Episode 5 – Nicole Ramos Esq.

Episode 5 – Nicole Ramos Esq.

Season 1, Episode 5

Magnificent Mujer:

Nicole Ramos Esq.

Please join me Enrique Morones and tune in to our latest episode of our new podcast, “Buen Hombre -Magnificent Mujer”, where I will be interviewing Nicole Ramos, Esq. 

This will be the first episode that will feature one half (the first half) in English, and the second half in SPANISH.  This seems especially fitting as Nicole Ramos is the director of Al Otro Lado an organization that is dedicated to the rights of immigrants and that this podcast features the work of humanitarian activists working on the San Diego Tijuana border.

Nicole Ramos is the Director  of Al Otro Lado’s Border Rights Project. The project provides legal orientation to migrants in Tijuana, Mexico who wish to present themselves to U.S. authorities to seek asylum, conducts daily human rights monitoring at the port-of-entry, and engages in broader legislative, medial, and legal advocacy to challenge systemic human rights violations committed by state actors. Outside of Al Otro Lado, Nicole frequently serves as a guest lecturer at law schools, universities, professional associations, and community groups across the country.   

Hosts & Guests

Enrique Morones

Nicole Ramos, Esq.

Production/Editing/Direction

Sarah Bella Mondragon

 Resources

Al Otro Lado website: https://alotrolado.org/

Link to donate to Al Otro Lado  is here:  

https://alotrolado.networkforgood.com/projects/63833-al-otro-lado-fund 

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Subscribe to our podcast at BuenHombre.org or ManificentMujer.org, on AppleItunes, TuneIn, Stitcher and on Youtube at Buen Hombre Magnificent Mujer. Please like our podcast and videos on these platforms as it helps us reach more listeners and grow our community. Join me as I talk to important influencers on issues regarding human rights, activism, creativity and how we can all make this a better world. Hear their inspiring stories, Amor Si Se Puede! Love is an Action not just a word.

Al Otro Lado website: https://alotrolado.org/

Link to donate to Al Otro Lado  is here:  

https://alotrolado.networkforgood.com/projects/63833-al-otro-lado-fund  

BuenHombre Magnificent Mujer is a project of GenteUnida.net A 501c3 nonprofit corporation and all donations are tax deductible 

Donate to Buenhombre/MagnificentMujer

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Episode 6 – Ethan van Thillo

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Season 1, Episode 6

Buen Hombre: Ethan van Thillo

Our featured “Buen Hombre” this week is none other than Ethan van Thillo of the Digital Gym Cinema,  the Media Arts Center San Diego, the San Diego Latino Film Festival, the Teen Producers Project, Tu Cine, Frontera Film Makers, Little Saigon Stories and numerous other San Diego local art/media initiatives that bring diverse and often overlooked segments of our San Diego communities to to independent films and film production. 

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Under the umbrella of MACSD Ethan has developed & created innovative new community based media programs such as the California state-wide Digital Story Station initiative, Teen Producers Project, Youth Media & Tech Camps, Mobile Stories, Speak City Heights, The People’s Post, Video Production Services Department, and the new Digital Gym community technology center and movie theater. 

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Subscribe to our podcast at BuenHombre.org or ManificentMujer.org, on AppleItunes, TuneIn, Stitcher and on Youtube at Buen Hombre Magnificent Mujer. Please like our podcast and videos on these platforms as it helps us reach more listeners and grow our community. Join me as I talk to important influencers on issues regarding human rights, activism, creativity and how we can all make this a better world. Hear their inspiring stories, Amor Si Se Puede! Love is an Action not just a word.

Unfortunately, due to the Coronavirus (Covid-19),  The Media Arts Center San Diego have had to either postpone or seriously limit all of their film exhibition screenings, youth education programs, and even community video production work.

