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What the Yost looked like on November 3rd, 2007
It’s been a hectic week since the Weekly first broke the news that SanTana’s El Centro Cultural de Mexico will soon find itself without a space to host its classes and community programs. In that time, the Voice of OC and The Santa Ana Register blog have chimed in on the issue. The two media outlets raised the relationship between Irv Chase, the controversial property owner of many of the buildings Fourth Street businesses rent out, and the Broadway Improvement Co. that owns the Knights of Pythias building in question. (His father-in-law Allan Fainbarg is a substantial stakeholder)
Chase’s son, Ryan, says in the Voice of OC’s take that he and his father did not know of the situation at El Centro until reading about it in Register’s OC Latino Link blog, but the two are virtually in agreement as to why the tenants need to go. Do the comments made by Irv Chase regarding the situation at Centro hold weight? What about Ryan Chase’s suggestion for a new location?
Read more about the controversy on my latest OC Weekly Heard Mentality Blog post:
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/heardmentality/2011/06/irv_chase_santa_ana.php
Cut to the Chase. o.k. Gabriel, you are a very passionate writer with a great vocabulary, but you know what you lack? Social skills.
In fact you and Gustavo and Carolina all need some serious work in that department. Until you all find a way to step out of the racial and cultural bubble that you live in, the revolution will continue to suffer. Meaningless, irrational capitalism will continue to rule while people squabble over little cultural differences. Gustavo profits well with that. (At least he does not seem to take himself too seriously though.) You seem to be very serious? The loss of your center is a serious deal but it needs to be corrected by branching out to real and potential allies. Am i wrong?
El Centro has ‘real and potential allies’ that it calls its community partners. If there are organizations/people who don’t consider themselves that, perhaps they might ought to consider why that is and/or reach out to the Centro.
let the reaching out begin. Hope it is not all or nothing.