La Voz de Aztlan, April 4 1975
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La Voz de Aztlan, April 4 1975
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Associated Students of Fresno State
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La Voz de Aztlan (Daily Collegian, California State University, Fresno)
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Fresno, California
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4/4/1975
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Carm en More no wanted to sing for L a Raza.
She had jus t re turned home to Easton from Los
Angeles where she had been acting and singing in
various night clubs . She had a part in a couple of
movi es , still there was s omething missing.
So when she found herself back in the Fresno area
she called CSUF and asked for a Chicano group .. She
was dire cted to r.,a Raza Studies where she simply
asked , "Do you want to hear me sing?"
Car men Moreno made her appearan ce at the next
MECHA meeting .
Her performance was more than a performance.
Capturing the audience in an intimacy which only can
result fro m sharing a mutual experience in life, her
vibrant fresh style slapped the usually lethargic
meeting into wide-awake attention . While s i nging
"canciones" she would intermittently halt and rap a
"pla tica" which the listeners took to as well as her
music. She had only been there a few hours and
already she was one of them .
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LA VOZ
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Former student
The new executive director of
the Greater F r esno Area Plan
has three months to accomplish
what a five year plan was supposed to do .
Si priano Martinez, a former
CSUF s tudent body vice president,
said the home town plan for get-
By Gra~e Solis
Plans to open up a Gallo Boycott Office in Fresno were announced at a meeting Thursday by
the United Farm Workers Union.
Tanis Ybarra , area director of
the UFWU made the announcement Wednesday at the Sunset
Community Center, where approximately 40 representatives
of various community organizations met to discuss the Gallo
Boycott.
Ann Williamson, a Fresno resident, was named to coordinate
and supervise the activities of
the office, which includes finding
an office. Ms. Williamson said
that the UFW is looking for a
centrally located office. •we will
be starting our Gallo boycott activities in the West Side of Fresno. An ideal location for the office would .be downtown Fresno,"
she said .
Although the UFWU has been
boycotting Gallo wines for nearly
two years, this will be the first
attempt to actively promote the
Gallo boycott in the Fresnoarea.
Gallo boycott offices have been
su1.-~:essful across the nation ,
especially on the Eastern coast,
in removing Gallo wines from
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
California State University, Fresno
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VP to .~ead ·key labor post
ting more minorities into the construction and trade unions was the
first attempt to get at the high
paying trade union jobs Jor minorities.
"We're not out here to play a
numbers game ," said Martinez.
"If there is a job, what we are
Gallo boycott office
will open
Friday, April 4, 1975
Fresno
store shelves, said Williamson.
Williamson is also recruiting
volunteers to work in the office,
talk to store owners and picket
if necessary . One of the major
obstacles William son said she
faces is the lack of money.
"The UFWU has never- had
money to speak of, so we will
be depending heavily on volunteers.
"As long as we have the support
of the people, that's all that matters. Gallo can buy all the advertising space he wants to, but
he can't buy the workers," said
Ybarra.
· Williamson said that the emphasis of the boycott will be on
Gallo wines. She cautioned wine
drinkers who would like to support the UFW to read the labels
carefully. "Not all Gallo wines
have a Gallo label on them. The
words to look for are: Bottled
in Modesto, Ca.," she said. •In
addition to not buying Gallo wines,
talk to the store owners about the
Gallo Boycott and encourage them
not to stock Gallo wine."
Anyone wishing to volunteer to
work in the Gallo Boycott office
is asked to contact Ann Williamson at 266-2108 or call the UFWU
Service Center at 896-5251.
talking about is a percentage of
the total jobs, to equal the minority population in the area."
Field representative, Edward
Pe rez , also a former CSUF student , said their handicap has been
to find journeymen qualified for
a trade, especially minority
journeymen, since most of them
are working already, she said.
Mar ti nez was named executive
director of the Greater Fresno
Area Plan last week, ending an
impasse over who was to administer the ·plan to bring more
minority workers into the construction industry.
Martinez was one ofthree candidates recommended by Emilio
Lopez, of San Francisco, a regional director of the U.S. Labor
Department's Office of Federal
Contract Complicance (OICC) . .
Lopez intervened in the matter
when a deadlock resulted because
minority representatives on the
plan's administrative committee
wanted the director to be a minority, while labor and management wanted an Anglo.
Martinez was agreeable to all
sides and was voted in unanimously, to take over the program which has until June to accomplish its objectives covered
in its five year plan.
Martinez said he feels that too
much emphasis in the past has
been placed on getting more minorities into the labor unions
which may not necessarily have '
the construction jobs available
for all its members.
e
•That's not dealing with mi- l?
norities,
that's dealing with al
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dues," he said. •The bigproblem ~
is finding jobs with contractors
who will accept the minority
worker, that's where the emphasis should be."
Both Martinez and Perez say
they are optimistic they will
come up with a plan to fulfill
the goals set for the five year
program and they hope to be able
to extend the project until all the
goals are accomplished, they
said.
SIPRIANO MARTINEZ
2-THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Friday, April 4, 1975
Jobs
COMMENTARIES
Minority teacher representation: disparity still?
By Ricardo Rodriguez
Chairman, Comite CHE
(Chicanos ln Higher Education)
In a report to the California
Legislature in November, Legislative Analyst A . Alan Post reported that California's public
and private
teacher-training
campuses are graduating 20,000
teachers each year into a job
market that now exhibits a turnover rate of less than 10,000
teaching positions.
He also said without adding
any recommendations, that the
enrollment of minorities in teacher training at the university and
college campuses is low, compared to state-wide public school
erirollment. .
Post's study showed that, alchough in California Chicano enrollment in the public schools is
17.2 per cent, Chicanos are still
grossly under-represented with
only 2 per cent of the total credentialed teachers.
Unfortunately, such sad statistics did not warrant enough attention to the analyst. In a ·
summary of the distribution of
minority groups in teacher traini0g programs, it was noted that
Chicanos comprise less than ri
per cent of enrollees of the state
university and college system.
Obviously, sucti statistics depict
a gross racial disparity in teacher training programs across
California. This form of institutional racism directed at the chi cano, is just one example of the
mis-education that harrio children receive in the v a 11 e y
schools.
They are heing denied an important educational resource Chicano teachers that can relate
to them. Also, there are more
Chicanos than Anglos who are bilingual, and thus better equipped
to deal with the English language
difficulties of the Chicano student - and the Chicano teacher
can provide more effective role
models for the Chicano youth.
With the result of the Lau vs.
Nichols decision by the U.S . Supreme Court, along with the
federal and state money appropriations for hicultural education
and the newly lnstitutect Ryan
Act, teacher training programs
should direct their attention to the
issue at hand. To deny Chicano
children a bi cultural education .
is to deny them the opport11nity
to develop their intellectual potential to its fullest degree.
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To put aside the need to train
competent bicultural teachers is
to perpetuate the inequality of
education that the Chicano community is being offered in the
schools of this valley.
To c•ntinue to credential
teachers who are not competent
to teach in a bilingual, hicultural
setting is to advocate the present
50 per cent dropout rate of Chicano students.
y, al ·fin, to pretend that some
teacher aides with bilingual skills
and proven teaching competence
are not more capable than many
teachers is to be blind to the
crucial need to restructure
teacher training programs to
meet the needs of the corresponding local service areas as mandated for in the Ryan Act.
The problems of unequal educational opportunities are of such
magnitude and so wi<'lespre:.i<I that
it would be unwise to rely on
the efforts of individual school
districts to bring about the kind
of uniform and comprehensive
teacher training reform needed.
Therefore, it is the moral obligation and responsibility of the
teacher training programs to take
the lead in providin·g higher education to Chicanos in education,
hut at the same time fill the ur-gent need for hicultural teachers
in California.
The affirmative action policy
would be actively realized. A relaxed admissions policy, free of
discriminating requirements and
tests, available to all who seek
entrance in the schools of education, is the first logical step in
eliminating epucational racism.
summarily, /all efforts should
proceed with the perspective of
providing a true educational experience for all students .
SECRETARY: Person who can type 65-70 words per minute
and has knowledge of dictaphone, billing, drafting, arid shorthand, also general office knowledge.
Starting salary $605 per month, approximately 40 hours
per week.
JUNIOR TYPIST CLERK: Must live in Fresno County, also
must be unemployed or underemployed, Spanish speaking is
required.
Starting salary $432 $551 per month .
COUNSELOR: The Boy Scouts of America are seeking coun-
selors for their members ... the pay is satisfactory ... for
more information call 266-3117.
SALESMAN: Local department store is l~oking for an experienced salesman, person who has had at lease one year in
selling men's clothing and who has the ability to establish
customer following. Spanish speaking is a must because of
large Mexican clientel. Contact Jobs Skills Bank at 729 "P"
Street or call 266-0895.
SALESMAN: Local radio station is looking for Spanish speaking
salesman . You will be selling sales advertisements to different
Chicano businessmen in F resnof Hanford and Merced. Salary
is $600 a month.
For more information call JOB SKILLS BANK at 266-0895
or inquire at 729 "P" Street.
Bee buzzes by boycott . ..
•What labor unrest?
(Editor's Note: The following
commentary appeared in the
March issue of the Sanamento
Newspaper Guild Newsletter. The
newsletter is distrihutecl only to
its memhers, including the editorial staff of the Sacramento•
Bee , and the remainder of the
Mc:Clat.chy Puhlishing Co. , incl11ding the Fresno and Modesto
Bees.)
While the attention of the entire
nation wa.s foc:u.sed on the mar<'h
of Cesar Chavez. and his follow~!rs
Oil the Gallo Winery in Modesto,
The Modesto Bee fo<·used its
attention oil anything awl everything else. "Editorially whistling
in the dark and hopirw: the monster would go away" was the way
one ohsen•tir put it.
Finally, reluC"tantly, the stor:v
made page one, al>ov1.~ the fold ...
with some prodding from staffers. The next day it had titrnhled
from sight.
CBS, NBC, The San Francisco
Examiner and ThP Los Angeles
Times <'overed the event with
news teams -- while The Modesto
Bee sent a reportPr and photographer to covPr the march (for
all three Bees and AP!) of ovn
8,000 peopl!:! . . . a spot assignment sandwiched in between other
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An explanation? "Management
doesn't thi11k this story is that
important."
Could the fact the luncheon
meeting between Gallo's Public
Relations director and The Modesto Bee managing editor have
entered into that evaluation? Or
the full-page ads Gallo ran in all
three Bees?
And where did that picture
come from that ran in The Bee,
or the marc-hers passing The
Modesto Junk Comp?,nY? Ii wasn't
one of those al<en by The Bee
photographer assigned to the
event. Perhaps too many of his
pi!'tures showt~d "Boycott Gallo"
signs·.•
Ttie11 there 'wa s the "KO.YR-TV
"Action News•· film cre.w on hand,
rlaiming they were there only if
"sonwthing happens'' . . . presumahly of a violent nature. When
Channel 13 finall~· broadcast a
report of the Saturday activities
the following Monclay. the story
had heen reassigned to a reporter
of Spanish descent. Apparently
under the management assumption "it takes one to know one."
It St:>ems incredulous that the
M<'Clat!'lly top echelon would he
so overt in the effort to dowP.piar the UFW story. If WP are
indeed 1wws gatht:>rers and not
news makers. this credo must :1pply to olijectivE> ~diting as wt:>!! as
ohjeetive rt:>porting . Tlw question
is not onP of supporting the UFW
or Cesar Chavez . . . past the
helief in workers to the right of
(Continued on Page 3, Col. 1)
El Concilio de Fresno
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initiates Job Skills Bank
By Ernesto Moreno
La Voz Staff Writer
El Concilio de Fresno, a coordinated body of organization
representatives , agency representatives, and individuals of the
Spanish speaking community,
have implemented a project that
would benefit the largest ethnic
minority group in the county of
Fresno.
The Job Skills Bank has been
initiated to provide the Spanish
speaking community the assistance it needs in the area of em ployment.
"Although there are other
agencies in Fresno County that
provide similar services, the
Joh Skills Bank will mainly deal
with the problems of the MexicanAmerican and his special needs,"
said Paul Rivera, coordinator of
the project.
The services offered by the
pro,j ect are in the areas of:
Outreach and Community
Education
. . . informing pGtential jobchangers and seekers of the
available services at the Concilio.
Job Orientation
preparing the job-seeker
for the world of work and to instill in him tile proper skills in
seeking and applying for a job.
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and compliment
your education!
This
75 year
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more about this opportunity and what it can
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For reservations and information cal I:
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The above is not sponsored by the Californiu State University and Colleges
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Job Development
identifying new employee
positions in expanding or new industries, assisting prospective
employers in finding the right
employee for their company or
business.
Job Bank
. . . compile information on
employers and job seekers on a
data management system that
would enable the data referrals
bank to make quick and accurate
match-ups.
Job Refer r al and Placement
on the basis of the matchups made by the job bank, applicants are· sent to the prospective
employer.
Follow-up
. . . a means of finding out the
results of the referral and / or
placement.
Anyone in the Spanish· speaking
community. 18 years or older and
who reside in the City or County
of Fresno are eligible , tf they are
unemploy ed and seeking work,
underem plo~·ed ( either seasonal
workers recei ving a wage insufficient to provid e for the needs of
their family or other wo rkers in
the same situation), employed
persons who have be en released
from co r rec tional ins titutions,
military serYice, or who have
been dis a ble d. sa id Ri ve ra.
This project t s aim ed at satis:..
fying the. need s of t he Spanish
speaking person but will offer its .
services to anyone in need of
them, said Rivera.
Anyone interested in the project or more inform dtion, may
contact Rivera or any job skills
counselor at '720 "P" 8t . , Fresno.
California or phone 266-8095.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Published five days a we~k except
holidays and examination periods by
the Fresno State College Associa•
tion, Mail subscriptions $12 a semes,
ter, $20 a vear. Editorial office,
Keats Camp~s Building, telephone
487·2486. Business and advedising
office, Keats Campus Building, telephone 487-2266.
- Opinions expressed in Collegian editorials, including feature-editorials
and commentaries by guest writers,
are not necessarily those of California· State University, Fresno, or
the stude_nt body. ·
LA
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Editor . .
. . . . , . . Larry Romero
Photographer . , . . . . . . Larry Leon
Reporters . . . . . . . Ernesto Moreno,
Anna Noriega, Angie Rios,
Grace Solis
Gringolandia, the land of plenty
Friday,_April 4, 1975·
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN-l
The Violence of Being a Wetback
By Hope Chavarria
The Wetback has been a conversation piece for a number of
years. He is defended byChicano
liberators and patronizing patroncitos. He is an obstacle to
Union organizers and a pathogenic parasite to farmworkers
and other U.S. resident poor. He
is a dollar $ign for Coyote$ and
a ren_ted $lave for California
growers. He is a steady job for
the Im migration and Naturalization Service - La Migra. Suddenly he is something else -- a
social problem . The following
deals with----the liberators, The
Redeemers(Los Redentores), and
with the Indifferent.
The Chicano liberator has a
heart thirteen times bigger than
the Grinch. He argues that the
Wetback is a brother ; he was
here before any gringo wetback:
fifteen ( 15%) percent of the poor
in Mexi co earn $100.00 per year;
he has a right to earn a living;
he ' s not hurting anyone. This is
true . In our benevolent mercy we
must not den y a brother the right
to earn his dailr tortilla. However , realistically speaking, let's
consider the facts.
