California's slow creep towards separatism

San Diego Union-Tribune ^ | March 5, 2003 | Leonel Sanchez

[lonewacko_dot_com]

From the article (bolding mine):

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Chicano Park can feature the word Aztlán after all.

Caltrans will allow proposed art featuring the Chicano term to remain in a $600,000 federally funded plan to renovate the aging park. The word refers to U.S. land that once belonged to Mexico.

The state Department of Transportation had questioned whether spending federal money on projects featuring Aztlán could violate grant-related civil rights laws...

Aztlán will now be spelled out prominently with colored rocks along a section of the park near Logan Avenue. The Chicano Park logo, which features a map of the United States with the word Aztlán over the Southwest, will also be included as part of another art project for the park.

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If you aren't familiar with Aztlan, there's more here and here.

The homepage for the California Division of the Federal Highway Administration is here. Click on 'Directory' to see contact information, including that of Lance Yokota, their Civil Rights Program Manager.

Contact information for Caltran's Civil Rights Program is here, and the email address for Pedro Orso from Caltrans is Pedro_Orso-Delgado@dot.ca.gov , which you can get from http://www.dot.ca.gov/cgi-bin/addrbook.pl The email address of the District 11 Public Information Officer is Olga_Estrada@dot.ca.gov

[lonewacko_dot_com]

Could someone add this to one of the sidebars?

[Amerigomag]

...and while you are at it please correct you title

[lonewacko_dot_com]

Just to be clear: the title of this thread is my take on it; the linked article's title is "Chicano Park renovationists allowed use of term 'Aztlán'"

[longtermmemmory]

Gee our own version of Quebec. Time for another english language first vote.

[tiamat]

Now wait a minute, wait a minute!

People, we might be mising a bet here!

We might be able to foist Martin Sheen, Baba Streisand, Grey Davis and a bunch of other folk who we don't want and who don't wanna be here anyway off on the Mexicans!

Let's give this some thought!

Anybody here think we could get Vincente Fox to pay us?

Tia

[lonewacko_dot_com]

An idea I had a while back was that instead of invading Iraq, we should invade France.

We could then install Al Gore as President of France, and Martin Sheen as his veep. Under the condition that they took Alec Baldwin et al. with them. France would be no worse than before, and we'd be better.

[m18436572]

A refrence to the WNA is here somewhere.

[Amerigomag]

Yes I'm aware of the actual title.

For reference your vanities should either be enclosed in brackets or more properly placed in the "remarks" section of the posting masks.

Good luck to you.

[tiamat]

lonewacko_dot_com writes: An idea I had a while back was that instead of invading Iraq, we should invade France. We could then install Al Gore as President of France, and Martin Sheen as his veep. Under the condition that they took Alec Baldwin et al. with them. France would be no worse than before, and we'd be better. Tia writes: Hey! i like it! let's try to work it! Like hitting two gerbils with one stone, or sumthin' like that.......

Tia

[John Jorsett]

Aztlan is a fantasy, and probably mostly harmless. The people who busted their butts to get over the border aren't likely to want to turn a section of the U.S. back into the same kind of sinkhole of corruption and poverty that they fled. Every time the idea of letting people here vote in Mexican elections comes up, the Mexican government thinks better of it because they know the ones here don't hold a very favorable opinion of the incumbents who are running the place they escaped.