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They’re going to applaud you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/268544098″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Famine is in his early 30s now, a punk rock lifer; fan, show organizer and vocalist in the metal-tinged hardcore band \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/withdrawalsymptomspunk/timeline\">Withdrawal Symptoms\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also among the expansive cast of characters who turn up in Angela Boatwright’s documentary, “\u003ca href=\"http://lospunksfilm.com/\">Los Punks: We Are All We Have.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10985505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/BillyFamine-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Billy Famine (R) with fellow members of band Withdrawal Symptoms.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10985505\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/BillyFamine-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/BillyFamine-400x265.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/BillyFamine.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/BillyFamine-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/BillyFamine-960x636.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Billy Famine (R) with fellow members of band Withdrawal Symptoms. \u003ccite>(Photo: Angela Boatwright)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was so excited by the music and by the fact they’re playing on like dirt hills and backyards and drummers sitting on lawn chairs,” says Boatwright, herself a veteran of punk and metal scenes on the East Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her crew spent about four years embedded in the East and South Central L.A. punk scene and befriending the people who propel it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have the balls to strap on a guitar and go out there and play for people anywhere, then more power to you because I’m not doing it. 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That’s the first step,” says Boatwright.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10985508\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PunkRockGirls-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A group of young women at a backyard show in L.A.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10985508\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PunkRockGirls-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PunkRockGirls-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PunkRockGirls.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PunkRockGirls-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PunkRockGirls-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of young women at a backyard show in L.A. \u003ccite>(Photo: Angela Boatwright)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a way to have a voice and communicate and to go out and play backyard. And you might get $30 for gas and there’s a lot of heart, a lot of passion, so to me that felt important and valid and vital,” says the director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film depicts a scrappy, off-the-grid music underworld, one that doesn’t rely on record labels, conventional venues or established promoters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10985172\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10985172\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKX-cxa-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The band CXA and fans live at backyard show. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKX-cxa-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKX-cxa-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKX-cxa.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKX-cxa-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKX-cxa-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The band CXA and fans live at backyard show. \u003ccite>(Angela Boatwright)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A sprawling dirt backyard in a gritty working-class Latino enclave like Monterey Park or Boyle Heights will do. News of a show spreads via social media and word of mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Los Punks” introduces us to kids like April, a 15-year-old backyard show promoter from the south L.A. community of Watts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m 15,” giggles April in the film. “I’m probably like the only one’s that’s like young in the scene.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her age may set her apart, but April shares a lot with her contemporaries in the scene: a conflicted home life, working-class background and living in a community rife with grinding poverty and street violence. But “Los Punks” also captures a fierce DIY, entrepreneurial spirit and a commitment to the scene and the larger community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So who would let a young kid like Amy transform their dusty backyard into a churning mosh pit for two or three hours on a Saturday night?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10985174\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10985174\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-April-bandana-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"April, a teenage show promoter from Watts who is profiled in Los Punks. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-April-bandana.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-April-bandana-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">April, a teenage show promoter from Watts who is profiled in ‘Los Punks.’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Billy Famine says most times it’s just regular people. Working moms and dads, migrant families from Mexico or Nicaragua.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And someone’s like, ‘Hey, would you like to make some money on the side, because you have a nice backyard. We’re going to give you a cut and hopefully everything goes well,’ ” explains Famine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But there are times the house owners are just like; wait, what? This is what you were planning? 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But run-ins with neighbors do happen. “Los Punks” captures all of it. Most times, though, the neighbors are pretty cool, says Rooster Cabrillo, vocalist of the band \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/freedombombs123/info/?tab=page_info\">PTSD. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had this lady and she didn’t speak any English. And she’s like, well I just don’t want them sitting on the side because they knocking bottles over,” recalls Cabrillo. “You guys can have your party, I just really don’t really want to call the cops because I’m afraid of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cabrillo is in his early 20s. He was born in Sinaloa, Mexico. He crossed into the U.S. with his parents without papers when he was a child. He’s also gay. Writing and performing music, he says, helped him come out — not just as gay and undocumented but also as an advocate for his community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of our songs have to do with mental illness, drug abuse. We even have a song about being queer. I’m queer and undocumented, and so our environments can really mess with our heads,” says Cabrillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10985179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10985179\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-close-up-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"PTSD vocalist Rooster Cabrillo in performance makeup. \" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-close-up-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-close-up-400x265.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-close-up.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-close-up-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-close-up-960x637.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PTSD vocalist Rooster Cabrillo in performance makeup. \u003ccite>(Angela Boatwright)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Director Boatwright reveals who these young people are the morning after a show; struggles with parents, unemployment, mental health or substance abuse, and how they can find a way forward within the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A million things that can make you angry as young person, you can find solace in punk, hardcore or metal or whatever you like,” says Boatwright. “So I prefer to let the punk explain where they are coming from themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting just a few feet away from Boatwright during this interview, Rooster Cabrillo hesitantly expresses some apprehension over the film, financed, by Orange County-based apparel and lifestyle company \u003ca href=\"http://livingoffthewall.vans.com/angela-boatwright/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vans.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a huge problem with gentrification in Boyle Heights right now,” explains Cabrillo. “There’s a lot of folks that love making movies that are from East L.A., who go to backyard shows, and it would have been cool to see them get an opportunity to tell that story for themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10985182\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10985182\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-pit-slam-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A moshpit in full force at backyard punk show somewhere in L.A. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-pit-slam-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-pit-slam-1-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-pit-slam-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-pit-slam-1-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-pit-slam-1-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mosh pit in full force at backyard punk show somewhere in L.A.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Boatwright says she’s aware of some of the grumbling over the film within the scene, but believes “Los Punks” can actually help open up discussions of issues like gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The positive thing that I see coming out of this is that there are some really important discussions being started because of this,” says Boatwright. “And I think if that benefits them to have those dialogues and to better their community, I think that’s great. Then my job has been done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with more scrutiny from the “outside” world, the scene is unlikely to diminish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one telling scene from the movie, the cops break up a backyard show after calls of an alleged stabbing, which turned out to be false. But the kids and the bands were sent packing anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within minutes though, the text messages are flying back and forth. Another backyard is secured at 83\u003csup>rd\u003c/sup> and San Pedro. Gear is hauled off to the new location and the blast of music resumes, roaring up and out over the rooftops of South L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10985181\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10985181 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-corrupted-youth-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"he band Corrupted Youth, a lynchpin in the East and South L.A. backyard punk scene. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-corrupted-youth-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-corrupted-youth-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-corrupted-youth.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-corrupted-youth-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-corrupted-youth-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The band Corrupted Youth, a linchpin in the East and South L.A. backyard punk scene. \u003ccite>(Angela Boatwright)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“Los Punks: We Are All We Have” screens at \u003c/em>\u003cem>San Francisco Doc Fest \u003c/em>\u003cem>Sunday June 12 and Wednesday June 15 at the Roxie Theatre. The film is also available for download now on iTunes.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also among the expansive cast of characters who turn up in Angela Boatwright’s documentary, “\u003ca href=\"http://lospunksfilm.com/\">Los Punks: We Are All We Have.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10985505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/BillyFamine-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Billy Famine (R) with fellow members of band Withdrawal Symptoms.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10985505\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/BillyFamine-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/BillyFamine-400x265.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/BillyFamine.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/BillyFamine-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/BillyFamine-960x636.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Billy Famine (R) with fellow members of band Withdrawal Symptoms. \u003ccite>(Photo: Angela Boatwright)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was so excited by the music and by the fact they’re playing on like dirt hills and backyards and drummers sitting on lawn chairs,” says Boatwright, herself a veteran of punk and metal scenes on the East Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her crew spent about four years embedded in the East and South Central L.A. punk scene and befriending the people who propel it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have the balls to strap on a guitar and go out there and play for people anywhere, then more power to you because I’m not doing it. Just get your noise out and play. That’s the first step,” says Boatwright.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10985508\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PunkRockGirls-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A group of young women at a backyard show in L.A.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10985508\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PunkRockGirls-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PunkRockGirls-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PunkRockGirls.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PunkRockGirls-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PunkRockGirls-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of young women at a backyard show in L.A. \u003ccite>(Photo: Angela Boatwright)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a way to have a voice and communicate and to go out and play backyard. And you might get $30 for gas and there’s a lot of heart, a lot of passion, so to me that felt important and valid and vital,” says the director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film depicts a scrappy, off-the-grid music underworld, one that doesn’t rely on record labels, conventional venues or established promoters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10985172\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10985172\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKX-cxa-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The band CXA and fans live at backyard show. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKX-cxa-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKX-cxa-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKX-cxa.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKX-cxa-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKX-cxa-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The band CXA and fans live at backyard show. \u003ccite>(Angela Boatwright)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A sprawling dirt backyard in a gritty working-class Latino enclave like Monterey Park or Boyle Heights will do. News of a show spreads via social media and word of mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Los Punks” introduces us to kids like April, a 15-year-old backyard show promoter from the south L.A. community of Watts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m 15,” giggles April in the film. “I’m probably like the only one’s that’s like young in the scene.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her age may set her apart, but April shares a lot with her contemporaries in the scene: a conflicted home life, working-class background and living in a community rife with grinding poverty and street violence. But “Los Punks” also captures a fierce DIY, entrepreneurial spirit and a commitment to the scene and the larger community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So who would let a young kid like Amy transform their dusty backyard into a churning mosh pit for two or three hours on a Saturday night?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10985174\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10985174\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-April-bandana-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"April, a teenage show promoter from Watts who is profiled in Los Punks. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-April-bandana.