LitFest Pasadena- Wednesday, May 4

From: https://litfestpasadena.org

The 10th Anniversary of LitFest Pasadena 2022 embraces a dynamic new format, expanding locations as well as returning to known favorites. LitFest Pasadena brings acclaimed authors and new voices together to engage in a variety of powerful and inspiring literary and social conversations.

 

This year’s in-person event is, as always, free to the public and no registration is required.

 

WEDNESDAY, MAY 4

6:00pm – 9:00pm

 

Altadena Library

600 E. Mariposa St., Altadena, CA 91001

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Limited library parking

Free street parking until 10pm

Free parking at Altadena Senior Center, 560 E. Mariposa St.

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BOOM Mexican food truck (cash or card)

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Books for Sale! Courtesy of Flintridge Bookstore

 

Find the program and schedule 

https://litfestpasadena.org/schedule/

Looking Back to Look Forward: Greatest Show On Colorado Blvd.

O, mi, cron, To Me You Were So Crummy

Michael Sedano

By the time Tuesday, March 3 rolls around, inshallah Omicron will lie behind us and ójala unmasked people won't be today's Typhoid Marys. By 1900 hours, that's 7:00, to you Delta Omicron survivors, one had best be in one's reserved seat, vaccinated and boosted and prove it, to be there when the curtain goes up on another one of those oh my gosh it's so good to be back to casí normal again events (fanfare!):

Héctor Tobar interviews Reyna Grande on March 3, 2022 at 7 p.m. at Vroman's in Pasadena

Booksellers the world over lament the mail order juggernaut that makes money for the world's richest man who laughs all the way to his private bank with your book money. Booksellers are now bereft of the market share they lost so fast. Money and books started flowing through macroeconomics, the paper distribution system of the information environment. Books got commodified, boxed, shipped, and paid for in advance. Instead of the back seats of customer cars, books arrived at the front door. 

Readers traded immediacy for convenience, at a few dollars off. Booksellers didn't adapt to such rapid change. And didn't want to compete on price alone.

Legend has it there was a massacre of brick & mortar booksellers. Pickwick. Borders. Crown. Mom&Pop. It was a classic sales training exercise: All other things being equal, why would you buy from me? The booksellers failed because the industry failed them. Things weren't equal, publishers made favorable deals with the competition, things got tough in the independent market.

The economics are daunting. Some business owners give in and quit. When a business keeps people employed, but inventory costs increase while sales dip, the profit margin shrinks. 

What can a business owner do with an 11% margin between cost and sales price, when it shrinks to 8%? Money costs 5%. That's only 3% "margin."

Belt-tightening and staff shrinkage help. Customers won't tolerate price increases. The business owner mortages their house, the big mansion on the hill with a pool and horses.

As that margin tightens, the lower prospects start getting comparative to bank rates. A business owner thinks of the money she's making running the business compared to making "about the same" by putting it into bonds, or even a bank saving account, and kicking back without all the daily hassles of running a bookstore. 

Employees worry about losing their job, business owners worry about losing the house. That big mansion with the porte cochere and the history.

Vroman's teetered and asked for help when the GOPlague had us at our lowest. Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley's bookbuyers rallied to their brick&mortar local business. Vroman's keeps its two stores open because people are buying what Vroman's sells. There's a lot of marketing and customer service making a difference, but as always, people are making the only difference that counts.

Great ancillary programming has always placed Vroman's in a special position among the region's substantial cultural endeavors.  The bookseller stocks a wide range of current titles with adequate shelf space, features indoor and outdoor readings sites, a handprints in cement walk of fame with annual ceremony, offers quality curios, and free unmonitored parking. With the local big box, Vroman's anchors this end of Colorado Boulevard.

Sadly, Vroman's stands unique among Pasadena stores. Despite lacking competition, Vroman's acts with responsibility to its public. Luis J. Rodriguez has his prints in stone out front, and numerous raza writers have read at Vroman's. I can list ten people off the top of my head whom I'd love to put on that outdoor stage! Ten, because I have only two hands.

I would love to see more big stores in my town moving literature and packing 'em in for readings. Give Vroman's a run for our money. Going into business locally is a matter of getting a bunch of money, stocking a big store, and have fifty years history. Maybe 100 years.

Vroman's has the formula for a wonderful reading: Present a great interviewer and a great writer with a hot new title. Get a SRO audience to pack the house. The ambience alone sells books, the platica sells reading generally and makes gente want to seek out these authors. And I get some good fotos out of the whole pachanga.