One very valid argument is
the fact that 15 per cent of the
poor in Mexico earn $100 per
year. Gringolandia, the land of
plenty, is only a skip across the
wire border where emerge Los
Alambristas, the wire crossers,
or a swim acrosstheRioGrande,
where emerge Los Mojados, the
Wetbacks. The Wetback, a hungry, defenseless brother looking
for, of all things, work. He accepts any type of work, and for
less than anybody else. work!
Cheap, cheaper, cheapest; that's
his security blanket.
If the Wetback is lucky, he
gets set up in some chicken coop ,
He works and gets paid with unexpected deductions. such as Social Security, unemployment,
health insurance, transportation,
food, housing, income tax, disability , etc ., none of which are
reported . If he gets 25 cents per
hour , he is still ahead of the
wages he was not earning in
Bee
(Continued from Page 2)
self-determination, blind support
of the UFW is slim among editorial s ta ffers. The question we
ask is whe ther any minority group
can receive fair treatment in a
newspaper whose publi c service
is smudged by editors who would
rather s ee "unpleasant" stories
pass unnoti ced; a •news '' paper
where pr ioriti es are placed on
flower shows andbackpatting, not
hard news . The McClatchy coverage of the UFW march on Gallo
was embarrassing in comparison
to efforts extended by other professional newsgatherers . . . a
thinly-veiled attempt to see the
protest as "the march that wasn't." The resultant stain on Guild
members who worked hard under
the most trying of adversary relationships to produce .a balanced
account of the story is a blow to
our collective efforts to advance
professionalism in the field.
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tion . . . While six and a half
The Wetback may c.onvince the
million Americans· are unempatroncito to sponsor him and
ployed . ... there are ... maybe
help him legalize his residency.
two or three million aliens illeThe not so lucky Wetback may
gally holding ·jobs ... They're in
come across the Gringo employer
heavy industry, light industry,
or any other such employer, who
construction work, d riving
expects 16-18 hour days, seven
taxis ... "
days a week, and promises a
Jan. 22, 1975 - L. F. Chapbonus along with earnings, •when
man -- . . . said he promised
the crop is in." When the crop is
Congress if it passed the necesin, the patroncitodoes his Amerisary legislation he could open up
can duty, calls the Migra and conone million jobs now held by
veniently forgets to pay all his
aliens, about 190,000 of them in
wetback labor.
the border cities in California,
The Wetback is picked up by the
Arizona, New Mexico and Texas_.
Migra, transported to the border
Jan. 28, 1975 -- Rep. B. F. Sisk
where he is kept from three
said a survey taken of California
days to three months in the juzcounties found that millions of
gado (or hoosegow, if you will).
dollars are being spent for alien
His reason for risking an illegal
medical care which must be
entry into a forked-tongued counpicked up by local taxpayers. In
try was, besides personal hunger,
the Central San .Joaquin Valley,
the love and responsibility of a
the cost is more than two milhungry family . What happens to
lion dollars. Fresno County spent
them? Where are all the yanqui
$800.000.
dolars?
Jan. 30. 1975 -- Under presWhere is this saviour of the
homeless when the Wetback is
facing this violent a_ttempt at
survival? How long after the
humiliation, exploitation and development of powerlessness,
does the Redeemer turn lip service into emancipation?
How is the dignity of "Viva La
Raza" justified when that same
Raza is allowed to be psychoBY. Angie Rios
logically castrated. The same
La Voz Staff Writer
spokespeople who defend the WetAn art e~hibit of local Chicano
back's right to be here, don't
artists will he held to give peocome to his rescue with lawyers,
ple with potential an opportunity
laws, petitions or take his place
to display their work, said
in El Hoyo (the hole), where he
Ernesto Palomino, director of the
waits to be deported. Do daily
Barrio Art Studios, which will
food caravans, organized by our
take place Sunday, April 6, at
benevolent Redentores, leave the
3907 E. Grant.
Chicano barrios destined for the
"Evet yt ing , ,1at is brought into
hungry families of the waiting
the studio will be · displayed,"
deportees?
Palomino, professor of art at
No! It is possible that they are
CSUF . said of the exhibit which
organizing food drives for the
will run through the month of
hungry farmworkers who were
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displaced by the Wetbacks, whom
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they so staunchly defend.
The White and Blue collar
working public has, up to now, benignly sat back and "tskd, tskd"
the wetback situation. The Wetback was merely displacing
farmworkers
in agricultural
By Ernesto Moreno
areas and poor blacks and other
La Voz Staff Writer
immigrants in industrial areas.
For more than two gene·rations
Tsk. Tsk. Suddenly, with inflathere has been a serious drug
tion, the recession and a statisand alcohol problem in the Chitical 11 per cent of the country's
working public unemployed, the . cano community. This problem
until recently has been largely
Wetback has become a personal
ignored by the general public bethreat to U.S. John Q. Citizen.
cause it usually has no personal
A few excerpts from the Freseffect on them, said Esther Casno Bee folfow :
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tillo, a member of the CSUF
Jan. 8, 1975-JamesF.Green,
School of Social Work Program
Deputy Commissioner, INS "We
Committee.
want to improve employment op"The general solution of the
portunities in the nation through
problem nas been to let the police
increased apprehension of illegal
and courts handle the situation .
aliens in the US and deterrent
This legal approach has ignored
of additional entries."
the moral. sociological and culJan. 15, 1975 - Leonard F.
tural problems of the person inChapman, INS Commissioner
volved," said Castillo .
"It's really an incredible situa-
sure from growing unemployment, Congress may act on an
immigration bill ... Sen. James
O. Eastland, has indicated he is
relaxing his opposition to such
a measure (Rotlino's) ... Rodino
said the illegal alien problem
"has now reached severe, almost
crisis proportion." INS estimates
that 4 to 12 million illegal aliens
are living in the U.S . . . .
Peter Rodino, Democrat from
New Jersey and Chairman of
House Judiciary Committee, is
planning quick action on a bill he
introduced, to prohibit an employer from "knowifigly" hiring
an illegal alien. Under the circumstances "knowingly" . may
soon be dropped, If this bill becomes law, the employer or labor
contractor will be fined as much
as $500 .00 or up to one year in
jail.
How many employers, who hire
wetba cks to save a dine, are going
to lllow $ 500 to keep wetback
labor? How many Coyotes are go-
ing to risk one year in jail in
defense of the hands that feed
him? Once Big Daddy stops hiring Wetbacks because it might
hurt his pocket book, who's going
to feed 4 to 12 million Wetbacks?
The do-goading American public does good only when it can
afford to. It cannot afford to now.
For the same reason that John
Q. Public politely shooed Los
Repatriados back to Mexico during the Depression, he will, not so
politely, do so again. A social
problem becomes a social problem when it hits below the belt.
This time Wenceslado Wetback is
displacing John Q. Public himself and it's JQP's family who is
in danger of going hungry.
If brother Wenceslado Wetback
is to continue running and hiding
like a criminal and "kept on the
level of a beast rather than a
man it is plainly violent," as described in "Faith and Violence"
by Thomas Merton.
Chicano artists show will highlight
opening of Barrio Art Studios
April. "We want to see how much
of an audience we can create to
establish a project within the
community to involve personal
and private work."
The studio will be open for the
public to view the works presented : Wednesday and Thursday from 6 to 9 p.m. and Friday,
Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 6
p . m.
.,,
"The purpose of the art exhibit
is to . serve as an idea of the
beginning of a school," said Palomino. "A school to serve the
Drug abuse will be topic at
Pinedale Community Center
A workshop entitled •substance
Abuse in the Chicano Community," will attempt to examine
and focus on the problems of
Chicano drug and alcohol abuse.
The workshop will be held Monday, April 14 at the Pinedale
Community Center in Pinedale.
Castillo said the objectives
of the workshop are to examine
the physiological, sociological
and psychological aspects of the
Chicano drug or alcohol abuser.
It will also attempt to present
alternative approaches for the
treatment of the drug and alcohol
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artists by means of employment.
Also to keep in stock, works of
these artists to be used as traveling exhibits for future use."
Palomino sees future plans in
what the art school can provide
for both the city and county. "We
want to get them interested in an
art center to be held perhaps at
the Memorial Auditorium. At the
present time we are looking into
money to fund . the entire project," said Palomino.
The art center will be used as
a showcase for dancing, theater,
art, music and poetry, said Palomino.
The staff of the studio consists
of John Sierra, coordinator, and
Bob Mejia, building and grounds
technician.
Working to represent Chicano
artists of the comm unity are
Barrio Art Studio Board members Tony Roque, CSUF La Raza
Studies art instructor; Bob Cruz,
instructor at La Universidad De
Atzlan; and Francisco Barrios, .
professor of art education at
CSUF.
Palomino urges those interested in participating in the art
exhibit to bring their work in by
Sunday (April 6) afternoon. For
more information call 266-1311.
•we want to find a way to teach
the community about what we have
to offer them, and to do this is
why we need the corn munity,"
said Palomino.
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Talking with her at her home,
outside what she calls her "office," a make-shift shed consisting of tin panels for a roof,
held up hy a rickety 2 x 4 frame,
in the middle of a typical Chicano
jardin with the ever-present nopales y tinas added to complete
the scenery, Carmen, freshly out
of the shower in her wrinkled
shirt and toeless tennis shoes
talked, played her guitar and
sang. When she does this it's as
though it all is one continuous
co·nv~rsation in song.
"Singing is beautiful because
it's a form of expression, it's
soul satifsying," she said, flashing that quick smile that appears
even when she says something
serious.
MEMBERS OF MECHA's Comite Semana '75 are shown at a meeting discussing the coming events for
Sem.ana de La Raz~ aweek-longcelebrationofCinco de Mayo, which will feature speakers and activities
both on campus and off during the week of May 4-10, including a fund-raiser dance on April 17 at the
Rainbow Ballroom. Tickets and more information are available from any Comite member or by calling
La Raza Studies office, 487-2848. Photo by Erik Strom.
Te atro workshop a 'success';
200 attend, say coordinators
By Ernesto Moreno
La Voz Staff Writer ·
The Teatro Workshop held on
· March 22 was termed a success
by its coordinators, Steve Solano
and Maria-Luisa Hernandez. ·
There were a little over 200
students in attendance, said Solano, as he spoke with satisfaction of the first Teatro Workshop
ever held on the CSUF <'.ampus.
"The intent of the workshop
was to stress emphasis on the
different areas of Teatro," said
Hernandez. The areas covered
were: Musica, Movement, Playwriting, Makeup, Voice, Philosophy and Technical, she said.
The ,workshop offered an open
invitation to anyone who was
interested in attending the seminars to find out for themselves
what Teatro actually is, said Sola•10.
For those who attended the
workshop. it proved to he quite
an enlightening experience,
agreed hoth coordinators, in that
the theatre of the underdog shared
with those in attendance its unique
v.alue to the Chicano community,
they said.
Jose Rodriguez, a student and
me m her of the CSUF Teatro, said
he was happy with the turnout of
high school students from
throughout the valley . He said it
was a means of communicating
with them and exposing, them
to the colle ge atmosphere.
The success of the conference
can a ls o be attributed to the actu al involvement of the students in
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Students were given the opportunity to do something in each
seminar, they didn't just sit,and
listen, said Rodriguez.
The workshop ended with a
"Trostor11iaso" (a light ineal) to
put everyone in a serene mood ,
after which everyone went their
different ways after a long day
or sharing, working, and learning
th~ basic makeup of Chicano
Theatre, a valuable form of art
that is here to stay, said Solano.
Churches, synagogues pl(!n
to observe Farm Worker
The U11itecl States Catholic
Conference, the Synag-ogue Council of America and the National
Council of Churchps of Christ
in the USA have issued a call
to the <'lntrches and synag-og;ues to
participate in the sec·ond annual
ohservance of Farm Worker
Wl'ek, May 4-10, 197:i . Tell thousand churches and synagogues_jJ1
I :i0 towns and metropoliLln areas
are expected to join in services
and spe<'ial events fo<'used on
the needs of America·s two million seasonal and migrant' farm
workers.
The idea for Farm Worker
Week hegan in 1973 at a meeting
of the National Farm Worker
Ministry, a coalition of 34 national and regional religious
groups who carry on a religious
ministry among migrant and seas onal farm workers. Ruth Gil bert, President of the NFWM,
su mmarized the purpos e of Farm
Worker Week:
"The liter atu r e for FWW carries this sim ple message: 'as
you cons ide r wo rld-wide hunger .
cons ider the cry for bread and
jus tic e that comes from thos e
hung r y worke rs in Am e r i ca. who
by the ir labor and t hei r sacri fices fe ed all of us and out child r e n . ' The cry 'for b read and
justice ' comes most clearly and
persistently fr om those farm
work er s who are doing the wo rk
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For Carmen singing was something she grew up with. Both her
mother and father were singers
at Jardin Canales (now Las Palmas) en el_"Barrio Chino." They
were known as "El Dueto Los
Morenos" and her father was also
Drug abuse
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problems facing the Chicano and
to develop community awareness
in reference to the Chicano drug
and alcohol abuse problem, she
said.
Juan Acevedo, director of a
nar<'otics prevention pro ;ect in
East Los Angeles, and Assemblyman Richard Alatorre will speak
of various drug abuse topics in
the community and in the state
legislature.
If you would like any further
information concerning the workshop, contact Guadalupe Avila,
Esther Castillo or Rita Michel
through either the School of Social Work or La Raza Studies
at CSUF.
or jnstic-e uncl .r the l_fadE>rship
of Cesar Chavez ·and the •United
Farm Workers. They ask us to
participate in their struggle by
making the farm workers• boycott a matter of conscience: each
one of us can join in a simple
fast for justice by not eating table
grapes or head lettuce (unless you
see the UFW hlack eagle label)
until farm workers have a chance
to choose their own union ..,
UFW ma rch
set Saturday
A march and ran~· against Gallo
has been <'alled for tomorrow in
San Jose hy the United Farm
Workers, according to Tanis
Ybarra, Selma Area director for
the Union, who urged all support ers to attend . For m ore informa ti on call (Selma) 896 - 5231.
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a song writer, who composed
many songs recorded by them as
well as other singers.
Once when she was asking he r
father for money a man overheard
and offered her $2 if she would
sing a song, and that's how she
got started on her singing care er .
For two years she sang on the
Luis Gomez Show. "I sang the
traditional Mexican songs. It wa s
hard to break away because L ui s
Gozes had to okay everything .
"Dias me dio ese don so wha t
could I do?" she remembers.
She has toured the United States
performing in nightclubs and
lounges but in October of 1972
she stopped.
"No more, no more no more "
she said, explaining that "I play;d
different gigs - like at popular
restaurants in the Los Angeles
area. In some of these places the
people seemed to get uncomfortable when I sang something
they could not understand."
"After four corridos people
would start clinking their glasses
and moving and fidgeting in their
seats. It would just drive me
crazy."
She sang for a night club audience last January where, she
said, "I could feel a wall of resistance. I guess they expected
Chiquita Banana to come out
singing. I had to take my guitar
and go back to people.
"As a perform er I wanted to
communicate, but I couldn't when
96 per cent of the audience couldn't understand the lingo."
She and her brother, Luis Moreno, have acted in a Bill Cosby,
Robert Culp movie "Hickey and
Boggs." She also got a part in
the latest Billy Jack production,
"The Master Gunfighter."
