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CUNY J Commencement Speech: A U.S. Newsroom

 

Birds flying high, you know how I feel. Sun in the sky, you know how I feel.  It’s a new dawn. It’s a new day. It’s a new life for all of us. And I’m feeling good.

Thank you, associate dean Mendelson, for that introduction.

Thank you, trustee Sunshine; chancellor Milliken; and our guest speaker, Marty Baron of the Washington Post, for celebrating this day with us.

Hola, familia y amigos!

Gracias por acompañar a la generación 2016 hoy en el día de nuestra graduación.

Hello, family and friends! thank you for joining the class of 2016 on our graduation day.

Cuny J School, lemme hear how y’all feeling! Gente de la CUNY J School, ¿Cómo se sienten?

Es para mí un gran honor estar aquí. I am very honored to be here today.

Quiero dedicar este momento — I want to dedicate this moment —  a la memoria de dos personas que ojalá estuvieran aquí conmigo hoy: to the memory of two people I wish were here with me today.

Mi tía, my aunt, Graciela, y mi hermano, my brother Guillermo, a quienes extraño todos los días.

It’s thanks to their love and support, in part that I’m standing here. Tía Cachela-Canuta, Memo-Kokis, los extraño mucho – I miss you so much — this is for you.

#Ayotzinapa43: El Maratón de Tizapa

Antonio Tizapa ran the last yards of the 2015 NYC Marathon carrying the photo of his son. Gustavo Martínez Contreras

Publicado en PROCESO

Hace 16 años el guerrerense Antonio Tizapa dejó Tixtla para irse a Nueva York. En el pueblo se quedaron su esposa y sus tres hijos, uno de los cuales Jorge Antonio, es uno de los 43 normalistas de Ayotzinapa desaparecidos la noche del 26 de septiembre de 2014. Ese fatídico día, dice, ya no pudo comunicarse con él. A partir de entonces comenzó a prepararse para lo que llama su “protesta silenciosa”: participar en los maratones de Nueva York y Boston para manifestar su indignación y exigir justicia. El próximo 6 de noviembre, cuando Tizapa corra por Ayotzinapa, lo acompañarán 20 atletas solidarios con su causa.

NUEVA YORK (Proceso).- Cada paso que Antonio Tizapa da apunta siempre al mismo destino: encontrar a su hijo Jorge Antonio Tizapa Legideño, uno de los 43 estudiantes de la Normal Rural Raúl Isidro Burgos de Ayotzinapa que llevan ya dos años desaparecidos.

Desde su departamento en el sur de Brooklyn, este indocumentado mantiene una campaña que exige el retorno con vida de su hijo y de sus compañeros, una lucha que literalmente avanza gracias a sus piernas.

Tizapa corre maratones para dar a conocer la indignación y el reclamo de justicia que tienen los padres de los 43 normalistas desaparecidos; su andar es algo que él llama “una protesta silenciosa” que se alimenta de los recuerdos del segundo de los tres hijos que tuvo con su esposa Hilda Legideño.

‘Evolution, Not Revolution’: Integrating Haredi Jews into Israel’s Secular Society

A Haredi man reads from the posters, known as ‘pashkevilim’, on a wall in the Bea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem. The pashkevilim are used to communicate news, opinions, and moral dictates from different rabinic groups within the Haredi communities. Gustavo Martínez Contreras|CUNY J

JERUSALEM — The streets of the Me’a She’arim neighborhood look like few places in Israel.

Men walk around its narrow streets in black suits and white shirts; pious heads are covered with hats of different material or shape depending on their denomination. Women wear long skirts and sleeves, their hair covered with wigs or the snood, a traditional head covering.

Women in full head-to-toe veils, the Frumqas, seem to carry with them the rejection of the rest of the community who sees them as something taken out of the Islamic world.

The pashkevilim are the posters that cover street walls with the latest news, opinions, obituaries and rabbinical mandates. Me’a She’arim is a traditional Haredi Jewish neighborhood, isolated from the modern world of secular Israel that surrounds it.

Ahmad Khan Rahami, el chico del vecindario Latino

El restaurante de la familia Rahami era un punto de encuentro para la comunidad latina de este sector de Elizabeth, Nueva Jersey. Gustavo Martínez Contreras|MojadoCitizen

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El caso del hombre que presuntamente habilitó las bombas que el sábado 17 provocaron heridas a variaserssuntos que resultan inasibles para los servicios de inteligencia, sobre todo porque implican a “lobos solitarios”. De hecho, el FBI ya lo había investigado, pero no pudo confirmar las sospechas del propio padre del joven, quien creía que su hijo se había radicalizado. Un oficial de contraterrorismo de Nueva York llegó a declarar que resultaba “poco práctico” dedicar recursos y vigilancia a todos los sospechosos de terrorismo por tiempo indefinido.

NUEVA YORK (Proceso).- El pollo de la familia Rahami en Elizabeth, Nueva Jersey, era tan americano como la clientela que lo compraba.