I sure hope I can get out at night on March 3 to take fotos like I did back in 2018, when Alex Espinoza and Reyna Grande got together at Vroman's. Lots of things have changed since then, que no?

Some of those things, let's hope they're changinge back, that we're getting back to normal. A ver.

From La Bloga-Tuesday, October 09, 2018

Reyna Grande In Conversation With Alex Espinoza

Michael Sedano

Friday night's (2018) is an audience of readers, gente who have come on Friday night to the independent bookseller, Vroman's, in Pasadena CA (link) because reading matters to them. They want to hear Reyna Grande, whose stories to them mattered.

Reyna Grande has five books: two novels, three memoirs (one, the YA Distance Between Us), and translations. She's the kind of writer a passerby would want to sit and hear, and the activity in the busy Vroman's event space attracts numerous random shoppers. But there's SRO. And still they visit, and still they stand. She's that kind of speaker.

The on-purpose audience has read Grande's books. These people need to read stories like Grande's and they have. Readers like these have a story like the author's, that inspires, encourages them. Author-Person gaps disappear when Grande relates, as she did in a recent radio interview with Norma Martinez (link). of being invited to elementary schools and meeting, not with the kids, but their mothers, who had to abandon their children, as Grande's mother did her children.

Memoirs tell the readers' own stories, too, though thankfully not exactly. Their abuelas were unlikely to be the species of mean that takes away ice cream from children and places it to melt in the sun, to make a point. 

Forgiving that is perspective, Grande admits. Writing freezes that personality into that image. A dozen years after, senescence laid waste to that vicious entity. Nothing remains to hate.

As a mom, that little kid licking her lips over melted nieve, is a push-over. Discipline is not mom's strong suit. Con razón.

Grande's familia are here. The author introduces her brother, who's standing off to the side all proud of his big sister, his kids smiling at tía on that stool right-center stage. 

Left-center sits Alex Espinoza, amiably engaging. What a double delight for these readers, eavesdropping on the conversation.

Espinoza, author of Stillwater Saints and The Five Acts of Diego León plays the muse eliciting nuggets and gems from the storyteller’s repertoire of memories, along with inside information and writing advice. 

Vroman's doesn't share videos of events. I hope someone had their video running start to finish because this was an interesting evening both for the insights into Grande's novels and the writing of memoir as opposed to writing autobiography.

If I kept a commonplace book, the colloquy would have filled several pages of frantically scribbled gems, turns of phrases, inspired moments. I keep a camera.

Vroman's is a tough place to book, so I've heard. Grande arrives amid a major tour for A Dream Called Home. The full house, and afterward the long line of people at the cash register bearing multiple copies of the $26.00 hardcover A Dream Called Home, confirms the bookseller's confidence in Reyna Grande's work. Grande reads from a paperback.

Grande says she's returning to writing novels with the completion of her second memoir. Vroman's marketing people will remember that when Reyna's agent comes calling. I hope Vroman's booking tipas remember, too, those lines of buyers. Raza doesn't buy books, so Vroman's doesn't book 'em, Dano. 

I heard that, at any rate, the last time I inquired why so few brown faces had a table up front in that busy room.

YA author Daniel Acosta held the dais a few weeks ago, and in 2017, Luis J. Rodriguez embedded his handprints into the Vroman's Walk of Fame in the big time ceremony. So there's evidence Vroman's is growing. A ver, as my grampa used to declare.

The author shared the most important element of a writer's life. Reflecting on her local start at Pasadena City College--not her first plan--and looking back at critical acclaim and community one-read adoptions, she observes how writing the books, that's the easier part.

Marketing. This tour for this book, for example. And all those adoptions. After getting published, getting out the word is what defines a title's, and the next one's, life.

Tonight, Grande's home. Her familia over there, these admiring faces, the local big time. Her conversation with the Cal State LA English Full Professor, another community college kid, sounds like home. A couple of grizzled writers sitting around the lumbre while we listen, they toss leña into the sparks raising sparks of their own with stories, accounts, memories, dreams.

Alex Espinoza told me before the event started he had a plan, where he'd lead the conversation. He figured the script wouldn't last long and he knew he'd pick up on something, and she'd pick up on something, and together they'd wend their way to the big pile of books that need signing.

