daughters wedding. It helped that it was not long after I heard about their horrible new State immigration law.

     

I get that the red, white, and blue is all about being patriotic to mother earth, but I still wish there was some green in that picture.

My Dad likes to call the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo "a remarkable accident". Like the brown people got such a good deal it must have been an accident. I keep meaning to find out more about that, but I never seem to find an easy way to do so. Like there is this big mystery field around it that repels curious people.

  

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