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there's such a diversity of museums in
san diego county and cultural
institutions that no matter what your
interest
there is something for everyone and
obviously we are a border tone and that
influences a lot of what we do both in
the arts and just our community in
general
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you can see it's beautiful but somewhat
beige type of city
i think it's exactly the military
presence that gives it its diversity so
it's a unique you know juxtaposition
because
it's because of um
camp pendleton and that access
that's where refugees you know enter
through
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most of them came but come as a first
generation
through the um
vietnam running away from the vietnam
war and you know finding refuge in the
us
that was kind of the mission of this
organization you know always trying to
make stories visible
from the uh stories of the refugees in
exile i try to kind of recuperate these
kind of oral stories
the stories in the the in the ship
that i painted talks
is excerpts from these interviews
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when it was white back further back in
history they had already
passed
a thing to have a parking and logan ice
cream so they never built a park when
the mexicans kind of keep the poor
poor people came in
and so
when we found out that they were going
to do a highway patrol station
parking lot underneath the bridge we
camped out there for a couple of weeks
until
the city of san diego finally proclaimed
it to be chicano apart kind of you know
i think it was a victory for the
community to do it
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our first anniversary in 1970
we had already firmly
thought that we were going to paint that
roof
if we're going to have a park there we
don't
we don't want to just see concrete the
murals per se
document some of that history one of my
stock
statements is that
art is uh
is a weapon for change you know we we've
used it uh
to con you know to bring consciousness
to the community
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