And that was the last Q&A. Some tributes, "thank you for writing that!"--a couple of professors and teachers said that--only one rambling huh? participant. Alex Espinoza looks out knowing his audience shares his satisfaction.


The Gluten-free Chicano Bakes Parmesan Crusted Cod

Eating fish with frequency is one way to eat yourself to stable health.  Keeping an eye on sustainable fishing practices contributes to global health, too.

The Gluten-free Chicano is cooking for a light eater who will consume more food when the food has a bit of flair. Like chicken, I make schnitzel or piccata style. La Chickenada gets no left-overs tonight. Non-standard chicken salads benefit from texture and sweet from added fresh and dried fruit and nuts; savory from sharp cheese, olives, chips.

For Sunday Dinner just the two of us, I wanted fork-tender flaky fish,  crispy bits of papa with a creamy surprise of sour cream, and the sweet luxury of tomatoes and black aguacate. The ever-forgetful Gluten-free Chicano forgot to pick a calabaza to make steamed fresh squash.



Prepare
400º oven
Greased baking dish

Ingredients / carbohydrate count per lookup (link) 
Frozen cod, partially defrosted 0g
1 Egg, medium .34g
2 Tbs soft bacon grease 0g
Parmesan cheese ~½ cup 2g
Gluten-free flour ~½ cup 50g (King Arthur all-purpose gf flour)
¾ cup Frozen hash brown potatoes 18g
Olive oil 0g
1 small black-skinned Avocado 17g
Tomato 1g per slice
Carbohydrate count: ~89 g. Divide by 2-4 servings.



Pacific Cod in bulk frozen packages offers value and lots of fish meals. Baked or broiled as an entrée, braised, chilled, and flaked for a salad, chunked into a caldo de pescado, fish is good for your heart and health. 

Regrettably, Kroeger hasn’t caught up to the Responsibly Fished Certification movement, but Pacific Cod is a “recommended” food on the Seafoodwatch website (link).

Modifications:
Defrost the fish, towel dry with gentle pressure. This makes a better crust. Broiling at the end crisps and toasts, but do so watchfully.
For crispy coating, add gluten-free panko crumbs or broil for 3 minutes at end.
Egg froth: add mayonnaise, sour cream, olive oil, anchovy paste, mustard.
Super egg froth: molcahete or Cuisinart several toasted chile pods and soak for an hour in egg froth. Slather a thick coat of crushed chiles all over defrosted, drained, fish. Bake hot. The chile cracks off. It adds flavor but not chiloso.
More aguacate.


The Coating
Grab a small handful of flour and pour several shakes of dried parmesan cheese into a flat vessel. Equal flour to cheese. You can fry this, too, for exceptional flavor.

Mix the flour and cheese completely, add coarsely ground black pepper. Distribute evenly in the flat bottom.

Whip the heck out of a medium egg. Add a big tablespoon of soft bacon grease. If you don't collect your bacon fat, use olive oil. See the "modifications" for options..

Dip the fish in the egg froth. Place the wet fish on the dry flour-cheese mix. Have a dish towel handy to keep your fingers clean.

Turn the fish systematically, coat the edges then the other side. The egg wets the powdered egg-oil and will crust in the oven. This is a soft blanket not a crispy coat. Fry the fish for a great crispy treat.

Scrape the egg-flour left in the vessel and place add atop the fish. 

Use a flat spatula to slip the coated fish portions into a greased baking pan. Bake uncovered 15 minutes.

¡Provecho!

Hollywood Inglés From UNAM

Lots of new housing with more space
Lots of doors slamming in our face
I'll get a terrace apartment
Better get rid of your accent

$160 registration fee gets enrollment to the entirely online course (link).

UNAM is definitely in the distance learning business. There's another course in test preparation for much-needed certified teachers.

That UNAM, but its LA clone.

The Pandemic Ushers Reyna Grande’s Most Ambitious Novel

Melinda Palacio

Reyna unboxing her proofs of A Ballad of Love and Glory

 

Reyna Grande left no stone unturned while researching her new novel, A Ballad of Love and Glory, (Atria Books 2021), which tells the story of the San Patricios, the Irish brigade who fought in the Mexican-American War, composed of deserters from the American ranks, who switched sides to defend Mexico. For several decades, the US denied the existence of the Saint Patrick's Battalion, many of whom were hanged and met a terrible death at the hands of the Americans. Even though their efforts did not result in a win for Mexico, but rather a staggering loss where Mexico lost half of its territory to the US, Mexico remains grateful to the Irish for fighting so valiantly. Grande’s research included dozens of historical books on the Mexican-American War, Texas Rebellion and the Battle of the Alamo. She also poured over books on Irish history the Great Famine, as well as books on artillery warfare, cockfightings, and the flora and fauna of South Texas and northern Mexico.

