El Independiente

              New Freedom
Riders fight for
migrants' rights
By Yu Kiura
El ltndopendiente
Growing up in Mexico, activist Francesca
Meza spent her childhood without her moth-er.
But she was never sad about it, nor did
she wonder why her mother wasn't beside
her. Nothing seemed unusual about life
without parents because many of the chil-dren
in her home state of Sonora did not
have either a father or a mother. Some, like
Meza, had neither.
Her mother was working at a hotel in
Tucson to support the family. Meza's dad
wasn't in the picture. She and her two
younger brothers were brought up by their
grandmother and great aunt until they moved
to the United States when Meza was 12 years
old.
After more than a decade of living in the
United States, Meza, now 25, said it is unfair
that so many children from Mexico don't get
to grow up with their parents around. So
Meza is taking a proactive approach to
things.
This October, she volunteered as a video-tape
recorder for the Immigrant Workers
Freedom Ride.
The Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride, a
nationwide tour advocating equal rights for
immigrant workers, took place from Sept. 20
to Oct. 4.
Nearly 1,000 documented and undocu-mented
immigrants and their supporters
filled 18 buses and headed to Washington
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Por Laura Malamud
El. Independiente
El Departamento de Obras
Públicas y la ciudad de Tucson
iniciaron su primer trabajo
juntos de reciclaje el 22 de
Octubre, colocando un com-partimiento
de reciclaje al lado
del almacén de comestibles
Food City.
Y a principios del 2004,
South Tucson planea agregar
un programa de reciclaje resi-dencial,
colocando compar-timientos
de reciclaje cerca de
hogares en la comunidad. -
El programa seria similar al
programa de la ciudad de
Tucson, según Angel López,
director de obras públicas para
South Tucson.
Después de intentar iniciar
un programa de reciclaje por
RIGHT ON PAR
Photo by Cory Thornton
Pueblo High senior Mario Coronado lines
up his putt at Starr Pass Golf Club, in
preparation for the upcoming state play-offs.
For more on Coronado, see page 5.
más de seis años, South Tucson
pudo trabajar con la ciudad de
Tucson para obtener un com-partimiento
que pueda sostener
30 yardas cúbicas de materiales
reciclables.
Entonces recogerán el com-partimiento
los lunes y sába-dos,
y será llevado a una facili-dad
de recuperación de materi-al
en Tucson.
"Pienso que ésto viene
retrasado, pero una vez que
empecemos a reciclar, ésto fun-cionará,"
dijo López. "Nunca
antes había funcionado esto
debido a la carencia de edu-cación,
pero ähora la geñte se
está dando cuenta que si hay
cooperación, harán que todo
ésto funcione. Una vez que
eduquemos a la gente en que es
lo que debe traer, será fácil."
El Casino takes
steps to prevent
money problems
By Greg Holt
El Independiente
El Casino Ballroom, one of the Tucson
area's oldest music venues, may soon reor-ganize
its management to avoid business
maladies that crippled the Ballroom in the
past.
The Latin American Social Club, which
runs El Casino Ballroom, will vote on a set of
bylaws proposed by board president Edward
Lopez that will effectively put responsibility
over much of the Ballroom's operations and
management into the hands of six commit-tees.
The vote will take place at the next. board
meeting sometime in November, Lopez said.
The Ballroom's problems started in
October of 1991 when it suffered major dam-age
to its roof during a powerful windstorm.
Lopez said he believes his predecessori
decided to pocket Ballroom revenues instead
of investing the money in repairs, and insur-ance
money was never accounted for.
Lopez said he has tried to prevent instances
like that happening again.
"Before, someone could defraud money
and there was no accountability," he said.
Lopez's proposal will place a different
aspect of the Ballroom's operation in the
hand of each committee. These would
include a legal committee, a marketing com-mittee,
a membership committee, a rebuild-ing
committee and an executive committee.
'These committees will do the work that is
Seo CASINO. ¡rage 5
Comienza programa nuevo de reciclaje
Los ciudadanos de South
Tucson pueden depositar mer-cancía
reciclable, como papel,
cartulina, envases de leche y
los cartones del huevo, a su
conveniencia. La ciudad de
Tucson remueve la mercancía,
mientras que South Tucson
mantiene limpia el área alrede-dor
del compartimiento.
"Producirá la oportunidad a
la comunidad de reciclar más
convenientemente y, si es más
conveniente, tal vez más gente
se involucrara," dijo Donald
Gibson, coordinador de reci-claje
para la ciudad de Tucson.
López dijo que ya que
comienza el programa, los resi- Photo by Lisa Brown
dentes tendrán más espacio en Ange! Lopez, dirertorde obran púbttcan, oopltea rl esoso
su compartimiento de basura jtmngmama qae SC llera arabo ron el apoyo de Tarsos.
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