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-April-bandana-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">April, a teenage show promoter from Watts who is profiled in ‘Los Punks.’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Billy Famine says most times it’s just regular people. Working moms and dads, migrant families from Mexico or Nicaragua.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And someone’s like, ‘Hey, would you like to make some money on the side, because you have a nice backyard. We’re going to give you a cut and hopefully everything goes well,’ ” explains Famine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But there are times the house owners are just like; wait, what? This is what you were planning? Was I supposed to tell my neighbors this was going to happen because I think they’re gonna call the cops!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10985176\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10985176\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-on-knees-PTSD-live-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Rooster Cabrillo (on knees) performing with his now-defunct band PTSD. \" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-on-knees-PTSD-live-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-on-knees-PTSD-live-400x265.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-on-knees-PTSD-live.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-on-knees-PTSD-live-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-on-knees-PTSD-live-960x637.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rooster Cabrillo (on knees) performing with his now-defunct band PTSD. \u003ccite>(Angela Boatwright)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Shows rarely tip past 11 p.m. or midnight. But run-ins with neighbors do happen. “Los Punks” captures all of it. Most times, though, the neighbors are pretty cool, says Rooster Cabrillo, vocalist of the band \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/freedombombs123/info/?tab=page_info\">PTSD. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had this lady and she didn’t speak any English. And she’s like, well I just don’t want them sitting on the side because they knocking bottles over,” recalls Cabrillo. “You guys can have your party, I just really don’t really want to call the cops because I’m afraid of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cabrillo is in his early 20s. He was born in Sinaloa, Mexico. He crossed into the U.S. with his parents without papers when he was a child. He’s also gay. Writing and performing music, he says, helped him come out — not just as gay and undocumented but also as an advocate for his community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of our songs have to do with mental illness, drug abuse. We even have a song about being queer. I’m queer and undocumented, and so our environments can really mess with our heads,” says Cabrillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10985179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10985179\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-close-up-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"PTSD vocalist Rooster Cabrillo in performance makeup. \" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-close-up-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-close-up-400x265.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-close-up.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-close-up-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-close-up-960x637.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PTSD vocalist Rooster Cabrillo in performance makeup. \u003ccite>(Angela Boatwright)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Director Boatwright reveals who these young people are the morning after a show; struggles with parents, unemployment, mental health or substance abuse, and how they can find a way forward within the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A million things that can make you angry as young person, you can find solace in punk, hardcore or metal or whatever you like,” says Boatwright. “So I prefer to let the punk explain where they are coming from themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting just a few feet away from Boatwright during this interview, Rooster Cabrillo hesitantly expresses some apprehension over the film, financed, by Orange County-based apparel and lifestyle company \u003ca href=\"http://livingoffthewall.vans.com/angela-boatwright/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vans.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a huge problem with gentrification in Boyle Heights right now,” explains Cabrillo. “There’s a lot of folks that love making movies that are from East L.A., who go to backyard shows, and it would have been cool to see them get an opportunity to tell that story for themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10985182\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10985182\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-pit-slam-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A moshpit in full force at backyard punk show somewhere in L.A. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-pit-slam-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-pit-slam-1-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-pit-slam-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-pit-slam-1-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-pit-slam-1-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mosh pit in full force at backyard punk show somewhere in L.A.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Boatwright says she’s aware of some of the grumbling over the film within the scene, but believes “Los Punks” can actually help open up discussions of issues like gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The positive thing that I see coming out of this is that there are some really important discussions being started because of this,” says Boatwright. “And I think if that benefits them to have those dialogues and to better their community, I think that’s great. Then my job has been done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with more scrutiny from the “outside” world, the scene is unlikely to diminish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one telling scene from the movie, the cops break up a backyard show after calls of an alleged stabbing, which turned out to be false. But the kids and the bands were sent packing anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within minutes though, the text messages are flying back and forth. Another backyard is secured at 83\u003csup>rd\u003c/sup> and San Pedro. Gear is hauled off to the new location and the blast of music resumes, roaring up and out over the rooftops of South L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10985181\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10985181 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-corrupted-youth-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"he band Corrupted Youth, a lynchpin in the East and South L.A. backyard punk scene. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-corrupted-youth-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-corrupted-youth-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-corrupted-youth.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-corrupted-youth-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-corrupted-youth-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The band Corrupted Youth, a linchpin in the East and South L.A. backyard punk scene. \u003ccite>(Angela Boatwright)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Every April, the townspeople of Lindsay pack the pews of a local church, as fathers in cowboy boots proudly escort their daughters down the aisle. They’re the college-bound young women elected as the Orange Blossom Festival Queen and her court. This year, they’re all young women of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Queen \u003ca href=\"http://www.recorderonline.com/news/angela-bola-os-named-obf-queen/article_3e5a3d54-f634-11e5-8200-477fe1b58de5.htm\">Angela Bolaños\u003c/a> says that’s a sea change from a time when the royal court was almost always made up of white farmers’ daughters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It says a lot. The Latina presence is growing stronger. We just all want to make ourselves heard,” Bolaños says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/260193168″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor of Lindsay, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/23/latinos-majority-in-small-farm-town-but-will-their-political-influence-wane-if-young-people-dont-vote\">Ramona Padilla\u003c/a>, is also, for the first time, a Latina. She reads a decree officially proclaiming this year’s 84th annual Orange Blossom Festival, to celebrate the role of the citrus industry in this farm town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, across town, 19-year-old Amy Huerta leads a troupe of more than a dozen kids twirling brightly colored skirts and stamping their feet. They’re practicing a Ballet Folklorico routine for the Orange Blossom Parade on April 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid all the festivities, Amy and the mayor have an important date during Orange Blossom week: They’re going to meet up to talk about voting. Padilla called a meeting after hearing in my \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/24/central-valley-teen-is-familys-only-vote-but-will-she-cast-a-ballot\">previous radio stories \u003c/a>about young people who aren’t interested in voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10933874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10933874\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithYoungWomen-800x577.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor Ramona Padilla (C) meets with young women in Lindsay, to urge them to vote.\" width=\"800\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithYoungWomen-800x577.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithYoungWomen-400x288.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithYoungWomen.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithYoungWomen-1180x851.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithYoungWomen-960x692.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Ramona Padilla (C) meets with young women in Lindsay, to urge them to vote. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Four young women I’ve been interviewing over the last few months join Padilla in Lindsay’s downtown plaza, modeled after a zocalo, or town square in Mexico. They’re all dressed up to meet the mayor, and are a little nervous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pressure From the Mayor\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla starts by grilling Amy. She’s the only one who’s eligible to vote in her family. Everyone else is undocumented or too young to cast a ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was listening to your story, I heard that you weren’t sure if you were going to vote,” she tells Amy. “Do you feel pressured that you’re the only one that can vote at this time?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does feel like a little pressure,” Amy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”UhFYIanX0UYtYhsbyma9YgX2IwXq9esF”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, after an election, if her parents don’t like the way prices are going up, or certain laws that have been passed, they get after her about voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This election, you got to make a change,” Amy says her parents tell her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(Because) whoever got elected last year is messing up. Now you got to vote for what we need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Amy’s never felt like voting really has anything to do with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now she’s had me interview her multiple times about voting, and the mayor requested a private meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a town of 12,000, every vote is needed,” Padilla tells her. “When you don’t vote, you take your voice away. So does that make sense?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor then turns to Cassandra Baca, a single mom who has brought along her 1-year old daughter, Amoriee. We met her in an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/23/latinos-majority-in-small-farm-town-but-will-their-political-influence-wane-if-young-people-dont-vote\">earlier radio story\u003c/a>, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10933987\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10933987\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithBaca-800x667.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor Ramona Padilla, Cassandra Baca, and her 1-year-old daughter, Amoriee.\" width=\"800\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithBaca-800x667.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithBaca-400x333.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithBaca.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithBaca-1180x983.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithBaca-960x800.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Ramona Padilla, Cassandra Baca, and her 1-year-old daughter, Amoriee. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When you got your driver’s license, did you not register to vote?” asks the mayor. “No,” says Cassandra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How can I help you get registered to vote?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know,” says Cassandra, bouncing her baby on her knee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor explains that she can go to a post office and pick up a registration form. She’ll even do it for her. The mayor says she can tell by Cassandra’s body language that she might be interested in registering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a surprise to me, because all the times I’ve talked to Cassandra over the last few months, she didn’t seem like voting was even on her radar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she tells me that after our interview, she started paying closer attention to the presidential race. She says Donald Trump’s incendiary comments about immigrants have pushed her over the edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s pretty much enough to get me to vote,” says Cassandra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Makings of a New Voter\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Amy’s case, she’s had a lot of pressure from her brother, a community activist who is undocumented. He really wants his sister to vote on behalf of their family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Amy says she’s coming around to his point of view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I looked at each of the (presidential) candidates, and I was like, ‘This year, it’s different.’ Now you have a Hillary, you have a woman. You have Ted Cruz, a Latino,” Amy says. “Then you have Donald Trump and Bernie. So now you have a different combination. Now it caught my attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What if I voted for Hillary, what would she do for me, as a woman? What if I elect Ted Cruz? What would he do for Latinos? It’s just more the presidential election having all this different variety now. It’s not just white men.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla is watching Amy’s expression carefully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”lcON4Hrj4DMEvE5mDWK6Oib7dMZroHKk”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s recognizing a lot of reasons why if she didn’t vote, what could happen,” Padilla says. “I think, just looking at her, it appears to me that she wants to make a difference, too, and she probably now really feels that her vote is going to matter, it’s going to count.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No pressure, or anything, having the mayor of your town tell you she knows you’re going to do it. And a statewide public radio audience waiting to find out if you’ll cast a ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Amy says she’s made up her mind on her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think I will vote this time. Not only for me, not only for my family, but you know, for the community of Lindsay, for those who don’t vote,” says Amy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can count on me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m so happy to hear that, and you just make my heart swell,” says Padilla, who gives Amy a high-five and then takes a round of selfies with all the girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramona Padilla says she hopes that she can work herself out of a job and open up a space for young Latinas like Amy and Cassandra on the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope you could become Latina mayors someday, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the first step is to make sure these young voters make it to Lindsay’s one polling place in June, or remember to send their ballot in by mail, on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Counts is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what’s important to the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2016 KQED. To see more election coverage, visit \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/election2016\">kqed.org/election2016.