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10 IDEAS CONTRA LA VIOLENCIA POLÍTICA
José López Zamorano
LaLa Red Hispana
violencia política ha sido parte de la historia de Estados Unidos desde sus inicios y, lamentablemente, continúa siendo una realidad hasta el día de hoy.
Ocurrió en el periodo colonial y en la revolución; en los primeros años de la República, encontró su clímax en la Guerra Civil y la Reconstrucción, y siguió durante el movimiento de los derechos civiles, la guerra de Vietnam y se ha mantenido en sucesivos atentados contra políticos, incluidos candidatos y presidentes en funciones.
El nuevo intento de asesinato contra Donald Trump debe ser condenado de la manera más enérgica. Y así ha ocurrido desde todos los espacios del espectro político.
La pregunta pertinente es cómo podemos, todos, poner nuestro granito de arena para combatir la violencia en todas sus formas. Van 10 sugerencias:
1. Condenar las acciones violentas pero también evitar linchamientos retóricos contra los adversarios políticos.
2. Fomentar el diálogo respetuoso y la tolerancia, sin estigmatizar a quienes no compartan nuestros puntos de vista.
3. Promover la educación cívica desde la escuela elemental y fomentar la resolución pacífica de conflictos por pequeños que sean.
4. Apoyar los programas comunitarios que fomentan la participación cívica a nivel de base, especialmente aquellas que reúnen a personas de diferentes orígenes,
5. Adoptar regulaciones de sentido común para evitar que las armas de fuego caigan en las manos equivocadas
6. Hacer que las plataformas de redes sociales rindan cuentas para frenar la propagación de discursos de odio que alimentan la violencia política.
7. Reforzar las protecciones para los funcionarios públicos, los candidatos y los trabajadores electorales,
8. Promover la capacitación en resolución de conflictos en escuelas, los lugares de trabajo y los centros comunitarios
9. Invertir en servicios de salud mental para ayudar a prevenir conductas violentas.
10. Enseñar alfabetización mediática para ayudar a las personas a evaluar críticamente las fuentes de noticias, lo que limita el impacto de información provocativa.
10 IDEAS AGAINST POLITICAL VIOLENCE
Por supuesto que no existe una fórmula mágica contra la violencia, sino medidas graduales y colectivas que hagan la diferencia. Todos debemos comprometernos con los valores que nos unen en lugar de los que nos dividen.
El camino a seguir no pasa por silenciar, cancelar o destruir a quienes no están de acuerdo con nosotros, sino por entablar un diálogo civil y respetuoso. Sólo así podremos sanar las divisiones que amenazan a todas las democracias.
José López Zamorano La Red Hispana
Politicalviolence has been part of the history of the United States since its beginnings and, unfortunately, continues to be a reality to this day.
It occurred in the colonial period and in the revolution; in the first years of the Republic, it reached its climax in the Civil War and Reconstruction, and it continued
during the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, and has continued in successive attacks against politicians, including candidates and sitting presidents.
The new assassination attempt against Donald Trump must be condemned in the strongest possible way. And this has happened from all spaces of the political spectrum.
The pertinent question is how we all can do our part to combat violence in all its forms. Here are 10 suggestions:
1. Condemn violent actions but also avoid rhetorical lynchings against political adversaries.
2. Encourage respectful dialogue and tolerance, without stigmatizing those who do not share our views.
3. Promote civic education starting in elementary school and encourage peaceful resolution of conflicts, no matter how small.
4. Support community programs that encourage civic participation at the grassroots level, especially those that bring together people of different backgrounds,
5. Adopt common-sense regulations to prevent firearms from falling into the wrong hands
6. Hold social media platforms accountable to curb the spread of hate speech that fuels political violence.
7. Strengthen protections for public officials, candidates, and election workers,
8. Promote conflict resolution training in schools, workplaces, and community centers
9. Invest in mental health services to help prevent violent behavior.
10. Teach media literacy to help people critically evaluate news sources, limiting the impact of provocative information.
Of course, there is no magic bullet against violence, but gradual and collective measures that make a difference. We must all commit to the values that unite us rather than those that divide us.
The way forward is not to silence, cancel or destroy those who disagree with us, but to engage in civil and respectful dialogue. Only in this way can we heal the divisions that threaten all democracies.
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SURVEY: ONLY 53% OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS THINK VOTING IS IMPORTANT
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Suzanne Potter California News Service
About53% of high school students think voting is important, according to a recent survey from the nonprofit Youth Truth.
Researchers polled 115,000 American high school students, including Californians, on civic engagement and found 60% believe "helping others is important," but only 44% feel confident in their ability to make a difference.
Jennifer de Forest, interim vice president of Youth Truth, said 30% of students translate their intentions into meaningful action.
"They say, 'We don't know where to start,'" de Forest explained. "And that's the best-case scenario, because for many students, they've actually internalized the message that the system is broken, and that what they have to say doesn't matter."
Latino students report feeling the most disempowered. Only 26% have taken civic action and just 46% believe voting is important. Many students said they are more focused on academic success and college acceptance. But they say extracurriculars like scouting, band and sports do make them feel more civicminded.
Kate Snow, coordinator of school climate for
the Davis Joint Unified School District, which brought diverse student groups together for a youth empowerment workshop, said districts need to build young people's confidence in the importance of their voices.
"There's a link between how schools are engaging students and helping students see their own power and use their power, with how they see and use it in the public arena," Snow pointed out.
The report encouraged schools to promote the importance of voting and students getting involved in their community.
ENCUESTA: SÓLO EL 53% DE LOS ESTUDIANTES DE SECUNDARIA CREE QUE VOTAR ES IMPORTANTE
Alrededordel 53% de los estudiantes de secundaria piensan que votar es importante, según una encuesta reciente de la organización sin fines de lucro Youth Truth.
Los investigadores encuestaron a 115.000 estudiantes de secundaria estadounidenses, incluidos californianos, sobre el compromiso cívico y encontraron que el 60% cree que "ayudar a los demás es importante", pero sólo el 44% se siente seguro de su capacidad para marcar la diferencia.
Jennifer de Forest, vicepresidenta interina de Youth Truth, dijo que el 30% de los estudiantes traducen sus intenciones en acciones significativas.
"Dicen: 'No sabemos por dónde empezar'", explicó de Forest. "Y ese es el mejor de los casos, porque muchos estudiantes han internalizado el mensaje de que el sistema no funciona y que lo que tienen que decir no importa".
Los estudiantes latinos informan que se sienten más desempoderados. Sólo el 26% ha tomado medidas cívicas y sólo el 46% cree que votar es importante. Muchos estudiantes dijeron que están más centrados en el éxito académico y la aceptación universitaria. Pero dicen que las actividades extracurriculares como la exploración, la banda y los deportes
los hacen sentir más cívicos.
Kate Snow, coordinadora de clima escolar del Distrito Escolar Unificado Conjunto de Davis, que reunió a diversos grupos de estudiantes para un taller de empoderamiento juvenil, dijo que los distritos necesitan desarrollar la confianza de los jóvenes en la importancia de sus voces.
"Existe un vínculo entre la forma en que las escuelas involucran a los estudiantes y los ayudan a ver su propio poder y usarlo, con la forma en que lo ven y lo usan en el ámbito público", señaló Snow.
El informe alentó a las escuelas a promover la importancia del voto y la participación de los estudiantes en su comunidad.
Suzanne Potter California News Service
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Youth Truth patrocina talleres para empoderar a los estudiantes para que encuentren su vo z y se involucren en sus comunidades. Photo Credit: Freepik
Youth Truth sponsors workshops to empower students to find their voice and get involved in their communities.
Photo Credit: Ruby Wallau / YouthTruth
WITH LESS THAN 50 DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY, AZ CONGRESSMAN
HAS MESSAGE FOR YOUNG VOTERS
Alex Gonzalez Public News Service
Newpoll results show 80% of likely Arizona voters believe American democracy is under threat.
The new survey from the Center for the Future of Arizona found just as many believe their vote could improve democracy.
Rep. Greg Stanton, D-Ariz., said with fewer than 50 days until Election Day, there are important issues on the ballot for Arizonans across the political spectrum and it isn't too late to take action.
"I want people finding candidates and causes they believe in, and get out and work on those campaigns," Stanton urged. "Become a volunteer, knock on doors, make calls, become a 'super voter,' if you will."
Stanton's challenger this year is Republican Kelly Cooper, who also ran against him in 2022. Voters in the Grand Canyon State will weigh in, not only on candidates at the national, state and local levels but will decide on more than a dozen statewide propositions. Check your voter registration status online at My.Arizona.Vote.
Stanton acknowledged there are bad actors out there who may want to drive down voter turnout but encouraged Arizonans to remain resilient. The last day to register to vote in order to participate in the Nov. 5 General Election is Oct. 7, a date he wants younger voters to pay close attention to.
"Whether you're a Democrat, a Republican or some other party or an Independent, it doesn't matter," said Rep. Greg Stanton, D-Ariz. "You are an American. If you're eligible to vote, we want you to participate in the most important election." Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore
"Maybe you're at Arizona State University, which is in my district, you come from another location, register to vote here," Stanton suggested. "We want you to participate in this election, and to have your voice heard for what's going on, not just in education issues but all of the variety of issues that affect your future."
Stanton contended across the country, younger voters need to participate at higher levels and calls it "good for democracy." A recent poll from Florida Atlantic University found 55% of people ages 18-34 said they're "dissatisfied" with their lives. Stanton hopes their dissatisfaction fuels greater turnout among young voters who want change.
Support for this reporting was provided by The Carnegie Corporation of New York.
A MENOS DE 50 DÍAS DE LAS ELECCIONES, CONGRESISTA DE AZ TIENE MENSAJE PARA JÓVENES VOTANTES
Alex Gonzalez Public News Service
Losresultados de una nueva encuesta muestran que el 80% de los posibles votantes de Arizona creen que la democracia estadounidense está amenazada.
Pero la nueva encuesta del Center for the Future de Arizona también revela que la misma cantidad de personas creen que su voto podría mejorar la democracia.
A menos de 50 días de las elecciones, el congresista Demócrata de Arizona Greg Stanton dice que hay temas importantes en la boleta electoral, para los residentes de Arizona en todo el espectro político, y no es demasiado tarde para tomar medidas.
"Quiero que la gente encuentre candidatos y causas en las que crea, y que salga a trabajar en esas campanas," urge Stanton. "Hágase voluntario, toque puertas, haga llamadas... conviértase en un "supervotante", por así decirlo."
El rival de Stanton este ano es el Republicano Kelly Cooper, quien también se presentó contra el en 2022. Los votantes del estado del Gran Canon no solo opinarán sobre los candidatos a nivel nacional, estatal y local, sino que también decidirán sobre más de una docena de propuestas estatales. Verifique su estado de registro de votante en línea en My.Arizona.Vote.
Stanton dice que hay malos actores que pueden querer reducir la participación electoral, pero anima a los habitantes de Arizona a seguir siendo resilientes. El último día para registrarse para las elecciones generales del 5 de noviembre es el 7 de octubre, una fecha que quiere que los
"No importa si eres demócrata, republicano, de otro partido o independiente", dijo el representante Greg Stanton, demócrata por Arizona. "Eres estadounidense; si tienes derecho a votar, queremos que participes en la elección más importante". Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore
votantes más jóvenes presten mucha atención.
"Quizás estas en la Universidad Estatal de Arizona, que está en mi distrito, vienes de otro lugar y te registras para votar aquí," sugiere Stanton. "Queremos que participes en estas elecciones y que se escuche tu voz sobre lo que está pasando, no solo en cuestiones educativas, sino en toda la variedad de temas que afectan tu futuro."
Stanton dice que, en todo el país, los votantes más jóvenes deben participar a niveles más altos y lo considera "bueno para la democracia". Según una encuesta reciente de Florida Atlantic University revelo que el 55% de las personas de entre 18 y 34 años se declaran "insatisfechas" con sus vidas. Stanton espera que la insatisfacción impulse una mayor participación entre los votantes jóvenes que desean un cambio. El apoyo para este informe fue proporcionado por The Carnegie Corporation de Nueva York.
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‘I WON’T LET THEM DRINK THE WATER’: THE CALIFORNIA TOWNS WHERE CLEAN DRINKING WATER IS OUT OF REACH
Drinking water contamination is a chronic, insidious threat in California’s rural communities. Some have been waiting for clean water for years.
Rachel Becker CalMatters
Ina major milestone, state regulators announced in July that nearly a million more Californians now have safe drinking water than five years ago.
But across the state, the problem remains severe: More than 735,000 people are still served by the nearly 400 water systems that fail to meet state requirements for safe and reliable drinking water. Latino farm communities struggling with poverty and pollution are especially hard-hit.
About three-quarters of the failing systems in California have violated state or federal standards for contaminants that are linked to serious health problems, such as cancer and effects on developing babies, according to a CalMatters analysis of state data.
Among the most pervasive contaminants are arsenic, nitrate and a chemical called 1,2,3-trichloropropane, or 1,2,3-TCP. Combined, elevated levels of these chemicals contaminate more than 220 failing systems serving nearly half a million people.
Unsafe drinking water is a chronic, insidious and sometimes hidden problem in a state where attention more often focuses on shortages than the quality of the water. The failing systems are clustered in rural farm areas that have experienced decades of groundwater contamination. Many residents are afraid to drink tap water, or even bathe their children in it, relying on bottled water instead.
“It is morally outrageous that we can’t provide the level of basic human rights that people need, and that it’s primarily low income communities of color who are facing these disparate impacts,” said Kyle Jones, policy and legal director with the Community Water Center, a nonprofit group. “While the state’s made a lot of good progress … more needs to be done.”
Twelve years ago, California became the first state to recognize clean, safe, affordable and accessible drinking water as a human right. In 2019, Legislators and Gov. Gavin Newsom approved a law that gave rise to the state’s Safe and Affordable Funding program.
Today, about 98% of Californians are served by water systems that meet state standards, and over $1 billion in state grants have helped disadvantaged communities tackle drinking water problems.
But despite all the systems that have been removed from the state’s failing list, about 600 others serving 1.6 million people are at risk of failure and more than 400 others serving another 1.6 million are deemed “potentially at risk.”
“We have continuing degradation of groundwater from all our human activities — farming, industry, drought itself with our climate change,” said Darrin Polhemus, deputy director of the State Water Resources Control Board and head of its Division of Drinking Water.
“We’re seeing the dawn of a new age where treatment is required on almost all our groundwater sources, and these small communities are not prepared for what that means.”
“It is morally outrageous that we can't provide the level of basic human rights that people need."
-Kyle Jones, Community Water Center
Ensuring safe and reliable drinking water for
all Californians will cost about $16 billion, according to a recent state analysis. But the state water board projects that it has only $2 billion available for grants in communities and $1.5 billion for loans.
