This year, 5^th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

BUENO escribi sobre mi vida.

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Mi nombre es Teresa C.

Mis padres: Beatriz Bautista Lerdo,

Mauro Cortes Rosas.

It started the moment my uncle, the poet, wrote the lines—

A handful of carabao
Dung has more spirit
Than 10,000 white men

1st Nations. Black, Brown & Poor Peoples Demands for Justice and Self-Determination

2) State-wide Moratorium on Luxury Housing Development /Condominium Development

On Tuesday November 11, 2014 because I was broke and didn’t feel like standing in line at a soup kitchen I decided to take advantage of the fact that I am a US Military Veteran [US Navy 1983-1987]. Many businesses offered free or discounted goods and services on this day most of them large chain operations. My biggest regret is that I didn’t get up earlier or otherwise plan my activities for that day otherwise I would have got a lot more swag and had a lot more to brag about.

Making History: Minkahyup
Will Fight a Thousand Times Over: The Power of a Mother

Years before a foot
of track was laid for
the Bart system

my father collected
record albums with
miles of tracks pressed
into the grooves

he had hundreds of them
and he always handled
them by the edges

he didn't want to
get fingerprints, scratches
or dust on them

said it would
ruin the sound

(not to mention waste his hard earned money from his trusted Janitorial
job over on Van Ness Ave)

But as much as
he tried to take care of those
albums, he couldn't keep some
of them from warping and getting
scratched

and those albums would