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December 30, 2005
And they say Mexicans can't assimilate...
Spotted for sale last night in one of those SanTana produce trucks the city's pocho City Council so hates was a Kellogg's Corn Flakes box with pictures of salsa legend Celia Cruz and Chicano labor icon Cesar Chavez. We figured it was pirateria, something as authentic as sidewalk CDs or swap meet Bar ... More >>
Blogs
March 20, 2006
The Chicano All-Stars Strike Back
There are few things lamer than Chicano yaktivists whining about negative coverage that shed light on sordid truths. It happened earlier this year when the Los Angeles Times published an epic four-part series on the once-proud United Farm Workers, an organization that went from the moral center of t ... More >>
Blogs
April 12, 2006
Cesar Chavez Legacy, Half-Off!
As if the once-proud United Farm Workers couldn't get any lamer (see tiny-ass picture below), along comes a UFW spring sale. "Sooner or later the march ends and you have to go home," goes their breathless pitch. "Bummer...but don't just sit there! You can still remember Cesar Chavez and support the ... More >>
Blogs
February 6, 2006
UFW vs. LAT
The United Farm Workers union, founded by the late Cesar Chavez, is firing back at the Los Angeles "By God" Times over last month's four-part series alleging all kinds of financial shenanigans and union ineffectiveness. But the UFW won't have that series' writer, Miriam Pawel, to kick around anymore ... More >>
News
February 22, 2001
Californias Misadventures
Disney fetes Californias diversity as Anaheim trashes it
News
January 31, 2002
No, Gracias
GOP bailing out of congressional race against Sanchez
News
January 31, 2008
Jerry, Be Wary
AG Brown: Investigate Santa Ana Renaissance Plan's conflict-of-influenza, por favor
Blogs
February 16, 2009
Artwork Depicting Martyred Peace Advocates Spun Into Film
You may recall Laguna Beach's Tim Leedom from his books about the evils of organized religion. Or his TV and film production work. Or his carrers as a college-football player and NFL scouting facilitator. Or his time in Hawaii's offices of power. Or his publishing companies. Leedom's lates ... More >>
Film
April 2, 2009
[Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Aliens,' 'Casablanca,' 'Happy Go Lucky,' More
You may recall Laguna Beach's Tim Leedom from his books about the evils of organized religion. Or his TV and film production work. Or his carrers as a college-football player and NFL scouting facilitator. Or his time in Hawaii's offices of power. Or his publishing companies. Leedom's lates ... More >>
Blogs
April 1, 2009
Overheard at an OC Courthouse!
Child Left Behind"No, the courthouse was closed yesterday because of something called 'Senior Chavez Day' and I'm pissed. (Ten-second pause.) I don't know. I think it has something to do with old Mexicans."--Twenty-something caucasian female, who apparently escaped high school without knowing the ke ... More >>
Columns
February 26, 2009
[¡Ask a Mexican!] Ilegal, ¿Y Qué?
Child Left Behind"No, the courthouse was closed yesterday because of something called 'Senior Chavez Day' and I'm pissed. (Ten-second pause.) I don't know. I think it has something to do with old Mexicans."--Twenty-something caucasian female, who apparently escaped high school without knowing the ke ... More >>
Columns
January 15, 2009
[¡Ask a Mexican!] Cesar Chavez's Street Cred
Child Left Behind"No, the courthouse was closed yesterday because of something called 'Senior Chavez Day' and I'm pissed. (Ten-second pause.) I don't know. I think it has something to do with old Mexicans."--Twenty-something caucasian female, who apparently escaped high school without knowing the ke ... More >>
Columns
July 3, 2008
[¡Ask a Mexican!®] Cherry-Picking César Chávez
Child Left Behind"No, the courthouse was closed yesterday because of something called 'Senior Chavez Day' and I'm pissed. (Ten-second pause.) I don't know. I think it has something to do with old Mexicans."--Twenty-something caucasian female, who apparently escaped high school without knowing the ke ... More >>
Columns
March 27, 2008
[¡Ask a Mexican!®] Special Last Column Edition
Child Left Behind"No, the courthouse was closed yesterday because of something called 'Senior Chavez Day' and I'm pissed. (Ten-second pause.) I don't know. I think it has something to do with old Mexicans."--Twenty-something caucasian female, who apparently escaped high school without knowing the ke ... More >>
News
December 20, 2007
Sisterly Concern
UFW legend Dolores Huerta wonders why her old friends who run the St. Joseph's hospitals have turned on their own workers
Features
November 29, 2007
Sister Knows Best
If the nuns in charge of the St. Joseph Health System are so pro-labor,why are some of their employees determined to unionize?
