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Writings New York Times Journalsim Institute - Miami homeless vets death highlights biggerproblemPUBLISHED JANUARY 09WWW.NYTIMES-INSTITUTE.COM/MIAMI09

MIAMI Lured by sunshine andbalmy seas, Todd Hill came to Miamirom his native Oregon three yearsago looking or a resh start.

Ater battling homelessness or10 years, Hill, 41, a decorated Ma-rine who ought in the rst Gul War,ound an apartment and a job as asecurity guard. But his newound sta-bility did not last. Eight months aterreceiving a promotion, he was backon the streets. And on Nov. 26, on thebench he had come to call home, hewas beaten severely with a tire iron,and pronounced dead at the hospital.

Hill lived his last moments sur-rounded by junkies sleeping on usedgarbage bags, in the shadow o the

condominiums hed helped build as ahomeless laborer.Click on the image above to see

more photos and listen to audio clipsrelated to this story.

Todd didnt deserve to die likethat, said ormer Marine Samuel Hall,62, who lived on the streets with Hill.It was just senseless. He was home-less, but he always was willing to helpothers out.

Hill was one o two homeless veter-ans recently beaten to death here. Er-nest Holman, 67, a Vietnam veteran,was killed two weeks ater Hill. No

arrests have been made in his death.Secrecy Singleton, 29, also homeless,was charged in Hills murder.

The killings have heightenedconcern among the more than 250homeless veterans in Miami-Dade,representatives or the local VeteranAairs oce said, and prompted ademonstration by dozens o home-less veterans in downtown Miami onNew Years Eve.

Charles Buord, ounder o VetsUnit-ed.org, which is dedicated to eedingand rehabilitating homeless veterans,

led the protesters in their demand ormore ederal money or homelessprograms and shelters. There are anestimated 200,000 homeless veter-ans around the country, according tothe Department o Veterans Aairs.At least 400 are new veterans romthe wars in Iraq and Aghanistan.

That number is expected to growas the economy worsens, the wars inthe Middle East continue and moreveterans come home struggling withpost-traumatic stress disorder, advo-cates or the homeless say.

The Rand Corporation, a nonprotthink tank specializing in govern-ment policy, estimates that nearly300,000 veterans currently suerrom post-traumatic stress disorderor depression.

Post-traumatic stress disorder o-

ten increases occurrences o drinkingand drug use, as veterans attempt tosel-medicate, behavior that can leadto job loss or broken relationshipsand sometimes homelessness.

Thats the one thing that no oneis talking about, said Sam Feldman,an Army veteran and vice presidento the Miami chapter o Veterans orPeace. Ater Vietnam, the numbero homeless vets went up so high.Now with the economy and the wars,those numbers are going to go upsky high.

Its hard out there, Feldman add-ed. Its hard or everyone, but thestress o war multiplies with the stresso everyday lie.

John Burton, an Air Force veteranwho served in Vietnam and is nowhomeless, said it oten takes years orveterans to wind up on the streets. Hesaid the hardest hit veteran is otenthe one who seems to be making it atrst but then alls on hard times.

You can have a amily and an in-come and even a place to stay, andthen the building you live in getsoreclosed on and you lose every-

thing, Burton said. Its tough, andthen you go and drink a beer andthen another beer and then maybesmoke a little weed. And there is verylittle outreach done because the gen-eral public does not understand or isar removed rom the problem.

Hill served as a sniper in the MarineCorps rom 1986 to 1991. While hewas on duty, his newborn son died.The proound loss he elt led to de-pression, an illness that scarred Hillor the rest o his lie, his riends said.

Like many combat veterans, Hill

did not like to talk about his mentalhealth problems or his experienceduring the rst Gul War, said JimLineweaver, who worked with Hill asa security guard. Friends describedHill as riendly and good-natured, yetit was clear he was struggling withhis illness, Lineweaver added. I triedto get him to go and get assistance,but he was always hesitant at beingtreated, he said.

Instead, Hill started drinking.He went rom getting a promotion

and being at the top o his game to

the very bottom, Lineweaver said.He ought a battle with alcoholismthat negatively aected his peror-mance, and eight months later camea downhill slide.

Hill slept on a park bench with aview o the Miami River. Other home-

less people slept nearby. During theday, he oten sought work at a con-struction site as a day laborer.

Buord, who runs the American Le-gion Post 29, where veterans and oth-ers in need seek help, said the coun-try should do more to assist veteranson the streets. One reason homelessveterans oten dont reach out orhelp is that they dont want to talkto civilians about their problems, hesaid.

Veterans will not talk to non-vets,Buord said. Just the other day some-

one asked me what a badge I waswearing meant and I just ignoredhim. He didnt want to hear me say, Itmeans killer!

Buords group helped locate Hillsamily in Utah ater his death. Hillwas buried Jan. 7 in the cemetery atVeterans Memorial Park in Riverton,Utah. The American Legion Post 29is also asking or donations to helpbury Holman, since no amily hascome orward. The government hasprovided $250, which Buord said isnot enough or a proper burial.

We want to have the biggest u-

neral ever or a vet to help draw at-tention to the plight o the homelessvets, he said. We need everyoneshelp. We need help just to help thehomeless.

Help may soon be harder to comeby at Post 29. Buords group, whichis running short o money, asked i itcould deer paying rent on its build-ing at 6445 NE Seventh Ave. But Bu-ord said he was instead handed arent-increase notice giving him 10days to reply. I the group is orcedto shut its oce, it will be unable to

continue providing groceries or the900 households it serves each month.We cant pay, Buord said. We

need donations, or else were goingto be homeless.