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the area of handbill distribution, bill posting, andzany
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first three weeks you'll be
working mostly your own
hours at your co·nvenience.
During the gala premiere
week you may be escorting
Hollywood starlets to interviews or driving star Bruce
Dern to the klieglit opening.
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She had jus t re turned home to Easton from Los
Angeles where she had been acting and singing in
various night clubs . She had a part in a couple of
movi es , still there was s omething missing.
So when she found herself back in the Fresno area
she called CSUF and asked for a Chicano group .. She
was dire cted to r.,a Raza Studies where she simply
asked , "Do you want to hear me sing?"
Car men Moreno made her appearan ce at the next
MECHA meeting .
Her performance was more than a performance.
Capturing the audience in an intimacy which only can
result fro m sharing a mutual experience in life, her
vibrant fresh style slapped the usually lethargic
meeting into wide-awake attention . While s i nging
"canciones" she would intermittently halt and rap a
"pla tica" which the listeners took to as well as her
music. She had only been there a few hours and
already she was one of them .
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Former student
The new executive director of
the Greater F r esno Area Plan
has three months to accomplish
what a five year plan was supposed to do .
Si priano Martinez, a former
CSUF s tudent body vice president,
said the home town plan for get-
By Gra~e Solis
Plans to open up a Gallo Boycott Office in Fresno were announced at a meeting Thursday by
the United Farm Workers Union.
Tanis Ybarra , area director of
the UFWU made the announcement Wednesday at the Sunset
Community Center, where approximately 40 representatives
of various community organizations met to discuss the Gallo
Boycott.
Ann Williamson, a Fresno resident, was named to coordinate
and supervise the activities of
the office, which includes finding
an office. Ms. Williamson said
that the UFW is looking for a
centrally located office. •we will
be starting our Gallo boycott activities in the West Side of Fresno. An ideal location for the office would .be downtown Fresno,"
she said .
Although the UFWU has been
boycotting Gallo wines for nearly
two years, this will be the first
attempt to actively promote the
Gallo boycott in the Fresnoarea.
Gallo boycott offices have been
su1.-~:essful across the nation ,
especially on the Eastern coast,
in removing Gallo wines from
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ting more minorities into the construction and trade unions was the
first attempt to get at the high
paying trade union jobs Jor minorities.
"We're not out here to play a
numbers game ," said Martinez.
"If there is a job, what we are
Gallo boycott office
will open
Friday, April 4, 1975
Fresno
store shelves, said Williamson.
Williamson is also recruiting
volunteers to work in the office,
talk to store owners and picket
if necessary . One of the major
obstacles William son said she
faces is the lack of money.
"The UFWU has never- had
money to speak of, so we will
be depending heavily on volunteers.
"As long as we have the support
of the people, that's all that matters. Gallo can buy all the advertising space he wants to, but
he can't buy the workers," said
Ybarra.
· Williamson said that the emphasis of the boycott will be on
Gallo wines. She cautioned wine
drinkers who would like to support the UFW to read the labels
carefully. "Not all Gallo wines
have a Gallo label on them. The
words to look for are: Bottled
in Modesto, Ca.," she said. •In
addition to not buying Gallo wines,
talk to the store owners about the
Gallo Boycott and encourage them
not to stock Gallo wine."
Anyone wishing to volunteer to
work in the Gallo Boycott office
is asked to contact Ann Williamson at 266-2108 or call the UFWU
Service Center at 896-5251.
talking about is a percentage of
the total jobs, to equal the minority population in the area."
Field representative, Edward
Pe rez , also a former CSUF student , said their handicap has been
to find journeymen qualified for
a trade, especially minority
journeymen, since most of them
are working already, she said.
Mar ti nez was named executive
director of the Greater Fresno
Area Plan last week, ending an
impasse over who was to administer the ·plan to bring more
minority workers into the construction industry.
Martinez was one ofthree candidates recommended by Emilio
Lopez, of San Francisco, a regional director of the U.S. Labor
Department's Office of Federal
Contract Complicance (OICC) . .
Lopez intervened in the matter
when a deadlock resulted because
minority representatives on the
plan's administrative committee
wanted the director to be a minority, while labor and management wanted an Anglo.
Martinez was agreeable to all
sides and was voted in unanimously, to take over the program which has until June to accomplish its objectives covered
in its five year plan.
Martinez said he feels that too
much emphasis in the past has
been placed on getting more minorities into the labor unions
which may not necessarily have '
the construction jobs available
for all its members.
e
•That's not dealing with mi- l?
norities,
that's dealing with al
~
dues," he said. •The bigproblem ~
is finding jobs with contractors
who will accept the minority
worker, that's where the emphasis should be."
Both Martinez and Perez say
they are optimistic they will
come up with a plan to fulfill
the goals set for the five year
program and they hope to be able
to extend the project until all the
goals are accomplished, they
said.
SIPRIANO MARTINEZ
2-THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Friday, April 4, 1975
Jobs
COMMENTARIES
Minority teacher representation: disparity still?
By Ricardo Rodriguez
Chairman, Comite CHE
(Chicanos ln Higher Education)
In a report to the California
Legislature in November, Legislative Analyst A . Alan Post reported that California's public
and private
teacher-training
campuses are graduating 20,000
teachers each year into a job
market that now exhibits a turnover rate of less than 10,000
teaching positions.
He also said without adding
any recommendations, that the
enrollment of minorities in teacher training at the university and
college campuses is low, compared to state-wide public school
erirollment. .
Post's study showed that, alchough in California Chicano enrollment in the public schools is
17.2 per cent, Chicanos are still
grossly under-represented with
only 2 per cent of the total credentialed teachers.
Unfortunately, such sad statistics did not warrant enough attention to the analyst. In a ·
summary of the distribution of
minority groups in teacher traini0g programs, it was noted that
Chicanos comprise less than ri
per cent of enrollees of the state
university and college system.
Obviously, sucti statistics depict
a gross racial disparity in teacher training programs across
California. This form of institutional racism directed at the chi cano, is just one example of the
mis-education that harrio children receive in the v a 11 e y
schools.
They are heing denied an important educational resource Chicano teachers that can relate
to them. Also, there are more
Chicanos than Anglos who are bilingual, and thus better equipped
to deal with the English language
difficulties of the Chicano student - and the Chicano teacher
can provide more effective role
models for the Chicano youth.
With the result of the Lau vs.
Nichols decision by the U.S . Supreme Court, along with the
federal and state money appropriations for hicultural education
and the newly lnstitutect Ryan
Act, teacher training programs
should direct their attention to the
issue at hand. To deny Chicano
children a bi cultural education .
is to deny them the opport11nity
to develop their intellectual potential to its fullest degree.
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To put aside the need to train
competent bicultural teachers is
to perpetuate the inequality of
education that the Chicano community is being offered in the
schools of this valley.
To c•ntinue to credential
teachers who are not competent
to teach in a bilingual, hicultural
setting is to advocate the present
50 per cent dropout rate of Chicano students.
y, al ·fin, to pretend that some
teacher aides with bilingual skills
and proven teaching competence
are not more capable than many
teachers is to be blind to the
crucial need to restructure
teacher training programs to
meet the needs of the corresponding local service areas as mandated for in the Ryan Act.
The problems of unequal educational opportunities are of such
magnitude and so wi<'lespre:.i<I that
it would be unwise to rely on
the efforts of individual school
districts to bring about the kind
of uniform and comprehensive
teacher training reform needed.
Therefore, it is the moral obligation and responsibility of the
teacher training programs to take
the lead in providin·g higher education to Chicanos in education,
hut at the same time fill the ur-gent need for hicultural teachers
in California.
The affirmative action policy
would be actively realized. A relaxed admissions policy, free of
discriminating requirements and
tests, available to all who seek
entrance in the schools of education, is the first logical step in
eliminating epucational racism.
summarily, /all efforts should
proceed with the perspective of
providing a true educational experience for all students .
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and has knowledge of dictaphone, billing, drafting, arid shorthand, also general office knowledge.
Starting salary $605 per month, approximately 40 hours
per week.
JUNIOR TYPIST CLERK: Must live in Fresno County, also
must be unemployed or underemployed, Spanish speaking is
required.
Starting salary $432 $551 per month .
COUNSELOR: The Boy Scouts of America are seeking coun-
selors for their members ... the pay is satisfactory ... for
more information call 266-3117.
SALESMAN: Local department store is l~oking for an experienced salesman, person who has had at lease one year in
selling men's clothing and who has the ability to establish
customer following. Spanish speaking is a must because of
large Mexican clientel. Contact Jobs Skills Bank at 729 "P"
Street or call 266-0895.
SALESMAN: Local radio station is looking for Spanish speaking
salesman . You will be selling sales advertisements to different
Chicano businessmen in F resnof Hanford and Merced. Salary
is $600 a month.
For more information call JOB SKILLS BANK at 266-0895
or inquire at 729 "P" Street.
Bee buzzes by boycott . ..
•What labor unrest?
(Editor's Note: The following
commentary appeared in the
March issue of the Sanamento
Newspaper Guild Newsletter. The
newsletter is distrihutecl only to
its memhers, including the editorial staff of the Sacramento•
Bee , and the remainder of the
Mc:Clat.chy Puhlishing Co. , incl11ding the Fresno and Modesto
Bees.)
While the attention of the entire
nation wa.s foc:u.sed on the mar<'h
of Cesar Chavez. and his follow~!rs
Oil the Gallo Winery in Modesto,
The Modesto Bee fo<·used its
attention oil anything awl everything else. "Editorially whistling
in the dark and hopirw: the monster would go away" was the way
one ohsen•tir put it.
Finally, reluC"tantly, the stor:v
made page one, al>ov1.~ the fold ...
with some prodding from staffers. The next day it had titrnhled
from sight.
CBS, NBC, The San Francisco
Examiner and ThP Los Angeles
Times <'overed the event with
news teams -- while The Modesto
Bee sent a reportPr and photographer to covPr the march (for
all three Bees and AP!) of ovn
8,000 peopl!:! . . . a spot assignment sandwiched in between other
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An explanation? "Management
doesn't thi11k this story is that
important."
Could the fact the luncheon
meeting between Gallo's Public
Relations director and The Modesto Bee managing editor have
entered into that evaluation? Or
the full-page ads Gallo ran in all
three Bees?
And where did that picture
come from that ran in The Bee,
or the marc-hers passing The
Modesto Junk Comp?,nY? Ii wasn't
one of those al<en by The Bee
photographer assigned to the
event. Perhaps too many of his
pi!'tures showt~d "Boycott Gallo"
signs·.•
Ttie11 there 'wa s the "KO.YR-TV
"Action News•· film cre.w on hand,
rlaiming they were there only if
"sonwthing happens'' . . . presumahly of a violent nature. When
Channel 13 finall~· broadcast a
report of the Saturday activities
the following Monclay. the story
had heen reassigned to a reporter
of Spanish descent. Apparently
under the management assumption "it takes one to know one."
It St:>ems incredulous that the
M<'Clat!'lly top echelon would he
so overt in the effort to dowP.piar the UFW story. If WP are
indeed 1wws gatht:>rers and not
news makers. this credo must :1pply to olijectivE> ~diting as wt:>!! as
ohjeetive rt:>porting . Tlw question
is not onP of supporting the UFW
or Cesar Chavez . . . past the
helief in workers to the right of
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El Concilio de Fresno
'
initiates Job Skills Bank
By Ernesto Moreno
La Voz Staff Writer
El Concilio de Fresno, a coordinated body of organization
representatives , agency representatives, and individuals of the
Spanish speaking community,
have implemented a project that
would benefit the largest ethnic
minority group in the county of
Fresno.
The Job Skills Bank has been
initiated to provide the Spanish
speaking community the assistance it needs in the area of em ployment.
"Although there are other
agencies in Fresno County that
provide similar services, the
Joh Skills Bank will mainly deal
with the problems of the MexicanAmerican and his special needs,"
said Paul Rivera, coordinator of
the project.
The services offered by the
pro,j ect are in the areas of:
Outreach and Community
Education
. . . informing pGtential jobchangers and seekers of the
available services at the Concilio.
Job Orientation
preparing the job-seeker
for the world of work and to instill in him tile proper skills in
seeking and applying for a job.
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Job Development
identifying new employee
positions in expanding or new industries, assisting prospective
employers in finding the right
employee for their company or
business.
Job Bank
. . . compile information on
employers and job seekers on a
data management system that
would enable the data referrals
bank to make quick and accurate
match-ups.
Job Refer r al and Placement
on the basis of the matchups made by the job bank, applicants are· sent to the prospective
employer.
Follow-up
. . . a means of finding out the
results of the referral and / or
placement.
Anyone in the Spanish· speaking
community. 18 years or older and
who reside in the City or County
of Fresno are eligible , tf they are
unemploy ed and seeking work,
underem plo~·ed ( either seasonal
workers recei ving a wage insufficient to provid e for the needs of
their family or other wo rkers in
the same situation), employed
persons who have be en released
from co r rec tional ins titutions,
military serYice, or who have
been dis a ble d. sa id Ri ve ra.
This project t s aim ed at satis:..
fying the. need s of t he Spanish
speaking person but will offer its .
services to anyone in need of
them, said Rivera.
Anyone interested in the project or more inform dtion, may
contact Rivera or any job skills
counselor at '720 "P" 8t . , Fresno.
California or phone 266-8095.
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Editor . .
. . . . , . . Larry Romero
Photographer . , . . . . . . Larry Leon
Reporters . . . . . . . Ernesto Moreno,
Anna Noriega, Angie Rios,
Grace Solis
Gringolandia, the land of plenty
Friday,_April 4, 1975·
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN-l
The Violence of Being a Wetback
By Hope Chavarria
The Wetback has been a conversation piece for a number of
years. He is defended byChicano
liberators and patronizing patroncitos. He is an obstacle to
Union organizers and a pathogenic parasite to farmworkers
and other U.S. resident poor. He
is a dollar $ign for Coyote$ and
a ren_ted $lave for California
growers. He is a steady job for
the Im migration and Naturalization Service - La Migra. Suddenly he is something else -- a
social problem . The following
deals with----the liberators, The
Redeemers(Los Redentores), and
with the Indifferent.
The Chicano liberator has a
heart thirteen times bigger than
the Grinch. He argues that the
Wetback is a brother ; he was
here before any gringo wetback:
fifteen ( 15%) percent of the poor
in Mexi co earn $100.00 per year;
he has a right to earn a living;
he ' s not hurting anyone. This is
true . In our benevolent mercy we
must not den y a brother the right
to earn his dailr tortilla. However , realistically speaking, let's
consider the facts.
One very valid argument is
the fact that 15 per cent of the
poor in Mexico earn $100 per
year. Gringolandia, the land of
plenty, is only a skip across the
wire border where emerge Los
Alambristas, the wire crossers,
or a swim acrosstheRioGrande,
where emerge Los Mojados, the
Wetbacks. The Wetback, a hungry, defenseless brother looking
for, of all things, work. He accepts any type of work, and for
less than anybody else. work!
Cheap, cheaper, cheapest; that's
his security blanket.