There are many ways to support the Media Arts Center San Diego:

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The Media Arts Center San Diego (MACSD), a 501 c(3) non-profit organization, and is in need of your financial support at this time of crisis. Please donate today at: https://mediaartscenter.org/donate/ or donate via PayPal, by donating to: programs@mediaartscenter.org

 BuenHombre Magnificent Mujer is a project of GenteUnida.net A 501c3 nonprofit corporation and all donations are tax deductible 

Donate to Buenhombre/MagnificentMujer

BuenHombre.org/donate

or MagnificentMujer.org/donate

 

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Buen Hombre: Rigo Reyes

As Via International Community Development Director, Rigo Reyes develops and coordinates community engagement and leadership training for residents in marginal areas of San Diego and Tijuana and manages our Border Immersion program for students visiting San Diego.

He is a long-time social justice advocate whose work is rooted in early childhood experiences growing up on the U.S.-Mexico border, attending United Farm Workers of America rallies and listening to Cesar Chavez while playing marbles. When he was 12-years-old he rode his bike 17 miles each way from his San Ysidro neighborhood to San Diego’s Logan Heights to witness the land take-over of Chicano Park, and has been a strong community empowerment advocate ever since.

Reyes has been a member of the Chicano Park Steering Committee for nearly four decades, has been lowriding since the mid-1970s, and is a founding member of the Amigos Car Club.

 

 

Hosts & Guests

Enrique Morones

Mario Acevedo Torero

Production/Editing/Direction

Sarah Bella Mondragon

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About This Episide

Welcome to our special edition of Buen Hombre Magnificent Mujer, “Que Viva Chicano Park Day”, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of Chicano Park in 1970.  This week’s interview features Rigo Reyes. 

Our featured “Buen Hombre” this week is none other than Rigoberto Reyes of the Chicano Park Steering Committee, the Amigos Low Rider association, and the Via non profit working as an organizing force on border and humanitarian issues.

From lowriders to community activism, this Buen Hombre truly represents what Chicano Park is all about. Check out these links to the projects that Rigo mentions. Also we are asking listeners to check out all Chicano Park projects, led by the Chicano Park Steering Committee.

The links to organizations that he is involved with through Chicano Park are listed on this page at the right under resources. 

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Magnificent Mujer: Josefina Lopez

Please join me Enrique Morones and tune in to our latest episode of our new podcast, “Buen Hombre -Magnificent Mujer”, where I will be interviewing Josefina López  a Chicana playwright, perhaps best known as the author of the play (and co-author of the screenplay) Real Women Have Curves. López is also the Founding Artistic Director of the CASA 0101 theater located in Boyle Heights, CA, which began in 2000. 

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Hosts & Guests

Enrique Morones

Josefina Lopez

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Sarah Bella Mondragon

Resources

Theatre Josefina founded in Boyle Heights.  https://casa0101.org/

Theatre Josefina founded in Boyle Heights. https://www.casafinarestaurant.com/

Link to information on Real Women Have Curves. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Women_Have_Curves_(play)

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Josefina’s spirit is firey, courageous, generous and she is the quintessential trailblazer for women and Chicana Artivists, and all of us with something to say, that needs to be heard around the globe.  It is our hope at Buen Hombre Magnificent Mujer that her message touches your heart as it has ours. Please share our new podcast with your friends and family. BuenHombre.org and MagnificentMujer.org

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Season 1, Episode 3

Buen Hombre: Hugo Castro

Hugo Castro is a courageous humanitarian who has worked for decades to protect the lives and well being of migrants on both sides of the US Border.

He has worked in shelters in Tijuana, and has been a guide, friend and advocate for many in their times of need. Hugo is an American Citizen born to migrant farm working parents. Hugo’s life was greatly influenced by the lives and work of Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. It is fitting that this interview that allows us to take a look at his many accomplishments and trials falls on this day.