As or the Iraq and Aghanistanveterans winding up on the street,homeless advocates worry that thisnew generation o combat veteranswill be ill-prepared to cope with thehardships.

For us its over, Feldman said.Were old. Weve survived it, but I eelor the new vets.


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Writings Real Talk LA - Luis Rodrgiuez continues the strugglePUBLISHED APRIL 07W W W . R E A L T A L K L A . C O M / A R T I C L E S / SHOW/66-A-CULTURAL-OASIS-STRUGGLES-TO-STAY-OPEN/1

We never stopped crossing bor-ders, wrote Luis J. Rodriguez in his

1993 critically acclaimed debut noveland memoir Always Running: La VidaLoca, Gang Days in L.A. It was a met-aphor to ll our lives. The L.A. River,or example, became a new barrier,keeping the Mexicans in their neigh-borhoods over on the vast east sideo the city or years.

From always runningrom cops,rival gangs and his own demonsto running a cultural center, youthgroups, his own amily, newspapersand book signing tours, Rodriguezhas made the transition seem easy.

I celebrate 14 years o sobriety this

year, says the Chicano poet, who im-migrated to the U.S. at age 2 and wasrunning with LA street gangs by age11. I am grateul to have a wonderulwie and partner, Trini Rodriguez. Andto have our wonderul children andgrand children.

But anyone who knows anythingabout the man will tell you, besidesalways running, he has always beenghting.

The boy who began his battles onthe streets o South Central, wouldgo on to ght in a boxing ring, at

anti-war rallies and or the Chicanomovement. Today the struggle or hisraza, the youth and to keep a part oLAs rich Mexican-American heritagealive, continues.

His Tia Chuchas Ca Cultural rangin the new year with a notice to moveand on February 28 it was orced toclose.

High-tech laundry machines re-placed a bookstore and art housethat eatured regular live peror-mances and workshops and ed thecity o Pacoima with a plethora o cul-tural education.

The laundry company invested mil-lions to get the slot held by Tia Chu-chas or the past ve years.

However, Rodriguez did not let TiaChuchas out o sight or very long,nding a temporary home at 10258Foothill Blvd. in Lake View Terrace.

We need places like this in everyneighborhood, particularly the poorparts o Los Angeles. LA is losing theconcept o neighborhood arts. Mostarts unding goes to Hollywood andbetter-o areas like the Westside, he

says.Tia Chuchas didnt come out un-

scathed in this battle. The center lostits ca, but Rodriguez hopes to raiseunding and nd a larger permanentspace in the next ew years.

Well still maintain a bookstore,

our oces and a perormance/work-shop space. One o our big undrais-ers will be an annual eventTia Chu-chas Celebration o Community andCultureat the Ford Amphitheater.We wont be held back.

The celebration, which marks itsve-year anniversary, will be heldon July 29 and will eature live mu-sic, Chicano comedy group CultureClash, poet John Densmore o theDoors and Rodriguez himsel.

The celebration is also part o Ro-driguezs long-term battle to make

progress in the Chicano movement.We have made tremendousstrides: bilingual education, moreChicano teachers, a Chicano mayorand various Chicano politicians,among others, he says, but adds thatthe struggles are long rom over.

Chicanos are still vastly over-rep-resented in the poverty numbers,among prisoners and drop out rates.And, unortunately, many o ourelected Chicano representatives stillneed to be more responsive to ourconcerns. We are the majority in LA,the second largest city in the U.S., yet

you wouldnt know by the make upo the power brokers and back-roomdecision makers. Much has changed;ar too much has remained the same.

However important todays leadersare in the struggle, Rodriguez seeshope in the uture.

As older activists, we must helpteach and support young people.They are hungry or roots, knowledgeand inspiration.

Rodriguez, who has his own web-site (www.luisjrodriguez.com), alsoeels that the advancements o the

20th century have only served to helpthe movement by mobilizing youth.New technologies changed how

people voice, organize, and protest.For example, 40,000 students walkedout o LA schools in March and Aprilo 2006, mostly with the aid o thesetechnologies.

He does, however, note that thegrowing world has created newneeds and new hopes in the move-ment.

While we talk about the impor-tance o Chicano leaders like Cesar

Chavez, many o whom were ex-amples or my own political/socialparticipation, today we need manyleaders.

One o these uture leaders may beellow writer and activist Mario Ro-

cha, who Rodriguez has kind o takenunder his wing.

I met Mario Rocha through activ-ists I knew in the juvenile hall andprison system. I had heard aboutthis young Chicano who was impris-oned or many years, apparently ora murder he didnt do. He impressedanyone who had anything to do withhim with his intelligence, demeanorand talent. I also knew he had readAlways Running and was apparentlyinfuenced by it. Once he sent me a

older o his poems, and I, too, wasimpressed.

But Rocha would eventually be setree to help his community.

I hooked up with him or the rsttime on the Divine Forces Radio Showwith Fidel Rodriguez on KPFK-FM. Wewere both on the air, talking aboutwriting, mentors, injustice and socialchange. He came to Tia Chuchas acouple o times since then.

While Rochas uture reedom isnt

guaranteed, Rodriguez eels positiveand hopeul that Rocha will help withthe modern problems o the Chicanomovement.

I think there are many Mario Ro-chas in the so-called justice system. Ihope hes nally and ully exonerated.I understand he still has more courtappearances. He shouldnt be lockedup and orgotten. He should be ree,and allowed to contribute to the bet-terment o our communities.

