En vez de focusing on what I've uncovered about R. Bret Ruiz (see blog archives/"What I've discovered about R. Bret Ruiz"), the alternative newspaper in this town, the San Antonio Current, spends valuable ink targeting me and this blog. You call this journalism? Sad to say, it isn't. Tan jealous, porque my research is solid. Why don't they publish it? Because they work for corporate-owned media, bursting with sex ads, that doesn't want to deal with a character defamation suit. Because they know I'm right when I say all the media in this town is managed by whites. And they want to be in control of everything, even if they know it's wrong. At the Guadalupe Board Meeting I attended on March 23rd, I spoke before the board, and listed my years of concrete board experience in Dallas - to substantiate why I thought the Board should resign. I reeled off my past board credentials, not my resume: I've been a boardmember of the Girl'...

On March 30, 2006, The San Antonio Current, the city's "alternative" newspaper, published a cover story about the Guadalupe's new President, R. Bret Ruiz. Alot of my friends took issue with the friendly tone of the story toward the Guadalupe Cultural Center. Isn't an alternative newspaper supposed to ask hard questions, they asked? Apart from the journalistic problems with the story, i.e. quoting from Ruiz's former employee instead of the Anita Martinez Board which hired him, as I did - or checking his resume, as I did). Most of all, I was dismayed by the writers' texbook understanding of the word rasquache. I wrote both of the writers and told them the story was a good beginning, but that Ruiz's use of rasquache - in the context that he made it in the story, referring to the Guadalupe community, was derogatory - one word that says everything about his qualifications for leading the Guadalupe Center. (And that's why I began to scrutinize him and...

The SAEN has suggested they will be doing a substantial story on the Guadalupe Cultural Center. This is what happens when a corporation owns a newspaper - you publish stories about "good" latinos for the brown people to read your paper and read the ads. And blast/stereotype or don't write about the "bad"/rebellious/controversial/passionate brown ones because they might upset the conservative advertisers and publisher. Unfortunately, all the media in town is corporate-owned - except for KEDA, the only independent radio station in town - the conjunto station. Dave Davies, the new executive at Texas Public Radio pretty much stated that the public radio affiliate could only react - to the Guadalupe Center story. In other words, no story. He's called me before to complain about how not one Latina gets to have a real voice in San Antonio. A city where brown women are in the majority. This is the San Antonio Express-News story below that ran last Friday, M...

Its a rather poor and unappreciated fact that in Texas, independent minds and bodies are the most trifled of people. Sad thing too,seeing how a bunch of independent minds and bodies won our freedom from Mexico. The walkouts, from what I heard, were largely ineffective. And they will always be. For example. I am a 23 year old man. In my freshman year of high school at Judson,we had a walkout to protest the firing of the principal of the 9th and 10th grade campus. somewhere near 1000 students simply got up out of their chairs and walked out of class. We gathered in the courtyard. Campus police (read: Schutzstaffel) were called in and caused problems which ultimately made this peaceful walkout turn into a full-on riot. Utter chaos ensued, and to make a long story short(haha) because of irrational fear, this peaceful protest got ugly,students got arrested and there were battered minds, bodies and spirits. Fox Tech High School's "lock down" in response to a supposed walkout i...

Guadalupe's Board Chairman makes a Speech Watch the Video Juan Aguilera, the Guadalupe Cultural Center's Board Chairman, defended the Board, and accused the community of destroying the Guadalupe Center. by: barbararenaud.blogspot.com

By the way...see why i don't want my kids being educated in San Antonio schools? That savage, militaristic, anti-intellectual way of existence has no appeal to me. NOW you understand. The phrase "lockdown" came from the military which drifted in to the prison system and then in to our schools... Steve a professor at St. Edward's University in Austin and military veteran

I did an interview with Hernan Rosenberg this morning regarding the small walkouts in SA. One of my thoughts was because of the poor media coverage. A ver si aparece manyana. Thanks for this news. -from Robert Huesca, communications professor Trinity University