Growing greenhouse shrimp in Puerto Peñasco decades ago, I thought I’d retire here with Raul and Sal. They were Chicano activists out to assure justice. Raul, ambitious and political, always put family first. Sal, modest and social, worked to establish Pima College, El Rio Neighborhood Centers and Medical Clinics, and half-way counseling housing for second changers. A close friend of iconic labor activist Caesar Chavez and UArizona Dean of Chicano Studies, my Cuñado Sal flooded local media with his message. So often they stopped publishing. Then, Sal signed my name. May Raul have a better place and Sal continue his mission.
Barney Popkin
Northwest side
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