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“We never had great resources; we didn’t have a car, always taking the bus. For us, buying new shoes for school meant a trip to K-Mart—PayLess was too expensive for us”
“I took some Chicano History classes, and I got angry. I was upset when I learned about how we had been taken advantage of.”
“I saw my father go from being a busboy to owning his own business in East Los Angeles, a small dealership.”
It was during the pandemic that César Castro decided to launch his podcast Radio Jarochelo on YouTube. He didn’t want to lose that connection with the community and wanted to
Mario Trujillo, the current mayor of Downey, learned from the best mentor, his mother Ofelia Rodríguez.
“God, if you save me, I promise to become a priest, but save me,” he recalls saying in the water.
“The food stamps would arrive at our house, and I would go buy candy, then go out to the neighborhoods to sell them.”
“It’s not ok to see naked people on the street, people without homes, we have to honor humanity, provide services”
Corissa Hernández is a woman committed to her community, not just words on her resume, but in her daily actions.
“My mom managed to prepare the best ceviche for my dad and me with the one-dollar cans of seafood she found at the supermarket.”
“”I grew up in a small ranch in Jalisco, where I worked in the fields. That allowed me to understand life.”
Not everything was easy. As migrants, they also suffered economic adaptation. They lived in a very small apartment but tried to focus on the positive.
“The wounds were already there. We simply used band-aids to get by,” she says.
“Mi’jo,’ the 12-year-old boy heard on the phone. ‘Your uncle Chava needs your help. When you get out
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