If the Wetback is lucky, he
gets set up in some chicken coop ,
He works and gets paid with unexpected deductions. such as Social Security, unemployment,
health insurance, transportation,
food, housing, income tax, disability , etc ., none of which are
reported . If he gets 25 cents per
hour , he is still ahead of the
wages he was not earning in
Bee
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self-determination, blind support
of the UFW is slim among editorial s ta ffers. The question we
ask is whe ther any minority group
can receive fair treatment in a
newspaper whose publi c service
is smudged by editors who would
rather s ee "unpleasant" stories
pass unnoti ced; a •news '' paper
where pr ioriti es are placed on
flower shows andbackpatting, not
hard news . The McClatchy coverage of the UFW march on Gallo
was embarrassing in comparison
to efforts extended by other professional newsgatherers . . . a
thinly-veiled attempt to see the
protest as "the march that wasn't." The resultant stain on Guild
members who worked hard under
the most trying of adversary relationships to produce .a balanced
account of the story is a blow to
our collective efforts to advance
professionalism in the field.
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tion . . . While six and a half
The Wetback may c.onvince the
million Americans· are unempatroncito to sponsor him and
ployed . ... there are ... maybe
help him legalize his residency.
two or three million aliens illeThe not so lucky Wetback may
gally holding ·jobs ... They're in
come across the Gringo employer
heavy industry, light industry,
or any other such employer, who
construction work, d riving
expects 16-18 hour days, seven
taxis ... "
days a week, and promises a
Jan. 22, 1975 - L. F. Chapbonus along with earnings, •when
man -- . . . said he promised
the crop is in." When the crop is
Congress if it passed the necesin, the patroncitodoes his Amerisary legislation he could open up
can duty, calls the Migra and conone million jobs now held by
veniently forgets to pay all his
aliens, about 190,000 of them in
wetback labor.
the border cities in California,
The Wetback is picked up by the
Arizona, New Mexico and Texas_.
Migra, transported to the border
Jan. 28, 1975 -- Rep. B. F. Sisk
where he is kept from three
said a survey taken of California
days to three months in the juzcounties found that millions of
gado (or hoosegow, if you will).
dollars are being spent for alien
His reason for risking an illegal
medical care which must be
entry into a forked-tongued counpicked up by local taxpayers. In
try was, besides personal hunger,
the Central San .Joaquin Valley,
the love and responsibility of a
the cost is more than two milhungry family . What happens to
lion dollars. Fresno County spent
them? Where are all the yanqui
$800.000.
dolars?
Jan. 30. 1975 -- Under presWhere is this saviour of the
homeless when the Wetback is
facing this violent a_ttempt at
survival? How long after the
humiliation, exploitation and development of powerlessness,
does the Redeemer turn lip service into emancipation?
How is the dignity of "Viva La
Raza" justified when that same
Raza is allowed to be psychoBY. Angie Rios
logically castrated. The same
La Voz Staff Writer
spokespeople who defend the WetAn art e~hibit of local Chicano
back's right to be here, don't
artists will he held to give peocome to his rescue with lawyers,
ple with potential an opportunity
laws, petitions or take his place
to display their work, said
in El Hoyo (the hole), where he
Ernesto Palomino, director of the
waits to be deported. Do daily
Barrio Art Studios, which will
food caravans, organized by our
take place Sunday, April 6, at
benevolent Redentores, leave the
3907 E. Grant.
Chicano barrios destined for the
"Evet yt ing , ,1at is brought into
hungry families of the waiting
the studio will be · displayed,"
deportees?
Palomino, professor of art at
No! It is possible that they are
CSUF . said of the exhibit which
organizing food drives for the
will run through the month of
hungry farmworkers who were
I
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displaced by the Wetbacks, whom
'
they so staunchly defend.
The White and Blue collar
working public has, up to now, benignly sat back and "tskd, tskd"
the wetback situation. The Wetback was merely displacing
farmworkers
in agricultural
By Ernesto Moreno
areas and poor blacks and other
La Voz Staff Writer
immigrants in industrial areas.
For more than two gene·rations
Tsk. Tsk. Suddenly, with inflathere has been a serious drug
tion, the recession and a statisand alcohol problem in the Chitical 11 per cent of the country's
working public unemployed, the . cano community. This problem
until recently has been largely
Wetback has become a personal
ignored by the general public bethreat to U.S. John Q. Citizen.
cause it usually has no personal
A few excerpts from the Freseffect on them, said Esther Casno Bee folfow :
·
tillo, a member of the CSUF
Jan. 8, 1975-JamesF.Green,
School of Social Work Program
Deputy Commissioner, INS "We
Committee.
want to improve employment op"The general solution of the
portunities in the nation through
problem nas been to let the police
increased apprehension of illegal
and courts handle the situation .
aliens in the US and deterrent
This legal approach has ignored
of additional entries."
the moral. sociological and culJan. 15, 1975 - Leonard F.
tural problems of the person inChapman, INS Commissioner
volved," said Castillo .
"It's really an incredible situa-
sure from growing unemployment, Congress may act on an
immigration bill ... Sen. James
O. Eastland, has indicated he is
relaxing his opposition to such
a measure (Rotlino's) ... Rodino
said the illegal alien problem
"has now reached severe, almost
crisis proportion." INS estimates
that 4 to 12 million illegal aliens
are living in the U.S . . . .
Peter Rodino, Democrat from
New Jersey and Chairman of
House Judiciary Committee, is
planning quick action on a bill he
introduced, to prohibit an employer from "knowifigly" hiring
an illegal alien. Under the circumstances "knowingly" . may
soon be dropped, If this bill becomes law, the employer or labor
contractor will be fined as much
as $500 .00 or up to one year in
jail.
How many employers, who hire
wetba cks to save a dine, are going
to lllow $ 500 to keep wetback
labor? How many Coyotes are go-
ing to risk one year in jail in
defense of the hands that feed
him? Once Big Daddy stops hiring Wetbacks because it might
hurt his pocket book, who's going
to feed 4 to 12 million Wetbacks?
The do-goading American public does good only when it can
afford to. It cannot afford to now.
For the same reason that John
Q. Public politely shooed Los
Repatriados back to Mexico during the Depression, he will, not so
politely, do so again. A social
problem becomes a social problem when it hits below the belt.
This time Wenceslado Wetback is
displacing John Q. Public himself and it's JQP's family who is
in danger of going hungry.
If brother Wenceslado Wetback
is to continue running and hiding
like a criminal and "kept on the
level of a beast rather than a
man it is plainly violent," as described in "Faith and Violence"
by Thomas Merton.
Chicano artists show will highlight
opening of Barrio Art Studios
April. "We want to see how much
of an audience we can create to
establish a project within the
community to involve personal
and private work."
The studio will be open for the
public to view the works presented : Wednesday and Thursday from 6 to 9 p.m. and Friday,
Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 6
p . m.
.,,
"The purpose of the art exhibit
is to . serve as an idea of the
beginning of a school," said Palomino. "A school to serve the
Drug abuse will be topic at
Pinedale Community Center
A workshop entitled •substance
Abuse in the Chicano Community," will attempt to examine
and focus on the problems of
Chicano drug and alcohol abuse.
The workshop will be held Monday, April 14 at the Pinedale
Community Center in Pinedale.
Castillo said the objectives
of the workshop are to examine
the physiological, sociological
and psychological aspects of the
Chicano drug or alcohol abuser.
It will also attempt to present
alternative approaches for the
treatment of the drug and alcohol
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artists by means of employment.
Also to keep in stock, works of
these artists to be used as traveling exhibits for future use."
Palomino sees future plans in
what the art school can provide
for both the city and county. "We
want to get them interested in an
art center to be held perhaps at
the Memorial Auditorium. At the
present time we are looking into
money to fund . the entire project," said Palomino.
The art center will be used as
a showcase for dancing, theater,
art, music and poetry, said Palomino.
The staff of the studio consists
of John Sierra, coordinator, and
Bob Mejia, building and grounds
technician.
Working to represent Chicano
artists of the comm unity are
Barrio Art Studio Board members Tony Roque, CSUF La Raza
Studies art instructor; Bob Cruz,
instructor at La Universidad De
Atzlan; and Francisco Barrios, .
professor of art education at
CSUF.
Palomino urges those interested in participating in the art
exhibit to bring their work in by
Sunday (April 6) afternoon. For
more information call 266-1311.
•we want to find a way to teach
the community about what we have
to offer them, and to do this is
why we need the corn munity,"
said Palomino.
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Talking with her at her home,
outside what she calls her "office," a make-shift shed consisting of tin panels for a roof,
held up hy a rickety 2 x 4 frame,
in the middle of a typical Chicano
jardin with the ever-present nopales y tinas added to complete
the scenery, Carmen, freshly out
of the shower in her wrinkled
shirt and toeless tennis shoes
talked, played her guitar and
sang. When she does this it's as
though it all is one continuous
co·nv~rsation in song.
"Singing is beautiful because
it's a form of expression, it's
soul satifsying," she said, flashing that quick smile that appears
even when she says something
serious.
MEMBERS OF MECHA's Comite Semana '75 are shown at a meeting discussing the coming events for
Sem.ana de La Raz~ aweek-longcelebrationofCinco de Mayo, which will feature speakers and activities
both on campus and off during the week of May 4-10, including a fund-raiser dance on April 17 at the
Rainbow Ballroom. Tickets and more information are available from any Comite member or by calling
La Raza Studies office, 487-2848. Photo by Erik Strom.
Te atro workshop a 'success';
200 attend, say coordinators
By Ernesto Moreno
La Voz Staff Writer ·
The Teatro Workshop held on
· March 22 was termed a success
by its coordinators, Steve Solano
and Maria-Luisa Hernandez. ·
There were a little over 200
students in attendance, said Solano, as he spoke with satisfaction of the first Teatro Workshop
ever held on the CSUF <'.ampus.
"The intent of the workshop
was to stress emphasis on the
different areas of Teatro," said
Hernandez. The areas covered
were: Musica, Movement, Playwriting, Makeup, Voice, Philosophy and Technical, she said.
The ,workshop offered an open
invitation to anyone who was
interested in attending the seminars to find out for themselves
what Teatro actually is, said Sola•10.
For those who attended the
workshop. it proved to he quite
an enlightening experience,
agreed hoth coordinators, in that
the theatre of the underdog shared
with those in attendance its unique
v.alue to the Chicano community,
they said.
Jose Rodriguez, a student and
me m her of the CSUF Teatro, said
he was happy with the turnout of
high school students from
throughout the valley . He said it
was a means of communicating
with them and exposing, them
to the colle ge atmosphere.
The success of the conference
can a ls o be attributed to the actu al involvement of the students in
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Students were given the opportunity to do something in each
seminar, they didn't just sit,and
listen, said Rodriguez.
The workshop ended with a
"Trostor11iaso" (a light ineal) to
put everyone in a serene mood ,
after which everyone went their
different ways after a long day
or sharing, working, and learning
th~ basic makeup of Chicano
Theatre, a valuable form of art
that is here to stay, said Solano.
Churches, synagogues pl(!n
to observe Farm Worker
The U11itecl States Catholic
Conference, the Synag-ogue Council of America and the National
Council of Churchps of Christ
in the USA have issued a call
to the <'lntrches and synag-og;ues to
participate in the sec·ond annual
ohservance of Farm Worker
Wl'ek, May 4-10, 197:i . Tell thousand churches and synagogues_jJ1
I :i0 towns and metropoliLln areas
are expected to join in services
and spe<'ial events fo<'used on
the needs of America·s two million seasonal and migrant' farm
workers.
The idea for Farm Worker
Week hegan in 1973 at a meeting
of the National Farm Worker
Ministry, a coalition of 34 national and regional religious
groups who carry on a religious
ministry among migrant and seas onal farm workers. Ruth Gil bert, President of the NFWM,
su mmarized the purpos e of Farm
Worker Week:
"The liter atu r e for FWW carries this sim ple message: 'as
you cons ide r wo rld-wide hunger .
cons ider the cry for bread and
jus tic e that comes from thos e
hung r y worke rs in Am e r i ca. who
by the ir labor and t hei r sacri fices fe ed all of us and out child r e n . ' The cry 'for b read and
justice ' comes most clearly and
persistently fr om those farm
work er s who are doing the wo rk
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For Carmen singing was something she grew up with. Both her
mother and father were singers
at Jardin Canales (now Las Palmas) en el_"Barrio Chino." They
were known as "El Dueto Los
Morenos" and her father was also
Drug abuse
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problems facing the Chicano and
to develop community awareness
in reference to the Chicano drug
and alcohol abuse problem, she
said.
Juan Acevedo, director of a
nar<'otics prevention pro ;ect in
East Los Angeles, and Assemblyman Richard Alatorre will speak
of various drug abuse topics in
the community and in the state
legislature.
If you would like any further
information concerning the workshop, contact Guadalupe Avila,
Esther Castillo or Rita Michel
through either the School of Social Work or La Raza Studies
at CSUF.
or jnstic-e uncl .r the l_fadE>rship
of Cesar Chavez ·and the •United
Farm Workers. They ask us to
participate in their struggle by
making the farm workers• boycott a matter of conscience: each
one of us can join in a simple
fast for justice by not eating table
grapes or head lettuce (unless you
see the UFW hlack eagle label)
until farm workers have a chance
to choose their own union ..,
UFW ma rch
set Saturday
A march and ran~· against Gallo
has been <'alled for tomorrow in
San Jose hy the United Farm
Workers, according to Tanis
Ybarra, Selma Area director for
the Union, who urged all support ers to attend . For m ore informa ti on call (Selma) 896 - 5231.
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a song writer, who composed
many songs recorded by them as
well as other singers.
Once when she was asking he r
father for money a man overheard
and offered her $2 if she would
sing a song, and that's how she
got started on her singing care er .
For two years she sang on the
Luis Gomez Show. "I sang the
traditional Mexican songs. It wa s
hard to break away because L ui s
Gozes had to okay everything .
"Dias me dio ese don so wha t
could I do?" she remembers.
She has toured the United States
performing in nightclubs and
lounges but in October of 1972
she stopped.
"No more, no more no more "
she said, explaining that "I play;d
different gigs - like at popular
restaurants in the Los Angeles
area. In some of these places the
people seemed to get uncomfortable when I sang something
they could not understand."
"After four corridos people
would start clinking their glasses
and moving and fidgeting in their
seats. It would just drive me
crazy."
She sang for a night club audience last January where, she
said, "I could feel a wall of resistance. I guess they expected
Chiquita Banana to come out
singing. I had to take my guitar
and go back to people.
"As a perform er I wanted to
communicate, but I couldn't when
96 per cent of the audience couldn't understand the lingo."
She and her brother, Luis Moreno, have acted in a Bill Cosby,
Robert Culp movie "Hickey and
Boggs." She also got a part in
the latest Billy Jack production,
"The Master Gunfighter."
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Male and female students 17
and over needed for work in
the area of handbill distribution, bill posting, andzany
promotional ideas. During
first three weeks you'll be
working mostly your own
hours at your co·nvenience.
During the gala premiere
week you may be escorting
Hollywood starlets to interviews or driving star Bruce
Dern to the klieglit opening.
The first 100 students to
bring this ad to the UA
Cinemas 1, 2,3,4-FRIDAY,
April 4 after 5 pm will be
interviewed for employment
and admitted FREE to a
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Carm en More no wanted to sing for L a Raza.
She had jus t re turned home to Easton from Los
Angeles where she had been acting and singing in
various night clubs . She had a part in a couple of
movi es , still there was s omething missing.