 

Although the novel features a strong female Mexican protagonist, Grande said she was surprised by having had an easier time writing from her Irish protagonist's point of view. The first chapters she wrote were from the point of view of John Riley, the leader of the Saint Patrick’s Battalion, who was under the command of general Antonio López de Santa Anna. What’s impressive about this novel, is how authentic the Irish soldiers sound, and not just the main character, but the voices of the different soldiers. I asked Grande how she managed to recreate the syntax of an Irish soldier. “I read nineteenth century Irish literature and diaries and I hired an Irish historian to read the manuscript and help me with details and point out my mistakes. Cathal Smith, author of American Planters and Irish Landlords in Comparative and Transnational Perspective: Lords of Land and Labor, helped her infuse the story with Irish Gaelic and weave in bits of Irish history and  Irish sayings seamlessly into her impressive fictional account.

Reyna Grande and historian Cathal Smith in Ireland

 

While the war is a main character in the novel, at the heart of the story is the romance between John Riley and fictional character Ximena Salomé Benitez y Catalán, a Mexican healer from the area known today as the Rio Grande Valley. Researching John Riley’s historical role in the Saint Patrick’s Battalion made writing his character easier after having learned enough about his role in the war. “I had a hard time with Ximena,” Grande said. “Though she is based on a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier, I had to create her from scratch. I skipped a lot of her chapters from the beginning. It wasn’t until 2020, when the pandemic happened that I started to really work on her.” The prolific writer says once she realized how Ximena sees the world, it was easy to writer from her point of view. The poetic voice of the healer finally emerged and Grande was able to finish her historical novel.

 

During the past decade, Grande has published works of nonfiction, including two memoirs. A Ballad of Love and Glory is her return to fiction after thirteen years. Grande is excited and nervous about the reception of her third novel. Although the subject may make some people uncomfortable, she wanted to reclaim this part of history. "I felt empowered in understanding this history," she said. "I want to help people understand that the Mexican Americans who live here are not outsiders. 

 One of the things that surprised her in writing the novel was how fun it was writing about the Santa Anna, who became her favorite character. “He’s the most hated man in Mexico and I was intimidated writing about him,” she said. “Since the very first scene, he jumped off the page and I didn’t have to work so hard on making him believable. He is such a talker; I couldn’t get him to stop talking!” 

 

Reyna Grande’s book launch begins at Vroman’s in Pasadena, March 15, where she will be in conversation with Héctor Tobar. The pandemic didn't slow her down. She has more events and another book out June 7. She is the co-editor of Somewhere We Are Human, an anthology of migrants, refugees and Dreamers. Both new books are available for pre-order on her website.

The Border and Migrant Children on My Mind: New Song and Poems

Melinda Palacio

Somewhere in the Sonoran Desert

While I continue to revise my next novel, I am also writing poems and studying music. At first, my guitar practice was intermittent and relegated to when I remembered a song I wanted to learn. Two years ago, I became serious about learning how to play. That's when Steve bought me the beautiful guitar in the photo. I take it everywhere and practice whenever I get a chance, whether we are on the road or at home. I've given a handful of presentations along with my poetry readings, including earlier this year at Pueblo Community Community College, where I sang the Bird Forgiveness theme song, a song I wrote to accompany my latest poetry book, Bird Forgiveness. I never thought my interest in learning guitar would be accompanied by singing and writing songs. Learning music is a never ending rabbit hole because everything is connected and there is so much to learn. Steve used to urge me to write songs because I am a poet and he saw a natural fit. I was skeptical, thought the idea a joke, and laughed it off. Now that I've written several songs, I'm glad I have added another creative outlet to my repertoire.

Many of my recent poems have been about the situation at the border. I keep thinking about the children separated from their families, abused, and jailed. At this moment, I'll hold off on sharing the poems, but will have a follow up post once they are published. However, I can share the song that I wrote. An example of this rabbit hole is how learning the guitar led to learning how to read music and write it. My working title for my new song is All at the Border or When La Llorona Meets the Devil. I don't think I have to spell out who the devil is in this story.