“No hubo nadie en este vecindario que no comiera alguna vez de su pollo frito”, dice Steven Ross, joven de origen colombiano que vive a dos casas del First American Fried Chicken, restaurante del padre de Ahmad Khan Rahami, el presunto responsable de plantar las bombas que dejaron varios heridos en Nueva York y Nueva Jersey el sábado 17.

“Por eso me da escalofríos pensar que alguien que vive a dos casas de la mía, alguien que estuvo tan cerca de mí y de mi hermanita esté acusado de ser un terrorista”, añade Ross.

Ayotzinapa runs the 2016 Boston Marathon

Amado Tlatempa during a protest before last year’s NYC Marathon. On Monday, he took the fight for justice for the 43 Ayotzinapa students to the Boston Marathon.

The demand for justice for the 43 Ayotzinapa students missing for more than a year took to the streets of Boston on Monday when Amado Tlatempa ran the 2016 edition of the prestigious marathon.

“It felt great because I don’t know anybody here but many students showed up through the race and screamed their support for our fight,” Tlatempa said in Spanish in a phone interview after the competition. “And that’s very positive because people know what we’re facing and what we’re doing to keep the issue alive.”

From the World Trade Center basement to the World Cup

Carlos Llamosa left Colombia thinking his fútbol days were over, but instead he wound up representing the United States in the World Cup.

Carlos Llamosa left Colombia thinking his fútbol days were over. Instead, he found a rich fútbol landscape that led him to the World Cup representing the United States.

It was a second chance.

Carlos Llamosa escaped the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center by pure coincidence and thus continued on his improbable path to become a soccer star in the United States.   

Llamosa, then 23, was out for lunch when Ramzi Yousef and Eyad Ismoil pulled a yellow Ryder van into the public parking garage beneath the World Trade Center. Llamosa was a janitor at the B2 basement of the tower, the same one where Yousef and Ismoil parked the van.

As it was the custom every Friday, World Trade Center maintenance employees took a two-hour lunch break. The additional 60 minutes allowed them to go to the bank and deposit their checks.

“Any other day, I would have gone back to work. But it was payday and we went out for lunch to enjoy that extra hour,” he recalls. “I was barely walking into a Chinese food restaurant when I heard the bang.”

Memories of a 1-Hour Photo Studio

https://vimeo.com/160231742

Story Description in 240 characters
Andy Cheng migrated from Taiwan to New York hoping to work in the photo film industry, but he never imagined that his love for photography would develop into a life of learning about unknown rituals, strange languages and bachata.

Story Description in 250 Words
Andy Chen runs Best Color, one of the remaining 1-hour photo studios in New York City. With digital photography now being the standard, he knows his business develops its last rolls of film after a 26-year run at 4509 5th Avenue, in Brooklyn.
A Bloomberg report on Census data found last year that there were only 190 one-hour photo shops in 2013, down from 3,066 in 1998.
He is also facing the wave of gentrification that are pushing out the old staples that held together neighborhoods. Yet, he’s not bitter about it. His is more melancholy than anything else.
Because when he closes his Sunset Park shop in May, he will leave behind almost three decades of documenting faces and rituals of this Latino enclave.
“Everything changes,” he says with a smile.
Everything, including him.
Just as Chen, 56, saw this neighborhood go from Puerto Rican to Dominican and then to Mexican, he learned the traditions of these once unknown communities, and even learned their language and how to dance bachata.
“¡Increíble!,” he exclaims in Spanish before bursting into laughter.
For this Taiwanese immigrant, his job became his life; his customers became his friends; his friends became his family. All arranged in a composition that soon will become a memory, just like the photographs that made him.

Head: Memories of a 1-hour photo studio
Sub: Immigrant owner enjoys the last days of his 26-year run snapping photos in Sunset Park.
Links:
There Are Only 190 One-Hour Photo Shops Left in the United States http://petapixel.com/2015/05/01/there-are-only-190-one-hour-photo-shops-left-in-the-united-states/

Developers Compete to Shape the Future of Brooklyn’s Sunset Park
http://ny.curbed.com/2016/2/25/11105658/sunset-park-industry-city-photos
What I Learned Processing 164 Rolls of Film After Waiting a Year

What I Learned Processing 164 Rolls of Film After Waiting a Year

Word by Word Transcript
[ANDY]
Over here is a Spanish community.

So they love the picture.

You know that’s why i still survive here.

Before it was like they take a picture–I ask them, “why you take a lot of picture?”

“Oh, this for my mom” “Oh they come from Mexico, they come from Ecuador, they come from Guatemala.”

So they was make a lot of picture.

So now it’s totally different.

Technology is very advanced now, you know digital

They put the picture in a in his computer or now its cellular…

Things change, you know.

Yeah, I been doing this my business already 26 years.

That time was 1-day service. There’s no on-hour service, just a little one-hour service.

Before it was dark room like wow!

Very nice, you know. Very good memory.

But now, no more.