When hes not mentoring youth,

preserving Chicano culture or help-ing the movement, Rodriguez keepsbusy writing.

I have seven new book projects inthe works, including a new novel, an-other memoir and another childrensbook. Theyre all in dierent stages odevelopment, so its not happeningall at once. Im also doing a one-per-son perormance o my long poemNotes o a Bald Cricket at the FordAmphitheaters Little Theater in June.


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Writings Hispanic Link - Hispanic Groups Plunge Into Network Neutrality DebatePUBLISHED JANUARY 2010http://centerormediajustice.org/2010/01/18/hispanic-groups-plunge-into-network-neutrality-debate/

Washington, D.C. High-stakes political maneuveringis dragging Hispanic advocacy groups here deeper intobattle over the uture o the Internet.

As the Federal Communications Commission movesahead with plans to create a set o rules designed to blockonline monopolies rom orming, supportive consumerprotection organizations are pressing ethnic advocacyand civil rights groups, including the Urban League, OneEconomy and National Council o La Raza, to speak out insupport onetwork neutrality.

Some, such as the NAACP, the League o United LatinAmerican Citizens (LULAC) and the Hispanic Technology& Telecommunications Partnership, are ollowing the leado telecommunication giants Verizon, AT&T and Comcast.Others are avoiding taking a position opposing the trio.Still others, including the National Association o HispanicJournalists and non-white media groups, are lining upwith consumer protection groups and Web giant Google.

On one point all agree: much is at stake or communi-ties o color.

Groups avoring network neutrality are led by the Cen-ter or Media Justice. Without it, they ear unequal accessand eventual extra costs to poor and non-white commu-nities. Its supporters came rom throughout the countryin December to try to sway traditional civil rights organi-zations to back their position.

Meeting with several such groups and ederal legisla-tors, CMJ encountered minimal opposition to its argu-ments. This was new inormation to us, that there werecivil rights organizations that believed that network neu-trality was an essential policy in protecting the rights andpower o people o color online, CMJ executive director

Malkia Cyril told Hispanic Link. None outright opposedthe idea, she said.Cyril, who spearheaded a series o meetings Dec. 8-10,

added that one groups representative called it absurdor any civil rights organization to be opposed to net neu-trality.

They are taking a measured approach to the issue, Cyr-il said. To them, the issue is whether this should be on parwith broadband adoption and other issues.

Cyril noted that the groups invited to the meetingswere singled out because o their close partnerships withtelecommunications companies and the act that theyhad not yet taken a rm stance.

Alex Nogales, president o the National Hispanic MediaCoalition, told Hispanic Link that a lack o inormation is atthe root o any rit between consumer protection and civilrights groups. Many people o color do not have accessto traditional outlets to share their work and have turnedto the Internet or that purpose, he elaborated.

Cyril added, The leaders o the groups thanked us or

meeting with them ace-to-ace and not letting one othe telecommunications companies mediate. So ar allthe inormation they have been getting has been com-ing rom the telecom companies. Organizations that havedeep relationships in communities o color on the groundin regions and states are much more likely to take a pro-net neutrality stance because they understand the realimpact.

LULAC executive director Brent Wilkes argues just theopposite is true.

He told Hispanic Link that the average member o theLatino community is more concerned with hackers andviruses.

LULACs only opposition to net neutrality is to the non-discrimination clause, which would prevent Internet ser-vice providers rom avoring content or access.

Wilkes noted that LULACs concern is with any adverseeect that legislation could have on broadband adoption.What we dont want net neutrality to do is drive up price.We know that our communities are price-sensitive, he

said, adding that orcing ISPs to provide the same accessto other companies content would be unair since ISPshave invested into building the inrastructure.

The only option these companies could redeem thecosts o laying the pipe would be to charge more or thedata itsel. Wilkes denied allegations that LULACs closerelationship to AT&T had any infuence on the matter.AT&T has donated more than a million dollars to help LU-LAC gain broadband access to underdeveloped commu-nities and other philanthropic endeavors.

Obviously we have to raise money rom a variety osources, but we never shy away rom standing up or whatwe believe is right, he said. That whole argument is really

unair, especially when it only seems to be levied againstminority advocacy groups.In this, Nogales agreed with Wilkes. To say that these

organizations are doing this or the money is way o,Nogales said. LULAC and these groups do a lot o greatthings and they have their reasons or opposing net neu-trality.

Nogales and Cyril agreed that broadband prices wouldnot go up under net neutrality. Our numbers point to theopposite, Nogales said.

Cyril said it would be illegal to pass the cost on to con-sumers, adding she believes that the FCC will pass netneutrality and remains open to working with LULAC andothers.

There are those all across the country committed topartnering with national civil rights groups in order topromote open networks because we know thats whatempowers communities that can vote, that can advocateor themselves online, she concluded.


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Writings Pasadena Star-News - Rose Gudiel wins battle to keep homePUBLISHED OCTOBER 2011http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_19141174

BASSETT - In stark contrast to last months gatheringsat 13930 Proctor Ave., Rose Gudiel and more than 30 sup-porters Tuesday morning joyully sang and cheered thenews that she will keep her home.

On Saturday Gudiel made her rst payment in two yearson her home ater winning a prolonged ght with Pasa-dena bank OneWest, and Fannie Mae to reverse a oreclo-sure and eviction.

Tuesday, she said she will continue to ght with otherdistressed homeowners.

