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A PERFECT MARRIAGE

Firoza — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 00:52:50 +0000

⋅ A PERFECT MARRIAGE ⋅ Do you know what it is like to be out in nature when you are missing one of your senses? At the Sierra Club’s Inspiring Connections Outdoors, angelesico.org we are finding out. We recently partnered with an agency called Hearts For Sight that encourages blind and visually impaired people (VIPs) to […]

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OIL WELLS OF LA

admin — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 00:52:50 +0000

⋅ OIL WELLS OF LA ⋅ For many years I didn't know that I lived near so many oil wells in my dense Los Angeles neighborhood. That office building about ¼ mile from me? It’s a façade for a recently closed oil and gas extraction site. The building that looks like a […]

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A FIRST PANDEMIC HIKE

Firoza — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 23:49:27 +0000

⋅ A FIRST PANDEMIC HIKE ⋅ On a clear day last November, two of us from Sierra Club ICO http://angelesico.org stand with a group of 25 youth at Topanga State Park’s Trippet Ranch. We stand here in the heart of the Santa Monica Mountains, feeling the weight of Topanga’s history. We remember the people who made […]

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POSTSCRIPT

Firoza — Sat, 21 May 2022 01:36:12 +0000

POSTSCRIPT: Ana and her family continue to struggle to make ends meet. She is learning a new business—she is a street vendor. She goes downtown to buy fruit and sells it near the freeway entrance near downtown LA. If you see someone selling fruit, stop and buy some. You will help someone realize their dream […]

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WE FIND A HOME

Firoza — Thu, 19 May 2022 22:44:06 +0000

I looked all over, and found this sign on Maple. I called the number and spoke to the manager and asked him the details. I went back and told the shelter about it and gave them all the details. They thought it sounded OK. They spoke with the manager and I went them with the […]

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SHELTER AT LAST

Firoza — Thu, 19 May 2022 01:31:49 +0000

SHELTER AT LAST As we wandered around looking for work and a place to live, I met another woman in the park who said that there were shelters we could go to. I told her I didn’t know about this because I don’t know how to read nor write. Who knows what type of papers […]

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HELPING HANDS

Firoza — Thu, 19 May 2022 01:21:32 +0000

HELPING HANDS One day, a senora saw us and she spoke with my husband. She asked us what happened. My husband explained to her that we were homeless and had nothing. We said we had been thrown out of our apartment because we fell behind on the rent. We paid a little bit whenever we […]

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HARD TIMES IN OUR NEW LAND

Firoza — Thu, 19 May 2022 01:17:32 +0000

HARD TIMES IN OUR NEW LAND Unfortunately for us, the sewing business changed. We couldn’t find work and now we had 3 children. We lived in a “single” and the manager was getting really mad at us because we couldn’t pay the rent. She was threatening to call the social workers or the police on […]

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I AM IN THE UNITED STATES

Firoza — Thu, 19 May 2022 01:09:18 +0000

I AM IN THE UNITED STATES When I got to Los Angeles, I had no family. The coyote was mean to me because I had to stay in his apartment. There was a lady called Olga who was an acquaintance of my sister. You see, the neighbor of my brother-in-law was the coyote I left […]

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GOING NORTH

Firoza — Thu, 19 May 2022 00:59:50 +0000

GOING NORTH My sister found a way to pay for the coyote and lent me the money for the passage. There was one coyote that brought me to the Mexican border, He charged 50,000 Quetzales. Another brought me through Mexico to the US border and a third coyote brought me through the deserts of the […]

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