In the intersection of Cesar E. Chavez and Chicago you will find Pablo Siquieros and his two friends playing music. Some mariachis go there to kill time with friends, while other mariachis, stand and wait for clients (Photo Jonathan Olivares/Boyle Heights Beat)
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03/18/2012 - Los Angeles, California - Joggers hurry up the hill which leads them the Dodger Stadium, the starting point of the L.A Marathon (PHOTO JONATHAN OLIVARES/BOYLE HEIGHTS BEAT)
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03/18/2012 - Los Angeles, California - On an early Sunday morning, as the sun is rising, student Gerardo Lerena, jogs up a steep uphill in downtown Los Angeles, heading towards the next landmark, Echo Park Lake (PHOTO JONATHAN OLIVARES/BOYLE HEIGHTS BEAT)
02/22/2012 - Los Angeles - A resident of Los Angeles visits a church in Boyle Heights to receive the mark of cross on his forehead—a tradition that dates back to almost eight centuries ago (PHOTO JONATHAN OLIVARES/BOYLE HEIGHTS BEAT)
02/22/2012 – Los Angeles, California - TARDY TRUANCY TICKETS: Roosevelt student Rene Ayala, to the right, wears a prison jumpsuit in front of the City Hall building. According to a Student organizer for the Community Rights Campaign, the prison jumpsuit represents movement by Latino and African-America students that want stop and prevent a school system that sends student to prison by their inability to help students progress. Instead of helping students move forward or establishing a crime-prevention program, the student organizer explained, the school system suspends the students for bad behavior or for school code violation, without really addressing the problem therefore sending them down a ‘prison pipeline’ since their mistakes are not really dealt with.
In the same way truancy tickets used to oppress students since they are unable to pay, and by the time they are 18, their unpaid fines become a warrant to jail, he said. (PHOTO JONATHAN OLIVARES/BOYLE HEIGHTS BEAT)
On a sunny afternoon, band: “Chicano Batman; takes the stage and performs their soulful psychedelic songs.
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