Columns
October 4, 2007
!Ask a Mexican!(r)
"Does the bean dare call the beaner brown?"
Columns
November 24, 2005
Letters
Your Story is probably BS
News
August 16, 2007
A Union-Busting Habit
The sisters who run St. Joseph Health System are often pro-labor—but apparently not at their hospitals
Columns
March 22, 2007
!Ask a Mexican! Web Especial
The great !Ask a Mexican! naming debate
Columns
February 1, 2007
!Ask a Mexican!
How do Mexicans get such ridiculous nicknames from seemingly normal names?
News
September 7, 2006
The Memories Fade Away
What will destroy a historic Anaheim mural first: The sun, gentrification or immigration?
Columns
June 1, 2006
!Ask a Mexican!
'The love that dare not speak its name except through the barrel of a gun'
News
May 4, 2006
So Hot Right Now
Si, Se Pretty!
News
February 23, 2006
Just Another Roadside Distraction
Anatomy of a murder on Beacon Avenue
Columns
February 9, 2006
Letters
'Nice Job Crapping All Over the Drummer, Bung-hole'
Columns
December 29, 2005
!Ask a Mexican!
The year in Mexican-bashing
Columns
November 24, 2005
!Ask a Mexican!
The year in Mexican-bashing
Columns
August 25, 2005
!Ask a Mexican!
The year in Mexican-bashing
News
April 28, 2005
A Few Words on Why Tom Umberg Doesnt Want Campaign-Finance Reform
The year in Mexican-bashing
News
December 2, 2004
Mild In the Streets
Buy Nothing Day Bombs at Fashion Island
Columns
March 18, 2004
Eight Days
Buy Nothing Day Bombs at Fashion Island
Columns
February 17, 2000
Cesar Salud
Buy Nothing Day Bombs at Fashion Island
Columns
May 27, 1999
Lock Our Asses Up!
And hey! Why not free Ireland while youre at it?
Blogs
April 20, 2009
Mexicans Take Over Fashion Island
Well, almost. Had the OC prima donnas at Fashion Island in Newport Beach known what was going on under the big tent across the street at the Island Hotel this past weekend, they would have run for cover under their Beemers and Benzes. Mexicans. Puerto Ricans. Colombians. Guatemalans. Dominicans, Arg ... More >>
Columns
May 21, 2009
[¡Ask a Mexican!] Mexican Pirates Güey Anchor
Well, almost. Had the OC prima donnas at Fashion Island in Newport Beach known what was going on under the big tent across the street at the Island Hotel this past weekend, they would have run for cover under their Beemers and Benzes. Mexicans. Puerto Ricans. Colombians. Guatemalans. Dominicans, Arg ... More >>
Blogs
June 7, 2009
Taco Bell Crime of the Week!