Suppliers that violate drinking water standards are required to notify residents and reduce their exposure, often by treating or blending water supplies. State regulators are pushing for long-term fixes, like consolidating some smaller suppliers with bigger systems nearby.
The state auditor lambasted California water officials two years ago for "a lack of urgency," pointing to lengthy funding timelines and other problems. But infrastructure takes time and advanced planning, which is a struggle for smaller water systems, state officials say.
Violations “can be resolved in a matter of days, or it can take years,” according to a 2023 water board report.
Some water providers, such as in the town of Lamont in Kern County, are poised to fix their water problems with millions of dollars in state funding. Other, smaller communities, like Allensworth in Tulare County and San Lucas on the Central Coast, have been waiting for clean water for years.
Meanwhile, rural residents are left to weigh the risks flowing through their taps for themselves.
“You’re pretty much playing Russian Roulette,” said Tequita Jefferson, a longtime resident of Pixley, where the water system has elevated levels of the chemical 1,2,3-TCP, which has been linked to cancer.
“It scares me. All of it scares me,” said Jefferson. “And then no one thinks about it. Here, we’re in a rural community, and people have a tendency to overlook us.”
In this small town, pesticide residue is the culprit
In the San Joaquin Valley community of Pixley, home to about 3,800 people, the jobs are rooted in agriculture — and so are the water problems.
Widespread use of soil fumigants starting in the 1950s contaminated Central Valley groundwater with 1,2,3-TCP, which is an impurity in those fumigants and also is used as an industrial solvent. Though the fumigants were
ing with that contaminant?”
In Lamont, about an hour south of Pixley near Bakersfield, the failure of one well forced more than 18,200 people to rely more heavily on a well contaminated with elevated levels of 1,2,3TCP.
Lamont Public Utility District General Manager Scott Taylor said a fix is already in the works, thanks to a new well built with state funds. Another $25.4 million grant from the water board will help Lamont install three new wells to provide water to Lamont and a smaller arsenicplagued system nearby.
“Without the state help, what would we have done? Honestly, I don't have a clue. And I'm glad I don’t have to find out,” Taylor said. “We don’t have $30 million laying around.”
In Allensworth, arsenic is a decades-long problem
Just 20 minutes away from Pixley, in Allensworth, Sherry Hunter keeps catching herself running the tap to brush her teeth.
pulled from the market or reformulated in California by the 1990s, elevated levels continue to taint the water in wells throughout the San Joaquin Valley.
In the absence of federal standards, state regulators set the most stringent drinking water limits for the chemical in the country in 2017.
The chemical has been linked to cancers in animal studies. People can be exposed to 1,2,3TCP by drinking it, cooking with it and breathing in vapor from household water use.
“You’re pretty much playing Russian Roulette...It scares me. All of it scares me."
-Tequita Jefferson, Pixley resident Christina Velazquez, who has lived in Pixley for 44 years and had her own brush with cancer, estimates that she spends at least $30 per month to buy filters and water bottles, on top of her water and sewer bill.
“That’s what I make my grandkids drink — I won’t let them drink the water from the faucet,” Velasquez said. “We shouldn’t have to buy water when we’re already paying for it.”
Pixley received $11.5 million from pesticide manufacturers in 2021 to settle a lawsuit about the contamination, according to attorney Chad Lew, counsel for the Pixley Public Utility District.
But David Terrel, a teacher and vice president of the district’s board, said there still isn't enough funding to fix the contamination problem. “If we could handle it on our own, we would be doing that,” he said.
Pixley is holding out hope for a construction grant from the state. The district has received about $750,000 for planning and technical assistance, as well as for installing filtered-water vending machines, according to a state database.
Other water systems also have won large payouts from pesticide manufacturers. Fresno, for instance, received $230 million in a recent case. But Polhemus, with the state’s Division of Drinking Water, said these settlements are rarely enough.
“We're still pretty broken when it comes to corporate responsibility for wide-scale pollution,” Polhemus said. The money will “last for a decade or two, but what about the third and fourth and fifth decade, when they're still deal-
The tiny Tulare County community of about 530 people, 93% of them Latino, has struggled with arsenic leaching into its wells for decades, one of which still regularly exceeds state health limits. And the crisis keeps worsening.
Drinking arsenic-contaminated water over a long period of time can cause cancers and has been linked with fetal deaths and malformations in test animals as well as harm to the developing brains of babies and young children.
Arsenic is found naturally in rocks and soils throughout California, though it is worsened by groundwater over-pumping to irrigate farm fields in the San Joaquin Valley.
The Allensworth Community Services District, where Hunter serves as president, has tried to reduce the contamination by blending in water from a less tainted well.
But in July, both wells failed because of suspected electrical issues, according to the nonprofit Self-Help Enterprises. Though the more contaminated well was brought back online, it, too, began sputtering out in August — leaving residents with either arsenic-contaminated water or no water at all.
Farmworkers living in Allensworth found themselves unable to shower after long days in the heat, Hunter said. “It’s a horrible feeling … We don’t have rich people that live in Allensworth.”
Communities of color like Allensworth are more likely to be served by water systems that violate state and federal limits for the contaminant, according to UC Berkeley researchers.
The town has been working for years to install a new well. But efforts have lagged for over a decade — delayed by logistics including land purchases tied up in probate and lengthy environmental permitting, including for impacts on endangered and other protected species.
In the meantime, Allensworth has been piloting alternative water sources as a test site for hydropanels designed to extract freshwater from the atmosphere and for lower cost treatment technology out of UC Berkeley.
By the end of August, Allensworth had qualified for emergency state water board funding through Self-Help Enterprises to repair the wells and investigate the source of the electrical issues.
Sherry Hunter pours a cup of bottled water she uses to brush her teeth in her home in Allensworth on Sept.4, 2024. The San Joaquin Valley community of about 500 people has been dealing with arsenic contamination of its public wells, one of which regularly exceeds state health limits. Photo Credit: Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters / CatchLight Local
Hunter said she’s excited to know that help is on the way, but she’s frustrated with how long it’s taking to bring reliably clean water to her community.
“It wouldn't have happened in none of the other little cities around here,” Hunter said. “People of color are always put on the back burner. Latinos, and Blacks, we’re always sitting on the back of the bus.”
Nitrate spikes in a Monterey County town's wells
Two hours toward the coast, in the agricultural Monterey County community of San Lucas, Virginia Sandoval mixes formula with bottled water for her 2-month-old twin granddaughters. She’s afraid to even bathe the babies, born prematurely, in the tap water.
For over a decade, the largely Latino town of about 300 residents has struggled with nitrate contamination in its well, which is located on nearby farmland. The contaminant leaches into water supplies from crop fertilizer.
When consumed in high enough quantities, nitrate has been linked to cancers and pregnancy complications and can reduce the capacity of a baby’s blood to carry oxygen, leading to a sometimes deadly condition known as “blue baby syndrome.” Nitrate is not absorbed through the skin, and the California Department of Public Health says babies can be bathed in nitrate-contaminated water.
San Lucas' water system is designated as failing because of nitrate levels that wax and wane, according to Andrew Altevogt, an assistant deputy director of the State Water Board’s Division of Drinking Water.
Though the levels have averaged well below the federal health standard for the past decade, they have occasionally spiked to double the state’s limit, according to a recent engineering report.
“Nitrate’s an acute contaminant, so if it does happen, it’s an immediate concern,” Altevogt said.
The water system has also been plagued with other contaminants that affect taste, odor and color.
For years, residents have relied on bottled water mandated by regional regulators and provided by the farmer where the well is located.
The supplies often don’t last the week for Sandoval. She regularly drives the 20-mile round trip to King City to purchase more bottles — a cost of more than $20 per week, she estimates, on top of her monthly water bill.
“It's very stressful to be thinking every morning ... 'Do I have water or do I not have water?' What am I going to do?’” Sandoval said in Spanish. “I even had to look for coins, pennies, so that I can go pick up water.”
Nitrate is a pervasive problem in the Central Coast, where 90% of drinking water is pumped from the ground and farms discharge nitrogen waste at a rate “approximately an order of magnitude greater” than what scientists consider “protective of water quality,” according to the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board.
Three years ago, regional water regulators issued an order setting limits on the amount of fertilizer applied to crops. But two years later, state officials overturned them, saying that an expert panel needed to evaluate whether there was enough data to support the restrictions, according to a statement from the state water board.
“You really can’t grow a lot of these crops without fertilizer,” said Norm Groot, executive direc-
tor of the Monterey County Farm Bureau. “We can’t artificially reduce that overnight and continue to produce the food items that are important to our nation’s dinner tables.”
Community and conservation organizations sued both the state and regional regulators.
Another coalition, including San Lucas community members, filed a racial discrimination complaint with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The groups say the state board’s rollback of the fertilizer limits “disproportionately harmed Latinx communities and other communities of color,” which are 4.4 times more likely to have groundwater contamination above the state limits.
Meanwhile, residents are still waiting for reliably clean water. A decade-old plan to connect San Lucas with King City’s water supply via an 8-mile pipeline stalled after state regulators said the long pipeline would be too expensive and urged the county to find a new groundwater source instead, according to correspondence posted by Monterey County.
Now, eight years and a state-funded study later, state, county, regional and water district officials are once again weighing their options.
“We sit here today counting years. It’s mindblowing,” said Monterey County Supervisor Chris Lopez. “I feel like we’ve failed (residents) as a society so much, without being able to give them the clean drinking water that they deserve.”
Data journalist Natasha Uzcátegui-Liggett contributed to this report.
“NO LOS DEJO BEBER DE ESA AGUA”: ESTOS SON LOS PUEBLOS DE CALIFORNIA DONDE EL AGUA POTABLE ESTÁ FUERA DE ALCANCE
La contaminación del agua potable es una amenaza crónica e insidiosa en las comunidades rurales de California. Algunas llevan años esperando tener agua limpia.
Rachel Becker CalMatters
Enun hito importante, los reguladores estatales anunciaron en julio que casi un millón más de californianos tienen ahora agua potable segura que hace cinco años.
Pero en todo el estado, el problema sigue siendo grave: más de 735,000 personas siguen recibiendo agua de los casi 400 sistemas que no cumplen con los requisitos estatales de agua potable segura y confiable. Las comunidades agrícolas latinas que luchan contra la pobreza y la contaminación son las especialmente afectadas. Alrededor de tres cuartas partes de los sistemas defectuosos en California han violado los estándares estatales o federales para contaminantes que están vinculados a graves problemas de salud, como cáncer y efectos en los bebés en desarrollo, según un análisis de datos de estado de CalMatters.
Entre los contaminantes más presentes se encuentran el arsénico, el nitrato y una sustancia química llamada 1,2,3-tricloropropano o 1,2,3-TCP. En conjunto, los niveles elevados de estas sustancias químicas contaminan más de 220 sistemas defectuosos que abastecen a casi medio millón de personas.
El agua potable insalubre es un problema crónico, insidioso y a veces oculto en un estado donde la atención se centra más en la escasez que en la calidad del agua. Los sistemas defectuosos se concentran en zonas rurales agrícolas que han
sufrido décadas de contaminación de las aguas subterráneas. Muchos residentes tienen miedo de beber agua del grifo, o incluso de bañar a sus hijos con ella, y recurren en cambio al agua embotellada.
“Es moralmente indignante que no podamos brindar el nivel de derechos humanos básicos que la gente necesita, y que sean principalmente las comunidades de color de bajos ingresos las que se enfrentan a estos impactos dispares”, dijo Kyle Jones, director de políticas y asuntos legales del Centro Comunitario del Agua, un grupo sin fines de lucro. “Si bien el estado ha logrado muchos avances positivos, es necesario hacer más”.
Hace doce años, California se convirtió en el primer estado en reconocer el agua potable limpia, segura, asequible y accesible como un derecho humano. En 2019, los legisladores y el gobernador Gavin Newsom aprobaron una ley que dio origen al programa de Financiamiento Seguro y Asequible del estado.
En la actualidad, aproximadamente el 98% de los californianos cuentan con sistemas de agua que cumplen con los estándares estatales, y más de mil millones de dólares en subvenciones estatales han ayudado a comunidades desfavorecidas a abordar los problemas de agua potable. Pero a pesar de todos los sistemas que han sido eliminados de la lista de sistemas fallidos del estado, alrededor de otros 600 que atienden a 1.6 millones de personas están en riesgo de fracaso y más de 400 que atienden a otros 1.6 millones están considerados "potencialmente en riesgo".
“Tenemos una degradación continua de las aguas subterráneas debido a todas nuestras actividades humanas: agricultura, industria, la sequía misma y el cambio climático”, dijo Darrin Polhemus, subdirector de la Junta Estatal de Control de Recursos Hídricos y jefe de su División de Agua Potable. “Estamos viendo el amanecer de una nueva era en la que se requiere tratamiento en casi todas nuestras fuentes de agua subterránea, y estas pequeñas comunidades no están preparadas para lo que eso significa”.
“Es moralmente indignante que no podamos proporcionar el nivel de derechos humanos básicos que la gente necesita”.
-Kyle Jones, Centro Comunitario del Agua Según un reciente análisis estatal, garantizar agua potable segura y confiable para todos los californianos costará alrededor de 16 mil millones de dólares. Pero la junta estatal de agua estima que solo tiene 2 mil millones de dólares disponibles para subvenciones en las comunidades y 1.5 mil millones de dólares para préstamos.
Los proveedores que violan las normas de agua potable deben notificar a los residentes y reducir su exposición, a menudo mediante el tratamiento o la mezcla de los suministros de agua. Los reguladores estatales están presionando para que se adopten soluciones a largo plazo, como la consolidación de algunos proveedores más pequeños con sistemas más grandes cercanos.
Hace dos años, el auditor estatal criticó a los funcionarios del agua de California por " falta de urgencia ", señalando los largos plazos de financiación y otros problemas. Pero la infraestructura requiere tiempo y una planificación avanzada, lo que supone una lucha para los sistemas de agua más pequeños, dicen los funcionarios estatales.
Las violaciones “pueden resolverse en cuestión de días o pueden llevar años”, según un informe de la junta de agua de 2023.
Algunos proveedores de agua, como en la ciudad de Lamont en el condado de Kern,
están dispuestos a solucionar sus problemas de agua con millones de dólares en fondos estatales. Otras comunidades más pequeñas, como Allensworth en el condado de Tulare y San Lucas en la Costa Central, llevan años esperando agua limpia.
Mientras tanto, los residentes rurales deben sopesar por sí mismos los riesgos que fluyen a través de sus grifos.