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Padilla called a meeting after hearing in my \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/24/central-valley-teen-is-familys-only-vote-but-will-she-cast-a-ballot\">previous radio stories \u003c/a>about young people who aren’t interested in voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10933874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10933874\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithYoungWomen-800x577.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor Ramona Padilla (C) meets with young women in Lindsay, to urge them to vote.\" width=\"800\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithYoungWomen-800x577.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithYoungWomen-400x288.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithYoungWomen.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithYoungWomen-1180x851.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithYoungWomen-960x692.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Ramona Padilla (C) meets with young women in Lindsay, to urge them to vote. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Four young women I’ve been interviewing over the last few months join Padilla in Lindsay’s downtown plaza, modeled after a zocalo, or town square in Mexico. They’re all dressed up to meet the mayor, and are a little nervous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pressure From the Mayor\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla starts by grilling Amy. She’s the only one who’s eligible to vote in her family. Everyone else is undocumented or too young to cast a ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was listening to your story, I heard that you weren’t sure if you were going to vote,” she tells Amy. “Do you feel pressured that you’re the only one that can vote at this time?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does feel like a little pressure,” Amy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, after an election, if her parents don’t like the way prices are going up, or certain laws that have been passed, they get after her about voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This election, you got to make a change,” Amy says her parents tell her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(Because) whoever got elected last year is messing up. Now you got to vote for what we need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Amy’s never felt like voting really has anything to do with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now she’s had me interview her multiple times about voting, and the mayor requested a private meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a town of 12,000, every vote is needed,” Padilla tells her. “When you don’t vote, you take your voice away. So does that make sense?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor then turns to Cassandra Baca, a single mom who has brought along her 1-year old daughter, Amoriee. We met her in an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/23/latinos-majority-in-small-farm-town-but-will-their-political-influence-wane-if-young-people-dont-vote\">earlier radio story\u003c/a>, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10933987\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10933987\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithBaca-800x667.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor Ramona Padilla, Cassandra Baca, and her 1-year-old daughter, Amoriee.\" width=\"800\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithBaca-800x667.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithBaca-400x333.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithBaca.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithBaca-1180x983.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithBaca-960x800.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Ramona Padilla, Cassandra Baca, and her 1-year-old daughter, Amoriee. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When you got your driver’s license, did you not register to vote?” asks the mayor. “No,” says Cassandra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How can I help you get registered to vote?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know,” says Cassandra, bouncing her baby on her knee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor explains that she can go to a post office and pick up a registration form. She’ll even do it for her. The mayor says she can tell by Cassandra’s body language that she might be interested in registering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a surprise to me, because all the times I’ve talked to Cassandra over the last few months, she didn’t seem like voting was even on her radar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she tells me that after our interview, she started paying closer attention to the presidential race. She says Donald Trump’s incendiary comments about immigrants have pushed her over the edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s pretty much enough to get me to vote,” says Cassandra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Makings of a New Voter\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Amy’s case, she’s had a lot of pressure from her brother, a community activist who is undocumented. He really wants his sister to vote on behalf of their family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Amy says she’s coming around to his point of view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I looked at each of the (presidential) candidates, and I was like, ‘This year, it’s different.’ Now you have a Hillary, you have a woman. You have Ted Cruz, a Latino,” Amy says. “Then you have Donald Trump and Bernie. So now you have a different combination. Now it caught my attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What if I voted for Hillary, what would she do for me, as a woman? What if I elect Ted Cruz? What would he do for Latinos? It’s just more the presidential election having all this different variety now. It’s not just white men.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla is watching Amy’s expression carefully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s recognizing a lot of reasons why if she didn’t vote, what could happen,” Padilla says. “I think, just looking at her, it appears to me that she wants to make a difference, too, and she probably now really feels that her vote is going to matter, it’s going to count.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No pressure, or anything, having the mayor of your town tell you she knows you’re going to do it. And a statewide public radio audience waiting to find out if you’ll cast a ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Amy says she’s made up her mind on her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think I will vote this time. Not only for me, not only for my family, but you know, for the community of Lindsay, for those who don’t vote,” says Amy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can count on me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m so happy to hear that, and you just make my heart swell,” says Padilla, who gives Amy a high-five and then takes a round of selfies with all the girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramona Padilla says she hopes that she can work herself out of a job and open up a space for young Latinas like Amy and Cassandra on the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope you could become Latina mayors someday, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the first step is to make sure these young voters make it to Lindsay’s one polling place in June, or remember to send their ballot in by mail, on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Counts is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. 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"content": "\u003cp>Nothing has come easily to Gustavo Bedolla. And when you walk into his hair salon in downtown San Jose, it’s clear he has worked hard to develop “Bedolla” into a thriving business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every patron gets his undivided attention, whether it’s for stripping the blue dye out of an 8-year-old girl’s hair or advising a woman on why it’s best to stop being a serial shampoo consumer. And the man can take a mop of wet hair and make it look like a volcano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The higher the hair, the closer to God,” joked 32-year-old Bedolla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bedolla’s easy laugh belies a life filled with struggle after coming to San Jose from Michoacan, Mexico, when he was 15. He stopped going to school the minute he got here and started working as a cook in a retirement home before moving on to become a home construction worker and a painter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/257480546″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to focus on work. I wanted to go to school, but unfortunately it was work because my family needed the money,” said Bedolla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually he went to San Jose City College to learn English and to beauty school to become a hair stylist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bedolla said his proudest accomplishment will be voting for the first time in this year’s presidential election after becoming a U.S. citizen in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He won’t be \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewhispanic.org/fact-sheets/2016-state-election-fact-sheets/latinos-in-the-2016-election-california/\">one of the more than \u003c/a>2 million Latinos in California who are eligible to vote but don’t bother to register. According to\u003ca href=\"http://www.pewhispanic.org/2016/01/19/millennials-make-up-almost-half-of-latino-eligible-voters-in-2016/\"> Pew Hispanic Research Center, \u003c/a>millennials — those 35 and younger like Bedolla — make up almost half of Latino eligible voters. And Bedolla wants to help stop Republican front-runner Donald Trump, who created an international controversy after calling Mexican immigrants rapists and drug runners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10919875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10919875\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Bedolla-800x548.jpg\" alt=\"Gustavo Bedolla at work in his San Jose hair salon. He’ll vote for the first time this election, and he wants more Latinos to do the same. \" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Bedolla-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Bedolla-400x274.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Bedolla.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Bedolla-1180x808.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Bedolla-960x657.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gustavo Bedolla at work in his San Jose hair salon. He’ll vote for the first time this election, and he wants more Latinos to do the same. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bedolla calls Trump’s remarks about Mexican immigrants highly insulting — but also motivating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These Americans [who support him] don’t have any idea what it’s like to struggle and come to this country for a better opportunity,” said Bedolla. “It’s not only emotionally shocking but it’s very hurtful because we leave everything — not that we want to but because we have to. We have nothing there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Bedolla is somewhat frustrated with his 55-year-old father, who won’t be able to vote because he has not become a U.S. citizen. Like many older longtime permanent residents from Mexico, Bedolla’s father is afraid he can’t pass the citizenship test.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Not since Proposition 187 has the Latino population been so directly attacked by a political system, political in this case a candidate.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“He doesn’t speak the [English] language, so for him it’s really difficult,” Bedolla said. “You have to memorize 100 questions for the citizenship test but you only get asked 10. He cannot read and write the language.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offers English-language exemptions for people who are 50 or older and have lived as a permanent resident in the United States for 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s too late for Bedolla’s father to vote in the 2016 presidential election because of the lengthy process to become a citizen. But around the state there’s a major push by activists and campaigns to mobilize, educate and register the millions of other Latino voters who are citizens but don’t vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not since Proposition 187 has the Latino population been so directly attacked by a political system, political in this case a candidate,” said Rolando Bonilla, a political strategist for Voler Strategic Advisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-politics-of-proposition-187-in-one-chart-20140617-story.html\">Proposition 187 \u003c/a>was a 1994 California ballot measure aimed at preventing undocumented immigrants from using public education, health care and other services. After the election there was a two-year surge in Latino voter registration. But then the registration uptick stalled, said Mike Madrid, a Republican consultant who specializes in Latino voting trends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of that growth is not as significant as we would like, keeping in mind Latinos are the largest ethnic plurality in California but also have the lowest rate of participation of any major ethnic group in the state as well,” said Madrid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Latinos who don’t vote live below the federal poverty line. Bonilla said to motivate them, campaigns need to break through the mind-set that there’s nothing in it for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”EbXAtZUZjiWu03MkIIRegKwkFoA7yhzX”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That thinking of, ‘Look, I’ve got to work, I’ve got the two or three jobs, I don’t necessarily see the direct impact to me. As long as I keep my head down, do the work, I can feed my kids, pay the mortgage, I’m OK,’ ” said Bonilla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latino voter registration is increasing in California but it’s too early to tell if this year’s presidential campaign will be the tipping point for Latino political activism. Political consultants said campaigns need to focus on local issues — a speed bump on voters’ busy streets or charter schools — that potential Latino voters can connect with because those issues affect their everyday lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last 20 years, most conventional wisdom has been that Latino issues tend to involve immigration reform, farmworkers or driver’s licenses for the undocumented, said Madrid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vast majority of Latinos in California are not even undocumented,” said Madrid. “Those are not the issues that cause concern over the dinner table at night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ignoring local issues while acting as if immigration and driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants are the only issues that matter to Latinos amounts to what some in the community call “His-pandering” — pandering to Hispanic voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonilla said campaigns need to do a much better job of walking Latino voters through what’s in it for them if they vote, or they won’t register or vote. Slick mail pieces for the masses, he said, will accomplish nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s totally OK to want to do something for personal benefit,” said Bonilla. “We want to understand what Latino voters want and we still haven’t had that conversation yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who’s considering a run for governor in 2018, believes investments need to be made to increase Latino voting and political involvement. He said it costs money to register and educate voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those citizens need to be targeted to a greater degree,” said Villaraigosa. “What we tend to do during elections is focus on the people who vote all the time. I had a historic election [mayor’s race] and one of the highest turnout rates and it was only 35 percent. That’s pathetic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10919878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10919878\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Gomez-800x558.jpg\" alt=\"Longtime Univision 14 anchor Maria Leticia Gomez has a strong connection with viewers after emigrating from Argentina. She encourages viewers to vote and visits high schools promoting registration. \" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Gomez-800x558.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Gomez-400x279.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Gomez.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Gomez-1180x822.