So when she found herself back in the Fresno area
she called CSUF and asked for a Chicano group .. She
was dire cted to r.,a Raza Studies where she simply
asked , "Do you want to hear me sing?"
Car men Moreno made her appearan ce at the next
MECHA meeting .
Her performance was more than a performance.
Capturing the audience in an intimacy which only can
result fro m sharing a mutual experience in life, her
vibrant fresh style slapped the usually lethargic
meeting into wide-awake attention . While s i nging
"canciones" she would intermittently halt and rap a
"pla tica" which the listeners took to as well as her
music. She had only been there a few hours and
already she was one of them .
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Former student
The new executive director of
the Greater F r esno Area Plan
has three months to accomplish
what a five year plan was supposed to do .
Si priano Martinez, a former
CSUF s tudent body vice president,
said the home town plan for get-
By Gra~e Solis
Plans to open up a Gallo Boycott Office in Fresno were announced at a meeting Thursday by
the United Farm Workers Union.
Tanis Ybarra , area director of
the UFWU made the announcement Wednesday at the Sunset
Community Center, where approximately 40 representatives
of various community organizations met to discuss the Gallo
Boycott.
Ann Williamson, a Fresno resident, was named to coordinate
and supervise the activities of
the office, which includes finding
an office. Ms. Williamson said
that the UFW is looking for a
centrally located office. •we will
be starting our Gallo boycott activities in the West Side of Fresno. An ideal location for the office would .be downtown Fresno,"
she said .
Although the UFWU has been
boycotting Gallo wines for nearly
two years, this will be the first
attempt to actively promote the
Gallo boycott in the Fresnoarea.
Gallo boycott offices have been
su1.-~:essful across the nation ,
especially on the Eastern coast,
in removing Gallo wines from
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ting more minorities into the construction and trade unions was the
first attempt to get at the high
paying trade union jobs Jor minorities.
"We're not out here to play a
numbers game ," said Martinez.
"If there is a job, what we are
Gallo boycott office
will open
Friday, April 4, 1975
Fresno
store shelves, said Williamson.
Williamson is also recruiting
volunteers to work in the office,
talk to store owners and picket
if necessary . One of the major
obstacles William son said she
faces is the lack of money.
"The UFWU has never- had
money to speak of, so we will
be depending heavily on volunteers.
"As long as we have the support
of the people, that's all that matters. Gallo can buy all the advertising space he wants to, but
he can't buy the workers," said
Ybarra.
· Williamson said that the emphasis of the boycott will be on
Gallo wines. She cautioned wine
drinkers who would like to support the UFW to read the labels
carefully. "Not all Gallo wines
have a Gallo label on them. The
words to look for are: Bottled
in Modesto, Ca.," she said. •In
addition to not buying Gallo wines,
talk to the store owners about the
Gallo Boycott and encourage them
not to stock Gallo wine."
Anyone wishing to volunteer to
work in the Gallo Boycott office
is asked to contact Ann Williamson at 266-2108 or call the UFWU
Service Center at 896-5251.
talking about is a percentage of
the total jobs, to equal the minority population in the area."
Field representative, Edward
Pe rez , also a former CSUF student , said their handicap has been
to find journeymen qualified for
a trade, especially minority
journeymen, since most of them
are working already, she said.
Mar ti nez was named executive
director of the Greater Fresno
Area Plan last week, ending an
impasse over who was to administer the ·plan to bring more
minority workers into the construction industry.
Martinez was one ofthree candidates recommended by Emilio
Lopez, of San Francisco, a regional director of the U.S. Labor
Department's Office of Federal
Contract Complicance (OICC) . .
Lopez intervened in the matter
when a deadlock resulted because
minority representatives on the
plan's administrative committee
wanted the director to be a minority, while labor and management wanted an Anglo.
Martinez was agreeable to all
sides and was voted in unanimously, to take over the program which has until June to accomplish its objectives covered
in its five year plan.
Martinez said he feels that too
much emphasis in the past has
been placed on getting more minorities into the labor unions
which may not necessarily have '
the construction jobs available
for all its members.
e
•That's not dealing with mi- l?
norities,
that's dealing with al
~
dues," he said. •The bigproblem ~
is finding jobs with contractors
who will accept the minority
worker, that's where the emphasis should be."
Both Martinez and Perez say
they are optimistic they will
come up with a plan to fulfill
the goals set for the five year
program and they hope to be able
to extend the project until all the
goals are accomplished, they
said.
SIPRIANO MARTINEZ
2-THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Friday, April 4, 1975
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COMMENTARIES
Minority teacher representation: disparity still?
By Ricardo Rodriguez
Chairman, Comite CHE
(Chicanos ln Higher Education)
In a report to the California
Legislature in November, Legislative Analyst A . Alan Post reported that California's public
and private
teacher-training
campuses are graduating 20,000
teachers each year into a job
market that now exhibits a turnover rate of less than 10,000
teaching positions.
He also said without adding
any recommendations, that the
enrollment of minorities in teacher training at the university and
college campuses is low, compared to state-wide public school
erirollment. .
Post's study showed that, alchough in California Chicano enrollment in the public schools is
17.2 per cent, Chicanos are still
grossly under-represented with
only 2 per cent of the total credentialed teachers.
Unfortunately, such sad statistics did not warrant enough attention to the analyst. In a ·
summary of the distribution of
minority groups in teacher traini0g programs, it was noted that
Chicanos comprise less than ri
per cent of enrollees of the state
university and college system.
Obviously, sucti statistics depict
a gross racial disparity in teacher training programs across
California. This form of institutional racism directed at the chi cano, is just one example of the
mis-education that harrio children receive in the v a 11 e y
schools.
They are heing denied an important educational resource Chicano teachers that can relate
to them. Also, there are more
Chicanos than Anglos who are bilingual, and thus better equipped
to deal with the English language
difficulties of the Chicano student - and the Chicano teacher
can provide more effective role
models for the Chicano youth.
With the result of the Lau vs.
Nichols decision by the U.S . Supreme Court, along with the
federal and state money appropriations for hicultural education
and the newly lnstitutect Ryan
Act, teacher training programs
should direct their attention to the
issue at hand. To deny Chicano
children a bi cultural education .
is to deny them the opport11nity
to develop their intellectual potential to its fullest degree.
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To put aside the need to train
competent bicultural teachers is
to perpetuate the inequality of
education that the Chicano community is being offered in the
schools of this valley.
To c•ntinue to credential
teachers who are not competent
to teach in a bilingual, hicultural
setting is to advocate the present
50 per cent dropout rate of Chicano students.
y, al ·fin, to pretend that some
teacher aides with bilingual skills
and proven teaching competence
are not more capable than many
teachers is to be blind to the
crucial need to restructure
teacher training programs to
meet the needs of the corresponding local service areas as mandated for in the Ryan Act.
The problems of unequal educational opportunities are of such
magnitude and so wi<'lespre:.i<I that
it would be unwise to rely on
the efforts of individual school
districts to bring about the kind
of uniform and comprehensive
teacher training reform needed.
Therefore, it is the moral obligation and responsibility of the
teacher training programs to take
the lead in providin·g higher education to Chicanos in education,
hut at the same time fill the ur-gent need for hicultural teachers
in California.
The affirmative action policy
would be actively realized. A relaxed admissions policy, free of
discriminating requirements and
tests, available to all who seek
entrance in the schools of education, is the first logical step in
eliminating epucational racism.
summarily, /all efforts should
proceed with the perspective of
providing a true educational experience for all students .
SECRETARY: Person who can type 65-70 words per minute
and has knowledge of dictaphone, billing, drafting, arid shorthand, also general office knowledge.
Starting salary $605 per month, approximately 40 hours
per week.
JUNIOR TYPIST CLERK: Must live in Fresno County, also
must be unemployed or underemployed, Spanish speaking is
required.
Starting salary $432 $551 per month .
COUNSELOR: The Boy Scouts of America are seeking coun-
selors for their members ... the pay is satisfactory ... for
more information call 266-3117.
SALESMAN: Local department store is l~oking for an experienced salesman, person who has had at lease one year in
selling men's clothing and who has the ability to establish
customer following. Spanish speaking is a must because of
large Mexican clientel. Contact Jobs Skills Bank at 729 "P"
Street or call 266-0895.
SALESMAN: Local radio station is looking for Spanish speaking
salesman . You will be selling sales advertisements to different
Chicano businessmen in F resnof Hanford and Merced. Salary
is $600 a month.
For more information call JOB SKILLS BANK at 266-0895
or inquire at 729 "P" Street.
Bee buzzes by boycott . ..
•What labor unrest?
(Editor's Note: The following
commentary appeared in the
March issue of the Sanamento
Newspaper Guild Newsletter. The
newsletter is distrihutecl only to
its memhers, including the editorial staff of the Sacramento•
Bee , and the remainder of the
Mc:Clat.chy Puhlishing Co. , incl11ding the Fresno and Modesto
Bees.)
While the attention of the entire
nation wa.s foc:u.sed on the mar<'h
of Cesar Chavez. and his follow~!rs
Oil the Gallo Winery in Modesto,
The Modesto Bee fo<·used its
attention oil anything awl everything else. "Editorially whistling
in the dark and hopirw: the monster would go away" was the way
one ohsen•tir put it.
Finally, reluC"tantly, the stor:v
made page one, al>ov1.~ the fold ...
with some prodding from staffers. The next day it had titrnhled
from sight.
CBS, NBC, The San Francisco
Examiner and ThP Los Angeles
Times <'overed the event with
news teams -- while The Modesto
Bee sent a reportPr and photographer to covPr the march (for
all three Bees and AP!) of ovn
8,000 peopl!:! . . . a spot assignment sandwiched in between other
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An explanation? "Management
doesn't thi11k this story is that
important."
Could the fact the luncheon
meeting between Gallo's Public
Relations director and The Modesto Bee managing editor have
entered into that evaluation? Or
the full-page ads Gallo ran in all
three Bees?
And where did that picture
come from that ran in The Bee,
or the marc-hers passing The
Modesto Junk Comp?,nY? Ii wasn't
one of those al<en by The Bee
photographer assigned to the
event. Perhaps too many of his
pi!'tures showt~d "Boycott Gallo"
signs·.•
Ttie11 there 'wa s the "KO.YR-TV
"Action News•· film cre.w on hand,
rlaiming they were there only if
"sonwthing happens'' . . . presumahly of a violent nature. When
Channel 13 finall~· broadcast a
report of the Saturday activities
the following Monclay. the story
had heen reassigned to a reporter
of Spanish descent. Apparently
under the management assumption "it takes one to know one."
It St:>ems incredulous that the
M<'Clat!'lly top echelon would he
so overt in the effort to dowP.piar the UFW story. If WP are
indeed 1wws gatht:>rers and not
news makers. this credo must :1pply to olijectivE> ~diting as wt:>!! as
ohjeetive rt:>porting . Tlw question
is not onP of supporting the UFW
or Cesar Chavez . . . past the
helief in workers to the right of
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El Concilio de Fresno
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initiates Job Skills Bank
By Ernesto Moreno
La Voz Staff Writer
El Concilio de Fresno, a coordinated body of organization
representatives , agency representatives, and individuals of the
Spanish speaking community,
have implemented a project that
would benefit the largest ethnic
minority group in the county of
Fresno.
The Job Skills Bank has been
initiated to provide the Spanish
speaking community the assistance it needs in the area of em ployment.
"Although there are other
agencies in Fresno County that
provide similar services, the
Joh Skills Bank will mainly deal
with the problems of the MexicanAmerican and his special needs,"
said Paul Rivera, coordinator of
the project.
The services offered by the
pro,j ect are in the areas of:
Outreach and Community
Education
. . . informing pGtential jobchangers and seekers of the
available services at the Concilio.
Job Orientation
preparing the job-seeker
for the world of work and to instill in him tile proper skills in
seeking and applying for a job.
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identifying new employee
positions in expanding or new industries, assisting prospective
employers in finding the right
employee for their company or
business.
Job Bank
. . . compile information on
employers and job seekers on a
data management system that
would enable the data referrals
bank to make quick and accurate
match-ups.
Job Refer r al and Placement
on the basis of the matchups made by the job bank, applicants are· sent to the prospective
employer.
Follow-up
. . . a means of finding out the
results of the referral and / or
placement.
Anyone in the Spanish· speaking
community. 18 years or older and
who reside in the City or County
of Fresno are eligible , tf they are
unemploy ed and seeking work,
underem plo~·ed ( either seasonal
workers recei ving a wage insufficient to provid e for the needs of
their family or other wo rkers in
the same situation), employed
persons who have be en released
from co r rec tional ins titutions,
military serYice, or who have
been dis a ble d. sa id Ri ve ra.
This project t s aim ed at satis:..
fying the. need s of t he Spanish
speaking person but will offer its .
services to anyone in need of
them, said Rivera.
Anyone interested in the project or more inform dtion, may
contact Rivera or any job skills
counselor at '720 "P" 8t . , Fresno.
California or phone 266-8095.
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Photographer . , . . . . . . Larry Leon
Reporters . . . . . . . Ernesto Moreno,
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Grace Solis
Gringolandia, the land of plenty
Friday,_April 4, 1975·
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN-l
The Violence of Being a Wetback
By Hope Chavarria
The Wetback has been a conversation piece for a number of
years. He is defended byChicano
liberators and patronizing patroncitos. He is an obstacle to
Union organizers and a pathogenic parasite to farmworkers
and other U.S. resident poor. He
is a dollar $ign for Coyote$ and
a ren_ted $lave for California
growers. He is a steady job for
the Im migration and Naturalization Service - La Migra. Suddenly he is something else -- a
social problem . The following
deals with----the liberators, The
Redeemers(Los Redentores), and
with the Indifferent.
The Chicano liberator has a
heart thirteen times bigger than
the Grinch. He argues that the
Wetback is a brother ; he was
here before any gringo wetback:
fifteen ( 15%) percent of the poor
in Mexi co earn $100.00 per year;
he has a right to earn a living;
he ' s not hurting anyone. This is
true . In our benevolent mercy we
must not den y a brother the right
to earn his dailr tortilla. However , realistically speaking, let's
consider the facts.
One very valid argument is
the fact that 15 per cent of the
poor in Mexico earn $100 per
year. Gringolandia, the land of
plenty, is only a skip across the
wire border where emerge Los
Alambristas, the wire crossers,
or a swim acrosstheRioGrande,
where emerge Los Mojados, the
Wetbacks. The Wetback, a hungry, defenseless brother looking
for, of all things, work. He accepts any type of work, and for
less than anybody else. work!
Cheap, cheaper, cheapest; that's
his security blanket.
If the Wetback is lucky, he
gets set up in some chicken coop ,
He works and gets paid with unexpected deductions. such as Social Security, unemployment,
health insurance, transportation,
food, housing, income tax, disability , etc ., none of which are
reported . If he gets 25 cents per
hour , he is still ahead of the
wages he was not earning in
Bee
(Continued from Page 2)
self-determination, blind support
of the UFW is slim among editorial s ta ffers. The question we
ask is whe ther any minority group
can receive fair treatment in a
newspaper whose publi c service
is smudged by editors who would
rather s ee "unpleasant" stories
pass unnoti ced; a •news '' paper
where pr ioriti es are placed on
flower shows andbackpatting, not
hard news . The McClatchy coverage of the UFW march on Gallo
was embarrassing in comparison
to efforts extended by other professional newsgatherers . . . a
thinly-veiled attempt to see the
protest as "the march that wasn't." The resultant stain on Guild
members who worked hard under
the most trying of adversary relationships to produce .a balanced
account of the story is a blow to
our collective efforts to advance
professionalism in the field.