“Es prácticamente como jugar a la ruleta rusa”, dijo Tequita Jefferson, residente desde hace mucho tiempo de Pixley, donde el sistema de agua tiene niveles elevados del químico 1,2,3-TCP, que ha sido vinculado al cáncer.
“Me da miedo. Todo esto me da miedo”, dijo Jefferson. “Y nadie piensa en ello. Aquí estamos en una comunidad rural y la gente tiende a pasarnos por alto”.
En este pequeño pueblo, los residuos de pesticidas son los culpables
En la comunidad de Pixley, en el Valle de San Joaquín, hogar de aproximadamente 3,800 personas, los empleos están arraigados en la agricultura, y también lo están los problemas del agua.
El uso generalizado de fumigantes de suelo a partir de la década de 1950 contaminó las aguas subterráneas del Valle Central con 1,2,3-TCP, que es una impureza en estos fumigantes y también se utiliza como disolvente industrial. Aunque los fumigantes se retiraron del mercado o se reformularon en California en la década de 1990, los niveles elevados siguen contaminando el agua de los pozos en todo el Valle de San Joaquín.
En ausencia de normas federales, los reguladores estatales establecieron en 2017 los límites más estrictos para el contenido de esta sustancia química en el agua potable del país.
En estudios realizados con animales, se ha vinculado esta sustancia química con el cáncer. Las personas pueden estar expuestas al 1,2,3-TCP al beberlo, cocinar con él e inhalar el vapor del agua de uso doméstico.
Christina Velazquez, quien ha vivido en Pixley durante 44 años y tuvo su propio roce con el cáncer, estima que gasta al menos $30 por mes para comprar filtros y botellas de agua, además de su factura de agua y alcantarillado.
“Eso es lo que les doy de beber a mis nietos. No les dejo beber el agua del grifo”, dijo Velasquez. “No deberíamos tener que comprar agua cuando ya la estamos pagando”.
Pixley recibió $11.5 millones de fabricantes de pesticidas en 2021 para resolver una demanda por contaminación, según el abogado Chad Lew, asesor del Distrito de Servicios Públicos de Pixley. Pero David Terrel, profesor y vicepresidente de la junta del distrito, dijo que todavía no hay fondos suficientes para solucionar el problema de la contaminación. “Si pudiéramos solucionarlo por nuestra cuenta, lo haríamos”, dijo.
Pixley mantiene la esperanza de recibir una subvención estatal para la construcción. El distrito ha recibido alrededor de 750,000 dólares para la planificación y la asistencia técnica, así como para la instalación de máquinas expendedoras de agua filtrada, según una base de datos estatal. Otros sistemas de agua también han obtenido grandes indemnizaciones de los fabricantes de pesticidas. Fresno, por ejemplo, recibió 230 millones de dólares en un caso reciente. Pero Polhemus, de la División de Agua Potable del estado, dijo que estos acuerdos rara vez son suficientes.
“Todavía estamos bastante desorganizados en lo que respecta a la responsabilidad corporativa por la contaminación a gran escala”, dijo Polhemus. El dinero “durará una década o dos, pero ¿qué pasará con la tercera, cuarta y quinta década, cuando todavía estén lidiando con ese contaminante?”
En Lamont, aproximadamente a una hora al sur de Pixley, cerca de Bakersfield, la falla de un pozo obligó a más de 18,200 personas a depender
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en mayor medida de un pozo contaminado con niveles elevados de 1,2,3-TCP.
El gerente general del Distrito de Servicios Públicos de Lamont, Scott Taylor, dijo que ya se está trabajando en una solución, gracias a un nuevo pozo construido con fondos estatales. Otra subvención de $25,4 millones de la junta de agua ayudará a Lamont a instalar tres nuevos pozos para abastecer de agua a Lamont y a un sistema más pequeño cercano plagado de arsénico.
“Sin la ayuda del estado, ¿qué habríamos hecho? Honestamente, no tengo ni idea. Y me alegro de no tener que averiguarlo”, dijo Taylor. “No tenemos 30 millones de dólares por ahí”.
En Allensworth, el arsénico es un problema que lleva décadas
A sólo 20 minutos de Pixley, en Allensworth, Sherry Hunter no deja de sorprenderse abriendo el grifo para cepillarse los dientes.
La pequeña comunidad del condado de Tulare, de aproximadamente 530 personas, el 93% de ellas latinas, ha luchado contra la filtración de arsénico en sus pozos durante décadas, uno de los cuales todavía excede regularmente los límites de salud estatales. Y la crisis sigue empeorando.
Beber agua contaminada con arsénico durante un largo período de tiempo puede causar cáncer y se ha relacionado con muertes fetales y malformaciones en animales de prueba, así como con daños a los cerebros en desarrollo de bebés y niños pequeños.
El arsénico se encuentra de forma natural en rocas y suelos en toda California, aunque la situación se agrava por el bombeo excesivo de agua subterránea para regar campos agrícolas en el Valle de San Joaquín.
El Distrito de Servicios Comunitarios de Allensworth, donde Hunter se desempeña como presidente, ha tratado de reducir la contaminación mezclando agua de un pozo menos contaminado.
Pero en julio, ambos pozos fallaron debido a problemas eléctricos, según la organización sin fines de lucro Self-Help Enterprises. Aunque el pozo más contaminado volvió a funcionar, también comenzó a fallar en agosto, lo que dejó a los residentes con agua contaminada con arsénico o sin agua en absoluto.
Los trabajadores agrícolas que viven en Allensworth no pudieron ducharse después de largos días bajo el calor, dijo Hunter. “Es una sensación horrible… No tenemos gente rica viviendo en Allensworth”.
Las comunidades de color como Allensworth tienen más probabilidades de recibir servicio de sistemas de agua que violan los límites estatales y federales para el contaminante, según investigadores de UC Berkeley.
La ciudad ha estado trabajando durante años para instalar un nuevo pozo, pero los esfuerzos se han retrasado durante más de una década, debido a cuestiones logísticas como la compra de terrenos en trámites sucesorios y largos trámites de permisos ambientales, incluidos los relacionados con los impactos en especies en peligro de extinción así como de otras especies protegidas.
Mientras tanto, Allensworth ha estado probando fuentes de agua alternativas como sitio de prueba para hidropaneles diseñados para extraer agua dulce de la atmósfera y desarrollar tecnología de tratamiento de menor costo en la Universidad de California en Berkeley.
A fines de agosto, Allensworth había calificado para recibir fondos de emergencia de la junta estatal de agua a través de Self-Help Enterprises para reparar los pozos e investigar la fuente de los problemas eléctricos.
Hunter dijo que está emocionada de saber que la ayuda está en camino, pero está frustrada por el tiempo que está tomando llevar agua limpia y confiable a su comunidad.
“No habría sucedido en ninguna de las otras pequeñas ciudades de por aquí”, dijo Hunter. “La gente de color siempre queda relegada a un segundo plano. Los latinos y los negros siempre estamos sentados en la parte de atrás del autobús”. Picos de nitrato en pozos de una ciudad del condado de Monterey
A dos horas de la costa, en la comunidad agrícola de San Lucas, en el condado de Monterey, Virginia Sandoval mezcla leche en polvo con agua embotellada para sus nietas gemelas de dos meses. Tiene miedo incluso de bañar a las bebés, que nacieron prematuramente, con agua del grifo.
Durante más de una década, la ciudad de unos 300 habitantes, en su mayoría latinos, ha tenido problemas con la contaminación por nitratos en su pozo, ubicado en tierras agrícolas cercanas. El contaminante se filtra en los suministros de agua a partir de los fertilizantes de los cultivos.
Cuando se consume en cantidades suficientemente altas, el nitrato se ha relacionado con El cáncer y las complicaciones del embarazo pueden reducir la capacidad de la sangre del bebé para transportar oxígeno, lo que puede provocar una afección a veces mortal conocida como “síndrome del bebé azul”. El nitrato no se absorbe a través de la piel y el Departamento de Salud Pública de California afirma que los bebés pueden bañarse en agua contaminada con nitrato. El sistema de agua de San Lucas está catalogado como defectuoso debido a los niveles de nitrato que aumentan y disminuyen, según Andrew Altevogt, subdirector adjunto de la División de Agua Potable de la Junta Estatal del Agua.
Aunque los niveles han estado en promedio muy por debajo del estándar de salud federal durante
la última década, ocasionalmente han aumentado hasta duplicar el límite estatal, según un informe de ingeniería reciente.
“El nitrato es un contaminante agudo, por lo que si ocurre, es una preocupación inmediata”, dijo Altevogt.
El sistema de agua también se ha visto plagado de otros contaminantes que afectan el sabor, el olor y el color.
Durante años, los residentes han dependido del agua embotellada exigida por los reguladores regionales y proporcionada por el agricultor donde se encuentra el pozo.
A Sandoval, los suministros no le alcanzan para toda la semana. Regularmente recorre 32 kilómetros de ida y vuelta hasta King City para comprar más botellas, lo que le cuesta más de 20 dólares por semana, según calcula, además de su factura mensual de agua.
“Es muy estresante estar pensando cada mañana… ‘¿Tengo agua o no tengo agua?’ ¿Qué voy a hacer?’”, dijo Sandoval. “Hasta tuve que buscar monedas, centavos, para poder ir a buscar agua”.
El nitrato es un problema generalizado en la Costa Central, donde el 90% del agua potable se bombea desde el suelo y las granjas descargan desechos de nitrógeno a una tasa “aproximadamente un orden de magnitud mayor” de lo que los científicos consideran “protector de la calidad del agua”, según la Junta de Control de Calidad del Agua Regional de la Costa Central.
Hace tres años, los reguladores regionales del agua emitieron una orden que establecía límites a la cantidad de fertilizantes que se aplicaban a los cultivos. Pero dos años después, los funcionarios estatales la revocaron, diciendo que un panel de expertos debía evaluar si había suficientes datos para respaldar las restricciones, según un comunicado de la junta estatal del agua.
“Realmente no se pueden cultivar muchos de estos cultivos sin fertilizantes”, dijo Norm Groot, director ejecutivo de Monterey County Farm Bureau. “No podemos reducir eso artificialmente de la noche a la mañana y seguir produciendo los alimentos que son importantes para las mesas de nuestro país”.
Las organizaciones comunitarias y conservacionistas demandaron a los reguladores estatales y regionales. Otra coalición, que incluye a miembros de la comunidad de San Lucas, presentó una denuncia por discriminación racial ante la Agencia de Protección Ambiental de Estados Unidos.
Los grupos dicen que la reducción de los límites de fertilizantes por parte de la junta estatal “perjudicó desproporcionadamente a las comunidades latinas y otras comunidades de color”, que tienen 4.4 veces más probabilidades de tener contaminación de las aguas subterráneas por encima de los límites estatales.
Mientras tanto, los residentes siguen esperando agua potable de manera confiable. Un plan de hace una década para conectar San Lucas con el suministro de agua de King City a través de una tubería de 8 millas se estancó después de que los reguladores estatales dijeran que la tubería larga sería demasiado cara e instaran al condado a encontrar una nueva fuente de agua subterránea, según la correspondencia publicada por el condado de Monterey.
Ahora, ocho años y un estudio financiado por el estado después, los funcionarios estatales, del condado, regionales y del distrito de agua están sopesando una vez más sus opciones.
“Estamos aquí hoy contando los años. Es alucinante”, dijo el supervisor del condado de Monterey, Chris López. “Siento que les hemos fallado mucho (a los residentes) como sociedad, al no poder brindarles el agua potable limpia que merecen”.
La periodista de datos Natasha Uzcátegui-Liggett contribuyó a este informe.
Velazquez hace funcionar el agua a la máxima presión en su casa de Pixley el 4 de septiembre de 2024. Velazquez no deja que su familia beba el agua debido a la contaminación de los pozos locales. Photo Caption: Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters / CatchLight local
NEW DATA SHOW MASSIVE DROP IN YOUTH ARRESTS, INCARCERATION
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Thenumber of youth held in juvenile justice facilities in California and across the U.S. dropped 75% between 2000 and 2022 - according to a new policy brief from the Sentencing Project.
Researchers say it reflects big declines in youth offending and arrests - and lower rates of incarceration during the pandemic.
Josh Rovner, director of youth justice with the Sentencing Project, said this contradicts frequent assertions by politicians and commentators that youth crime is out of control.
"It's surprising to many people in the country that believe that things are always getting worse," said Rovner, "that believe that this generation of kids is worse than any generation that came before it, when the evidence doesn't back that up at all."
California has been on the forefront of juvenile justice reform.
The state closed the last of its youth prisons last year, moving to a county-based model to keep children closer to family and community-based programs.
The state also banned almost all prosecution of children under age 12, and ended
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the transfer of 14- and 15-year-olds to adult court.
Rovner said youth are much less likely to reoffend when they are spared incarcerationand instead enter programs that emphasize mentoring, family therapy, and restorative justice.
"Some people argued drops in incarceration would only lead to increases in offending," said Rovner. "The opposite happened. In fact, by locking up fewer kids, offending continued to drop. So successes can build upon successes, but there is still so much work to do."
State data show that the number of youth in California juvenile facilities stood at almost 2,800 in 2023 - a dramatic drop from just over 11,000 in 2002.
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número de jóvenes recluidos en centros de justicia juvenil en California y en todo Estados Unidos se redujo un 75% entre 2000 y 2022, según un nuevo informe de políticas del Sentencing Project.
Los investigadores dicen que refleja grandes disminuciones en la delincuencia y los arrestos juveniles, y tasas más bajas de encarcelamiento durante la pandemia.
Josh Rovner, director de justicia juvenil del Sentencing Project, dijo que esto contradice las frecuentes afirmaciones de políticos y comentaristas de que la delincuencia juvenil está fuera de control.
"Es sorprendente para muchas personas en el país que creen que las cosas siempre están empeorando", dijo Rovner, "que creen que esta
generación de niños es peor que cualquier generación anterior, cuando la evidencia no respalda eso en todo."
California ha estado a la vanguardia de la reforma de la justicia juvenil.
El estado cerró la última de sus cárceles juveniles el año pasado y adoptó un modelo basado en el condado para mantener a los niños más cerca de los programas familiares y comunitarios.
El estado también prohibió casi todo procesamiento de niños menores de 12 años y puso fin al traslado de niños de 14 y 15 años a tribunales de adultos.
Rovner dijo que los jóvenes tienen muchas menos probabilidades de reincidir cuando no van a la cárcel y, en cambio, ingresan en programas que enfatizan la tutoría, la terapia familiar y la justicia restaurativa.
"Algunas personas argumentaron que la reducción del encarcelamiento sólo conduciría a un aumento de la delincuencia", dijo Rovner. "Ocurrió todo lo contrario. De hecho, al encerrar a menos niños, la delincuencia siguió disminuyendo. Así que los éxitos pueden basarse en otros éxitos, pero aún queda mucho trabajo por hacer".