Im so happy and relieved, but this isnt over or thethousands o people out there on the brink o losing theirhomes, said Gudiel, whose deance o a court order toleave her home gained her national recognition.

We were ghting against a big giant and people saidwe could not win this, but we proved them all wrong, anelated Gudiel said. What Ive learned over the past monthis that, when you take a stand and ght against some othe most rich and powerul people in our country, you can

win.Faced with what many elt was an unair oreclosure

and eviction, Gudiel gained ame when she embarked ona years-long campaign to get her home back through aloan modication.

That battle included two years o paperwork, a day incourt and several months o public protest, including abrie takeover in August o OneWest headquarters in Pas-adena by a group o 50 Gudiel supporters.

It all culminated last month in Pasadena, when Gudielwas arrested with her 63-year-old mother, Rosa, and sev-eral others on suspicion o unlawul assembly inside Fan-nie Maes regional headquarters. They were cited and re-leased hours later.

Ater that incident, Gudiel quickly drew comparisons tocivil rights icon Rosa Parks, who amously reused to moveto the back o the bus or white passengers.

Hours ater being released rom Pasadena police cus-tody, Gudiel received notice that the eviction had beencalled o and that the banks were willing to negotiate.

Ater a week o negotiation, on Friday Gudiel announcedshe had reached a deal to keep her home. Gudiel will nowgo on a three-month trial to prove she can continue mak-ing payments beore the deal is nalized.

She noted that it is an aordable remodication andthat bank negotiators were very pleasant and very fex-ible.

As part o the agreement, Gudiel said Tuesday she could

not disclose any o the new loan terms. But she noted that

the agreement does not preclude her rom continuing to

ght alongside other distressed homeowners.

I am so happy that my amily and I will be able to con-

tinue living in and making payments on the home that

weve worked so hard or, she said. But this ght is not

just about me. Through this process I learned that this is

the time or homeowners to ght to keep their homes.

She also said this is the time or banks to stop railroad-

ing hardworking homeowners.

These banks are not evaluating us correctly or loan

modications and not using all the tools at their dispos-

al to stop oreclosures, Gudiel noted. Instead they are

throwing (people) out on the street while they get rich.

According to Peggy Mears, spokeswoman or Alliance

o Caliornians or Community Empowerment, Gudiels

victory - along with the Occupy Wall Street movement

that has spread to cities around the world - is proo thatAmericans are mobilizing against corporate greed.

We stood strong and we stood together, she said. And

we did what we knew we could do - keep the Gudiels in

their home.

Peter Kuhns, who directs the Los Angeles oce o the

homeowners rights group, said ACCE has helped save

nearly 20 homes in the past ew months.

We are continually working on saving more homes, he

said. But what we really want is to change the law.

ACCE recently ailed to get support rom Democrats and

Republicans in Sacramento to introduce a bill that wouldmake it illegal or banks to simultaneously put homes

through the oreclosure and remodication process.

Kuhns encouraged homeowners who are ready to

ght back to call ACCE at 877-633-9251 or go to www.

homedeendersleague.org

Gudiel, who is also an ACCE member, noted that ght-

ing back is really about personal commitment.

We will stand along side o you, but you must be ready

to do whatever it takes, she said. Its about everyone in-

dividually to start ghting back.


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Writings San Gabriel Valley Tribune - San Gabriel Mission celebrates 240 yearsPUBLISHED AUGUST 11www.sgvtribune.com/ci_18800949

SAN GABRIEL - Richard Gilbertwalked in to Mission San GabrielArchangel on a hot Wednesday ater-noon and he elt the touch o God.

I eel more connected to God here

than at any church, the visiting Chi-cago resident said. Im not sure whatit is. You just eel closer to God in amission. Maybe its all the history.

The settlement is indeed ull o his-tory, said Chuck Lyons, a spokesmanor the mission. Its a diary chroniclingthe birth, growth and turmoil o Cali-ornia, the Los Angeles basin and theSan Gabriel Valley.

The mission will mark its 240th an-niversary over the Labor Day week-end with La Fiesta de San Gabriel.The celebration will begin with abell-ringing ceremony at 6p.m. Fridayand runs through next Sunday on themission grounds at 428 S. Mission

Drive in San Gabriel.Some people look at the Fiesta as

just some other carnival, Lyons said.But its much more than that. Its acelebration o the rich tradition oSan Gabriel and the rest o the Valley- historical, cultural and religious.

Archeological studies show that atleast 8,000 years ago the native Tong-va tribe settled the San Gabriel Valleyand populated most o the L.A. basin.The Tongva infuence extended toparts o Orange County as well as theislands o Santa Catalina, San Nicho-las, San Clemente and Santa Barbara.

The Tongva have been here a longtime, Lyons noted. They are the orig-inal people o the Los Angeles area.

By all accounts the mission got itsstart in September 1771.

A group o missionaries led by Fran-ciscian Father Pedro Cambon werewalking along the Rio Hondo nearwhere the present day San GabrielBoulevard intersects Lincoln Avenue.And there the Old World and NewWorld collided.

Imagine walking up the riverwhen you get the eeling somethingis watching you, Lyons said. All o asudden, 200 Indians appear with thearrows and you think youre going todie.

One o the padres laid a painting oOur Lady o Sorrows on the ground.The Tongva were so moved by itsbeauty that they immediately madepeace with the missionaries.

The priests were able to use riend-ly gestures and eventually shared ameal with the Tongva.

Today, Our Lady o Sorrows remainsan important part o the missionshistory. The 300-year-old paintingstill hangs in the missions sanctuary,representing the peace that led to ahistoric east.

