www.calaverascallejeras.com/index.htmlUPDATEen© Aurelio José Barrera2010-03-04T13:44:24-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:50:36 -0800Calaveras Callejeras - BLOG2010-03-04T13:44:24-08:00www.calaverascallejeras.com/Blog/blog.html#unique-entry-id-101www.calaverascallejeras.com/Blog/blog.html#unique-entry-id-101

I took this photo of David Sanchez, Prime Minister of Brown Berets 1970 recently at Salazar Park.
The National Brown Berets website has very cool historical photos.

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I often think back when a PR person at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles gave me a CD of 900 historical images. The images were of menus, silverware, signs, and photos of workers and hotel construction. In all the photos I did not see one African American or Latino. Around the same time I saw a TV show where kids went to California mining companies and found few Chinese Americans in the photos.
I was once told by an owner of a stock photo ageny that " No one gives a shit about what some people in East LA are doing."
This morning when I saw the construction of bleachers on Hollywood Blvd for the Academy Awards I was not surprised to hear them all speaking Spanish and breaking their backs.

If we don't document our lives nobody will.

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Don Jones (above) holds 1990 print with the image of slain journalist Ruben Salazar at Salazar Park's Senior Center in Los Angeles on February 28, 2010.
Community activists held a panel discussion to recognize the 40th anniversary of a march through the rain in Los Angeles to protest the Vietnam War. Organizers say the ``March in the Rain'' was a turning point of the Chicano Movement.
Organizer Rosalio Muñoz (below) raises his fist to a cheering crowd of over 100 people.



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I got off the bus on Beverly near Gerhart and noticed that the sign for Garcia Shoe Store & Repair was whitewashed and the store gone.

It was one of my favorite signs around my neighborhood.



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After posting the photo of the Denny's sign going up I started to think about José Nuñez.

In February of 2008 I met José after he played a set at Troy's Burgers on Avenida Cesar Chavez and Eastern Ave. A few days later I met him there and we took the bus to Zamora Bros so I could shoot him playing for tips. A couple days later I recorded him playing at the Jack in the Box on Avenida Cesar Chavez and Mott St.

I wondered if Denny's will allow him and others to play.

You can hear José play a bit here.]]>