Los datos estatales muestran que el número de jóvenes en centros juveniles de California fue de casi 2.800 en 2023, una caída dramática desde poco más de 11.000 en 2002.
A partir de 2021, California ocupó el puesto 18 en la nación con la tasa más baja de jóvenes confinados en centros de justicia juvenil, con 58 jóvenes por cada 100 mil. Photo Credit: Freepik
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Q&A MEXODUS: EL HIP-HOP SE MEZCLA CON LA HISTORIA MIENTRAS LA HISTORIA RARAMENTE ESCUCHADA DEL FERROCARRIL SUBTERRÁNEO MEXICANO SE CUENTA EN UN NUEVO MUSICAL DE LOOPING EN VIVO
Hablamos con el creador Brian Quijada sobre su viaje creando un musical en medio de la pandemia, el arte de colaborar y la importancia de enfatizar la solidaridad de negros y morenos
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Durante
el primer año de la pandemia de COVID-19, Brian Quijada pasó por los momentos más bajos como artista, sin ningún lugar donde actuar. Mientras la gente se quedaba en casa, los teatros y los locales permanecían inactivos y él se preguntaba qué sería lo siguiente en su carrera artística.
Entonces le llegó una fructífera oportunidad, la opción de trabajar en un espectáculo que sólo había sido una idea dentro de la aplicación de notas de su teléfono basada en un artículo de historia que había leído sobre la parte mexicana del ferrocarril subterráneo, y cómo los abolicionistas mexicanos ayudaron también a escapar a los esclavizados.
México prohibió la esclavitud en 1829, y los investigadores han estimado que hasta 10.000 personas, y posiblemente más, escaparon a México en esta poco conocida cola sur del Ferrocarril Subterráneo.
Para presentar adecuadamente este proyecto sobre las experiencias de negros y morenos, Quijada se acercó al multiinstrumentista, escritor y actor Nygel D. Robinson. Aunque sólo se habían conocido una vez pero nunca habían trabajado juntos, Quijada vio a Robinson como el socio perfecto para darle vida a lo que se convertiría en Mexodus
Mexodus es un musical en vivo que cuenta una historia ficticia basada en la historia real de la parte sur del ferrocarril subterráneo que conducía a México. Gira en torno a dos personajes, el aparcero mexicano Carlos (Quijada) y el ex esclavo Henry (Robinson) y cómo ambos aceptan sus experiencias pasadas y las conexiones que comparten.
El loop en vivo es la práctica de utilizar hardware digital o analógico para crear música a través de capas de sonidos utilizando muestras, instrumentos en vivo o incluso la propia voz del intérprete. En Mexodus, Quijada y Robinson cuentan la historia creando la música frente al público, mientras actúan también en el musical.
El espectáculo entretiene, a la vez que saca a la luz conexiones históricas entre las comunidades de color, además de informar sobre el racismo sistemático, el colorismo en la latinidad y la mirada hacia un futuro mejor.
Descubra cómo surgió el programa y, lo más importante, por qué a Quijada le gustaría que el público se llevará un mensaje esperanzador pero informado dentro del entretenido e inventivo programa.
Mexodus presentará su estreno en la costa oeste desde ahora hasta el 20 de octubre de 2024 en el Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Los boletos están disponibles en berkeleyrep.org
Para empezar, sólo quería preguntarle ¿Cuál fue la chispa inicial de la idea que
dio lugar a Mexodus?
Quiero decir, 2018, 2019, alguien publicó un artículo de History.com llamado "El ferrocarril subterráneo poco conocido que corrió hacia el sur de México", hice clic y lo leí, y estaba increíblemente interesado en esta parte de la historia de la que nunca había oído hablar.
Y mientras leía el artículo, pensé: "Vaya, ¿cómo es que nunca había oído hablar de esto?". Y luego, cuando lo termino, pienso: "¡Esto tiene mucho sentido!".
Muchos de mis escritos en general tratan típicamente sobre política fronteriza. Se trata mucho de mis padres. Mis padres cru-
zaron la frontera en los años 70. Y recuerdo haber leído ese artículo y haber dicho: "Esta es una historia fronteriza". Esta es simplemente una historia de frontera inversa en la forma en que normalmente vemos historias de frontera como esa. Pero recuerdo que lo guardé en la aplicación de notas de mi teléfono y dije: "Hombre, no puedo escribir este artículo solo. Va a requerir mucha investigación. Así que lo dejaré en un segundo plano por un momento, pero sería una gran obra".
En 2020, conocí a Nygel D. Robinson y luego le planteé la idea y me dijo: "Sí, hagámoslo". Y nos reunimos una vez antes del cierre de la pandemia y luego decidimos escribirlo durante la pandemia. Así fue como empezó todo.
2020 no fue el mejor año para las artes escénicas, ¿cómo le afectó eso y cómo sacó adelante este proyecto en esas circunstancias?
Quiero decir, no estaba pasando nada. Todos habían perdido todos sus trabajos en el teatro. No podíamos hacer nuestro trabajo a través de Zoom. Pero cuando se produjo el cierre, recibí una llamada de Liz Carlson de New York Stage and Film. Y ella se acercó y dijo: "Oye, escucha, tenemos algo de dinero para apoyar a algunos artistas. ¿Tienes algo en lo que quieras trabajar?" Y dije: "Acabo de conocer a este tipo", y le mencioné la idea para esta obra.
¿Pero cuál es el punto? ¿Para qué lo hacemos? No vamos a poder realizarlo ni nada por el estilo. Y luego dijo: "¿Qué pasa si escribes una canción cada mes durante un año y, con suerte, dentro de un año puedes tocarla en vivo?"
Y eso es exactamente lo que pasó. Entonces, escribimos una canción cada mes durante un año, y luego, al año siguiente, nos presentamos en Poughkeepsie, Nueva York, y presentamos este álbum conceptual, este álbum conceptual de 12 pistas de Mexodus en vivo. Y fue realmente genial porque nos mantuvo trabajando. Nos mantuvo alejados de lo desempleados que estábamos. Pero fue asombroso.
Tuvimos tiempo; Lanzamos la primera canción un par de días después del asesinato de George Floyd. Entonces, escribíamos de forma aislada, pero también escribíamos con la cultura del panorama político de lo que estaba sucediendo racialmente en el país. Entonces, fue un momento realmente fértil para escribir. Con eso quiero decir que se sintió fácil. Parecía una corriente de conciencia fácil escribir sobre política racial en Estados Unidos.
¿Y podría establecer conexiones desde esa agitación de 2020 con la historia de la que está hablando en su proyecto?
Ah, sí, seguro. La historia que ocurrió en la década de 1850 con la esclavitud es aún más predominante. Pero incluso con la pérdida de la guerra entre México y Estados Unidos y la apropiación de la tierra, el robo de la tierra, la pérdida de Texas
Nygel D. Robinson (al frente) y Brian Quijada (atrás) en Mexodus el electrizante musical en vivo que se presentará en el Berkeley Repertory Theatre desde ahora hasta el 20 de octubre de 2024. Photo Credit: Ben Krantz Studio
ante los Estados Unidos, Creo que todavía hay un poco de resentimiento, aunque muchos años después y la forma en que creo que ciertos políticos hablan de México. Creo que son esas cosas, esos temas de los que hablamos en 1850, muchos de esos temas de conversación todavía permanecen hoy.
¿El looping y el aspecto de improvisación siempre tuvieron la intención de ser parte de esto? ¿Cómo llegó a ser la forma de arte en la que se centraría en la exposición?
Así que he estado en vivo durante unos 15 años. Me encanta. Es mi favorito. Creo que es inherentemente teatral. Ves cómo se construye algo delante de tus ojos de una forma que si te pusieras unos audífonos y escucharas a alguien haciendo un bucle, no lo entenderías. Quieres ver a la persona que lo hace.
Entonces, lo que me atrajo de trabajar con Nygel fue que tocaba muchos instrumentos. Lo vi tocar un montón de instrumentos y pensé: "Oh, hombre, este tipo sería realmente bueno en una máquina de bucles en vivo". Así que me acerqué a él y le dije: "Oye, eres muy bueno en esto". Y entonces se dio cuenta muy, muy rápidamente.
Y la razón por la que creo que esta forma de arte funciona bastante bien en este formato es porque siento que hay muchos elementos temáticos del bucle que creo que son útiles. Hay muchos temas que permanecen, que no han cambiado desde 1850 hasta ahora. Y eso se refleja en la música. ¿Cómo rompemos el bucle? ¿Cómo no repetimos los errores del pasado? ¿O cómo cambiamos? ¿Cómo hacemos un buen cambio?
Y con esto quiero decir que es una locura que a menudo, de manera sistemática, las personas de color sean separadas, desplazadas. Y existen muchos paradigmas debido a la supremacía blanca que nos mantienen separados. Pero si nos uniéramos, sería algo mucho más hermoso y poderoso. Además, el hecho de que estos dos muchachos estén trabajando. Muchos de los temas del programa son Nygel D. Robinson interpreta a Henry, quien ha pasado todo su tiempo en una plantación cultivando algodón.
Y entonces, para verlo haciendo bucles y recogiendo instrumentos y activando bucles, y a mí, que interpreta a Carlos, que luchó en la guerra entre México y Estados Unidos, y ahora es aparcero en México, también estoy trabajando.
Nosotros hacemos todo esto, nosotros controlamos los sonidos. Cada sonido de la obra lo hacemos nosotros y lo controlamos. Entonces es súper reflectante. Todo lo que hay que decir es que el bucle se siente como parte de la narración. No es como un truco en el que simplemente decimos: "Oh, simplemente estamos haciendo un bucle porque es genial". Se siente muy arraigado en los elementos de la narración.
Dado que está involucrado en la escritura, composición y actuación, ¿cómo le ayuda Mexodus a ejercitar esos músculos artísticos en comparación con otros trabajos que ha realizado en el pasado?
Honestamente, la mayoría de las cosas que he estado haciendo han sido desde que comencé a escribir hace 10 años. Para mí
es como andar en bicicleta, es muy familiar. Diré que esta es la primera obra de Nygel. Y con eso, se siente como, al menos al principio, como si fuera un maestro-estudiante. Siempre me sentí igual, como una guía. "Oye, esta es la historia de México. Él va a cruzar el Río Grande. Va a aparecer en México, bla, bla, bla". Muchas cosas importantes. Y luego le dije a Nygel: "Está bien, genial, escribe esta canción sobre vivir en una plantación y el algodón". Y entonces él salía y escribía esa canción. Pero una vez terminada la obra, se dio cuenta muy rápidamente. Aprende muy rápido. Con el tiempo, lo construimos juntos en lugar de decir: "Haz esto, haz aquello, haz esto".
Así que todo lo que puedo decir es que he escrito obras de teatro y música para cosas en las que también he participado, y es realmente genial. De hecho, la mayoría de las cosas son sobre mi familia. Este es el primero que no es directamente sobre mi familia. Pero es genial hacerlo con otra persona. Creo que eso es lo que lo hace nuevo. Y él es fabuloso. Es un escritor increíble, y no puedo creer que sea su primera vez.
Una de las últimas cosas que quería preguntar era si podría tocar un poco la historia y ¿qué espera que la gente se lleve de Mexodus cuando salgan del teatro?
Creo que con una obra como ésta, quieres que la gente se vaya con compasión y empatía. Hablaré personalmente de que en la obra hablo de la negritud, incluso en las comunidades latinas, que es algo real. Y, sinceramente, no es algo de lo que hablemos a menudo en la comunidad latina. El colorismo existe en la latinidad.
Nygel me contó historias, por ejemplo una sobre cómo una mujer negra mayor se lea acercó y le dijo: "Antes de ver esta obra, yo estaba totalmente: 'Construye el muro' y 'nos quitarán el trabajo'".
Por eso, para mí, las conversaciones importantes son aquellas en las que parece que está ocurriendo algo bueno, es cuando nuestras comunidades pueden ver esto y decir: “Oh, ¿por qué tenemos tanto miedo del otro?”. Y entonces eso puede cambiar. Si pudieran ver a Nygel y a mí haciendo algo como esto, sería una locura. Es una locura hacer este enorme espectáculo en bucle, esta loca hazaña de investigación, y luego imaginar lo que podrían hacer en sus comunidades. Y para mí, eso es lo que me parece más emocionante.
Y el reconocimiento de que la lucha contra la negritud es algo real. Es estúpido y sistemático, se remonta mucho más atrás de lo que podrían imaginar. Pero de todos modos, todo lo que puedo decir es que esa es la parte que de una manera extraña me emociona porque digo: "Que se mencione, que se reconozca y que cambie".
Simplemente creo que a pesar de todo el trauma que hay en la historia, en realidad está llena de mucha alegría y nos lo pasamos muy bien haciéndolo. Y es como un concierto. Quiero decir, tocamos 15 instrumentos diferentes, hacemos la música en vivo, es un viaje salvaje. Creo que todos en esa sala, al final de esta obra, se sienten envalentonados, engalanados por ser buenos. Es un concierto realmente divertido.
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Q&A MEXODUS: HIP-HOP MIXES WITH HISTORY AS THE RARELY HEARD STORY OF THE MEXICAN UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IS TOLD IN NEW LIVE-LOOPING MUSICAL
We Talk With Creator Brian Quijada About His Journey Creating a Musical Amid the Pandemic, the Art of Collaborating and the Importance of Emphasizing Black and Brown Solidarity
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Duringthe first year of the COVID-19 pandemic Brian Quijada was going through the lows of being an artist with nowhere to perform. While people stayed in, theaters and venues stayed dormant and he paced around wondering what would come next for his artistic pursuits.
Then a fruitful opportunity came to him, the option to work on a show that had only been an idea within the notes app in his phone based on a history article he had read about the Mexican portion of the Underground Railroad, and how Mexican abolitionists helped enslaved people escape too.
Mexico outlawed slavery in 1829, and researchers have estimated that up to 10,000 people, and possibly more, escaped into Mexico on this little known Southern tail of the Underground Railroad.
In order to properly present this project about Black and Brown experiences, Quijada reached out to multi-instrumentalist/writer/actor Nygel D. Robinson. Although they had only met once but never worked together, Quijada saw Robinson as the perfect partner to bring to life what would become Mexodus
Mexodus is a live-looping musical that tells a fictionalized story based on the real history of the Southern portion of the Underground Railroad which led into Mexico. It revolves around two characters, Mexican sharecropper Carlos (Quijada) and the formerly enslaved Henry (Robinson) and how they both come to terms with their past experiences and what connections they share.
Live-looping is the practice of using digital or analog hardware to create music through layers of sounds using samples, live instruments or even the performers own voice. In Mexodus, Quijada and Robinson tell the story by creating the music in front of audiences, all while performing in the musical as well.
