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Defending Rights of the Marginalized
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Bilingual play
at Milagro
F ro m th e m o u n ta in s o f
M e x ic o 's southeast, a sm all band
o f Zapatistas m ade their first strike
at the stroke o f m idnight on New
Y ea r's Eve 1994. W ith the help o f
the Internet, new s m edia and h un
d reds o f international n o n g o v
e rn m e n ta l o rg a n iz a tio n s, they
stru g g led for in digenous rights,
territorial rights, w o m en 's rights,
ev ery th in g for every o ppressed
gro up that is w illing to stand up
for th eir beliefs.
T he “Z ap a tista” story is told
in the latest b ilingual play by
M ilagro T heatre, 525 S.E. Stark.
G ilberto M artin del C am po (origi
nally from M exico) plays the role
o f M arcos. O m ar V argas (o rig i
nally from Ecuador), an eight-year
v eteran o f the M ilagro troupe,
plays the role o f his principal
M ayan cultural advisor, D on A n
to n io . H o n d u ran n a tiv e Jo rg e
M adrid, from M ira c le ’s T eatro
E spañol C om pany, plays an o th er
Z ap atista leader.
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In conju n ctio n w ith the c lo s
ing p erform ances on S aturday,
Dr. Martin Luther King
With a Celebratory Service
“What Happened To The Dream”
Sunday,
January 20. 2008
4:00 PM
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Portland, Oregon
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Gilberto Martin del Campo portrays Subcomandante Marcos in "Zapatista, ” the new bilingual play
onstage at Milagro Theatre, 525 S.E. Stark St.
Jan. 19, M iracle T h eatre G roup
w ill h o st “ O u r W o rd is O u r
W eapon,” an open forum led by
local com m unity activ ists about
the influence o f the w ork o f the
Z apatistas in L atino com m unities
in O regon.
Issues related to indigenous
rights, language andculturc will be
co v e red by a c tiv ists from the
O axaca Coalition, area Latino art
ists and Latino radio-program o r
ganizers. The forum i s free and open
to the public and will be held at the
theater from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. follow
ing a 2 p.m. matinee o f "Zapatista.”
For more details, call 503-236-
7 2 5 3 orvisitm ilagro.org.
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Immigration Debate Troubles Hispanics
dential cam paign trail, and they in
creasingly cite discrim ination as a
problem.
Sixty-four percent said the imm i
gration debate and C ongress' fail
ure to enact bills revam ping im m i
(AP) — M ost H ispanics say the gration laws has made life harder
im m igration debate and C ongress’ for Hispanics. Just more than half
failure tooverhaul immigration laws said the increased attention to im
has hurt them, and many fear d e migration has hurt them person
portation for them selves, a relative ally, ranging from 12 percent who
or close friend, a recent poll found. said they are having more trouble
T he survey, conducted by the keeping a jo b to 24 percent who
nonpartisan Pew H ispanic Center, said they are less likely to travel
found that Hispanics in the United outside the U.S.
A m in o rity — 41 percent — said
States are generally satisfied with
theirow n lives and optim istic about they or som eone close has experi
the future. Yet many are wary o f enced discrim ination in the past
negative reactions prom pted by five years. T hat proportion has
heightened attention to illegal im grown since 3 1 percent said so in a
migration in Congress and the presi 2002 poll by Pew and the Kaiser
Survey shows
worries and
discrimination
Family Foundation. Roughly eight
in 10 say they think discrim ination
against Hispanics is a problem in
schools, the w orkplace and when it
com es to success in the United
States, with an increase in those
citing school discrim ination since
2002 and the other numbers chang
ing little.
"H ispanics in this country are
feeling vulnerable in the current
political and policy environm ent."
said Paul Taylor, acting director of
the center.
There are about 47 million H is
panics in the U .S..about 16percent
o f the co u n try 's population. Presi
d en t B ush and C o n g ress have
flopped in their efforts to enact
le g is la tio n d e a lin g w ith th e
co u n try 's 12 million illegal im m i
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g ran ts— which include many His
panics — but increased deporta
tions and tighter limits on govern
ment benefits have put pressure on
the Hispanic com m unity.
The issue has also becom e a
major one in the 2008 presidential
campaign, particularly with Rcpub-
lican candidates who have stressed
how they would crack down on a
problem widely cited by G O P vot
ers as a top concern.
The poll found 53 percent of His
panics said they worry about depor
tation for themselves, a relative or
close friend, including 33 percent
who said they worry about it a lot.
While foreign-born Hispanics were
most anxious, even one in three na
tive-born Hispanics — who are all
U.S. citizens — expressed worry.
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Paintings, Sculptures at Onda
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O nda Gallery, 2 2 15 N.E. Alberta
S t., is hosting an ex h ib it this
m onth o f visionary pain tin g s by
G u ille rm o M artinez G arrido and
sc u lp tu res o f recycled m aterials
by S am irS an k ari.
The exhibit is O nda’s second
show p re se n tin g p a in tin g s by
Martinez Garrido, a Mexican painter
who died in 2005. The featured
w orks are more representational
and figurative than the artist's ab
stracts shown in April 2(X)6.
“Te presto ml silla" by Guillermo Martinez Garrido.
(A P )—G ov.T ed K ulongoskihas
rejectedcalls from Hispanic groups
to delay implementing tougher state
rules for obtaining adri vers license.
Last month, the groups subm it
ted 5 .(XX) petition signatures to the
D river and Motor V ehicle Services
Division in Salem, asking for a one-
year delay.
Ramon Ramirez, the president of
the N orthw est T reeplanters and
Farm w orkers United, the state's
largest farm w orker union, accused
K ulongoski o f not valuing the
state's Latino imm igrant com m u
nity.
"W hat the governor is basically
saying to imm igrants is. I don't care
about you. and I don't care about
your rights,"' Ramirez said.
Kulongoski signed the execu
tive order in November. It requires,
after Feb. 4. that applicants show
proof o f legal residence to get an
Oregon license.
O regon is one o f only a handful
of states that does not require proof
of legal residence for a license.
Kulongoski has said all Oregon
driver's licenses might become in-
valid as ID for boarding commercial
airliners or visiting federal office
buildings if the state doesn't com-
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During his career. M artinez ex
hibited in M exicoC ity at the Palace
of Fine Arts, the National Institute
of Fine Arts, G allery Picasso and
Gallery M argarita Herrera among
others.
S am irS ankari uses scrap metal
and other m aterials and shapes
them into finished abstract sculp
tures. The finished pieces som e
times allude to plants or animals,
other limes they resem ble the hu
man figure.
He has practiced his art in the
com m unity, placing sculptures in
the n e ig h b o rh o o d and p u b lic
places for the enjoym ent o f many.
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