For me songs are stories. La Bloga's own Michael Sedano calls songs Poems with Wings, a fitting description. This song about the border is my newest song. I wanted to wait to share it, but with the latest indignations which included shooting migrants in the legs and moats with alligators, along with current immigration atrocities, I couldn't wait to dress up the song with a more polished production. Let's just say this is a work in progress and very much a first draft. Last month, I sprained my broken ankle and was disabled for several weeks. The good news about being forced to slow down is that the experience produced new writing and a new song. My friend Lora suggested I write a new song during my convalescence, so this one is dedicated to her. I'm glad I didn't spend the entire time bent out of shape because I couldn't walk. I challenged myself with this latest song. I threw in some difficult bar chords. This isn't an easy song to sing either. The production is a video selfie with me singing and playing into the recorder on my iPad. I have yet to fall into the Garage Band black hole or into the art of movie or video making. If there's interest I will post polished versions of this and other songs.

For more information on why Immigration is such an important topic and why we need to celebrate creative contributions in moments of crisis, read about Reyna Grande's literary metamorphosis in her essay, Immigration and Transformation in World Literature Today. Although I am very familiar with Reyna Grande's work and her story, reading her essay inspired me to share this song. Grande says that as a writer she has learned to see writing the way James Baldwin saw it: as a tool to change the way people see the world. "As an artist, I've learned to hear the call to action, to be deeply aware of when our society is in distress, of when human rights are at risk. I've learned that artists do as Toni Morrison once said: 'We speak. We write. We do language and help our civilization heal'." Reyna Grande's words reminded me that the poems and songs pouring out of me lately are a response to our community's collective trauma.


Here's my latest song: All at the Border.

If video is not playing, view on my Youtube channel.

La Bloga Friend Reyna Grande Offers an Opportunity for Writers

Reyna Grande with a unique opportunity 

Reyna Grande is offering a win win opportunity for a writer with a completed manuscript. If you have a manuscript that's ready to send off to a dream agent or publisher, a professional critique service will improve your chances. These days the cost of a professional critique can be upwards of a thousand dollars. Reyna is offering the service as part of her daughter's bilingual school, Marguerite Montgomery Elementary School, in Davis. As part of an auction for the school's 2019 Fiesta, one lucky writer can get a complete manuscript critique at lower bid for the auction of a manuscript critique service worth at least $2000. The bidding starts at $200 and so far only one person has signed up so chances are a few more folks can get a chance to work with an exceptional writer for a bargain ( and you won't need to spend a lot of money on a far away conference to meet an editor or writer who knows her way around New York publishing houses). Simply click this link to the auction, enter your email and try your luck while contributing to a bilingual education.

The auction closes March 11, 2019.

Website's Description of the auction and bid

Are you working on a novel or memoir and need guidance and support from a professional author? Are you ready to submit to agents and editors but need someone to help you polish your manuscript? Make your dreams come true with Reyna's help!

A manuscript critique done by Reyna Grande provides:

1. a fully edited manuscript (line edits, page-by-page comments, minor proofreading)
2. a editorial letter outlining Reyna's recommendations on how to improve your work (focusing on character, plot, structure, etc)
3. conversation about your manuscript via phone and/or email

About Reyna Grande:

Reyna Grande is the author of the bestselling memoir, The Distance Between Us, (Atria, 2012) where she writes about her life before and after illegally immigrating from Mexico to the United States. The much-anticipated sequel, A Dream Called Home (Atria), was released on October 2, 2018. Her other works include the novels, Across a Hundred Mountains, (Atria, 2006) and Dancing with Butterflies (Washington Square Press, 2009) which were published to critical acclaim. The Distance Between Us is also available as a young readers edition from Simon & Schuster’s Children’s Division–Aladdin. Her books have been adopted as the common read selection by schools, colleges and cities across the country. 

The Distance Between Us: Young Readers Edition

By Reyna Grande

            Age Range: 10 - 14 years

            Grade Level: 5 - 9

            Hardcover: 336 pages

            Publisher: Aladdin

            Language: English

            ISBN-10: 1481463713

            ISBN-13: 978-1481463713

Award-winning author Reyna Grande shares her compelling experience of crossing borders and cultures in this middle grade adaptation of her “compelling…unvarnished, resonant” (BookPage) memoir, The Distance Between Us.