The show entertains, while also brings light to historic connections between Black and Brown communities, as well as inform on systematic racism, colorism in Latinidad, and looking towards a better future.
Find out just how the show came to be, and most importantly why Quijada would like audiences to take away a hopeful but knowledgeable message within the entertaining and inventive show.
Mexodus is hosting its West Coast premiere from now until October 20, 2024, at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Tickets are available at berkeleyrep.org
To start off I just wanted to ask what the initial spark of idea was that led to Mexodus?
I want to say, 2018, 2019, Somebody posted an article from history.com called “The Little-Known Underground Railroad That Ran South to Mexico”, And I clicked and I read it, and I was incredibly interested in this part of history that I'd never heard about.
And as I was reading the article, I was like, "Whoa, how have I never heard about this?" And then after I finish it, I'm like, "This makes absolute sense!"
A lot of my writing in general is typically about border politics. It's a lot about my parents. My parents crossed the border in the '70s. And so I remember reading that article and being like, "This is a border story." This is just a reverse border story in the way that we typically see border
stories like that. But I remember just saving it to my notes application on my phone, being like, "Man, I can't write this piece alone. It's going to take a lot of research. So I'm going to put it on the back burner for a second, but it would be a great play."
In 2020, I met Nygel D. Robinson and then I brought up the idea to him, and he was like, "Yeah, let's do it." And we met once before the pandemic shutdown, and then we decided to write it during the pandemic. So that's how it all started.
2020 was not the best year for the performing arts, how did that affect you and how did you get this project off the ground in those circumstances?
I mean, nothing was happening. Everybody had lost all their jobs in the theater. We couldn't do our jobs over Zoom. But when the shutdown happened, I got a call from Liz Carlson from New York Stage and Film. And she reached out saying, "Hey, listen, we have some money to support some artists. Do you have anything you want to work on?" And I said, "I just met this guy," and I brought up this idea for this play.
But what's the point? What are we doing it for? We're not going to get to perform it or anything. And then she said, "What if you write one song every month for a year, and then hopefully a year from now, you get to perform it live?"
And that's exactly what happened. So, we wrote one song every month for a year, and then the following year, we showed up to Poughkeepsie, New York, and we performed this concept album, this 12-track concept album of Mexodus live. And so, it was really great because it kept us working. It kept us, our mind, off of how unemployed we were. But it was amazing.
We had the time; we released the very first track a couple of days after George Floyd was murdered. So, we were writing in isolation, but we were also writing with the culture of political landscape of what was going on racially in the country. So, it was a really fertile time to be writing. By that, I mean, it felt easy. It felt like an easy stream of consciousness to be writing about race politics in America.
And could you make connections back from that turmoil in 2020 to the history that you're talking about in your project?
Oh, yeah, for sure. The history that happened in the 1850s with slavery, it's even more pre-
Every single sound in the play is made by us, and we're controlling it. So it's super reflective. All to say is that the looping feels very much a part of the storytelling. It isn't like some gimmick that we're just like, “Oh, we're just looping because it's cool.” It feels very ingrained into the storytelling elements.
Since you are involved in the playwriting, composing and acting, how does Mexodus flex those artistic muscles for you compared to other work that you've done in the past?
Honestly, most of the stuff that I've been doing has been wearing all the hats since I started writing 10 years ago. So to me, it feels like riding a bike, it's very familiar. I will say that this is Nygel's very first play. And with that, it feels like At least in the beginning, it felt like, very teacherstudents. It always felt equal, like a guide.
dominant. But even with the loss of the Mexican-American War and a taking of the land, a stealing of the land, losing Texas to the United States, I think there is a bit of resentment that still remains however many years later and the way that I think certain politicians talk about Mexico. I think it's those things, those topics that we talk about in 1850, a lot of those talking points still remain today.
Was the looping, the improvisational aspect always intended to be part of it? How did that come to be the artform you would focus on in the show?
So I've live-looped now for like 15 years. I love it. It's my favorite. I think it's inherently theatrical. You see something get built right in front of your eyes in a way that if you were just put on headphones and listen to somebody looping, you wouldn't get it. You want to see the person making it.
And so, what attracted me to working with Nygel was that he played a bunch of instruments. I saw him play a bunch of instruments, and I'm like, "Oh, man, this guy would be really, really good on a live loop machine." So I approached him and said, "Hey, you're really good at this." And so he caught onto it very, very quickly.
And the reason I think that the art form works pretty well in this format is because I feel like there's a lot of thematic elements of looping that I think are helpful. There’s a lot of themes that stay, that haven’t changed from 1850 to now. And that is reflective in the music. How do we break the loop? How do we not repeat past mistakes? Or how do we shift? How do we make a good change?
And by that, I mean, it's crazy that Black and Brown people often, systematically, are kept apart, shifted. And there's a lot of paradigms that exist because of white supremacy that keep us apart. But if we were to come together, it'd be a much more beautiful and powerful thing. Also, the fact that these two guys are working. A lot of the themes of the show is Nygel D. Robinson plays Henry, who has spent his entire time on a plantation cultivating cotton.
And so to see him looping and picking up instruments and triggering loops, and me who plays Carlos, who fought in the Mexican-American War, and now is a sharecropper in Mexico, I'm also working.
Us doing all of this, us controlling the sounds.
"Hey, this is the story of Mexico. He's going to cross the Rio Grande. He's going to show up in Mexico, blah, blah, blah." A lot of big picture stuff. And then telling Nygel, I'm like, "Okay, cool, here, write this song about living on a plantation and cotton." And so he would go off and he would write that song. But then once the play was completed, he caught on very quickly. He's a very fast learner. Eventually, we were building it together as opposed to me being like, "Do this, do that, do this."
So, all to say is that I've written plays and written music for stuff that I've also been in, and it It's really great. In fact, most of the stuff is about my family. This is the first one that isn't directly about my family. But it's cool to be doing it with somebody else. I think that's what makes it new. And he's fabulous. He's an incredible writer, and I can't believe it's his first time.
One of the last things I wanted to ask was if you could touch a little bit on the story and what you hope that people take from Mexodus when they get out of the theater?
I mean, I think with a play like this, you want people to leave with compassion and empathy. I'll speak personally, that in the play I bring up antiBlackness, even in Latino communities, which is a real thing. And honestly, not something that we often discuss within the Latino community. Colorism exists in Latinidad.
Nygel's told me stories, for example one about how he's had an older Black woman come up to him and be like, "Before I saw this play, I was to totally like, 'Build the wall', and 'they're taking our jobs.'"
And so to me, the important conversations are the ones that feel like good is happening, is when our communities can watch this and be like, "Oh, why are we so afraid of the other?" And then that can shift. If they could see Nygel and I making something like this, which is insane. It's an insane thing to do, this huge looping show, this crazy feat of research, then imagine what they could do in their communities. And so to me, that's what seems most exciting.
And the acknowledgement that anti-Blackness is a real thing. It's stupid and systematic, it goes so much farther back than they could even imagine. But anyway, all to say is that that's the part that in a weird way excites me because I'm like, “Let it be called out, let it be recognized, and let it change.”
I just think that for how much trauma there is in the story, it's actually filled with a bunch of joy, and we have a great time doing it. And it's like a concert. I mean, we play 15 different instruments, We make the music live, it's a wild ride. Everybody in that room, I think, at the end of this play, feels emboldened, emblazoned to be good. It's a really fun concert.
Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson in Mexodus the electrifying live-looping musical, performing at Berkeley Repertory Theatre now through October 20, 2024. Photo Credit: Ben Krantz Studio
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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: THE ZEN HOTEL PALO ALTO, 4164 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): El Rancho Development Company S2, 4164
El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 05/21/2021. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)
/s/ Rajen Shah El Rancho Development Company S2
President
Article/Reg#: 3656972
Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 09/16/2024. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Nina Khamphilath, Deputy File No. FBN 709457
September 20, 27 and October 4, 11, 2024
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 709458
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SANTA CLARA INN & SUITES, 2930 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95051, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a limited liability company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): QISC LLC., 2930 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95051. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 09/16/2024. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)
/s/ Rajen Shah QISC LLC
President
Article/Reg#: 201622810398
Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 09/16/2024. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Nina Khamphilath, Deputy File No. FBN 709458
September 20, 27 and October 4, 11, 2024
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 709119
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ROBLE PAVERS 434 Page St., Apt BX, San Jose, CA 95126, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Hector M Rosales, 434 Page St., Apt BX, San Jose, CA 95126. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/12/2010. This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts from previous filing] of previous file #: FBN587598. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)
/s/ Hector Rosales This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 09/03/2024. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Nina Khamphilath, Deputy File No. FBN 709119
September 20, 27 and October 4, 11, 2024
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 709043
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: CLEANING SERVICE MARINA 158 N Sunnyvale, Sunnyvale, CA 94086, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Elsa Marina Guerra, 158 N Sunnyvale, Sunnyvale, CA 9408. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 08/29/2024. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Elsa Guerra
This statement was filed with the Co. Clerk-
Recorder of Santa Clara County on 08/29/2024. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SALAS GARDENING, 910 Rockefellor Dr., Apt 10B, Sunnyvale, CA 94087, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Hermenegildo Cabanas Salas, 910 Rockefellor Dr., Apt 10B, Sunnyvale, CA 94087. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 08/30/2024. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)
/s/ Hermenegildo Cabanas Salas
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 08/30/2024. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Fraulein Dominguez, Deputy File No. FBN 709084
September 20, 27 and October 4, 11, 2024
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 708589
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: PARK INN SAN JOSE 2560 Fontaine Road, San Jose, CA 95121, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a limited liability company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): D San Jose, LLC, 8762 Preston Trace Blvd., Frisco, TX, 75033 The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 08/13/2024. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this
statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)
/s/ Jagmohan Dhillon D San Jose, LLC Manager
Article/Reg#: 202207810471
Above entity was formed in the state of CA
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 08/14/2024. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 708589
September 20, 27 and October 4, 11, 2024
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 709207
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: MILLTECH MACHINING INC., 2250 Paragon Dr., Suite C, San Jose, CA 95131, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Milltech Machining Inc., 2250 Paragon Dr., Suite C, San Jose, CA 95131. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 08/15/2019. This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts from previous filing] of previous file #: FBN657868. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)
/s/ Kevin K. Lee
Milltech Machining Inc. President Article/Reg#: 2953865
Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 09/06/2024. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Nina Khamphilath, Deputy File No. FBN 709207
September 20, 27 and October 4, 11, 2024
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
NO. 709569
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: KELSTAR INSURANCE AGENCY, 88 Tully Rd., Suite 100, San Jose, CA 95111, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): The Blue Agency, 3277 S White Rd., Ste 403, San Jose, CA 95148. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 09/10/2024. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)
/s/ Mai Vo
The Blue Agency President Article/Reg#: 3821644
Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 09/17/2024. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Fraulein Dominguez, Deputy File No. FBN 709569
September 20, 27 and October 4, 11, 2024
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 24CV447131
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Shrief Salama and Esraa Morsy INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Shrief Salama and Esraa Morsy has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Anas Shrief MAS Morsy to Anas Shrief MAS Salama 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled
to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 12/10/24 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. September 13, 2024
Le Jacqueline Duong Judge of the Superior Court
September 20, 27 and October 4, 11, 2024
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 24CV447051
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Vu Phuong Uyen Do INTERESTED PERSONS:
1. Petitioner(s) Vu Phuong Uyen Do has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Vu Phuong Uyen Do to Wren Do 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 12/03/24 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for
four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. September 12, 2024
Le Jacqueline Duong Judge of the Superior Court
September 20, 27 and October 4, 11, 2024
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
NO. 24CV446442
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of Vicente Martinez Gil, Noelia Rojero Alvarez INTERESTED PER-
SONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Vicente Martinez Gil, Noelia Rojero Alvarez has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Arilene Julissa Martinez Rojeo to Arilene Julissa Martinez Rojero 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARING:
Date: 11/26/24 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. September 04, 2024 Le Jacqueline Duong Judge of the Superior Court
September 20, 27 and October 4, 11, 2024
Notice of Petition to Administer Estate of Lewis H. Jones, IV Case No. 24PR198003
1.To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Lewis H. Jones, IV. 2. A Petition for Probate has been filed by Crystal Lee Wischmeyer in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara. 3.The Petition for Probate requests that Crystal Lee Wischmeyer be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. 5. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administer of Estate Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take any actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consent to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person Files and objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. 6. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows October 23, 2024, at 9:01am, Dept. 1, located at 191 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 7. If you object to the granting of this petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. 8. If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either: 1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or 2) 60 days from the date of mailing or
personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. 9. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
10. Petitioner/Attorney: Rex Alan Lowe, Esq. 630 S. El Camino Real, Suite A San Clemente, CA 92672-4200 (949) 498-3045
Run Date: September 20, 27 and October 4, 2024
Notice of Petition to Administer Estate of Richard Varas Valdez Case No. 24PR198006
1.To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Richard Varas Valdez. 2. A Petition for Probate has been filed by Clara V. Lopez in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara.
3.The Petition for Probate requests that Clara V. Lopez be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
5. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administer of Estate Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take any actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consent to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person Files and
objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. 6. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows October 23, 2024, at 9:01am, Dept. 1, located at 191 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 7. If you object to the granting of this petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. 8. If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either: 1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or 2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. 9. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
10. Petitioner/Attorney: 231 Shadow Dance Drive San Jose, CA 951103563 (408) 529-1476
Run Date: September 20, 27 and October 4, 2024
NOTICE OF DEATH OF Otis Nathaniel Burke
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of Otis
CLASSIFIEDS / LEGALS
Nathaniel Burke, who was a resident of Santa Clara County, State of California, and died on June 30, 2024, in the City of San Jose, County of Santa Clara, State of California.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the deceased, you must file your claim within four months from the date of first publication with the DERMER LAW FIRM, 5448 Thornwood Drive, Suite 200, San Jose, California 95123 (408) 395-5111
Joseph D. Dermer, Esq. DERMER LAW FIRM 5448 Thornwood Drive, Ste 200 San Jose, CA 95123 Tel (408) 395-5111
Fax (408) 354-2797
September 20, 27 and October 4, 11, 2024
SUMMONS (Family Law) (FL-110)
NOTICE TO RESPONDENT (Name): VICENTE MARCIAL AVISO AL DEMANDADO (Nombre):
You have been sued. Read the information below. Lo han demandado. Lea ia información en la pagina siguiente.
Petitioner’s name is: YESENIA TORRES
Nombre del demandante:
Case Number (Número de caso): 24FL000238
You have 30 calendar days after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter, phone call, or court appearance will not protect you.
If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs.
For legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. You can get information about finding lawyers at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courts.ca.gov/ selfhelp), at the California Legal Services Web Site (www.lawhelpca.org), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.
Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO después de haber recibido la entrega legal de esta Citación y Petición para presentar una Respuesta (formulario FL-120) ante la corte y efectuar la entrega legal de una copia al demandante. Una carta o llamada telefónica o una audiencia de la corte NO basta para protegerlo.
Si no presenta su Respuesta a tiempo, la corte puede dar órdenes que afecten su matrimonio o pareja de hecho, sus bienes y la custodia de sus hijos. La corte también puede ordenar que pague manutención, y honorarios y costos legales.
Para asesoramiento legal, pónganse en contacto de inmediato con un abogado. Puede obtener información para encontrar a un abogado en el Centro de ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte. ca.gov), en el sitio Web de los Servicios Legales de California (www. lawhelpca.org) o poniéndose en contacto con el colegio de abogados de su condado.
NOTICE; The restraining orders are effective against both spouses or domestic partners until the petition is dismissed, a judgment is entered, or the court makes further orders. They are enforceable anywhere in California by any law enforcement officer who has received or seen a copy of them.
AVISO; Las órdenes de restricción están en vigencia en cuanto a ambos cónyuges miembros de la pareja de hecho hasta que se despida la petición, se emita un fallo o la corte de otras ordenes. Cualquier agencia del orden publico que haya recibido o visto una copia de estas
ordenes puede hacerlas acatar en cualquier lugar de California.
FEE WAIVER: If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. The court may order you to pay back all or part of the fees and cost that the court waived for you and the other party.
Exención De Cuotas: Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario un formulario de exención de cuotas. La corte puede ordenar que usted pague, ya sea en parte o por completo, las cuotas y costos de la corte previamente exentos a petición de usted o de la otra parte.
1. The name and address of the court is (el nombre y dirección de la corte son):
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara Family Justice Center Courthouse Street Address: 201 N. FIRST STEET San Jose, CA 95113 Mailing Address: 191 N. First Street San Jose, CA 95113
2. The name, address, and telephone number of petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: (El nombre, dirección, y número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante si no tiene abogado, son):
YESENIA TORRES 1370 Terilyn Avenue San Jose, CA 95122
Date (Fecha): 1/24/24
Clerk, by (Secretario, por) /s/ E. SALCEDO, Deputy (Asistente):
STANDARD FAMILY LAW RESTRAINING ORDERS
Starting immediately, you and your spouse or domestic partner are restrained from
1. Removing the minor child or children of the parties from the state or applying for a new or replacement passport for those minor children without the prior written consent of the other party or an order of the
court;
2. Cashing, borrowing against, canceling, transferring, disposing of, or changing the beneficiaries of any insurance or other coverage, including life, health, automobile and disability, held for the benefit of the parties and their minor child or children:
3. Transferring, encumbering, hypothecating, concealing, or in any way disposing of any property, real or personal, whether community, quasi-community, or separate, without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court, except in the usual course of business or for the necessities of life; and
4. Creating a nonprobate transfer or modifying a nonprobate transfer in a manner that affects the disposition of property subject to the transfer, without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court. Before revocation of a nonprobate transfer can take effect or a right of survivorship to property can be eliminated, notice of the change must be filed and served on the other party.
You must notify each other of any proposed extraordinary expenditures at least five business days prior to incurring these extraordinary expenditures and account to the court for all extraordinary expenditures made after these restraining orders are effective. However, you may use community property, quasi-community property, or you own separate property to pay an attorney to help you or to pay court costs.
NOTICE - ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE HEALTH INSURANCE:
Do you or someone in your household need affordable health insurance? If so, you should apply for Covered California. Covered California can help reduce the cost you pay towards high quality affordable health care. For more information, visit www. coveredca.com Or call Covered California at
1-800-300-1506.
WARNING – IMPORTANT INFORMATION
California law provides that, for purposes of division of property upon dissolution of a marriage or domestic partnership or upon legal separation, property acquired by the parties during marriage or domestic partnership in joint form is presumed to be community property. If either party to this action should die before the jointly held community property is divide, the language in the deed that characterizes how title is held (i.e. joint tenancy, tenants in common, or community property) will be controlling, and not the community property presumption. You should consult your attorney if you want the community property presumption to be written into the recorded title to the property.
ORDENES DE RESTRICCION NORMALES DE DERECHO FAMILIAR
En forma inmediata, usted y su cónyuge o pareja de hecho tienen prohibido:
1. Llevarse del estado de California a los hijos menores de las partes, o solicitar un pasaporte nuevo o de repuesto para los hijos menores, sin el consentimiento previo por escrito de la otra parte o sin una orden de la corte;
2. Cobrar, pedir prestado, cancelar, transferir, deshacerse o cambiar el nombre de los beneficiarios de cualquier seguro u otro tipo de cobertura, como de vida, salud, vehículo y discapacidad, que tenga como beneficiario(s) a las partes y su(s) hijo(s) menor(es);
3. Transferir, gravar, hipotecar, ocultar o deshacerse de cualquier manera de cualquier propiedad, inmueble o personal, ya sea comunitaria, cuasicomunitaria o separa-
da, sin el consentimiento escrito de la otra parte o una orden de la corte, excepto en el curso habitual de actividades personal o para satisfacer las necesidades de la vida; y
4. Crear o modificar una transferencia no testamentaria de manera que afecte la asignación de una propiedad sujeta a transferencia, sin el consentimiento por escrito de la otra parte o una orden de la corte. Antes de que se pueda eliminar la revocación de una transferencia no testamentaria, se debe presentar ante la corte un aviso del cambio y hacer una entrega legal de dicho aviso a la otra parte.
Cada parte tiene que notificar a la otra sobre cualquier gasto extraordinario propuesto, por lo menos cinco días laborales antes de realizarlo, y rendir cuenta a la corte de todos los gastos extraordinarios realizados después de que estas órdenes de restricción hayan entrado en vigencia. No obstante, puede usar propiedad comunitaria, cuasicomunitaria o suya separada para pagar a un abogado o para ayudarle a pagar los costos de la corte.
AVISO-ACCESO A SEGURO DE SALUD
MÁS ECONÓMICO:
¿Necesita seguro de salud a un costo asequible, ya sea para usted o alguien en su hogar? Si es as¡, puede presentar una solicitud con Covered California. Covered California lo puede ayudar a reducir el costo que paga por seguro de salud asequible y de alta calidad. Para obtener mas información, visite www.coveredca.com.
O llame a Covered California al 1-800-3000213.
ADVERTENCIA – INFORMACION
IMPORTANTE
De acuerdo a la ley de California, las propiedades adquiridas por las partes durante su matrimonio o pareja de hecho en forma conjunta se consideran propiedad comunitaria para los fines de la división de
bienes que ocurre cuando se produce una disolución o separación legal del matrimonio o pareja de hecho. Si cualquiera de las partes de este caso llega a fallecer antes de que se divida la propiedad comunitaria de tenencia conjunta, el destino de la misma quedará determinado por las cláusulas de la escritura correspondiente que describen su tenencia (por ej. tenencia conjunta, tenencia en común o propiedad comunitaria) y no por la presunción de propiedad comunitaria. Si quiere que la presunción comunitaria que registrada en la escritura de la propiedad, debería consultar con un abogado.
Run Date: September 20, 27, October 4 and 11, 2024
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT NO. 709124
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SONG E NAPULE’, 525 Cashmere Terrace, Sunnyvale, CA 94087, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a limited liability company. The names and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Napoli Foods LLC, 525 Cashmere Terrace, Sunnyvale, CA 94087. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/28/2024. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Yael Smadja Napoli Foods LLC Owner
Article/Reg#: 202460716598
Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 9/03/2024. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Patty Camarena, Deputy File No. FBN 709124
Run Dates: September 13, 20, 27 and October 4, 2024
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 709222
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: BAYVIEW SIGNINGS, 1659 Branham Lane Ste. F #216, San Jose, CA 95118, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a limited liability company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Bishnoi LLC, 4340 Kirk Road, San Jose, CA 95124. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 09/06/24. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)
/s/ Neha Bishnoi Bishnoi LLC
Owner
Article/Reg#: 202252810824
Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 09/06/2024. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Fraulein Dominguez, Deputy File No. FBN 709222
Run Dates: September 13, 20, 27 and October 4, 2024
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 708547
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Medical Mobile Services, 817 Hellyser Ave., San Jose, CA 95111, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence registrant(s) is (are): Annttunette Bush, 817 Hellyser Ave., San Jose, CA 95111. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This filing is a first filing “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is
guilty of a crime.)
Annttunette Bush
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 08/12/ 2024.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Fraulein
Dominguez, Deputy
File No. FBN 708574
Run Dates: September 13, 20, 27 and October 4, 2024
FICTITIOUS
BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 709159
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: LS AUTO KEY
MASTER, 4950 Cherry Ave., Apt 170, San Jose, CA 95118, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are):
Martha Liliana Sandoval Quimbaya, 4950 Cherry Ave., Apt 170, San Jose, CA 95118. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 09/04/2024. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)
/s/ Martha Liliana Sandoval This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 09/04/2024. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
Run Dates: September 13, 20, 27 and October 4, 2024
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 709219
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: REVIVE THERAPY & AESTHETICS, 275 Tennant Ave., Ste 100, Morgan Hill, CA 95037, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Jay Pennock, Medical Director, PC, 1840 41st Ave., Suite
102-325, Capitola, CA 95010. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 09/06/2024. This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts from previous filing] of previous file #: FBN697767. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Nancy Moua Jay Peenock, Medical Director, PC Manager
Article/Reg#: 5768946
Above entity was formed in the state of CA
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 09/06/2024. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Fraulein Dominguez, Deputy File No. FBN 709219
Run Dates: September 13, 20, 27 and October 4, 2024
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 709119
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ROBLE PAVERS, 434 Page St., Apt BX, San Jose, CA 95126, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Hector M Rosales, 434 Page St., Apt BX, San Jose, CA 95126. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/12/2010. This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts from previous filing] of previous file #: FBN587598. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)
/s/ Hector Rosales
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 09/03/2024. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Nina Khamphilath, Deputy File No. FBN 709119
Run Dates: September 13, 20, 27 and October 4, 2024
FICTITIOUS
BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 709047
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: LOS CARNALES, 326 Commercial Street, San Jose, CA 95122, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Pedro Sanchez Alvarez, 2251 Emory Court, Los Bano, CA 93635. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 11/21/2021. This is a refile for change in facts from previous filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)
/s/ Pedro Sanchez Alvarez
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 08/29/2024. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
Run Dates: September 13, 20, 27 and October 4, 2024
NOTICE OF DEATH OF Zenaida Cruz Estaban
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of Zenaida Cruz Esteban, who was a resident of Santa Clara County, State of California, and died on August 9, 2024, in the City of San Jose, County of Santa Clara, State of California. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the deceased, you must file your claim within four months from the date of first publication with the DERMER LAW FIRM, 5448 Thornwood Drive, Suite 200, San Jose, California 95123 (408) 395-5111
Joseph D. Dermer, Esq.
DERMER LAW FIRM
5448 Thornwood Drive, Ste 200 San Jose, CA 95123
Tel (408) 395-5111
Fax (408) 354-2797
Run Dates: September 13, 20, 27 and October 4, 2024
STATEMENT OF DAMAGES
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNA COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA Case No. 23CV415323
RICK LE, Plaintiff v.
TIMOTHY LE, Defendant
To: Defendant, Timothy LE
Plaintiff: Rick LE seeks damages in the aboveentitled action, as follows:
GENERAL DAMAGES
Emotional Distress
$ 100,000.00
SPECIAL DAMAGES
Attorney Fees
$ 30,000.00
CIVIL PENALTY (Identity Theft) $ 30,000.00
Plaintiff reserves the right to seek punitive damages in the amount of $100,000.00 when pursuing a judgment in the suit filed against you.
Date: April 5, 2024
/s/ Duong Si Tran Attorney for Plaintiff RICK LE
Run Dates: September 13, 20, 27 and October 4, 2024
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 709139
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: JJ GREAT QUALITY PAINTING 1255 Plum Street, Apt #2, San Jose, CA 95110, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The names and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Juan Jose Rodriguez Marroquin, 1255 Plum Street, Apt #2, San Jose, CA 95110. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant
who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)
/s/ Juan Jose Rodriguez Marroquin
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 9/04/2024. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 709139
September 6, 13, 20, 27, 2024
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 709038
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: M C Construction & Remodeling Inc, 3560 Haig St., Apt 2, Santa Clara, CA 95054, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): M C Construction & Remodeling Inc., 3560 Haig St., Apt 2, Santa Clara, CA 95054. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 8/26/24.
This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Genero Morales M C Construction & Remodeling Inc. President Article/Reg#: 5580379
Above entity was formed in the state of CA
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 8/29/2024. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Patty Camarena, Deputy File No. FBN 709038
September 6, 13, 20, 27, 2024
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 708360
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: VOSTOK GYRO AND SHAWARMA HALAL 199 Acalanes Dr., Sunnyvale, CA 94086, Santa Clara County.