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Gomez-960x669.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longtime Univision 14 anchor Maria Leticia Gomez has a strong connection with viewers after emigrating from Argentina. She encourages viewers to vote and visits high schools promoting registration. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Spanish-language network \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/us/politics/univision-hispanic-voting.html?_r=0\">Univision\u003c/a> is trying to help by rolling out a nonpartisan social media campaign and traditional public service announcements on how to register.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria Leticia Gomez — a longtime news anchor for Univision’s Bay area station KDTV — emigrated from Argentina and said she connects with viewers on the importance of voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Broadcasters in Spanish language are part of the family of the viewers. They consider us part of their family because we have a shared experience,” said Gomez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like all networks, Trump has been a main point of coverage on Univision this election season. Bonilla said that coverage should be effective, coupled with the network driving the idea of registering Latinos to vote “to have a say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, it’s my 84-year-old grandmother watching Univision who is going to make the decision who that next president is going to be or not,” said Bonilla. “And if we forget that and we’re not having those granular conversations and connections with the electorate, that’s often the time candidates get in trouble.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And Bedolla wants to help stop Republican front-runner Donald Trump, who created an international controversy after calling Mexican immigrants rapists and drug runners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10919875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10919875\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Bedolla-800x548.jpg\" alt=\"Gustavo Bedolla at work in his San Jose hair salon. He’ll vote for the first time this election, and he wants more Latinos to do the same. \" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Bedolla-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Bedolla-400x274.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Bedolla.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Bedolla-1180x808.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Bedolla-960x657.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gustavo Bedolla at work in his San Jose hair salon. He’ll vote for the first time this election, and he wants more Latinos to do the same. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bedolla calls Trump’s remarks about Mexican immigrants highly insulting — but also motivating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These Americans [who support him] don’t have any idea what it’s like to struggle and come to this country for a better opportunity,” said Bedolla. “It’s not only emotionally shocking but it’s very hurtful because we leave everything — not that we want to but because we have to. We have nothing there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Bedolla is somewhat frustrated with his 55-year-old father, who won’t be able to vote because he has not become a U.S. citizen. Like many older longtime permanent residents from Mexico, Bedolla’s father is afraid he can’t pass the citizenship test.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Not since Proposition 187 has the Latino population been so directly attacked by a political system, political in this case a candidate.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“He doesn’t speak the [English] language, so for him it’s really difficult,” Bedolla said. “You have to memorize 100 questions for the citizenship test but you only get asked 10. He cannot read and write the language.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offers English-language exemptions for people who are 50 or older and have lived as a permanent resident in the United States for 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s too late for Bedolla’s father to vote in the 2016 presidential election because of the lengthy process to become a citizen. But around the state there’s a major push by activists and campaigns to mobilize, educate and register the millions of other Latino voters who are citizens but don’t vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not since Proposition 187 has the Latino population been so directly attacked by a political system, political in this case a candidate,” said Rolando Bonilla, a political strategist for Voler Strategic Advisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-politics-of-proposition-187-in-one-chart-20140617-story.html\">Proposition 187 \u003c/a>was a 1994 California ballot measure aimed at preventing undocumented immigrants from using public education, health care and other services. After the election there was a two-year surge in Latino voter registration. But then the registration uptick stalled, said Mike Madrid, a Republican consultant who specializes in Latino voting trends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of that growth is not as significant as we would like, keeping in mind Latinos are the largest ethnic plurality in California but also have the lowest rate of participation of any major ethnic group in the state as well,” said Madrid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Latinos who don’t vote live below the federal poverty line. Bonilla said to motivate them, campaigns need to break through the mind-set that there’s nothing in it for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That thinking of, ‘Look, I’ve got to work, I’ve got the two or three jobs, I don’t necessarily see the direct impact to me. As long as I keep my head down, do the work, I can feed my kids, pay the mortgage, I’m OK,’ ” said Bonilla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latino voter registration is increasing in California but it’s too early to tell if this year’s presidential campaign will be the tipping point for Latino political activism. Political consultants said campaigns need to focus on local issues — a speed bump on voters’ busy streets or charter schools — that potential Latino voters can connect with because those issues affect their everyday lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last 20 years, most conventional wisdom has been that Latino issues tend to involve immigration reform, farmworkers or driver’s licenses for the undocumented, said Madrid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vast majority of Latinos in California are not even undocumented,” said Madrid. “Those are not the issues that cause concern over the dinner table at night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ignoring local issues while acting as if immigration and driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants are the only issues that matter to Latinos amounts to what some in the community call “His-pandering” — pandering to Hispanic voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonilla said campaigns need to do a much better job of walking Latino voters through what’s in it for them if they vote, or they won’t register or vote. Slick mail pieces for the masses, he said, will accomplish nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s totally OK to want to do something for personal benefit,” said Bonilla. “We want to understand what Latino voters want and we still haven’t had that conversation yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who’s considering a run for governor in 2018, believes investments need to be made to increase Latino voting and political involvement. He said it costs money to register and educate voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those citizens need to be targeted to a greater degree,” said Villaraigosa. “What we tend to do during elections is focus on the people who vote all the time. I had a historic election [mayor’s race] and one of the highest turnout rates and it was only 35 percent. That’s pathetic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10919878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10919878\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Gomez-800x558.jpg\" alt=\"Longtime Univision 14 anchor Maria Leticia Gomez has a strong connection with viewers after emigrating from Argentina. She encourages viewers to vote and visits high schools promoting registration. \" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Gomez-800x558.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Gomez-400x279.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Gomez.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Gomez-1180x822.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Gomez-960x669.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longtime Univision 14 anchor Maria Leticia Gomez has a strong connection with viewers after emigrating from Argentina. 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"content": "\u003cp>It’s lunchtime in Watts, and Norma Salas and others have gathered in a home on Juniper Street to enjoy homemade tostadas and talk about a problem that’s growing more critical as California’s June 7 primary draws closer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue: \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/02/03/57155/california-counts-demographics-changing-in-watts-b/\">Few people vote\u003c/a> in this South Los Angeles neighborhood, and as the community grapples with high crime rates, poverty and unemployment, community activists wonder how these problems will get solved when so many feel disengaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/256481992″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A mother of four, Salas worries daily about keeping her kids safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying really hard to keep control of our lives, but all these politicians are the people who make decisions,” she said. “So we have to, if we want it to go our way, we have to speak up. And so if we do not vote then it’s not going to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As get-out-the-vote efforts ramp up in California ahead of the primary election, the influence of women, even those who like Salas can’t cast a ballot, could prove key in fulfilling the promise of the Latino vote this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10913478\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10913478\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119568-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Norma Salas (L) talks with Keshia Mills at a home in Watts where a lunch discussion focused on voting on Feb. 10, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119568-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119568-full-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119568-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119568-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Norma Salas (L) talks with Keshia Mills at a home in Watts where a lunch discussion focused on voting on Feb. 10, 2016. \u003ccite>(Dan Tuffs/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With over 6.9 million eligible Latino voters in the state, their collective influence could be substantial if participation is high. Low turnout in the past in communities like Watts, however, has blunted their political standing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fewer than 17 percent of Latinos voted in most of Watts’ precincts during the 2014 general election. That’s about 5 percentage points lower than the total population’s turnout in most areas of Watts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Resident Mery Alvarez said she feels like politicians have left Watts behind. She’d like to see more of them reach out to residents and provide civic education to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mobilizing the Vote\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the women chatting over lunch here are Latina mothers and, although some are ineligible to vote since they’re not U.S. citizens, they are a secret weapon of sorts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They care about Watts deeply and they’re telling their family members why voting matters, and in some cases, who and what they should vote for.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">It’s not celebrities nor community leaders who are best at convincing citizens to vote, but rather family members.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Leticia Martinez pays attention to the newspapers and candidates, but she can’t vote. Her husband, who can vote, doesn’t read up on the candidates or the issues. “When it’s time to vote, I tell him, ‘This is who you’re going to vote for,'” she said, speaking in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Latino families, such influence is not unusual, according to Angelica Peña, California deputy director of civic engagement for the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://www.naleo.org/\">National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Education Fund\u003c/a> (NALEO).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we asked which family members folks felt would be best to engage them, we heard a lot of responses that were female — so my mother, my grandmother, my sister,” Peña said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peña calls these people the “messengers,” those most likely to motivate other Latinos to get out and vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s this misconception that there’s apathy among our community members and that people don’t want to vote because they just don’t care. And that’s actually untrue,” she said. “It’s not for a lack of interest or not understanding the importance of an election but just the feeling like they couldn’t relate to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10913477\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10913477\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119577-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Leticia Martinez attends a discussion on the upcoming 2016 elections in Watts on Feb. 10, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119577-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119577-full-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119577-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119577-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leticia Martinez attends a discussion on the upcoming 2016 elections in Watts on Feb. 10, 2016. \u003ccite>(Dan Tuffs/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>NALEO conducted research in 2014 to uncover what practices proved most effective in mobilizing Latino voters. The group found that it’s not celebrities nor community leaders who are best at convincing citizens to vote, but rather family members, including the women closest to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside Peña’s NALEO office recently, about a dozen workers were busy answering phone calls at the group’s call center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, the desks will be filled with phone canvassers working the phones to get out the vote as part of a nonpartisan campaign. They will be putting the insights from NALEO’s voter research to the test, refining exactly who and what message works best to get Latinos to cast their ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One longtime hotline worker is Lillian Meza. A mother and a messenger herself, Meza regularly encourages others to register to vote, jumping on social media platforms like Facebook to spread the word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”jCzWtNlvyfbJl7rTT6qmajqvT32yQFHQ”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meza has even done this work within her own family. She recently convinced her 19 and 21-year-old daughters to register to vote. This year will be the first time they’ll participate in a presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here in California we have online registration. So their morning breakfast, [I ask] did you register to vote already. Did you register to vote already? It only takes five minutes online,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meza’s oldest daughter, Shirley Guzman, said in hindsight, she’s glad her mother pressed her to register.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She would bring it up every single time,” she said. “It was almost frustrating, but we understood like the importance of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Meza, she said she doesn’t care who her daughters pick in the upcoming presidential election, just as long as they vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2015 KPCC. