plays about the immigrant experience

SOUTH BAY COMPASS WITH BARBARA ZARAGOZA 5.17.15 “BORDER CROSSING”

On Friday, May 8th The Front Art and Culture Center in San Ysidro presented a first reading of Raul Castillo’s Border Crossing, a play that explores the nuances of the migrant experience. Micah … [Read more...]

FIERCE POLITICS with ALVARO HUERTA 5..13.18 “LATINA/O POLITICS IN THE RACIST ERA OF TRUMP”

May 20, 2018 By Tia Tenopia

President Donald J. Trump represents an existential threat to immigrants in the United States. Trump’s immigration rhetoric and policies consist of racist, xenophobic, enforcement-only and divisive (i.e., “us-versus-them”) political positions. Moreover, Trump’s domestic positions on immigration interconnect with his foreign diplomacy based on isolationist and unilateralist policies. While former U.S. presidents espoused (and implemented) similar […]

ADOLFO GUZMAN LOPEZ “VINE A LOS ANGELES”

May 20, 2018 By Tia Tenopia

Vine a Los Angeles The eagle perched on the cactus called me to Los Angeles. The Templo Mayor lays buried here. In my city, Mexico City, jaguar heads of volcanic stone became cornerstones for colonial palaces, became podiums for politicians, became baptism wells for el nuevo mexicano. In my new city […]

PENSAMIENTOS with ALFREDO SANTOS 5.20.18

May 20, 2018 By Tia Tenopia

Bienvenidos otra vez a La Voz Newspaper! Tengo mucho que platicarte, pero no se si voy a tener suficiente espacio en este página. Pero hay les voy! Quiero empezar llamando a su atención la carrera del Distrito 46 en el Texas House of Representatives. En la primaria, nadie ganó lo 50% del voto para salir […]

POLITICAL SALSA Y MAS with SAL BALDENEGRO 5.13.18 “THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, AKA TRUMPIAN CULT…”

May 13, 2018 By Tia Tenopia

The Republican party, aka Trumpian cult… I’ve written on this topic before, but I’m not being repetitious mindlessly. I believe that every time the phenomenon I discuss here emerges we need to call it out lest it becomes—in the term du jour—normalized. I’m talking about the Trumpian, right-wing hypocrisy, the shamelessness, that renders decent people […]

LATINOPIA FOOD RECIPE “JALAPEÑO SODA BREAD”

By Tia Tenopia on March 14, 2011

Jalapeño Irish Soda Bread The sweetness of traditional Irish soda bread ingredients—raisins, buttermilk, some sugar—are richly complimented by jalapeño heat. Here’s a soda bread recipe from Ireland brought to the USA from Galway by Mary Patricia Reilly Murray and later transformed with her blessing by her daughter, Bobbi Murray, who added jalapeño chile. A real […]

Category: Cooking, Food

LATINOPIA EVENT 1966 UFW PEREGRINACIÓN (PILGRIMAGE) MARCH

By Tia Tenopia on March 19, 2013

The effort to organize farm workers under a union contract has been a long and difficult struggle. In 1965, César Chávez and Dolores Huerta created what would become the United Farm Workers Union. From the onset they faced many obstacles, not the least of which was how to get dozens of California grape growers to […]

Category: History, LATINOPIA EVENT

LATINOPIA EVENT 1968 ROBERT KENNEDY ASSASSINATION

By Tia Tenopia on September 16, 2013

Robert Francis Kennedy was shot in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968. The brother of President John F. Kennedy, Robert had just been nominated by the California Democratic Party as their choice to run for President of the United States. Dolores Huerta, Vice President of the United Farm […]

Category: History, LATINOPIA EVENT