This business is owned by a limited liability company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Kazan Foodservice Group LLC, 199 Acalanes Dr., Unit 14, Sunnyvale, CA 94086. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)
/s/ Asel Madharbekova Kazan Foodservice Group LLC Owner Article/Reg#: 202462216156
Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 8/05/2024. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Fraulein Dominguez, Deputy File No. FBN 708360
September 6, 13, 20, 27, 2024
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 708959
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: JJ EXPRESS 2328 Karen Dr., Santa Clara, CA. 95050, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence registrant(s) is (are): Juan Jose Samame, 2328 Karen Dr., Apt 03, Santa Clara, CA. 95050. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 8/27/24. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)
/s/ Juan Jose Samame This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 8/27/ 2024. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Patty Camarena, Deputy File No. FBN 708959
September 6, 13, 20, 27, 2024
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 708900
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: LAND PALMS LANDSCAPING , 944 Prevost St., San Jose, CA 95125, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence registrant(s) is (are): Eden Alonso De La Sierra, 944 Prevost St., San Jose, CA 95125. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts from previous filing] of previous file #: FBN703081. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)
Eden Alonso De La Sierra This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 8/26/ 2024. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 708900
September 6, 13, 20, 27, 2024
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 708826
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ASIAN FUSION GROCERY STORE, 163 E Fremont Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94087, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a limited liability company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Shree Royal Ventures LLC, 163 E Fremont Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94087. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or
she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)
/s/ Amod Katwal Shree Royal Ventures LLC
CEO Article/Reg#: BA202415215
Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 8/23/2024. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Nina Khamphilath, Deputy File No. FBN 708826
September 6, 13, 20, 27, 2024
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 709064
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: AGAVE PAINTING, 991 Wren Dr., Apt 1, San Jose, CA 95125, Santa Clara County This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Gabriela Iniguez, 991 Wren Dr., Apt 1, San Jose, CA 95125. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 8/26/2024. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)
/s/ Gabriela Iniguez
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 8/29/2024. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Nina Khamphilath, Deputy File No. FBN 709064
September 6, 13, 20, 27, 2024
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 708561
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: CRG CONCRETE & DEMOLITION, 10501 Singleton Rd., San Jose, CA 95111, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Christian Raul Gonzalez,
CLASSIFIEDS / LEGALS
10501 Singleton Rd., San Jose, CA 95111. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 8/12/2024. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)
/s/ Christian R Gonzalez This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 8/13/2024. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 24CV446208
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Jose Engelberto Serrano INTERESTED
PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Jose Engelberto Serrano has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Jose Engelberto Serrano to Jose Sanchez Serrano 2. THE COURT
ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 11/26/24 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at
least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
August 22, 2024
Le Jacqueline Duong Judge of the Superior Court
September 6, 13, 20, 27, 2024
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 24CV436376 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Giang Huynh Tuyet Le (Gianna Huynh Le) TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s)
Giang Huynh Tuyet Le (Gianna Huynh Le) has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Giang Huynh Tuyet Le, Le, Huynh Tuyet Giang to Gianna Huynh Le 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 10/08/2024 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. April 25, 2024
Le Jacqueline Duong Judge of the Superior Court
September 6, 13, 20, 27, 2024
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 24CV446486
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Quoc Dinh Tran and Thuy My Tam Nguyen TO ALL INTERESTED
PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s)
Quoc Dinh Tran and Thuy My Tam Nguyen filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.
Bao Tran Tran to Angela Tran. b. Quoc Huy Tran to Steven Tran 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date 11/26/2024 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. September 4, 2024 Le Jacqueline Duong Judge of the Superior Court
September 6, 13, 20, 27, 2024
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 24CV446553 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application
of: Lacquise De’ Zah Henderson TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.
Petitioner(s) Lacquise De’ Zah Henderson filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Lacquise De’ Zah Henderson to Liviana Lacquise Dezah Henderson 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date 12/03/2024 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. September 5, 2024
Le Jacqueline Duong Judge of the Superior Court
September 6, 13, 20, 27, 2024
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 24CV446262
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Jonathan Manuel Chavez TO ALL INTERESTED
PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Jonathan Manuel Chavez filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Jonathan Manuel Chavez to Jonathan
Ivan Covarrubias
Arroyo 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date 11/26/2024 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. August 30, 2024 Le Jacqueline Duong Judge of the Superior Court
September 6, 13, 20, 27, 2024
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 24CV445652
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Kiet Van Nguyen TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Kiet Van Nguyen filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Kiet Van Nguyen to Matthew Sokol 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least
two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date 11/19/2024 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. August 22, 2024
Le Jacqueline Duong Judge of the Superior Court
September 6, 13, 20, 27, 2024
AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 24CV435976
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Dung Kim Pham TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Dung Kim Pham filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Dung Kim Pham to Eliana Nguyen 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date 10/15/2024 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San
Jose, CA 95113. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. September 4, 2024 Le Jacqueline Duong Judge of the Superior Court
September 6, 13, 20, 27, 2024
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 24CV446560
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: CHARLES PHAM TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) CHARLES PHAM filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. CHARLES PHAM to THANH VAN PHAM. 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date 12/3/2024 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. September 5, 2024 Le Jacqueline Duong Judge of the Superior Court
September 6, 13, 20, 27, 2024
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 708900
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: LAND PALMS LANDSCAPING, 944 Prevost Street, San Jose, CA 05125, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): EDON ALONSO DE LA SIERRA, 944 PREVOST STREET, SA JOSE, CA 95125. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 8/26/24. This filing is a refile of previous file #FBN703081. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ EDEN ALONSO DE LA SIERRA
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 8/26/2024. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 708900
August 30 and September 6, 13, 20, 2024
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 708811
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: LAS DELICIAS DE MATEO, 411 Lewis Rd., Space #328 San Jose, CA 95111, Santa Clara County. The principal place of business is in Santa Clara County and a current fictitious business name statement is on file at the county clerkrecorder’s office of said county. This business is owned by a general partnership. The names and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Victoria M. Quintanilla, 411 Lewis Rd., Space #328 San Jose, CA 95111, Bryan Rivera, 411 Lewis Rd., Space #328 San Jose, CA 95111. The registrant
began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 8/22/2024. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)
/s/ Victoria Margarita Quintanilla
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 8/22/2024. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: DE TODITO FOOD, 3455 Homestead Rd., APT 34, Santa Clara, CA 95051, Santa Clara County. The principal place of business is in Santa Clara County and a current fictitious business name statement is on file at the county clerkrecorder’s office of said county. This business is owned by a general partnership. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Wendy Paola Arevalo Valbuena, 3455 Homestead Rd., APT 34, Santa Clara, CA 95051, Antonio Rodriguez, 3955 Rhodra, San Jose, CA 95117. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)
/s/ Wendy Paola
Arevalo Valbuena
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 8/26/2024. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Nina Khamphilath, Deputy File No. FBN 708926
August 30 and September 6, 13, 20, 2024
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 708285
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: CP PROPERTIES
1101 S. Winchester Blvd., Suite h-189, San Jose, CA 95128, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Erskine Sankey, 3190 Rubino Drive #204, San Jose, CA 95125. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 8/01/24. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)
/s/ Erskine Sankey
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 8/2/2024. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Fraulein Dominguez, Deputy File No. FBN 708285
August 30 and September 6, 13, 20, 2024
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 708953
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: TONY IT CONSULTING, 1042 Bellhurst Ave., San Jose, CA 95122, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence registrant(s) is (are): Tony T Nguyen, 1042 Bellhurst Ave., San Jose, CA 95122. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 8/22/2024.
This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)
/s/ Tony T Nguyen
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 8/27/ 2024. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Fraulein
Dominguez, Deputy File No. FBN 708953
August 30 and September 6, 13, 20, 2024
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 708333
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: BUDS IN THE MUD FLOWER FARM 15412 Woodard Road, San Jose, CA 95124, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence registrant(s) is (are): Jenelle Suzanne McClane, 15412 Woodard Road, San Jose, CA 95124. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)
By /s/ F
Jenelle Suzanne McClane
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 8/05/ 2024. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 708333
August 30 and September 6, 13, 20, 2024
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
NO. 24CV445905
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Xiaomin Xu INTERESTED
PERSONS: 1.
Petitioner(s) Xiaomin Xu filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Xiaomin Xu to Ruochen Xu 2. THE
COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 11/19/2024 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. August 27, 2024
Le Jacqueline Duong Judge of the Superior Court
August 30 and September 6, 13, 20, 2024
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 24CV445482
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Brian Chen and Sonya Pita TO ALL INTERESTED
PERSONS: 1.
Petitioner(s) Brian Chen and Sonya Pita filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Brian Chen to Brian Guster b. Sonya Pita to Sonya Guster 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must
file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 11/12/2024 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. August 20, 2024 Le Jacqueline Duong Judge of the Superior Court
August 30 and September 6, 13, 20, 2024
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 24CV445318
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Jonathan Cruz and Stephanie Cruz TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Jonathan Cruz and Stephanie Cruz filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Noah Sebastian Cruz Alvarenga to Noah Sebastian Cruz 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written
objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 11/12/2024 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
August 16, 2024 Le Jacqueline Duong Judge of the Superior Court
August 30 and September 6, 13, 20, 2024
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 24CV446124
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Thinh Xuan Le and Thi Linh Nguyen TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Thinh Xuan Le and Thi Linh Nguyen filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Tan Chau Le to David Le 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 11/26/2024 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks
prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
August 28, 2024 Le Jacqueline Duong Judge of the Superior Court
August 30 and September 6, 13, 20, 2024
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 24CV445633
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Sadie Ariana Rojas Lira TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.
Petitioner(s) Sadie Ariana Rojas Lira filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Sadie Ariana Rojas Lira to Ceiri Ariana Rojas Lira 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 11/19/2024 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. August 22, 2024
Le Jacqueline Duong Judge of the Superior Court
August 30 and
September 6, 13, 20, 2024
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
NO. 24CV444845
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of:
Grettell Perez Cortes TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Grettell Perez Cortes filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Grettell Perez Cortes to Grettell Cortes 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 11/05/2024 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. August 08, 2024 Le Jacqueline Duong Judge of the Superior Court
August 30 and September 6, 13, 20, 2024
LTRES ALIADOS DE LA BUENA SALUD Y LA JUVENTUD
Mario Jiménez Castillo
El Observador
CLASSIFIED JOB FAIR
Sábado, 5 de octubre
os vegetales juegan un papel de primer orden en la dieta diaria, por su alto contenido de vitaminas, nutrientes y minerales esenciales, para el mantenimiento de un peso adecuado y la buena salud en general. Los vegetales, legumbres o verduras como solemos llamarlos, son la fontana de la vitalidad; ayudan en la regeneración de células y tejidos, nutren la piel y retrasan el proceso de envejecimiento. Logrando de esa manera la extensión de la tan valiosa juventud. Además son poseedores de secretos astrales, los cuales procuran la buena fortuna.
Apio
Apium graveolens
En tiempos de la antigua Roma, el apio fue utilizado principalmente como afrodisíaco, tanto por varones ansiosos como por féminas sensuales, que deseaban entregarse y gozar de las delicias del amor. Por siglos se mantuvo la creencia que el apio, constituía parte esencial de la dieta alimenticia de los dioses del Olimpo, especialmente del guerrero Ares y el mensajero Hermes.
La infusión de apio es recetada para aliviar los dolores reumáticos, y asistir en la curación de la cistitis y uretritis. La tintura se ha venido empleando para calmar la tensión, los estados depresivo, y el insomnio. Se incluye el apio en la dieta diaria para aumentar las defensas del organismo, y prevenir futuros padecimientos del hígado. Se dice que quien le consume frecuentemente, goza de un cutis más atractivo y juvenil.
Propiedades medicinales: contiene vitaminas A, C y E, además hierro, sodio, cloro y magnesio.
Propiedades místicas: Los chamanes antiguos antes de llevar a cabo una limpia espiritual, masticaban hojas de apio, para protegerse de no captar en su ser, la mala influencia que despojarían de sus clientes.
Berenjena
Solanum melongena
Las primeras berenjenas que se conocieron en la antigüedad, fueron cultivadas en el norte del Celeste Imperio, ya para el año 200 antes de Cristo, se había extendido su cultivo por todo el continente asiático, y los territorios que comprendía el imperio romano. Magos y videntes de todos los tiempos han asociado a la berenjena, con pócimas y rituales para atraer suerte y abundancia, y también para mejorar la apariencia física.
La berenjena se ha venido recetando naturalmente, como remedio contra la anemia y la mayoría de los padecimientos sanguíneos. Al comerla con frecuencia ya sea en sopas, cocidos o platillos vegetarianos, reduce los riesgos de contraer la diabetes. También se recomienda para aminorar la tensión nerviosa, y desvanecer la ira compulsiva.
Propiedades medicinales: contiene vitamina B y C, cloro y potasio.
Para verse libre de un cruzamiento o maleficio enviado en su contra, coloque dos berenjenas frescas partidas en cruz, debajo de su cama durante nueve días y de esa manera, logrará que la mala energía sea devuelta a su lugar de origen.
Lechuga
Lactuca sativa
En tiempos de la antigua Babilonia, la lechuga era ofrendada a Marduk el rey de los dioses, con el propósito de alcanzar de él favores divinos, se creía que Marduk dormía en un lecho gigante, fabricado exclusivamente con lechugas frescas. En Egipto podía ser degustada únicamente por el faraón y su corte. Actualmente este vegetal, es uno de los colaboradores más cercanos del rejuvenecimiento.
La lechuga es uno de los vegetales más solicitados en ensaladas y platillos vegetarianos, gracias a su alto contenido de vitaminas, es saludable para el mantenimiento de la buena salud de la piel y juventud del rostro, mantiene bajos los niveles del colesterol, ayuda a eliminar las toxinas y la grasa excesiva del organismo. Se le considera como un exquisito aperitivo.
Propiedades medicinales: rica en vitaminas A, B y C, hierro, sodio, potasio y calcio.
El enjuague tibio con una infusión fresca de hojas de lechuga, es recomendado para eliminar el estrés y la ansiedad provocada por altibajos emocionales, además funciona como ritual de suerte, para los que andan en busca de una mejor oportunidad laboral.
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EPA MAKES LARGEST-EVER INVESTMENT
IN CLIMATE-BURDENED COMMUNITIES
The federal government is making its largest-ever investment in clean energy, with historic amounts for communities most burdened by pollution and costs.
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Thefederal government is making its largestever investment in clean energy, with historic amounts for communities most burdened by pollution and costs.
These communities are getting well over 40% of the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF), an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) initiative to finance greenhouse gas- and air pollution-reducing projects nationwide. These projects include solar panels, energy efficiency, electrical appliances and zero-emission vehicles.
About the fund
The fund was established under Biden in 2022 by the Inflation Reduction Act, authorizing a broader $783 billion for domestic energy and climate change spending — the largest in U.S. history.
The GGRF is being implemented through three seven-year grant programs: the $14 billion National Clean Investment Fund, a lending program; the $7 billion Solar for All program for residential solar installation; and the $6 billion Clean Communities Investment Accelerator program granting capital for hundreds of community lenders, like credit unions, nationwide.
68 grantees were rewarded all $27 billion last month, “and are already putting the money to work,” said David Widawsky, director of the EPA Office of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, at a Friday, September 13 Ethnic Media Services briefing about the fund.
“The purpose is not only to reduce energy burden, which can be three times and as much as 10 times higher as a proportion of income in low-income and disadvantaged communities compared to the rest of the country,” he continued. “It improves health, reduces pollutants, and allows sustainable wealth creation for the communities that will host these projects.”
A household experiences energy burden when at least 6% of its income meets its energy needs; this is closely linked to energy insecurity, which one in three Americans experience.
“Energy insecurity means making the difficult choice every single month about whether to heat or cool your home or eat,” explained Shalanda Baker, University of Michigan’s first vice provost for sustainability and climate action. “It manifests when people do dangerous things to heat their homes in the winter or keep their homes at unsafe temperatures during the summer. It can lead to things like household fires, even to death.”
“Low income households, especially those of color, are more likely to be in the shadows of this because of health impacts from living near fossil fuel generation, and because the way we structure energy rates in this country is regressive,” she continued. “The lower your income, the more you pay to meet a standard energy cost in your utility district.”