Hugo’s spirit is indomitable, it is our hope at Gente Unida that his message touches your heart as it has ours. Please share our new podcast with your friends and family. BuenHombre.org and MagnificentMujer.org

 

 

Hosts & Guests

Enrique Morones

Hugo Castro

Production/Editing/Direction

Sarah Bella Mondragon

 Resources

Hugo’s Facebook page for SOS Migrantes

https://www.facebook.com/hugoicastrov

Hugo’s Instagram Page

https://www.instagram.com/hugoicastrov/

 

About This Episide

This is the official first podcast of Buen Hombre hosted by longtime human rights activist Enrique Morones, now the executive director and founder of GenteUnida.net.  GenteUnida.net is a non-profit human rights advocacy group based in San Diego, California. And what an auspicious day. César Chavez day is an American federal commemorative holiday, César Chavez day is an American federal commemorative holiday observed every year on March 31. It is a state holiday in 10 states, such as California, Arizona and Colorado, where schools and state offices are closed, and people get the day off work.

This day celebrates the birthday and work of civil rights and labor movement leader César Chávez. Hugo Castro is a courageous humanitarian who has worked for decades to protect the lives and well being of migrants on both sides of the US Border. He has worked in shelters in Tijuana, and has been a guide, friend and advocate for many in their times of need. Hugo is an American Citizen born to migrant farm working parents. Hugo’s life was greatly influenced by the lives and work of Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. It is fitting that this interview that allows us to take a look at his many accomplishments and trials falls on this day. Hugo’s spirit is indomitable, it is our hope at Gente Unida that his message touches your heart as it has ours. Please share our new podcast with your friends and family. BuenHombre.org and MagnificentMujer.org

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Episode 3 Mario Torero

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Season 1, Episode 3

Buen Hombre: Mario Acevedo Torero

This week we have a “Buen Hombre” like no other, an “Art-ivist”, and a person very well known in certain circles, but who should be known in all circles, all the way from the great country of Peru, but who has has spent most of his life in San Diego, California, my good friend, Mario Torero.

Mario Torero is a very well known Chicano muralist, artist, and just a great humanitarian. Some of his best works as far as murals in San Diego and Southern California are: “The Eyes of Picasso” painted, then demolished when the buildings, whose walls they graced disappeared then reappearing again all over San Diego County during the last 4 decades… And perhaps the most well known in the media is the “I’m Not A Minority” mural in Los Angeles. You also might be familiar with his painting of Cesar Chavez, or his iconic Chicano Park murals. 

Over the last 50 years he has been bringing his passion for “Art-ivism” and the Chicano Art movement all over California, to other cities in the United States and even in travels abroad to join other Artivist causes in Peru, Mexico, Germany, the Czech Republic, Japan, China, Cuba, Spain and more to come in the future.  Most recently I joined him in Berlin for the thirtieth anniversary of the 

Fall of the Berlin Wall last November, where he shared the story of the Chicano Art Movement and the Chicano Park Community Revolution with audiences there alongside myself and two other local Chicano Activists, artist/muralist Enrique Chiu, and artist/architect Adrian Luz.

Hosts & Guests

Enrique Morones

Mario Acevedo Torero

Production/Editing/Direction

Sarah Bella Mondragon

 Resources

Mario Torero’s Art Website.  

https://mariotorero.art

Mario Torero’s Art Foundation 

https://AcevedoToreroArtFoundation.org/

Link to information on Documentaries he has produced. 

https://mariotorero.art/documentaries/

About This Episide

If you have never heard this name, or if Mario is an old friend of yours, I equally hope that you share my wonder in this “Art-ivists” entertaining adventures and his never ending quest to explore himself, his world and to push past boundaries in possibilities, and meaning, beyond any borders.  

Like me, and our listeners, he is driven by his love of all people, Patchamama (the Earth) and a great passion for life and hope.  We hope this passion touches your hearts today. 

Please share this podcast with your friends and family. Please subscribe to this podcast on your favorite podcast platform. Join our email list. 

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