The Feast o the Birth o Marymarked the ounding o the missionSept. 8, 1771, at its original site.

It was just the ourth o what wouldbecome 21 Spanish missions in Cali-ornia, then a much larger regionknown as Alta Caliornia.

But constant fooding was a prob-lem in the area known to the nativesas Shevaanga, Lyons noted. Everywinter, foods would aect arming

and buildings. In 1776, a large fashfood destroyed many crops andmuch o the mission.

According to Lyons, the padresheard o a better location, wherefooding was not a problem. The mis-sion was rebuilt ve miles north - clos-er to the mountains - in San Gabriel,in the native village o Sibangna.

Many o the Tongva, which wererenamed Gabrielino by the Spanishbecause o their association with themission, were converted to Catholi-cism.

The mission grew to be known asthe Pride o the Missions, Lyons said.It supplied many o the other missionsand settlements with the necessitieso lie rom its lands, which stretchedrom the ocean to the mountains andeast to the Banning area o RiversideCounty.

The mission was designed by Fa-ther Antonio Cruzado and namedater the archangel Gabriel, the pa-tron saint o earthquakes. Cruzadowas originally rom Cordova, Spainand built much o the mission witha Moorish infuence, Lyons pointedout.

Its bell tower and outside stairwayare dierent rom the other missions,as is its construction rom stone, brickand mortar instead o adobe. Themission also eatured large woodendoors made rom Caliornia red-woods, which are on display near themissions museum.

I believe we have more historicalartiacts than any other mission, Ly-ons said. Many are in need o restora-tion, but they are priceless, like amilyheirlooms o the San Gabriel Valleyshistory.

For hundreds o years the missionhas been a part o that history. It wasthe site o the regions rst hospitaland the birth site o the last Spanishgovernor o Alta Caliornia, Pio Pico. Alarge stone cross stands in the center

o the Campo Santo cemetery, L.A.Countys rst consecrated cemetery.Caliornias rst ever vineyard was

at the mission. In 1834, when Gov.Pico conscated San Gabriel rom thepriests, the mission had more than163,000 vines in our vineyards.

The mission was also a signicantplace or the birth o the cities o LosAngeles and San Francisco. It wasrom the San Gabriel Mission that 11amilies let on Sept. 4, 1781 to oundEl Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles.

In 1776, the mission hosted Colo-nel Juan Bautista De Anza and morethan 200 colonists and soldiers romthe now Mexican state o Sonora. The

group easted and rested at the mis-sion beore leaving or San Francisco.

Beyond the paintings, artiacts, rep-licas and monuments at the mission,the settlement serves as a remindero the regions diversity, noted Whit-tier resident Barbara Stone during a

visit to the mission with her husband,Harry, and their three grandchildren.

Its important to our history thatwe remember that this country wasntounded by some monolithic society,said Stone, a retired proessor o po-litical science at Cal State Fullerton.From the beginning, we came roma diverse culture.

Lyons said that some o the diver-sity led to a clashing o cultures be-tween the natives and the new set-tlers. There was some mistreatment,Lyons said.

The mission period began an em-battled relationship between thetribe and the Europeans, said An-thony Morales Sr., otherwise knownas Chie Red Blood o the Gabrielino/Tongva San Gabriel Band o MissionIndians.

The Spanish and these padrescame and ounded these 21 missionsto Christianize the Indians, he said.Unortunately, our people paid theprice. We got the trouble that camewith it.

According to Lyons, there wereabout 2,000 Gabrielinos when the

mission was ounded. They werenearly wiped out by mistreatment,murder and disease.

Our people learned a lot rom thepadres about agriculture and arm-ing, trade and how to work withhides, Morales said. And we learneda lot about their culture. But with that,came enslavement and they killed usand took advantage o our women.

According to Morales, the tribesrelationship with the mission is stillstrong because it is about paying ourrespects to our ancestors. Six thou-sand Tongva are buried on the mis-sion grounds.

The tribe still participates each yearin the annual celebrations, which in-clude storytelling, dance, Mass andcarnival games. This year the tribewill get the honor o blessing the di-rection beore the Sept. 3 Mass, Lyonssaid.

We go and we pray or our people,Morales said. And we try and keepour traditions and history alive. Thistown has a lot o history. Our peoplehave a lot o history; unless we keep italive, our ancestors died in vain.


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Writings San Jose Mercury News - Jobless nd reuge in home-based boonPUBLISHED JANUARY 11www.mercurynews.com/ci_ 17043244

Onore Gonzalez was living paycheck to paycheck as aconstruction worker beore he was laid o two years ago.I was really stressed out, not sure o how I was going tosupport my amily or pay my mortgage, he recalled.

Luckily or Gonzalez, his wie and three kids, he wentrom almost losing his Whittier home to making it thebase o his own business.

Gonzalez started Splice o Lie Now, a home-based busi-ness that provides marketing tools or start-ups. In doingso, he joined the millions o home-based businesses thathave sprung rom the layos and rings o the Great Re-cession.

With the national unemployment rate at 9.4 percentand Caliornias rate at 12.4 percent, there is no bettertime to take charge o your nancial situation, noted Der-ek Romo, general manager o the Work at Home BusinessExpo.

According to research rm International Data Corp.,more than 2 million Americans have launched their ownhome-based business since 2008. Since the height o thedot com boon in 1999 (9.48 million), the number almostdoubled to 18.4 million home-based businesses in 2009.

