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Reporter Assaulted After Interview And Loses Tape
CBS ^ | Jun 1, 2006 11:03 am US/Pacific | 2006 CBS Broadcasting Inc

Posted on 06/01/2006 11:53:27 AM PDT by Vision

CBS) LOS ANGELES A local radio reporter was assaulted Thursday while leaving a Los Angeles charter school that his station has said imparts separatist ethics, a station official said.

The reporter, Sandy Wells, was not hurt, according to station spokesman Steve Sheldon.

Wells was leaving the campus of Academia Semillas Del Pueblo, 4736 Huntington Drive, after interviewing the principal when a car came around the corner, jumped the curb and the driver tried to run him down, Sheldon said.

Wells managed to dodge the car, but the driver, a man who appeared to be in his mid-20s, got out and tackled him, taking away his tape recorder, he said.

The incident was reported to police, Sheldon said, adding that it is believed to be linked to the station's reporting on the school.

The Los Angeles Unified School District said it would issue a statement on the assault later in the day.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: assault; assimilation; california; dougmcintyre; illegalimmigration; kabc; laraza; lausd; losangeles; marcosaguilar; publicschools; sandywells; schools; theft; thugs; villaraigosa
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Does this school provide education for both the children of illegal aliens and legal USA citizens?

Is this school just founded upon the values of Mexico or USA?


21 posted on 06/01/2006 12:12:00 PM PDT by petkus
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To: Vision
I predict this incident will, unfortunately, blow over in record time. After all, reporting this madrasa....er, school's agenda and the ensuing assault would be racist.
22 posted on 06/01/2006 12:12:40 PM PDT by AngryJawa ({NRA}{IDPA})
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To: Vision

http://www.tcla.gseis.ucla.edu/equalterms/dialogue/2/aguilar.html

_________________________

Marcos Aguilar,

by Maribel Santiago

Marcos Aguilar is the founder and principal of La Academia Semillas del Pueblo, a charter school in El Sereno. Maribel Santiago, a UCLA undergraduate, interviewed him for TCLA.

TCLA: Where did you grow up and go to school?

MA: I was born in Mexicali, Baja California Norte in Mexico and I attended schools on the border in Calexico, a farm worker community. There was the Mexican town and the White town was like 10 miles away and another one 20 miles away. We grew up with the knowledge that in Arizona, in Yuma, Arizona, everything was Black and White. The dogs and Mexicans drank from one spot and the White people drank from the other one. I think growing up amongst Mexicans, you get values and manners at home. One of my grandmothers raised me and taught me those values.

TCLA: Did the educators at your school demonstrate that they valued your language and culture?

MA: No, they demonstrated that they did not. They demonstrated at times apathy and at times hostility towards the languages spoken that are non-English. I never witnessed an act of respect to the students’ culture.

TCLA: Have the educators you have observed here in Los Angeles acted in a more culturally responsive way?

MA: Sure, some teachers do, the majority don’t. The majority of teachers consider their position a 9-5 job which they execute as quickly as possible, and for which they expect a high level of compensation. We basically have a situation where outsiders are teaching a community’s children, with no regard to the community itself, with no regard for the ultimate outcome of their actions with the children, with no regard for anything past that one year that they are with them. Teachers step into this role fully expecting a three-month vacation or expecting tons of extra pay when they are off. They fully expect to be separate from the students so they want to commute to get to the inner city.

TCLA: How do you explain these relationships?

MA: Communities as a whole just don’t control education. The system creates this political economy—a role for teachers that alienates them from the children that they are working with. Public education really is a space for the education of workers for private industries. The role of teachers is simply to perpetuate what those values are in the workplace.

TCLA: How have you tried to create a different sort of schooling experience at La Academia Semillas del Pueblo?

MA: Like anywhere in Los Angeles there’s a lot of bridges to cross and we feel that through teaching our children and giving them a good foundation of culture they will be able to understand other people’s cultures and other people’s points of view much better. One of the ways we do that is teaching them several languages. That has to be the most important element of our education. It’s not only learning reading, writing, and English, but being able to analyze the world in several languages.

TCLA: How does learning different languages impact your students?

MA: By learning Nahuatl, they will be able to understand their relationship with nature (because language is based on our human relationship with nature) and be able to understand themselves as part of something larger, not as an isolated individual. They will be able to understand our own ancestral culture and our customs and traditions that are so imbued in the language. The importance of Nahutal is also academic because Nahuatl is based on a Math system, which we are also practicing. We teach our children how to operate a base 20 mathematical system and how to understand the relationship between the founders and their bodies, what the effects of astronomical forces and natural forces on the human body and the human psyche, our way of thinking and our way of expressing ourselves. And so the language is much more than just being able to communicate. When we teach Nahuatl, the children are gaining a sense of identity that is so deep, it goes beyond whether or not they can learn a certain number of vocabulary words in Nahuatl. It’s really about them understanding themselves as human beings. Everything we do here is about relationships.

TCLA: Do you view La Academia Semillas del Pueblo as a response to the problems in our school system?

MA: No. It’s not a response because there is no way we can replace it. It’s an alternative for 150 families out of how many--a million? That’s not much of an alternative. It’s an alternative for a few people in the community. We consider this a resistance, a starting point, like a fire in a continuous struggle for our cultural life, for our community and we hope it can influence future struggle. We hope that it can organize present struggle and that as we organize ourselves and our educational and cultural autonomy, we have the time to establish a foundation with which to continue working and impact the larger system. This is the work of a parallel institution, a very liberal one, whose autonomy is very delicate. It is very easy to disorganize and destroy.

TCLA: What do you recommend to students and parents who are frustrated with schooling and want to create change?

