October 9, 1993 By Yolanda Reynolds Plaza Park in downtown San Jose has been renamed. The new name is plaza de César E. Chavez. It’s new name honors the nationally known labor leader, community organizer and farm worker advocate, Cesar E. Chavez from San Jose. He became a national figure for organizing farm laborers, first …
“HONOR A QUIEN HONOR MERECE” – PLAZA PARK RENAMED IN MEMORY OF CESAR CHAVEZ Read More »
Por: Nahuí Ollín (Twitter @aojosvistas, Facebook Nahuí Ollín) San José, CA, sept. 2017—Una de las más interesantes celebraciones en México es la del Día de Muertos. No es algo como Hollywood quiso presentarnos en una película reciente del Agente 007. Es algo mucho más profundo y que viene de tiempo inmemorial. A la llegada de …
“La Muerte Baila” obra teatral en la más pura tradición mexicana del Día de Muertos Read More »
Por Nahuí Ollín 1 de mayo, San José, CA. – Entre cantos y demandas de mejoras salariales y justicia para todos los trabajadores e inmigrantes, miles de personas, alrededor de 10 mil, se dieron cita en la Plaza de la Herencia Mexicana para marchar con rumbo al centro de San José y reunirse en un …
November 20, 1991 By Yolanda Reynolds Sunday noon at Sacred Heart Church, a determined crowd of janitorial workers and their supporters met for a rally. The janitors have taken their struggle for justice in the workplace to the street and the general public after over a year and half of inaction from an unresponsive system. …
November 6, 1990 By Yolanda Reynolds The Historic Arts Advisory Committee (HAAC) voted Wednesday evening, October 24, to place the Thomas Fallon statue at Pellier Park. It is not slated to unveiled until 1995. At that meeting, discussions generally followed the format of the previous meetings. The chairman of the committee, Alex Smart. spent some …
September 12, 1990 By Yolanda Reynolds The San Jose Mercury News, the only daily newspaper in Santa Clara County and one of the largest in the Bay Area hires few Latino writers. The news last week of Nora Villagran’s reassignment (to a position normally held by junior writers or on occasion clerical staff) has created …
LOCAL DAILY NEWSPAPER HIRES FEW HISPANIC JOURNALISTS Read More »
September 5, 1990 By Yolanda Reynolds Last week the Historic’ Arts advisory Committee meeting brought together a number of historians from throughout the Bay Area whose specialty is early day California history. Most of the historians who spoke before the committee at that meeting felt that Fallon’s raising of the American flag was not really …
H.A.A.C. to determine Fallon statue fate tonight Read More »
August 29, 1990 By Yolanda Reynolds The San Jose Evergreen community College District announced last Wednesday that one of its colleges, San Jose City had been selected to receive a 2.5 million dollar federally funded Title III Grant, to be awarded over a five year period. The grant monies were made available to help institutions …
ADELANTE PROGRAM TO BEGIN AT SAN JOSE CITY COLLEGE Read More »
August 8, 1990 By Yolanda Reynolds Members of the Historic Arts Advisory Committee (HAAC) were selected on July 31. This committee was formed as a consequence of the Fallon controversy. HAAC will serve two functions: 1) to recommend a resolution of the Fallon statue controversy to the City Council and 2) recommend to the Fine …
April 4, 1990 By Yolanda Reynolds A statue of Captain Thomas Fallon on a horse in military garb and raising an American flag over San Jose, is on its way to this city. It is to be located at Plaza Park directly across from the Fairmont Hotel. A Mercury News editorial states that it (the …