I once flew to Fargo, which had the closest airport to the University of Minnesota-Morris, which is in the middle of nowhere but a very pleasant place (and how is it that THEY have a street named after Cesar Chavez but not SanTana?). On the drive away from the airport, I spotted a huge Mexican resta ... More >>
Blogs
July 6, 2009
Arellano Honored Nationally for ¡Ask a Mexican! Columns
Gustavo Arellano and his ¡Ask a Mexican! column was honored in the large ciculation category at last week's 2009 AltWeekly Awards presentation during the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) convention in Tuscon, Arizona. Arellano received honorable mention in the "Column: circulation 50,0 ... More >>
Columns
August 20, 2009
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
Gustavo Arellano and his ¡Ask a Mexican! column was honored in the large ciculation category at last week's 2009 AltWeekly Awards presentation during the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) convention in Tuscon, Arizona. Arellano received honorable mention in the "Column: circulation 50,0 ... More >>
Blogs
January 23, 2006
Google Dolls
The other day, while getting the website that mirrors your favorite OC alt.-weekly pub ready for ya'all, Clockworken noticed something interesting upon opening Gustavo Arellano's popular column !Ask a Mexican! (Special Cesar Chavez Edition). Along the top of the virtual page was a Google advertiseme ... More >>
Columns
September 10, 2009
[¡Ask a Mexican!] Special El Edition
The other day, while getting the website that mirrors your favorite OC alt.-weekly pub ready for ya'all, Clockworken noticed something interesting upon opening Gustavo Arellano's popular column !Ask a Mexican! (Special Cesar Chavez Edition). Along the top of the virtual page was a Google advertiseme ... More >>
Columns
January 14, 2010
[Ask a Mexican!] The First South-of-the Border Amnesty
The other day, while getting the website that mirrors your favorite OC alt.-weekly pub ready for ya'all, Clockworken noticed something interesting upon opening Gustavo Arellano's popular column !Ask a Mexican! (Special Cesar Chavez Edition). Along the top of the virtual page was a Google advertiseme ... More >>
Blogs
June 1, 2010
Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Day
Headline: Yorba Linda to vote on Arizona immigration law thocpersonality wrote: Mexicans add nothing to this country other than prison cells.. Fine- You can crank out some tasty hot sauces, but the way you ransack [and extort] your own communities and neighborhoods should leave you all in s ... More >>
Blogs
July 31, 2010
Why isn't Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown Fighting Anti-Immigrant Loons?
One of the few positive transformations in the Roman Catholic Church in the United States over the last half-century has been its increasingly Aztlanista tendencies. This trajectory was helped along in the late 1960s and 1970s by no less a priest than Roger Mahony, now cardinal of the Los Angeles ... More >>
Blogs
August 12, 2010
Zack de la Rocha's One Day As A Lion Joins Dolores Huerta Benefit
www.myspace.com/onedayasalionZack de la Rocha's One Day As A Lion is joining the already-stellar line up of human rights activist Dolores Huerta's 80th birthday, at a benefit concert at the Greek Theatre tomorrow. One Day As A Lion, which takes all the energy of Rage Against ... More >>
News
September 16, 2010
Vote-Splitting Plot In Santa Ana
[Moxley Confidential] Sal Tinajero says he has proof his opponent and former opponent were in cahoots
Blogs
December 6, 2010
Long Beach Hyatt Regency, Long Beach Hilton Losing a Convention Because of UNITE HERE Local 11 Boycott Call
UNITE HERE Local 11 makes the most local news for its years-long dispute against the Disneyland hotels, but it represents other workers, too. And they just scored a symbolic victory for the workers they represent at the Long Beach versions of the Hyatt Regency and the Hilton.
Blogs
March 30, 2011
Loretta Sanchez Asked to Speak About DREAM Act at Pomona College, Talks About Herself Instead
Here at your favorite infernal rag, we have long criticized Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez for not having the, um, ovaries to support the DREAM Act, waiting until the tragic death of a DREAMer to co-sponsor the bill in Congress. Of course, we always hear it from Loretta apologists aghast that we c ... More >>
Blogs
April 1, 2011
[UPDATED: Local Event Canceled] Corridos for Cesar Chavez Day!
UPDATE, APR. 1, 3:32 P.M.: The local Cesar Chavez Day celebration has been canceled according to organizers. ORIGINAL ITEM, MAR. 31, 2:40 P.M.: Cesar Chavez, the late labor leader of the United Farm Workers, would have turned 84 years old today had he not passed away in 1993. To mark the occasio ... More >>
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November 3, 2011
Noche de Altares
Fourth and Birch Streets
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