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As get-out-the-vote efforts ramp up in California ahead of the primary election, the influence of women, even those who like Salas can’t cast a ballot, could prove key in fulfilling the promise of the Latino vote this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10913478\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10913478\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119568-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Norma Salas (L) talks with Keshia Mills at a home in Watts where a lunch discussion focused on voting on Feb. 10, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119568-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119568-full-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119568-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119568-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Norma Salas (L) talks with Keshia Mills at a home in Watts where a lunch discussion focused on voting on Feb. 10, 2016. \u003ccite>(Dan Tuffs/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With over 6.9 million eligible Latino voters in the state, their collective influence could be substantial if participation is high. Low turnout in the past in communities like Watts, however, has blunted their political standing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fewer than 17 percent of Latinos voted in most of Watts’ precincts during the 2014 general election. That’s about 5 percentage points lower than the total population’s turnout in most areas of Watts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Resident Mery Alvarez said she feels like politicians have left Watts behind. She’d like to see more of them reach out to residents and provide civic education to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mobilizing the Vote\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the women chatting over lunch here are Latina mothers and, although some are ineligible to vote since they’re not U.S. citizens, they are a secret weapon of sorts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They care about Watts deeply and they’re telling their family members why voting matters, and in some cases, who and what they should vote for.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">It’s not celebrities nor community leaders who are best at convincing citizens to vote, but rather family members.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Leticia Martinez pays attention to the newspapers and candidates, but she can’t vote. Her husband, who can vote, doesn’t read up on the candidates or the issues. “When it’s time to vote, I tell him, ‘This is who you’re going to vote for,'” she said, speaking in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Latino families, such influence is not unusual, according to Angelica Peña, California deputy director of civic engagement for the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://www.naleo.org/\">National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Education Fund\u003c/a> (NALEO).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we asked which family members folks felt would be best to engage them, we heard a lot of responses that were female — so my mother, my grandmother, my sister,” Peña said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peña calls these people the “messengers,” those most likely to motivate other Latinos to get out and vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s this misconception that there’s apathy among our community members and that people don’t want to vote because they just don’t care. And that’s actually untrue,” she said. “It’s not for a lack of interest or not understanding the importance of an election but just the feeling like they couldn’t relate to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10913477\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10913477\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119577-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Leticia Martinez attends a discussion on the upcoming 2016 elections in Watts on Feb. 10, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119577-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119577-full-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119577-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119577-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leticia Martinez attends a discussion on the upcoming 2016 elections in Watts on Feb. 10, 2016. \u003ccite>(Dan Tuffs/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>NALEO conducted research in 2014 to uncover what practices proved most effective in mobilizing Latino voters. The group found that it’s not celebrities nor community leaders who are best at convincing citizens to vote, but rather family members, including the women closest to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside Peña’s NALEO office recently, about a dozen workers were busy answering phone calls at the group’s call center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, the desks will be filled with phone canvassers working the phones to get out the vote as part of a nonpartisan campaign. They will be putting the insights from NALEO’s voter research to the test, refining exactly who and what message works best to get Latinos to cast their ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One longtime hotline worker is Lillian Meza. A mother and a messenger herself, Meza regularly encourages others to register to vote, jumping on social media platforms like Facebook to spread the word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meza has even done this work within her own family. She recently convinced her 19 and 21-year-old daughters to register to vote. This year will be the first time they’ll participate in a presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here in California we have online registration. So their morning breakfast, [I ask] did you register to vote already. Did you register to vote already? It only takes five minutes online,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meza’s oldest daughter, Shirley Guzman, said in hindsight, she’s glad her mother pressed her to register.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She would bring it up every single time,” she said. “It was almost frustrating, but we understood like the importance of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Meza, she said she doesn’t care who her daughters pick in the upcoming presidential election, just as long as they vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2015 KPCC. To see more election coverage, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KPCC.org\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Counts is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what’s important to the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When we \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/24/central-valley-teen-is-familys-only-vote-but-will-she-cast-a-ballot\">last visited the Central Valley farm town of Lindsay\u003c/a>, Amy Huerta and her brother, Luis, were in the middle of a pretty intense dinnertime conversation about voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, these are things that matter,” says Luis, who can’t vote because he’s undocumented. Amy is 18, and she could be the first in her family to vote, so he’s putting a lot of pressure on her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t always take his side,” laughs Amy. “I don’t always do what he tells me to do, because we both have different minds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/255017454″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other potential young voters in Lindsay come from families where politics are not a main course during family dinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘It Doesn’t Matter If I Vote or Not’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across town from the Huerta household, 22-year-old Cassandra Baca’s daughter, Amoriee, just woke up from a nap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baca says she hasn’t really thought at all about voting. She’s got enough on her plate as a single mom with a baby. She works as a kitchen assistant in a facility for senior citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t matter if I vote or not. I don’t think it would count. It really doesn’t have anything to do with me,” she says, as she tries to distract the baby by jangling her car keys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cassandra’s dad migrated from Mexico to work in the fields. After she got her GED, she picked fruit in the citrus orchards, too, climbing on top of the tall ladders and braving the thorny branches to pick lemons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905494\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-800x827.jpg\" alt=\"Cassandra Baca, 22, and her baby daughter, Amoriee. Baca says she's too busy as a working single mom to think about voting.\" width=\"800\" height=\"827\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10905494\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-800x827.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-400x414.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-1180x1220.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-960x993.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassandra Baca, 22, and her baby daughter, Amoriee. Baca says she’s too busy as a working single mom to think about voting. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for working in the fields?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was hard, but it was a lesson,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Was the lesson that she didn’t want to do it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, to do something better than working in the fields. It was a good experience to know you can work hard for your money, and that’s not an easy job,” she says. “A lot of Americans just sit around on their desk while immigrants are actually out here, from the dawn to when the sun goes down, working in the fields.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the only thing that’s caught her attention this election season has been Donald Trump’s message about immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the stuff he’s been saying about Mexicans,” says Baca. “If it wasn’t for the immigrants, we wouldn’t have any fruit or vegetables. So I think it’s pretty cruel for him to be out there doing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe, just maybe, she says, Trump might be enough to drive her to the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so far, no one has ever encouraged her to register to vote or to cast a ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that makes perfect sense,” says Lindsay’s first Latina mayor, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lindsay.ca.us/citygov/council/\">Ramona Villarreal-Padilla\u003c/a>. “If you’ve never heard why it’s important to vote, if you’ve never seen Latinos moving forward and being in office, if you’ve never seen or been exposed to that, how would one make that first move?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Latinos’ Hard-Won Political Power\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latinos make up more than 85 percent of Lindsay’s population. Padilla is in her 50s, and she says when she was growing up here, the town was mostly white, and controlled by white farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘If everybody thought voting wasn’t important, we wouldn’t be moving forward in the Latino movement.’\u003ccite>Mayor Ramona Villarreal-Padilla\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She says it’s taken a long time for Latinos to achieve a balance of power in local government. Now three out of the five members on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lindsay.ca.us/citygov/council/\">City Council\u003c/a> are Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she worries that the activism that helped sweep Latinos like her into power in Lindsay could be diminished by a generation of would-be voters who are less politically engaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If everybody thought voting wasn’t important, we wouldn’t be moving forward in the Latino movement, the Latino caucus, or anywhere you see that Latinos make a difference, because we are the majority,” says Padilla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla says her father marched with Cesar Chavez, and farmworkers were always stopping by their house for advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though my dad wasn’t on city council or anything, he was an activist for the people’s voice,” explains Padilla. “I think that’s the ethic and the legacy that I’m taking over from my father, still being a voice for here in the town where I was raised.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla says her dad, who had only a second-grade education, taught his 14 children the importance of voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t think it really mattered. But my dad, if he left anything for any of us to know, he says, ‘If you don’t vote, or don’t register to vote, then the government will take your voice away.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905499\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"Lindsay, California is a town of about 12,000 in the heart of the state's citrus farming belt in Tulare County.\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10905499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-800x503.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-400x251.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-1180x742.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-960x604.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lindsay, California is a town of about 12,000 in the heart of the state’s citrus farming belt in Tulare County. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like a lot of mayors from small towns and mid-size cities, Padilla is hardly a fat-cat politician. As mayor, she receives only a $75 stipend each month. Her day job is as a mental health clinician in the schools. She’s also working toward a Ph.D. in psychology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla takes me on a tour of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mcdermontfieldhouse.com/\">McDermont Field House\u003c/a>, a former citrus packinghouse that the city turned into 172,000-square-foot indoor sports complex. It’s got indoor soccer fields, the largest laser tag space in the world and an indoor wave rider where landlocked farm kids can hang ten on a man-made swell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was a project for Lindsay to be a fit city,” explains Padilla. “To improve engagement of youth in Lindsay, to have a place where they can come and not get themselves into trouble.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”TP90BZhO4e3Q1CC3ok1y0YzLetfcYjS7″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But trouble came nonetheless. Not from kids, but through alleged financial mismanagement by previous city leaders that has left Lindsay’s current administration trying to figure out to pay for the sports complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla says she’s trying to bring more transparency to the city and to get residents engaged. And that means all residents, including undocumented farmworkers who can’t vote. And their children, who can, but maybe don’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Amy Huerta. The mayor has a message for her:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Amy, I get the sense that you’re thinking that it might not make a difference whether you would vote,” Padilla says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d like to say to you that it does make a difference because I remember from Lindsay City Council, people won by one vote. That (one vote) could be you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Counts is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what’s important to the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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After she got her GED, she picked fruit in the citrus orchards, too, climbing on top of the tall ladders and braving the thorny branches to pick lemons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905494\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-800x827.jpg\" alt=\"Cassandra Baca, 22, and her baby daughter, Amoriee. Baca says she's too busy as a working single mom to think about voting.\" width=\"800\" height=\"827\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10905494\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-800x827.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-400x414.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-1180x1220.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-960x993.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassandra Baca, 22, and her baby daughter, Amoriee. Baca says she’s too busy as a working single mom to think about voting. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for working in the fields?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was hard, but it was a lesson,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Was the lesson that she didn’t want to do it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, to do something better than working in the fields. It was a good experience to know you can work hard for your money, and that’s not an easy job,” she says. “A lot of Americans just sit around on their desk while immigrants are actually out here, from the dawn to when the sun goes down, working in the fields.