Pues cuando uno esta en esas situaciones
Se encuentra tratando de explicar de lo que son
De lo que fueron y pues uno nunca sabe quien y porque
Ni como son las cosas solo que tenemos que seguir luchando
Para todos los derechos de nuestra humanidad
Nadie te puede quitar esta realidad
Tenemos que saber que siempre estamos aqui
Para el pueblo
Para la gente
Para que puedan entender que nadie nadie
Esta en esos momentoes
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Somos los liberados. Somos los que vinimos a esta tierra
Para encontrar nuestra pas. Nuestra dignidad. Para que el pueblo
Puede deveramente entender que aqui estamos para la gente
Que nadie nadie. Nos puede robrar nuestro derecho a nuestra
Humanidad. A nuestra conneccion a la madre tierra. Que nadie
Nos puede robar este momento. Estamos aqui para defender la madre
Tierra. Nuna nadie a poder quitar nos estos derechos
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No pues haci es. Vinieron y se lluevaron a mi esposo. Gente piensa que
Estamos pidiendo demasiado y que si somos ilegales somos alguien que
Nos pueden hacer cual quier cosa. Pero pues la realdid. No somos ilegales
Ningun human es illegal. Que mas te puedo decir de esto . somos parte de
La tierra todos los que estamos aqui somos esos.
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I’ve been working on this land for 2o years in some way shape or form.
I’m part of this land. Zapata said whomever works the land is the one
That ones the land. And well I’ve never own land. I’ve picked strawberries
Lettuce tomatoes. So many things. And well its always like that. I guess
People say these thigns. They don’t respect us. They don’t respect the work
We do. They don’t respect any of it. And well what am I supposed to do.. with that
Reality. Trying to work hard on this land and nobody sees you. You do your work
Because it’s the closest you can be to god. Its not the only way pero. If you luck up
And you think about what its like in this day and age to be a part of this earth
And to become creator. That’s what you become when you work the land
And you harvest you are part of making something. No not the only way
But still its right there. Right in front of you for all like.
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Yeah I saw Ramirez shoot that man. It through me off because I had been in the
Force 10 years by then. I never expected to see anything like that. Well I should
Have known better. The man was face down. Already hand cuff. And you could
See officer ramirez’s eyes. The rage. The frustration. It wasn’t even about this
Man on the floor face down. Who had in fact given him a hard time. It was about
These conditions we work in. where we are the enemy. Where we are the ones
In that space being seen as criminal. That’s what it was about. That’s what this was
About. I could see it in ramirez’s eyes. All the pain all the hurt. All the times that
He was in the trenches with me. He had been on edge for weeks. Already. I asked
Him how his wife was. He didn’t give me the usual funny spiel he does. You know
When he’s happy when he’s about to come to some funny thing about being married.
He just kept grunting. And letting out this deep sigh. That he would try to play off
By telling some random joke he had heard that day. And he was short with everybody
I should have known better when that day he started arguing with Dona Maria where
He usually helps people with those type of things you know. He usually is really helpful
With the old people and their old people things that we routinely do. Pero no this time
No way he was going to do that. I don’t know he just snapped. So when we went to the
Liquor store to deal with this young man, who had been harassing Mr. Kim I knew
Pues. It was heavy there. It all moved so fast.
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I shot him. Because he was a threat. Because he was a danger to our community.