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Photo of Cesar Chavez compliments of Google Image. Thank you!

Here’s an invitation that came to me by way of the Tucson Pima Arts Council. It highlights my favorite radio station, KXCI. You can listen to community radio any day or night if you have a high speed modem. KXCI is not a PBS station although some of their funding does come from there. They are community born, community grown, and community supported.

All sorts of programs from Ruby’s Roadhouse Texas Two Step, The Blues Review with Marty Kool, electronica, ethnic, you name your favorite sort of sound and you can find it on the KXCI playlist. I find that it’s always Democracy Now when I’m driving home between 3:00 and 4:00 in the afternoon.

So, Friday you may like to tune in. The exploration begins at 9:00 US Mountain Standard Time.

Cesar Chavez birthday celebration,

KXCI explores the legacy of Cesar Chavez
Friday, March 30
Community Radio Station KXCI 91.3 FM Tucson explores the legacy of Cesar Chavez beginning at 9am on Friday, March 30 (the day before what would have been his 80th birthday). Feature interviews with local educators, community leaders and activists as well as historical segments from TUSD students. These spoken word spots will be interspersed through a border blend of music that will include selections from the United Farm Workers’ movement, soulful sounds of that turbulent time period and contemporary socially relevant songs. Bob Diaz, host of KXCI’s “Chicano Connections” will get the music going at 9am. Music mixer Danny Meza continues from 11 to 1. DJ Javier, host of “Sabor del Barrio” will make a special appearance from 1 to 3. Cesar Chavez was a 2nd generation American who was born and died in Arizona. He was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Mother Teresa. On Friday, March 30, KXCI will observe the legacy of the man who continues to provide inspiration to millions of people.

Here are a few more links if you want to learn more about Cesar Chavez.

www.azcesarchavezcoalition.com/index.html

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/chavez

http://clnet.ucla.edu/research/chavez/bio/

http://www.chavezfoundation.org/cesarechavez.html

It was looking so good. But I had to dump the three laundry baskets that had not been touched for years. The fabrics need sorted out by kind and type, evaluated, and either kept in inventory or sent on to other good homes.

Then I dumped the baskets.

The dark mass at the left is actually a pile of what I call “rag rug silks.” These are very rough silks that are woven out of either waste and/or the broken cocoons of silk moths that have survived.

So, global warming and goofy weather being what it is, summer has come to Sonora temporarily. With it has come a stuffed up head, and all the symptoms of inhaling too much very fine dust.

The sort out is waiting.