All posts tagged voting rights
Clip of Texas Congressman Joaquin Castro narrating the Boy Made of Lightning
Posted by willielightning on October 2, 2012
http://willievelasquezbook.com/2012/10/02/clip-of-texas-state-rep-joaquin-castro-narrating-the-boy-made-of-lightning/
Looking for Images of Willie Velasquez with lawyers who won voting rights cases 88 times!
The team met with noted voting rights lawyer Rolando Rios from San Antonio (who has an office down the street) and I spoke with Joaquin Avila (MacArthur Fellow and law professor) in Seattle. Rolando told us stories about the lawsuits, the cases, and how everything seemed to change overnight. 
Photo credit: Life Magazine
Posted by willielightning on June 21, 2012
http://willievelasquezbook.com/2012/06/21/looking-for-images-of-willie-velasquez-with-lawyers-who-won-voting-rights-cases-88-times-6/
A story from San Antonio about a boy who changed the world
One day something happened that Willie would never forget.
It had rained again. That morning, Willie decided he would discover what caused the flooding once and for all. “Vamonos!” He told Rudy. “Adventure!”
The night before, the drums in his head wouldn’t stop.
Why?Where?What?When? Why?Why?Why?
He just had to know where the flooding began.
His mother let him go. Once Willie started on something there was no stopping him. They took some tacos and a rope just in case they found something interesting to bring home.
Excerpt from The boy made of lightning@2012
Posted by willielightning on May 3, 2012
http://willievelasquezbook.com/2012/05/03/a-story-from-san-antonio-for-the-world/
Alazan Arts Letters & Stories seeks to tell the marginalized stories of the heroes and heroines of Tejas
(Debora Kuetzpal Vasquez, Mary Helen Berlanga, George Velasquez, Barbara Renaud Gonzalez)
The boy made of Lightning is the first in a series of twelve children’s stories about marginalized heroes and heroines from Tejas.
The Mission of AALAS, Alazan Arts Letters & Stories, is to create a series of children’s interactive, pop-up books that will be fully available for interactive tablets, downloadable from ITunes. Targeted at the latino community — as a universal story of struggle, justice, and love of community.
Willie Velasquez, voting rights champion
Lydia Mendoza, singer of the people
Americo Paredes, writer and folklorist
Jovita Idar, newspaper publisher and writer
Gus Garcia, lawyer for school desegregation
Manuela Solis de Sanger, labor rights leader
Raul Salinas, poet and humanist
Angela de Hoyos, poeta, activista
Yanaguana, the river-people
Lucy Gonzalez Parsons, political writer and labor activist
La Raza Unida, “Los Cinco”
Gloria Anzaldua, genius-writer
(more…)
Posted by willielightning on March 9, 2012
http://willievelasquezbook.com/2012/03/09/alazan-arts-letters-stories-seeks-to-tell-the-marginalized-stories-of-the-heroes-and-heroines-of-tejas/
“The boy made of Lightning,” The Willie Velasquez story, an Interactive journey.
Today we have our first look at the sketches from Artist Debora Kuetzpal Vasquez. Together with Author Barbara Renaud Gonzalez the two work to shape the illustrations to the words in Barbara’s story. In addition we begin to understand how the images will flow with interactive programming for “The boy made of Lightning”
The book slowly comes to life.
Posted by willielightning on February 25, 2012
http://willievelasquezbook.com/2012/02/25/the-boy-made-of-lightning-the-willie-velasquez-story-an-interactive-journey/