Not even no more chemical. Smells different (laughs).

♫ NUPTIAL MARCH ♫

Yeah, I very enjoy this activity, because… they… I catch the moment taking pictures for the history for them.
It’s my responsible to take the very good picture for them, you know.

PRIEST: Puede ir en paz. Demos gracias al señor. ¡Aplauso a los novios y las familias! You can go in peace. Give thanks to the lord. You may go in peace. Applaud bride and groom and their families!

Yeah, I learned Spanish for my business. Yeah, everybody teach me, you know.

So I also learned how they dancing bachata. ¡Increíble!

Over here the rent is very high, you know. If they increase the rent I cannot afford it.

But I’m tired of this. It’s not tired of the picture. I don’t want to print no more.

Because digital… is digital.

When I close I still taking picture outside also.

I still have the schedule for the quinceañera, the boda and then bautizo too.

So that’s why I wanna close also.

They finish the contract in May. Ya finito. Se acabó (laughter).

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Where is Lupita?

Lupita is in Luis’ wallet

Lupita likes to watch while you…

Lupita y Frida make a great combo

Lupita likes jugos naturales

Lupita gets candles from stranges in Mott Haven

Lupita wants to warm you up this winter

Lupita hangs with other Mexican icons at the restaurant

If you don’t know Lupita by now, the first thing you should know about her is that she is everywhere. That’s why I am almost certain that you have run into her somewhere already, although you might have not noticed.

It could have been when you were at the Mexican restaurant asking whether the red salsa or the green salsa would burn your mouth more. She probably saw you walking by on your way to the subway station as you tried to beat rush hour on the train. Then there was this time when you were at the dollar store getting cheap soap and seltzer. Lupita was hanging out in aisle 10 with lamps, mugs and wall decorations.

This has nothing to do with the omnipresence of la Virgen de Guadalupe—the Brown Mother of Jesus of Nazareth. But as a Mexican, and a man who looks for pleasure, beauty and truth in everything I run into, it is hard for me not to see her everywhere, even though I am not really a believer. It is just that in México you become Guadalupano even against your will. From novelas to fiestas, Lupita is everywhere.

All I am doing here is asking for your help. For the past couple of months, and with the help of a few of my best friends (yes, I happen to have a lot of friends, like three…), I started to work on a project that I had kept in a drawer for a long time. You know, I had a job. This project is ¿Dónde anda Lupita? (loosely translated as Where’s Lupita?).

I chose to use Tumblr because the platform allows for easy reblogging and cute heart-shaped likes. The whole idea is to capture images of Guadalupe wherever she is, from the markets of Bolivia to the boutiques of Tokyo, from a sidewalk in Gwinnett County, Georgia, to the town of Colonia, Uruguay. And this is where you guys come in handy.

Many of you have been wandering around Mott Haven or other areas of the city where the image of la Virgen de Guadalupe hangs from a wall or rests on an altar with candles lit to honor her. Just in the South Bronx there are at least two huge images on display outside area churches. The most notorious is the one outside St. Jerome’s Church on 138th Street and Alexander Avenue. That’s where believers will hold a party on Dec. 12 to celebrate the 484th anniversary of her appearance to the Mexican Indian Juan Diego on the top of the Tepeyac Hill.

If you happen to cover any of these celebrations or if you just run into la Virgen Morena (the Brown Virgin) somewhere, please snap a photo and send it my way with a one-line caption saying what’s happening, where you found the image, and when you took the photo. I’ll make sure to credit you and, perhaps one day, buy you some tacos and/or beers.

With the large Mexican migration into the United States of the last 25 years, she has made her way all the way up the East Coast, She was already in the West, that part of the country formerly known as México. Don’t worry, this is no history lesson (although many of you are in need of one).

But let’s just get a couple of things straight. I am not trying to convert you into anything. You believe what you want. And no, I’m not going to tell you that the United States stole land from México in the XIX Century: Don’t forget El Alamo.

A ‘Win’ for the Ayotzinapa 43 at the NYC Marathon

• Antonio Tizapa ran the New York City Marathon in 3:44:16
• He led the group of at least 12 runners that wore shirts stating support for Ayotzinapa
• Many volunteers showed solidarity displaying photos of the 43 students through the race route

Antonio Tizapa ran the last yards of the NYC Marathon carrying the photo of his son.

Published in Voices of NY

Antonio Tizapa felt his legs could not take another step when he was just a few yards away from the New York City Marathon finishing line, but then he saw the photo of his son in the crowd.

“I was running very slowly because I had no strength and just then I saw his image; my brother was holding it and he hadn’t seen me. I approached and took it from him,” Tizapa said. “It was wonderful, being able to finish the race with him, with the support of the people, and that made me run faster in those last meters.”

Tizapa, 48, and about a dozen other runners in Sunday’s race were the foot soldiers for a local campaign to extend to the world of sports the call for justice for the 43 Ayotzinapa students forcibly disappeared in México on Sept. 26, 2014.