The home-based industry is expected to grow by350,000 businesses every year or the next ew years - atrend that is most prevalent in tech-savvy Southern Cali-ornia.

Technology has made it possible or home-based busi-nesses to thrive without having to constantly put moneyinto mass inrastructure, Romo noted.

Paul Little, president o the Pasadena Chamber o Com-merce, echoed Romos assessments and noted that theSan Gabriel Valley has seen an uptick in home-based own-ership.

I think there are probably several reasons or that, in-cluding the relatively low start-up costs, little or no initialoverhead and a lower risk o losses, he said.

West Covina Chamber President Drexel Smith also hasseen the trend growing in the Valley.

A growing percentage o business licenses in West Co-vina are or home-based businesses, he said.

He also pointed out that the industrys growth is notonly in numbers but economic importance.

Home-based businesses now represent a signicant

element o our economy, smith noted.

In 1985, the rst year the government began keeping

records on home-based employment, 2.2 million persons

worked exclusively at home. Today the Small Business

Administration estimates that 53 percent o all U.S. small

businesses are home-based. Nearly hal o those supply

50 percent or more o household income.

Joan DeSouza supplies her entire income rom her

home-based business PartyLite. Out o her home in Pasa-

dena, DeSouza runs a multilevel marketing businesses

that sells candles and gourmet ood.

DeSouza was a customer service manager at the Los

Angeles Times beore she took a voluntary buyout. She

was rehired as a consultant when she discovered Party-

Lite.

I started doing it part-time as something un to do,

then I realized it was something I could make a lot o mon-

ey at while making my own hours.According to the Home-based Business Institute, most

home-based business owners are successul in passing

the initial hump that can bankrupt small business owners.

Nearly 70 percent o home-based shops will last over a

three-year period, compared to 29 percent o other busi-

ness ventures, the institute estimates.

This can be attributed to the vast experience possessed

by most o the owners, Little noted.

A air number o the people who lost their jobs during

this recession were middle-aged proessionals who have

career skills they worked years to develop, he said.According to Gonzalez, another reason most home-

based start-ups last is because o the special relationship

owners have with their business.

This is it or a lot o us, he said. You go rom working a

lot o hours and missing your amily in a job that isnt even

secure, to making the same or more in a lot less hours. You

dont want to let go o that.


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Writings Pasadena Star-News - Extreme couponing takes over SGVPUBLISHED JANUARY 11http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_18585280

For Allison Young, clipping coupons started innocentlyenough - a ew choice deals here and there - but now ithas become a ull-blown war on high costs.

The best way to maximize (savings) is to go as soon as

the ad is valid, the La Puente resident said. You want tohave more than one o the highest dollar coupons, ideallyat a store that will stack or double.

Young is part o a craze known as extreme couponing,where ordinary shoppers take savings to the next level.The goal o an extreme couponer is to save as much mon-ey as possible while accumulating the most groceries.

The extreme part comes in the amount o commitmenta shopper is willing to put into clipping, noted Beatriz Pila,a Whittier native who now lives in Rancho Santa Margar-ita.

I carry around two three-inch binders ull o couponswherever I go, said Pila who travels all over Los Angelesand Orange counties looking or deals. I have our news-

papers delivered to my house every Sunday and two tomy moms house in Whittier. I take the extra paper, plusany coupons she doesnt want rom the rst paper.

Fueled by the poor economy, the trend has led to back-to-back record-breaking years in 2009 and 2010 or cou-pon distribution in the consumer packaged goods market,according to NCH Marketing. In 2010 coupon distributionreached 332 billion - the largest single-year distributionquantity ever recorded in the U.S.

While the coupons are part o a marketing campaign bygrocers and other retailers, Young, who works as an ac-countant in Baldwin Park, thinks shoppers are getting thebest part o the deal. And she said the savings make all theexhaustive bargain searching worth while.

I didnt intend to be an extreme couponer when I rststarted to clip, she noted. I also couldnt believe it waslegal to pay such low prices. Grocer margins are alreadylow and then the coupons are deducted.

According to NCH, consumers have saved $2 billionwith coupons through the rst hal o 2011. Thats up 5.3percent rom the rst hal o 2010.

As a new home owner ... Im always looking to save ev-ery last penny, said Patrick Chen, a Covina native who re-cently bought a new home in Fontana.

The huge savings were enough to make Pila an extremeshopper ater just one trip to the market.

I was able to save 97 percent o my grocery bill and Iwas hooked, Pila recalled Wednesday aternoon. She hadjust returned rom a successul trip to Walgreens, whereshe bought two bags o licorice, two packs o rubber

bands and two Irish Spring deodorants.I paid $7.20, she said. I saved $17.04 with my coupons

and sale items and I got back $8 register rewards to useor my next purchase. So I made an 80 cent prot on thisshopping trip.

But saving is only hal o the un. Extreme couponing isabout developing a strategy.

Part o the un is the constantly changing policies- Tar-get just modied theirs, but until then I was getting theirMorning Star Burgers almost ree, Young said.

The best coupons are on products new to market, sheadded.

Between in-store promotional pricing and a coupon

there are a lot o things - mostly smelly house cleaningproducts - you can try almost ree, Young noted. Andbring a smile. You wont be alone on the quest around thestore to the sale items with coupons.

Some plans or savings are airly simple, like Chengsplan to nd ways to stack and combine coupons. Usingstore price match policy to your advantage is also anothergood resource, he said.

Other extreme couponers are willing to go throughmuch more to get what they need.