Over 52% of Black and about 47% of Latino U.S. households are energy insecure.
For some Native American tribes, as much as 35% (Hopi) and 21% (Navajo) of households lack electricity access altogether.
“So far, clean energy transition has been rolled out inequitably in this country,” said Baker. “If you’re a White American in a majority-White census tract, you’re more likely to have access to solar than a Black American at the same income level and homeownership status.”
“This fund is a historic opportunity for people to own their energy assets, to create new jobs through new capital — but we need to make sure communities and businesses are informed,” she added.
One community’s story
“This program is a blessing,” said Evie Bauman, community implementation director of electrification nonprofit and GGRF grantee Rewiring America.
“To raise awareness about the impact it can make, last October, we launched a demonstration projects in communities that are underserved or overlooked
by climate action,” she explained. “We provided at least one electrification upgrade at no cost to households most likely to see energy bill savings from it, and we partnered with manufacturers to get donated appliances to reach more homes.”
Buildings are responsible for 40% of total U.S. energy use, while residential energy use accounts for 20% of greenhouse gas emissions.
Rewiring America is part of a nonprofit coalition, Power Forward Communities, which received $2 billion for financing electrification over seven years through the National Clean Investment Fund.
In the small town of De Soto, Georgia, with a population of 122 as of 2022, Rewiring America brought an electric appliance upgrade to about 75 households, partnering with local utility company Georgia Power to bring efficiency initiatives like tax credits and rebates as well.
“When we started with a town hall meeting answering residents’ questions, many of them thought it was a scam. They found it too hard to believe someone was being this generous,” said Rosemery Jones, De Soto resident and Rewiring America project manager.
“One resident who participated had no home AC. He struggled to fill out paperwork and couldn’t come to City Hall to sign up because of transportation issues, so I made a home visit. He received a heat pump unit to cool his house,” she continued.
“Another homeowner, a widow unable to replace her broken water heater — she had been boiling water for two months — also got a new heat pump installed that winter.”
“I got a call very late one night from an elderly woman battling cancer in a double-wide trailer with five rooms cooled only by two window units, after she received a heat pump. She said, ‘I’m freezing,’ because she didn’t know how to operate her thermostat,” Jones said.
“So we had contractors, HVAC technicians and our own staff teach residents how to operate their upgrades,” she continued. “Vitalizing De Soto now makes me think of the Roosevelt quote: ‘People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.’”
‘This is not a short-term story’
“This is the biggest-ever allocation of funding towards green energy, and we’re not stopping,” said Chrystel Cornelius, president and CEO of the Oweesta Corporation, the longest-standing Native Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI) and a $156 million GGRF Solar for All recipient. .
“If we can layer these projects with long-term business development, this funding is literally going to change the economic and energy landscape of our communities — especially our rural and minority-focused communities,” continued Cornelius, a Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation member.
CDFIs, of which there are over 1,200 throughout all
U.S. states, are created by the Treaury Department to provide federal and private capital to communities that don’t have easy access to mainstream market capital.
Across largely rural areas nationwide, Oweesta serves 574 federally recognized tribes, 60 state recognized tribes, 30 unrecognized tribes and indigenous individuals in Alaska and Hawaii.
With the GGRF grant, it aims to install solar energy
in 20,000 residential households throughout these nations, and kickstart six community solar projects in collaboration with tribal members.
“We’re one step further to saving our planet,” said Cornelius. “We only have one, and they’re not making any more.”
“As we face the climate crisis, how do we put the most impacted communities first in line to receive the benefits?” said Jessie Buendia, chief impact officer for the Coalition for Green Capital, which received $5 billion through the GGRF to support green banks, which are institutions and nonprofits that use public and private capital for clean energy projects.
“This can’t be solved with only public-sector investments,” she explained. “Many in these sectors are used to working with hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars. Climate change is a trillion dollar problem, and our federal government is now making a down payment of billions to help communities transition into clean power systems well beyond the grant term.”
“Our goal is to provide self-sustaining lending through a national network of green banks. The loans we provide will recycle, so we can offer more,” Buendia continued. “We want to ensure the utilities that communities plug into have renewable energy portfolios that can further fund clean energy, that can disincentivize fossil fuels and their health impacts.”
“We’re not serving not the easiest customers — who often have the most money, infrastructure and voice — but those who’ve been impacted the most,” she added. “This is not a short-term story, it’s a long term story.”
LA EPA REALIZA LA MAYOR INVERSIÓN JAMÁS REALIZADA EN COMUNIDADES AFECTADAS POR EL CLIMA
El gobierno federal está realizando la mayor inversión de su historia en energía limpia, con cantidades históricas para las comunidades más afectadas por la contaminación y los costos.
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Egobierno federal está realizando la mayor inversión de su historia en energía limpia, con cantidades históricas para las comunidades más afectadas por la contaminación y los costos.
Estas comunidades están recibiendo más del 40% del Fondo de Reducción de Gases de Efecto Invernadero (GGRF, por sus siglas en inglés), de $27 mil millones, una iniciativa de la Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA, por sus siglas en inglés) para financiar proyectos de reducción de gases de efecto invernadero y de la contaminación del aire en todo el país. Estos proyectos incluyen paneles solares, eficiencia energética, electrodomésticos y vehículos de cero emisiones.
Sobre el fondo
El fondo fue establecido durante el gobierno de Biden en 2022 mediante la Ley de Reducción de la Inflación, que autoriza un gasto más amplio de 783 mil millones de dólares para gasto interno en energía y cambio climático, el mayor en la historia de Estados Unidos.
El GGRF se está implementando a través de tres programas de subvenciones de siete años: el Fondo Nacional de Inversión Limpia de $14 mil millones, un programa de préstamos; el programa Solar para Todos, de 7 mil millones de dólares, para instalaciones solares residenciales; y el programa Acelerador de Inversiones en Comunidades Limpias de $6 mil millones que otorga capital para cientos de prestamistas comunitarios, como cooperativas de crédito, en todo el país. 68 beneficiarios recibieron una recompensa de $27 mil millones el mes pasado, “y ya están poniendo el dinero a trabajar”, dijo David Widawsky, director de la Oficina de la EPA del Fondo de Reducción de Gases de Efecto Invernadero, en una sesión informativa sobre el fondo de Ethnic Media Services el viernes 13 de septiembre.
“El propósito no es sólo reducir la carga energética, que puede ser tres veces y hasta 10 veces mayor como proporción de los ingresos en las comunidades de bajos ingresos y desfavorecidas en comparación
con el resto del país”, continuó. "Mejora la salud, reduce los contaminantes y permite la creación de riqueza sostenible para las comunidades que albergarán estos proyectos".
Un hogar experimenta carga energética cuando al menos el 6% de sus ingresos cubre sus necesidades energéticas; esto está estrechamente relacionado con la inseguridad energética, que experimenta uno de cada tres estadounidenses.
“La inseguridad energética significa tomar cada mes la difícil decisión de calentar o enfriar la casa o comer”, explicó Shalanda Baker, primera vicerrectora de sostenibilidad y acción climática de la Universidad de Michigan. “Se manifiesta cuando la gente hace cosas peligrosas para calentar sus hogares en invierno o mantener sus hogares a temperaturas inseguras durante el verano. Puede provocar incendios domésticos e incluso la muerte”.
"Los hogares de bajos ingresos, especialmente los de color, tienen más probabilidades de quedar a la sombra de esto debido a los impactos en la salud por vivir cerca de la generación de combustibles fósiles y porque la forma en que estructuramos las tarifas de energía en este país es regresiva", continuó. "Cuanto más bajos sean sus ingresos, más pagará para cubrir el costo de energía estándar en su distrito de servicios públicos". Más del 52% de los hogares negros y alrededor del 47% de los latinos en Estados Unidos padecen inseguridad energética.
Para algunas tribus nativas americanas, hasta el 35% (hopi) y el 21% (navajo) de los hogares carecen por completo de acceso a la electricidad.
"Hasta ahora, la transición a la energía limpia se ha implementado de manera desigual en este país", dijo Baker. "Si usted es un estadounidense blanco en una zona censal de mayoría blanca, es más probable que tenga acceso a la energía solar que un estadounidense negro con el mismo nivel de ingresos y condición de propietario de vivienda".
"Este fondo es una oportunidad histórica para que las personas sean dueñas de sus activos
The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund could mitigate climate risk while creating economic opportunity and seeks to address these disparities in Climate-Burdened Communities. Photo Credit: Wirestock
energéticos y creen nuevos empleos a través de nuevo capital, pero debemos asegurarnos de que las comunidades y las empresas estén informadas", añadió.
La historia de una comunidad
“Este programa es una bendición”, dijo Evie Bauman, directora de implementación comunitaria de la organización sin fines de lucro de electrificación y beneficiaria del GGRF, Rewiring America.
“Para crear conciencia sobre el impacto que puede tener, en octubre pasado lanzamos proyectos de demostración en comunidades desatendidas o ignoradas por la acción climática”, explicó. “Proporcionamos al menos una actualización de electrificación sin costo a los hogares con más probabilidades de ahorrar en sus facturas de energía, y nos asociamos con fabricantes para conseguir electrodomésticos donados para llegar a más hogares”.
Los edificios son responsables del 40% del uso total de energía en Estados Unidos, mientras que el uso residencial de energía representa el 20% de las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero.
Rewiring America es parte de una coalición sin fines de lucro, Power Forward Communities, que recibió $2 mil millones para financiar la electrificación durante siete años a través del Fondo Nacional de Inversión Limpia.
En la pequeña ciudad de De Soto, Georgia, con una población de 122 habitantes en 2022, Rewiring America llevó una actualización de electrodomésticos a unos 75 hogares, asociándose con la empresa de servicios públicos local Georgia Power para llevar a cabo iniciativas de eficiencia como créditos fiscales y reembolsos también.
“Cuando comenzamos con una reunión municipal para responder las preguntas de los residentes, muchos de ellos pensaron que era una estafa. Les resultaba demasiado difícil creer que alguien estuviera siendo tan generoso”, dijo Rosemery Jones, residente de De Soto y gerente del proyecto Rewiring America.
“Un residente que participó no tenía aire acondicionado en casa. Le costó completar el papeleo y no pudo venir al Ayuntamiento a inscribirse debido a problemas de transporte, así que hice una visita a casa. Recibió una unidad de bomba de calor para enfriar su casa”, continuó. “A otra propietaria de casa, una viuda que no
pudo reemplazar su calentador de agua roto (había estado hirviendo agua durante dos meses), también le instalaron una nueva bomba de calor ese invierno”.
“Una quiete recibió una llamada de una anciana que luchaba contra el cáncer en un remolque de doble ancho con cinco habitaciones refrigeradas solo por dos unidades de ventana, después de recibir una bomba de calor. Ella dijo: 'Me estoy congelando' porque no sabía cómo operar su termostato”, dijo Jones.
“Así que hicimos que contratistas, técnicos de HVAC y nuestro propio personal enseñaran a los residentes cómo operar sus actualizaciones”, continuó. “Vitalizar a De Soto ahora me hace pensar en la cita de Roosevelt:
‘A la gente no le importa cuánto sabes hasta que saben cuánto te importa'”.
"Esta no es una historia a corto plazo"
Abra una cuenta de cheques* comercial elegible antes del 31 de octubre de 2024 y reciba:
• Cuenta sin requisito de saldo mínimo por los primeros seis meses1
• Una orden gratuita de cheques estándar2
• Exención de tarifa para transferencias bancarias entrantes por seis meses3
• Servicios de banca en línea y móvil, incluido Zelle4 el depósito de cheques de forma móvil5
"Esta es la mayor asignación de fondos jamás realizada para energía verde y no vamos a detenernos", dijo Chrystel Cornelius, presidenta y directora ejecutiva de Oweesta Corporation, el Fondo de Instituciones Financieras para el Desarrollo de Comunidades Nativas (CDFI, por sus siglas en inglés) más antiguo y un receptor de GGRF Solar for All de $156 millones.
“Si podemos combinar estos proyectos con el desarrollo empresarial a largo plazo, esta financiación literalmente cambiará el panorama económico y energético de nuestras comunidades, especialmente nuestras comunidades rurales y centradas en las minorías”, continuó Cornelius, miembro de la Reserva India Turtle Mountain.
Las CDFI, de las cuales hay más de 1.200 en todos los estados de EE. UU., son creadas por el Departamento del Tesoro para proporcionar capital federal y privado a comunidades que no tienen fácil acceso al capital del
mercado convencional.
Across largely rural areas nationwide, Oweesta serves 574 federally recognized tribes, 60 state recognized tribes, 30 unrecognized tribes and indigenous individuals in Alaska and Hawaii.
Con la subvención del GGRF, su objetivo es instalar energía solar en 20.000 hogares residenciales en estos países e iniciar seis proyectos solares comunitarios en colaboración con miembros tribales.
"Estamos un paso más allá para salvar nuestro planeta", dijo Cornelius. "Solo tenemos uno y no fabrican más".
«A medida que nos enfrentamos a la crisis climática, ¿cómo hacemos para que las comunidades más afectadas sean las primeras en recibir los beneficios?», dijo Jessie Buendía, directora de impacto de la Coalition for Green Capital, que recibió 5.000 millones de dólares a través del GGRF para apoyar a los bancos verdes, que son instituciones y organizaciones sin ánimo de lucro que utilizan capital público y privado para proyectos de energía limpia.
“Esto no puede resolverse sólo con inversiones del sector público”, explicó. “Muchos en estos sectores están acostumbrados a trabajar con cientos, quizá miles de dólares. El cambio climático es un problema de un billón de dólares, y nuestro gobierno federal está haciendo ahora un pago inicial de miles de millones para ayudar a las comunidades en la transición a sistemas de energía limpia mucho más allá del plazo de la subvención.”
“Nuestro objetivo es ofrecer préstamos autosuficientes a través de una red nacional de bancos verdes. Los préstamos que concedamos se reciclarán, de modo que podamos ofrecer más” , continuó Buendía. “Queremos asegurarnos de que las empresas de servicios públicos a las que se enchufan las comunidades tengan carteras de energías renovables que puedan financiar aún más la energía limpia, que puedan desincentivar los combustibles fósiles y sus impactos en la salud” .
“No estamos atendiendo a los clientes más fáciles, que a menudo tienen más dinero, infraestructura y voz, sino a aquellos que se han visto más afectados”, añadió. "Esta no es una historia a corto plazo, es una historia a largo plazo".
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El Fondo de Reducción de Gases de Efecto Invernadero podría mitigar el riesgo climático al tiempo que crea oportunidades económicas y busca abordar estas disparidades en las comunidades afectadas por el clima. Photo Credit: Freepik