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tion . . . While six and a half
The Wetback may c.onvince the
million Americans· are unempatroncito to sponsor him and
ployed . ... there are ... maybe
help him legalize his residency.
two or three million aliens illeThe not so lucky Wetback may
gally holding ·jobs ... They're in
come across the Gringo employer
heavy industry, light industry,
or any other such employer, who
construction work, d riving
expects 16-18 hour days, seven
taxis ... "
days a week, and promises a
Jan. 22, 1975 - L. F. Chapbonus along with earnings, •when
man -- . . . said he promised
the crop is in." When the crop is
Congress if it passed the necesin, the patroncitodoes his Amerisary legislation he could open up
can duty, calls the Migra and conone million jobs now held by
veniently forgets to pay all his
aliens, about 190,000 of them in
wetback labor.
the border cities in California,
The Wetback is picked up by the
Arizona, New Mexico and Texas_.
Migra, transported to the border
Jan. 28, 1975 -- Rep. B. F. Sisk
where he is kept from three
said a survey taken of California
days to three months in the juzcounties found that millions of
gado (or hoosegow, if you will).
dollars are being spent for alien
His reason for risking an illegal
medical care which must be
entry into a forked-tongued counpicked up by local taxpayers. In
try was, besides personal hunger,
the Central San .Joaquin Valley,
the love and responsibility of a
the cost is more than two milhungry family . What happens to
lion dollars. Fresno County spent
them? Where are all the yanqui
$800.000.
dolars?
Jan. 30. 1975 -- Under presWhere is this saviour of the
homeless when the Wetback is
facing this violent a_ttempt at
survival? How long after the
humiliation, exploitation and development of powerlessness,
does the Redeemer turn lip service into emancipation?
How is the dignity of "Viva La
Raza" justified when that same
Raza is allowed to be psychoBY. Angie Rios
logically castrated. The same
La Voz Staff Writer
spokespeople who defend the WetAn art e~hibit of local Chicano
back's right to be here, don't
artists will he held to give peocome to his rescue with lawyers,
ple with potential an opportunity
laws, petitions or take his place
to display their work, said
in El Hoyo (the hole), where he
Ernesto Palomino, director of the
waits to be deported. Do daily
Barrio Art Studios, which will
food caravans, organized by our
take place Sunday, April 6, at
benevolent Redentores, leave the
3907 E. Grant.
Chicano barrios destined for the
"Evet yt ing , ,1at is brought into
hungry families of the waiting
the studio will be · displayed,"
deportees?
Palomino, professor of art at
No! It is possible that they are
CSUF . said of the exhibit which
organizing food drives for the
will run through the month of
hungry farmworkers who were
I
'
displaced by the Wetbacks, whom
'
they so staunchly defend.
The White and Blue collar
working public has, up to now, benignly sat back and "tskd, tskd"
the wetback situation. The Wetback was merely displacing
farmworkers
in agricultural
By Ernesto Moreno
areas and poor blacks and other
La Voz Staff Writer
immigrants in industrial areas.
For more than two gene·rations
Tsk. Tsk. Suddenly, with inflathere has been a serious drug
tion, the recession and a statisand alcohol problem in the Chitical 11 per cent of the country's
working public unemployed, the . cano community. This problem
until recently has been largely
Wetback has become a personal
ignored by the general public bethreat to U.S. John Q. Citizen.
cause it usually has no personal
A few excerpts from the Freseffect on them, said Esther Casno Bee folfow :
·
tillo, a member of the CSUF
Jan. 8, 1975-JamesF.Green,
School of Social Work Program
Deputy Commissioner, INS "We
Committee.
want to improve employment op"The general solution of the
portunities in the nation through
problem nas been to let the police
increased apprehension of illegal
and courts handle the situation .
aliens in the US and deterrent
This legal approach has ignored
of additional entries."
the moral. sociological and culJan. 15, 1975 - Leonard F.
tural problems of the person inChapman, INS Commissioner
volved," said Castillo .
"It's really an incredible situa-
sure from growing unemployment, Congress may act on an
immigration bill ... Sen. James
O. Eastland, has indicated he is
relaxing his opposition to such
a measure (Rotlino's) ... Rodino
said the illegal alien problem
"has now reached severe, almost
crisis proportion." INS estimates
that 4 to 12 million illegal aliens
are living in the U.S . . . .
Peter Rodino, Democrat from
New Jersey and Chairman of
House Judiciary Committee, is
planning quick action on a bill he
introduced, to prohibit an employer from "knowifigly" hiring
an illegal alien. Under the circumstances "knowingly" . may
soon be dropped, If this bill becomes law, the employer or labor
contractor will be fined as much
as $500 .00 or up to one year in
jail.
How many employers, who hire
wetba cks to save a dine, are going
to lllow $ 500 to keep wetback
labor? How many Coyotes are go-
ing to risk one year in jail in
defense of the hands that feed
him? Once Big Daddy stops hiring Wetbacks because it might
hurt his pocket book, who's going
to feed 4 to 12 million Wetbacks?
The do-goading American public does good only when it can
afford to. It cannot afford to now.
For the same reason that John
Q. Public politely shooed Los
Repatriados back to Mexico during the Depression, he will, not so
politely, do so again. A social
problem becomes a social problem when it hits below the belt.
This time Wenceslado Wetback is
displacing John Q. Public himself and it's JQP's family who is
in danger of going hungry.
If brother Wenceslado Wetback
is to continue running and hiding
like a criminal and "kept on the
level of a beast rather than a
man it is plainly violent," as described in "Faith and Violence"
by Thomas Merton.
Chicano artists show will highlight
opening of Barrio Art Studios
April. "We want to see how much
of an audience we can create to
establish a project within the
community to involve personal
and private work."
The studio will be open for the
public to view the works presented : Wednesday and Thursday from 6 to 9 p.m. and Friday,
Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 6
p . m.
.,,
"The purpose of the art exhibit
is to . serve as an idea of the
beginning of a school," said Palomino. "A school to serve the
Drug abuse will be topic at
Pinedale Community Center
A workshop entitled •substance
Abuse in the Chicano Community," will attempt to examine
and focus on the problems of
Chicano drug and alcohol abuse.
The workshop will be held Monday, April 14 at the Pinedale
Community Center in Pinedale.
Castillo said the objectives
of the workshop are to examine
the physiological, sociological
and psychological aspects of the
Chicano drug or alcohol abuser.
It will also attempt to present
alternative approaches for the
treatment of the drug and alcohol
(Continued on Page 4, Col. 4)
artists by means of employment.
Also to keep in stock, works of
these artists to be used as traveling exhibits for future use."
Palomino sees future plans in
what the art school can provide
for both the city and county. "We
want to get them interested in an
art center to be held perhaps at
the Memorial Auditorium. At the
present time we are looking into
money to fund . the entire project," said Palomino.
The art center will be used as
a showcase for dancing, theater,
art, music and poetry, said Palomino.
The staff of the studio consists
of John Sierra, coordinator, and
Bob Mejia, building and grounds
technician.
Working to represent Chicano
artists of the comm unity are
Barrio Art Studio Board members Tony Roque, CSUF La Raza
Studies art instructor; Bob Cruz,
instructor at La Universidad De
Atzlan; and Francisco Barrios, .
professor of art education at
CSUF.
Palomino urges those interested in participating in the art
exhibit to bring their work in by
Sunday (April 6) afternoon. For
more information call 266-1311.
•we want to find a way to teach
the community about what we have
to offer them, and to do this is
why we need the corn munity,"
said Palomino.
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Talking with her at her home,
outside what she calls her "office," a make-shift shed consisting of tin panels for a roof,
held up hy a rickety 2 x 4 frame,
in the middle of a typical Chicano
jardin with the ever-present nopales y tinas added to complete
the scenery, Carmen, freshly out
of the shower in her wrinkled
shirt and toeless tennis shoes
talked, played her guitar and
sang. When she does this it's as
though it all is one continuous
co·nv~rsation in song.
"Singing is beautiful because
it's a form of expression, it's
soul satifsying," she said, flashing that quick smile that appears
even when she says something
serious.
MEMBERS OF MECHA's Comite Semana '75 are shown at a meeting discussing the coming events for
Sem.ana de La Raz~ aweek-longcelebrationofCinco de Mayo, which will feature speakers and activities
both on campus and off during the week of May 4-10, including a fund-raiser dance on April 17 at the
Rainbow Ballroom. Tickets and more information are available from any Comite member or by calling
La Raza Studies office, 487-2848. Photo by Erik Strom.
Te atro workshop a 'success';
200 attend, say coordinators
By Ernesto Moreno
La Voz Staff Writer ·
The Teatro Workshop held on
· March 22 was termed a success
by its coordinators, Steve Solano
and Maria-Luisa Hernandez. ·
There were a little over 200
students in attendance, said Solano, as he spoke with satisfaction of the first Teatro Workshop
ever held on the CSUF <'.ampus.
"The intent of the workshop
was to stress emphasis on the
different areas of Teatro," said
Hernandez. The areas covered
were: Musica, Movement, Playwriting, Makeup, Voice, Philosophy and Technical, she said.
The ,workshop offered an open
invitation to anyone who was
interested in attending the seminars to find out for themselves
what Teatro actually is, said Sola•10.
For those who attended the
workshop. it proved to he quite
an enlightening experience,
agreed hoth coordinators, in that
the theatre of the underdog shared
with those in attendance its unique
v.alue to the Chicano community,
they said.
Jose Rodriguez, a student and
me m her of the CSUF Teatro, said
he was happy with the turnout of
high school students from
throughout the valley . He said it
was a means of communicating
with them and exposing, them
to the colle ge atmosphere.
The success of the conference
can a ls o be attributed to the actu al involvement of the students in
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Students were given the opportunity to do something in each
seminar, they didn't just sit,and
listen, said Rodriguez.
The workshop ended with a
"Trostor11iaso" (a light ineal) to
put everyone in a serene mood ,
after which everyone went their
different ways after a long day
or sharing, working, and learning
th~ basic makeup of Chicano
Theatre, a valuable form of art
that is here to stay, said Solano.
Churches, synagogues pl(!n
to observe Farm Worker
The U11itecl States Catholic
Conference, the Synag-ogue Council of America and the National
Council of Churchps of Christ
in the USA have issued a call
to the <'lntrches and synag-og;ues to
participate in the sec·ond annual
ohservance of Farm Worker
Wl'ek, May 4-10, 197:i . Tell thousand churches and synagogues_jJ1
I :i0 towns and metropoliLln areas
are expected to join in services
and spe<'ial events fo<'used on
the needs of America·s two million seasonal and migrant' farm
workers.
The idea for Farm Worker
Week hegan in 1973 at a meeting
of the National Farm Worker
Ministry, a coalition of 34 national and regional religious
groups who carry on a religious
ministry among migrant and seas onal farm workers. Ruth Gil bert, President of the NFWM,
su mmarized the purpos e of Farm
Worker Week:
"The liter atu r e for FWW carries this sim ple message: 'as
you cons ide r wo rld-wide hunger .
cons ider the cry for bread and
jus tic e that comes from thos e
hung r y worke rs in Am e r i ca. who
by the ir labor and t hei r sacri fices fe ed all of us and out child r e n . ' The cry 'for b read and
justice ' comes most clearly and
persistently fr om those farm
work er s who are doing the wo rk
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For Carmen singing was something she grew up with. Both her
mother and father were singers
at Jardin Canales (now Las Palmas) en el_"Barrio Chino." They
were known as "El Dueto Los
Morenos" and her father was also
Drug abuse
(Continued from Page 3)
problems facing the Chicano and
to develop community awareness
in reference to the Chicano drug
and alcohol abuse problem, she
said.
Juan Acevedo, director of a
nar<'otics prevention pro ;ect in
East Los Angeles, and Assemblyman Richard Alatorre will speak
of various drug abuse topics in
the community and in the state
legislature.
If you would like any further
information concerning the workshop, contact Guadalupe Avila,
Esther Castillo or Rita Michel
through either the School of Social Work or La Raza Studies
at CSUF.
or jnstic-e uncl .r the l_fadE>rship
of Cesar Chavez ·and the •United
Farm Workers. They ask us to
participate in their struggle by
making the farm workers• boycott a matter of conscience: each
one of us can join in a simple
fast for justice by not eating table
grapes or head lettuce (unless you
see the UFW hlack eagle label)
until farm workers have a chance
to choose their own union ..,
UFW ma rch
set Saturday
A march and ran~· against Gallo
has been <'alled for tomorrow in
San Jose hy the United Farm
Workers, according to Tanis
Ybarra, Selma Area director for
the Union, who urged all support ers to attend . For m ore informa ti on call (Selma) 896 - 5231.
..MEL BROOKS"
FUNNIEST
COMEDY
TODATEr·
a song writer, who composed
many songs recorded by them as
well as other singers.
Once when she was asking he r
father for money a man overheard
and offered her $2 if she would
sing a song, and that's how she
got started on her singing care er .
For two years she sang on the
Luis Gomez Show. "I sang the
traditional Mexican songs. It wa s
hard to break away because L ui s
Gozes had to okay everything .
"Dias me dio ese don so wha t
could I do?" she remembers.
She has toured the United States
performing in nightclubs and
lounges but in October of 1972
she stopped.
"No more, no more no more "
she said, explaining that "I play;d
different gigs - like at popular
restaurants in the Los Angeles
area. In some of these places the
people seemed to get uncomfortable when I sang something
they could not understand."
"After four corridos people
would start clinking their glasses
and moving and fidgeting in their
seats. It would just drive me
crazy."
She sang for a night club audience last January where, she
said, "I could feel a wall of resistance. I guess they expected
Chiquita Banana to come out
singing. I had to take my guitar
and go back to people.
"As a perform er I wanted to
communicate, but I couldn't when
96 per cent of the audience couldn't understand the lingo."
She and her brother, Luis Moreno, have acted in a Bill Cosby,
Robert Culp movie "Hickey and
Boggs." She also got a part in
the latest Billy Jack production,
"The Master Gunfighter."
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month (April 5 - May 7) in
conjunction with the World
Premiere
of A MAJOR
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Male and female students 17
and over needed for work in
the area of handbill distribution, bill posting, andzany
promotional ideas. During
first three weeks you'll be
working mostly your own
hours at your co·nvenience.
During the gala premiere
week you may be escorting
Hollywood starlets to interviews or driving star Bruce
Dern to the klieglit opening.
The first 100 students to
bring this ad to the UA
Cinemas 1, 2,3,4-FRIDAY,
April 4 after 5 pm will be
interviewed for employment
and admitted FREE to a
SNEAK PREVIEW of the
film.
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Carm en More no wanted to sing for L a Raza.
She had jus t re turned home to Easton from Los
Angeles where she had been acting and singing in
various night clubs . She had a part in a couple of
movi es , still there was s omething missing.
So when she found herself back in the Fresno area
she called CSUF and asked for a Chicano group .. She
was dire cted to r.,a Raza Studies where she simply
asked , "Do you want to hear me sing?"
Car men Moreno made her appearan ce at the next
MECHA meeting .