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the only thing that’s caught her attention this election season has been Donald Trump’s message about immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the stuff he’s been saying about Mexicans,” says Baca. “If it wasn’t for the immigrants, we wouldn’t have any fruit or vegetables. So I think it’s pretty cruel for him to be out there doing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe, just maybe, she says, Trump might be enough to drive her to the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so far, no one has ever encouraged her to register to vote or to cast a ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that makes perfect sense,” says Lindsay’s first Latina mayor, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lindsay.ca.us/citygov/council/\">Ramona Villarreal-Padilla\u003c/a>. “If you’ve never heard why it’s important to vote, if you’ve never seen Latinos moving forward and being in office, if you’ve never seen or been exposed to that, how would one make that first move?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Latinos’ Hard-Won Political Power\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latinos make up more than 85 percent of Lindsay’s population. Padilla is in her 50s, and she says when she was growing up here, the town was mostly white, and controlled by white farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘If everybody thought voting wasn’t important, we wouldn’t be moving forward in the Latino movement.’\u003ccite>Mayor Ramona Villarreal-Padilla\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She says it’s taken a long time for Latinos to achieve a balance of power in local government. Now three out of the five members on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lindsay.ca.us/citygov/council/\">City Council\u003c/a> are Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she worries that the activism that helped sweep Latinos like her into power in Lindsay could be diminished by a generation of would-be voters who are less politically engaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If everybody thought voting wasn’t important, we wouldn’t be moving forward in the Latino movement, the Latino caucus, or anywhere you see that Latinos make a difference, because we are the majority,” says Padilla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla says her father marched with Cesar Chavez, and farmworkers were always stopping by their house for advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though my dad wasn’t on city council or anything, he was an activist for the people’s voice,” explains Padilla. “I think that’s the ethic and the legacy that I’m taking over from my father, still being a voice for here in the town where I was raised.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla says her dad, who had only a second-grade education, taught his 14 children the importance of voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t think it really mattered. But my dad, if he left anything for any of us to know, he says, ‘If you don’t vote, or don’t register to vote, then the government will take your voice away.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905499\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"Lindsay, California is a town of about 12,000 in the heart of the state's citrus farming belt in Tulare County.\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10905499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-800x503.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-400x251.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-1180x742.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-960x604.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lindsay, California is a town of about 12,000 in the heart of the state’s citrus farming belt in Tulare County. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like a lot of mayors from small towns and mid-size cities, Padilla is hardly a fat-cat politician. As mayor, she receives only a $75 stipend each month. Her day job is as a mental health clinician in the schools. She’s also working toward a Ph.D. in psychology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla takes me on a tour of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mcdermontfieldhouse.com/\">McDermont Field House\u003c/a>, a former citrus packinghouse that the city turned into 172,000-square-foot indoor sports complex. It’s got indoor soccer fields, the largest laser tag space in the world and an indoor wave rider where landlocked farm kids can hang ten on a man-made swell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was a project for Lindsay to be a fit city,” explains Padilla. “To improve engagement of youth in Lindsay, to have a place where they can come and not get themselves into trouble.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But trouble came nonetheless. Not from kids, but through alleged financial mismanagement by previous city leaders that has left Lindsay’s current administration trying to figure out to pay for the sports complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla says she’s trying to bring more transparency to the city and to get residents engaged. And that means all residents, including undocumented farmworkers who can’t vote. And their children, who can, but maybe don’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Amy Huerta. The mayor has a message for her:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Amy, I get the sense that you’re thinking that it might not make a difference whether you would vote,” Padilla says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d like to say to you that it does make a difference because I remember from Lindsay City Council, people won by one vote. That (one vote) could be you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>About 40 years ago, when she was 24, Consuelo Hermosillo had an emergency cesarean section at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center. In the new documentary, “No Más Bebés,” she recalls asking her doctor what type of birth control she should use going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He goes, ‘You don’t need anything. We cut your tubes,’ ” Hermosillo says in the film. “And I said, ‘Why?’ And he said, ‘Well you signed for it.’ And I said, ‘Me?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nomasbebesmovie.com/\">“No Más Bebés (No More Babies),”\u003c/a> which aired on PBS Monday night, tells the story of how 10 immigrant Mexican women, Hermosillo included, sued Los Angeles County doctors, the state and the U.S. government in 1975 for allegedly violating their civil rights. The women’s cases were similar. Each had an emergency cesarean section and each said she was either unaware that she signed for a tubal ligation or was told by a medical professional that not signing for one could mean death for her and her unborn child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/videos/no-mas-bebes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch the full “No Más Bebés” film here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It examines how the lawsuit, \u003cem>Madrigal v. Quilligan\u003c/em>, came to be, how questions of informed consent — or lack thereof — and coercion played into the case, and how the collision of various societal issues resulted in stories like Hermosillo’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aseQlmKg25U\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re a filmmaker, the easiest thing to do is make a film about the good guys and the bad guys, the heroes and the villains,” says director \u003ca href=\"http://www.asianam.ucla.edu/people/renee-tajima-pe%C3%B1a\">Renee Tajima-Peña\u003c/a>. She says she and co-producer \u003ca href=\"http://itvs.org/films/no-mas-bebes/filmmaker\">Virginia Espino\u003c/a>, a historian who wrote her dissertation on the case, wanted to tell a multilayered story, one that revealed how even the best intentions could do harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tajima-Peña and Espino explore the roles played by federally funded family-planning programs; a growing popular movement to curb population growth that attracted both environmentalists and anti-immigration proponents; doctors fresh out of medical school working in under-resourced maternity wards; cultural misunderstandings; and the popular belief that poor women who need public assistance should abstain from having children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taken together, these factors created what Tajima-Peña calls a “perfect storm” resulting in the sterilization of thousands of vulnerable women across the country in the late ’60s and early 1970s. She and Espino say their goal was to document a history that continues to repeat itself — they point to \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/female-inmates-sterilized-california-prisons-without-approval-4917\">nearly 150 women sterilized in California prisons between 2006 and 2010\u003c/a> as the most recent example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In telling this history, the film highlights the role played by the Family Planning and Population Research Act, which Congress passed in 1970, allocating millions for family-planning purposes. That money went to fund contraceptives, education, research and training. “You’ve got money for family planning programs, which were good programs and provided contraceptives for women who couldn’t afford it,” says Tajima-Peña. Congress also lifted a ban on federal funding for sterilization, so hospitals that provided the indigent with medical care, like Los Angeles County General Hospital, could apply for government money to perform tubal ligations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, lobbying efforts in Washington, fueled by a fear of overpopulation gripping the nation, led to yet more funding for family planning programs. Inspired by the popularity of biologist Paul Ehrlich’s best-selling 1968 book, “\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/01/us/the-unrealized-horrors-of-population-explosion.html\">The Population Bomb\u003c/a>,” which predicted that at some point in the 1980s, overpopulation would make it impossible for the planet to support humanity, members of the “zero population movement” worked to convince the public that having children was a very bad idea. Some went so far as promoting the sterilization of women deemed to have had too many. (They also called for a dramatic reduction to immigration.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”Akm8so5PCpQmztRAsKC6euza1J5VHAba”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, there were divisions within the feminist movement on how sterilization fit into the bigger picture of reproductive rights. Mainstream white feminists marched for “the right to choose,” including unfettered access to sterilizations, contraception and abortions. Feminists of color also called for abortion rights and easy access to contraception, but broke with white feminists on the issue of sterilization, arguing that for women of color, sterilization was not always a matter of choice. They called for waiting periods before tubal ligation procedures, and Latina activists called for Spanish-language consent forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In “No Más Bebés,” California politician \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/la-oe-morrison-new29-2009aug29-column.html\">Gloria Molina\u003c/a>, who was active in the Chicana feminist movement in the 1970s, says the idea of a waiting period was “totally offensive” to white feminists, who, she says, pushed for sterilization upon demand. “They weren’t taking into account that if you were Spanish-speaking, and if you don’t speak English, you were being denied a right, totally,” Molina says in the film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there was the long-held stance, still popular today, that poor women should not have children they can’t afford to support, especially poor women of color. For decades, \u003ca href=\"https://www.uic.edu/orgs/cwluherstory/CWLUArchive/puertorico.html\">Puerto Rican women had been subjected to sterilizations at various points\u003c/a> as a way to combat astronomical unemployment and poverty on the island; a 1965 survey found that a third of Puerto Rican mothers living on the island at the time had been sterilized. \u003ca href=\"https://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/american_indian_quarterly/v024/24.3lawrence.html\">Native American women\u003c/a> were sterilized at the hands of the Indian Health Service in the 1970s. Poor African-American women on government assistance were also sterilized across the country during that time period. \u003ca href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/seeking-justice/case-docket/relf-v-weinberger\">A particularly damning case\u003c/a>, brought two years before \u003cem>Madrigal v. 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She and Espino say their goal was to document a history that continues to repeat itself — they point to \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/female-inmates-sterilized-california-prisons-without-approval-4917\">nearly 150 women sterilized in California prisons between 2006 and 2010\u003c/a> as the most recent example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In telling this history, the film highlights the role played by the Family Planning and Population Research Act, which Congress passed in 1970, allocating millions for family-planning purposes. That money went to fund contraceptives, education, research and training. “You’ve got money for family planning programs, which were good programs and provided contraceptives for women who couldn’t afford it,” says Tajima-Peña. 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(They also called for a dramatic reduction to immigration.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, there were divisions within the feminist movement on how sterilization fit into the bigger picture of reproductive rights. Mainstream white feminists marched for “the right to choose,” including unfettered access to sterilizations, contraception and abortions. Feminists of color also called for abortion rights and easy access to contraception, but broke with white feminists on the issue of sterilization, arguing that for women of color, sterilization was not always a matter of choice. They called for waiting periods before tubal ligation procedures, and Latina activists called for Spanish-language consent forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In “No Más Bebés,” California politician \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/la-oe-morrison-new29-2009aug29-column.html\">Gloria Molina\u003c/a>, who was active in the Chicana feminist movement in the 1970s, says the idea of a waiting period was “totally offensive” to white feminists, who, she says, pushed for sterilization upon demand. “They weren’t taking into account that if you were Spanish-speaking, and if you don’t speak English, you were being denied a right, totally,” Molina says in the film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there was the long-held stance, still popular today, that poor women should not have children they can’t afford to support, especially poor women of color. For decades, \u003ca href=\"https://www.uic.edu/orgs/cwluherstory/CWLUArchive/puertorico.html\">Puerto Rican women had been subjected to sterilizations at various points\u003c/a> as a way to combat astronomical unemployment and poverty on the island; a 1965 survey found that a third of Puerto Rican mothers living on the island at the time had been sterilized. \u003ca href=\"https://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/american_indian_quarterly/v024/24.3lawrence.html\">Native American women\u003c/a> were sterilized at the hands of the Indian Health Service in the 1970s. Poor African-American women on government assistance were also sterilized across the country during that time period. \u003ca href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/seeking-justice/case-docket/relf-v-weinberger\">A particularly damning case\u003c/a>, brought two years before \u003cem>Madrigal v. Quilligan\u003c/em>, involved two black sisters sterilized at ages 14 and 12 in Alabama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, to recap: You had a surge of federal money for sterilizations, mainstream feminists calling for easier access to them, a fear that overpopulation would soon destroy the planet and the fear that poor women were burdening the country with children whom taxpayers would need to feed, clothe and educate. This nexus of events — and the consequences, intended and unintended, that followed — is the knot that “No Más Bebés” tries to untie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why were they doing it?” Consuelo Hermosillo, one of the 10 plaintiffs in \u003cem>Madrigal v. Quilligan\u003c/em>, asks on camera at one point in the film, nearly 40 years after her sterilization at L.A. County General. “I always keep these questions with me, and I never get those answers,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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En vez de sentirse víctima de la \u003ca href=\"http://siliconvalleyindicators.org/special-reports/\">creciente desigualdad de ingresos\u003c/a> en el Silicon Valley – se ha convertido en un activista laboral incansable, negándose a abandonar el Sueño Americano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Me gusta ser campeón a favor del aumento del salario mínimo”, dijo Solorio. “Me gusta estar con otras personas, ayudándolas para que tengan mejores salarios y una mejor vida.