When her parents make the dangerous and illegal trek across the Mexican border in pursuit of the American dream, Reyna and her siblings are forced to live with their stern grandmother, as they wait for their parents to build the foundation of a new life.

But when things don’t go quite as planned, Reyna finds herself preparing for her own journey to “El Otro Lado” to live with the man who has haunted her imagination for years: her long-absent father. Both funny and heartbreaking, The Distance Between Us beautifully captures the struggle that Reyna and her siblings endured while trying to assimilate to a different culture, language, and family life in El Otro Lado (The Other Side).

Bring Christmas Cheer to a Child in Need!

Message from Reyna Grande:

This December I'm going to Iguala to hold my annual Christmas Toy Giveaway. Christmas is a special time of the year in many countries, and here in Iguala, where 70% of the population lives in poverty, children now more than ever need those special times full of joy and happiness.  For the past two years, with help from family and friends, old and new, I was able to buy over 700 toys! This year I hope to buy just as many, or more if possible. The Christmas Toy Giveaway is something the children have been looking forward to all year and I will not disappoint them! 

The children in my hometown of Iguala, Guerrero in Southern Mexico are living in a place full of poverty, violence, and instability. Ever since September 2014, when 43 college students were forcibly disappeared in my hometown, things have gone from bad to worse. Since then, about 120 mass graves have been found around my hometown. Many more people have been killed or disappeared. Cartel gangs have been fighting for control of the area. Iguala is surrounded by poppy fields to supply the huge demand for heroin in the US. This is the place that the children in my hometown live in. 

Despite this, life in Iguala continues, and children there do the best they can to not just survive, but to thrive. There's so much more I wish I could do for my hometown, but for now, I'm happy to bring some smiles to the children and let them know we care.

Please help me make this Christmas a special joyful time for the children in Iguala, Guerrero! Together we can make a difference. Donate today and tell your friends!

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/3rd-annual-christmas-toy-giveway-in-iguala-mx-mexico#/

Mirar Morir: Watching Them Die

Guest Post by Reyna Grande

                

            More than one hundred sixty venues in twenty-six countries—fourteen in the USA—will screen and discuss the award-winning documentary Watching Them Die: The Mexican Army and the 43 Disappeared (Mirar Morir) produced by Ojos de Perro Vs La Impunidad and directed by Coizta Grecko, an independent filmmaker and journalist. This worldwide Global Action in support of the parents’ heroic struggle for truth and justice on behalf of their missing children will serve to call attention to the forced disappearances still happening today in Mexico.

 On Sunday September 25^th will be the first of several screenings scheduled in California. The event, held at the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles at 1:00 pm, will feature a free showing of the award-winning film followed by a panel discussion with the film’s director Coitza Grecko, artist Sergio Arau, Professor Miguel Tinker Salas, and moderated by KPFK Radio host Rubén Tapia.

This Monday September 26^th will mark the two-year anniversary of the disappearance of the 43 student teachers in my hometown of Iguala, Guerrero. For the families of the students—and for those of us who have joined in their struggle—it has been two years of fighting for justice and searching for the truth. Two years after the students disappeared no one has been brought to justice, no questions have been answered, nothing much has changed. The government of Enrique Peña Nieto continues to sabotage investigations performed by independent experts from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, who have been making efforts to uncover the truth and disproof the government’s “official” story.

            The families of the 43 have been given promises by the Mexican government that it will open new lines of investigation on the case but no progress will be made unless we continue to speak up, demand justice, and put pressure on the government to do the right thing.

            I urge you to support the families of the 43 Ayotzinapa students and stand in solidarity.

Watching them Die: The Mexican Army and the 43 Disappeared (Mirar Morir) will be screened in several venues in the USA, including American River College (Sacramento) Hudson County Community College (NJ), Northwest Vista College (San Antonio), East Los Angeles College, Cal State University, Northridge, and The Frida Cinema (Santa Ana) among others. To find a venue near you that will be screening Mirar Morir, please visit the film’s Facebook page. If you would like to screen the film in your community you can contact the producers at mirarmoriroficial@gmail.com or you can email me at reynagrande@gmail.com.

If you would like to make a contribution, you can send a donation via paypal to: perrodinero43@gmail.com where 50% will go to the production company Ojos de Perro Vs la Impunidad A.C. and 50% to the families of the 43.

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