BREAKUP FORUM EYES LATINOS VALLEY ANTI-SECESSIONISTS DOMINATE PANEL AT MISSION COLLEGE EVENT.Byline: Susan Abram Staff Writer About 100 residents turned out Saturday for a symposium sponsored by a coalition of community groups to address the impact of separating from the city of Los Angeles
Panelists, many from Latino organizations against secession, spoke during the event at Los Angeles Mission College Los Angeles Mission College is a two-year community college located in Sylmar, California neighborhood of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley, United States. It is part of the Los Angeles Community College District. about the economic consequences secession could bring on social services social services Noun, pl welfare services provided by local authorities or a state agency for people with particular social needs social services npl → servicios mpl sociales , education and taxes. ``We needed to inform the Northeast Valley about secession,'' said organizer Irene Tovar, who is also a member of One Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , a group that plans to hold an anti-secession mobilization day on Saturday at Encino Park. The group is planning to hand out fliers at neighborhood markets. ``About 42 percent of the Valley is Latino,'' Tovar said. ``We can have a direct impact on how we vote.'' However, pro-secessionists, such as Oscar Mendoza of the Residence for Independence of the North East Valley, also attended and spoke as part of the panel of the benefits of separating the cities. ``Valley independence is going to be for the good of everyone, not just for the elite,'' he said. ``There will be more opportunities. As a student at Cal State Northridge, we did a study and found that 34 percent of all Latinos in the Valley support secession. However, we have a group of individuals who have lived here a long time, who are trying to speak for everyone.'' Some of those who attended said they knew very little about the secession debate and simply wanted to hear both sides of the issue before they cast their vote on Nov. 5. San Fernando High School San Fernando High School, located in San Fernando, California, is a secondary school that is a part of the Los Angeles Unified School District. The school colors are black and gold. All girl teams are referred to as Lady Tigers, all boy teams simply as Tigers. teacher Alex Reza said he came to the symposium to understand the issue, adding his civic concerns were more general and he fears that secession will complicate the issues. ``The whole Southern California culture is interwoven in·ter·weave v. in·ter·wove , in·ter·wo·ven , inter·weav·ing, inter·weaves v.tr. 1. To weave together. 2. To blend together; intermix. v.intr. ,'' he said. ``We're going towards localization Customizing software and documentation for a particular country. It includes the translation of menus and messages into the native spoken language as well as changes in the user interface to accommodate different alphabets and culture. See internationalization and l10n. , and to me, it just sets up another competitive series of services. I think it will be harder to manage major issues that cross between city boundaries.'' Others said hearing both sides of the secession movement gave them more clarity on what they will be voting for on Nov. 5. ``We needed to hear from the different camps,'' said Granada Hills resident Martha Garcia-Jimenez. ``It frightens me to know that people who are not informed will be out there voting.'' |
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