I track all o my purchases on a spreadsheet that tellsme the date o my purchase, the store, amount I paid,amount I saved and i I got any extra dollars o couponsor uture shopping trips, Pila said.

Even with all the savings out there or consumers, thereare ewer coupons or perishable goods, which wouldhelp many people in need, Young pointed out.

The ugly truth: There are inrequently coupons orresh ruit, she said. I nd that people on tight budgetscould really use some spinach more than room spray, butwe live in a imperect, though spring resh scented, world.


10/25

Writings 8.5 Magazine - OK Go dances into mainstreamPUBLISHED MAY 06

From dancing in and out o part-time jobs to dancing inront o millions to bring in the new year, the OK Go havecome along way.

As OKs bass man Tim Nordwind puts it, (It was) 11:30at night and we got to play three songs while dancing on

a roo in Time Square to bring in the new year. That hasbeen the biggest highlight so ar.

Nordwind admits that it hasnt been long enough sincethe band members have quit their day jobs.

I worked in a theater and although the pay was shitty, itwas real cool. I I had to take o or about three months totour or something they were totally cool about it.

He also says that his band mates, Damian Kulash (vo-cals, guitar), Dan Konopka (drums) and Andy Ross (gui-tar, keyboards), who had descent jobs also recently quitamidst the success o the past year.

We are relishing it, says Nordwind. The band is comingo o the release o its latest single Do What You Wantrom the Oh No LP and has amassed a massive cult ollow-

ing, topping the UK charts.Nordwind admits that the bands second album has putsome distance between OKs intentionally overproduceddebut OK Go.

The rst record was synthetic sounding, with a lot osugar. This new album is raw and has more o a live en-ergy, he adds. We tried to make a record that really cap-tured what we do live. Weve gotten where we are be-cause we are a really good live band.

Kulash agrees saying, on the bands Web site, We want-ed to make an album that sounds like our band, and nota heady, sel-conscious studio project. Everyone tells usrock and roll is a shadow o itsel - a sad old milk cow smil-ing at the armer every morning. We still see a buckingbull smashing around the stable.

Although the band has made its bones on tour Nord-wind nds that the experience recording is just as excit-ing.

The grass is always greener on the other side. When weare on tour ater the rst our weeks, I really eel like beingin one place. But ater a month in the studio I kind o just

want to go out and get some immediate eedback.

Instantaneity may be behind the bands comprehensive

Web site, www.okgo.net, which eatures everything rom

a blog to podcast.

It does everything, but pick up the paper, says Nord-

wind jokingly. Damian and I travel around the country

recording the interesting things people say. The wholething is part o our master plan to brain wash ans and it

works.

The bassist says that ans have sent in numerous eccen-

tricities including models o the band made out o pep-

permints.

He also says that the Web has been a great tool in in-

teraction with the ans and attributes some o the bands

success to ogko.net.

However, most o it he attributes to the amily-like com-

radery that he and his mates share.

We ght, we shout, we break up and get back together

again. We have all the ingredients o a amily.

He also eels that success can lead to ailure i the wrong

people get a hold on you.

Its easy to get caught up in the corporation. Its easy to

all into the trap. Thats why you have to dene the rules

yoursel. Like us, we never let down.

We ran into problems with the label and thats why the

rst album was done a certain way, but this time we took

o to Sweden to record, a thousand miles away rom our

label.

Although he also admits that it is a bit harder coming

into the business, he advises unsigned bands to nd fex-

ible jobs and to never let up.

There are several ingredients to success: humor, enjoy-

ment, sel promotion, creative thinking, but you just have

to go out, be fexible and dene success or yoursel.


11/25

New MediaErick Galindo has reported on every-thing rom plantain bandits in PuertoRico to nance and politics in Wash-ington D.C. to the economic woeso musicians in post-Katrina NewOrleans to the collapse o housingmarket in Los Angeles. And Ive done

it with audio, video, photo, blogs andsocial media.


12/25

Videos

Occupy the Rose Parade

http://youtu.be/CNcmWyDLYsE

Dec. 29, PASADENA: Oc-

cupy the Rose Parade

plans to descend upon the

annual showcase o ow-

ered oats and bands with

a undetermined number

o protesters.

Homeless Vets

In Miamihttp://link.brightcove.com/services/link/

bcpid6217805001/bctid6859117001

On location in Florida,

we set out to do a

short piece on the

growing homeless

veteran population in

Miami Dade County.

The piece highlights

the gritty streets

through the eyes o

three homeless veter-

ans.


13/25

Videos

LAX Protest

http://youtu.be/MbwJ_T4vRF4

Residents countersued the

city in December in their

dispute over the residents

attempts to start a wine

bar at this home. Je and

Taryn Hildreth obtained a

CUP more than a decadeago, but the city says he

let it expire, then began

building without permits.

Now hes had to ght to

keep a receiver rom tak-

ing over.

Who Will Fight

Your War?http://youtu.be/dTCTSSatSHA

This was an edito-

rial video that took

the angel o children

speaking out against

the war in Iraq. Most

o it was shot during

the annual Iraq war

march that ended

in ront o the CNN

building on Sunset

Blvd.


14/25

Interactive

The Wind Stormmultimedia package

http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/specialreports

Special coverage o a Dec. 2011

wind strom that devestated the

Pasadena area included a con-

stant stream o news updates,

videos, phots and an interactive

map created by user generated

content.