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/215705645″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solorio, de 30 años, era empleado de limpieza en la empresa eBay Technology, con sede en San José. Salió de México de adolescente, y ahora es padre soltero, criando a su hija, de 7 años, en un barrio aguerrido a 13 millas del brillante recinto de eBay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En febrero, Solorio entró alma y cuerpo al nuevo movimiento laboral, llamado en inglés, Silicon Valley Rising, uniéndose a cientos de otros empleados de limpieza, de cocina, de mantenimiento, recepcionistas y guardias de seguridad. Estos empleados de servicios se están enfrentando con las empresas de alta tecnología por las que trabajan, exigiendo que paguen un salario digno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”M0R4P25njzBVRk9Havju55461jUUG4ij”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Están poniendo de manifiesto la desigualdad de ingresos. En la región conocida como Bay Area, la brecha entre el 20 por ciento de hogares de mayores ingresos y el 20 por ciento de menores ingresos, ha alcanzado los $263.000 – un nuevo récord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La nueva campaña la impulsa en su mayoría personas inmigrantes, quienes comprenden el 46 por ciento de la fuerza laboral de Silicon Valley y un número importante – incluyendo a Solorio – está entre los que menos ingresos perciben.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Un alto porcentaje de los trabajadores de bajos ingresos del sector de servicios – en particular en la industria de la tecnología – es inmigrante”, dijo Ben Field, ejecutivo del South Bay Labor Council. “Por esta razón, representan un componente muy importante del movimiento Silicon Valley Rising”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Una mañana reciente, Solorio lleva a pie a su hija Evelyn a la cercana escuela primaria de San José – donde tiene derecho a recibir refrigerios a precio reducido. Por el camino, habló de lo difícil que le resulta llegar al mes con su modesta paga mensual. Solorio siente que tiene suerte por ser miembro de un sindicato, SEIU USWW. Bajo los términos de su contrato, él gana $15.50 la hora, más beneficios. Esta paga es mejor que la de muchos empleados de servicios en el Silicon Valley que no pertenecen a ningún sindicato y que ganan $12 la hora, como promedio. Pero aún así, el dinero no alcanza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Con una persona sola, no está tan mal, pero cuando tienes familia y otras personas por quienes velar, se vuelve muy difícil”, dijo Solorio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10610039\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10610039 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch-800x512.jpg\" alt=\"Conserje para la empresa eBay, Jesús Solorio, es una presencia constante en las manifestaciones y marchas. \" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch-800x512.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch-400x256.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch-1440x922.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch-1400x896.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch-1180x755.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch-960x615.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Conserje para la empresa eBay, Jesús Solorio, es una presencia constante en las manifestaciones y marchas. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.siliconvalleycf.org/sites/default/files/publications/2014-silicon-valley-index.pdf\">Los costos de la vivienda en el Silicon Valley\u003c/a> están entre los más altos en el país, lo cual agudiza aún más la brecha entre los ingresos. Solorio y su hija comparten un apartamento de dos recámaras muy pequeño con su hermano y su familia de cuatro. Es \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_28437124/silicon-valley-housing-high-powered-new-advocacy-group\">la única manera que pueden pagar el alquiler mensual de mil quinientos dólares\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las mañanas son un reto para Solorio después de trabajar el turno de noche, pero se sacude el sueño cada día para llevar a Evelyn, de pie o en auto, a su escuela.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Es claro que éste es su momento para conversar a solas. De la mano de su papá durante el trecho de 20 minutos, Evelyn trota en sus zapatillas de luces parpadeantes estilo Princesa Anna de la película “Frozen”. Hoy le cuenta a su papá lo que ella quiere de regalo por su cumpleaños.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Vamos a hacer un paseo a Chucky Cheese”, dice Evelyn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Papá e hija se detienen en una tienda de donuts por el camino para darse el gusto de un desayuno a un dólar. Solorio dice que es su hija la que le da ánimos, que por darle una vida mejor, él hará cualquier cosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al igual que Solorio, aproximadamente la mitad de la fuerza laboral de Silicon Valley proviene de otro país – el 46 por ciento, según el consorcio Joint Venture Silicon Valley, compuesto de dirigentes empresariales y cívicos. Algunos inmigrantes han establecido exitosas empresas de tecnología y se encuentran entre los que más ingresos perciben. Pero un gran porcentaje está del lado opuesto de esa escala salarial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F5X64bXde0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Son el motor de esta economía pero se han estancado sus ingresos”, dijo Russell Hancock, presidente de Joint Venture Silicon Valley. “No ha habido crecimiento en sus salarios durante décadas”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>¿Cómo es que siguen estancados sus ingresos, con lo próspera que es la economía de Silicon Valley? Solorio – como muchos empleados del sector servicio en las empresas de tecnología – en realidad es empleado de una de las compañías contratadas por las grandes empresas tecnológicas. Estas compañías contratistas compiten entre sí. Field, el que dirige el South Bay Labor Council, indica que es una receta apta para la explotación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Las empresas de alta tecnología están utilizado a contratistas quienes con frecuencia son operadores de pocos escrúpulos”, dijo Field. “No pagan bien a sus empleados y no les ofrecen beneficios”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10610044\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10610044\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher-800x745.jpg\" alt=\"Conserje Jesús Solorio dice que hará cualquier cosa por darle una mejor vida a su hija.\" width=\"440\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher-800x745.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher-400x372.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher-1440x1340.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher-1400x1303.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher-1180x1098.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher-960x894.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Conserje Jesús Solorio dice que hará cualquier cosa por darle una mejor vida a su hija. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>El empleador de Solorio, contratista de servicios de limpieza GCA Services Group, no devolvió llamadas hechas a sus oficinas en Ohio y en Alviso. Un vocero de eBay dijo que su empresa no quiere comentar sobre las crecientes disparidades en los ingresos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activistas del movimiento Silicon Valley Rising han estado manifestándose frente a las oficinas de los contratistas así como de las grandes empresas tecnológicas. Están obrando por lograr que se únan los empleados del sector de servicios a los sindicatos. Y el movimiento – una coalición de sindicatos laborales, grupos de fe religiosa, defensores de inmigrantes y organizaciones de base – también aboga por viviendas más económicas en la región.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Se lanzó el movimiento de Silicon Valley Rising en la Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe en el vecindario de Mayfair, al este de la ciudad de San José. En los años 50, gran parte de la zona se conocía como Sal Si Puedes. Es la misma iglesia en la que César Chávez lanzó su movimiento como activista y dirigente laboral agrícola, inspirado y animado por el párroco. Hoy la iglesia sirve a una comunidad predominantemente latina, con la misa y servicios comunitarios en español.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salvador Bustamante, otrora trabajador agrícola también, es director ejecutivo de Latinos Unidos por una Nueva América y uno de los dirigentes del movimiento laboral. El cree que el grupo Silicon Valley Rising debe ir más allá de la antigua manera de organizar a trabajadores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“La gente necesita avanzar otro nivel más”, dijo Bustamante. “No es suficiente ser miembro de un sindicato. También hay que participar en el proceso político”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solorio se ha tomado a pecho esta sugerencia. Intenta ayudar a otros trabajadores del sector de servicios con unirse a un sindicato. También hace acto de presencia en casi toda manifestación. Ha viajado varias veces a Sacramento para protestar frente al Capitolio a favor de un proyecto de ley que haría responsables a las empresas que no compensan a los trabajadores por ingresos atrasados. Quiere mejorar su propia situación y se siente obligado a hablar por otros trabajadores del sector de servicios quienes no tienen la protección de un sindicato.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hay muchas personas con miedo a participar porque siempre ocurre donde les dan de alta”, dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solorio indica que la única manera que los trabajadores inmigrantes van a ganar esta batalla por salarios más altos y mejores beneficios es con arriesgarse. En este momento, dijo, no hay donde ir sino arriba.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California tiene la séptima economía más grande del mundo, y a lo largo de la historia del estado, los inmigrantes han contribuido mucho al desarrollo de esta prosperidad. Hoy, una de cada tres personas trabajadoras en California es inmigrante – proporción que ha crecido en las últimas décadas. Nuestro estado está conformado por estos trabajadores y emprendedores – 6 millones de personas que han encontrado empleo en el Estado Dorado. En nuestra serie “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/california-immigrants-at-work\">Transformación migrante\u003c/a>”, KQED y The California Report exploran el impacto que surten los inmigrantes, los retos que enfrentan y las políticas que les afectan.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En febrero, Solorio entró alma y cuerpo al nuevo movimiento laboral, llamado en inglés, Silicon Valley Rising, uniéndose a cientos de otros empleados de limpieza, de cocina, de mantenimiento, recepcionistas y guardias de seguridad. Estos empleados de servicios se están enfrentando con las empresas de alta tecnología por las que trabajan, exigiendo que paguen un salario digno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Están poniendo de manifiesto la desigualdad de ingresos. En la región conocida como Bay Area, la brecha entre el 20 por ciento de hogares de mayores ingresos y el 20 por ciento de menores ingresos, ha alcanzado los $263.000 – un nuevo récord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La nueva campaña la impulsa en su mayoría personas inmigrantes, quienes comprenden el 46 por ciento de la fuerza laboral de Silicon Valley y un número importante – incluyendo a Solorio – está entre los que menos ingresos perciben.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Un alto porcentaje de los trabajadores de bajos ingresos del sector de servicios – en particular en la industria de la tecnología – es inmigrante”, dijo Ben Field, ejecutivo del South Bay Labor Council. “Por esta razón, representan un componente muy importante del movimiento Silicon Valley Rising”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Una mañana reciente, Solorio lleva a pie a su hija Evelyn a la cercana escuela primaria de San José – donde tiene derecho a recibir refrigerios a precio reducido. Por el camino, habló de lo difícil que le resulta llegar al mes con su modesta paga mensual. Solorio siente que tiene suerte por ser miembro de un sindicato, SEIU USWW. Bajo los términos de su contrato, él gana $15.50 la hora, más beneficios. Esta paga es mejor que la de muchos empleados de servicios en el Silicon Valley que no pertenecen a ningún sindicato y que ganan $12 la hora, como promedio. Pero aún así, el dinero no alcanza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Con una persona sola, no está tan mal, pero cuando tienes familia y otras personas por quienes velar, se vuelve muy difícil”, dijo Solorio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10610039\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10610039 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch-800x512.jpg\" alt=\"Conserje para la empresa eBay, Jesús Solorio, es una presencia constante en las manifestaciones y marchas. \" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch-800x512.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch-400x256.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch-1440x922.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch-1400x896.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch-1180x755.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch-960x615.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SolorioMarch.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Conserje para la empresa eBay, Jesús Solorio, es una presencia constante en las manifestaciones y marchas. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.siliconvalleycf.org/sites/default/files/publications/2014-silicon-valley-index.pdf\">Los costos de la vivienda en el Silicon Valley\u003c/a> están entre los más altos en el país, lo cual agudiza aún más la brecha entre los ingresos. Solorio y su hija comparten un apartamento de dos recámaras muy pequeño con su hermano y su familia de cuatro. Es \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_28437124/silicon-valley-housing-high-powered-new-advocacy-group\">la única manera que pueden pagar el alquiler mensual de mil quinientos dólares\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las mañanas son un reto para Solorio después de trabajar el turno de noche, pero se sacude el sueño cada día para llevar a Evelyn, de pie o en auto, a su escuela.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Es claro que éste es su momento para conversar a solas. De la mano de su papá durante el trecho de 20 minutos, Evelyn trota en sus zapatillas de luces parpadeantes estilo Princesa Anna de la película “Frozen”. Hoy le cuenta a su papá lo que ella quiere de regalo por su cumpleaños.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Vamos a hacer un paseo a Chucky Cheese”, dice Evelyn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Papá e hija se detienen en una tienda de donuts por el camino para darse el gusto de un desayuno a un dólar. Solorio dice que es su hija la que le da ánimos, que por darle una vida mejor, él hará cualquier cosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al igual que Solorio, aproximadamente la mitad de la fuerza laboral de Silicon Valley proviene de otro país – el 46 por ciento, según el consorcio Joint Venture Silicon Valley, compuesto de dirigentes empresariales y cívicos. Algunos inmigrantes han establecido exitosas empresas de tecnología y se encuentran entre los que más ingresos perciben. Pero un gran porcentaje está del lado opuesto de esa escala salarial.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/_F5X64bXde0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/_F5X64bXde0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“Son el motor de esta economía pero se han estancado sus ingresos”, dijo Russell Hancock, presidente de Joint Venture Silicon Valley. “No ha habido crecimiento en sus salarios durante décadas”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>¿Cómo es que siguen estancados sus ingresos, con lo próspera que es la economía de Silicon Valley? Solorio – como muchos empleados del sector servicio en las empresas de tecnología – en realidad es empleado de una de las compañías contratadas por las grandes empresas tecnológicas. Estas compañías contratistas compiten entre sí. Field, el que dirige el South Bay Labor Council, indica que es una receta apta para la explotación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Las empresas de alta tecnología están utilizado a contratistas quienes con frecuencia son operadores de pocos escrúpulos”, dijo Field. “No pagan bien a sus empleados y no les ofrecen beneficios”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10610044\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10610044\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher-800x745.jpg\" alt=\"Conserje Jesús Solorio dice que hará cualquier cosa por darle una mejor vida a su hija.\" width=\"440\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher-800x745.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher-400x372.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher-1440x1340.