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POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

This teatro was performed live during El Cinco de Mayo in Ray Aguilera (Bessemer) Park. Script by Denise Torrez. El Movimiento Sigue president. Narrator: Welcome! Bienvenidos! Our theme this year is: 55 years of POWER TO THE PEOPLE! We are going to

May 13, 2025

Civics·Culture·History·Transforming Justice

Mayor Graham speaks on raising taxes and increasing arrests

State of the City address By DEVIN FLORES Pueblo, Colorado. The weather outside was frigid, with nearly 20 degrees of windchill, as Mayor Heather Graham gave a State of the City address at Pueblo Memorial Hall Friday, Jan. 24. The mayor’s primary

January 25, 2025

Culture·History·Transforming Justice

Peltier almost free!

AIM elder to be released Feb. 18 By JUAN ESPINOSA On his last full day as president, Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of American Indian Movement leader Leonard Peltier, 80, who was convicted of killing two FBI agents in 1975. Lenny

January 24, 2025

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Arturo Sandoval newest Hispanics Honored at Kennedy Center

By DEBORAH MARTINEZ MARTINEZ Musician Arturo Sandoval was awarded Kennedy Center honors Dec 8, 2024. He is one of only four Hispanics honored. According to Felix Sanchez, President of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation Awards, of 75 people on the Kennedy Center Selection

January 17, 2025

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Sharing Aztec Mexhika Medicina with Pueblo’s Women

By REBECCA MAYAHUEL ROBLES, teacher with Storytellers of the Ancestral Red Road (SOAR) “La Medicina es para todos.” “The medicine is for everyone,” Maestra CC In April of 2024, this mantra by Cuauhtli Cihuatl, also called Maestra CC or Eagle Woman, became

January 17, 2025

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Denver’s Chicano Pride Ride draws thousands

Cinco de Mayo event created by a Pueblo Eastsider By ROBERT CORDOVA Denver’s Chicano Pride Ride (CPR) starts at the Sun Harley-Davison in Thorton, CO, but it’s roots extend to Pueblo’s Lower Eastside. Every Cinco De Mayo since 2010, Chicano motorcyclists from

December 4, 2024

Civics·Culture·Education·History·Movement Art

‘To Live Is To Believe’

Prison inmate’s view of Latina/o License Plate By JUAN CANDELARIA To live is to believe; Within this environment, we (inmates) grow accustomed to believing that every day will be repetitive, up until the day when it changes forever. Colorado State Representative

December 3, 2024

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Advocates testified before legislative committees

Numerous supporters of the license plate legislation testified before State House and Senate committees in person and via Zoom. Pictured above are (top row) Neva Martinez Ortega, Dr. Victoria Obregon, (middle row) Denise Torrez, Jose Ortega, Shirley Romero Otero, Dr. Jonathan Alcantar,

December 3, 2024

Culture·Education·History·Movement Art

Move Mountains is more than a name

By SHIRLEY ROMERO OTERO As the Executive Director of the Move Mountains Youth Project Inc., I have been a supporter of the Chicano License Plate Initiative since its inception. Many of us testified before the Colorado State Legislature several times in support

December 3, 2024

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Proud to play a small role in the Movement

By St. Sen. JULIE GONZALES Over the past few weeks since Trump won re-election, I have listened to friends and family members speaking in hushed tones about the unsettling feeling of politics happening to us, instead of with us. In these complicated

December 2, 2024

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Chicana/o License Plate journey began with 2nd grade teacher

How EMS became involved In the 2004-2005 school year, a fateful relationship began. Mrs. Denise Torrez, second grade teacher at Eva R. Baca Elementary School in Pueblo, CO, welcomed a group of rambunctious second graders into her Dogpatch classroom.

December 2, 2024

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POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

Mayor Graham speaks on raising taxes and increasing arrests

Peltier almost free!

Arturo Sandoval newest Hispanics Honored at Kennedy Center

Sharing Aztec Mexhika Medicina with Pueblo’s Women

Denver’s Chicano Pride Ride draws thousands

‘To Live Is To Believe’

Advocates testified before legislative committees

Move Mountains is more than a name

Proud to play a small role in the Movement

Chicana/o License Plate journey began with 2nd grade teacher

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