Her performance was more than a performance.
Capturing the audience in an intimacy which only can
result fro m sharing a mutual experience in life, her
vibrant fresh style slapped the usually lethargic
meeting into wide-awake attention . While s i nging
"canciones" she would intermittently halt and rap a
"pla tica" which the listeners took to as well as her
music. She had only been there a few hours and
already she was one of them .
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LA VOZ
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Former student
The new executive director of
the Greater F r esno Area Plan
has three months to accomplish
what a five year plan was supposed to do .
Si priano Martinez, a former
CSUF s tudent body vice president,
said the home town plan for get-
By Gra~e Solis
Plans to open up a Gallo Boycott Office in Fresno were announced at a meeting Thursday by
the United Farm Workers Union.
Tanis Ybarra , area director of
the UFWU made the announcement Wednesday at the Sunset
Community Center, where approximately 40 representatives
of various community organizations met to discuss the Gallo
Boycott.
Ann Williamson, a Fresno resident, was named to coordinate
and supervise the activities of
the office, which includes finding
an office. Ms. Williamson said
that the UFW is looking for a
centrally located office. •we will
be starting our Gallo boycott activities in the West Side of Fresno. An ideal location for the office would .be downtown Fresno,"
she said .
Although the UFWU has been
boycotting Gallo wines for nearly
two years, this will be the first
attempt to actively promote the
Gallo boycott in the Fresnoarea.
Gallo boycott offices have been
su1.-~:essful across the nation ,
especially on the Eastern coast,
in removing Gallo wines from
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A special
edition
of
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
California State University, Fresno
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VP to .~ead ·key labor post
ting more minorities into the construction and trade unions was the
first attempt to get at the high
paying trade union jobs Jor minorities.
"We're not out here to play a
numbers game ," said Martinez.
"If there is a job, what we are
Gallo boycott office
will open
Friday, April 4, 1975
Fresno
store shelves, said Williamson.
Williamson is also recruiting
volunteers to work in the office,
talk to store owners and picket
if necessary . One of the major
obstacles William son said she
faces is the lack of money.
"The UFWU has never- had
money to speak of, so we will
be depending heavily on volunteers.
"As long as we have the support
of the people, that's all that matters. Gallo can buy all the advertising space he wants to, but
he can't buy the workers," said
Ybarra.
· Williamson said that the emphasis of the boycott will be on
Gallo wines. She cautioned wine
drinkers who would like to support the UFW to read the labels
carefully. "Not all Gallo wines
have a Gallo label on them. The
words to look for are: Bottled
in Modesto, Ca.," she said. •In
addition to not buying Gallo wines,
talk to the store owners about the
Gallo Boycott and encourage them
not to stock Gallo wine."
Anyone wishing to volunteer to
work in the Gallo Boycott office
is asked to contact Ann Williamson at 266-2108 or call the UFWU
Service Center at 896-5251.
talking about is a percentage of
the total jobs, to equal the minority population in the area."
Field representative, Edward
Pe rez , also a former CSUF student , said their handicap has been
to find journeymen qualified for
a trade, especially minority
journeymen, since most of them
are working already, she said.
Mar ti nez was named executive
director of the Greater Fresno
Area Plan last week, ending an
impasse over who was to administer the ·plan to bring more
minority workers into the construction industry.
Martinez was one ofthree candidates recommended by Emilio
Lopez, of San Francisco, a regional director of the U.S. Labor
Department's Office of Federal
Contract Complicance (OICC) . .
Lopez intervened in the matter
when a deadlock resulted because
minority representatives on the
plan's administrative committee
wanted the director to be a minority, while labor and management wanted an Anglo.
Martinez was agreeable to all
sides and was voted in unanimously, to take over the program which has until June to accomplish its objectives covered
in its five year plan.
Martinez said he feels that too
much emphasis in the past has
been placed on getting more minorities into the labor unions
which may not necessarily have '
the construction jobs available
for all its members.
e
•That's not dealing with mi- l?
norities,
that's dealing with al
~
dues," he said. •The bigproblem ~
is finding jobs with contractors
who will accept the minority
worker, that's where the emphasis should be."
Both Martinez and Perez say
they are optimistic they will
come up with a plan to fulfill
the goals set for the five year
program and they hope to be able
to extend the project until all the
goals are accomplished, they
said.
SIPRIANO MARTINEZ
2-THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Friday, April 4, 1975
Jobs
COMMENTARIES
Minority teacher representation: disparity still?
By Ricardo Rodriguez
Chairman, Comite CHE
(Chicanos ln Higher Education)
In a report to the California
Legislature in November, Legislative Analyst A . Alan Post reported that California's public
and private
teacher-training
campuses are graduating 20,000
teachers each year into a job
market that now exhibits a turnover rate of less than 10,000
teaching positions.
He also said without adding
any recommendations, that the
enrollment of minorities in teacher training at the university and
college campuses is low, compared to state-wide public school
erirollment. .
Post's study showed that, alchough in California Chicano enrollment in the public schools is
17.2 per cent, Chicanos are still
grossly under-represented with
only 2 per cent of the total credentialed teachers.
Unfortunately, such sad statistics did not warrant enough attention to the analyst. In a ·
summary of the distribution of
minority groups in teacher traini0g programs, it was noted that
Chicanos comprise less than ri
per cent of enrollees of the state
university and college system.
Obviously, sucti statistics depict
a gross racial disparity in teacher training programs across
California. This form of institutional racism directed at the chi cano, is just one example of the
mis-education that harrio children receive in the v a 11 e y
schools.
They are heing denied an important educational resource Chicano teachers that can relate
to them. Also, there are more
Chicanos than Anglos who are bilingual, and thus better equipped
to deal with the English language
difficulties of the Chicano student - and the Chicano teacher
can provide more effective role
models for the Chicano youth.
With the result of the Lau vs.
Nichols decision by the U.S . Supreme Court, along with the
federal and state money appropriations for hicultural education
and the newly lnstitutect Ryan
Act, teacher training programs
should direct their attention to the
issue at hand. To deny Chicano
children a bi cultural education .
is to deny them the opport11nity
to develop their intellectual potential to its fullest degree.
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To put aside the need to train
competent bicultural teachers is
to perpetuate the inequality of
education that the Chicano community is being offered in the
schools of this valley.
To c•ntinue to credential
teachers who are not competent
to teach in a bilingual, hicultural
setting is to advocate the present
50 per cent dropout rate of Chicano students.
y, al ·fin, to pretend that some
teacher aides with bilingual skills
and proven teaching competence
are not more capable than many
teachers is to be blind to the
crucial need to restructure
teacher training programs to
meet the needs of the corresponding local service areas as mandated for in the Ryan Act.
The problems of unequal educational opportunities are of such
magnitude and so wi<'lespre:.i<I that
it would be unwise to rely on
the efforts of individual school
districts to bring about the kind
of uniform and comprehensive
teacher training reform needed.
Therefore, it is the moral obligation and responsibility of the
teacher training programs to take
the lead in providin·g higher education to Chicanos in education,
hut at the same time fill the ur-gent need for hicultural teachers
in California.
The affirmative action policy
would be actively realized. A relaxed admissions policy, free of
discriminating requirements and
tests, available to all who seek
entrance in the schools of education, is the first logical step in
eliminating epucational racism.
summarily, /all efforts should
proceed with the perspective of
providing a true educational experience for all students .
SECRETARY: Person who can type 65-70 words per minute
and has knowledge of dictaphone, billing, drafting, arid shorthand, also general office knowledge.
Starting salary $605 per month, approximately 40 hours
per week.
JUNIOR TYPIST CLERK: Must live in Fresno County, also
must be unemployed or underemployed, Spanish speaking is
required.
Starting salary $432 $551 per month .
COUNSELOR: The Boy Scouts of America are seeking coun-
selors for their members ... the pay is satisfactory ... for
more information call 266-3117.
SALESMAN: Local department store is l~oking for an experienced salesman, person who has had at lease one year in
selling men's clothing and who has the ability to establish
customer following. Spanish speaking is a must because of
large Mexican clientel. Contact Jobs Skills Bank at 729 "P"
Street or call 266-0895.
SALESMAN: Local radio station is looking for Spanish speaking
salesman . You will be selling sales advertisements to different
Chicano businessmen in F resnof Hanford and Merced. Salary
is $600 a month.
For more information call JOB SKILLS BANK at 266-0895
or inquire at 729 "P" Street.
Bee buzzes by boycott . ..
•What labor unrest?
(Editor's Note: The following
commentary appeared in the
March issue of the Sanamento
Newspaper Guild Newsletter. The
newsletter is distrihutecl only to
its memhers, including the editorial staff of the Sacramento•
Bee , and the remainder of the
Mc:Clat.chy Puhlishing Co. , incl11ding the Fresno and Modesto
Bees.)
While the attention of the entire
nation wa.s foc:u.sed on the mar<'h
of Cesar Chavez. and his follow~!rs
Oil the Gallo Winery in Modesto,
The Modesto Bee fo<·used its
attention oil anything awl everything else. "Editorially whistling
in the dark and hopirw: the monster would go away" was the way
one ohsen•tir put it.
Finally, reluC"tantly, the stor:v
made page one, al>ov1.~ the fold ...
with some prodding from staffers. The next day it had titrnhled
from sight.
CBS, NBC, The San Francisco
Examiner and ThP Los Angeles
Times <'overed the event with
news teams -- while The Modesto
Bee sent a reportPr and photographer to covPr the march (for
all three Bees and AP!) of ovn
8,000 peopl!:! . . . a spot assignment sandwiched in between other
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• Many other features
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An explanation? "Management
doesn't thi11k this story is that
important."
Could the fact the luncheon
meeting between Gallo's Public
Relations director and The Modesto Bee managing editor have
entered into that evaluation? Or
the full-page ads Gallo ran in all
three Bees?
And where did that picture
come from that ran in The Bee,
or the marc-hers passing The
Modesto Junk Comp?,nY? Ii wasn't
one of those al<en by The Bee
photographer assigned to the
event. Perhaps too many of his
pi!'tures showt~d "Boycott Gallo"
signs·.•
Ttie11 there 'wa s the "KO.YR-TV
"Action News•· film cre.w on hand,
rlaiming they were there only if
"sonwthing happens'' . . . presumahly of a violent nature. When
Channel 13 finall~· broadcast a
report of the Saturday activities
the following Monclay. the story
had heen reassigned to a reporter
of Spanish descent. Apparently
under the management assumption "it takes one to know one."
It St:>ems incredulous that the
M<'Clat!'lly top echelon would he
so overt in the effort to dowP.piar the UFW story. If WP are
indeed 1wws gatht:>rers and not
news makers. this credo must :1pply to olijectivE> ~diting as wt:>!! as
ohjeetive rt:>porting . Tlw question
is not onP of supporting the UFW
or Cesar Chavez . . . past the
helief in workers to the right of
(Continued on Page 3, Col. 1)
El Concilio de Fresno
'
initiates Job Skills Bank
By Ernesto Moreno
La Voz Staff Writer
El Concilio de Fresno, a coordinated body of organization
representatives , agency representatives, and individuals of the
Spanish speaking community,
have implemented a project that
would benefit the largest ethnic
minority group in the county of
Fresno.
The Job Skills Bank has been
initiated to provide the Spanish
speaking community the assistance it needs in the area of em ployment.
"Although there are other
agencies in Fresno County that
provide similar services, the
Joh Skills Bank will mainly deal
with the problems of the MexicanAmerican and his special needs,"
said Paul Rivera, coordinator of
the project.
The services offered by the
pro,j ect are in the areas of:
Outreach and Community
Education
. . . informing pGtential jobchangers and seekers of the
available services at the Concilio.
Job Orientation
preparing the job-seeker
for the world of work and to instill in him tile proper skills in
seeking and applying for a job.
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This
75 year
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more about this opportunity and what it can
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For reservations and information cal I:
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The above is not sponsored by the Californiu State University and Colleges
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Job Development
identifying new employee
positions in expanding or new industries, assisting prospective
employers in finding the right
employee for their company or
business.
Job Bank
. . . compile information on
employers and job seekers on a
data management system that
would enable the data referrals
bank to make quick and accurate
match-ups.
Job Refer r al and Placement
on the basis of the matchups made by the job bank, applicants are· sent to the prospective
employer.
Follow-up
. . . a means of finding out the
results of the referral and / or
placement.
Anyone in the Spanish· speaking
community. 18 years or older and
who reside in the City or County
of Fresno are eligible , tf they are
unemploy ed and seeking work,
underem plo~·ed ( either seasonal
workers recei ving a wage insufficient to provid e for the needs of
their family or other wo rkers in
the same situation), employed
persons who have be en released
from co r rec tional ins titutions,
military serYice, or who have
been dis a ble d. sa id Ri ve ra.
This project t s aim ed at satis:..
fying the. need s of t he Spanish
speaking person but will offer its .
services to anyone in need of
them, said Rivera.
Anyone interested in the project or more inform dtion, may
contact Rivera or any job skills
counselor at '720 "P" 8t . , Fresno.
California or phone 266-8095.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Published five days a we~k except
holidays and examination periods by
the Fresno State College Associa•
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ter, $20 a vear. Editorial office,
Keats Camp~s Building, telephone
487·2486. Business and advedising
office, Keats Campus Building, telephone 487-2266.
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are not necessarily those of California· State University, Fresno, or
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LA
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Editor . .
. . . . , . . Larry Romero
Photographer . , . . . . . . Larry Leon
Reporters . . . . . . . Ernesto Moreno,
Anna Noriega, Angie Rios,
Grace Solis
Gringolandia, the land of plenty
Friday,_April 4, 1975·
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN-l
The Violence of Being a Wetback
By Hope Chavarria
The Wetback has been a conversation piece for a number of
years. He is defended byChicano
liberators and patronizing patroncitos. He is an obstacle to
Union organizers and a pathogenic parasite to farmworkers
and other U.S. resident poor. He
is a dollar $ign for Coyote$ and
a ren_ted $lave for California
growers. He is a steady job for
the Im migration and Naturalization Service - La Migra. Suddenly he is something else -- a
social problem . The following
deals with----the liberators, The
Redeemers(Los Redentores), and
with the Indifferent.
The Chicano liberator has a
heart thirteen times bigger than
the Grinch. He argues that the
Wetback is a brother ; he was
here before any gringo wetback:
fifteen ( 15%) percent of the poor
in Mexi co earn $100.00 per year;
he has a right to earn a living;
he ' s not hurting anyone. This is
true . In our benevolent mercy we
must not den y a brother the right
to earn his dailr tortilla. However , realistically speaking, let's
consider the facts.
One very valid argument is
the fact that 15 per cent of the
poor in Mexico earn $100 per
year. Gringolandia, the land of
plenty, is only a skip across the
wire border where emerge Los
Alambristas, the wire crossers,
or a swim acrosstheRioGrande,
where emerge Los Mojados, the
Wetbacks. The Wetback, a hungry, defenseless brother looking
for, of all things, work. He accepts any type of work, and for
less than anybody else. work!
Cheap, cheaper, cheapest; that's
his security blanket.
