On the Job (From Home)

Working at El Centro de la Raza:

Who would've thunk that helping to integrate new software
would involve reading contracts?

(Next best thing to sleeping pills)

But, I digress... 

 From their website:

http://www.elcentrodelazaza.com

"El Centro de la Raza" is best translated from the Spanish as "The Center of the People." From the beginning, those who occupied and began to transform the old elementary school were joined by hundreds of previous allies of different races and economic sectors who identified with the purpose. Like the surrounding neighborhood, and Seattle as a whole, they represented the rainbow of humanity.

So, although the founding of El Centro de la Raza was sparked by Latinos and acquired a Spanish name, it began, and remains, "The Center of the People." It is "home" for all people who are interested in making a better and more just world in which, to borrow from Dr. King, "People are judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin." El Centro de la Raza provides a community "plaza," or center for Seattle area's otherwise dispersed, and in 1972, largely invisible Latino community. El Centro de la Raza receives all individuals with open arms."

Taking pix there too, will post after they're developed.

(Hope to get a digital cam with first paycheck - then, even more pix will follow)

 Watched a vid and a presentation on the origins of El centro de la Raza
as well as on Chicano / Latino History in the  Pacific NW.

Interesting. 

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