Joaquín

Our mission is to provide the latino community of california’s central Valley with an unbiased mirror of our society, to advocate civic duty and participation, to celebrate the successes and achievements of our peers, and to provide a tribune for emerging latino leadership.

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Roberto A. Radrigán radrigan@joaquinmag.com

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Sonya Fe, Art Editor

Las Cruces, NM

Andy Porras

Sacramento, CA

Richard Soto

Tracy, CA

Thomas Block

Lorain, OH

Dave Wellenbrock

Lodi, CA

Ed Ramírez

Linden, CA

David Stuart

Sacramento, CA

Editorial boa rd

Inés Ruiz-Huston, PhD

Gene Bigler, PhD

Richard Ríos, MA, MS

Paula Sheil, MA

Manuel Camacho, MA

Jeremy Terhune, BS

Candelaria Vargas, BS

Mercedes Silveira, MA

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Translations roberto radrigán & ronald Godoy

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MAY-JUNE 2023 cover art

Watercolor by Vincent Pucciarelli new York, nY

in this issue En Este Número

Current Issues / Actualidad

How Judicial Manipulation threatens Our democracy: Growing challenge of Plutocracy cómo la Manipulación Judicial amenaza nuestra democracia: la creciente amenaza de la Plutocracia

Chican-izmos

Forging a new chicano identity Forjando la nueva identidad chicana

Current Issues / Actualidad

Hawaii’s solution to Homelessness: Worth replicating? solución al sin-techo en Hawái: ¿digno de réplica?

Deadly Trends/ Tendencias Mortales uvalde, Mass Murder, and Gun control: an equal Opportunity tragedy uvalde, asesinatos en Masa y control de armas: una tragedia al alcance de todos

Latino Literature /Literatura Latina José Montoya ¡Presente!

Art Focus /Enfoque Artístico Vincent Pucciarelli: Hidden in Plain sight/Oculto a simple Vista

SUSD

Policy anti-discrimination and Bullying Guaranteeing safer schools rechazo a la discriminación y acoso Garantizando escuelas seguras

Education / Educación rethinking education: From Montessori to the Zapatistas radicalización Pedagógica: de Montessori a los Zapatistasl

Porrazos ¡Viva Zapata (the Other One/ el Otro) A Novel current issues • actualidad

How Judicial Manipulation Threatens Our

Democracy: the rise of Donald Trump in the u s. has accompanied the spread of strongman rule and concerns about autocracy in a number of other countries around the world from Hungary and Turkey in the West to the Philippines and several Latin American neighbors. Yet trump’s electoral setbacks and increasing legal problems may have already shifted the problem in the u.s. to the spread and strengthening of plutocracy as a result of judicial appointments he was able to make. Linking the American judiciary to plutocracy may for most of our history have seemed a stretch too far, but the recent revelations about Justice Thomas’s billionaire buddy, and Justice roberts’ wife’s multi-million consulting, and Bloomberg’s report that at least six are multimillionaires – not including the assets hidden and unreported – has changed the picture. t he possibility of such far reaching change in the u s. was recognized almost instantly by a number of court watchers. Linda Greenhouse was one of the first to point out the amount of impact that could follow be cause of the death ruth bader Ginsburg and the appointment of Amy Coney rett in her place. In many respects, just the first 12 months after her death were the source of more wrenching change in America than trump’s meager policy initiatives.1 t he late term triumph of the barrett appointment that sen ate leader McConnell made possible not only encour-

Yet more importantly, the policy transformation, staying power, disguisability, and insidious influence of wealth that the Trump phalanx of appointees to the supreme Court and other federal benches have already achieved may actually surpass the potential damage to America of the would-be tyrant himself.