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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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)
Los Angeles, California 90033 —Bloom Festival 2011—band performing: Chicano Batman.
The first time I went to Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk –I knew bringing my camera was a good idea. I encountered so many young people who were homeless and begging for money. Their strategies were interesting, they would play music, act out skits, dance, and it was as if I was transported to 1930’s movie (Photo Jonathan Olivares)
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