If the Wetback is lucky, he
gets set up in some chicken coop ,
He works and gets paid with unexpected deductions. such as Social Security, unemployment,
health insurance, transportation,
food, housing, income tax, disability , etc ., none of which are
reported . If he gets 25 cents per
hour , he is still ahead of the
wages he was not earning in
Bee
(Continued from Page 2)
self-determination, blind support
of the UFW is slim among editorial s ta ffers. The question we
ask is whe ther any minority group
can receive fair treatment in a
newspaper whose publi c service
is smudged by editors who would
rather s ee "unpleasant" stories
pass unnoti ced; a •news '' paper
where pr ioriti es are placed on
flower shows andbackpatting, not
hard news . The McClatchy coverage of the UFW march on Gallo
was embarrassing in comparison
to efforts extended by other professional newsgatherers . . . a
thinly-veiled attempt to see the
protest as "the march that wasn't." The resultant stain on Guild
members who worked hard under
the most trying of adversary relationships to produce .a balanced
account of the story is a blow to
our collective efforts to advance
professionalism in the field.
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tion . . . While six and a half
The Wetback may c.onvince the
million Americans· are unempatroncito to sponsor him and
ployed . ... there are ... maybe
help him legalize his residency.
two or three million aliens illeThe not so lucky Wetback may
gally holding ·jobs ... They're in
come across the Gringo employer
heavy industry, light industry,
or any other such employer, who
construction work, d riving
expects 16-18 hour days, seven
taxis ... "
days a week, and promises a
Jan. 22, 1975 - L. F. Chapbonus along with earnings, •when
man -- . . . said he promised
the crop is in." When the crop is
Congress if it passed the necesin, the patroncitodoes his Amerisary legislation he could open up
can duty, calls the Migra and conone million jobs now held by
veniently forgets to pay all his
aliens, about 190,000 of them in
wetback labor.
the border cities in California,
The Wetback is picked up by the
Arizona, New Mexico and Texas_.
Migra, transported to the border
Jan. 28, 1975 -- Rep. B. F. Sisk
where he is kept from three
said a survey taken of California
days to three months in the juzcounties found that millions of
gado (or hoosegow, if you will).
dollars are being spent for alien
His reason for risking an illegal
medical care which must be
entry into a forked-tongued counpicked up by local taxpayers. In
try was, besides personal hunger,
the Central San .Joaquin Valley,
the love and responsibility of a
the cost is more than two milhungry family . What happens to
lion dollars. Fresno County spent
them? Where are all the yanqui
$800.000.
dolars?
Jan. 30. 1975 -- Under presWhere is this saviour of the
homeless when the Wetback is
facing this violent a_ttempt at
survival? How long after the
humiliation, exploitation and development of powerlessness,
does the Redeemer turn lip service into emancipation?
How is the dignity of "Viva La
Raza" justified when that same
Raza is allowed to be psychoBY. Angie Rios
logically castrated. The same
La Voz Staff Writer
spokespeople who defend the WetAn art e~hibit of local Chicano
back's right to be here, don't
artists will he held to give peocome to his rescue with lawyers,
ple with potential an opportunity
laws, petitions or take his place
to display their work, said
in El Hoyo (the hole), where he
Ernesto Palomino, director of the
waits to be deported. Do daily
Barrio Art Studios, which will
food caravans, organized by our
take place Sunday, April 6, at
benevolent Redentores, leave the
3907 E. Grant.
Chicano barrios destined for the
"Evet yt ing , ,1at is brought into
hungry families of the waiting
the studio will be · displayed,"
deportees?
Palomino, professor of art at
No! It is possible that they are
CSUF . said of the exhibit which
organizing food drives for the
will run through the month of
hungry farmworkers who were
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displaced by the Wetbacks, whom
'
they so staunchly defend.
The White and Blue collar
working public has, up to now, benignly sat back and "tskd, tskd"
the wetback situation. The Wetback was merely displacing
farmworkers
in agricultural
By Ernesto Moreno
areas and poor blacks and other
La Voz Staff Writer
immigrants in industrial areas.
For more than two gene·rations
Tsk. Tsk. Suddenly, with inflathere has been a serious drug
tion, the recession and a statisand alcohol problem in the Chitical 11 per cent of the country's
working public unemployed, the . cano community. This problem
until recently has been largely
Wetback has become a personal
ignored by the general public bethreat to U.S. John Q. Citizen.
cause it usually has no personal
A few excerpts from the Freseffect on them, said Esther Casno Bee folfow :
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tillo, a member of the CSUF
Jan. 8, 1975-JamesF.Green,
School of Social Work Program
Deputy Commissioner, INS "We
Committee.
want to improve employment op"The general solution of the
portunities in the nation through
problem nas been to let the police
increased apprehension of illegal
and courts handle the situation .
aliens in the US and deterrent
This legal approach has ignored
of additional entries."
the moral. sociological and culJan. 15, 1975 - Leonard F.
tural problems of the person inChapman, INS Commissioner
volved," said Castillo .
"It's really an incredible situa-
sure from growing unemployment, Congress may act on an
immigration bill ... Sen. James
O. Eastland, has indicated he is
relaxing his opposition to such
a measure (Rotlino's) ... Rodino
said the illegal alien problem
"has now reached severe, almost
crisis proportion." INS estimates
that 4 to 12 million illegal aliens
are living in the U.S . . . .
Peter Rodino, Democrat from
New Jersey and Chairman of
House Judiciary Committee, is
planning quick action on a bill he
introduced, to prohibit an employer from "knowifigly" hiring
an illegal alien. Under the circumstances "knowingly" . may
soon be dropped, If this bill becomes law, the employer or labor
contractor will be fined as much
as $500 .00 or up to one year in
jail.
How many employers, who hire
wetba cks to save a dine, are going
to lllow $ 500 to keep wetback
labor? How many Coyotes are go-
ing to risk one year in jail in
defense of the hands that feed
him? Once Big Daddy stops hiring Wetbacks because it might
hurt his pocket book, who's going
to feed 4 to 12 million Wetbacks?
The do-goading American public does good only when it can
afford to. It cannot afford to now.
For the same reason that John
Q. Public politely shooed Los
Repatriados back to Mexico during the Depression, he will, not so
politely, do so again. A social
problem becomes a social problem when it hits below the belt.
This time Wenceslado Wetback is
displacing John Q. Public himself and it's JQP's family who is
in danger of going hungry.
If brother Wenceslado Wetback
is to continue running and hiding
like a criminal and "kept on the
level of a beast rather than a
man it is plainly violent," as described in "Faith and Violence"
by Thomas Merton.
Chicano artists show will highlight
opening of Barrio Art Studios
April. "We want to see how much
of an audience we can create to
establish a project within the
community to involve personal
and private work."
The studio will be open for the
public to view the works presented : Wednesday and Thursday from 6 to 9 p.m. and Friday,
Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 6
p . m.
.,,
"The purpose of the art exhibit
is to . serve as an idea of the
beginning of a school," said Palomino. "A school to serve the
Drug abuse will be topic at
Pinedale Community Center
A workshop entitled •substance
Abuse in the Chicano Community," will attempt to examine
and focus on the problems of
Chicano drug and alcohol abuse.
The workshop will be held Monday, April 14 at the Pinedale
Community Center in Pinedale.
Castillo said the objectives
of the workshop are to examine
the physiological, sociological
and psychological aspects of the
Chicano drug or alcohol abuser.
It will also attempt to present
alternative approaches for the
treatment of the drug and alcohol
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artists by means of employment.
Also to keep in stock, works of
these artists to be used as traveling exhibits for future use."
Palomino sees future plans in
what the art school can provide
for both the city and county. "We
want to get them interested in an
art center to be held perhaps at
the Memorial Auditorium. At the
present time we are looking into
money to fund . the entire project," said Palomino.
The art center will be used as
a showcase for dancing, theater,
art, music and poetry, said Palomino.
The staff of the studio consists
of John Sierra, coordinator, and
Bob Mejia, building and grounds
technician.
Working to represent Chicano
artists of the comm unity are
Barrio Art Studio Board members Tony Roque, CSUF La Raza
Studies art instructor; Bob Cruz,
instructor at La Universidad De
Atzlan; and Francisco Barrios, .
professor of art education at
CSUF.
Palomino urges those interested in participating in the art
exhibit to bring their work in by
Sunday (April 6) afternoon. For
more information call 266-1311.
•we want to find a way to teach
the community about what we have
to offer them, and to do this is
why we need the corn munity,"
said Palomino.
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Ca rmen Moreno
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Talking with her at her home,
outside what she calls her "office," a make-shift shed consisting of tin panels for a roof,
held up hy a rickety 2 x 4 frame,
in the middle of a typical Chicano
jardin with the ever-present nopales y tinas added to complete
the scenery, Carmen, freshly out
of the shower in her wrinkled
shirt and toeless tennis shoes
talked, played her guitar and
sang. When she does this it's as
though it all is one continuous
co·nv~rsation in song.
"Singing is beautiful because
it's a form of expression, it's
soul satifsying," she said, flashing that quick smile that appears
even when she says something
serious.
MEMBERS OF MECHA's Comite Semana '75 are shown at a meeting discussing the coming events for
Sem.ana de La Raz~ aweek-longcelebrationofCinco de Mayo, which will feature speakers and activities
both on campus and off during the week of May 4-10, including a fund-raiser dance on April 17 at the
Rainbow Ballroom. Tickets and more information are available from any Comite member or by calling
La Raza Studies office, 487-2848. Photo by Erik Strom.
Te atro workshop a 'success';
200 attend, say coordinators
By Ernesto Moreno
La Voz Staff Writer ·
The Teatro Workshop held on
· March 22 was termed a success
by its coordinators, Steve Solano
and Maria-Luisa Hernandez. ·
There were a little over 200
students in attendance, said Solano, as he spoke with satisfaction of the first Teatro Workshop
ever held on the CSUF <'.ampus.
"The intent of the workshop
was to stress emphasis on the
different areas of Teatro," said
Hernandez. The areas covered
were: Musica, Movement, Playwriting, Makeup, Voice, Philosophy and Technical, she said.
The ,workshop offered an open
invitation to anyone who was
interested in attending the seminars to find out for themselves
what Teatro actually is, said Sola•10.
For those who attended the
workshop. it proved to he quite
an enlightening experience,
agreed hoth coordinators, in that
the theatre of the underdog shared
with those in attendance its unique
v.alue to the Chicano community,
they said.
Jose Rodriguez, a student and
me m her of the CSUF Teatro, said
he was happy with the turnout of
high school students from
throughout the valley . He said it
was a means of communicating
with them and exposing, them
to the colle ge atmosphere.
The success of the conference
can a ls o be attributed to the actu al involvement of the students in
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the various workshops offered.
Students were given the opportunity to do something in each
seminar, they didn't just sit,and
listen, said Rodriguez.
The workshop ended with a
"Trostor11iaso" (a light ineal) to
put everyone in a serene mood ,
after which everyone went their
different ways after a long day
or sharing, working, and learning
th~ basic makeup of Chicano
Theatre, a valuable form of art
that is here to stay, said Solano.
Churches, synagogues pl(!n
to observe Farm Worker
The U11itecl States Catholic
Conference, the Synag-ogue Council of America and the National
Council of Churchps of Christ
in the USA have issued a call
to the <'lntrches and synag-og;ues to
participate in the sec·ond annual
ohservance of Farm Worker
Wl'ek, May 4-10, 197:i . Tell thousand churches and synagogues_jJ1
I :i0 towns and metropoliLln areas
are expected to join in services
and spe<'ial events fo<'used on
the needs of America·s two million seasonal and migrant' farm
workers.
The idea for Farm Worker
Week hegan in 1973 at a meeting
of the National Farm Worker
Ministry, a coalition of 34 national and regional religious
groups who carry on a religious
ministry among migrant and seas onal farm workers. Ruth Gil bert, President of the NFWM,
su mmarized the purpos e of Farm
Worker Week:
"The liter atu r e for FWW carries this sim ple message: 'as
you cons ide r wo rld-wide hunger .
cons ider the cry for bread and
jus tic e that comes from thos e
hung r y worke rs in Am e r i ca. who
by the ir labor and t hei r sacri fices fe ed all of us and out child r e n . ' The cry 'for b read and
justice ' comes most clearly and
persistently fr om those farm
work er s who are doing the wo rk
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For Carmen singing was something she grew up with. Both her
mother and father were singers
at Jardin Canales (now Las Palmas) en el_"Barrio Chino." They
were known as "El Dueto Los
Morenos" and her father was also
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problems facing the Chicano and
to develop community awareness
in reference to the Chicano drug
and alcohol abuse problem, she
said.
Juan Acevedo, director of a
nar<'otics prevention pro ;ect in
East Los Angeles, and Assemblyman Richard Alatorre will speak
of various drug abuse topics in
the community and in the state
legislature.
If you would like any further
information concerning the workshop, contact Guadalupe Avila,
Esther Castillo or Rita Michel
through either the School of Social Work or La Raza Studies
at CSUF.
or jnstic-e uncl .r the l_fadE>rship
of Cesar Chavez ·and the •United
Farm Workers. They ask us to
participate in their struggle by
making the farm workers• boycott a matter of conscience: each
one of us can join in a simple
fast for justice by not eating table
grapes or head lettuce (unless you
see the UFW hlack eagle label)
until farm workers have a chance
to choose their own union ..,
UFW ma rch
set Saturday
A march and ran~· against Gallo
has been <'alled for tomorrow in
San Jose hy the United Farm
Workers, according to Tanis
Ybarra, Selma Area director for
the Union, who urged all support ers to attend . For m ore informa ti on call (Selma) 896 - 5231.
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a song writer, who composed
many songs recorded by them as
well as other singers.
Once when she was asking he r
father for money a man overheard
and offered her $2 if she would
sing a song, and that's how she
got started on her singing care er .
For two years she sang on the
Luis Gomez Show. "I sang the
traditional Mexican songs. It wa s
hard to break away because L ui s
Gozes had to okay everything .
"Dias me dio ese don so wha t
could I do?" she remembers.
She has toured the United States
performing in nightclubs and
lounges but in October of 1972
she stopped.
"No more, no more no more "
she said, explaining that "I play;d
different gigs - like at popular
restaurants in the Los Angeles
area. In some of these places the
people seemed to get uncomfortable when I sang something
they could not understand."
"After four corridos people
would start clinking their glasses
and moving and fidgeting in their
seats. It would just drive me
crazy."
She sang for a night club audience last January where, she
said, "I could feel a wall of resistance. I guess they expected
Chiquita Banana to come out
singing. I had to take my guitar
and go back to people.
"As a perform er I wanted to
communicate, but I couldn't when
96 per cent of the audience couldn't understand the lingo."
She and her brother, Luis Moreno, have acted in a Bill Cosby,
Robert Culp movie "Hickey and
Boggs." She also got a part in
the latest Billy Jack production,
"The Master Gunfighter."
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Part-time work for one
month (April 5 - May 7) in
conjunction with the World
Premiere
of A MAJOR
MOTION PICTURE COMEDY
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Male and female students 17
and over needed for work in
the area of handbill distribution, bill posting, andzany
promotional ideas. During
first three weeks you'll be
working mostly your own
hours at your co·nvenience.
During the gala premiere
week you may be escorting
Hollywood starlets to interviews or driving star Bruce
Dern to the klieglit opening.
The first 100 students to
bring this ad to the UA
Cinemas 1, 2,3,4-FRIDAY,
April 4 after 5 pm will be
interviewed for employment
and admitted FREE to a
SNEAK PREVIEW of the
film.
Note: All work will be done