Safe Schools: A Special

ReportIntaractive micrositehttp://www.sgvtribune.com/safeschools

An interactive microsite that

keeps track o teacher mis-

conduct at schools in the

San Gabriel Valley. It includes

reader responses and report-

ing, a Twitter widget, a stream

o stories and a timeline o

public request orms and the

responses by school ofcials.


15/25

InteractiveSpecial Report: Cold CasesInteractive micrositehttp://www.whittierdailynews.com/cold-

cases/

This interactive package

about unsolved murders in

LA County includes a story

stream, a eatured case sec-

tion and a slideshow. It also

allows readers to give tips,

react and even plot general

crimes in our Neighborhood

Watch interactive map.

Special: San Marino Mur-

der Mystery

Interacitve micrositehttp://www.pasadenastarnews.com/mystery

This interactive site chronicles

the ongoing coverage o one

o the regions most notrious

crimes. It incluides histrocial

data, Twitter widgets, a story

stream, video playlist and

photo media center.


16/25

InteractiveThe Hollywood Reporterinteractive contenthttp://www.thr.com

For The Hollywood Reporter, creating interactive content was not only a dailytask but an hourly task. Besides photos, editing, headlines and packaging,there was also building daily newsletters.

The New York

Timesinteractive packagehttp://www.nytimes-institute.com/miami09/2009/01/10/

photo-gallery-and-podcast-vets-on-the-street/

This interactive piece on lie

on the streets o Miami Dade

or United States veterans was

one o the scariest and most

un projects to work on in the

entire internship or The NY

Times. It took several days

and dangerous nights in one

o the poorest counties in the

country.


17/25

Photo

Obamacare

In the midst of the health care debate President Obama invited the media to the White Houseon July 22 to pitch his plan to the public on primetime television. The president stressed somemoral, but mainly nancial reasons that the country was in need of reform. Forty-six million peopleare currently uninsured.

The president stumps for health re-

form on primetime


18/25

Photo

PROTESTen

la capi-talEstado Unido: Rep. Luis Gutirrez (D-Ill.) on the bottom rightcorner outlines the immigration bill he plans to introduce toCongress on Oct. 13 during a mass rally hosted by Reform Im-migration FOR America. Thousands gathered on the west lawnof the Capitol calling for President Obama to deliver on hispromise to reform immigration laws. They carried U.S. agsand those of their home state. A few

waved ags from their country of origin. The immigrantadvocate bussed more than 700 people to D.C. from throughoutthe United States. Congregations from Texas, California, Therally was well organized. It featured a childrens choir fromMaryland, pictured in the bottom-right corner. The childrensang the National Anthem and various U.S. folk songs such asWoody Guthries This Land Is My Land.


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Photo

BIG EASY

In the years after Huricane Katrina, the city has begun to recover with its musicians hardest hitby the loss of property, venues and tourist dollars.

Post-Katrina NOLA


20/25

Photo

In the midst of the health care debate President Obama invited the media to the White Houseon July 22 to pitch his plan to the public on primetime television. The president stressed somemoral, but mainly nancial reasons that the country was in need of reform. Forty-six million peopleare currently uninsured.

The president stumps or health reormon primetime

Photo

STANDING UP: A plantain farmer in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico decides to stand up to a gang of bandits thathave plagued his farm. After the governments failure to curb the criminals recent crime spree, JavierGonzales and his workers began protecting their farm with force.

Plantain Bandits


21/25

Photo

Justice Sotomayor

After President Obama nominated the rst-ever Latina to the Supreme Court, herconrmation was nearly guaranteed, but that didnt stop anti-abortion advocates likethe one on the bottom right from coming to the capital for Sonia Sotomayor s week-longconrmation hearings and protest her appointment. Nor did it stop her supporters fromholding rallies all around Capitol Hill. In the end the Senate Judiciary Committee votedto conrm opening the vote to the entire Senate which overwhelmingly approved her con-rmation as the rst Hispanic judge to serve on the highest court in the country.

One week of hearings is a moment in all of history


22/25

Social MediaThe New

York Timeshttp://www.nytimes-institute.com/mi-ami09/2009/01/04/workshop-iii-interview-techniques/

I was selected as one o only 20 student journalists by The New York Timesto intern and its prestigious Journalism Institute and or my rst assignmentI had to blog. The Institute is ully converged to new media so this was nosurprise to me.

Live chat

community outreachhttp://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_20326189

We reached out to the community or

a live chat on the Kendrec McDade

case, a ormer Azusa High School oot-

ball player who was killed in an ofcer-

involved shooting in Pasadena.


23/25

Social MediaFabula Dico

stories from the Capitalhttp://fabuladico.wordpress.com/

Blogging the ins and outs o

politics in Washington , D.C.,

especially as they pertained

to minority groups. Highlights

include live blogging the Sonia

Sotamayor conrmation hear-

ings.

Streaming Videohttp://www.ustream.tv/channel/sgvn-rose-

parade-2012-coverage

We took to Ustream to oer some unique perspectives o the

2012 Rose Parade. This inlcuded live streaiming some o the

untelevised events and live coverage o the Occupy protests.


24/25

Social MediaFacebook

SGVTribunehttp://www.facebook.com/sgvtribune

The Facebook page or the San

Gabriel Valley Tribune takes ull

advantage o Facebook plugins

to host contests, videos and en-

gage users. The timeline eature

also provides an opportunity to

showcase some o the papers

history.

Twitterhttp://twitter.com/passtarnews

Since taking over management o Interactive or SGVN, TheStar-News Twitter account has grown by more than 200 percent,as has @SGVTribune, due largely to an increase in content, livetweeting and reader engagement.


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