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher-1400x1303.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher-1180x1098.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher-960x894.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/JesusAndDaugher.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Conserje Jesús Solorio dice que hará cualquier cosa por darle una mejor vida a su hija. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>El empleador de Solorio, contratista de servicios de limpieza GCA Services Group, no devolvió llamadas hechas a sus oficinas en Ohio y en Alviso. Un vocero de eBay dijo que su empresa no quiere comentar sobre las crecientes disparidades en los ingresos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activistas del movimiento Silicon Valley Rising han estado manifestándose frente a las oficinas de los contratistas así como de las grandes empresas tecnológicas. Están obrando por lograr que se únan los empleados del sector de servicios a los sindicatos. Y el movimiento – una coalición de sindicatos laborales, grupos de fe religiosa, defensores de inmigrantes y organizaciones de base – también aboga por viviendas más económicas en la región.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Se lanzó el movimiento de Silicon Valley Rising en la Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe en el vecindario de Mayfair, al este de la ciudad de San José. En los años 50, gran parte de la zona se conocía como Sal Si Puedes. Es la misma iglesia en la que César Chávez lanzó su movimiento como activista y dirigente laboral agrícola, inspirado y animado por el párroco. Hoy la iglesia sirve a una comunidad predominantemente latina, con la misa y servicios comunitarios en español.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salvador Bustamante, otrora trabajador agrícola también, es director ejecutivo de Latinos Unidos por una Nueva América y uno de los dirigentes del movimiento laboral. El cree que el grupo Silicon Valley Rising debe ir más allá de la antigua manera de organizar a trabajadores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“La gente necesita avanzar otro nivel más”, dijo Bustamante. “No es suficiente ser miembro de un sindicato. También hay que participar en el proceso político”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solorio se ha tomado a pecho esta sugerencia. Intenta ayudar a otros trabajadores del sector de servicios con unirse a un sindicato. También hace acto de presencia en casi toda manifestación. Ha viajado varias veces a Sacramento para protestar frente al Capitolio a favor de un proyecto de ley que haría responsables a las empresas que no compensan a los trabajadores por ingresos atrasados. Quiere mejorar su propia situación y se siente obligado a hablar por otros trabajadores del sector de servicios quienes no tienen la protección de un sindicato.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hay muchas personas con miedo a participar porque siempre ocurre donde les dan de alta”, dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solorio indica que la única manera que los trabajadores inmigrantes van a ganar esta batalla por salarios más altos y mejores beneficios es con arriesgarse. En este momento, dijo, no hay donde ir sino arriba.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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He left Mexico when he was a teenager and he’s now a single father, raising his 7-year-old daughter in a hard-scrabble neighborhood 13 miles from the sparkling eBay campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, Solorio threw himself into a new labor movement called Silicon Valley Rising, joining hundreds of other janitors, cooks, maintenance workers, receptionists and security guards. 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Holding her dad’s hand on the 20-minute trek, Evelyn trots along in her blinking sneakers depicting Princess Ana from the movie “Frozen.” This day she tells her dad what she wants for her seventh birthday party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to take a trip to Chuck E. Cheese,” said Evelyn in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pair stops at a doughnut shop along the way for a $1 breakfast treat. Solorio says his daughter keeps him going. He will do anything to make her life better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F5X64bXde0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Solorio, almost half of Silicon Valley’s workforce comes from another country – 46 percent, according to Joint Venture Silicon Valley, a consortium of business and civic leaders. Some immigrants have started successful tech companies and are in the highest income bracket. 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"content": "\u003cp>This Memorial Day coincides with the 50\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> anniversary of the U.S. military’s first major strike against the North Vietnamese. Nearly 60,000 American troops would die in the Vietnam War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the troops were Latino. But to this day no one knows exactly how many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freddy Romero is among those who came back. But when he marched off to war nearly 50 years ago, his sense of geography wasn’t the best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know where Vietnam was. I just thought; I’m going to China,” laughs Romero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/206783924\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was like a lot of kids from East L.A. who came of age during the Vietnam War. His family didn’t have much money. He flunked out of college. So, at the tender age of 17, he signed up with the Marines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just a little boy,” says Romero. “I was very sheltered even though I grew up in East L.A., going into a situation I knew nothing about. But when I got there I just fell right in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romero shared this story with students from \u003ca href=\"http://www.pomona.edu/\">Pomona College \u003c/a>for an oral history project led by \u003ca href=\"https://summerssandoval.wordpress.com/bio/\">Tomas Summers Sandoval\u003c/a>, a professor of history and Chicano studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pomona College professor is also the son of a Vietnam War veteran.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I was very sheltered even though I grew up in East L.A., going into a situation I knew nothing about.'\u003ccite>Freddy Romero\u003c/cite>[audio mp3=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Freddy-Romero-Pomona-College-oral-history-excerpt.mp3\"][/audio]\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“One of the earliest memories I have is of this green photo album of all my dad’s pictures from Vietnam,” recalls Summers Sandoval, sitting in his university office on a recent weekday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember being a small kid before you even understand what war is looking at pictures of my 19-year-old father in Vietnam.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Summers Sandoval began asking questions about his father’s war experience and that of other relatives who also served.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking back, says Sandoval, it seemed like everyone in his community had a connection to the Vietnam War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the sacrifices of Latino Vietnam War veterans have never been fully measured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During the war, the U.S. military didn’t keep separate data on Latinos,” explains Summers Sandoval. “Latinos were not considered their own racial ethnic category; they were just folded into the white population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the height of the war, around 10 percent of U.S. residents were Latino. But a study from Cal State Los Angeles found that Latinos made up about 20 percent off all U.S. troops killed in Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10534284\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/latino-vets-pic-Tom-1-Vietnam.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10534284\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/latino-vets-pic-Tom-1-Vietnam-800x548.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Sandoval, father of Pomona College professor Tomas Summers Sandoval, while on active duty during the Vietnam War\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/latino-vets-pic-Tom-1-Vietnam-800x548.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/latino-vets-pic-Tom-1-Vietnam-400x274.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/latino-vets-pic-Tom-1-Vietnam-1440x987.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/latino-vets-pic-Tom-1-Vietnam-1180x809.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/latino-vets-pic-Tom-1-Vietnam-960x658.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/latino-vets-pic-Tom-1-Vietnam.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Sandoval, father of Pomona College professor Tomas Summers Sandoval, while on active duty during the Vietnam War \u003ccite>(courtesy of Tom Sandoval)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But that research covered only the first few years of the conflict. Summers Sandoval is going further, scrutinizing census data and causality reports to finally learn the true number of those lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as important is capturing the real-life stories of veterans like Freddy Romero -- and in the process painting a fuller picture of Latino enclaves across California before and after the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a way of understanding the opportunities or lack of opportunities that existed,” says Sandoval. “It also tells us a lot about how the Vietnam War was reaching into a lot of poor barrios and in working-class communities all throughout California and in a disproportionate way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of Latinos didn’t qualify for deferments because they were high school dropouts or were not enrolled in college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of over a hundred interviews recorded by Summers Sandoval and student researchers, veteran David Lopez remembers what a high school counselor told him when he turned 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He called me into his office and he said to me, 'You are so damn dumb you’ll never make it college,' ” remembered Lopez. “And that pretty much set the tone for what I was gonna do next.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recording of this interview, Lopez explains how he went into a Marine recruiting office and told the recruiter he wanted to sign up right away. He wanted an infantry position and he wanted to ship out ASAP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Summers Sandoval asks him why he chose the Marine Corps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, one thing about the Latino cultures, about Latinos in general, we’re warriors from the get-go,” said Lopez. “We’ve been fighting for our rights, for this country, forever. And I felt the Marines was the best way to go because the Marine Corps trains warriors to be better warriors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While thousands of young Latinos were swept into the military, others were fighting against the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year also marks the 45\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> anniversary of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=famNeiosTVk\">Chicano Moratorium\u003c/a>, when thousands of Latinos flooded into the streets of East L.A. in August 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One veteran told Summers Sandoval that he returned from Vietnam just in time for the protest -- and the violent clash with police that shattered it.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Vietnam...certainly impacted my life, but it didn’t wreck my life. I think it motivated my life.'\u003ccite>Victor Chavez\u003c/cite>[audio mp3=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/LATINO-VETS-victor-chavez.mp3\"][/audio]\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“He saw a police officer start to hit an older woman with a baton and he went up to that officer and knocked him out,” says Summers Sandoval. “To him it was like, literally, war come home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another recording from the oral history project, Victor Chavez said he never questioned going to war in Vietnam, until he got home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know I sat there for a year really wondering what the hell did I do, what did we do,” says Chavez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Chavez says the military also gave him direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He got married and raised a family. He enrolled in college and eventually become a high school principal in the El Monte Union High School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that’s a misperception about Vietnam veterans that somehow this war wrecked all our lives,” says Chavez. “I have very strong feelings about Vietnam and it certainly impacted my life, but it didn’t wreck my life. I think it motivated my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Summers Sandoval says Latino veterans actually tended to do better economically than Latinos who didn’t serve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Higher income, more likely to have a college education, to be a homeowner, all these kinds of things we use to measure economic success,” says Summers Sandoval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Sunday Mass at Holy Name of Mary Church in the city of San Dimas, Joe Martinez shows off an enormous display of framed pictures. They’re portraits of Vietnam and World War II veterans, lined up alongside active-duty Marines and soldiers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This particular shelf here is the ones who are currently serving from our parish,” explains Martinez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10534287\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/latino-vets-pic-joe-IMG_5176.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10534287 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/latino-vets-pic-joe-IMG_5176-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Vietnam War veteran Joe Martinez heads the Stars and Stripes Ministry at Holy Name of Mary Catholic Church in San Dimas, CA.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/latino-vets-pic-joe-IMG_5176-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/latino-vets-pic-joe-IMG_5176-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/latino-vets-pic-joe-IMG_5176-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/latino-vets-pic-joe-IMG_5176-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/latino-vets-pic-joe-IMG_5176.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vietnam War veteran Joe Martinez heads the Stars and Stripes Ministry at Holy Name of Mary Catholic Church in San Dimas, CA. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas /KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s an old sepia-colored picture of Martinez’s father from World War II. A more recent portrait of Joe Martinez is there too, in his Marine dress blues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez enlisted in the Marine Corp in the early '60s just before things heated up in Vietnam. He was among the first wave of troops to be deployed in the summer of 1965.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I volunteered to go flying as a gunner, and I flew 41 missions,” recalls Martinez\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After serving in Vietnam, Martinez spent about 25 years in the Marine reserves and launched a successful career in the insurance business. Now he helps run the parish’s Stars and Stripes Ministry, dedicated to veteran issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of people continuing to serve. They may not be wearing the uniform, but they’re serving our communities, serving our churches,” says Martinez. “Doesn’t matter whether you’re Hispanic or whoever you are, we’re all doing the same thing trying to help those around us. We’re serving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heroism on the battlefield is widely celebrated in popular films and on national holidays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Summers Sandoval says his research also looks at the kind of quiet heroism that went on after these veterans returned home from Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me they are all heroes,” says Summers Sandoval. \"Just for the ability to live their lives after the war in a society that was very often not even willing to recognize them, to even acknowledge their experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Summers Sandoval’s book chronicling the experiences of Latinos in the Vietnam War is due out next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Audio recordings of the veterans interviewed for the ongoing oral history project are being archived at the Library of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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