MA: If we want anything we have to organize ourselves. We should organize with other people who share that frustration and see what we can do to solve the problem. The people have to change from an attitude of asking for things to a practice of organizing things for ourselves. We have to get away from the welfare mentality and the welfare society and more and more develop self-reliance and resolve our problems by organizing our own resources.

TCLA: Finally, what do you see as the legacy of the Brown decision?

MA: If Brown was just about letting Black people into a White school, well we don’t care about that anymore. We don’t necessarily want to go to White schools. What we want to do is teach ourselves, teach our children the way we have of teaching. We don’t want to drink from a White water fountain, we have our own wells and our natural reservoirs and our way of collecting rain in our aqueducts. We don’t need a White water fountain. So the whole issue of segregation and the whole issue of the Civil Rights Movement is all within the box of White culture and White supremacy. We should not still be fighting for what they have. We are not interested in what they have because we have so much more and because the world is so much larger. And ultimately the White way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our own destruction. And so it isn’t about an argument of joining neo liberalism, it’s about us being able, as human beings, to surpass the barrier.


23 posted on 06/01/2006 12:12:52 PM PDT by tallhappy (Juntos Podemos!)
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To: tallhappy

Mr. Aquilar sounds like a real swell feller. Not!


24 posted on 06/01/2006 12:16:15 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: Vision

Just assaulting those reporters that Americans won't assault...


25 posted on 06/01/2006 12:18:02 PM PDT by beezdotcom
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To: Vision

I drove by the school about an hour ago and there were a couple of news teams there, just milling around, since nobody would open the door of the building to talk to them. There were also some La Raza types sitting in their parked cars waiting for something to happen.


26 posted on 06/01/2006 12:18:26 PM PDT by gaussia
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To: tallhappy

Disturbing. I'd say that guy has a chip on his shoulder the size of Mexico.

I can't wait for my children to learn valuable languages in school such as Aramaic and Sanskrit.


27 posted on 06/01/2006 12:19:03 PM PDT by jcs1744
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To: gaussia
There were also some La Raza types sitting in their parked cars waiting for something to happen

Sounds like a nice area.
28 posted on 06/01/2006 12:19:37 PM PDT by Vision (("There are no limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence" Ronald Reagan)
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To: gaussia
I drove by the school about an hour ago and there were a couple of news teams there, just milling around,... Which news teams were there?
29 posted on 06/01/2006 12:20:58 PM PDT by gubamyster
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To: Vision

"La Raza, We don't need no stink'n White man's skewl!"


30 posted on 06/01/2006 12:21:07 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Vision
The View From the Right blog had an interesting reader comment on this event. The best paragraph:

In listening to this on KABC moments ago, I hear many comparing this incident to Nazis, Islamic terrorists, etc. People shouldn’t kid themselves. This is not anything so remote or exotic. This is simply MEXICO—the “watch your back” threat from an official, the black SUV, the thugs, the law enforcement turning away—transplanted intact and in toto into the United States. This is business as usual in that backwards, chaotic culture and is evidence of how emboldened they have become that they now consider such tactics will be viable here, too—and unopposed by the populace.

31 posted on 06/01/2006 12:21:45 PM PDT by ExpandNATO
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To: tallhappy

In my best "Church Lady" voice to Mr. Aguilar....'Can you say....RACIST!?'


32 posted on 06/01/2006 12:25:07 PM PDT by Hornet19
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To: gubamyster
Cockroaches don't like it much when a bright light is shined on them....
33 posted on 06/01/2006 12:25:44 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Vision

Make sure every Republican in the Senate gets one.


34 posted on 06/01/2006 12:25:49 PM PDT by caisson71
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To: gubamyster

Fox (channel 11) and ABC (channel 7). I talked briefly to the Fox reporter (I didn't recognize him, but I don't watch TV much either), and he said he was just waiting for someone to come out and talk to him. He asked me what I knew of the school, and I just said knew just what I heard on KABC radio. The building is bright Aztec yellow, btw.


35 posted on 06/01/2006 12:28:12 PM PDT by gaussia
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To: Vision

I'm having a really difficult time in feeling any sympathy for this reporter (or any reporter for that matter). They always seem to side with the ILLEGAL ALIENS or take a shot at our men and women in uniform (not just military, either) any time that they have the opportunity. Perhaps if "Juan", "Pedro", or "Osama" bust a few more reporters heads, maybe the members of the msm might start seeing these people for what they really are. Maybe.....but I'm not gonna hold my breath.


36 posted on 06/01/2006 12:36:18 PM PDT by Howie66 ("America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.")
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
accelerate learning through a collective educational practice.

Sounds like the communist version of a madrassa.

37 posted on 06/01/2006 12:38:56 PM PDT by Junior_G
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To: tallhappy

That base 20 math is going to be really helpful in the real world..................................at least witrh people that use their finger and toes to count.


38 posted on 06/01/2006 12:46:12 PM PDT by E.Allen
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To: Vision

Yeah, the area is pretty bad. The sad thing to me is that I can tell it used to be a nice neighborhood (this is true of a lot of L.A.) Its actually a great setting, geographically speaking, with a lot of hills, and is just about 10 minutes from downtown. I drove around it a little bit today and noticed some of the old guard (70+ years old, maybe 2% of the current population) out in their yards. These people were probably living there back in the late 60's, before things went to hell.


39 posted on 06/01/2006 12:46:21 PM PDT by gaussia
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To: Howie66

This is a reporter for a local AM radio station. He's probably one of the grass roots good guys. Not some MSM slob.


40 posted on 06/01/2006 12:52:00 PM PDT by Vision (("There are no limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence" Ronald Reagan)
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